HyperCard
ハイパーカード / 1987–2004 / Layout / Digital Retro
A screen form that came out of a tool. HyperCard was written by Bill Atkinson and shipped with the System 6 Macintosh in August 1987, and Apple described it as a hypermedia program or construction kit. Its unit is not a page but a card, the metaphor being a card index in which each card holds pictures or text, and a reader jumps from card to card or from one stack to another.
One card filling the screen, with navigation that jumps between cards rather than turning pages / One bit black on white drawing, where grays and photographs both arrive as dither patterns / A row of small square icon buttons packed along the bottom edge of the card / Picture and text sharing one surface, with an input field marked by a single rule
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Building an exhibition screen that presents holdings one card at a time instead of as a run of pages · Rebuilding the feel of late 1980s and 1990s homemade software in one bit black and white
- Type
- Use a bitmap screen face. Do not enlarge headings, and let text carry the same weight as the drawing on the card.
- Composition
- One card is one screen. Put the shared frame on the background layer and lay the individual picture and text over it. Pack the navigation buttons along the bottom.
- Material
- Black on white at one bit. Make midtones from dither patterns and halftone any photograph before placing it. Draw outlines as single pixel rules.
- Caution
- Hiding the links inside the artwork erases the way back, and nobody can tell which stack they are in or how far along it.
- Further study
- HyperTalk の英語に近い書き方。1986年から87年に Dan Winkler が作った / Myst が最初はカードの束として出たこと / 教材や住所録として無償で回っていた束の作り
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- Link
- https://indexstyle.org/styles/hypercard
- Markdown
- [HyperCard — IndexStyle](https://indexstyle.org/styles/hypercard)
- HTML
- <a href="https://indexstyle.org/styles/hypercard">HyperCard — IndexStyle</a>