I know how wonderful it is, so I knew that was possible!
But the flashing button that just wont quit was also a surprise!
MetaCard is just too fast sometimes!
Big thanks to all and Vielen Dank fur Klaus!
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Xa
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Klaus Major
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 18:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: A little troublesome script
>
>
> Hello Xavier,
>
> > Hi gals and guys,
> >
> > Here's a little troublesome script...
> >
> > This is in a button, when pressed, the button hilites itself non-stop
> > forever (the type command I presume) instead of typing the text
> in the field
> > as expected.
> >
> > Ctrl C doesn't work (yeah, im stuck doing windows). Closing the
> stack is the
> > only thing that does... I suppose there's a good reason (probably the
> > traversal...) but I can't spend too much time on this...
> >
> > Question is: Is it normal behavior? It sure is unexpected...
>
> I don't know what's going on in your button,
> but it doesn't sound very healthy ;-)
>
> Anyway, here we go, just add these 2 lines:
>
> > on mouseUp
> > put fld "HistoryChanges" into HC -- ;)
> > put "<"& the short date &">" into todaysdate
> > put line 3 of HC into lastDateEntry
> > if lastDateEntry is not todaysdate then
> select before line 3 of fld "HistoryChanges" ##!!!
> > type todaysdate & return & return #### !!! before line 3 ...
> > else
> select before line 4 of fld "HistoryChanges" ##!!!
> > type return before line 4 of fld "HistoryChanges"
> > end if
> > end mouseUp
>
> You have to tell MC first where to type...
>
> You can vary the speed of the typing, too.
>
> "the typingrate" is the delay in milliseconds
> between the simulated keystrokes!!!
>
> It may range from 0 to 65535, which
> should fit into most needs :-D
>
> Isn't MC wonderful ?!!!!
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
>
> P.S. If your are not for the animation-effect,
> the "put"-command is a lot more effective.
>
>
>
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