Part I. Browsing Through HyperCard
    Chapter 1. Installing and Setting Up HyperCard
    Chapter 2. Browsing Building Blocks
    Chapter 3. Finding and Entering Information
    Chapter 4. HyperCard Linking and Printing

Part II. HyperCard's Authoring Environment
    Chapter 5. Introduction to Authoring
    Chapter 6. All About Stacks
    Chapter 7. All About Layers
    Chapter 8. All About Backgrounds
    Chapter 9. All About Cards
    Chapter 10. All About Fields
    Chapter 11. All About Buttons
    Chapter 12. Basic Linking and Visual Effects
    Chapter 13. Introduction to HyperCard's Painting Tools
    Chapter 14. HyperCard Painting Palettes
    Chapter 15. The Paint Menu
    Chapter 16. The Options Menu
    Chapter 17. Using the Icon Editor
    Chapter 18. Painting Strategies
    Chapter 19. Building a HyperCard Stack

Part III. HyperCard's Programming Environment
    Chapter 20. Introduction to HyperTalk
    Chapter 21. Basic HyperTalk Concepts
    Chapter 22. Messages, Hierarchy, and Inheritance
    Chapter 23. The HyperTalk Script Editor
    Chapter 24. Introduction to HyperTalk Commands
    Chapter 25. Navigation Commands
    Chapter 26. Action Commands
    Chapter 27. Sound Commands
    Chapter 28. Arithmetic Commands
    Chapter 29. Searching and Sorting Commands
    Chapter 30. Screen Manipulation Commands
    Chapter 31. Object Manipulation Commands
    Chapter 32. File Manipulation Commands
    Chapter 33. Menu Commands
    Chapter 34. Printing Commands
    Chapter 35. Script Commands
    Chapter 36. HyperCard Properties
    Chapter 37. Introduction to HyperTalk Functions
    Chapter 38. Time and Date Functions
    Chapter 39. Keyboard and Mouse Functions
    Chapter 40. Text Functions
    Chapter 41. Math Functions
    Chapter 42. System Environment Functions
    Chapter 43. Script-Related Functions
    Chapter 44. Operators
    Chapter 45. Constants
    Chapter 46. HyperTalk Control Structures

Part IV. HyperCard Authoring Techniques
    Chapter 47. Interpreting "HyperCard Helper" Messages
    Chapter 48. Debugging HyperTalk Scripts
    Chapter 49. Tips on Importing and Exporting Data
    Chapter 50. Advanced Report Printing
    Chapter 51. Home Stack Author Utilities
    Chapter 52. Introduction to External Resources
    Chapter 53. Adding Color to HyperCard Stacks
    Chapter 54. HyperCard Multimedia: Animation, Sound, and Video
    Chapter 55. Exploring Apple Events with HyperTalk
    Chapter 56. Open Scripting (AppleScript) and HyperCard
    Chapter 57. Creating Double-Clickable Applications
    Chapter 58. Third-Party HyperCard Authoring Tools
    Chapter 59. Ten Stack Design Issues

Part V. Applying HyperCard and HyperTalk
    Chapter 60. Introduction to Applications
    Chapter 61. A Conversion Calculator
    Chapter 62. A Time Sheet
    Chapter 63. A Telephone Logbook
    Chapter 64. A Corporate Directory
    Chapter 65. A New and Improved To Do List
    Chapter 66. Multi-User Database Access

Appendix A. What's New in HyperCard 2.2

Appendix B. Source List

Appendix C. HyperTalk 2.2 Quick Reference

Index