Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
Check out http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/index.htm Also, stick with it. _Everyone_ goes through the "What the heck??" phase when checking out MetaCard. It's a fact of life, and we've all learned to get past it. The development environment has good points to go along with the bad. Each of us

Inks on the PC...Oh my my

2000-08-07 Thread ScottYang
Just when I thought everything was all set and done on the MAC side, the PC side is giving me a mild migraine. The inks for transparency, blend, etc. works great on the Mac. How do I replicate it on the PC side. The only transparency I can make 100% are GIFs. what about fields, bitmaps,

Re: Inks on the PC...Oh my my

2000-08-07 Thread Kevin Miller
On 7/8/00 2:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just when I thought everything was all set and done on the MAC side, the PC side is giving me a mild migraine. The inks for transparency, blend, etc. works great on the Mac. How do I replicate it on the PC side. The only

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Mark Talluto wrote: Dear list Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard

Purging Open Stacks?

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Reid
I'm developing a CBT stack which shares a number of supporting stacks with other CBT stacks. These supporting stacks are for things such as on-line help, print previews, etc. They are independent main stacks opened using either "modeless" or "toplevel" (if they're already open but hidden

Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-07 Thread Peter Reid
I didn't get any response to this one, so I'm trying again in case it was overlooked! --- 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

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread LiangTyan Fui
On 8/8/00 4:51 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Mark Talluto wrote: Dear list Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and

Re: Resend: Truncated Columnised Text?

2000-08-07 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Peter Reid wrote: 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