---------------------------- Claude Lemmel / Opus species email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : www.opus-species.com ------------------------------ ----- Message d'origine ----- De : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> � : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoy� : mercredi 2 f�vrier 2000 14:19 Objet : Digest metacard.v003.n226 > > -------------- BEGIN metacard.v003.n226 -------------- > > 001 - Richard Gaskin <Ambassado - Re: Referencing a Windows CD > 002 - Vikram Singh <vikramsingh - Re: Referencing a Windows CD > 003 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Re: Screen Capture ? > 004 - Jacqueline Landman Gay <j - Re: Referencing a Windows CD > 005 - "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <ja - converting with styled text > 006 - "Steven D'Aprano" <steve@ - Open Source tools [was Re: Referencing a Windows CD] > 007 - "H. Chaudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Re: splash screen strategy > 008 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - cant open text files on a CD > 009 - "Nicolas R Cueto" <kweto@ - playStopped > 010 - Peter Reid <PReid@ReidIT. - VfW Playback using MCISendString? > > This is the MetaCard mailing list. > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.1 --------------- > > From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD > Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:41:21 -0800 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on 2/1/00 7:59 PM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of US $860,000 > > to spend over the next two years on development of > > easier-to-use software engineering tools for computational > > scientists and engineers. All of the work will be Open > > Source, in Python, and have a strong emphasis on design, > > testing, and documentation. For details, see: > > http://www.software-carpentry.com > > Python? Who paid 'em to make that choice? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web > _____________________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349 Fax: 323-225-0716 > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.2 --------------- > > From: Vikram Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:54:57 -0800 (PST) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > download the external-collection stack from the xworlds site. it does what u > want using a dll (on win). > > > > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > > >This returns false: > > > > > > there is a directory "D:/" > > > > > >However, this returns true: > > > > > > there is a file "D:/myFile" > > > > > >Ideally, I'd rather not rely on the "D" designation at all and would > > >like to identify the CD path no matter what the letter; is there a way > > >to do that? > > > > > >-- > > >Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > >612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the MetaCard mailing list. > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite > Visit http://freeworld.excite.com > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.3 --------------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Screen Capture ? > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:03:55 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >Tuv, if you already have the WDEF done, then this won't help much, but > >there is already an existing WDEF that does exactly this. It is called > >Odo, after the shape-shifting character on Deep Space 9. It takes its > >window shape from whatever PICT is stored in the same file with the same > > Thanks for the tip! My WDEF is being designed to be compatible with the > windows external, using graphic points. However that PICT as WDEF feature > is pretty straightforward to implement on the Mac, so that will probably > make it in as well. > > > regards, > Tuviah Snyder > Diskotek > Custom Application Development & SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low > price > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.4 --------------- > > From: Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD > Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:34:54 -0600 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Frank Pappajohn wrote: > > > > Don't you need to type "D:\" (backslash)? > > > > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine? > > >This returns false: > > > > > > there is a directory "D:/" > > > > > >However, this returns true: > > > > > > there is a file "D:/myFile" > > Haven't a clue. I tried that, along with about 20 other variations of > colons, forward slashes, back slashes, etc., and MC always returned > "false". The best one was this handler I wrote: > > on test > answer folder "Pick a folder." > put it > end test > > When I chose the D drive, the result in the message box was: "D:/". When > I typed "put there is a directory 'D:/'" the result was false. Go figure. > > Someone just told me I had to scan every letter of the alphabet looking > for a file I know exists on the CD. That seems pretty Gatesian, given > that on a Mac I can say "there is a folder 'CDName'" and MC returns > "true". Do I really have to do all that scanning? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax > > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.5 --------------- > > From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: converting with styled text > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:18:37 -0800 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Greetings. > > It seems that when I convert a HyperCard stack, any style runs in the > fields are lost. All the text is set to Arial plain. Does anyone know of a > way to avoid this? Thanks. > > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.6 --------------- > > From: "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Open Source tools [was Re: Referencing a Windows CD] > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:14:18 +1100 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Geoff Canyon wrote: > > > They're looking for some things that don't currently exist in MetaCard > > (source code management, bug tracking, etc.) and they want open source > > (although the Python requirement is actually just that it be > > scriptable with Python), but I still think these people need to check > > out MetaTalk's simplicity to power ratio. > > I don't like to be negative, but I think Metacard's closed source will > count heavily against it, and not just in the sense that some > bean-counter disqualifies it for failing to meet the specs. The European > Space Agency, for instance, refuses to use any closed source software, > because Open Source is the only way they can guarantee that the software > tools they use will work over the 15 or 20 year lifespan of many > projects. I'd imagine that the Department of Energy will have similar > concerns. > > Quite frankly, Scott Rainey does a great job at supporting and upgrading > Metacard, but what guarantee do developers have that Metacard Corp will > still be around in 12 months time, let alone 12 years time? > > This isn't an attack on Scott. All software developers have to deal with > Open Source in their own way, and still make a living. > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > > ========================================== > M.B. Sales Pty Ltd Ph: +61 3 9460-5244 > A.C.N. 005-964-796 Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.7 --------------- > > From: "H. Chaudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: splash screen strategy > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:10:56 +0100 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >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 biggest gripe about splash screens is the annoying way human-loathing > >Windows designers use them: Too often they stay up until the user > >explicitely dismisses them. > > Perhaps, a fair utilisation of a splash screen is to use it for a feedback > to the user while the system initialise its parameters (see adobe > softwares). > > H. Chaudet > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Herve Chaudet & Liliane Pellegrin-Chaudet > e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mobile : 0 608 05 98 09 > Laboratoire de Biomathematiques, Informatique Medicale > Unit� UPRES EA 2672 > Faculte de Medecine - 27, Bd Jean Moulin > 13385 Marseille cedex 5 - France > Tel (33) 0 491 791 910 - Fax (33) 0 491 794 013 > Service de l'Information Medicale > Hopital Nord - Chemin des Bourrelly > 13326 Marseille cedex 15 - France > Tel (33) 0 491 968 020 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.8 --------------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Pitt) > Subject: cant open text files on a CD > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:56:05 +1000 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 on Windows but > 'open file "/CDROMname/readme.txt"' wont open on the Mac. In both cases 'if > there is a file "....." then put "yes"' is successful so the Mac version > can see the file on the CD but it wont open. Both CDs burnt from the Mac. > Any ideas? > Rob Pitt > > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.9 --------------- > > From: "Nicolas R Cueto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: playStopped > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:47:11 +0900 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-2022-jp" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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 that I want to play a > series of consecutively numbered sound files, via something like: > > repeat with i = 1 to (the number of sound files) > wait until playStopped (???) > play (sound file i) > end repeat > > As always, thank you in advance. ** And an especially big thank you to Geoff > Canyon for the line delimiter script. Truly brilliant! > > Cheers. > > Nicolas R Cueto > ---- > Takakura JHS > Nagoya, Japan > > > > --------------- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.10 --------------- > > From: Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: VfW Playback using MCISendString? > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:21:23 +0000 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > 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? > > Thanks > Peter > -------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Reid > Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK > Tel: +44 (0)1509 268843 Fax: +44 (0)870 052 75876 > UK Mobile: 0378 632533 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.reidit.demon.co.uk > > > --------------- END metacard.v003.n226 --------------- > This is the MetaCard mailing list. 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