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WaltHamilton
Super Hero
10 months ago

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...
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JudyNollet
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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...

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JoeFrancis
Community Member
6 months ago

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 😀

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    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    6 months ago
    Joseph Francis

    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 😀

    👍

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