Re: Preferences--Where to Locate

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami at wrote: For all the difficulty and cross platform issues I think I will need, given my skill level, to stick with writing preferences to a data folder in the directory containing the engine. Many mainstream applications do employ this strategy. The cool thing is that the

Re: Re a little mention...

2000-07-25 Thread Pierre Sahores
andu wrote: Peter Reid at wrote: He clearly believes that MetaCard is a powerful tool somewhat let down by its current user interface in two respects - a) the interface presented to the developer, and b) its lack of complete adherence to Mac U-I guidelines. Apple ? The SK8 and

Re: putting a stack on a homepage

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Miller
On 24/7/00 2:55 pm, Blair Moxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow...this is news to me. Couldn't this kind of information be included in the help file? I poked around with MC as a helper app some time ago but gave up as I couldn't get it configured properly. Could someone (Kevin or Scott) please

Re: Binary files/data

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Miller
On 24/7/00 4:16 pm, James Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the trick to working with binary data in MetaCard? It's easy enough to open a binary file and read in the data and then open another binary file for write to write out the data but how do you manipulate the data once you've

post vs put vs ?sockets? for http

2000-07-25 Thread Roger D. Ray
Title: post vs put vs ?sockets? for http I have a problem that I haven't been able to solve, and I thought--again, since I've posted a brief version of a part of this issue before--that perhaps someone on the list might be able to help. And sorry I had to make it so long-winded Problem: I

Re: post vs put vs ?sockets? for

2000-07-25 Thread andu
I have a problem that I haven't been able to solve, and I thought--again, since I've posted a brief version of a part of this issue before--that perhaps someone on the list might be able to help. And sorry I had to make it so long-winded Problem: I have a dual server configuration where

Mac file types

2000-07-25 Thread David C. Tremmel
Is it possible to determine the type of a file on the MacOS? I have tried looking in the help docs and in the archives. I did find where Scott mentioned that you had to check if files had a certain type, but I can't figure out how this could be done. I know how to filter the answer file

System font

2000-07-25 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
I saw this asked before but no answer was ever given: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. It's the Mac interface I particularly need to know. When

Re: Re a little mention...

2000-07-25 Thread andu
He clearly believes that MetaCard is a powerful tool somewhat let down by its current user interface in two respects - a) the interface presented to the developer, and b) its lack of complete adherence to Mac U-I guidelines. The interface presented to the developer... give me a break.

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin Miller
On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this asked before but no answer was ever given: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Kevin Miller wrote: On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When designing custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the user's selected system font. Can I get this info? At present, a good solution to this particluar problem isn't

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0 (zero) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0 (zero) Aha!! Whee! Thanks. :)

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 1:53 PM: Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0 (zero) MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it.

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0 (zero) Aha!! Whee! Thanks. :) Does this work on Windows

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 4:21 PM: MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system font (Charcoal) didn't display right. What exactly happened? Could it be an anti-aliasing issue? Nope, an old-fashioned brain freeze. My system font is Charcoal.