>I've got a list field with tab-separated strings on each line,
>which, in effect, creates the illusion of columns. When the field is
>shown, I'd like users to be able to sort it using any column "title" as
>the sort key (e.g., sort by column 1, column 2, and so on). What's the
>best way to
>Anyone know of an external, RegEx expression
>or some other cool, *fast* way of getting this done?
try something like:
put replacetext(field 1,"[^!-~]",empty) into field 1
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> Tuviah
>
> couldn't find the spreadsheet object ... where/what's it called
> again?
That would be group 1 (the one with 437 lines of script). You can see an
example of use at card 3 of stack "table props".
Again the stack can be found at
http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributorfiles/pow
> I've not done it, but I'm sure Tuviah's AppleScript commands in his
> externals collection will allow this.
The external collection also has a function which returns the path to
common system folders(fonts,control panels,preferences)
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> How can I put external .dll files in my MC stack and run their
> command 'cause every time I try to look at the ExternalCommands it
> returns blank. How come?
The ExternalCommands,ExternalFunctions, and ExternalPackages function
were broken in Windows engine, but are fixed in the latest MC 2.
Fyi, I've contributed a new stack to the Cross Worlds site. It's a
standalone spreadsheet object, with many of the standard features.
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> > How many other people need the ability to record card images as
> frames in QuickTime files?
I plan to add extended QT support to the external collection is the near
future. In fact basic QT editing is already implemented. Feel free to
send any QT feature requests to me as well.
>I know Cros
try the menuhistory property
on menuPick
put the menuhistory of me
end menuPick
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> I want to make a Animated GIF to QuickTime or AVI converter
> in MetaCard. Is that possible?
I think quicktime already supports direct import of GIF and AVI
animations. So you'd only have to do something like
set the filename of player 1 to "picture.gif"
#save to file
regards,
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> I want to make a Animated GIF to QuickTime or AVI converter
> in MetaCard. Is that possible?
I think quicktime already supports direct import of GIF and AVI
animations. So you'd only have to do something like
set the filename of player 1 to "picture.gif"
#save to file
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>or, can your "recall" the last message somehow?
try hitting the up and down arrowkeys.
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> 1) Is there a way to open the test in a full screen mode?
> 2) Is there a way to hide the minimize button, the "x" (closing
> button).
> 3) Is there a way to disable the start button in windows while using
> my
> metacard test.
Try setting the backdrop and decorations property.
regards,
Tu
>No, but this seems to be a more reasonable way for it to work. Any
>objections to changing it to work this way?
No, but maybe add an autorewind property, which would automatically
rewind to the poster/first frame for Gif's and player objects.
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>The standard board contains over 250
>squares. So I blithely wrote two repeats to get me an arrangement of
>16x16 of these images, each using a file reference to pull in the same
>gif file.
I think the better way to do this would be to import the gif then set the
icon of 250 buttons to the id
>Sorry for this Comp101 question: in what language(s) are externals
created
>(for example, the Externals Collection)? Indeed, what's the whole
process
>there?
The external collection was originally written in C, then moved to C++ to
support classes and such.
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> I don't know any way to locate the application on the Mac, short of
> asking the user to select it in an answer file dialog.
Actually I did write an external which does this,but haven't had a chance
to add it to the standard distribution(although I will send this patch to
any registered extern
> has no asterisk. But if it is modifiable, why then does resizing the
> rect of an imported image not "stick."
Did you try setting the lockloc property of the image to true after
resizing it?
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I'm a long way into the development of a database to support a CBT
package. The database consists of over 20 tables each with a number
of indices. These are implemented using a collection of text files,
each of which has fixed length records (really variable length, but
padded to be fixed le
A little off topic, however related. The external collection includes
functions which can get and set text in the clipboard. You can trap for
pasting (pastekey) then query the clipboard.
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> > On the other hand, how far away is the move command from being able
to a
>> reasonable number (from an arcade standpoint--maybe ten to thirty) of
>> objects moving around at the same time? Would it take a 1000 mhz
>> processor, or a 100, mhz processor? :-) I'm curious if anyone
has
>
>EXT.dll, EXTDDE.dll EXTEXPORT.dll EXTSHELL.dll EXTSPEECH.dll
EXTWINDOW.dll
>ReadMe.doc
There is an external collection demo stack which is included in the
standard distribution. It installs the external into the resource fork of
a stack on MacOS and contains examples of various external
command
> My problem is I can't figure out how to abort multiple
> keydowns. Any solutions. I had this problem in Hypercard also...
Try
put flushevents("keydown") into dummy
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There is a report generator stack available(mcrg.mc) from
ftp://ftp.metacard.com/metacard/
as well as a script you can use to print fields in MC 2.3. See the
scripts of the print field utility stack included with MC 2.3.
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try
http://www.metacard.com/ideh.html
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>
> I downloaded all kinds of stacks from contributors, to "tear apart"
> and study. . . mcmail.mc and many others. . .they arrived on my MAC
with
> no icon and I cannot open them in MC. . .what do we need to do? Open in
> RESEDIT and assign a type? but then this is not "an easier way. . ."
M
>I want to make a picture database. And I would love to be able to drop
>picture-files into the program window. But how do I do that? I need a
>pointer to the file dropped. so that I can load it.
The external collection, a commercial MetaCard external which can be
found at the cross worlds site,
>Is there a way of querying (or perhaps even changing) the color depth of
>a monitor?
Try the MetaCard screenDepth function.
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>The concepts stacks indicates their file names would be stored in a
stack
>property called "externals" by the stack property dialogue box does not
have
>a button to show these or to add them to the stack. And also "these
>executables must be stored somewhere in the "current PATH environment
>vari
> someone provided a very neat shell() command
> to make a file invisible under Windows
on mouseUp
answer file "choose file:"
replace "/" with "\" in it
get shell("attrib"&&it&&"+h")
end mouseUp
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Try the icon viewer stack at
http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributors.htm
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> Searching the mail archives shows a reference to getting the filesize
> of a file on Windows via the shell command. Has anyone written this
> successfully, or know the syntax to use with the shell command?
Off the top of my head...
ask "enter file"
put it into tfilename
put shell("dir
> Argh! Major frustration! Time, I figure, to turn to the
> expertise on the list for help... So, if anyone has come up with a
> formula for simplifying this, I'd LOVE to hear it. Or if I'm way
>off in my approach, I'd like to know that, too.
The external collection for Mac contains a
>We'll have to pass the buck on this one: just a few days ago this very
>topic came up on the Open Transport mailing list and apparently there
>*is* no really good solution to this problem available on MacOS. My
>sense is that the situation isn't much better on Windows because any
>attempt to ac
> Games is something I never did and probably never will but my son is
> pressing me to teach him how to make games in MC. Is any of the
> great games authors on the list willing to share a project with me in
> order to see what's involved, more as a concept then scripting.
You can download so
> I want users to be able to tab from one field to the next when the
>Return key is hit, so I wrote the following handler:
You can set the autotab property of a field to true or write the
following script
on returninfield
type tab
end returninfield
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:22:43 + Dave Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> But there's a gotcha I think. If the standalone is already open,
> double-clicking on an associated file will open a new instance of
> the standalone. I remember there was a discussion on this a long time
> ago. I c
>Tuv, if you already have the WDEF done, then this won't help much, but
>there is already an existing WDEF that does exactly this. It is called
>Odo, after the shape-shifting character on Deep Space 9. It takes its
>window shape from whatever PICT is stored in the same file with the same
Thank
>What you really need is a Mac version of the irregular window in Tuv
>Snyder's external (that feature only works on Windows now).
>Unfortunately providing this is apparently going to require some minor
>additions to the engine. This is currently planned for 2.3.1.
Right, I have a design and code
>I'll try it out, but on a negative note, I got an email back from the
>creator of the XCMD, and he thinks it would be difficult to port to
other
>platforms, because it is dependant on the specifics of MRJ on the Mac.
>I'll follow up with him anyway, though.>
I think you can get Java Beans thr
>But I don't want just an MC browser. There are word processing beans,
>spreadsheet beans, JDBC for accessing databases, graphics beans that do
>things we can't currently, and lots of other things. The browser was
just
>one (startling, to me) example. There are a _lot_ of people interested
in
>Does anyone know the conversion math?
try
round([5 digit number]/256)
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>Adrian has worked around this
>with Externals Collection, Clip2Gif and Applescript but it adds maybe 10
>seconds to each download.
The sample I gave you does not use a compiled script, when running a
compiled script performance can be significantly faster. Send me a sample
of what you are doing
>Sounds nifty, I'd buy that. You'll make it available on the crossworlds
site?
Yes, it's ready now it just has to be released(I figure I'd put some
pressure on Kevin:-) Your AIFF problem was worked out too. You can now
choose the sound quality of the recording as well, best creates an AIFF
file c
>Surely I am the stupid one and not the record sound external I
downloaded as part of the
>EX10 collection (from the cross-worlds site). But something is very
amiss. The external
>allows you to record a sound, and then you can import it with another
script, but I can't
>play the damn thing as it
>I have ran into a problem.
>I can't seem to be able to repeat midi's in a stack. all I can do
>is question if the midi has stoped and if so start it again and
>this leaves about 0.5 to 1 second of silence... is there any
>command you can do to make the midi keep repeating?
Not for MIDI. You w
> When I am typing in a field, is there any way of getting the
> character number of the letter I just typed? Not the chartonum... the
actual
> number of the character in reference to the field. In other words, I
type
> the letter "a" into field 1 and I get "char 1". I type space and I get
>I have now done this several times over several days in 2.2 and 2.3. In
2.2
>, doing (b) above and clicking the custom properties button under
"Extras"
>of the cd fld "A" pop up displays the custom property myindex[Pitt] on
the
>left and "Rob" on the right just like it should and always has. Unde
>Ok amigos, the situation is this, I come from screen1 with an audioclip
>playing, in this second screen, on Open Card, a movie begins to play.
>How can I go to a third screen only when the movie in screen 2 ends?, I
>can't use On Idle in the Card Script since the audioclip is still
>playing. I p
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>
> Is there a message that is sent and can be trapped when the user
> clicks on the Minimize Window button (the button in the topright
corner with
> the "-" sign)? Similarly, is there an MC message sent when the user
clicks
> on
>I have just extended the functionality of my CD-ROM app by allowing
users
>to define their own button names, page headers and field contents using
>text files stored in a a folder called PPacTxt on their hard drive. I
>provide the PPacTxt folder on the CD with some templates to show them
'how
>to
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