Custom cursor painting

2000-01-24 Thread PEChumbley
I imported a small gif to use as a custom cursor. However, when I tried it, I only got a white mask of the object. I looked through the list archives and found where someone had suggested drawing the cursor on a UNIX machine so it would be in the MetaCard custom format. Since I do not

Re: Custom cursor painting

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I imported a small gif to use as a custom cursor. However, when I tried it, I only got a white mask of the object. I looked through the list archives and found where someone had suggested drawing the cursor on a UNIX machine so it would be

Re: mouse wheel

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Timme,Ulf wrote: Hi list members, recently I got such a nice mouse with a wheel in the middle. ;-) I is pretty neat to scroll the window by turning the wheel. Is there somehow a possibility to catch this wheel event and do stuff with it in MetaCard. (I haven't found

Re: Win 98 QT Freeze?

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Peter Reid wrote: Hi I've developed a stack which plays several QuickTime clips (typically about 30 secs long each). When I run it on my PI-266 MMX/128Mb laptop running Win 98 2nd Ed., it runs fine. Similarly when I run it on a Win NT 4 SP5 system, no problems.

Re: Win 98 QT Freeze?

2000-01-24 Thread Peter Reid
When looking for bugs related to display on a Windows 98 system, the place to start is in the screen drivers, most of which are obscenely buggy. The fact that you get a total system lockup is even better evidence because neither QT nor MetaCard should be able to cause this, whereas it's a

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Peter Reid wrote: I'm considering using MC for "simple" database type development. Basically, I'm developing a CBT package where the students will generate questionnaire results and score sheets. These need to be e-mailed to an Assessor who'll want to collate the

MC on Win3.1

2000-01-24 Thread EdTech
A problem similar to trying to run a standalone on a Mac LC, which by the way is working...a little slow but working none the less. At any rate created a stack using MC2.3 then a standalone under Win95. Loaded the standalone to a Win3.1 and got the following:

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Peter Reid wrote: Using custom properties and/or custom property arrays should handle this just fine. Performance and reliability should be good with this approach, and the only significant limitation would be that the full size of the database should fit comfortably in

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Craig Spooner
Hello everybody, I'm also about to embark on a project that duplicates some of the functionality of a FileMaker database. I've already tacked together a rough prototype of the project, but I thought I'd ask for some ideas and suggestions before going too far. The project, which is really a

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Craig Spooner wrote: Hello everybody, I'm also about to embark on a project that duplicates some of the functionality of a FileMaker database. I've already tacked together a rough prototype of the project, but I thought I'd ask for some ideas and suggestions

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 1/24/00 4:03 PM, Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: repeat for each line i in tVar if tSearchItem is in item tWhichColumn of i then put x cr after tAnotherVar end if end repeat But I'm wondering if there's a better (faster?) way to do this. Would