RE: New Portal Key

2000-08-04 Thread Blair Moxon
Thanks to Sivakatirswami for posting the first example that I have seen of a web-based MetaCard interface. Downloading the "portal" app took less than a nanonsecond...and downloading content was very fast. Way cool! Now we just need to get the MC player embedded in every web browser (still top

traceStack property???

2000-08-04 Thread David Bovill
Noticed this in the script of the messagebox, and can't find it in the hel index. "set defaultStack to the traceStack" Anyone know what this property is? Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug

Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-04 Thread Peter Reid
I'm trying to display information as pseudo tables in text field using MC2.3.1 on both Mac and Win. I have created field with a set of tabStops and the horizontal and vertical grid liens are displayed. The text in the field is in Arial 12pt, plain, say. What I'm trying to do is write a

Focus in Mac

2000-08-04 Thread PEChumbley
I'm converting a program from the PC to run on Mac. Everything is going smoothly (great job Scott and gang!) except for one thing. To make all the buttons look the same between the two versions (PC and Mac), I set the Lookandfeel of the Mac version to "Windows." This works great except now,

Re: Focus in Mac

2000-08-04 Thread andu
I'm converting a program from the PC to run on Mac. Everything is going smoothly (great job Scott and gang!) except for one thing. To make all the buttons look the same between the two versions (PC and Mac), I set the Lookandfeel of the Mac version to "Windows." This works great except

Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread David Bovill
Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). As I'll probably be asking a number of questions on this topic, I thought I'd first see if anyone has a prototype with

Re: traceStack property???

2000-08-04 Thread Scott Raney
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, David Bovill wrote: Noticed this in the script of the messagebox, and can't find it in the hel index. "set defaultStack to the traceStack" Anyone know what this property is? The traceStack is the stack currently being debugged with the Script Debugger. This

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill at wrote: Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). What would be the advantages of a MetaCard-based browser over MSIE or NN? -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/4/00 10:12 AM: David Bovill at wrote: Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). What would be the advantages of a

Re: IBM to Mac question

2000-08-04 Thread Leston Drake
Sounds like a useful stack. May I have a copy? Thanks, Leston On 18 Jul 2000, at 17:11, Eva Isotalo wrote: From: Eva Isotalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: IBM to Mac question Date sent: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:11:09 +0200 Send reply to:

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Geoff Canyon wrote: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/4/00 10:12 AM: David Bovill at wrote: Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). What

Re: IBM to Mac question

2000-08-04 Thread Leston Drake
Sorry, this was meant to be off list. 8-0 On 4 Aug 2000, at 14:18, Leston Drake wrote: From: "Leston Drake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: IBM to Mac question Date sent: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:18:42 -0600 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Is it a way to catch keyboard events in linux console-mode using backgrounder .mt scripts ?

2000-08-04 Thread Scott Raney
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Sahores wrote: The question is in the header ! Pretty long subject: Re: Is it a way to catch keyboard events in linux console-mode using backgrounder .mt scripts ? The answer is a qualified no. Kind of the whole point of background scripts is that they

Re: Is it a way to catch keyboard events in linux console-mode usingbackgrounder .mt scripts ?

2000-08-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Scott Raney wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Sahores wrote: The question is in the header ! Pretty long subject: Re: Is it a way to catch keyboard events in linux console-mode using backgrounder .mt scripts ? The answer is a qualified no. Kind of the whole point of

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Scott Rossi
Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). My guess is, if you're looking to be able to parse the HTML from any existing Web page, you're in for a thousand and one

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: My guess is, if you're looking to be able to parse the HTML from any existing Web page, you're in for a thousand and one headaches. One word: tables. Okay, two words: nested tables. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and

Re: Re: Metacard based browser - what's a 302?

2000-08-04 Thread David Bovill
A French car? Scott Rossi wrote: My guess is, if you're looking to be able to parse the HTML from any existing Web page, you're in for a thousand and one headaches. One word: tables. Okay, two words: nested tables. The thought makes me shiver -:) OK, here is the first problem:

Re: Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread andu
I was thinking of using CSSP for layouts for users with later browsers, and designing style sheets that then work and look good for both the MetaCard environment and the average web user. Template based web authoring, with added ease of dynamic CGI scripting is what I think is worth aiming

Re: Re: Metacard based browser -

2000-08-04 Thread andu
A French car? Scott Rossi wrote: My guess is, if you're looking to be able to parse the HTML from any existing Web page, you're in for a thousand and one headaches. One word: tables. Okay, two words: nested tables. The thought makes me shiver -:) OK, here is the first problem:

Re: Re: Re: Metacard based browser -

2000-08-04 Thread David Bovill
Please, can anyone save me from the RFC??? There is no escape from RFCs :-0 Aha, but there is. For now I can use an xThing. I've looked at the "Really Friendly C" stuff, and I have'nt got a word to say against them - just a bit long maybe. By the way where are they again? Archives: