Re: record sound bug?
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 10:03 AM, cowhead wrote: There used to be a send bug reports to. on this mailing list...but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, back to the old record sound saga... It's great that this has now been implemented in metacard (I've been forced to use weird combinations of superCard/metaCard stacks before this) but I can only get it to work well when using the with dialog command...eg. ask file what record sound IT with dialog This opens up a dialog stack, which offers all the 'recordFormats()' options, and there are quite a few that sound really good on a Mac (OS 9.1x, Japanese) and take up very little memory space as well. Unfortunately, if you try to record directly in these formats, without going through the dialog, it doesn't sound good anymore. Moreover, the quality level makes no difference. e.g. record sound file it as fl64 with best quality sounds pretty bad, in contrast to the fl64 (floating point 64bit) recorded through the 'dialog', which is crystal clear. I suspect the culprit is in the quality level, which seems to have no effect in the direct (non dialog) script. I suspect that the dialog is recording as 'best' but not the direct script. I wish I could see what the 'sound settings' dialog stack script looks like, but I can't find it. I've tried putting quotes around the quality in the direct script (e.g with best quality), but the compiler will not accept this. In summ, can anyone show me a direct recording script for any format which sounds really good on the Mac? Or is there something broken here that might ought to be fixed (my opinion). I don't want to have to go through the dialog each time. Thanks! mark mitchell IMHO, something is wrong. I can get it to record, but it is only in the Qualcomm PureVoice,Qclp. This one records very clearly. My only problem is that it does not get the very beginning of a sound and sometime it does. Sometimes it puts the first 2 seconds at the end of the recorded sound. When I can get around to understanding it more, I will bug report it more clearly to Scott. I use the following script in a record button: record sound file tName as Qclp --tName is a variable for the sound file Stop button: stop recording I would be interested to know if this happens for you. Have only done most of my testing on OS 10 -Mark Talluto I am able to record (with dialog) on Mac at 22.050 kHz and on Windows at 44.100. However, I would also get rid of the dialog, and have chosen the PC inbuilt sound panel: put word 1 to -2 of queryRegistry(hkey_classes_root\soundRec\shell\record\command\) into tRecorder launch tRecorder On Mac I have found that the corresponding panel is called Apple Simple Sound Record Dialog, but I do not know how to open it from within MC. I'm sure someone must have the right recipe, either using GURLGURL, open process, or launch or something, or an Apple Event. I'm eagerly looking forward to suggestions. Thanks in advance. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Memory Problems
Using several different Mac's - all running Sys 9.1. Using put URL(Binfile .. etc to copy large files (20 to 70 meg is size). Using a repeat loop to copy sets of up to 20 of these files. Works fine (1 or 2 file copies) and then hangs - throwing the error Low memory. All of these Mac's have at least 128 meg of RAM and the memory on Metacard has been set all the way from 20 meg to 65 meg - Same results. Any ideas or workarounds? Thanks in advance, Jack Rarick Braintree Athletic Systems ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: (no subject)
Eva Isotalo a écrit : Hello everybody, I'm getting following error message when using a stack which worked on MC 2.3. I don't know how to respond, if I have some strange programming or if it is something else. Object: button Script... of card Execution Error Card of stack Execution Error of stack D:MC2.4-1/mctools.mc When checking, it markes the line in: on mouseUp editScript the long id of the errorobject of this card end mouseUp What should I do here? Regards, Eva Isotalo ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Hello Eva, At this point, probably nothing (i.e.: don't touch to the script of the Execution Error substack of stack mctools.mc). When this kind of error append, it's most of the time not an error appening in the Metacard IDE error controls substack but, just an error in NOT CATCHING WHAT GOES WRONG IN YOUR OWN SCRIPTS. To test this possibility of trubble, just test your scripts betwin the try... end try functions subset. Best Regards, Pierre Sahores WEB VPN applications databases servers Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis Qualifier produire l'avantage compétitif ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dumb Sort Question
Greg - While not an elegant sort solution, you could do something like this (I'm assuming you want a list of grade frequencies as your end result): gradeLevels = A+,A,A-,B+,... repeat for each item X in gradeLevels put return freqArray[X] after gradeFreqs end repeat Hope this helps... Regards, Dave Tremmel Hi Everyone, I've created a neat little function that calculates stats and a distribution for test grades very quickly. To create a frequency distribution of letter grades (how many A's, B's, C's, and so on), I use an associative array where the keys are A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, ..., F, and I just plunk number grades into each element according to my conversion criteria. My problem is that when I put the keys into a variable, say, Distn, and sort it, it comes out as A A+ A- rather than A+ A A- which still represents the correct frquencies but is not convenient to read. Is there a handy trick to sorting Distn to get the order I want? I've tried to precede each key by a number ( 1 A+, 2 A, 3 A-, ...) and sort it, but I get gobbledeegoop. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University They had the best selection, The were poisoned by protection, There was nothing that they needed, They had nothing left to find. - Neil Young E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- David Tremmel Assistant Director, National Phytotron Duke University Phytotron Bldg. Phone: (919) 660-7415 Box 90340 FAX:(919) 660-7425 Durham, NC 27708-0340 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: record sound bug
amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne wrote: On Mac I have found that the corresponding panel is called "Apple Simple Sound Record Dialog", but I do not know how to open it from within MC. I'm sure someone must have the right recipe, either using "GURLGURL", open process, or launch or something, or an Apple Event. I'm eagerly looking forward to suggestions. Thanks in advance. -- You can launch the application "simpleSound" if it is present on the system, but you must then specify "new sound", record the sound, then specify the name and place to save it. i.e. it is fairly labor intensive. So, instead, I have used a dedicated supercard stack which I can then pass all this info on to with a simple copy paste into a supercard field. I can then launch this supercard stack each time from metacard and use this to access the apple record dialog. After using this dialog, it does not ask you to specify the file name and location, as the simple sound dialog does. I do not know if that means it is actually a different dialog, or if that asking behaviour comes from the application 'simplesound'. But you are right, it would be nice if we could access the same dialog direct from metacard. If supercard can do it, surely metacard can too. The dialog is nice as it allows multiple recordings and playbacks before one actually commits to saving anything as a file on the HD. This is, as it turns out, often crucial. mark mitchell ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: (no subject)
on 12.13.01 08:42 AM, Eva Isotalo wrote: I'm getting following error message when using a stack which worked on MC 2.3. I don't know how to respond, if I have some strange programming or if it is something else. Object: button Script... of card Execution Error Card of stack Execution Error of stack D:MC2.4-1/mctools.mc When checking, it markes the line in: on mouseUp editScript the long id of the errorobject of this card end mouseUp What should I do here? The error handling was changed in the recent version of MetaCard 2.4.1 (read the readme -- I skipped over it until I got caught by something similar). The errorobject is now defined differently. See the scripts in card 1 of the executionError stack. tereza + Tereza Snyder + Senior Software Developer + Attainment Company, Inc. + www.attainmentcompany.com + 800.327.4269 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
2.3 to 2.4.1 upgrade (was (no subject)) error
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 Eva Isotalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm getting following error message when using a stack which worked on MC 2.3. I don't know how to respond, if I have some strange programming or if it is something else. Object: button Script... of card Execution Error Card of stack Execution Error of stack D:MC2.4-1/mctools.mc When checking, it markes the line in: on mouseUp editScript the long id of the errorobject of this card end mouseUp What should I do here? You need to use the resource mover to either delete the old execution error dialog from your stacks or move a new copy in there. The dialogs from 2.3 are not compatible with 2.4. This is a good general rule: if you've used the resource mover during development, you should use it again whenever you upgrade to get new copies of these dialogs. Regards, Scott Regards, Eva Isotalo Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Field limit?
I have a very large text file I wanted to import into a field. When I use the IMPORT button, the entire file ends up on one line, even with the wrapping turned on. And it doesn't import the entire file. When I use a script to import, open file theFile read from file theFile until eof close file theFile put it into cd fld someField it only puts a very very small portion of theFile into the field. I mean about a paragraph. When I expand the import script to go through the file and delete about 2/3 of it, it pastes the result into the field, but all in 4 lines, so that each line is overwritten several times and you cannot read the result. I can import the file and put it into a global variable, and the entire file is in the variable, with no problem. How do I get the field to accept the file? I thought the limits were large enough to handle biggies. I believe the file is about 40,000 words long. I'd rather it be embedded in the program, as it takes so long to load. I'd rather a card not take several minutes to open, while it opens the text file and reads the result into the global variable. Anybody? -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com http://www.gypsygames.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Field limit?
Shari wrote: I have a very large text file I wanted to import into a field. When I use the IMPORT button, the entire file ends up on one line, even with the wrapping turned on. And it doesn't import the entire file. When I use a script to import, open file theFile read from file theFile until eof close file theFile put it into cd fld someField it only puts a very very small portion of theFile into the field. I mean about a paragraph. When I expand the import script to go through the file and delete about 2/3 of it, it pastes the result into the field, but all in 4 lines, so that each line is overwritten several times and you cannot read the result. I can import the file and put it into a global variable, and the entire file is in the variable, with no problem. It sounds like the file has no natural word breaks. Some Mac apps will break a line in the middle of a word if there isn't any other choice, but MC doesn't. So it all shows up on one line, or if there is an occasional space or return, just a few lines. The overwriting on the same line sounds like a bug. If you only need to store the info and don't need to display it, store it in a custom property. That will act just as though it were in a variable. Storing the file inside the stack won't help with the load times though. MC still has to load it, whether it is from an external file on disk or from its own stack file. You should get identical results when the stack opens whether you store the text inside the stack itself, or whether you read it in from an external file on openstack. The only reason to store it inside the stack would be to keep both files consolidated into one on disk. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
