Does MC now ask whether users
want to save the script when you changed it? 2.2 didn't do that.
Yes, metaCard prompts the user to save if he uses the close box. If he uses
the enter key the script is auto saved (just like in hypercard)
We could at least use the "bold" style by default, I guess?
--No. MetaCard uses bold to indicate hypertext links. Since the WWW standard
is to underline and change the color of links this standard is in fact a bad
idea. But I am not going to argue it (do _you really want to chase down _every
link and change its style? Manually? I do not, though a script could probably
be written to do it).
No need to fiddle around with unnecessary details (I don't expect you to
make every dialog window have bondi-blue corners, it might look cool but
it's unnecessary), however, I think MetaCard's menus really might profit
from being reworked.
--Actually, the aesthetics are an aspect of the GUI that metaCard expects to
get in exchange for its support of this project. Function determines form, but
within function paramaters form should be aesthetically pleasing. Basically
the Italians (see FIAT - fix it again tony) bought McLuhans BS that form
defines function. Load of expletive. MC places function over form which is
good, but there is plenty of room within functional parameters for
improvement. MetaCard's demo is really generous and deserves to be supported.
--Regarding menus i have developed new menus. They work nicely (amazing what
can be dones with the DO command). However adding submenus (lineSize,
polySides) would, i think, require more than 10 lines. The new menus are "Go"
(because navigation takes up a lot of menu bar) "Objects" and "Drawing". I
would also like to move some menuItems within existing menus but script
license limits are problematic for making major changes to the menuBar.
Alain: ... but I lost the list. And the situation has
perhaps changed since the lost-list was made.
--do you have a find function? :)
(re-reading my own message, I realized that I had not
completed my thought).
think first then write?
thimk?
All the best!
Eric
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