I am considering the purchase of Meta Card but am concerned about
my ability to use it to generate graphs from scripted equations and
export them to a graphics program. In Hyper Card I can copy and past
any drawn graphic. Not so in Meta Card. On the Meta Card web site I
read the following:
"Cut/Copy/Paste support is currently limited to text.
The inability to use the system clipboard to transfer image data may
seem to be an inconvenience but is not actually a problem in
practice: bitmap data passed via the clipboard is uncompressed and so
is in an inappropriate format for inclusion in a stack anyway
(developers should import PNG, GIF, or JPEG format images instead so
that they can take advantage of the superior compression controls
available in specialized image editing tools). PICT data passed on
the clipboard could not be viewed on UNIX or Windows systems because
they do not provide support for PICT like MacOS does. PICT data is
therefore also unsuitable for cross platform development and so the
inability to cut/copy/paste it is not a significant
limitation."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to say, Copy into the
clipboard is not supported but it is not a limitation because it
can't be done across platforms.
Of course it is a serious limitation for me. Is there no way to export screen graphics to other programs?
P.S. I can't find a way to put scripts into the
background(s).
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Jim Hurley
Jim Hurley
