On 6/6/00 6:48 pm, LORI FRAIND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few basic questions about the MetaCard interface itself:
>
> On pulldown menus or when the contents of a field are autohighlighted, the
> highlighted choice is white text with yellow highlight, which I find hard to
> read. Is there a way to change the color of the highlight?
Yes - you can change the color your system uses in the Control Panel(s). Or
you can alter the accentColor and hiliteColor global properties.
> The only place I can find the Icons button is on the Stack Properties tab.
> Unfortunately, when I select an icon for the button I'm creating, the Icon
> Chooser auto-closes, so I have to go back to the Stack properties and call
> up the Icon Chooser for each button I want to assign an icon to.
You need the ID of the image - try opening up the icon chooser and checking
the ID of the image you want (e.g. moving the mouse over the icon and typing
"put the ID of the mouseControl" in the message box).
> The tutorial refers to turning on the grid, or changing its settings, but I
> can't find the method for turning the grid on and off.
In the message box:
set the grid to false
Or you can set it in the Preferences.
> More advanced question: I prefer to work with my Windows 98 screen set to
> 1600x1200 pixels (just so everybody at the office will make fun of me for
> the wee text nobody else can read), but won't be developing for this
> resolution. We actually want to develop for full screen display on HP-UNIX
> and Windows NT systems (for which I know no other specifications). I will,
> however, be developing the storyboards (right now trying to do it in
> MetaCard, learn as I go!) on the Windows 98. If everything works out well,
> we will develop the running files directly from the WYSIWYG storyboards. So
> what is the question? How can we script the stack to transfer without too
> much pain from my 1600x1200 screen to automatically fill the screens of
> other systems, regardless of resolution?
Design your stack at a common resolution that everyone will have: 800x600 is
fairly typical. If the user has a larger screen than that which you want to
cover, set the backDrop property.
Regards,
Kevin
> Thank you!
>
> Lori C. Fraind
> Delex Systems, Inc.
> (703) 734-8300 x310
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