Re: Note pad
I have struggled with something which probably is simple if you do the right things. The problem is: I want a note pad to appear covering approx. 1/3 of the screen of the mainstack. I have tried toplevel, modal, palette, lockscreen to true etc., before I ended up with the following script (in MetaCard 2.2.5) on åpneblokk put the topleft of stack "franpo" into tl --"Franpo" is the mainStack open inv stack "carnet" -- the substack set topleft of stack "carnet" to tl show stack "carnet" end åpneblokk (The substack has a button to close it.) Sorry to have bothered the list with my sloppy scripting. Thanks to Scott Raney's reply I found a way out of it. Now I set the loc of both main and substack in on openStack (the mainstack) and in the button I just toplevel the substack. However, I would like to block the possibility of clicking in the mainstack which still shows on the screen, and thought that 'set the defaultstack to "carnet"' would do the trick, but it does not. Any help appreciated. Open the substack with *modal stack "carnet"*. Regards --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/sanne/default.html Norway --- Regards, Andu
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help.metacard.com
OK, a question... I'm working on using this whole idea of downloading stacks from a web server over the Internet, using my own school's web site. I placed a stack on our server and was easily able to access and open it from within MetaCard from home via the Internet. Cool stuff! Now I see why everyone is so pumped about this. But... Tonight I tried to access "help.metacard.com" from the help menu from within MetaCard. I selected it, my Mac launched Remote Access, I went online... and my whole machine totally froze up. I couldn't even force-quit. This is on a PowerBook G3 (333 MHz, 64 MB RAM). I tried a few times, each time with the same result... a hosed computer. After about my 5th reboot, I launched my browser and tried to go to the MetaCard web site. No luck. I was able to visit my other fave sites, but the MetaCard site appeared to be down. Thinking that somehow my experiments had hosed up my copy of MetaCard, I went to my trusty old UMAX C500 603e Mac clone. Different computer, different modem, different copy of MetaCard. Same results... my Mac froze up. Does this mean that if you try to get a stack from a site that your computer can't find, MetaCard will hose your machine? I can test the theory at work tomorrow by taking our server down and trying to access it from within MetaCard, but the fact remains that tonight I tried on two different Macs with two different modems to access "help.metacard.com" from within MetaCard, and despite several tries on both machines, they both got hosed. If there's some scripting that can prevent this, can someone share it? And can it be added to MetaCard? I used "help.metacard.com" the other night just fine. Yet tonight, two different Macs got hosed. Do I just have bad karma, or is this a real problem? :( Richard MacLemale coolclassroom.com
Re: help.metacard.com
OK, a question... I'm working on using this whole idea of downloading stacks from a web server over the Internet, using my own school's web site. I placed a stack on our server and was easily able to access and open it from within MetaCard from home via the Internet. Cool stuff! Now I see why everyone is so pumped about this. But... Tonight I tried to access "help.metacard.com" from the help menu from within MetaCard. I selected it, my Mac launched Remote Access, I went online... and my whole machine totally froze up. I couldn't even force-quit. This is on a PowerBook G3 (333 MHz, 64 MB RAM). I tried a few times, each time with the same result... a hosed computer. After about my 5th reboot, I launched my browser and tried to go to the MetaCard web site. No luck. I was able to visit my other fave sites, but the MetaCard site appeared to be down. Thinking that somehow my experiments had hosed up my copy of MetaCard, I went to my trusty old UMAX C500 603e Mac clone. Different computer, different modem, different copy of MetaCard. Same results... my Mac froze up. Does this mean that if you try to get a stack from a site that your computer can't find, MetaCard will hose your machine? I can test the theory at work tomorrow by taking our server down and trying to access it from within MetaCard, but the fact remains that tonight I tried on two different Macs with two different modems to access "help.metacard.com" from within MetaCard, and despite several tries on both machines, they both got hosed. If there's some scripting that can prevent this, can someone share it? And can it be added to MetaCard? I used "help.metacard.com" the other night just fine. Yet tonight, two different Macs got hosed. Do I just have bad karma, or is this a real problem? :( Richard MacLemale coolclassroom.com Incredible adventures you have with MC ;-) but don't despair, something similar happened to me a while ago. Metacard site is up and running just fine. I can't explain the source of problem but it seemed to me to be some corruption of the PRAM. The only way I cured it was to remove the battery from the computer for about half hour 45 minutes in order to restore the PRAM. Other means of restoring the PRAM don't do it. You need to reset stuff like date and time and other settings afterwards but that might fix it. Regards, Andu
Re: Note pad
However, I would like to block the possibility of clicking in the mainstack which still shows on the screen, and thought that 'set the defaultstack to "carnet"' would do the trick, but it does not. Any help appreciated. Open the substack with *modal stack "carnet"*. Regards, Andu Thanks a lot to Andu, now everything works perfectly! Regards Signe Marie --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/sanne/default.html Norway ---
Re: help.metacard.com
At 9:54 PM + 2/9/1999, Richard MacLemale wrote: Tonight I tried to access "help.metacard.com" from the help menu from within MetaCard. I selected it, my Mac launched Remote Access, I went online... and my whole machine totally froze up. I couldn't even force-quit. This is on a PowerBook G3 (333 MHz, 64 MB RAM). I tried a few times, each time with the same result... a hosed computer. After about my 5th reboot, I launched my browser and tried to go to the MetaCard web site. No luck. I was able to visit my other fave sites, but the MetaCard site appeared to be down. Thinking that somehow my experiments had hosed up my copy of MetaCard, I went to my trusty old UMAX C500 603e Mac clone. Different computer, different modem, different copy of MetaCard. Same results... my Mac froze up. Does this mean that if you try to get a stack from a site that your computer can't find, MetaCard will hose your machine? I can test the theory at work tomorrow by taking our server down and trying to access it from within MetaCard, but the fact remains that tonight I tried on two different Macs with two different modems to access "help.metacard.com" from within MetaCard, and despite several tries on both machines, they both got hosed. If there's some scripting that can prevent this, can someone share it? And can it be added to MetaCard? I used "help.metacard.com" the other night just fine. Yet tonight, two different Macs got hosed. Do I just have bad karma, or is this a real problem? The metacard site was unaccessible for some time last night. (It wasn't you that caused that, was it? :)) The freezing doesn't sound good. But instead of opening the stack directly from the web site, you might want to try "load url" first. Then use the "urlStatus" function to check that it has loaded before opening the stack. In general, this is probably the safest way to handle web access. And following the advice in the Metacard reference, be sure to "unload url" when you're finished with the stack. Good luck. Dave Cragg _ The LACS Centre (Business English Training Resources) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lacscentre.co.uk _
