Thank you Casey for citing a (the?) current reference with the
analysis how a HyperCard type of application should be constructed.
The question now is: Does this need to be built or is the code
available somewhere?

-- Hannes


http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2011001_dbjr_spec.pdf

DynaBook Junior Specification
by Ted Kaehler
14 Jan 2009. (Minor corrections 13 Dec 2010)
A specification for DynaBook Junior
shown in itself.
DBJr is a desktop publishing framework and
application builder that is modeled after Apple's HyperCard.

Abstract
DynaBook Junior is a desktop publishing
framework and application builder that is
modeled after Apple's HyperCard(tm). The
purpose of this specification is as a starting
point for the discovery of an extremely simple
way to describe and automatically generate
DynaBook Junior. The specification describes
stacks, pages, backgrounds, objects
embedded in pages, the front-to-back ordering
of objects, and page-specific objects. This
document is itself a DBJr stack that shows
examples of the features it describes.
Algorithms for showing a new page, adding
pages, adding backgrounds, and adding
objects to a page are given in pseudocode.

On 2/27/13, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've thought about it. Supporting existing stacks would be nice, but I'm
> honestly more interested in this:
>
> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2011001_dbjr_spec.pdf
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure Ted and/or Dan (maybe?) did a Hypercard-alike in Squeak a
>> long time ago. It really can't be a terribly hard thing for someone
>> motivated to do in Morphic these days. We have a variety of useful
>> capabilities to interface with OS facilities and can drop files on
>> windows
>> etc. We can even do multiple host windows now. On Mac and I think Windows
>> we can do host menus.
>>
>> If you like HyperCard, get on and make it. I bet it would even be
>> possible
>> to read in a lot of original stacks.
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Strange OpCodes: KFP: Kindle Fire in Printer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Casey Ransberger
>