Re: Something like pointers?

1999-10-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 9/30/99 7:33 PM, Karl Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question: how can I have the contents of a variable point to a variable name? If there isn't an indirection operator in MC already (which I don't think there is) , maybe it'd be nice to have one? (It'd

Re: Feature Request: Three-State-Checkboxes

1999-10-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 10/1/99 1:43 PM, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can they re-select this state (maybe with a modifier-key click)? Seems that the selection of other checkbox buttons would primarily determine whether or not a button gets "semiHilited". Perhaps this could be an

Re: Something like pointers?

1999-10-02 Thread Karl Becker
Actually, there is something very much like pointers: the "Do" command: on mouseUp put "myVar" into pointerVar put "some value" into sourceVar do ("put sourceVar into" pointerVar) answer myVar end mouseUp Hah, cool! Thank you! That's just what I wanted... however, in the past two

Screen clutter workaround

1999-10-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
One problem that I have working with MetaCard is screen clutter--I work at 1024x768, and that's not really big enough to fit all the windows I end up opening: my project, the properties palette, the help index, the navigator (are there keyboard equivalents in the development environment for

ReRe: clipboardAccess

1999-10-02 Thread Ernst Michael Reicher
From: Tuviah M Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: clipboardAccess Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:27:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Because DDE is old and complicated I use another way of communication: DDE would be a far better method,

Printing Error with newer HPs

1999-10-02 Thread Tom Deasey
Title: Printing Error with newer HPs Is anyone getting reports of a printing problem with newer HP printer possible under 98 but we are getting reports from user who have 98 or 95 installed. The error most reported is that when they go to print the printer will continuously print the same