I doubt anyone has an answer. I'm just a bit frustrated, so I'm venting. I fully expected to have this program to my beta testers last week... but compiling it created a number of unanticipated problems.
Project is complete. Compiled into a standalone. Apparently the program compiles as a Starter Mode program, and has the limits of the Metacard demo. This does not affect the length of scripts. But it does affect the length of "do" commands. I had code I didn't want in a script, but in Properties, where you get the property and "do it" to run the code. Apparently this is limited to 10 lines in all standalones. Thankfully it was an easy fix. Compiled again. (That compile produced an immediate error, so I didn't get into further testing. I knew that error would run rampant thru the entire program.) And several buttons changed appearance. All of my Option buttons are grey instead of white. I colored them white. I colored the card white. I colored the stack white. I tried everything to make the buttons white in the standalone, to no avail. No I can't make them transparent as there are colored objects under them. Best I can figure is this: I have a Powermac G-3 running 8.6. Metacard has Look and Feel preferences that allow you to see how something will look on other platforms. I normally keep it set to my platform until the end, during testing. The buttons turn grey in OS Native mode, but in Macintosh mode they stay white. When I compile into a standalone, I use the same engine that I develop with, PPC. Yet the Look and Feel apparently turns into OS Native. I had several other button visual problems as well. I had a number of buttons configured specifically for looks, they served no other function. They were graphics to me. But the visuals changed after compiling. And testing showed that they turned into OS Native appearance. The only way I can get them to be white on all platforms, is to turn them into Combo Boxes instead of Option buttons. (The other buttons styles do not make it apparent enough that it's a menu button). I don't like Combo Boxes! Aaarrrggghhhh! -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
