Hyperstudio to Livecode

[teachtopia]

Just wondering if anyone else was a into Hyperstudio and now converted to LiveCode?

[Mark Spencer]

Me also interested in Hyperstudio to Livecode action. If someone knows about this process then share here to help us. I will appreciate to quick responder...!

[richmond62]

That sounds fairly messy. As far as I understand HyperStudio's underlying language is a LISP variant, while Livecode's inderlying language has been called many things but is basically an xTalk variant. This would mean that any translator would have to chew its way through whole chunks of language rather than just rewrite the odd bit of out-dated syntax as in a HyperCard to Livecode translator.

[richmond62]

http://www.mackiev.com/hyperstudio/reviews/nzmac.html

"For example, HyperLogo, a scripting language that could be used within previous versions is not present."

So, version 5, if I read things aright, has gone all kiddified drag-n-drop, and while being all colourful and sexy is not really
much good except as a sort of Powerpoint variant.

I can see why people might want to port older HyperStudio work to Livecode.

Of course there is the law of diminishing returns, and I really wonder it might be less time consuming and frustrating just to recreate
HyperStudio stacks in Livecode rather than attempt to convert them.

They offer a player for earlier versions, but that won't do anybody any good at all.

I suppose one would have to open a HyperStudio file/stack with some sort of text app such as TextWrangler and work on from there, unless of course one could open it as text and import it intoa textField in
a Livecode stack.