I'm thinking along the lines of using
MetaCard to create something like Filemaker's ability to view the same
information through multiple different interfaces. Sure, it can be
scripted, but if someone is doing this on a heavy-duty basis, it would
be a
most considerable shortcut just to set a
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:32:34 + David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Just a thought (while reading up on the shell() function...
When considering cross platform authoring, wouldn't it be reasonable
to
consider AppleScript as the equivalent to DOS, or Unix shell
commands?
Yes,
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:14:35 -0700 (MST) Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Not really. The output from DOS or Windows shells is a stream of
bytes. I/O from an AppleScript can only be done via the baroque
AppleEvent structure. It will therefore never be as easy to use
AppleScript for
Since mc2.3 now so easily allows multiple concurrent QuickTime players
(yipee!), such as a background midi soundtrack with a series of
interactive
video movie players, it would be most helpful to have some means of
identifying the current state of play (pun intended) eg:
You can get the "paused"
3. Is there a better way to do this with a MetaCard application? In
other
words, is it possible with a MetaCard application to do this with
something like,
You can control another MetaCard app on Windows with DDE and on Mac with
AppleEvents. Problem is an application is locked while executing,
I'd like to use Metacard as as Front-End and Analysis Tool for ODBC
compliant databases.
Has anyone else any experience of this ?
Is there a suitable external ?
If not is anyone interested in writing one ? (obviously for payment)
Am I totally off track and should look at another solution ?
Any advices or more information or examples to how manage DDE with
metacard ?
Yes, I have a skeleton C app with client side DDE which I'll send you.
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
Diskotek
Custom Application Development SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low
price
Is there some simple way to import styled text into a MetaCard field?
I'd like to have external help files etc. constructed in HTML or RTF
which can be imported and displayed through MetaCard windows. I see
that MC can generate HTML from fields, but I can't see how it could
work the other
Or perhaps a common URL on the web that has the manufacturers latest
drivers?
http://www.driverguide.com/
It's a searchable database of drivers people post, and it's likely
whetever windows drivers you need you can find there.
Best of all when you finish downloading a driver, you can post a
Because DDE is old and complicated I use another way of communication:
DDE would be a far better method, and easier to implement now that my
external adds DDE to MetaCard. If you have the source to the other
program I can send you a little skeleton app showing how to get the basic
DDE into your
Okay, what I'm trying to do is to put fonts into the MetaCard stack
itself (the standalone anyway) so that no matter what fonts you have on
your system you will still see the correct fonts in the stack. Now I
was able to do this with the Macintosh by using ResEdit to open the font
file of my
With all this talk of Sound Channels I added playing sound resources
ansyc using up to 5 sound channels(why would you need more) to my
forthcoming Mac external. So if you can wait...
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
Diskotek
Custom Application Development SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low
price
Pretty close to the top of mine, Tuviah, and certainly in terms of
day-to-day needs. I did try Report Generator but could not, at that
early
time in its development, get my head around it.
Ok, I'll post a demo stack shortly with illustrations and all which
guides you through the creation of your
About hour ago I begun exploring how to do a folder tree kind of thing
in MetaCard. :-) Is there going to be such control in near future? I'd
like
to know, so that I don't spend xx hours "for nothing".
If not, have someone else already done (or attempted to do) something
like folder trees (not
Problem is it clips text, but I'm sure
once that is fixed it will get plenty of use:-)
Tuviah, could you take the last line off as a safety zone?
Actually it was a sarcastic comment:-)
I did this on
a recent project, and while it does in some cases leave a little more
white space than one
There have been a lot of inquiries recently into how you record sound in
Windows. You can do this in Windows using MCIsendstring here's how:
open new type waveaudio alias mysound
record mysound
stop mysound #do this when finished recording
save mysound "C:\METACARD\NEWSOUND.WAV" #save mysound to
between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
Files! This would be great. I have in the past written many small apps
to
perform a simple task on many files, selected either by dropping them on
the application's icon, or dragging them into a window, either resulting
in their
within a MetaCard project/application?
between two MetaCard project/applications?
between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
What do you need to dragdrop, and on what platform?
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
Diskotek
Custom Application Development SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at
Seriously, couldn't I even create a cursor graphic in MC 2.3 and
then copy paste it into a stack in MC 2.2.5?
Have you tried saving the stack with just the image, then opening it with
2.2.5? Just tried it and it worked here.
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
Diskotek
Custom Application Development
On Wed, 3 Nov 99 23:34:35 -0800 Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This should be no problem on the Mac. Even running applications can
be even moved without problems on the Mac.
And the resource fork?
You can copy the resource fork with MetaCard. If you need to copy the
icons, and
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