Re: Cross Platform Abilities

2000-01-27 Thread Marni
-platform. --Marni ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freeworld.excite.com This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard

Re: getting the group of me?

2000-01-12 Thread Marni
Try using "the owner" of the button. That should give you the group name. --Marni On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:49:50 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure I knew this once, but it has gone now. A button is a member of a group. When the button is clicked, I want to show

Re: HREFs in grouped text

2000-01-05 Thread Marni
places. If I needed to, I guess I would work around it using a check of custom properties for exceptions. Marni ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest way to find your Holiday gift this season This is the MetaCard

Re: Graphic Labels

1999-12-23 Thread Marni
is supposed to be on top, consider this a bug report. If not... I think Scott meant "on top" in a layering context, not in a vertical context. Hope this helps! Marni ___ Visit Excite Shopping at http://shopping.excite.com The fastest w

Re: managing the current directory path

1999-12-17 Thread Marni
instead of alongside the standalone's folder. You should be able to deal with this by capturing the explicit file path for the standalone before allowing the directory to be reset. Then, after the user finishes the save operation, reset the directory to the original setting. Hope this helps! Marni

RE: Shared Text and Shared Scripts

1999-12-09 Thread Marni Centor
uage/environment. But, hey, I guess its the best way to learn.. isn't it ? Yes, with a little help from the list! Hope this helps! Marni The views and opinions expressed in this email messag

RE: scrolling text field

1999-12-09 Thread Marni Centor
r? Or has the text somehow been replaced with a series of carriage returns? Maybe these questions will help you diagnose the problem. Regards, Marni The views and opinions expressed in this em

RE: Data saving

1999-11-30 Thread Marni Centor
-Original Message- From: Mary Bull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 10:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Data saving In response to a question about saving data in standalones, Marni Centor wrote: I create courseware with MetaCard, and I use my

RE: Standalone building and data saving

1999-11-29 Thread Marni Centor
courseware stacks. I can track user progress in both the menu stack and the individual courseware stacks because they are separate from the standalone. Hope this helps! Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212

RE: More questions about mchttpd server

1999-11-23 Thread Marni Centor
gical things to the data from my HTML forms, if I could only reach the server. I feel like the answer is just out of reach... If anyone's got any idea what else I should try, please let me know. Thanks for all your patience help so far. Marni Perhaps if I describe exactly what I've done, so

RE: Apache Server and Metacard CGI's

1999-11-22 Thread Marni Centor
Where can I get the mchttpd server? I did a few searches on the web and didn't come up with anything useful. Thanks, Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Scott Raney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday

More questions about mchttpd server

1999-11-22 Thread Marni Centor
OK, so I downloaded it, got it started (looks like it requires MC 2.3; fine). But now I don't really understand how to use it. Scott said I had to change the port from 8080 if I already have another server running. How can I find out what another valid port number is? Also, what's supposed to go

RE: Hypertext link

1999-11-17 Thread Marni Centor
to open. Hope this helps! Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Flora Leptak-Moreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hypertext link Hi

RE: standalones and vanishing field-info

1999-11-12 Thread Marni Centor
that launches your non-executable stack. Hope this helps, Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Nicolas R Cueto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 4:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: One MetaCard Application modifying another--take 2

1999-10-26 Thread Marni Centor
the customized stack. Why is it a problem for your customers to distribute two files instead of one? Regards, Marni Not quite--I don't want my user to have to give _his/her_ user two files. Here's a more concrete example. (Again, apologies, since I obviously have yet to make this clear)

RE: How to grab an unlocked field ?

1999-10-20 Thread Marni Centor
mouseDown Hope this helps! Marni -Original Message- From: Claude Lemmel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to grab an unlocked field ? In a game for kids i need that the kids can enter a few words in a field

RE: Folders and files

1999-10-20 Thread Marni Centor
usable in MetaCard (xcmd?), where you input an html page, and you output a structured description of the page? Have you tried using "the htmlText"? It will give you text styles, but not th

Re: Cascading menus

1999-09-14 Thread Marni Centor
and not with the "cascading" style; perhaps Scott can explain. Marni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried making a cascading menu. I created a button named "Test Cascading" and set its style to cascading. I then typed the following into the button contents field. The "

Re: Backgrounds and numbering cards

1999-09-08 Thread Marni Centor
w how other people deal with this. BTW, I think you will soon find the ability to put several backgrounds (or groups, in MetaCard-speak) on one card to be really useful. It lets you reuse a set of objects as needed without having to copy them from one card to another or hide/show them from the backgr

Re: MC printing

1999-08-16 Thread Marni Centor
capabilities within MetaCard. Marni Tuviah M Snyder wrote: Andu wrote: What I don't understand is the fact that no one mentions externals for MC to supplement special needs. I do all the time. With your extensive HyperCard culture I'm sure you can find an external for printing that does

Re: Hotlinked text

1999-07-22 Thread Marni Centor
properties to accomplish the task. What are the reasons that this approach wouldn't work for you? Maybe we can help you find an alternate solution. Marni Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: I would like to find a way to hotlink text in a field so that the link information (which will be a card to go to a

RE: Aborting Animations

1999-01-17 Thread Marni Centor
ight track. Regards, Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Peter Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Aborting Animations I've been develo

RE: Apache Server and Metacard CGI's

1999-01-17 Thread Marni Centor
, Marni -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Scott Raney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache Server and Metacard CGI's On Thu, 18 Nov

RE: Window with no close box

1999-01-16 Thread Marni Centor
set the decorations of stack whatever to empty -- Marni Centor Summit Systems 22 Cortlandt St. New York, NY 10007 (212) 896-3466 -Original Message- From: Dominique Busso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Window