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MacBird Tips
MacBird is the newest addition to the Frontier script writer's toolkit. We're still learning what it can do.
The definitive MacBird website is at:
http://www.wrldpwr.com/frontier/macbird/
This page accumulates new MacBird wisdom and art for advanced MacBirdPeople.
Making a new card
Here's how to create and edit a new card:
- Open the table you want it to live in and choose New Card from the Table menu.
- Be sure the table cursor is on the new card, and press Command-E. MacBird comes to the front, with a new empty card displayed.
- Make some changes (I always Command-D to set the title, make it movable, and change the grid to 8). Press Command-S to save changes back in the object database.
- When you want to try out the card, switch back into Frontier and run it with Command-/.
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