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An intuitive software erector kit targeted at people new to programming, but with enough potential to stay useful once they've learned, inspired by HyperCard.
A way to specify a list of menus that will be shown whenever a given window is frontmost. Should be available as per-project default and as per-stack setting. Also needs...
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Full-blown menu objects with a script for the entire menu, each item, and icon, title, shortcut.
Queries should ideally be specified as something between LINQ and the search command's syntax. Make it so users don't have to escape query values etc., not unlike prepared statements in...
For appointments _and_ calendars. Make looking stuff up similar to the database access support, something like LINQ and the sort command(?).
Some simple block-based API that keeps a connection going until the innermost block returns. Something like the download command, but that allows us as a client to send & receive...
We already have support in Stacksmith that it opens any stack named "Home.xstk" in its Resources folder. Now we'd need UI for building a standalone application from a stack by...
This would probably be an early form of the Project Canvas (#12) that shows all media at least, so you can see what media a project contains, and drag/paste in...
This could just take the form of "pressedIcon" etc. properties on regular button, and then you switch them to rectangular and turn border & fill transparent and the icons auto-switch....
They should just be transparent buttons with your choice of title, popup arrows, icon (or any combination thereof) displayed on them, but w/o button bezel or the blue background.
Effectively a checkbox, but looking like a sliding switch. Should probably be themeable with custom graphics, too, but different from a button with icon graphics, this can't just toggle on...
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An intuitive software erector kit targeted at people new to programming, but with enough potential to stay useful once they've learned, inspired by HyperCard.