Source for buttons, fields, scripts, for beginners?

[Terry Michaels]

I'm not a complete beginner but compared to you guys, I'm a total amateur (respects to all of you for pioneering!), so I thought I'd ask:

There used to be all sorts of sites for buttons, scripts, fields, etc. that beginners could find to add to their projects, Hypercard prior to it's dissolution had tons, Supercard had some, and now I can't find hardly any.

Your advice and guidance would be very welcome and if I can help in some way to contribute to the idea, limited in skill as I am, I would be happy to.

No one owes us that, if it exists, it is a kindness to newer users like myself, amateurs happy to follow in your footsteps.

Reading the group's posts has been educational if sometimes bewildering (I can learn, but you guys do some very advanced stuff and I have to give myself time to adjust).

Thank you regardless of your answers or lack of an answer.

Keep pioneering.

[Joe Koomen]

Have you got anything in particular you want to explore. I have lots of old sample projects, but I imagine many of them would need to be updated to work properly, so narrowing down the field would be helpful.

Joe

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Joe Koomen

[Terry Michaels]

I use Supercard for tutoring and for running a forty-year Dungeons and Dragon game, created quite a collection of stacks, happy to help others but as a programmer I'm an amateur.run

I can trouble shoot things pretty well if they aren't too complex, but there used to be sites that had things to download, like:

Buttons (sort field, self moving buttons, you name it).

Fields (coordinated fields that scroll together, fields that change color, etc.)

Things that can be plugged into an object oriented programming language like Supercard.

You would download them and try them out.

Do we have a library like that somewhere?

If not, that's okay, but I have looked and failed so far, so coming to you guys to get your advice and guidance.

I like to experiment with them as well, so narrowing my focus too much would cut out many things I might enjoy learning from.

[Bill Bowling]

How about …

Striping duplicate lines from a text container.

Converting HTMLtext to plain text. (there maybe a SC function for this already.)

Regards,

Bill B

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[MARK LUCAS]

On Oct 26, 2020, at 12:11 PM, 'Bill Bowling' via SuperCard Discussion <superca...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

How about …

Striping duplicate lines from a text container.

put rtrim(unixTask(fld 1, "/usr/bin/awk", "!x[$0]++", "-")) into fld 2

Converting HTMLtext to plain text. (there maybe a SC function for this already.)

There is (the extractText function). It expects an HFS file path as input though, so if you're trying to convert a container you'll either have to write it out to a temp file first or else use the textutil command line tool instead:

put rtrim(unixTask(fld 1, "/usr/bin/textutil", "-convert", "txt", "-stdin", "-stdout")) into fld 2

Note that for these examples rtrim is used to strip off the trailing return (well, originally a linefeed) bash appends to output. If you're actually expecting your input to have one or more trailing returns (and want to preserve them) you'll need to explicitly trim off the last character instead to avoid rtrim removing those too…

HTH,

-Mark

[Terry Michaels]

Is there a source for finding free supercard projects to examine and get ideas from like there used to be for Hypercard?

[Terry Michaels]

I did find these:

• Solutions Etcetera's official SuperCard web site
• Fourth World's SuperCard history
• ScriptLib.net, an online collaborative script library for SuperCard
• ModuloPi, an alternative Runtime editor for SuperCard

[Terry Michaels]

I FOUND a resource for old hypercard stacks that rocks:

https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks?&sort=-downloads&page=1

We need something like this for Supercard for it to grow.

Where beginning users can download all sorts of examples and ideas and produce and share their own.

Just a thought.

Thank you all for pioneering this all.

[John Neeves]

Here is a set of SuperCard user group projects:

[ethics first]

Fell ill, almost died, undiagnosed hypothyroid (for decades). Sorry it took so long to respond, my head wasn't working well.

Thank you so much for your help John and others.