Faffing around on the SuperCard website

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Faffing around on the SuperCard website

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https://supercard.us/

I saw this:
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One of the things that keeps cropping up is the difficulty in changing icons in ask and answer windows.

Anyway, reading around on Wikipedia I came across this:

"SuperTalk provides several variations on HyperTalk's answer and answer file commands, which let one choose several items from a list, choose an icon from all available icons, pick a MIDI instrument to play sound with, or choose a file of a supported image format (including a preview), or disks and folders.

[emphasis is mine]

Although, to be honest, it is far from clear how one would do that:
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Aha: this turns out to be because SuperCard does NOT have a unified development environment, so one has to
keep popping back and forth between SuperCard and SuperEdit . . . What a tedious way to do things . . .
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Having assigned an icon using SuperEdit and saving the stack (Oh, sorry . . . cough, cough, cough . . . 'project'),
and reopening the stack in SuperEdit one finds that an icon has NOT been assigned to the dialog window at all,
but to the button:
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Oh, well, I suppose it was a good fantasy while it lasted . . .
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richmond62 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:09 am Aha: this turns out to be because SuperCard does NOT have a unified development environment, so one has to
keep popping back and forth between SuperCard and SuperEdit . . . What a tedious way to do things . . .
SuperEdit is an option, not a requirement.

It answers a question that has come up often throughout the xTalk world:

Wouldn't it be nice if there was an environment where I could focus on layout without any scripts running at all?
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Wouldn't it be nice if there was an environment where I could focus on layout without any scripts running at all?
I thought that that was what this was for:
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How's that working out?

That's the best any xTalk can do without the non-trivial expense of making a layout-dedicated separate program. It's not bad, but as the threads we see there from time to time indicate, sometimes it's hard to do things without sticking your fingers between the fan blades.
richmond62 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:31 pm
Wouldn't it be nice if there was an environment where I could focus on layout without any scripts running at all?
I thought that that was what this was for:
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one has to
keep popping back and forth between SuperCard and SuperEdit . . .
I understand the point about "an environment where I could focus on layout without any scripts running at all", but
there are certain settings that CANNOT be accessed in SuperCard, so one is forced to use SuperEdit to access them,
so SuperEdit as an 'option' is not strictly true unless by 'option' one means not having access to a lot of features that LC and OXT
offer inwith a unified interface.

Way back when, the 'application dance' was a right, royal pain in the backside; and it still is if one has to keep
popping out of the IDE to one's image editor and so on, but LC & OXT, while, possibly, not offering what SuperEdit
offers, does at least mean one can work on one's stack/project/source code inside one interface.

I suppose this whole discussion is slightly academic as SuperCard does seem to have ground to a 32-bit halt, and
no one else shows any signs of going down the dual-app path.
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