Re: Optimum Cross Platform Text Heights

2000-08-18 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
We are beta testing our little MC "internet portal" site now with about 15 users of both MACs and PCs in Ukraine, Singapore, India, USA, Canada and Malaysia. So far reports are good, surprisingly, no one is having any problems at all with the MC standalone and the download url technology. . .I

Re: Answer and Ask are Broken?

2000-08-18 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
I am building a simple tool to search giant text files both the "answer" and "ask" commands seem to be "dead" if fld "searchString" is empty then answer "Enter a search string!" with "OK" exit MouseUp end if If the field String is empty I don't get any dialogue box popping up. Also

Keyboard shortcuts

2000-08-18 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
In the latest README it is said that 'numerous keyboard shortcuts' have been added. Where can I find these? Is there shortcuts to access the customProps of a card, the stack or controls? Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 1. amanuensis Signe

key events

2000-08-18 Thread opus.species
How to check the content of a field after each keystroke ? That is not possible in a keydown or keyup or rawkeydown or rawkeyup handler, because these handlers are invoked before the field is modified. I would like to perform something like : on keyUp pass keyUp -- so that the field is

Re: key events

2000-08-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On 18/8/00 1:14 pm, opus.species [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to check the content of a field after each keystroke ? That is not possible in a keydown or keyup or rawkeydown or rawkeyup handler, because these handlers are invoked before the field is modified. I would like to perform

Re: Optimum Cross Platform Text Heights

2000-08-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
Signe Marie said: For each card I supply the values for textfont, textsize,textstyle and textheight for each control and on each platform. Then my scripting routines in 'on preOpenCard' take care of making text in fields and buttons look fairly nice. As to fonts I almost all the time stick

Windows standalone icons

2000-08-18 Thread David C. Tremmel
I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I haven't found a satisfactory answer to this one. I have ported the icon I made on my Mac for my standalone to Windows. Since my original icon used 256 colors, I had to change it to 16 colors to adhere to the icon size limitation in the standalone

Re: key events

2000-08-18 Thread Dave Cragg
At 2:14 PM +0200 8/18/00, opus.species wrote: How to check the content of a field after each keystroke ? That is not possible in a keydown or keyup or rawkeydown or rawkeyup handler, because these handlers are invoked before the field is modified. I would like to perform something like : on

card field vs. field for imported stacks

2000-08-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
I was helping a newcomer with a scripting problem, and I found what seems to be an anomaly in MC's behavior: He has a script which read: put tMyValue into fld "Start" It generated an error, "Object not found" (actually the error reported was "Parent not found", which is less clear, but

Re: card field vs. field for imported stacks

2000-08-18 Thread Scott Raney
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Richard Gaskin wrote: I was helping a newcomer with a scripting problem, and I found what seems to be an anomaly in MC's behavior: He has a script which read: put tMyValue into fld "Start" It generated an error, "Object not found" (actually the error reported

Re: card field vs. field for imported stacks

2000-08-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Raney wrote: There is a stack property, hcAddressing, that governs whether you have to specify "card field" (and "bg button") as is required in HyperCard. It defaults to be true for imported HyperCard stacks, but you can set it back to false (the default for MetaCard stacks) if you're