In an effort to inject some life into these pages, let me ask a question.
Who still uses Hypercard, and who has the most impressive use for it?
Who still uses Hypercard, and who has the most impressive use for it?
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Hypercard
- Thread starter beachycove
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Haven't used it in a while; but back in High School, I used it to make a Dungeons and Dragons character generator. (Had to learn all sorts of HyperScript to get that up and running.)
Also made an interactive map of the school for our yearly open house; had SE's stationed throughout the school with the stack running in 'locked' mode (or whatever it was called; we only had a mouse connected, no keyboard.) I even added a little 'easter egg' in the form of an animation. Our school was two floors. You had to click on a stairway to change floors. BUT, if you were on the top-floor view, and clicked on the space that was a balcony that overlooked the library entrance (the library was only one floor, but the vaulted ceilings went all the way to the top of the second floor,) you got a multi-picture animation of 'falling' off the balcony. (Taken with an Apple QuickTake on a rope, with a shutter release rigged up.) Then you were back to the first-floor view. (The main map was set up so that you could click on any room and see the teacher and subject. The year after I left, another student modified the stack to include pictures of each room; as they tossed all the hard-drive-less SEs and used ones with hard drives for the stack that year.)
Also made an interactive map of the school for our yearly open house; had SE's stationed throughout the school with the stack running in 'locked' mode (or whatever it was called; we only had a mouse connected, no keyboard.) I even added a little 'easter egg' in the form of an animation. Our school was two floors. You had to click on a stairway to change floors. BUT, if you were on the top-floor view, and clicked on the space that was a balcony that overlooked the library entrance (the library was only one floor, but the vaulted ceilings went all the way to the top of the second floor,) you got a multi-picture animation of 'falling' off the balcony. (Taken with an Apple QuickTake on a rope, with a shutter release rigged up.) Then you were back to the first-floor view. (The main map was set up so that you could click on any room and see the teacher and subject. The year after I left, another student modified the stack to include pictures of each room; as they tossed all the hard-drive-less SEs and used ones with hard drives for the stack that year.)
Not too impressive but most useful: I use Hypercard to control a stepper motor driver and electrical measuring instruments in a laboratory (motion control/instrument setup/data aquisition). Each instrument has an own card in a stack which provides access to setup parameters and measured data. The devices communicate using the serial ports (RS422-RS232). Since I managed to make my first working setup like this 15 years ago I use variations nearly continuously for years.
I use the Educator HomeCard stacks to keep track of my personal educational belongings (i.e. tutoring supplies, textbooks, etc).
When I was in eighth grade I actually built a HyperCard stack for a math project. I haven't done any HyperCard programming in a while (the last time I did anything was about two years ago) but I am hoping to put together a fraction tutorial for the summer come May. This way I can use it with any students who may need math tutoring this summer. My hope is to have some sort of interactive fraction bar component (modeled after the manipulatives commonly used in classrooms to teach fractions) as well as quizzes and the obligatory introductory fraction lesson--the pizzas.
When I was in eighth grade I actually built a HyperCard stack for a math project. I haven't done any HyperCard programming in a while (the last time I did anything was about two years ago) but I am hoping to put together a fraction tutorial for the summer come May. This way I can use it with any students who may need math tutoring this summer. My hope is to have some sort of interactive fraction bar component (modeled after the manipulatives commonly used in classrooms to teach fractions) as well as quizzes and the obligatory introductory fraction lesson--the pizzas.
