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Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2026-01-02

#HyperCard #HyperTalk blog post.

ko-fi.com/post/Automagic-Code-

Eric’s Edgeericsedge.com@bsky.brid.gy
2026-01-02

#HyperCard #HyperTalk blog post. ko-fi.com/post/Automag...

Automagic Code Completion for ...

Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-12-02

I’ve been working on an obscure #HyperCard feature as of late. You can support multiple language translations for #HyperTalk with a WTRN resource. A Wildtalk Translator.
The only reference I’ve found is in HyperTalk 2.2 The Book. There is Mac Pascal source code for two examples.

Eric’s Edgeericsedge.com@bsky.brid.gy
2025-12-02

I’ve been working on an obscure #HyperCard feature as of late. You can support multiple language translations for #HyperTalk with a WTRN resource. A Wildtalk Translator. The only reference I’ve found is in HyperTalk 2.2 The Book. There is Mac Pascal source code for two examples.

Eric’s Edgeericsedge.com@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-26

Learned something new today. I didn't know in #HyperTalk for #HyperCard 2.4.1 you could use "answer folder" to ask the user to select a folder. It must have been added after the 2.2 reference I'm using.

Dan Connollydckc@social.coop
2025-06-08

#grateful for Bill Atkinson and #HyperCard

HyperSchool is a HyperCard application for schools to do scheduling, attendance, and grades.

It includes thousands of lines of #HyperTalk code, plus some
C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing
before the user gets old.

Edgar WaltherteWalthert@typo.social
2025-05-09

Excited about this edition of #HyperTalk!
@vectro is playing one of his famous modular synth intro. @futurefonts has put together an exciting list of speakers again.

Photograph of our retired iMac that serves as a DVD and streaming player. Next to it, gorgeous weather, that I’ll have to miss to be part of this. #Priorities
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)uliwitness@chaos.social
2025-04-26

I always get a bit cagey when people ask if #HyperTalk is like #AppleScript.

There's an inspiration there, but AppleScript jettisons one of the fundamental strengths of HyperTalk: that it's designed to account for human “flaws" and logic gaps and removes the need to think about certain advanced programming concepts, whereas AppleScript actually has that logical structure under the hood and just makes it implicit … until it isn’t and you get an error message and need to deal with it.

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Artyom Bologovaartaka@merveilles.town
2025-04-21

Next project I'm equally afraid and hyped about: re-implementing most of #HyperCard as #HTML form-based app. Requires:
- A working #HyperTalk (or the like) interpreter
- Card editing form that's flexible enough to build e.g. a calculator
- Script editing UI
- Smart evaluation that works well with old-school HTML-first UIs
- Server setup to handle all of these

Some of these are entirely new to me, and some don't have reasonable libs for in #CommonLisp, so I'm quite floored with the amount of work. But if I manage to make this thing, I'll have a reliable note-taking tool and a simple programming system!

(Now that I think about it, I don't really need a note-taking tool, because I use #hpda. And the simple programming system might as well be a headless HyperTalk interpreter...)

#theWorkshop

Dr. Juande Santander-Velajuandesant@astrodon.social
2025-04-01

If you’re at the intersection (maybe not total) of interactive fiction, game exploration, HyperCard/HyperTalk, and graph theory, and have some fondness for Myst, this is clearly the article series for you.

glthr.com/myst-graph-1

/via @zarfeblong

#Myst #graph #HyperCard #HyperTalk #GameAnalysis #InteractiveFiction

Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2025-01-11

Join me tomorrow morning at 9 AM Eastern for more #HyperCard and #HyperTalk coding. My solution for drawing isometric tiled game locations for my next version of Adventure!.

youtube.com/live/t1v93BPJRQg?f

Eric must choose between the lasso and select tools in HyperTalk. Should he flip a coin?
Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2024-12-06

I'll be once again live streaming some #HyperCard programming this Saturday, Dec 7th at 9am Eastern. I'll be working on a #Linter for #HyperTalk.

youtube.com/live/Pzk5WmODzbE?f

A robot's hand holds aloft a wrench while Eric thinks of running a clothing lint catcher over source code.
Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2024-10-18

Are you a #HyperCard master? Dream in #HyperTalk?
Show off your mastery with one of my t-shirts!

ericsedge.threadless.com/

Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2024-06-19

#HyperTalk text chunking and a tale of #HyperCard woe.

youtube.com/post/Ugkxfwv7R2GC8

Who needs a computer anyway?
Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2024-06-17

So, aside for some questionable purchases recently whilst vintage shopping, I’ve been reinventing the wheel. Another questionable activity. It’s what I do.

I’ve been writing a SQL engine and query parser in #HyperTalk in #HyperCard called SQL-Like. Why? Why not? I have reasons I won’t go into here. See my posts and videos for more at youtube.com/@ericsedgevideos
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Serious corrosion of the positive terminal on an Everest D-Cell pulled from a vintage multimeter. Surprised to measure 1.4 volts.Serious corrosion of the positive terminal on an Everest D-Cell pulled from a vintage multimeter. Surprised to measure 1.4 volts.
Habrhabr@zhub.link
2024-05-20

Карсон Гросс, создатель HTMX

Карсон Гросс (Carson Gross) — профессор информатики из Монтаны, который неожиданно стал одним из самых ярких персонажей в индустрии веб-программирования последних лет. Он автор языка HyperScript и популярной библиотеки для фронтенда HTMX , позволяющей создавать сложные интерактивные сайты средствами HTML. Красивая альтернатива клиентскому рендерингу на JavaScript решает сразу несколько проблем современного веба, связанных с избыточной сложностью разработки и поддержки, производительностью и ожирением сайтов. Создавать сайты очень просто, тот же Хабр написал один программист , а не команда из сотен разработчиков и девопсов, как сейчас принято нанимать в интернет-компании. Многие веб-разработчики нашего времени выросли со знанием только одностраничных приложений SPA и фреймворков для них. Они начали свои карьеры с приложений на React.js, которые общаются с сервером Node через JSON API. Это настоящая трагедия, считает Гросс. Интерактивные приложения можно делать совершенно иначе.

habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

#ruvds_статьи #Карсон_Гросс #htmx #Hyperscript #груг #гипермедицные_системы #Рой_Филдинг #REST #RESTful #JSON #HypermediaDriven_Applications #HDA #SPA #React #UI #API #усталость_от_JavaScript #фронтенд #HyperTalk #HyperCard #HTMX 2 #веб_20 #Ajax

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)uliwitness@chaos.social
2024-05-16

Oh, and I only just realized: ChatGPT didn’t concatenate the variable values with the string in the “send” command, it just made the variable *names* part of the string, so this code will actually not work. 😅

Update: FUCK ME! ChatGPT was right about that one, 'send’ actually works like 'do' in HyperTalk and even evaluates the variables it was given! I didn’t know that! WTF Dan Winkler! 💙

#hyperTalk #retroProgramming #hyperCard #chatGPT

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)uliwitness@chaos.social
2024-05-16

Playing with ChatGPT. As always, it is so close, but also so far away. The first is correct, and then it goes off into the weeds, because it uses a LiveCode command, not HyperTalk, and then claims it was in random versions of HyperCard. At least LiveCode is a superset of HyperTalk. But it keeps grabbing random non-HyperTalk syntax, even when I point out it shouldn’t (“wait with messages” is also not in HC).

But impressive that it gets this far.

#hyperTalk #retroProgramming #hyperCard #chatGPT

Write a HyperTalk script that periodically changes the icon on a button, like a flipbook animation Certainly! Below is a simple HyperTalk script to create a flipbook animation effect for a button's icon. This script will periodically change the button's icon by cycling through a set of predefined icon IDs. hypercard • Copy code -- This script should be placed in the card script or a button script. on openCard startAnimation end openCard on startAnimation -- List of icon IDs to cycle through put "1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005" into iconList -- Start the animation with the first icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item 1 of iconList -- Start the animation 100p animateIcons (iconList, 1) end startAnimation on animateIcons iconList, currentIndex -- Get the number of icons in the list put the number of items of iconList into iconCount -- Calculate the next icon index put currentIndex + 1 into nextIndex if nextIndex › iconCount then put 1 into nextIndex end if -- Set the next icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item nextIndex of iconList -- Wait for a short period before changing the icon again wait 1 second -- Continue the animation loop animateIcons (iconList, nextIndex) end animatelconscan I click while this animation is running? Yes, you can modify the script to ensure that the animation runs in the background and allows you to interact with the card, including clicking buttons, while the animation is running. Here's an improved version of the script using HyperCard's send command to avoid blocking user interactions: hypercard • Copy code -- This script should be placed in the card script or a button script. on openCard startAnimation end openCard on startAnimation - - List of icon IDs to cycle through put "1001,1002, 1003, 1004, 1005" into iconList -- Start the animation with the first icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item 1 of iconList -- Start the animation 100p send "animateIcons iconList, 1" to me in 1 second end startAnimation on animateIcons iconList, currentIndex -- Get the number of icons in the list put the number of items of iconList into iconCount -- Calculate the next icon index put currentIndex + 1 into nextIndex if nextindex › iconCount then put 1 into nextindex end if -- Set the next icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item nextIndex of iconList -- Continue the animation 100p send "animatelcons iconList, nextIndex" to me in 1 second end animatelconsWhat version of HyperCard is the "send in 1 second" command available in? The send in 1 second command is available in HyperCard 1.2 and later versions. This command allows for delayed message sending, enabling background tasks and animations without blocking user interactions. If you are using a version of HyperCard earlier than 1.2, you would need to upgrade to utilize this functionality. Are you sure? l apologize for the confusion. The 'send in 1 second' command was actually introduced in HyperCard 2.0, not 1.2. HyperCard 2.0 brought several enhancements and new features, including improved scripting capabilities and the ability to schedule tasks using the send command. If you are using a version of HyperCard earlier than 2.0, you would need to upgrade to use the ' send in functionality for non-blocking animations and other timed events. Are you REALLY sure? Searched 6 sites The "send in 1 second" command in HyperCard was introduced with version 2.0. This version, released in 1990 by Claris, included several significant updates such as a just-in-time compiler and a debugger, which helped improve the performance and capabilities of HyperTalk scripts (The History of Computing) (Low End Mac). This feature enabled more advanced scripting, including scheduling actions with precise timing, such as creating animations or delayed responses within a HyperCard stack (Wikipedia).Isn't "send in 1 second" only available in LiveCode? How can I do the equivalent in Hyper Talk? I apologize for any confusion. The "send in 1 second" command is indeed associated with LiveCode, the modern successor to HyperCard, rather than HyperCard itself. In HyperCard, to achieve a similar effect without blocking user interaction, you would use the idle message or a timer-based approach. Here's how you can create a non-blocking animation in HyperCard using the idle message: 1. Set Up the Animation: Place this script in the card script or a button script. hypercard -- Card script Copy code global gIconList, CurrentIndex, Animationon on openCard -- Initialize global variables put "1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005" into gIconList put 1 into CurrentIndex put true into Animationon startAnimation end openCard on startAnimation -- Begin the animation loop by setting the initial icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item CurrentIndex of gIconLis end startAnimation on idle if AnimationOn then -- Proceed to the next icon in the list add 1 to CurrentIndex if CurrentIndex › the number of items of gIconList then put 1 into CurrentIndex end if -- Set the next icon set the icon of btn "AnimatedButton" to item CurrentIndex of gIcor -- Delay for a short period (e.g., 1 second) wait 1 second with messages end if end idle on mouseUp -- Toggle the animation on and off if Animationon then put false into Animationon else put true into gAnimationon end if end mouseUp
Eric's Edgeericsedge@bitbang.social
2023-10-28

From “HyperTalk 2.2: The Book” page 511.
#HyperCard #HyperTalk

Techie alert: The function class… Trekkie alert: Mr. Spock is half-human.
dan 💾billgoats@bitbang.social
2023-10-21

Here’s the #HyperTalk script. I only have one twiddly knob, so decided to do vertical control by holding down shift for now. #HyperCard

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