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New Addition to the Kitchen

Mr. 680x0

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I set up my SE on the island in our kitchen as a cookbook. I have around 10 recipes entered into it, I still have like 100 to go from little cards. :p

 

Mr. 680x0

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TeachText. :D I have a folder on the desktop called recipes where they're all saved. It's alphabetical and the simplest thing I could think of. I don't think my mom would be interested in learning HyperCard. :p

 

Scott Baret

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HyperCard would be really easy to use for that. As long as you have a "new card" button in the stack that would let her add a new one, she could handle that without a problem.

 

equant

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Hypercard sounds like a great idea for this.

I have my SE in my kitchen since it now controls my home sound system, and I've thought about the "recipe" thing. Since it's internet enabled, I've wondered about writing a simple internet app that lets you search for recipes on a good cooking website, and displays them simply.

Instead of trying to make a full browser, it's more like a dedicated website parser. Obviously when a website has a layout change, it might break it. I was thinking maybe I'd investigate XML and see if there's a standard, or maybe a wiki-type site. Something that will remain more constant.

Well, just thinking out-loud.

Back to the hypercard thing. I'd be surprised if there wasn't already a hypercard recipe app out there. I'll look through some of my old disks.

Nathan

 

blackcube

Active member
I've been using a HyperCard stack for recipes for years running on a Mac Classic. For a while I was hosting the card stack on my NT server running SFM located in the home office but after moving to an apartment, I hosted it locally. Now that I'm slowly getting my home network setup in my new house, I need to get it hosted on a G3 server I set up.

The biggest issue is finding the time to type in over 10,000 recipes in our card file. Is there a way to scan things into a HyperCard stack? Plus I have thousands of recipes in my old DOS MasterCook database that I'd like to combine into one massive db.

 
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