Blair wrote:
> Thanks to Sivakatirswami for posting the first example that I have seen of a
> web-based MetaCard interface. Downloading the "portal" app took less than a
> nanonsecond...and downloading content was very fast. Way cool!
I can't take any credit. The model exists (ed?) right in the MC interface.
At least I found it in 2.3 (but can't now in 2.3.1. . .Scott do you need to
put this back in?) One menu item Scott made downloaded a little interface
that had buttons to download and run the Javacup.mc and the calculator.mc
etc. and some other game.
OK back to business:
I had my first in this lifetime Windows session on one of our PC machines
and took the key stack and made a standalone. Then zipped it. And since the
station had no FTP client I downloaded the ftp stack from the Metacard site
and used that to upload the zipped stack back to our site and fixed the HTML
page.
If some windows testers can please download the windows version (the mac 68K
version is not up yet. . .) and test it, I would really appreciate it.
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I will do so my own here of course here on the PC. If it works we can
finally go public. I'll have to tweak buttons in other stacks. . .seems
Arial is very "tall" in a PC so buttons can't be too skinny vertically. Is
there a more compatible cross platform font choice?
Note to Michael Lew in Australia. . .Yes the MC UI is daunting in the
beginning, just grit your teeth and go for it. True it is a little (very)
weird to "can't even find the steering wheel or clutch for this thing." and
the reference stack assumes way too much and provides very little scripting
examples for the syntax, which should be mandatory for any xTalk
documentation. (I wanted to compress the key stack on the PC today and the
only thing in the reference stack is "compress (<exp>)" fortunately stuffit
was loaded on that machine.)
But after working all day in Quark, Photoshop, illustrator 9.0 and BBEdit.
. .MC's "lean clean" interface is like fresh air. A little home stack and a
message box and the rest is up to you--flying an ultra light that can take
you to the moon.
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