""rxr$MyJmx Apple Computer user group newsletter Volume XII No 7 July 1989 Calendar of Meetings and Events . . -■■: j j ^ l : . .■;v;v:v;v.yiy.v.-.y. WHO WHEN WHERE WHAT North Shore Mac Users Tues. July 4 Grand Marais Library Please check meeting date with Jim Group 7:00 pm Grand Marais, MN Ringquist, Note 15 Mac Users Thur. July 6 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Soft PC and SuperMac Products (6:30) 7:00 pm Branch, 70th & Xerxes, Edina, MN Door Prizes—Notes 16 & 14 Mac Computer Art & Mon. July 10 The Graphics Department Tour of a Mac open access design Design Group 6:45 pm 411 2nd Ave. North, Mpls. studio, Note 7 MicroSoft® Works™ S.l.G. Tues. July 11 Washburn Community Library Note 13 6:30-8:45 pm 5244 Lyndale Ave. S.. Mpls. Apple II Users Wed. July 12 Washburn Community Library Word Processing (Note Location Change) 7:00 pm 5244 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. Note 11 New Richmond Branch Wed. July 12 New Richmond Technical School John Hackbarth 715-246-6561 Board Meeting Thur. July 13 Brookdale Hennepin Area Library Members welcome, Note 1. 7:00 pm 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy., Brooklyn Ctr. Fourth Dimension™ Group Mon. July 17 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 2 7:00 pm Branch, 70th & Xerxes, Edina, MN Small Meeting Room, 2nd Floor Macintosh™ Programmer Tues. July 18 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 2 7:00 pm. Branch, 70th & Xerxes, Edina, MN Small Conf. Room, 2nd Floor MacCAD/E User Group Tues. July 18 Heath/Zenith Computers Note 8 7:00 pm. Shady Oak Road, Hopkins, MN Apple IIGS S.l.G. Wed. July 19 First Tech Computer Note 12 7:30 pm 2640 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis HyperCard™ Group Mon. July 24 Hagen Office Equipment Note 4 - Tentative, check before coming 7:00 pm 801 W. 77-1/2 St., Richfield, MN Mac Novice User Group Mon. July 24 Highland Branch Library Note 9 7:00 pm 1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, MN Northwest Branch Tues. July 25 Rockford Road Library Note 6 7:00 pm. 6401 42nd Av. N., Crystal, MN Mac Desktop Publishing SIG. Wed. July 26 First Tech Computer Note 3 7:00 pm 2640 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis AppleWorks© S.l.G. Thur. July 27 Murray Junior High School Multi-Computer Seminar (see 7:00 pm 220 Buford, St. Paul, MN Announcements), Note 10 North Shore Mac Users Tues. Aug. 1 Grand Marais Library, Grand Marais Note 15 Apple II Users Wed. Aug. 2 Washburn Community Library, Mpls. Other Languages (than BASIC), Note 11 1 Mac Users Thur. Aug. 3 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Notes 16 & 14 Microsoft® Works™ S.l.G. Tues. Aug. 8 Washburn Community Library, Mpls. Note 13 New Richmond Branch Wed. Aug. 9 New Richmond Technical School John Hackbarth 715-246-6561 Board Meeting Thur. Aug. 10 Brookdale Hennepin Area Library Members welcome. Note 1 Mac Computer Art & Design Mon. Aug. 14 Mpls. College of Art and Design To Scan or Not to Scan, Note 7 Macintosh Programmer Tues. Aug. 15 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 2 MacCAD/E User Group Tues. Aug. 15 Heath/Zenith Computers, Hopkins Note 8 Apple UGS S.l.G. Wed. Aug. 16 First Tech Computer, 2640 Hennepin Note 12 Fourth Dimension™ Group Mon. Aug. 21 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 2 Mac Desktop Publishing SIG Wed. Aug. 23 First Tech Computer, 2640 Hennepin Note 3 AppleWorks© S.l.G. Thur. Aug. 24 Murray Jr High, 2200 Buford, St Paul TO UltraMacros & Lining, Note 10 HyperCard™ Group Mon. Aug. 28 Hagen Office Equipment Note 4 - Tentative, check before coming Mac Novice User Group Mon. Aug. 28 Highland Branch Library, Sl Paul Note 9 Northwest Branch Tues. Aug. 29 Rockford Road Library, Crystal Note 6 Notes: 1. Dave Laden 488-6774 6. Jere Kauffman 535-6745 11. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 2. Ian Abel 824-8602 7 . J o y K o p p 4 4 0 - 5 4 3 6 12. Mark Evans 377-9000 3. Charles Bjorgen 633-8850 8. Bill Langer 937-9240 13. Ed Spitler 432-0103 4. Mike Carlson 866-3441 9. Tom Lufkin 698-6523 14. David Stovall 474-8015 5. Wesley Johnson 636-1826 10. Dick Marchiafava 572-9305 15. Jim Ringquist 218 387-2234 C()0.rdi.nat,0rS " Please Cal1 John Hansen (890-3769) by the 1st Friday in order to have your meeting listed correctly The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. mini'app'les P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 Board Members: This is the Newsletter of Mini'app'les, the Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc., a Minnesota non-profit club. The whole newsletter is copy Officers righted © by Mini'app'les. Articles may be reproduced in other non-profit President David E. Laden 488-6774 User Groups' publications except where specifically copyrighted by the 675 West Wheelock Pkwy, author. Please include the source when reprinting. St. Paul, MN55117 Past-President Dick Marchiafava 572-9305 Questions — Please direct questions to an appropriate board member. 7099 N. E. Hickory Drive Technical questions should be directed to the Technical Director. Fridley, MN 55432 Vice-President T o m L u j k i n 6 9 8 - 6 5 2 3 Membership — Send applications for membership directly to the 2078 Highland Parkway Membership Coordinator: Ian Abel 824-8602 St. Paul, MN 55116 PO Box 796 Secretary R a n d y D o p 4 5 2 - 0 4 2 5 Hopkins MN 55343 4128 Meadowlark Lane Current membership dues are $20 for the first year and $15 thereafter. All Eagan, MN 55122 members receive a subscription to the newsletter and all club benefits. New Treasurer J. Edward Wheeler 881 -5928 members receive a special package of member lists and software catalogs. P.O. Box 796 Hopkins, MN 55343 At Mail eDOMs Meetings Order Directors M e m b e r s : 5 1 / 4 " e D O M s $ 3 . 0 0 Add 5 1/4" System $1.00 $1 Publications Dan Buchler 890-5051 3 1/2" Apple/MaceDOMs $5.00 S o f t w a r e T o m G a t e s 789-1713 per 3 1/2" System $3.00 disk. Operations & Resource Dave Undlin 432-0913 S I G : M a c s To m E d w a r d s 927-6790 Non-Members: 5 1/4" eDOMs $6.00 Max S I G : A p p l e s To m O s t e r t a g 488-9979 3 1/2" Apple/MaceDOMs $10.00 $4.00 Membership Ian Abel 824-8602 Send orders to Mini'app'les at PO Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343, attention eDOM Sales or MaceDOM Sales. Coordinators Dealers — Mini'app'les does not endorse specific dealers. The club Beginners' Consultant Earl Benser 884-2148 Shows & Conventions (Your Name Here?) promotes distribution of information which may help members identify best Northwest Branch Jere Kauffman 535-6745 buys and service. The club itself does not participate in bulk purchases of media, software, hardware and publications. Members may organize such # Apple II Users Tom Ostertag 488-9979 activities on behalf of other members. 4 Apple IIGS Dick Peterson 473-5846 ft AppleWorks Dick Marchiafava 572-9305 Newsletter Contributions — Please send contributions on Mac 4 Beginner's Basic Tom Alexander 698-8633 3 1/2" disks, or via telecommunications, directly to the Newsletter Editor. 4 Languages/Tech Wesley Johnson 636-1826 Contributions on 5 1/4" disks should be sent to the club PO Box, and marked: 771-2868 fk Tech. Adviser (hdwre) Roger Flint "Newsletter Submission". Deadline for publication is the 1st day of the month preceding the month Mac Users David Stovall 474-8015 in which the item might be included. An article will be printed when space Mike Carlson 866-3441 545-9380 permits if, in the opinion of the Newsletter Editor, it constitutes suitable Excel M. Nightingale material for publication. Mac Programming Ian Abel 824-8602 HyperCard Mike Carlson 866-3441 Bill Langer 937-9240 Meeting Dates — Please phone calendar announcements to John CAD & Engineering Hansen 890-3769. 4th Dimension Prog Ian Abel 824-8602 Novice Tom Lufkin 698-6523 Club members may utilize Smalltalk Martin McClure 227-9348 Mini'app'les Mini'lnfo Exch BBS the club's BBS: Telephone No. 892-3317 DeskTop Publishing Charles Bjorgen 633-8850 MicroSoft Works Ed Spitler 432-0103 Ad VertiSi ng — Direct all advertising inquiries to the club's Advertising Software Director's Staff Coordinator: Bob Lowe 612-933-0464 Apple // DOM Editor Tom Gates 789-1713 PO Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 MaceDOM Editor/Prod Bob Fellows CP/M Open Newsletter Publication Staff Director & Daniel B .Buchler 890-5051 E-mail Editor 13516 Grand Avenue S. AppleLink LiaiSOIl Contacts (Contact wiih non-Mini'app'Ics SIGs) Burnsville, MN 55337 UG0012 GEnie: DBuchler Genealogy Jules Goldstein 690-4447 Announcements Kent Edwards 452-4956 Medical Stewart Haight 644-1838 Calendar John Hansen 890-3769 CP/M Jim Roscnow (414)261-2536 Contributing Ed. Steve George 935-5775 Contributing Ed. Tom Edwards 927-6790 Circulation this issue: 1100 Comp./Layout Joan Kistner mini'app'les July 1989 In This Issue Advertisers Announcements 4 Hagen 26 Apple/Mac System software available to members 7 Linhoff Apple II Meeting Maps 6 MacChuck 13 Board Meeting Minutes by Ed Spitler 6 NSP 27 Classified Advertisements 15 Ramco 26 Membership Promotion 5,BC Software Renters, Inc. More Apples than IB Ms enlrl in 1988 9 c5 The AppleWorks Advisoi by Dick Marchiafava 5 6 B e g i n n e r s C o m e r b y To m A l e x a n d e r 7 Applesoft Basic—Formatting Numbers Membership Application Troubleshooting the Beagle—Part 1 by Dick Marchiafava 6 and Renewal Form 7/89 (5 What's the new GS/OS 9 32 Bits, and Not a Quarter in the Bunch Name: (June MacUser) by Tom Edwards 13 Apple Network Blitz from AppleLink 17 Address: Color QuickDraw 14 Dream On, Pencil Pusher by Tom Edwards 15 City: (Apr Mac CAD/E) Stale: RIFF about TIFF by Tom Edwards 16 (May Mac Desktop Publishing SIG) ZIP: Color QuickDraw 14 Excerpts from Windoid #8 Editor—David Leffler 21 HyperCard Novice Comer by Phil Wyman 20 Home Phone: ( ) _ - (excerpted from Windoid #8) Work Phone: ( ) - HyperCard Power Tips from AppleLink 19 (excerpted from Windoid #8) N e w M e m b e r ( ) o r R e n e w a l ( ) Mac Ilex Internal Hard Drives from AppleLink 16 MaceDOM #808—Stackware 6 by Bob Fellows 12 Spouse's name: MacWrite II, A Review by Dan Gutman 15 New Font Format from AppleLink 18 Childrens names: News Flash by Funnius Bonus 12 (if interested in SE/30 Logic Board Upgrade from AppleLink 13_ computers) The Fine Print The Mini'app'les newsletter is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with Sponsored by: or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. or any other computer manufacturer. 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Mike for Mini'app'les Newsletter by Joy Kopp Newman, Crossfield/DICOMED, will share results of his latest research efforts Are you an The Macintosh Computer Art and Design in finding new and successful ways to (MCAD) User Group meets on the second advertising output a color Mac file to film and paper. Monday of the month at 6:45PM. The These are the people who brought us location of the meetings is the Minneapolis professional? images of Jupiter from the Voyager College of Art & Design, room 325 satellite in the 70's. Now, they've turned Combine business with helping Computer Lab., unless otherwise noted. ■ their attention to the Mac. Join us for a out the club! Mini'app'les could Jul 10: Field Trip to The Graphics glimpse of the latest in technological make you a deal. Department advances. Get us some ads, and we On July 10,1989 MCAD will visit The Nov 13: That's All Folks! will pay you a Graphics Department, an open access MCAD meets from February through commission! design studio offering the latest hardware November. This year, we've decided to and software for the Macintosh. The end the meeting year with a bash. We've studio is available to any and all Macintosh opened each meeting with introductions designers and artists for an hourly fee. around the room, now it's time to do the Please join us at 6:45 PM for an Mac Mingle! Notice introduction to this unique service facility. Location and party agenda to be The Graphic Department This is announced. ^^ Chuck Burr 371-0733 a bigger newsletter with lots of Join the MCAD group for these 411 2nd Avenue North, Minneapolis interesting topics and a new informative and entertaining events. For format! Aug 14: To scan Or Not To Scan. Is It A Question? any questions or suggestions for future meeting topics, contact Please help us to continue to August 14th, the MCAD group returns Joy Kopp... 440-5436 to room 325 of the College for a make this happen! presentation by attorney and Mac user Mac Users coming up Chris Sandberg. Mr. Sandberg will lead a discussion on copyright implications of by Tom Edwards Wanted scanning and digital image manipulation. The July 6th meeting of Mac Users will be Editors for Monthly If you change just one pixel, is it yours? at the Southdale Hennepin County Lirary Come and find out. (see map on page 6). This meeting Columns continues the peripherals presentation in this Newsletter Sep 11: The Mac as a Pre-Press Link Bob Mueller, from Imagination Factory from ProActive Marketing. (Bring your membership card for the drawing!) Help us promote your pet Graphics, will be the speaker at MCAD's September 11th meeting. He will discuss For those that have a Blue Streak topic? the use of the Mac as a front-end to page fixation, there will also be a demo of Soft makeup with a pre-press link. "Pre-press" PC, a program that does a personality We need members to assist in has traditionally meant the process of transplant on your Mac. collecting and editing articles taking camera-ready art to film, then The August 3rd meeting will feature a on specific topics; examples: stripping and assembling the film in demo of Hewlett-Packard printers, with preparation for color separation and assistance from Bob Heine from the St. Desk Top Publishing, printing. The Mac now enters this process Louis office. This will include the Excel Tips, with electronic assistance. DeskJet+ and the Desk Writer, a new Mac- Apple II Databases, Oct 9: Imaging! Imaging! Imaging! specific device that has just been HyperCard Tips, etc. Making pretty color pictures on a Mac introduced. has always been easy. Getting them off ** Call Dan Buchler at 890-5051 the screen and ontof film or paper has not. -4- mini'app'les July 1989 The AppleWorks Advisor A Column For Users Of AppleWorks by Dick Marchiafava ometimes it seems there will Touch, has been reissued as a Beagle TimeOut ReportWriter be nothing to write about product. ReportWriter is a complete surprise to relative to AppleWorks when me. This product may be the most the time comes to set this words GS Font Editor significant and powerful add-on for down in the word processor. This program is shipping now. The AppleWorks, when all it's capabilities B are understood and utilized. However, in more than 3 years of writing product name misleading. It sounds as this column, the rich environment though there is nothing about GS Font The AppleWorks data base is a list surrounding AppleWorks comes through Editor which would have anything to do handTer,a"flat" database. Youarelimited with material worth commenting on. with AppleWorks. However, TimeOut to whatever information you can fit into SuperFonts uses the GS type of fonts that 30 categories, and the report formatting New Beagle Bros Programs this program can edit. capability is very limited. At this time, the news in the AppleWorks Fonts in Apple GS programs on an ReportWriter will address these world is from Beagle Bros. The Beagle Apple ilgs can be edited or created with shortcomings because it is a relational Boys have announced 5 packages, 3 of GS Font Editor. In addition, GS Font report generator. ReportWriter can use which pertain to AppleWorks. The Editor can be used to edit fonts used by data from as many as 11 different programs applicable to AppleWorks are TimeOut SuperFonts and also Publish It! AppleWorks files, which can be a mix of TimeOut TeleComm, TimeOut and can be used with Apple //e and //c database, spreadsheetand word processor ReportWriter and GS Font Editor. computers. files. Although other publications have Reports can contain 250 fields and can written about packages as though they are TimeOut TeleComm be 127 lines by 240 characters. There can shipping now (early June), I have been This program has been in the works for be unlimited sub-totals and totals. Reports informed by the Beagle Buddy quite some time. I thought that it was print to disk and can be print on screen or JP*V Coordinator, Chuck Newby, that close to release a couple of times before. with a printer. TeleComm and ReportWriter have not It appears to be nearly ready to ship soon. There are extensive functions available yet begun to ship. He thought that these TeleComm, like all the TimeOut within ReportWriter which make iti may begin shipping in July. modules, is an AppleWorks resident flexible and powerful. With this tool, you! Beagle Bros now publishes Point-to- program. As the name states, it is a should be able to get any type of reporti Point, a stand-alone communication telecommunication program which works imaginable from AppleWorks. program which was formerly marketed within AppleWorks, using the Just to make it even more interesting,, by Pinpoint AppleWorks interface and command ReportWriter is said to be capable oft Alan Bird's excellent utility, Program structure. posting data back to AppleWorks files! Writer which was marketed by him when he and Mark were running Software AWA, continues on 8 Location Map: New Members: April and May AppleWorks SIG Sponsoring Members Hennepin vlL> La/perdeur Dan Buchler J. Edward Wheeler New Members Como Gloria Gunkle 55033 612-437-9778 Anthony Saxton 55107 612-293-1294 Glen F. Anderson 55108 612-646-7377 Hwy«80-»J Hoyt M. Hsiao 55121 612-835-7356 Kathy H. Drazen 55122 612-452-4155 MINNEAPOLIS Mark Koivisto 55343 612-544-5434 John Somerville 55346 612-934-4588 Como Exit Robert C. Fellows 55416 612-925-4090 North Eric B. Holland 55420 612-888-9830 ^ Craig Tharaldson 55423 612-869-1072 5- mini'app'les July 1989 Trouble Shooting charge for the upgrade is $75. when you boot your AppleWorks disk. If you have a recent version of TimeOut is a kind of program selector. The Beagle AppleWorks (v2.0 or later) and you still Installing TimeOut does NOT TimeOut Products For get the "Unable to recognize" message, automatically give you QuickSpell, then you will have to send your master SuperFonts or any of the other AppleWorks TimeOut disks back to us for an update. applications. TimeOut simply interrupts by Beagle Bros The address is in the back of your manual. AppleWorks and then runs one of the via Beagle Buddy Beagle Bros has recently instituted a applications. To work effectively, standard updating policy! Your purchases TimeOut needs to know where your Part I: TIMEOUT of updated versions of our software (ie. applications are. You will get the message from vl.6 to vl.7) are priced at $10.00 Problem: You can't make a backup "Getting errors trying to load TimeOut each. applications at AppleWorks" if your copy of your new disk without getting It is suggested by Beagle Bros that applications have not been copied to your an error message. users update their program disks only if AppleWorks disk. Beagle Bros program disks are they are experience problems. They want 3.5 inch disk users: Select "Copy files unprotected and copyable. You can and users to utilize the Beagle Buddy support to TimeOut applications disk" from the SHOULD make a backup. But if your network to get updates. TimeOut installation menu. Just follow master disk has become damaged during Problem: You get a "BREAK" or "No the instructions on the screen. TimeOut shipping, it won't copy. Just send it back device connected" message when you installation will then be complete. to Beagle Bros with a note that you got a install TimeOut. 5.25 inch disk users: There isnotenough bad disk. We'll replace it at no charge. During TimeOut installation, you need room on your 5.25 inch AppleWorks disk Beagle Bros, Inc. 6215 Ferris Square, to specify the Slot and Drive of your to hold your applications. So, you cannot Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92121 AppleWorks disk. The location you give have your applications on your All TimeOut programs come on both is the one in which you boot your AppleWorks disk. You need to make a 5.25 and 3.5 inch disks. It's very unlikely AppleWorks disk when you use separate applications disk. Ifthisisyour that both disks could be damaged. If you AppleWorks. The standard locations are: only TimeOutprogram, your backup copy have both types of disk drives, try using Slot 6, Drive 1, for 5.25 inch disk drives will be your applications disk. the other disk. It's probably OK. If you on the He. Slot 6, Drive 1, for the 5.25 inch For one 5.25 disk drive: enter Slot 6, have only 5.25 inch disk drives, take your internal drive on the lie. Slot 5, Drive 1, Drive 1, as the location of yourapplications 3.5 inch disk to your dealer and ask him to for 3.5 inch drives on the He, He, IIc+ and disk when you install TimeOut. When copy the files to a 5.25 inch disk so you Ugs. you boot up AppleWorks, you will get the can use it immediately. Of course, we'll You will get these error messages if message "Getting errors trying to load still replace the damaged one. you specify a Slot and Drive for applications at Slot 6, Drive 1". Place One note about making backups: if you AppleWorks that does not have a disk your TimeOut disk in the drive and select are using Copy II+, make sure that you drive connected, or if your AppleWorks "Try again" from the menu. Your use the disk copy option, and NOT the bit startup disk is not in the drive. applications will then be ready to use. copy. To correct the problem, do the For two 5.25 inch drives: enter Slot 6, Problem: You get the message installation again. This time, select Slot Drive 2, as the location of your applications "Unable to recognize this version 6, Drive 1 as the location of disk when you install TimeOut. Make of AppleWorks" during AppleWorks if you are using a 5.25 sure your applications disk is in Slot 6, TimeOut installation. inch AppleWorks disk. Select Slot Drive 2, when you boot up AppleWorks The TimeOut series of 5, Drive 1, for a 3.5 inch and your applications will be loaded AppleWorks enhancements is AppleWorks disk. automatically. designed for use with Make sure your Problem: You get the message "Getting AppleWorks v2.0 and later. You AppleWorks disk is in the errors trying to load TimeOut can see which version of specified drive when you Applications at..." when you boot up AppleWorks you have by do the installation. AppleWorks. checking the title screen when Problem: You get the Your TimeOut applications can be you boot up AppleWorks. message "Getting anywhere; on a floppy disk, on a ram disk, If your AppleWorks is v 1.0 to errors trying to load or on a hard drive. The "Getting errors vl.3, you'll need to contact TimeOut applications trying to load TimeOut applications" Claris, the publisher of at AppleWorks" message means that one of the following AppleWorks to obtain an has happened: upgrade. Their telephone number is: 800 544-8554. The A Beagle Buddy's Buddy GOTO 11 -6- mini'app'les July 1989 zeros and decimal points. Remember, 850 FORX = lTO3:T=20-LEN(NS Applesoft BASIC doesn't print numeric (X)): PRINT TAB(T); NS (X): r leading or trailing zeros. Eg: N(l),4724.1, NEXT X: PRINT must appear as 4724.10. 860 L = LEN (NS (4)): T = 20 - LEN A couple of years back a member gave (NS (4)): HTAB (T) me a neat little one line subroutine that 870 FOR X = 1 TO L: PRINT "-";: does this (See Author's Note Below): NEXT X: PRINT 100 DCS = RIGHTS (STRS (INT (DC 880 PRINT TAB(T); NS (4) + (DC<0)*1 + (DC> = 0)*.005)) 890 HTAB(T) APPLESOFT + "." + RIGHTS (STRS (INT 900 FOR X = 1 TO L: PRINT "=";: BASIC ((ABS (DC) +100)* 100+ .5)) ,2), NEXT X: PRINT 255) By Tom Alexander 130 RETURN Now the column looks like this: Formatting Numbers To get each variable in the proper format 4724.10 13.87 pplesoft BASIC is a the following algorithm is used: 523.00 crummy programming 800 FOR X = 1 TO 4: DC = N (X): language. It doesn't right GOSUB 100 justify and format 810 N$ (X) = DCS: NEXT X 5260.97 numbers.", quoth the Now we're ready to present the column dissident. in an orderly fashion. That is, right True enough but that shouldn't make justified. We have to use a little hokus We're cookin' now. You can shift into fourth and vault above the mundane by you throw up your arms in despair. It pokus to get this done because Applesoft simply offers the BASIC programmer left justifies everything when it prints inserting commas in the numbers and another challenge. The results can be characters. We want all of the decimal adding dollar signs if you're showing downright awesome. points to line up one under the other. monetary figures. Commas are inserted Let's look at a small example for starters. Because two decimal places have been by adding two lines to the subroutine as You want to show on the screen a column added to each number we can select the shown above (100). These are: of numbers and their sum. The numbers column in which we want the last digit to 110 IF LEN (DCS) > 6 THEN DCS = are: 4,724.10, 13.87 and 523.00. These be printed. Let's say it's column 20. LEFTS (DCS, LEN (DCS) - 6) + are represented in the array variables N Therefore, the first digit of the number "," + RIGHTS (DCS,6) (1), N (2) and N (3). The sum, N (4), is should be printed in column 20 LESS the 120 IF LEN (DCS) > 10 THEN DCS = calculated: length of the number. InthecaseofNS(l) LEFTS (DCS, LEN (DCS) -10) + 780 N (4) = 0: REM * Initialize this would be 20 - LEN (NS (1)). So we "," + RIGHTS (DCS,10) 790 FOR X = 1 TO 3: N (4) = N (4) + could say that the TAB value should be 20 Adding dollar signs to the numbers N (X): NEXT X: PRINT - LEN (NS (1)). Here's how it's written: isn't really difficult. All the stuff I've 850 FORX = lTO4:T=20-LEN(NS seen in programs in magazines just prefix Applesoft will print the numbers as (X)): PRINT TAB(T); NS (X): all numbers with a S. This is done as such: follows: NEXT X: PRINT NS (1) = "S" + NS (1). This is fine if you 4724.1 like reading road maps. 13.87 The column now looks like this: I choose to follow the form of those that 523 4724.10 present dollar figures for review: 5260.97 13.87 Accountants. When presenting a column 523.00 of dollar figures and the sum, accountants Not very elegant. You would gain 5260.97 only prefix the first figure in the column neither the admiration nor the respect of and the ones below a single line with a S. your peers or underlings. Your seers This is better but there should be an In addition, the dollar signs are in the would cast aspersions upon you. Ok. underline between the third number and same column. Everything lines up. Let's fix it up. the total. A double underline should be This is accomplished by using the TAB First, you must convert all the numeric shown under the total as well. A couple of value for the total amount as shown above variables to alpha-numeric variables. things have to be added but the principles then subtracting 2 (the dollar sign will Why? Because you can do all sorts of are the same. The length of the underline precede the total figure by one space): T2 = T - 2. Line 880 will now read: manipulations with alpha characters that should be the same as the length of the you can't do with numerics. You have to total amount. The algorithm now looks fill two decimal places where there weren't like this: GOTO XX -7- mini'app'les July 1989 880 PRINT TAB(T2); "$"; TAB(T); Also, you will notice that the subroutine I was surprised when I counted how N$(4) uses the variable DC (X). Why not N (X) many of the 30 patches I use from the The length of the underlines (L) is going as in therestof the program? Well, I used version of SuperPatch which I have. to have to have to be lengthened as well: this subroutine from a program on a disk Between SuperPatch and CheckMate's L = L + 2. That takes care of the total. where I keep all subroutines. This is Patch.Patch, I must be using nearly 30 Now for the first figure (Remember - The much easier than typing the subroutine patches in AppleWorks. It is amazing dollar signs are in the same column): over and over for different programs. It that they all work together without hanging 840 T3 = 20 - LEW (1): PRINT TAB just saves time. AppleWorks, or crashing it. (T2);"$";TAB(T3);N$(1) Line 850 will have to changed to print Subroutine for three decimal places: SEG.PR EDITOR only N$ (2) andN$ (3). Therefore, 100 DCS = RIGHTS (STR$ (INT (DC This is an interesting utility to edit the FORX = 2T0 3. + (DC < 0) * 1 + (DC > = 0) * printer drivers in AppleWorks. It works Putting it all together: .0005)) + "." + RIGHTS (STRS with both the built-in drivers and custom 800 FOR X = 1 TO 4: DC = N (X): (INT ((ABS (DC) +1000) * 1000 drivers. The utility will show what print GOSUB 100 + .5)) ,3), 255) codes the built-in drivers use, and allows 810 N$(X) = DCS: NEXTX 130 RETURN changes to be made to the built-in drivers. 820 T = 20-LEN(N$(4)):T2 = T-2 This means that the standard drivers can 830 T3 = 20-LEN(N$(1)) Subroutine for four decimal places: be customized with codes for those 840 PRUSTTTAB (T2); "$ "; TAB (T3); 100 DCS = RIGHTS (STRS (INT (DC overlooked printer features that were not N$(l) + (DC < 0) * 1 + (DC > = 0) * implemented. 850 FORX=2TO3:T=20-LEN(N$ .00005)) + "." + RIGHTS (STRS For the Custom driver, printer codes (X)): PRINT TAB (T); N$ (X): (INT((ABS(DC)+10000)* 10000 can be entered with a level of detail which NEXTX + .5)) ,4), 255) is not possible in AppleWorks. For 860 L = LEN (N$ (4)): T = 20 - LEN 130 RETURN example, it is possible to enter the codes (N$ (4)): L2 = L + 2: HTAB (T2) for proportional printing. 870 FOR X = 1 TO L2: PRINT "-";: Just loading a printer driver can be NEXTX: PRINT interesting. With this editor, one can see 880 PRINT TAB (T2); "$ "; TAB (T); AWA concluded from 6 what codes are used to implement printer N$(4) features and how they were entered. 890 HTAB (T2) Existing TO Updates I encountered a problem in trying to use 900 FOR X = 1 TO L2: PRINT "=";: this utility. I had Tom try it and he had no NEXTX: PRINT After a long quiet spell, when not much was seen to be moving at Beagle Bros, problems. After talking to him, I retried the editor, saw essentially the same The finished product: they announce some new products and have released some updates (bug fixes, indications as I had before. I ran out of $ 4,724.10 patches?) for DeskTools II, PowerPack, time to work with it I'll get back to it later 13.87 and write up the results here. 523.00 SpreadTools and Thesaurus. If you are having problems with any of AppleWorks questions and tips from these TimeOut modules, contact a Beagle anyone are welcome. Send to: 7099 $ 5,260.97 Buddy to get the update. You can get Hickory Drive N.E., Fridley, MN 55432. TimeOut updates from Beagle Bros Include your address and phone number. Or call 612-572-9305, no collect calls. That looks a lot better. It's clean. It's directly, but because of overwhelming demand for which they feel are being Dick crisp. You can read it If you're going to the trouble of writing a fantastic program, requested simply to have the very latest version of each program, they have go the extra yard and make your instituted a policy of charging for updates. presentations presentable. It's worth a little more effort. So, use the Beagle Buddy who is close to Author's Note Below - The subroutine you to get updates. given above will fill two decimal places. Sometimes more decimal places are called Improved SuperPatch for. The same formula as used above can There is an improved version of be altered to accommodate three and four SuperPatch (greater than 3.1) in circulation decimal places. Those formulas are given now. I have not had seen it yet but am below. looking forward getting it mini'app'les July 1989 as a system update, and will be packed in More Apples than What's the new .with all new Apple IIGS computers. The IBM's sold in 1988 GS/OS? software^requires at least 512K of RAM — but not a trend for an individual system, at least 768K of Apple Announces Apple RAM for a networked system, and ROM San Jose, CA 1989 May 9 IIGS System Software 5.0 version 01 or later. from AppleLink PE May 5, AppIeFest, Boston or the first time since it entered pple announced new system Overview: the PC market in 1981, IBM software for the Apple IIGS. The Apple IIGS System Software Version has been surpassed by Apple The cew system meets the 5.0 gives you all the advantages of the needs of both network and Computer in PC unit sales. latest system software for the Apple IIGS standalone users. It Dataquest, a market research personal computer. It features GS/OS, an includes a network-aware Finder that afirm, says Apple sold 1.27 operating system that improves the startup million Macintosh and Apple II computers provides access to AppleShare file servers time and speeds up disk access, program in 1988 while Big Blue sold 1.23 million and network printers, performance launching, and file copy and transfer tasks. enhancements to the Toolbox, and a personal computers. GS/OS includesFileSystemTranslators Dataquest does not, however, think this graphics-based Control Panel. (FSTs) that enable applications to directly is a trend. "IBM is finally getting its act Customers using networked Apple IIGS access files created using other file together," says Steve Lair, an analyst with systems [with AppleShare File Server systems. For example, the ISO/High and AppleShare Print Server software Dataquest. IBM PC sales fell 20 percent Sierra FST allows you to run CD-ROM in 1988, but this year's new products and will find that Version 5.0 provides the applications with the ISO/High Sierra stronger marketing should allow IBM to following benefits: — Reduced floppy standard, and AppleShare FST gives you disk management and powerful print and regain its lead, he added. access to files on AppleShare file servers. Meanwhile, Dataquest also says IBM file sharing services, with easy access to The Apple IIGS System Software and Apple face an even greater threat than network resources; — AppleShare log Version 5.0 also offers several features each other — overseas competition. on using the new graphics-based Control that significantly improve the computer's They're losing market share to Taiwanese Panel; — Networked printers available functionality and ease of use. and Korean computer manufacturers, for selection from the Control Panel; — The Finder (a graphics-based interface whose overall dollar sales surged 43 AppleShare server volumes visible and that allows you to manipulate files on the percent in the U.S. — that translates to 4.4 accessible from the desktop. desktop) is now easier to use, faster, and million machines sold here in 1988. Apple IIGS System Software Version more informative than earlier versions. It Portables, and specifically battery- 5.0, available later this summer, will has also been revised to allow access to powered portables will be the hottest replace Version 4.0 and AppleShare IIGS the AppleTalk Network System, so you Workstation Software when it becomes growth area in the PC market through can share programs and data located on an 1992, says Dataquest. (Ed. note; There available. The product will be available AppleShare file server, and networked has been a lot of speculation about such a printers, with other AppleShare users. product from Apple, but nothing has come Another important feature is the new onto the dealer's shelves. On the other will be nothing compared to that in Europe graphics-based Control panel, access from hand, "the other computer manufacturer" which will follow the integration of the the Finder via the Apple menu. You can has just announced two new additions European Community in 1992. Fernandez use the Control Panel to set the time and into their product line... one of which is a says the Japanese are already taking steps date, raise or lower the sound volume, log laptop. I wonder if Dataquest had wind of to grab the lead by committing S600 on to network servers, configure slot this when they made the statement that million to build a wafer fabrication plant assignments, and even change screen the recent sales figures probably are not a in Britain. "Today's global market borders or background and text colors. trend) Printers and optical storage devices requires companies to set up Version 5.0 includes the Advanced Disk will lead peripheral growth. Software manufacturing and research in overseas Utility, which features an easy-to-use, firms will continue to earn well — last markets," Fernandez said. "The days graphics-based interface and allows you year revenues for the top 15 U.S. software when you could just manufacture in one to initialize, erase, and partition hard disks, companies grew 40 percent. And in country and sell everywhere else, those as well as both 5.25- and 3.5-inch floppy telecommunications, fax machines, voice days are over." disks. You also get the Installer utility, messaging, and cellular radio will sell (Wendy Woods/19890513 IPress Contact: which lets you update your startup disks well. Lois Long, Dataquest, 408- 437-8309) and customize their configuration for your However, Dataquest's President Manny system and its attached peripherals. Fernandez says growth in the U.S. market -9- mini'app'les July 1989 $2 Million Donation Apple II Video Apple Donates $2 Million in Computers to Schools from AppleLink Personal Edition Overlay Card? CUPERTINO. California. June 9,1989 he Apple II Video Overlay ith the help of Apple students will use computers to design, Card, for the Apple He and Computer, elementary produce, and market T-shirts. These I I G S , a l l o w s y o u t o and junior high students interdisciplinary activities are designed superimpose Apple II screen at a school in rural to encourage teamwork, peer teaching Dimages on top of video from Louisiana, will be and practical application of academic skills an external source (VCR, videodisc, video working together this fall using computers such as graphic arts, advertising, sales camera, or live TV signal), and display the to transform oral histories from students strategies, and accounting. combined video and graphic images on a families into an electronic audiovisual Selection criteria for the grants, included monitor (RGB or composite) or record encyclopedia of their local culture. And, demonstrated need and a clear plan of them on a VCR. in Philadelphia, inner-city high schoolers how technology would be used to develop —The Apple II Video Overlay Card will use computers for the first time to new learning environments for at-risk integrates external video into the Apple II study botany in a renovated greenhouse. students. Grants consisted of Apple He, environment, bringing professional video These school projects, plus 21 others Apple IIGS and Macintosh personal capabilities to the desktop and opening a around the country, have received computer systems, plus printers, disk new world of possibilities for learning computer grants valued in excess of $2 drives, and additional Apple equipment and creativity with the Apple II. You can million from Apple Computer, Inc. The as needed. Up to 20 systems were awarded annotate video materials to clarify or awards were made through Apple's to a single project. Depending on their highlight information, create dazzling Eduction Grants program called Equal hardware configurations, grantees videos for education and home use, or Time, now in its third consecutive year; received software from Apple and/or create and view single-screen interactive 1989 marks the tenth anniversary of the Claris Corporation, access to a applications. (Explore the applications of Apple Education Grants program. telecommunications network, and this product in the "Applications" area, For the past several years our grants technical support. then post your own ideas on the have specifically focused on innovative Included in the awards were $80,000 in "Applications" and "Graphics" message approaches to learning for students at risk computer systems made as seed grants to boards, in The Video Room, in Apple of academic failure, said Andrea Gonzales, a number of schools that participated in Headquarters.) Education Grants program officer. this years competitive grant cycle. These —The Apple II Video Overlay Card is Gonzales cites some of the formidable smaller grants are intended to enable the backward-compatible. It works with all barriers keeping students from schools to begin developing projects that Apple II software, so you can get started experiencing academic success: economic range from software development for right away with software you probably hardship; limited English proficiency; teen students learning English to improved already own. Paint, animation, pregnancy and parenting; incarceration technology access for the disabled. presentation, authoring, and titling or adjudication; physical, mental, and Apple, the Apple logo, Apple IIGS and packages are most appropriate for use emotional disabilities; and bias and Macintosh are registered trademarks of with the card. discrimination. Apple Computer, Inc. —The Apple II Video Overlay Card is Any one of these factors can cause a (Summaries of school projects receiving easy to use: Once it's installed it's invisible student to fall behind academically, she Apple awards are available upon request.) - you can use your Apple II as you normally notes. And once they start to lag, school would, or start creating overlays right often becomes a continuing exercise in (Ed. note: Recently saw an article on a away. The card also ships with VideoMix failure that eventually leads them to local bulletin board about (the other software (a IIGS desk accessory and a lie dropping out. Technology can be a comuter). Seems that Apple may not be application) that allows you to easily powerful tool for teachers trying to turn the only one to try this type of promotion control features of the card and quickly this situation around. to get their keyboards into the education test many combinations of video and One school in Florida will use its market. Although it is a 3 year plan, (the graphics. computer grant to create a learning other computer manufacturer) is beginning —The Apple II Video Overlay Card is environment that will give seventh and a $25 million grant program for teacher versatile. It works in a number of video eighth graders who have fallen a year prep and for innovative classroom and display configurations, providing you behind their peers, a chance to make up applications. Looks like Apple will have with maximum flexibility for creative two years of school in a single year. Along to eat a little dust on this one!) applications. with their intensivcacademiccoursework, -10- mini'app'les July 1989 Trouble Shoot, concluded New Macintosh System Software from Page 6 jH^^ Previewed San Jose, CA 1989 May 9 You have selected your AppleWorks from AppleLink Personal Edition disk as the location of your applications when you have 5.25 inch disk drives. (See Apple also announced a new above) estimated 1,500 software and Communications Toolbox, which is a Your applications disk is not in the hardware developers, Apple set of common routines, functions, and drive. When you get this message, just Computer provided a features that provide software developers Eefore an audience of an put the disk in the drive and select "Try preview of its newest with standard programming interfaces to again" from the menu. operating system. The System Version date connection, terminal emulation, and You have not copied your applications 7.0, said to be fully compatible with earlier file transfer capabilities. It also provides to the location you specified during and "future" Macintosh operating systems, end-users with consistent user interfaces TimeOut installation. Forexample.ifyou is designed to exploit more of the power across all applications. entered the pathname "/Hardl/ inherent in Motorola's 68030 The best Apple could say about further AppleWorks" as the location of your microprocessor, and allows the Macintosh details and availability of all this was that applications, TimeOut will not be able to to compete with features inherent in OS/ it would come "later this year." find your applications unless you have 2 and Unix on just two megabytes of (Wendy Woods/19890513/Press copied them to "/Hardl/AppleWorks". memory. Contact: Cindy McCaffrey, Apple, 408- Selecting "Copy files to TimeOut System Version 7.0 provides the 974-1578) applications disk" from the TimeOut machines with virtual memory, or the installation menu will solve the problem. ability to use a hard disk as if it were You have more that one TimeOut additional random access memory, and program, and AppleWorks sometimes 32-bit addressing, which will expand the crashes when you enter or leave aTimeOut maximum memory addressable by Current Apple System software #^ accessory. applications. These two attributes are available through Mini'app'les: If AppleWorks or one of the TimeOut part of the new Interapplication Software Ver Date Format programs crashes mysteriously, it could Communications Architecture. This will be that you have a version of TimeOut allow applications to exchange data and II, II+, Uc, l/e instructions either on a single Macintosh DOS 3.3 Master n/a 09/10/85 5.25" installed which is incompatible with the ProDOS 8 1.7 06/13/88 5.25" version of Utilities you are using. Every or over a network, providing a "live copy/ TimeOut program disk comes with a file paste" function between applications. Apple IIGS called "TO.UnLrnES". This program GS/OS Syst. Disk 4.0 08/18/88 3.5" Apple's new System Version 7.0 will 4.0 3.5" and the version of TimeOut on each disk also allow the computer to better utilize GS/OS Syst. Tools 08/18/88 work together. If you have installed the multitasking-like features of Macintosh TimeOut from one disk and are using the MultiFinder — performing several tasks System Tools 6.0.3 12/9/88 3.5" Utilities program from a different disk, at once. This operating system, however, Print Tools 6.0.3 12/9/88 3.5" will not provide for true multitasking, Utilities 1 6.0.3 12/9/88 3.5" strange things can happen. Utilities 2 6.0.3 12/9/88 35" The fix is simple. Boot up all of your something observers don't expect to see TimeOut program disks and find the one until Version 8.0 comes out. HyperCard 1.2 04/25/88 3 J" that has the most recent version of TimeOut New imaging software, called Outline H. C. Update 1.2.2 05/25/88 35" on it. Then install TimeOut again with fonts and Layout Manager, give ImageWriter LQ Disk 1 2.0 7/18/88 this disk and copy the file Macintoshes more what-you-see-is-what- ImageWriter II/LQ AppleTalk 2.0 7/18/88 "TO.UTILITIES" from theS AMEdisk to you-get on screen; Outline fonts are Apple System Software disk prices are as follows: your applications disk. mathematical descriptions of text that can be scaled to any point size at any resolution. 3.5" Systems disks $3.00 each. This article will continue in a future issue. The Layout Manager provides 5.25" Systems disks $1.00 each. Notes: Look for "New Beagle Bros," part 2. typographical quality text layout. • The Macintosh System Tools and Utilities disks In addition, a new print architecture are available only as a set of 4 disks. should allow Macs to work with more • ProDOS requires 64K of memory on the Apple printers and output devices. And a new II and 11+ /s^-. Finder will be more intuitive, extensible, • GS/OS System Disk and System Tools are and will allow more direct manipulation available only as a set of 2 disks. techniques, according to Apple. 11 mini'app'les July 1989 Power Tools U LJ News Flash by Mark Spaulding and Jerry Daniels QT£^feeeDOM Stackware #808 6 Power Tools adds a script to your home By Funnius Bonus card so that when you press the ENTER (Courtesy of ICON, Association of (800K) key, the tool moves from the Browse Tool Apple 32 Users, June 1989) to the Button Tool to the Field Tool. Slightly edited by Dan Buchler by Bob Fellows When you press SHIFT-ENTER, the tool Apple Announces Floating Point moves from the Selection Tool to the Roman Numeral Coprocessor for mmmm Lasso, etc. To return to the Browse Tool, Mac II (^^HMBH^.' ^ simply press ENTER. No more pulling 1 i i i fl 8 down the Tools Menu when you don't want to! significant new product announcement that has \ w 1 i . . . . received very little attention Magic Stacks 1.1 Hn April in 1, the Apple press. With issued the New a his 800K Macintosh Educa by Bob Fellows Floating Point Roman Numeral Magic Stacks (Version 1.1) is a system tional Disk of the Month was of six interactive HyperCard stacks that Coprocessor Card, Apple is attempting to assembled by Bob Fellows are designed especially for public augment the computing capability of many for the Macintosh Special of their workstation users, The card has QInterest Group of Mini'app'les, the speakers, entertainers, performers, and these basic features: consultants. It is based on the experience Minnesota Apple Computer Users Group, of a professional magician, lecturer and ^ XXIV Digit Precision Inc. Additional copies of this disk may be consultant. "^ No Divide-by-zero errors obtained at the MacSIG meetings: S5.00 It is an organizing system that also fills ^ OldBus compatible for club members and S 10.00 for non- a need for many other types of self- ^ Square roots converted to cubits members. They can also be mail-ordered ^ Single VV Power Supply employed people who travel, and must by writing to: sometimes be away from their computer. 5^ Built-in abacus to Roman conversions The Floating Point Roman Numeral Notice that il is not one of the "every Mini'app'les Coprocessor is based on a complex Attention: MacEDOM sales morning when you turn on your computer, monolithic LSIV device designed to you will see what you have to do that day" P.O. Box 796 provide high performance floating point variety of programs. Ifyou'reexperienced Hopkins, MN 55343 arithmetic functions in Roman Numeral with HyperCard, you'll get some good formats. In typical applications this part ideas from this, and you'll be able to Please add Sl.OO for shipping. customize it for your needs. This is replaces at least VL scribes working in III shifts VII days per week. shareware. The files contained on this EDOM #808 The card offers several interface options. are briefly described below. Some contain MacGroceries The input accepts data from standard their own more detailed documentation. floppy discus. Standard output is to clay Some are also shareware - if you like and by Tom Cleland tablets.butan optional outputport provides use them, please pay the shareware fee. MacGroceries can be used by anyone a direct interface to a heavy duty impact WARNING: These have not been fully who buys groceries. It has three main printer for enscribing marble documents. tested on all machines and System/Finder features: Ill-column outputs may be Doric, Ionic or versions. So be careful with them at first. 1) You check the meals you want to Corinthian. have, and it automatically takes The exponent field of the floating point everything you need to buy and puts format takes advantage of a new compact MacUser Tips 1.5 it on the list. structure called Quad Extended Decimal MacUser Tips Stack contains tips on all 2) For items that you buy periodically, it (Q.E.D). The mantissa uses the ad-hoc looks at your past shopping patterns rounding standard (i.e. IEEE). Overflow aspects of using the Macintosh that have and predicts what you'll need in the errors caused by Vesuvius functions are been compiled from MacUser magazines future. from June 1986 to January 1988. The first automatically processed by the Pompeii stack is an icon-based stack listing the 3) It groups related items together on algorithm. Allowed signal rise and fall your list, and can even be sorted by times are quite long but never exceed subjects. The second stack is an index of aisle number! MacGroceries is a headers about the tips. The third stack MCMLXXXIX seconds. free, public domain stack. contains the tips. First open the stack Availability is reported to be soon after titled "MacUser Tips vl.5." There's a lot the Ides of March. The price will be of great information here. SCXII each. -12- mini'app'les July 1989 32 Bits, and Not a Quarter in the Bunch f^^ June Mac User Meeting by Tom Edwards uickDraw. Sounds like a and hook up a matt-storage. Once you've the relm of mini's and mega-dollar title for a western. But the got all of these minor details out of the dedicated systems. No longer do you newest QuickDraw runs on way, then you can sit back and be amazed need a Cray in the closet to conjure up all 32 bits, not hay and oats. by COLOR, screen videos, video titling, of these graphical knockouts. Now you H And you might see a scene process color separations, video frame can do it with your HI' ol' Mac from the west with it, but you can do it capture in l/30th of a second, color scans Apple set the stage when they embraced from thecomfortof your easy chair instead and much more. a technology that had been proven on (that of the sweaty leather of a saddle. No question about it, this is heady stuff. other computer), a system pioneered by QuickDraw is the program that scurries Apple is banking on a bigger splash with Truevision. The result is a board that around behind your Mac screen, letting this "missing link" added into the Mac plugs into the NuBus of the Mac II, aptly you put boxes, text, patterns lines and graphics spec than DeskTop Publishing named NuVista (and there are coming circles into windows... the Mac kind. provided. The enabling that is coming Apple recently (May, 1989) announced a from this is stuff that is being freed from GOTO Page 14 revision to this software. Software that is as old as the Mac. Now it's called "32 Bit QuickDraw, vers. 1.0" and has learned about color, as well as levels of gray. Originally, QuickDraw only had to worry about whether a screen pixel was on or off MacChuck™ Puts Your PC in a Macintosh Window! (white or black). Now, it can show you rlfl£ChjLid 13 mini'app'les July 1989 Color QuickDraw 32 Bits, concluded from Page 13 Apple announces extension to Color QuickDraw and LaserWriter driver boards from other companies as well). If pple Computer, Inc. has bits of color; the additional 8 bits of 32 Bit QuickDraw can pull all of this introduced an extension to information are typically used by together, you will have 8 bits of data Color QuickDraw™ that application developers for transparency assigned to each pixel for each of the three supports up to 32 bits per in applications. primary colors. That's enough to define a pixel, allowing Macintosh Major enhancements in 32-Bit lot of information about that pixel. personal computers to process and display QuickDraw include support for 16- and photo-quality documents, images and 24-bit color, allowing for thousands or "What about the other 8..." visualizations with exceptional color millions of colors; approximation of color you may ask? That extra slop is up to the clarity. The announcement was made as for 16- and 24-bit images at lower developer to play around with. The first part of Apple's participation in the resolutions via dithering; compression in 24 bits are all that areneeded for the 16 National Computer Graphics Association file formats; more gray levels in gray million-i- colors. That's a screen about 4 show here. scale mode; and a new version of the feet by 4 feet, at today's resolution. The Applealso introduced LaserWriter 6.0, Monitors Control Panel. extra bits can be used to do tricks like text anewversionofApple'sPostScriptprintcr "32-Bit QuickDraw changes the way overlays and windows inside the main driver that includes color extensions. The customers look at the Macintosh," said picture. Impressive? You bet. Watch for new driver enables most existing color Jim Davis, director of System Software a 32 bit QuickDraw picture coming to a Macintosh applications to print in color Marketing. "It provides smooth shading screen near you soon! on color PostScript printers. It also and transitions in graphs and slides for significantly improves the quality of black- truly lifelike images and textures. With Other stuff... and-white output produced when color 32-Bit QuickDraw on the Macintosh, from the MacUser meeting included a images are printed on Apple LaserWriter Apple offers its customers a superior round of introductions of some new faces printers. platform for working with image and a Q/A session. Here's a sample of Color QuickDraw, Apple's graphic graphics." some of the things of interest to members system software for its 68020- and 68030- 32-Bit QuickDraw runs on all 68020- on this meeting night: based Macintosh personal computers, has and 68030-based Macintosh computers • Memory! Prices seem to be easing been extended from an 8-bit-per-pixel (the Macintosh SE/30, Macintosh Ilex, down even more. Recent buyers paid mode to a 16- or 32-bit-per-pixel mode, Macintosh II and Macintosh IIx) with about $150-5160 per megabyte SIMM. allowing thousands or millions of colors System Software Version 6.0.3. Because Some ads (MacWeek) hint at prices in to be displayed. Using a color or gray color-intensive applications often require the S130 range. Dave Stovall claims scale monitor with a Macintosh II, Ilex, large amounts of memory, Apple that he's hanging on for the under-S 100 IIx or SE/30 personal computer, 32-Bit recommends using at least 2MB of RAM. push! QuickDraw allows customers to To sec the broad range of colors that 32- • Those who want to work with disks and manipulate 24-bit images with many color Bit QuickDraw supports users will need a data from (that other system), can look paint packages, scanners and printers that 16-, 24- or 32-bit video card from third- to the DynaFile drive, or the Rapport support 32-Bit QuickDraw. 32-Bit party manufacturers and applications that drive (from the folks who developed QuickDraw supports the use of up to 24 take advantage of 32-BitQuickDraw. 32- the Apple SuperDrive). These solutions Bit QuickDraw also makes it possible to come when you part with about S595 or manipulate high-quality color images $295, respectfully. Software Renters Inc. without a video card. • Locally-based Springboard software The 32-Bit QuickDraw project was a is reported to be working on a direct result of Apple's close cooperative Software Rental & Sales, Supplies PageMaker-killer upgrade for their For Your Home and Business Needs work with a number of third-party Over 1.000 rental programs Publisherprogram fortheMac. Version Highly competitive software prices developers. Companies demonstrating 1.x had a lot of capability for a most Discounts for quantity business purchases Dependable, personal service products that support 32-Bit QuickDraw reasonable price. With the "power" Hardware, peripherals, ft accessories also sold in Apple's booth at NCGA include features hinted at in this coming edition, Sale: Adobe Illustrator 88 S289 Adobe Type Library Fonts. HP Soft Fonts BarneyScan, Visual Information, Electric it could become a fair alternative for a Microsoft Word 4.0 S25 7 days Sale $249 Image, SuperMac Technology, Tektronix, Soft PC $30 7 days LS Pascal 2.0 $10 7 days larger audience if the price is held in the Suitcase II $8 3 days Zork Zero $7 3 days Radius, and Intergraph Corp. range of reason. Western Digital 20 Meg Hard Drive S429 40 Meg $629 • Export text from HyperCard? Yup. Call Us for the Best Prices In Town SRI 889 Grand Ave. SL Paul 55105 227-5216 Hack up your own button for this, or -14- mini'app'les July 1989 look for a PD or commercial program to make the exportin' easy. MacWrite II • SuperCard. All of the Mac rags have A Review: hyped this HyperCard alternative to the By Dan Gutman hilt. Since this is a family newsletter, I of your mouse would change a document am unable to bring you the one-word have gotten more press, but from single spacing to double spacing and evaluation provided by one of theclub's the recent release of back again. Now you have to do a SELECT heavy users of HyperCard. To say the "MacWrite n" (Claris, S249) ALL command first least, this program has a long way to go Sambo II" is anda milestone "Rocky for the II" 750,000 may In old "MacWrite," you always knew before it can approach the utility and users of this popular word processing what page you were on, because the elegance of the inspiration program. program. number was right in the "scrol l box" at the HyperCard may have faults or For the last four years, this column has right of the screen. Now it's at the bottom shortcomings, but they pale before the been written with "MacWrite," the original left, and not as easy to scan as you're hackneyed excuse offered with the Macintosh word processor. Sad but true, current version of SuperCard. writing. I have found it to be the ONLY completely A new feature in "MacWrite II" is And in the wings... easy-to-use computer program I've ever horizontal scrolling. I have always found tried. I don't think I've looked at the this to be annoying. If you haven't set are more programs scheduled by the Mac instructions once. your margins perfectly, you will User Group that we hope will warm the Some computerists look down their sometimes come to the end of a line and chips of your motherboard. In July, noses at "MacWrite" users, because it the entire screen shifts over. ProActive will return to show more isn't jam-packed with features like its "MacWrite II" puts a header and footer goodies for your Mac, including Soft PC, bestselling competitor "Microsoft Word." at the top and bottom of each page a way to turn your Mac zoomer into (that That never bothered me. If a word automatically, but I don't LIKE headers other computer). Perhaps they can also and footers and resent having to remove come up with a conclusion to the 32 Bit processor is easy to use and gets the job done, I don't care if it doesn't have dozens them. Headers and footers mean less lines QuickDraw presentation, which seemed of fancy features. on the page, and more scrolling up and to be cut short by an early-release copy of With "MacWrite II," many of those down. When I'm writing, I want to do as this software. (Where's the RAID?) features are available. The program will little scrolling as possible. August will see Hewlett Packard make now count the number of words in a Many people, I'm sure, have requested a presentation of new printer additions document, a big help for a writer on all these added features and will be happy that are intended to provide a laser-quality deadline, I'll tell you. You can also open with them. For me, they get in the way of alternative to some of the Apple products. the simplicity of "MacWrite." DeskJet* and DeskWriter are two of the up to seven windows on the screen at once, which makes it easy to cut and paste names bantered about for this meeting. between documents. Don't miss 'em! Putting more than one column of text on a page is a nice new feature, and it is More bytes later... also possible to preview a smaller version SLIDES/OVERHEADS TWE of the page so you know what it will look From Macintosh & IBM Files like before you print it out. For as Low as I found it useful to be able to save things $5?5 each in the formats of other Macintosh word • Many Packages Supported processors. Sometimes I've had to swap Including Powerpoint, disks with people who don't use Persuasion, Cricket Presents, "MacWrite," and this makes it easier to Harvard, and Freelance Plus translate text. • Same Day Service Available All together, there are more than 50 • Free Pick-up & Delivery new features in "MacWrite II," and many • Full Service Slide Production of them have a direct effect on the way I L I N H O F F work. CORPORATE COLOR Unfortunately, "MacWrite II" is not as images thai move people and products...since f954 intuitive as "MacWrite" was. The new 4400 France Ave. S.. Mpls.. MN 55424 version gives up some of its ease of use for (612) 927-7333 the sake of power. BOARDROOM QUALITY Inold"MacWrite,"forexample,aclick -15- mini'app'les July 1989 RIFF about TIFF s^ Mac DeskTop Publishing Meeting, May by Tom Edwards he Mac is a graphical Bjorgen, S.l.G. Coordinator for the DTP some special manipulations that the machine. That's why you group, Bob tried to pull some of this "biggie" programs can't do, or do in work with all of those icons, together for the folks gathered at First awkward ways. Reports are that boxes and buttons. It's all Tech for the May meeting. distributors sold out their stocks in as little Qpretty straight forward when TIFF (Tagged Image Format File) was as two days. If you need such an animal, you see it on the screen. And most of us to be a "standard" for this advancement in it might pay to check this out for a future could care less what goes on behind the graphic detail. This format is used for buy. face of the screen in order to make all of high resolution bit maps of scanned that happen for us. images, ranging from simple high-density More bytes later... But the shoe's on the other foot when "dot on, dot off needs to more complex TWE you are the one who has to know all about "gray scale" or color files where the degree those graphical comings and goings. of brightness or hue of color also has to be That's the dilemma for the artist and tracked. Although those who agreed to DTP'er who must work with graphics on the TIFF concept may indeed be keeping Macintosh Ilex Internal the Mac. Scanned in halftones, line art, in the corral that they defined, some just PICT files from drawing programs, EPS build a cook shack, and others a rambling Hard Disk Drives from a passel of programs, scrapbooks palace for what goes on inside of the Downloaded from AppleLink and special file formats by programs such fence. as Illustrator and FreeHand. Sure, they all Each program that uses these various have something in common... they are file formats (PageMaker, Xpress, hard disk drives are available as Mac files that show pictures of things... ReadySetGo!, CricketDraw and many system enhancements for things that you may want to alter, then more) may work with them in different Macintosh Ilex users. The drives print out for a client ways, too. This adds to the confusion... Dnternalcome 3.5" with 40MB the Macintosh and 80MB Ilex And there's the rub. Somehow you've the slickest thing since sliced bread in one carrier, owner's guide, setup disk and got to be able to gain access to that file, do program may do nothing more than create limited warranty card. These drives are your thing, then save it (perhaps in a error messages or no reaction at all in the same as the Macintosh Internal 40SC different file format, even) to be accessed another. Once you have a right track and 80SC drives, except for the mounting by yetanotherprogram and output device. figured out, venture into other modes with bracket. Specifications for these drives This might be simple, if there was but one a cautious step. are in the table below. format to manage, as in the days of Description 40MB 80MB MacPaint. The bitmap format from Don't despair... Drive Diameter 3.5" 3.5" MacPaint is a replication of the screen, for there is a hint of unification on the Capacity (mB): 40.0 80.0 dot for dot Though it was astounding horizon. If your favorite graphics program Bytes per block: 512 512 when Mac came out (is that just a bit more won't open the file of choice, there may be Total disk blocks: 82,020 163,940 than five years ago?), progress' middle a DA or utility program that will, and then Ave seek time (ms): 30ms 20ms name is "Change." Now there are formats let you save the file into another format Transfer rate (MB/s): 1.25MB 1.25MB that exceed the screen's 72 dot-per-inch for that favorite graphic program of yours. Interface: SCSI SCSI Installation and service are provided pace by several factors. Other formats Openlt! and The Curator are but two of don't even mess with which dot is on or the possibilities. Check about and you through authorized Apple Service Providers. off; they use formulas to define each part may well find just the secret key that you of the graphic as an object... a line, a need to sneak you over the top of the hill Macintosh Ilex Internal 40SC Hard Disk circle, a curve, a box and so on. for the easy coast down the other side of Order Number: M0283 Macintosh Ilex Internal 80SC Hard Disk Order Number: the slope. Help Is on the way... M0284 AppleCare for these products is but it will take more than one session to Speaking of utilities... provided under the respective CPU sort all of this out to where an average user there has been some press recently about has a handle on all of this. Bob Grant is a configuration (SC00081 and SC00082) a neat little DA called Smart Art lets you and under the internal 40SC Hard Disk guy who works with this a lot, and create some "special effects" EPS (SC00062) and the 80SC Hard Disk continues to be amazed by the diversity of (Encapsulated PostScript) on the fly. With these formats. At the invitation of Chuck ease and finesse, this program enables (SC00063). 16- mini'app'les July 1989 Apple Network Blitz Apple announces a slew of networking products Introduced and edited by Dan Buchler AppleShare server that is connected management systems (DBMS) on announced a group of directly or indirestly to that EtherNet MVS/TSO, and IBM's Structured Networking and Communi system. Query Language/Data System (SQL/ cations products. Many of □ LocalTalk PC Card and AppleShare DS) on VM/CMS. (Available for Hn June 12, 1989, Apple the products (below) are PC Bundle (B0040LL/B): bundle ordering later this year.) based on a new AppleTalk called which combines the LocalTalk PC □ The Apple Data Modem 2400: This AppleTalk Phase 2. This is a software card with AppleShare PC, Version product offers a basic networking change. No ROM changes needed in any 2.0 (see above). (Available for component for wide area communi Mac. To the average person with a single ordering now; shipping later this cations. To allow communication Mac or a Mac with a LaserWriter, this will summer.) with the majority of data modems on probably not make any difference. But to □ EtherTalk, Version 2.0: an upgrade the market, this product was designed users of medium and large networks, this that brings AppleTalk Phase 2 to be compatible with industry is a significant change. AppleTalk Phase benefits to EtherTalk Interface Card standards. II removes many of the previous users, making possible larger IEEE The Apple Data Modem 2400 limitations and problems inherent in large 802.3 Ethernet networks as well, as supports 2400 bps, 1200 bps and 300 AppleTalk networks. One thing it is not is such supportservices as LaserWriters, bps transmission speed; Bell 103, a faster LocalTalk. LocalTalk still runs at file servers, and mail systems located Bell 212A, CCITT V.22A/B and 230Kbits/sec. Apples concept is to on AppleTalk internets. (Upgrade CCITT V.22bis modulation integrate EtherNet, TokenRing and available to current EtherTalk owners techniques; and the Hayes AT LocalTalk into the same network in order later this summer.) command set with extensions. This effect performance improvements. If you □ EtherTalk for A/UX, Version 2: an standardization gives access to want a fast network, hang all your Macs upgrade that provides A/UX users applications and information from a on EtherNet. You could do this before, with EtherTalk printing support and variety of remote hosts, databases, but you were limited to 254 devices on the an A/UX programming interface to and on-line information services. EtherTalk side. Now you can have AppleTalk protocols. (Upgrade The Apple Data Modem 2400 has a 16,000,000. At the same time you can available to current EtherTalk A/UX built-in error correction feature called control the traffic on that network more owners later this summer.) Microcom Networking Protocol effectively through the new products. Here □ MacX (TM): a new X-Window (MNP), that controls errors during are the products: display server which provides access data transmission. With this higher □ AppleTalk (R) Internet Router to X-Window-based applications speed modem, users will be able to (M0705): a networking software running on remote hosts (DEC decrease networking costs wihtout application for Macintosh Plus, SE, VAXes, Sun or Apollo workstations, compromsiing the integrity of the SE/30 and Macintosh II family CRAYs (R), etc.) (Available for information being transmitted and computers that allows AppleTalk ordering from APDA later this year.) received. networks such as LocalTalk (TM), □ MacX25: software which, when used System Requirements: Any Apple EtherTalk (TM), and TokenTalk in conjunction with the new Apple CPU and appropriate data connection (TM) to be interconnected to form an Serial NB Card, enables Macintosh cable. The Apple Data Modem 2400 internet (Available forordering now; users to access information on distant is available for ordering now, and shipping later this summer.) host systems connected to packet- will ship later this summer. □ AppleShare (R) PC, Version 2.0 switched networks (PSN). It includes (M0098LL/A): the newest MacPAD software which provides AppleShare PC software which packet assembler/disassembler MacUsers—July 6 provides users of MS-DOS (R) connectivity to PSNs and a MacX25 Southdale Library personal computers with access to Programming Library is available the full range of AppleTalk network separately as a developer's tool. (All Proactive Marketing system services including extended will be available forordering through with SuperMac and Soft PC AppleTalk addressing and enhanced APDA later this year.) Door Prizes □ internet routing. (Available for CL/1 (TM) Servers: servers which of SuperMac Products ordering now; shipping later this enable applications supporting CL/1 summer.) This allows a PC with a to access data residing on IBM's (Bring your membership card!) standard EtherNet board to talk to an Database 2 (DB2) relational database -17- mini'app'les July 1989 New FONT Format from AppleLink Personal Edition SAN JOSE, California May 9,1989 pple Computer, Inc. today The format includes the specifications Software, San Rafael, Calif. Casady & announced to developers a for a powerful "instruction set" that Greene, Carmel, Calif. Cricket Software, new technology for creating controls characters at small sizes for Malvern, Pa. Letraset USA, Paramus, sharp text on any screen or printing or screen display, while NJ. Palomar Software, Oceanside, Calif. printer at any size using the preserving excellent quality at high Hardware developers: Macintosh personal computer. The resolutions. GCC Technology, Waltham, Mass. announcement was made as part of Apple's "Until now, these techniques for Hewlett-Packard, San Diego, Calif. Minis preview of core system software achieving sharp text at small sizes were Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. Tektronix, Inc., technologies at the 1989 Worldwide not available to all type vendors," said Jim Beaverton, Ore. Developers Conference here. Gable, Apple product manager for digital Adobe Systems, Inc. today announced Outline fonts are mathematical type. "Apple is now giving type vendors that it will provide a utility that converts descriptions of text characters that allow equal access to a major new software Apple fonts to the Adobe PostScript the Macintosh computer to accurately category on he Macintosh." format. This announcement assures display text at any size on any screen or The new font format will be published Macintosh customers that Apple's fonts printer. Currently bit-map fonts, while in future editions of Inside Macintosh, can be printed on all Macintosh devices, providing a degree of WYSIWYG, are Apple's technical reference guidelines. including PostScript printers. limited in their ability to display or print Type vendors will not be required to Apple also is currently discussing the any point size at any resolution. The new negotiate royalties or sign licenses from new format with Tegra/Varityper, Inc. technology will provide Macintosh Apple to obtain the font format. and many other companies. Apple customers with full functionality on The new font format was announced as anticipates thatothercompanies will make existing and future Macintosh computers. one of several core technologies being announcements to implement the new font Most software applications will take developed for the next major release of format in the next several months. advantage of the new fonts with little or Macintosh System Software. Apple plans no revision. to announce the complete System 7.0 "Apple has brought the type quality that features and customer availability later was only available on expensive and this year. custom publishing systems to the SE/30 Logic Board Macintosh," said Jean-Louis Gassee, Third-party support presidentof AppleProducts. "The addition In conjunction with Apple's of this important technology to Macintosh Upgrade announcement, several leading Downloaded from AppleLink System Software brings the advantages typography, software and hardware firms and power of high-end font formats to the announced that they will implement desktop, providing our customers with Apple's new font format. Many of these he Macintosh SE/30 Logic high-quality text at any size on any screen vendors assisted Apple in the development Board Upgrade(M0713) is or printer." of the new format now available for Macintosh Apple is developing the new font format The following vendors announced SE owners who want to to be integrated into current and future support for Apple's new font format: Qupgrade their computers. The SE/30 logic board contains the Macintosh architectures. Throughout the Type vendors: developmentprocess Apple has consulted AGFA Compugraphic, Wilmington, Motorola 68030 microprocessor with the with many leading font vendors, which Mass. Bigelow & Holmes, Menlo Park, built in PMMU and the 68882 floating have provided years of experience in font Calif. Bitstream, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. point coprocessor. The board increases technology. Combined with the Layout The Font Bureau, New York, N.Y. the speed of the SE up to four times, includes stereo sound capability, and Manager, another core technology Typeface Corp., New York, N.Y. announced to developers today, the new Kingsley/ATF, Tucson, Ariz. Linotype provides support for the optional Apple fonts will deliver sophisticated AG, Eschborn, West Germany Monotype FDHD 1.4MB internal drive. (Macintosh typographical control to any Macintosh Corp., Salfords, England URW SE owners who choose to upgrade the application. The result is a font format Unternehmensbertung, Hamburg, West logic board can still use the 800K drive in their systems.) that is fast, flexible and capableof superior Germany 'r<&$h quality at all resolutions—from high-end Software developers: typesetting to screen displays. Altsys Corp., Piano, Texas Broderbund -18 mini'app'les July 1989 HyperCard Power Tips (excerpted from Windoid #8) by Phil Wyman, HyperCard Tester 1) If you are using Finder and not returns. you would like it to appear, then select it MultiFinder, there is a nice option you 6) "Show all cards" shows each card and cut it. Then go into the Background should know about. If you are in once. However, "show cards" will keep and Paste it It will be in exacdy the right HyperCard, and you open an application, showing all thecards in the stack forever— spot! Another workaround would be to i.e., Microsoft Word, when you quit the or until the mouse click, whichever comes just create it willy-nilly on the background, open application, you return to HyperCard. first. then go to the foreground (card level). However, if you want to go directly to the 7) To clear a global variable, put empty You will then be able to manipulate your Finder and not back to HyperCard, hold into the variable. background buttons and fields from the down the Option key while quitting the 8) If you were using 1.1 or 1.0.1 before foreground! application. you installed version 1.2, you may have 13) From Paul Foraker of HyperPro... 2) You can bring an object all the way kept your old Home stack. There are, If you want to paste into the message to the top by using Shift-Command-Plus however some nifty new handlers in the window, most people think that you first or send it all the way to the bottom with 1.2 Home stack script You should add have toclick in theempty message window Shift-Command-Minus. Be very careful them to your home stack script The new with the mouse. Here's a shortcut which when using Command-Plus to bring a handlers do the following when typed into bypasses the mouse and keeps your fingers button or a field one object closer. If you the message box: on the keyboard. Hit the Backspace (or hit Command Backspace (or Command "xy" puts the mouse location into the Delete) key. This deletes any message Delete), which is right next to the Plus message box until the next mousedown, you have in the message box. Even without key, you will delete the card (if it's "c" does a doMenu "Card Info..." a cursor in the message window, or any unprotected). "b" does a doMenu "Bkgnd Info..." text in the message window, if you hit 3) Scripts are not saved until you click "s" does a doMenu "Stack Info..." Backspace (or Delete) you will getacursor OK in the script editor. Be sure to do this Interestingly, if after typing "s" into the in the empty message window. You can j^ often, even if you're not finished working message box you press the Shift key when then paste without having to use the on your script. One problem I had was hitting the Enter key, you will get the mouse to select the message window first. working for a long time fine-tuning a script of the stack. This is the same as if 14) To get to the end of a long script in script and accidentally hitting Cancel you had chosen the menu item "Stack a flash without scrolling, try CMD-A then instead of OK. You lose all your changes Info..." with the Shift key depressed. right arrowKey! that way. Additionally.it'sreally smart to 9) To send a typed arrowKey in 15) You have to be careful when asking periodically save a copy of your stack as HyperTalk, use "arrowKey right", or for the result For instance, consider the a backup. "arrowKey left", etc. following script 4) Sometimes your "if then else's" 10) From James Francis Redfern, find"findwhat" don't indent properly and it's very difficult HyperCard tester, comes a workaround put "test" into var to understand why. Here's a couple of for getting user Key Strokes: Show if the result is "not found" then answer possible debug tips. 1) Look for an "exit message window off-screen and have the "not found" 19 mini'app'les July 1989 HyperCard Novice Corner #3 (excerpted from Windoid #8) by Phil Wyman, HyperCard Tester message from Phil Russell your screen, choose "Draw Multiple". the mouse the greater distance the lines of Waldport, Oregon, Look at the Options menu again to be sure will be apart. With a little practice you can inspired me to write yet that the "Draw Multiple" choice is now draw amazing graphic elements for your another Novice Corner. He checked with a checkmark. stacks in just a few seconds. writes, "WINDOID is great! Please give lots of 'rest of us' hints! I Here comes the fun part. Click the mouse wouldn't know a global variable from a on a white portion of your blank card and dead fish!" hold the mouse button down. Move the HyperCard Power Tips, Well, global variables are indeed too mouse around. This is called dragging the concluded from Page 19 sticky a subject for the "rest of us" novices. mouse. You will get some nice effects. HyperCard So let's have some real fun painting with Try it with the Grid option checked both else (do whatever) HyperCard! on and off. —you have at least version 1.2.2 or To use the "paint" tools, we need to be You can erase what you draw by either higher of HyperCard sure that we're at a high enough user level double-clicking on the Erasure tool to end openStack to have access to those tools on our erase every thing you have drawn, or erase 17) From Scott Bongiomo HyperCard menubar. If that sounds confusing, bear only the last thing you drew by pressing tester... Here's a handler to display the with me. The fun will be worth the slight the Tilde key, located above the Tab key. current shipping version of HyperCard. hassle. What we have to do to prepare is: A single click on the Erasure tool allows This handler gets and converts the value 1) Be on the Home card. If you aren't, you use this tool to selectively erase parts of the long version and displays it in the and are in another stack, choose "Home" of your painting. message box as the shipping version from the "Go" Menu at the top of your For different effects, choose "Draw number. (Editors Note: Remember that screen. Otherwise, when you click on Centered" from the Options menu. Once the Box Characters are Option-Return.) HyperCard in the Finder you will always again, click the mouse, hold the mouse on the Vers be taken directly to the Home card. If your button down, and move the mouse around. put the long version into this Vers menubar is not visible, press both the Try choosing the Oval tool from the tool put char 2 of thisVers & "." & char 3 Command key and the Spacebar to show palette and doing the same things we did of thisVers &"."&-! it. with the Rectangle tool. The Oval tool is char 4 of thisVers into thisLongVers 2) Click on the left arrow button at the right below the Rectangle tool. The Shift put "Version" && thisLongVers bottom of your Home card to go to the key constrains the tools to perfect squares into the msg User Preferences card. Here you can set and circles. end theVers your "userLevel". You will find that the faster you move 3) Click on a user level of eitherPainting, Authoring, or Scripting. 4) Click on the right arrow at the bottom of your User Preferences card, and you should be back on your Home card. 5) From the Edit menu on top of your CDon't be a turf^ey. screen, choose "New Card". Support your OK. We now have a blank white card to newsletter paint on. Let's have some HyperCard paint fun. staffby 6) Hold down the Option key while pressing the Tab key. This will put the uniting or tools palette in the middle of your card. 7) Click on the Rectangle tool, which is downloading in the middle column right next to the an article. Spray Can tool and below the Erasure tool. 8) From the Options menu on top of -20- mini'app'les July 1989 J^-y Excerpts from Windoid #8 A Publication for the Informed HyperCard User and the Newsletter for the Apple HyperCard User Group Editor — David Leffler Editor's Corner fields and put the following into your card Info. These techniques make data entry Thank you all for your continued support script: much more accurate and faster. You must of WINDOID and your many kind letters. have version 1.2 or newer to use these Keep them coming. I'm sorry that it has on tabKey scripts: been such alongtimebetweenWTNDOrD get the selectedLine —Age field:Check for integer in the issues and I promise the next issue will be if it is empty then put "line 1 of bkgnd range 1 to 99. out on schedule. However, I hope that this field 0" into it on closeField issue will have been worth your extended add 1 to word 6 of it get me wait. We're very pleased that you have if word 6 of it > 3 then repeat with i = 1 to length(it) enjoyed the efforts of our many friends put 1 into word 6 of it if char i of it is not in "0123456789" and colleagues who contribute to these add 1 to word 2 of it then pages and actively encourage you to end if beep continue sending comments and select it select text of me suggestions to the HyperCard team. We end tabKey exit closeField love the mail, and you might just inspire end if us to include your most wanted feature in on retumlnField end repeat the next version. get the selectedLine if it < 1 or it > 99 then Speaking of new versions, we would if word 2 of it < 10 then add 1 to word beep like to introduce you to HyperCard version 2 of it select text of me 1.2.2. WINDOID #8 delineates put 1 into word 6 of it end if HyperCard 1.2.2, the first world-wide select it end closeField release. end retumlnField —Gender field:Check for male or Stack Design Guidelines on arrowKey direction female, Not all stack designers start out equal. if the commandKey is down or the on closeField Some have an advantage. Professional optionKey is down-t get char 1 of me stackware design has gotten considerably or the shiftKey is down then pass if it is "m" then put "Male" into me easier with HyperCard Stack Design arrowKey else if it is "f' then put 'Temale" into Guidelines from Addison-Wesley. get the selectedLine me Written here at Apple Cupertino by Rachel if "field" is not in it then pass arrowKey else Rutherford and staff, this book is as if direction = "up" and word 2 of it > beep MacWeek reviews it, "one of the most 1 select text of me useful HyperCard books we've seen," and then subtract 1 from word 2 of it end if "This is a 'must have' book for serious if direction = "down" and word 2 of it end closeField HyperCard developers." I could not agree <10 more. Great job Rachel et al! then add 1 to word 2 of it —Date Field:Check for a valid date, if direction = "left" and word 6 of it > on closeField Spreadsheet Tips 1 get me then subtract 1 from word 6 of it convert it to date by the HyperTeam if direction = "right" and word 6 of it if it is not me then Some users have asked for scripts that <3 beep allow fields to work like spreadsheets. then add 1 to word 6 of it select text of me We looked at some of the new 1.2 features select it end if and would like to share these with you. end arrowKey end closeField Tab, Return, and Arrow keys will move the selection up, down, and from field to Edit Checking —Time Field:Check for a valid time field much like a spreadsheet. We hope on closeField you enjoy them. by the HyperTeam When you set up your four fields, make get me convert it to time To begin: Create some non-scrolling sure that Auto Tab is selected in Field 21- mini'app'les July 1989 if it is not me then yet, or the field on the card "Stacks" in the Sticking Windoids Home stack is empty. Either way, by beep by Paul Foraker of HyperPro select text of me calling getHomelnfo if the global "stacks" As a Mac II user, I got tired of the menu end if is empty, you are getting all the user's bar disappearing as I browsed through end closeField preferences before you begin. You can then take advantage of those settings later other people's stacks, and decided to Sharing AHUG in your script prevent it with this simple handler: Other general script-tips are the by Bryan K. Carter, AHUG President on hide what Many people send us their forms from the following which S wami (a really dedicated if what = "menubar" then back of WINDOID and ask me what is the and appreciated AHUG member) showed — don't hide the menubar me: "best" way to do something in HyperCard. else pass hide Sorry, there really isn't one "best" way. on enterKey end hide HyperCard was designed to build on your ingenuity and individual strengths. global myLastMsg if the optionKey is down then Put that script in your Home stack script Fortunately, there are some good basic and your menu bar will stick around. techniques. After all, once the basics are put myLastMsg The "hide" that you get by the way, is exit enterKey mastered, the rest of the time can be spent not a HyperTalk command, but is rather a else on stack design, creativity, and system message. It's sent to the current functionality. put the msg into myLastMsg end if card. The fact that it is a system message The one thing I dislike in a stack is a means that whether you type "hide script that changes my Home stack User pass enterKey end enterKey menubar" into the message box, or use Preferences and doesn't set them back. Command-SpaceBar, the "hide" message When a person designs a stack and alters on returnKey gets sent to the current card. the user's pre-set preferences, they need Similarly, you can keep your message to make certain to set them back. Yes, it global myLastMsg if the optionKey is down then box, tool window, and pattern window couldmeanafew extra linesofHyperTalk, visible. Try this: but it also means much happier users. put myLastMsg exit returnKey When the Home stack is opened from on hide what else the Finder, the handler getHomelnfo if what = 3 then (residing in the stack script of the Home put the msg into myLastMsg — don't hide the tool window end if stack) is called from the on startup handler. else pass hide When a stack other than the Home stack is pass returnKey end hide end returnKey opened from the Finder, it may or may not allow the getHomelnfo handler to be called These scripts can reside in your Home Now make your tool windoid visible (depending upon the handlers it traps and/ stack script to be available in all of your and type "hide tool window" into the or passes), thus limiting or nullifying the message box. It doesn't hide. But if you users' preferences. I find this script helpful HyperCard stacks. They allow for a click in the tool window's close box, It'll in this situation: "recall" of afunction (a function is used in HyperTalk to get information such as the go away. That's because the "hide" that gets sent in the message box is aHyperTalk on openStack current date or time or to compute a value within a script) you may have called. If command, and the "hide" a close box global stacks executes (hope that makes sense) is a if stacks is empty then getHomelnfo you type something like "put the number of chars of fid 1" and press the Return or system message. When "hide is sent as a —your code Enter key, you will get a response back in system message, the only value the —goes here the message box such as "3521". Well, parameter variable "what" can have is pass openStack "menubar". end openStack suppose you wanted to see the number of If the tool window is identified by a "3" characters of field 2? Instead of retyping what about the other windows. HyperCard uses the global variable "put the number of chars of fid 2", just 1 = card window "stacks" to keep a directory of all the hold down the Option key and type the Return key or Enter key again. Voila! 2 = pattern window places your stacks are located. This You can now backspace once, type in "2", 3 = tool window "directory" is also in a field on the "Stacks" 4 = message box card in your Home stack. The handler and type Return to get the number of characters in field 2. Instead of retyping So to keep your message box showing, getHomelnfo stores this information. put this handler in your Home stack. Thus, if the global "stacks" is empty, then 32 keystrokes, you've only typed4. Quite a savings! either getHomelnfo has not been called on hide what 22 mini'app'les July 1989 • Parameters returned by HyperCard's if what = 4 then on mouseUp — keep my message box visible Find command have been enriched and go to prev card of bkgnd "Foo" else pass hide are more accurate. end mouseUp end hide • A variety of bug fixes. Support for foreign languages Sometimes a good designer will hide • Right justified and right-to-left text everything except the card window in Script examples and detailed order to give you the maximum benefit of HyperCard 1.2.2 correctly frames explanations of enhancements (draws the box around) text found by the graphic animation or slide show that is • Pasting fields with the Shift key down HyperCard's Find commands when text to follow. A polite designer, however, If the Shift key is pressed while pasting is left center or right justified, and when will have the script remember whether a field, HyperCard 1.2.2 will paste the operating in languages which read right- those objects were visible, and then re- field AND put the text of the copied or cut to-left show them at the end of the animation. A field into it Reset Paint will use right justification simple script for that might be: Whether pasting a field into a card or for Paint text if right-to-left text has been background, text for the current card will set by the Script Manager. This restores on openCard be put into the pasted field. Copying and the defaults to what would be expected on put the visible of the msg into visiMsg pasting a field with the Shift key can be a Kanji, Arabic or Hebrew language put the visible of tool window into done in a HyperTalk handler as follows: system. visiTool — not "the" tool —window • Printing put the visible of pattern window into on mouseUp HyperCard 1.2.2 will print Kanji visiPat select cd fid 1 characters in high-quality mode on the hide the msg doMenu "Copy Field" hide tool window ImageWriter II and ImageWriter LQ go next card printers. hide pattern window type "V" with commandKey.shiftKey — do your thing HyperCard 1.2.2 uses the default font —paste it with the set by the Script Manager for printing set the visible of the msg to visiMsg —shiftKey down reports. if^s. set the visible of tool window to choose browse tool visiTool end mouseUp Explanations of bug fixes set the visible of pattern window to • Behavior in low-memory conditions visiPat NOTE: The doMenu command cannot end openCard be used to Shift-Paste a field as it takes HyperCard 1.2.2 has a fix for the operating system Scrap Manager to help it. only one argument HyperCard Version 1.2.2 when memory is running low. When, Final Programmer's Notes • Placing a Paint graphic while drawing cutting or copying a HyperCard object or graphic under low memory conditions by Mike Holm, HyperCard Product HyperCard 1.2.2 allows rectangles, (i.e., as would be created by repeated ovals, and regular polygons to be placed Manager copying and pasting on a 1 MB system), © Apple Computer, Inc. 1988 (by sliding them around the screen) while HyperCard could sometimes receive a HyperCard version 1.2.2 is a maintenance they are being created. With the rectangle, round rectangle, corrupted copy of the object when it was release with a number of bug fixes, better pasted by a user or HyperTalk handler. support for foreign languages and a few oval, or regular polygon tool chosen the This bad copy could cause the system to user drags the mouse to stretch out the small enhancements. These notes contain hangor corrupt the HyperCard stack being information of interest to stack designers shape. Without releasing the mouse used. This fix, along with several smaller button, pressing the Command key will and programmers that are not covered in ones, make HyperCard 1.2.2 much more the general HyperCard Version 1.2.2 stop stretching and allow sliding the robust when running on a 1 MB Macintosh, Release Notes stack. graphic. Releasing the Command key or in a small partition under MultiFinder. resumes stretching. Briefly, HyperCard 1.2.2 includes the • Appending Scripts This capability is only available while following: Sometimes when memory was running • Improved support for display and the user is working with the pain ting tools, low the beginning of a stack script was printing of Japanese, Arabic and other keyboard and mouse directly; it cannot be lost when another handler attempted to non-Roman languages. programmed in a HyperTalk handler. append something to the end of the script • Improvements in handling sound (in • Faster navigation This has been fixed. W^: conjunction with Sound Manager fixes • Sound on 1 Megabyte systems, Mac in System 6.0.2). Going to theprevious card foraspecified Plus and SE • Overall improved robustness in low- background is faster. For example: System 6.0.2 fixed a number of small memory situations. 23 mini'app'les July 1989 problems with recent releases of the longer set an insertion point by choosing Macintosh Sound Manager. HyperCard find "My Name" the text tool and clicking the mouse. 1.2.2 has a fix for gaining and releasing would return: • Typing in locked stacks the sound channel which supports desk find 0 My Name — for version 1.2.1 A bug in HyperCard 1.2.1 allowed accessories, modal dialogs or other and earlier users to type carriage returns into fields in software that uses sounds. This eliminated find normal "My Name"—for version a locked stack,even though theuserModify known sound problems including system 1.2.2 property was set to false. This has been hangs and occasional clicks and pops on fixed. the Macintosh Plus and SE, and provides NOTE: In simple Find commands, • Working with custom FOND resources better handling of synthesized and version 1.2.2 returns "normal" in the A bug allowed a custom FOND attached digitized sounds in general. second item (instead of "0"), indicating toa stack to be purged, but a Font Manager • The "Find" command the Find command was not followed by global still referred to it This could Getting parameters for a Find command modifiers like "whole" or "string". corrupt HyperCard's heap; it has been is now fully implemented, so HyperCard • Closing open fields at the start of a Find fixed. 1.2.2 returns more information when asked command • Font substitution with the ImageWriter for "the params". These improvements HyperCard now closes the currently LQ allow stack designers to intercept a Find open field (one where there is a flashing If the 3x fonts for the ImageWriter LQ command, examine it in detail, then cursor) when a search is initiated via the are available, HyperCard will now use modify, terminate, execute or override it Find command. This should eliminate them. inside a handler. situations where Find would return an • Going to other stacks while deleting a HyperCard 1.2.2 returns the string to be invalid result card found with quotes (which can be important • Sending the Choose message Earlier versions of HyperCard would for conditional HyperTalk statements to In earlier versions, when the user clicked result in an Unexpected Error #1250 or mulu-word searches), and also returns a on a tool in the tool windoid, HyperCard 1260 if a user (via a script) left the stack in complete field expression, instead of just did not send the Choose message. Now it a delete or openCard handler. This has "<field>". does. This is useful when a designer been fixed. For example, if the command: wants to figure out which tool the user has • Copying the selection find whole "My Name" in bkgnd fid chosen from the palette. For example: Earlier versions of HyperCard "Foo" accidentally copied the entire text of a were intercepted by the handler on choose whatwhichTool source container when a handler requested on Find if what is "tool" and whichTool is "7" that the selection (highlighted text) be put send the params to HyperCard then beep after the contentsofadestination container. if the result is empty then exit find —beep when the brush tool is chosen Version 1.2.2 fixes this. ._..,. lock screen pass choose—doit • ThediskSpace .push card end choose The diskSpace property now returns go to stack "server Address" the correct available diskspace when it's send the params to HyperCard — NOTE: The Choose message passes more than 32 MB. search in this stack too the word "tool" and a number, not a tool • Visual effects on "E-Machines" type if the result is empty then exit find name. large monitors pop card — return to original stack • Scrolling fields Visual effects now work with monitors end Find The scrollbar is now updated after which change low-memory screen globals. cutting or deleting text from a scrolling • Flush mouseUp event before sending Inquiring about "the params" would field, so the field can now be scrolled back the mouseUp message return the following literal results: to the top with the mouse after cutting or When a button was clicked on and the deleting text from the bottom. message was sent prior to the event being find whole My Name in 24 mini'app'les July 1989 Apple HyperCard User yourself heard. f^ Group For those of you who would like Bryan Carter, AHUG President, wants to additional copies of this WINDOID, or make you amemberof AHUG and actively back issues, you must send us a stamped- encourages you to form your own AHUG self-addressed-envelopeforeachone. 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Our AppleLink is: UG.AHUG MS/22-0 20525 Mariani Ave. Editor's Afterword Cupertino, CA 95014 by David Leffler We hope you have enjoyed reading this Or copy the format and AppleLink(TM) it to: latest issue of WINDOID and have found HYPERBUGS it to be in teres ting and in formative. Please remember that the purpose of this You can use this form to notify the a quality difference in the world. We HyperCard team of problems, bugs, and r newsletter is to help you help us to make enhancement requests. provide a unique opportunity for THE FORM: WINDOID readers to contribute to the Date: ongoing growth and excellenceof Apple's Name: HyperCard™ and would like to make a Address: request for a little of your time. There is a form at the back of this, and Phone #: Versions of: every, issue of WINDOID that allows you a. HyperCard: to communicate directly with the b. Associated software: HyperCard Team. Bill, Dan,andtheentire c. System Software: team really want to know what you would 1. 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