Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!kaon!sphinx.uchicago.edu!see1 From: see1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 1.2? Message-ID: <245@kaon.uchicago.edu> Date: 6 May 88 19:37:42 GMT References: <950004@hpiacla.HP.COM> Sender: root@kaon.uchicago.edu Reply-To: see1@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) Organization: University of Chicago Computation Center Lines: 29 In article <950004@hpiacla.HP.COM> steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes: >I just read today that HyperCard 1.2 will be available soon (I just got 1.1!). >Does anyone in netland have any information on this? Is it just bug fixes (of >the 1.1 bug fixes) or are there any significant new features? I'm assuming that there's major interest in this, and that not everyone reads _Macintosh Today_, so (mostly paraphrased to avoid copyright infringement): * HyperCard 1.2 should be available by mid-May, and will be free to HyperCard owners. * It was created "primarily to support that recently announced Apple device" (CD-ROM). * Another CD-ROM change: multi-user opening of a read-only stack -- though not to an unlocked one. * The major visible difference to those without CD-ROM drives is *speed* -- with some parts 300 times faster and the overall operation noticeably faster. * More flexible programming aids: improvements in cursor control, "alignment of buttons and other objects," and edit checking of fields, and additional HyperTalk commands. Ellen Keyne Seebacher University of Chicago Computation Center staff.ellen@chip.uchicago.edu ...{ihnp4!gargoyle, oddjob}!sphinx!see1 "That which does not kill us makes us hungry." -- Lord Corun