Apple's New HyperCard 2.4 Now Available
Latest Version of HyperCard Leverages Powerful QuickTime 3 Capabilities
Markham, ON -- April 28, 1998 -- Apple Canada, Inc. today announced the availability of HyperCardtm 2.4, the latest version of the Company's custom software development tool used to create interactive applications primarily for training and education. HyperCard 2.4 leverages QuickTimetm 3's rich array of video and audio capabilities, making it possible to easily add sophisticated multimedia experiences to existing or new applications. Building on the power of QuickTime 3, HyperCard 2.4 lets users work directly with more than 30 standard media file types.
HyperCard 2.4's new features include a suite of commands and properties, offering users who write HyperTalk scripts the ability to:
- establish links from HyperCard stacks to QuickTime movies, QuickTime VR scenes, and the World Wide Web;
- navigate quickly to predefined locations in a QuickTime movie by searching the movie's text track;
- resize, flip, mirror, rotate or skew a QuickTime movie in real time;
- loop a movie, providing continuous play for unattended applications like multimedia kiosks.
About HyperCard
HyperCard is Apple's custom software development tool for users of every
skill level with navigation, hypertext, media integration and scripting
features that have greatly influenced the evolution of the World Wide
Web. HyperCard organizes information into associated "stacks" of cards
that can be easily navigated and searched. Users are able to integrate
and link text, graphics, sound, speech and QuickTime movies into
HyperCard stacks to create dynamic, interactive titles.
Availability
HyperCard 2.3 and 2.3.5 customers can immediately upgrade to the new
version free of charge from the HyperCard website
(www.apple.com/hypercard/).
Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission - to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.
Apple Canada Inc. is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple products are available at more than 300 Authorized Apple Canada Dealer locations across Canada.
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| Apple Canada Inc. | GENERATORIDEAWORKS | |
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QuickTime 3--the latest version of Apple's award-winning, industry standard software for creating and publishing digital media for MacTM OS and Windows--is available for download via the Apple website at www.apple.com/quicktime/. Apple Canada's home page on the World Wide Web is: http://www.apple.com/ca/
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