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Re: 1.99 demo benchmarks and questions
In the questions, Stephen asked:
> And what do those other prefs options do? Screen Updates seemed to
> have no effect...
I've used Executor for quite some time on black hardware (NeXTstation).
The use I've had for Screen Updates is to get HyperCard 2.1 to limp
under older versions of Executor. I'm using Executor 1.3c, and if I
set the refresh rate to 10, I can see the HyperCard cards. It worked
well enough for me to copy pictures from HyperCard stacks for inclusion
in a chapter I wrote about HyperCard for a soon-to-be-published book.
I'd also like to vouch for Executor in general. I wrote the chapter
mentioned above in Microsoft Word for compatibility with the book's
editor. Executor worked like a charm. Word didn't do such a hot job
of importing EPS pictures from Diagram. And it occassionally claimed
that it ran out of memory. These seemed to be Word problems rather
than Executor problems.
I'm looking forward to a newer version of Executor that will let me
do more with HyperCard than display the cards. I'm intrigued by Cliff's
comments about discussions with Apple's MAE group. I just tried MAE
on a Sun. Hmmm.
Beth Katz
beth@raven.millersv.edu