@TutorialDoctor said in Using Hyperpad as in interactive educational tool:

I've been toying with the idea of using Hyperpad as an interactive educational tool to teach algorithms and data structures.

This is a great idea! We actually have some teachers doing this already for other classes.

For me, the most unfortunate thing about Hyperpad is how few and far between the updates are, and there are a lot of features that could be added to make the app a lot more useable for larger projects.

We're working on improving update times. We're shifting some things around, and grew our team a bit so we can put some more time into hyperPad updates.
That being said, we also need to find a balance with updates. In the past we did weekly and monthly updates, but we found that people would not update the app at all. This caused a lot of headache with support, as some questions or issues were already fixed but they were on an older version.

I think Hyperpad is a wonderful application that is probably not as popular as it should be. I almost wish an app like this was built using Apple's SDK so that new features could be easier to add (high hopes).

Other than the hub, hyperPad is a native application. New features wouldn't be added quicker any ways. For the most part, the underlying code in hyperPad is pretty good! The issue is some features rely on other things ti be put in place first. You can't start a building from the top level down.
A lot of momentum was taken out by the whole covid pandemic. We had to change a lot of how we do things. We're working on restructuring now, and hopefully will be bale to dedicate more hands on hyperPad to progress quicker.

Ok,well that’s nice!

@KingOfStone
Zip files are compressed folders, they can contain anything. What are you trying to import?

hyperPad would have to get your zip file, decompress it. Then sort through it and find what ever you're trying to import. It's a lot of "guess" work for the app to do. So its unlikely to import successfully any ways.

As @RobinsonX suggests, the best way is to use the files app and unzip it and then import what ever files you want individually.

@RobinsonX Thanks!

With this list, I’ll also add some solutions:

Animation

With the latest update, you can use the Load Image behavior with the dynamic setting to load images from a folder in you assets. It works well, and I’m not sure how it affects performance.

@RobinsonX yeah ive seen that bro that was pretty good.

@MyVibes If you're using hyperPad viewer, you won't be able to create projects. You only have the ability to play projects.

@Aidan_Fire @DNote242 sent from browser rather than in app E5B3401E-5BCC-426A-A953-2CB99CA8621F.png
I hope this makes sense and helps. Set Input Field by the way comes from when I tap on the small icon next to the text box in the Box Container behaviour (called Maximum Speed in the screenshot). Obviously this isn’t everything here, this just shows you the kind of logic you could use and the behaviours needed.

I think your account was stuck in a weird state.
I manually set it so you don't need to go under review. Hopefully any new submission will be fine now.

I totally agree!

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I heard there would be a bitmap thing that would allow you to do this, I don't know when it's coming out. It's like a canvas.

@LinkoGames no credit to anyone we just wanna share ideas😇, and it's awesome that we had think of the same thing 😝

You could use an another empty object? It could be invisible. You can even hide it and still can be interacted with.