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What are variables and how (and why) should I use them?
I got home last night, and the cat insisted he had not been fed all day, and was STARVING. I hadn't been there all day, so I didn't know, and my wife was off to her quilting party, so I couldn't ask...
Walt & Bianca: Both HyperCard users! Wow.
And did you ever use it to control a videodisc? (Remember those?)
BTW, I referenced HyperCard in a recent feature request. I want Storyline to let me insert text before or after the existing text in a variable. For example, to build a list. Like I could easily do in HyperCard...
I didn't use HyperCard to control a VideoDisc Player, but I DID use MacroMind Director 2.0 on a Mac IIfx controlling an ARTI frame-controller to lay 2D and 3D animations onto 3/4" tape, one frame at a time. Fabulous use of many a weekend. 😑 I got REALLY GOOD with the Lingo scripting language.
I know of at least 2 people who used Macromedia Authorware to develop and deliver computer-controlled courses with the content stored on VideoDisc. When one of them retired her organization's last course, she presented me with one of their obsolete VideoDiscs 😀
