SuperCard

Supercard is a Mac OS development environment of the U.S. firm Solutions Etcetera. Supercard is based on the principle of index cards (English: stack), which is already found in Apple's HyperCard application development tool. Information in the form of text data, images, video clips or audio files can be represented managed using SuperCard and. Thus Supercard can be used as a database application and multimedia tool, but also as a development environment for software prototypes.

Commands and functions within Supercard be formulated in the scripting language " Super Talk". This scripting language belongs to the family of object- oriented languages, the fourth generation language (4GL Fourth Generation Language = ). There again, it is one of the interpreter, script or macro languages ​​. These include, inter alia, also Hyper Talk, REALbasic, Transcript (formerly MetaTalk ), AppleScript, and other xTalk dialects.

Unlike HyperCard, SuperCard supports Apple's Mac OS X.

History

Supercard 1989 written by Bill Appleton, author of World Builder as a better HyperCard for Silicon Beach Software. In 1990 the company was bought by Aldus. 1994 Super Card was purchased by the company " Allegiant Technologies ", consisting of former Supercard developers. In December 1994, a first PowerPC - optimized version was issued.

Despite initial successes such as the publication of a Supercard browser plug-in for Macintosh and Windows Allegiant put the business in 1998 and sold to the company Supercard IncWell DMG, a user of the Supercard technology. In 2002, the developer who had developed for IncWell Supercard, the company bought the program and continued to develop independently under the company name " Solutions Etcetera" on.

Related Products

Allegiant brought out a series Supercard related products. In addition to the network communication tool " Marionet " there was also a Supercard browser plugin called " Roadster ", and based on Supercard CGI development environment called Flamethrower.

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