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New Addition to the Kitchen
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. 
Sounds like a great idea!
What software are you using to store the recipes?
What software are you using to store the recipes?
TeachText. 
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.