Sluggish QuickTime Response?

2000-08-09 Thread Peter Reid
I'm using player objects to show QuickTime movies in MC 2.3.1 for both Mac and Win. The movies are about 1Mb in size and include voice as well as animated cartoons. The movies last about 30-50 secs. I have QuickTime 4.1 on both Mac and Win. When I play a QT movie on the Mac and click on the

RE: PC icon?

2000-08-09 Thread Blair Moxon
Its easy to set the icon from an alias or shortcut of the original (drag a copy and check the properties). However I have never been able to figure out how to do it with the original unless you change the file types (under view/options in 'my computer') - yuck!. To creat icons you need an icon

Query SQL database

2000-08-09 Thread MacConsult
Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions? Saludos, Javier Miranda V. MC Multimedia Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info:

Re: Scrolling a stack

2000-08-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 8/8/00 10:32 pm, Eva Isotalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've read the help and examples about scroll bars. But I must say I understand very little. :o( I need to scroll a stack. The stack will contain lots of fields wich need to be scrolled into vision, so to speak. I could really

Re: Query SQL database

2000-08-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/8/00 2:35 pm, MacConsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions? It is possible that you might be able to do this using

Re: Duplicate Backgrounds/How to Delete

2000-08-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/8/00 2:04 am, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I somehow am creating multiple backgrounds with the same name and am not sure how they got there. Possibly by option selecting and dragging. It's mysterious. I select a group, name it Tools, then later suddenly we see Tools Tools

Re: Query SQL database

2000-08-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/8/00 2:35 pm, MacConsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions? It is possible that you might be able to do this using

Re: Sluggish QuickTime Response?

2000-08-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/8/00 11:16 am, Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using player objects to show QuickTime movies in MC 2.3.1 for both Mac and Win. The movies are about 1Mb in size and include voice as well as animated cartoons. The movies last about 30-50 secs. I have QuickTime 4.1 on both Mac and

Re: Duplicate Backgrounds/How to Delete

2000-08-09 Thread PEChumbley
If you are createing duplicate backgrounds and copying them to new cards, you will end up with all those backgrounds. I'm sure you are, but you might want to check to make sure you are using the Edit background palette to place background on new cards. Archives:

Re: Duplicate Backgrounds/How to Delete

2000-08-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/8/00 6:04 PM: I somehow am creating multiple backgrounds with the same name and am not sure how they got there. Possibly by option selecting and dragging. One thing to note is that it doesn't take an option-drag; option-clicking something duplicates

Re: Query SQL database

2000-08-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
MacConsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/9/00 6:35 AM: Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions? Saludos, Javier Miranda V. MC Multimedia Disclaimer: I

C source code and creating cross platorm externals...

2000-08-09 Thread David Bovill
I have never programmed in C (yet) and have a project which I would like to include and distribute some "open Source" C libraries with. The libraries appear o be available for UNIX and Wintel platforms in pre-compiled versions. I am wandering what would be involved in hooking these libraries

Re: Scrolling a stack

2000-08-09 Thread Eva Isotalo
Kevin Miller wrote: On 8/8/00 10:32 pm, Eva Isotalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've read the help and examples about scroll bars. But I must say I understand very little. :o( I need to scroll a stack. The stack will contain lots of fields wich need to be scrolled into vision,

mcHTTPd

2000-08-09 Thread Steven Tripp
I'm playing with the MetaCard Server stack and I have good news and two mysteries: It runs perfectly on an old Mac which is my temporary server http://endevour.u-aizu.ac.jp:8080/. Pardon the weird spelling of endeavour. When I access this from a Mac or a Sparcstation all is cool. Mystery

Re: mcHTTPd

2000-08-09 Thread andu
I'm playing with the MetaCard Server stack and I have good news and two mysteries: It runs perfectly on an old Mac which is my temporary server http://endevour.u-aizu.ac.jp:8080/. Pardon the weird spelling of endeavour. When I access this from a Mac or a Sparcstation all is cool.

mail with MC

2000-08-09 Thread andu
Is there any interest in a more or less complete E-mail program I wrote ? I used it for the past several months (mostly without complains) and I think it would be most useful as a tutorial. I'm still not sure about the general concept of handling mail so it's work in progress. It should run

Re: mail with MC

2000-08-09 Thread Christoph Wollek
Halo, Andu, could I have a look at Your e-mail program? Thanks in advance and greetings from Germany CW Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.