Understanding HyperCard

The complete hands-on introduction to HyperCard is now in its Second Edition - with full details in version 1.2!

Perfect for beginners - even if you're new to the Macintosh - **Understanding HyperCard** uses structured tutorials and engaging examples to answer all your questions about HyperCard: what it is, how it works, and how to make it work for you. This up-to-date, expanded new edition includes:

- a guide to using HyperCard on CD-ROM, networks, and protected discs
- highly accessible coverage of new version 1.2 features
- new information on bringing external resources - new commands, utilities, icons, and more - into HyperCard
- complete details on updating your stacks and scripts to make them fully compatible with version 1.2

**Learn to make immediate use of existing HyperCard stacks** - both the stacks bundled with your software, and other widely available "Stackware" applications. Part 1 shows you how to:

- get started in HyperCard, and get help when you need it
- browse through a stack, or seek out specific information
- add to and edit information in an existing stack
- print reports from selected information

**Create your own information management solutions.** Part II shows how you can use this highly flexible system to meet your own information-handling needs. You'll:

- author an entirely new stack, to your own specifications
- use Buttons to create high-speed links between cards
- use the Painting program to put graphics in your stack

**Use Scripting to make your stacks come alive.** Part III is an introduction to HyperTalk, the Scripting language that lets you build action into your cards - with routines that play music, perform calculations, interact with users, and perform a variety of specialised functions.