HyperCard Animator Package is a toolkit for persons wishing to animate a series of vector graphics frames in HyperCard. The package contains four items, the NCSA TektoPICT application, a HyperCard Template, the documentation and a Tek 4010 example file. All of the tools as well as the documentation is also include in the Stuffit volume in this directory. The idea behind the package is that many scientists and other people doing graphics may wish to make a quick movie of their plots. Most vector graphics packages have a driver for creating Tek 4010 output. The user will create a file containing a series of Tek 4010 frame which he wished to animate. This file is downloaded to the Mac, and then NCSA TektoPICT is used to convert this file into a file containing PICT resources. The HyperCard template has a special XCMD which reads PICT resources created by NCSA TektoPICT. After the files are read in, people can control the simulation with the provided buttons. As always with HyperCard, users are encouraged to add functionality, however the import of frames should not be altered in any basic way, as most of the program is contained in the XCMD, not in HyperCard Script language. Please read the documentation for more details. Good luck and have fun. Users should download the following files: HA1.0.sit.hqx Hypercard Animator application MSW.docs.sit.hqx Documentation in Macintosh MSWord format Source.sit.hqx Source code Examples.sit.hqx Examples First decode with BinHex 4.0 and then use Stuffit 1.5. Documentation is in MSWord 3.01 format. A copy of both BinHex 4.0 and Stuffit 1.5 is available here on anynomous FTP. Any comments or suggestion or bugs can be refered to NCSA Software Development Group, see the last page of documention for details. ============================================================================== To get the software: ============================================================================== 1) Login to your local server. 2) FTP to zaphod for the anomynous ftp service 4) Get the ReadMe file and other files you wish. 5) Now that the archive is on your local server, download files to your Mac 6) Download the application using a utility called "BinHex 4.0" 7) Use Stuffit 1.5 to extract the files out of the archive. Now, if you don't have Stuffit 1.5 or BinHex 4.0 on your Mac, you can download these from the directory "Mac" in the ftp server. BinHex can be brought down correctly by setting the Telnet ftp option "MacBinary" to on and then transfering. Any further questions can be directed to softdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu