Magic Cap Concepts Everything right is wrong again

Contents

1. Introduction




2. Introduction to Objects




3. Viewables and Touching




4. Scenes




5. Cards, Stacks, and Forms




6. Windows




7. Buttons and Controls




8. Name Cards




9. Electronic Mail




10. Attribute Steps




11. Text




12. Sound




13. Interplatform Content Formats




14. Telescript and Magic Cap




15. Coupons




16. Fancy Viewables




17. Scrolling




18. Grid Views




19. Books




20. Rules




21. Lessons




22. Graphics




23. Object Runtime




24. Software Packages




25. Lists




26. Linkable Objects and Arrays




27. Handling Exceptions




28. Actors




29. Date and Time




30. Servers and Hardware Support




31. Utilities

September 1995

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Written by Scott Knaster, hitchhiker on the infobahn. Telescript information partially swiped from work by George Fan, David Gelphman, Richard Clark, Ginger Edighoffer, Jim White, and Scott Kronick. Great reviews provided by Susan Rayl, Dean Yu, and John Sullivan. Questions cheerfully answered by the whole Magic Cap gang. Indexing by Susan Rayl. Inestimable support provided by CJ Silverio.

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