it was to have a little visual effect
with a typing machine simulation!
who says you can't have fun in the home stack?
;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of MisterX
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 19:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: A little troublesome script
>
>
> 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!
>
> a+
> 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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