ti. Macintosh. HyperCardTll Script Language Guide The HyperTalkm Language Addison-Wesley Publlshina Company, Inc. Reading, Massachusetts Menlo Park, California New York Don Mills, Ontario Wokingham, England Amsterdam Bonn Sydney Singapore Tokyo Madrid Sanjuan ··~ S APPLE COMPUTER, INC. Copyright C 1988 by-Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording. or otherwise, without prior written permission of Apple Computer, Inc. Printed in the United States Qf America, Apple, the Apple logo, LaserWriter, Macintosh, and SANE are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. APOA, Finder, HyperCard, Hypetl'alk, MultiFinder, and Stackware are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. · MacPaint is a registered trademark of CLARIS Corporation. ITC Avant Garde Gothic, ITC Garamond, and ITC Zapf Dingbats are registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Miamoft Corporation. POSTSCRIPT •is a registered trademark, and Illustrator is a trademark of Adobe Systems ·incorporated. Varityper is a registered trademark, and vr(i()() is a trademark, of AM International, Inc. Simultaneously published in the United Stares and Canada. ISBN 0-201-17632-7 ABCDEFGHIJ-00-898 Fitst printing. July 1988 Contents Flgur• and tabi.t xv Preface About This Gulde xix What's in th1' book? n Notation conventions nil Chapt.- 1 HyperTalk 8mlcl 1 What is HyperTalk? 2 Objects 2 Buttons and fields 2 Cards, backgrounds, and stacks 3 Mes..ages 4 Saipts 4 Handlers 4 Message handlers 5 Function handlers 5 Where's the script? 6 The script editor 1 Manipulating text 8 Searching and printing 8 Formatting scripts 9 Unelengrh 9 Chapter summary 10 ill Chapter 2 Handling Meaag• 11 The HypetCard environment 12 Sending meMages 12 System meMages 13 Statements as messages 13 Message box messages 14 Messages resulting from commands 14 Receiving meMages 15 Object hierarchy 16 Where messages go 16 Messages to buttons and fields 17 The current hierarchy 18 The target 20 The dynamic path 21 The go command and the dynamic path 22 The send keyword and the dynamic path ·23 Handlers calling handlers 25 Subroutine calls 25 Recursion 26 Using the hierarchy 27 Sharing handlers 27 Intercepting messages 29 Parameter passing 30 Chapter summary 32 Chapter 3 Naming Obf4tcls 33 Object descriptors 34 Object names 35 Object ID numbers 35 Object numbers 36 Special ordinals 37 Object numbers and tab order 37 Special objea descriptors 37 Stack descriptors 38 Naming a stack 39 Combining object descriptors 40 Chapter. summary 40 Iv . Contents ( Chapter 4 Values 41 Soura:!S of values 42 Constants 42 Literals 42 Functions 43 Properties 43 Numbers 44 Standard Apple Numerics Environment 44 Precision 44 Number handling 45 Containers 45 Fields 45 Variables 46 The selection 47 The Message box 48 Comple…

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( .~ Apple~ HyperTalkTM Beginner's Guide An Introduction to Scripting Previously titled Scripting With HyperTalk ( Confirmation Draft Jody Larson Customer Communications February 21, 1989 Apple Confidential or It APPLE COMPLIER, INC Copyright e 1989 by Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Apple Computer, Inc. Primed in the United States of America. © Apple Computer, Inc., 1989 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 950]4-6299 (408) 996-1010 Apple, the Apple logo, HyperCard, and Macintosh, are registered uademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. HyperTalk is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ITC Zapf Dingbats is a registered trademark of International Typeface Corporation. Linotronic is a registered trademark of Linotype Co. POSTSCRIPT is a registered trademark, and Illustrator is a trademark, of Adobe Systems Incorpora ted. Varityper is a registered trademark, and VT600 is a trademark, of AM International, Inc. Simultaneously published III the Cniled Slates and Canada • • ( Contents Preface About This Guide vii What you need to know viii How to use this guide viii Conventions used in this guide ix For more information x Chapter 1 ( ( Getting Started 1 Start up HyperCard 2 Set your user level 3 Create a practice stack 4 Set up the background 6 Putting a title on the stack 7 Home, sweet Home 8 Making a button 9 Customizing the button 9 And now, a little scriptmg 11 Trying it out 13 Buttons for traveling 14 Making two new buttons 14 Customizing the button on the right 1S Customizing the button on the left 1S Completing the scripts 16 Fill out the stack 17 Adding a label field 17 Typing a label 18 Adding five new cards 18 A script to label all cards 19 Add a button to the Home card 21 What you've done so far 22 iii ) Chapter 2 Special Effects 25 Some visual effects 26 Adding graphics 27 The Visual command 28 Adding effects to the arrow buttons 28 Adding an effect to the Home button 30 Adding the same effect to the button on the Home card 31 More experiments with visual effects 32 Barn Door 33 Dissolve 34 The syntax of the Visual command 35 Some sound effects 32 The syntax of the Play command 33 Specifying the notes 37 Dealing with long lines 39 \X'hat you've done in this chapter 39 Chapter 3 More About Message, 41 Sending messages 42 Create a "Receiver" button 43 Send a message with the Message box 44 Create a "Sender" button 45 Action at a distance 43 Remove the handler from the button script 48 Move the handler to the card level 48 Move the handler to the background level 49 Change the handler 50 Confirming actions 53 A disappearing act 53 A command to put up an alert box 54 An additional action 56 If structures 51 Syntax summaries 59 Answer 59 Click 60 Hide 61 Send 61 Set 61 Show 62 Wait 62 \X'hat you've …

- • ·sugDesk User's Guide By Bonnie Collier Mike Chiang ti Apple Confidential ti ti APPLE COMVTER, INC. This manual and the software described within and the X-CMD used in it are CONFIDENTIAL with all rights reserved. c Apple Computer, Inc., 1988 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 ( 408) 996-1010 Thanks to Gary Bond for thehardcopy X-CMD. If you wish to use this, please contact him directly. Apple, the Apple logo, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. BugDesk User's Guide t& Apple Confidential t& BugDesk User Guide................................................................................................. 1 A bout This User Guide ............................................................................... 1 Getting Started With BugDesk............................................................................. 1 How Does It Work? ...................................................................................... 1 Installation .................................................................................................................. 3 What do you need? ...................................................................................... 3 Setting Up Your BugDesk........................................................................... 3 Using BugDesk............................................................................................................ 6 Navigating Within BugDesk ...................................................................... 6 About Bug Sheets .........................................................................................? Customizing the Template ........................................................................ 9 Writing Bug Reports .................................................................................... 9 Making a White Copy of Your Bug Sheet. .......................................... .1 0 Sending Bug Reports ................................................................................... 1 1 Receiving Reports ......................................................................................... 1 1 Searching .......................................................................................................... 1 1 Printing ............................................................................................................. l 2 Sorting ............................................................................................................... 1 2 Generating Bug Summaries ...................................................................... 12 Maintenance ............................................................................................................... 1 4 Sta.ck Compaction .......................................................................................... 1 4 Upgrading ........................................................................................................ …