Re: splash screen strategy

2000-02-02 Thread H. Chaudet
on 1/31/00 11:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those interested, the look-and-feel discussion group for KDE on Linux recently discussed the issue of splash screens. They more or less unanimously threatened grievous bodily harm to anyone who used splash screens :-) The

cant open text files on a CD

2000-02-02 Thread Rob Pitt
My W95 MC stacks open text files on their CD (ISO 9660) with no problems. Now I want to produce a Mac version of my work but MC wont open text files on the CD (Mac Files and Folders using Toast 3.5). MC can see them but wont open them. From the message box 'open file "D:/readme.txt"' works fine

playStopped

2000-02-02 Thread Nicolas R Cueto
Hi again, How do you phrase the playStopped message? From its description in the reference, I'm guessing playStopped is what I need to use in order to prevent a sound file from starting to play before another sound file has finished playing. FWiW, the reason I need something like playStopped is

accented vowels

2000-02-02 Thread Salvatore Bancheri
Hi! I have two questions for the experts. The questions are perhaps basic for programmers but obviously not for me. Question 1 I am working on grammar stacks (for my language students). One of the problems that language students have is typing accented vowels. For this reason, I have

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-02 Thread Claude Lemmel
How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? This returns false: there is a directory "D:/" Yes but there is a directory "D://" ... returns true That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS. At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:\"

Re: VfW Playback using MCISendString?

2000-02-02 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Peter Reid wrote: Since I don't seem to be able to playback AVI files under VfW using MC 2.3Gamma, can anyone tell me how I might be able to control AVI playing using the MCISendString function? Anyone else have this problem? Playback of AVI files using the built-in

Re: accented vowels

2000-02-02 Thread LK Hagen
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am working on grammar stacks (for my language students). One of the problems that language students have is typing accented vowels. For this reason, I have created butttons which will put accented vowels into the answer field. The script below allows me to

Re: playStopped

2000-02-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 2/2/00 3:47 AM, Nicolas R Cueto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, How do you phrase the playStopped message? From its description in the reference, I'm guessing playStopped is what I need to use in order to prevent a sound file from starting to play before another sound file has finished

Re: The Help menu

2000-02-02 Thread Craig Spooner
Dear Scott and everyone who responded, Thanks for your help with this. You were right that the problem of the non-scrolling menu was fixed with the latest version of 2.3. Somehow I thought that's what I was using, but apparently not. I'd still like to ask about how I can get the checkmark to

Re: RTF export

2000-02-02 Thread David Bovill
I'd like to have a peek, and maybe able to contribute... From: Hugh Senior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 13:31:59 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RTF export I've been working on exporting fields to various different formats in an attempt to

And now for a MetaCard Moment

2000-02-02 Thread Raymond E. Griffith
I would like to share a Metacard Moment with all of you. I am operating an internet Trigonometry course. For the course I have created dozens of gif files, each with several pages, each page timed to deliver one part of a concept. The time varied from 1 second to as long as 30 seconds, depending

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-02 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Claude Lemmel wrote: How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? This returns false: there is a directory "D:/" Yes but there is a directory "D://" ... returns true That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS. At the beginning