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by pan69 27 days ago
Does anyone remember ToolBook? I spend a couple of years from the mid to late 90s working with this daily, crossing from Windows 3.11 into Windows 95/98. It's a bit Visual Basic-esque, as a matter of fact, Paul Allen was a founder of the company that produced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToolBook
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WillAdams 27 days ago
Yes, used it quite a bit, and even bought the Heizer Software conversion tool to make my HyperCard Stacks run on it --- insofar as anything ran in it, performance was rather lacking, unless one had a cutting edge machine.

I guess everyone moved on from it to Runtime Revolution (which became LiveCode).

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ChristopherDrum 27 days ago
I included a shout out to ToolBook, with screenshots and comparative features, in the article. Specifically, I show how it addresses some of the complaints I had with Visual Basic's IDE.
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