"I literally did GASP when I saw what the program would do ...
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!" - Gary Dauphin, Senior Multimedia Engineer,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introductory Information
HyperGASP is a multimedia development tool for the Macintosh. It
features
an intuitive interface which guides developers, teachers, students, and
other users through the construction of programs and presentations, helping
them place media elements - graphics, scanned images, sounds, QuickTime
movies, animations, videodisc sequences, and text - where they want them,
quickly and simply. It also offers an extensive array of tools, resources, and
tricks for the HyperCard enthusiast.
HyperGASP includes powerful ready-made templates
which help educators quickly develop interactive courseware for the sciences
and humanities, such as guided writing exercises, exploratory simulations,
and electronic quizzes, enhanced by multimedia and hypertext
links.
HyperGASP 2.4 runs as an extension to HyperCard, supporting stack construction
through
two new menus (offering
some thirty utilities) and a variety of floating palettes, accompanied by guided
explanations
and help.
Overview of Features
You can use HyperGASP to...
Add color to the HyperCard screen quickly with intuitive
color-drawing tools and a floating color palette - without having to switch
out of the regular HyperCard menus, and without having to edit scripts.
Apply 3D "bevels" automatically; "fill" color on the
background; add "intelligent" color to pop-up fields with a single
click. GASP is fully compatible with both the "ColorizeHC" and
"AddColor" XCMDs. It allows for easy conversion of stacks which
use ColorizeHC to the new AddColor format. HyperCard 2.2 is not required
for color.
Place QuickTime movies quickly and simply, using an
interactive dialog to select settings from the complete gamut of QuickTime
control options. Attach movies to cards, to "hot" text, to buttons,
and to automated quiz exercises. Seamlessly integrate video animations with
card graphics; resize or clip movies to any shape; construct custom slide
shows.
Easily attach PICT images with individual color visual
effects, or blend them with colors or additional graphics. Dynamically move,
resize and reclip images at any time with the browse tool. Attach pictures
to cards, buttons, text, and quiz exercises.
Install digitized sound effects selected from a built-in
library of over 80 sounds or from any other stack. Record sounds instantly
using a built-in or plug-in microphone and add them to cards and buttons
with a click. Design custom sound effects on a graphic keyboard, using simple
controls to alter pitch, duration, and tempo.
Create fully automated, interactive, multiple-choice
quizzes, complete with branching, prompting, sounds, color pictures and
movies. Customize responses for correct and incorrect answers. Log results.
Easily create a true/false quiz, a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, or an essay
test which can be saved and opened automatically in a word processor.
Create hypertext links effortlessly; so that clicking on words
will trigger special effects, such as "pop-up" text, definitions,
sound effects, voiceovers, pictures, and movies. Make "hypertext"
connections simply by selecting words or phrases to be linked.
Transform any word processing document into a HyperCard
stack. Save time and labor by imbedding simple card, field and button-building
commands into text files before importing them into HyperCard. HyperGASP
reads the codes and automatically creates new cards, places text and buttons,
adds sounds, all in accord with your instructions.
Preserve text formatting when importing text from a
word processor into HyperCard and when exporting from your stack. HyperGASP
uses the text interchange (or "rich text") format to retain fonts,
sizes and styles.
Collect important text created by you and/or by the
user of your stack and export it directly to a word processor, retaining
its text formatting. Choose the fields (text containers) you want saved,
and the text is automatically collected and combined in the order you specify.
You can also import text back into the same fields from which you exported
it. This allows you to revise and expand text in a word processor and then
return it to the original fields in your stack automatically.
Select items from libraries of ready-made cards, buttons,
and fields and drop them into your stacks "as is" or as templates
to be expanded and modified. For example, you can use the "Buttom Maker"
to create pre-scripted buttons which link your stack to other applications,
or which instruct your LaserDisc player to display selected video sequences
(requires Voyager drivers). Or you can use the "Field Maker" to
create pre-scripted fields, such as an "Index" field which opens
selected cards, or an automatic "Elapsed time on card" field.
You can also save your own cards and objects into the libraries as custom
items, for easy storage and retrieval.
Attach special effects to buttons and fields with a
click. Button effects include icon animations, sounds, pop-up pictures,
movies, and other pre-scripted functions. Field effects include such options
as "zooming" text, flashing text, automatic text resetting, special
formatting and styling functions (double spacing, tabbing, smart quotes),
as well as word counts, word limits, and minimum word requirements.
Install automatic "reset" functions for lab
use. Set your stacks to automatically reset scroll bars and to clear selected
editable text fields for each new user.
Use extensive organizing tools to take the drudgery
out of HyperCard design work. Reorder and sort cards automatically, copy
cards off of and onto HyperCard "backgrounds," bounce in and out
of "locked" text, show and hide fields effortlessly, attach self-deleting
notes ...
Applications
GASP has been used to design prompted, guided tutorials, exercises,
drafts
of papers, "how to" technical presentations, training documents,
computer-based promotional materials, informational kiosks, and to produce
instructional stacks for in-lab workshops in the sciences and humanities.
Placed directly in the hands of students, it has been used to create multimedia
reports of research projects, to construct interactive inform- ational stacks,
"graphic essays," and "multimedia compositions." GASP's
intuitive interface helps students start to produce interactive stacks immediately
after taking up the program.
"Quick and powerful scripting tools ... effectively triples the number of
control
options available to the user ... A marvelous introduction to HyperCard scripting ...
An impressive array of enhancements at a reasonable cost." - Technology &
Learning
magazine, January 1994
"An intuitive development system ... makes it very easy to incorporate
QuickTime
... the Sound Maker takes up where HyperCard's Audio Palette leaves off.
Significantly increases the multimedia power of HyperCard." - The Cobb Group,
Inside HyperCard, November 1994
"Sort of like the Developer Stack on steroids."
- Fred Showker, National Home & School Mac.
"HyperGASP is so easy to use! Many of my students have
found success, in developing HyperCard stacks, that was unattainable in
the regular classroom ... HyperGASP is the key to HyperCard creativity."
- Terry O'Connor, Biology Teacher, HyperCard Instructor, Holbrook High School,
Arizona.
"With HyperGASP at our disposal, my students and I no longer worry
about a limited software budget. We quickly and easily create our own software
- complete with color images, animation, and sound for virtually any topic
... There is no easier or faster way to create exciting software."
- Jim Riser, The Imaging Lab at Booth Fickett Math Science Magnet School,
Tucson, Arizona.
"I can't tell you how impressed I am with this program. I just
wish I had purchased HyperGASP before I had spent so much time learning
and working with HyperStudio." - Eddie K. Evans, Brady Middle School,
Pepper Pike, Ohio.
"A useful, imaginative, and productive program ... HyperGASP exceeds
my expectations, and they were very high!" - Bill Massey, HyperCard
developer, Memphis, Tennessee.
"I literally did GASP when I saw what the program would do ...
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!" - Gary Dauphin, Senior Multimedia Engineer,
New Orleans, Louisiana
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