Re: Animated cursor code - anyone know why doesn't it work on a Mac ?
I think the following is a bit of html code embedded in, for instance, http://www.alpha1.org.au/12.html, which causes an animated cursor. !--Goodie//--!--AnimatedCursor//--script language=javascript var _cursorType='2'; var _cursorText='AAA'; var _cursorPath=''; var _textColor='#006600'; /scriptSCRIPT src='goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js'/SCRIPT!--AnimatedCusor//--!- -/Goodie//--/FONTBRlink type=text/css rel=stylesheet href=http://thewebdesigner.netregistry.net/swiz/editor/css/default.css;!- -f3f3--/font!--f4f4--/FONT/TD TD valign=top IMG src=img/hp/base/ba19.jpg width=35 height=254/TD Can anyone hazard a guess as to why the animated cursor works with, for instance, Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, but doesn't seem to work when using Safari or Firefox with MacOS X ? The important code is in goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js. It is Javascript full of constructs of the general form: if (internet explorer) do something otherwise [if netscape] do something else In other words it is almost certainly using non-standard Javascript - but I have not tried to figure out exactly how it does work. The code has no reference to safari or firefox or mozilla and so does not have special code which would make it work in those browsers (which in fact may be impossible - I am not sure that standard Javacript can modify the appearance of the cursor, if that is what this code does). This is yet another example of varying web page behaviour where it is not the fault of the browser - Safari (and most other browsers) and especially Firefox generally handle standard HTML/Javascript very well - as usual the fault lies with the creator of the web page. Geoff -- Kaye Stott and Geoff Prince email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.kgweb.org.au
MS Word format
I am seeking some advice, or one on one coaching, on MS Word. I am currently rewriting a book. About 13 chapters totalling about 250 pages. I have been working on sections over years building up chapters separately. Each chapter is partly new stuff, partly old material gathered from notes etc. The result is that in each chapter I have a variety of headings. Some bolded, some underlines and various sizes. I have decided on the hierarchy of headings that I want throughout all chapters but I can¹t change the headings that currently exist. The ones I want are not showing and I can't see how to add new ones. I want to do this before amalgamating all the chapters into one file so the consistency stays. I must be dumb because I can¹t get the information I want from the Word Help files. Can some one point me to some directions to do this. Or is there anyone available to come to me, or me bring it to you, to coach me on a commercial basis? Lloyd City Beach
[OT] Still on scrounge for Amiga bits :-)
Hi All! As the title says, I'm still on the scrounge for Amiga bits and pieces. I have already received some excellent stuff (thanks Pat!), but I'm hoping to find other models or bits and pieces. Willing to trade mac stuff as well. Seeya Rod!
Run Scripts Daily
Hi Guys, How do I set a script to run every day in Mail? I need it to Tickle my email daily. Cheers ~Chris
Audion 3 and streaming
I am currently doing a test drive of Audion 3 but am having trouble getting ABC FM to listen to and record. There is a Stream Guide Window under the Window menu and clicking on one of the providers opens the file and music plays. Is it necessary to get the ABC FM URL into the Stream Guide Window and can it be accessed in another way. The Help does not seem to be that. Comments appreciated. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
Re: MS Word format
Hi Lloyd, It's been a while since I did this but I used to write reports, manuals etc with sections, subsections, etc, etc. Word is very powerful for handling all this but it didn't always work as it should!! I generally found it worked best when I set up the structure of the document first (chapters, sections etc) and then populated it with content. The outline view is the thing to use here and is good for setting up chapters, section headings etc - you can promote sections up or down the hierarchy (sections down to subsections or subsections up to sections etc) and even re-order chapters/sections. The key is to get your various headings defined correctly and applying the appropriate styles. Word has default styles for these things but you can modify the styles - where it gets tricky is whether you are modifying an individual heading or a style definition etc. Word is several versions more advanced than when I used to do this so it should work better be less confusing (maybe!). Depending on how familiar with any of this you are, I would look through: - help/create/format with styles - help/create/long documents (I haven't read them myself so I'm guessing that they will actually be useful). From what you say, I don't think your book is large/complex enough to look at the master document/sub-document approach (I remember doing it once wishing I hadn't!). Personally, I would consider setting up the basic outline of the book as a new document (ie all the chapters, sections, table of contents etc) and then copying over content into the shell) - it may be easier than trying to beat the mish/mash of legacy styles into submission! At least, if you're not familiar with the outline view and heading styles have a play with a new, fresh document to see how it all works! Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/11/06 11:12 AM, Lloyd White at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeking some advice, or one on one coaching, on MS Word. I am currently rewriting a book. About 13 chapters totalling about 250 pages. I have been working on sections over years building up chapters separately. Each chapter is partly new stuff, partly old material gathered from notes etc. The result is that in each chapter I have a variety of headings. Some bolded, some underlines and various sizes. I have decided on the hierarchy of headings that I want throughout all chapters but I can¹t change the headings that currently exist. The ones I want are not showing and I can't see how to add new ones. I want to do this before amalgamating all the chapters into one file so the consistency stays. I must be dumb because I can¹t get the information I want from the Word Help files. Can some one point me to some directions to do this. Or is there anyone available to come to me, or me bring it to you, to coach me on a commercial basis? Lloyd City Beach -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Word format
Hi Lloyd I have used Word for quite a while now (since version 3 in 1987) and agree wholeheartedly with Neil's recommendations. Start from the outline view to structure your headings/sections/chapters. The promote/demote buttons (arrows in the top left hand corner) are extremely useful and powerful. It will also allow you to generate a table of contents automatically based on your headings. Don't format any text or headings individually - use styles. This is really important. In the heading styles you can define what style follows each of the heading styles. So, if you have a heading that's indented and you want the plain text following it to be indented, you can create a style for this text with the appropriate indenting and tell the heading style to use it next - Format menu, Style and then the Modify button, select Style for following paragraph. Another tip is to never use carriage returns (the Enter key) to put the spaces between headings and text or between paragraphs - use only one carriage return between them all. Use the space before and space after settings in the style - from the Modify Style dialogue select the Format menu in the lower left corner and choose paragraph. A style always applies to the whole paragraph (denoted by a carriage return) unless you deliberately modify the appearance of the text. When pasting your text in, use Paste Special Unformatted Text in the Edit menu and then apply a style. If you follow this and change your mind about how the document looks all you have to do is change the styles and your formatting changes will flow through the whole document. And, as Neil says, in the outline view you can pick up whole paragraphs or whole sections/headings/sub-headings and drop them somewhere else in the document. I hope that helps a little. Cheers Greg From: Neil Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:14:41 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: MS Word format Hi Lloyd, It's been a while since I did this but I used to write reports, manuals etc with sections, subsections, etc, etc. Word is very powerful for handling all this but it didn't always work as it should!! I generally found it worked best when I set up the structure of the document first (chapters, sections etc) and then populated it with content. The outline view is the thing to use here and is good for setting up chapters, section headings etc - you can promote sections up or down the hierarchy (sections down to subsections or subsections up to sections etc) and even re-order chapters/sections. The key is to get your various headings defined correctly and applying the appropriate styles. Word has default styles for these things but you can modify the styles - where it gets tricky is whether you are modifying an individual heading or a style definition etc. Word is several versions more advanced than when I used to do this so it should work better be less confusing (maybe!). Depending on how familiar with any of this you are, I would look through: - help/create/format with styles - help/create/long documents (I haven't read them myself so I'm guessing that they will actually be useful). From what you say, I don't think your book is large/complex enough to look at the master document/sub-document approach (I remember doing it once wishing I hadn't!). Personally, I would consider setting up the basic outline of the book as a new document (ie all the chapters, sections, table of contents etc) and then copying over content into the shell) - it may be easier than trying to beat the mish/mash of legacy styles into submission! At least, if you're not familiar with the outline view and heading styles have a play with a new, fresh document to see how it all works! Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/11/06 11:12 AM, Lloyd White at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeking some advice, or one on one coaching, on MS Word. I am currently rewriting a book. About 13 chapters totalling about 250 pages. I have been working on sections over years building up chapters separately. Each chapter is partly new stuff, partly old material gathered from notes etc. The result is that in each chapter I have a variety of headings. Some bolded, some underlines and various sizes. I have decided on the hierarchy of headings that I want throughout all chapters but I can¹t change the headings that currently exist. The ones I want are not showing and I can't see how to add new ones. I want to do this before amalgamating all the chapters into one file so the consistency stays. I must be dumb because I can¹t get the information I want from the Word Help files. Can some one point me to some directions to do this. Or is there anyone available to come to me, or me bring it to you,
Re: Audion 3 and streaming
At 12:59 PM +0800 22/11/06, Robert Howells wrote: On 22/11/2006, at 12:44 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: I am currently doing a test drive of Audion 3 but am having trouble getting ABC FM to listen to and record. There is a Stream Guide Window under the Window menu and clicking on one of the providers opens the file and music plays. Is it necessary to get the ABC FM URL into the Stream Guide Window and can it be accessed in another way. The Help does not seem to be that. Comments appreciated. Merv Have you tried the online help file at :- http://www.panic.com/audion/support.html Thanks Robert - been there but no luck. Perhaps these features are not available until you obtain a licence. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
Re: Windows Applications on Mac OSX
Hi John and WAMUG'rs, Good to hear from you John and many thanks for the feed-back. I'm really interested with the concept of this application mainly for those software that do not have a MAC-native version. One question though, why use the Win version of Filemaker? It is such an excellent database on the MAC-Os that I cannot imagine why use the Win version at all. But then I'm sure that you have a good reason for wanting to do so. Hope all is going well with archery. On my side unfortunately I've had to give it away due to a shoulder/arm problem. It was very difficult to stop going to the club's weekly meet, but my GP who happens to also be a specialist in sport medicine told me in no uncertain words that my archery days are well and truly over . :( Hope you are well and thanks again for the comments. Regards, Philippe -- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson on 22/11/06 8:05 AM, John Julie Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Phillipe, I have checked Crossover and the concept is brilliant however, at this point in time it only recognises certain Microsoft specific software. There is still a lot of work to be done on it but when it is done, it could completely do away with VPC, and similar aps. The main reason I have not followed it any further at this stage is it's refusal to recognise Filemaker which is my most used program. Regards John Thompson On 21/11/2006, at 20:19, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: Hi Ronni WAMUG'rs, Many thanks for that link Ronni. It does look promising specially in view of the fact that one does not need to purchase a copy of the 'Dark Side OS' to run the applications. I do not have an Intel-Mac as yet, possibly this coming January or February, but am interested to know if anyone has had hands-on experience with the product. If it does what the site says, that would be ideal for the odd application or two, but I do intend to keep supporting financially, ie purchase, Mac softwares which I find elegant and reliable.
Red iPod
Hi Does anyone know if it is possible for a WA person to purchase a red iPod nano please? Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://web.mac.com/blitto/iWeb/ http://blittosblog.blogspot.com/ http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.
wanted :swap car fo a G4 quicksilver
Hi all I was wondering if any one would swap my car for Apple G4 tower around the 700MHZ, just the tower I know it's a unusual request to send out or not , I need a to get back into Apple's operating system , The last OS I had was the very early one's 10.1.1.5 The last12 months I have been That's about 5 years behind or so, something so I can sink my teeth into tiger :-)GrrrH! Here is the detail of the car . Toyota Camry, Sedan. Year 1987 4 Cylinder Rego Expires 22 December 2006 Air con Power steering Cruise control Power windows Yes it has some Rust Engine runs great, good car for a student from getting from A to B. Willing to sell it for $400. So there you go. Regards Bart
RE: wanted :swap car fo a G4 quicksilver
Oops! I was meant to say The last 12 months I have been Using my wife's works Dell laptop Windows XP, as much as it has all the bells and whistles , there's no way it can convert me to the dark side. As the dark side water may be sweet I'm not ready to drink. -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 8:49 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: wanted :swap car fo a G4 quicksilver Hi all I was wondering if any one would swap my car for Apple G4 tower around the 700MHZ, just the tower I know it's a unusual request to send out or not , I need a to get back into Apple's operating system , The last OS I had was the very early one's 10.1.1.5 The last12 months I have been That's about 5 years behind or so, something so I can sink my teeth into tiger :-)GrrrH! Here is the detail of the car . Toyota Camry, Sedan. Year 1987 4 Cylinder Rego Expires 22 December 2006 Air con Power steering Cruise control Power windows Yes it has some Rust Engine runs great, good car for a student from getting from A to B. Willing to sell it for $400. So there you go. Regards Bart -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Word format
Thanks to Neil, Greg, Glenn, Rob and Kelly I am now coming to understand what Styles is all about. I also understand that I started at the wrong end - gathering information in different files and then collating them. I should have created the large doc first and copied into into it after it was fully formatted. But I am learning. Thanks again. Lloyd Hi Lloyd I have used Word for quite a while now (since version 3 in 1987) and agree wholeheartedly with Neil's recommendations. Start from the outline view to structure your headings/sections/chapters. The promote/demote buttons (arrows in the top left hand corner) are extremely useful and powerful. It will also allow you to generate a table of contents automatically based on your headings. Don't format any text or headings individually - use styles. This is really important. In the heading styles you can define what style follows each of the heading styles. So, if you have a heading that's indented and you want the plain text following it to be indented, you can create a style for this text with the appropriate indenting and tell the heading style to use it next - Format menu, Style and then the Modify button, select Style for following paragraph. Another tip is to never use carriage returns (the Enter key) to put the spaces between headings and text or between paragraphs - use only one carriage return between them all. Use the space before and space after settings in the style - from the Modify Style dialogue select the Format menu in the lower left corner and choose paragraph. A style always applies to the whole paragraph (denoted by a carriage return) unless you deliberately modify the appearance of the text. When pasting your text in, use Paste Special Unformatted Text in the Edit menu and then apply a style. If you follow this and change your mind about how the document looks all you have to do is change the styles and your formatting changes will flow through the whole document. And, as Neil says, in the outline view you can pick up whole paragraphs or whole sections/headings/sub-headings and drop them somewhere else in the document. I hope that helps a little. Cheers Greg From: Neil Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:14:41 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: MS Word format Hi Lloyd, It's been a while since I did this but I used to write reports, manuals etc with sections, subsections, etc, etc. Word is very powerful for handling all this but it didn't always work as it should!! I generally found it worked best when I set up the structure of the document first (chapters, sections etc) and then populated it with content. The outline view is the thing to use here and is good for setting up chapters, section headings etc - you can promote sections up or down the hierarchy (sections down to subsections or subsections up to sections etc) and even re-order chapters/sections. The key is to get your various headings defined correctly and applying the appropriate styles. Word has default styles for these things but you can modify the styles - where it gets tricky is whether you are modifying an individual heading or a style definition etc. Word is several versions more advanced than when I used to do this so it should work better be less confusing (maybe!). Depending on how familiar with any of this you are, I would look through: - help/create/format with styles - help/create/long documents (I haven't read them myself so I'm guessing that they will actually be useful). From what you say, I don't think your book is large/complex enough to look at the master document/sub-document approach (I remember doing it once wishing I hadn't!). Personally, I would consider setting up the basic outline of the book as a new document (ie all the chapters, sections, table of contents etc) and then copying over content into the shell) - it may be easier than trying to beat the mish/mash of legacy styles into submission! At least, if you're not familiar with the outline view and heading styles have a play with a new, fresh document to see how it all works! Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/11/06 11:12 AM, Lloyd White at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeking some advice, or one on one coaching, on MS Word. I am currently rewriting a book. About 13 chapters totalling about 250 pages. I have been working on sections over years building up chapters separately. Each chapter is partly new stuff, partly old material gathered from notes etc. The result is that in each chapter I have a variety of headings. Some bolded, some underlines and various sizes. I have decided on the hierarchy of headings that I want throughout all chapters but I can¹t change the headings
Re: MS Word format
Lloyd, There are a lot of tutorials and documents available on using Word for long documents. Try www.ucl.ac.uk/is/documents/ word/Managing-long-documents-IS-049C.doc Or my favourite Bend Word to Your Will http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html HTH John __ John Winters Phone +61 8 9244 4564 Fax +61 8 9446 7709 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:12:26 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: MS Word format I am seeking some advice, or one on one coaching, on MS Word. I am currently rewriting a book. About 13 chapters totalling about 250 pages. I have been working on sections over years building up chapters separately. Each chapter is partly new stuff, partly old material gathered from notes etc. The result is that in each chapter I have a variety of headings. Some bolded, some underlines and various sizes. I have decided on the hierarchy of headings that I want throughout all chapters but I can¹t change the headings that currently exist. The ones I want are not showing and I can't see how to add new ones. I want to do this before amalgamating all the chapters into one file so the consistency stays. I must be dumb because I can¹t get the information I want from the Word Help files. Can some one point me to some directions to do this. Or is there anyone available to come to me, or me bring it to you, to coach me on a commercial basis? Lloyd City Beach -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audion 3 and streaming
On 22/11/2006, at 5:46 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Have you tried the online help file at :- http://www.panic.com/audion/support.html Thanks Robert - been there but no luck. Perhaps these features are not available until you obtain a licence. SORRY ... That is not possible . Audion is still available but has been retired ! Go Here : https://www.panic.com/audion/buy.html Cheers Bob Including Audion 3? The issue in Audion was when one goes to File - Open Stream a URL must be inserted. The one revealed for ABC FM when using Windows Media player or the MP3 option did not work, viz http://www.abc.net.au/classic/audio/streaming_mp3.htm However, looking back over emails I found one sent by Paul Doyle which was the same as the above but some how I had put it in iTunes. I selected it and used Get Info to have a look at it. At the bottom of the dialogue box was a URL viz http://mp3media1.abc.net.au:8060/classicfm.mp3 which I inserted as the URL for Audion and away it went. What I would now like to know is how to access the streaming URL directly from the site being listened to. Any clues? Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.
