Re: exporting audio

2000-03-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 3/8/00 3:36 PM: Bad news: the export command actually only supports exporting images (a fact documented in the Reference). You actually can export videoClips and some image formats by getting the "text" property and writing that to a file, but even this

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: Scott Raney wrote: It maybe a bit terse for your tastes, but this exact behavior is documented on the "load" command page in the Reference. No, it isn't. This is the only pertinent statement I could find on the "load" command: This

Re: Dumb download question...

2000-03-09 Thread David Bovill
Am I right in thinking that a MetaCard file saved as a Mac file, and the right extension will open without any problem on all platforms? If so does it not make sense to make this the default behaviour for saving on all platforms? From: psahores [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread David Bovill
Hoh, hum... From: Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:47:38 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Load url reprise Scott Raney wrote: It maybe a bit terse for your tastes, but this exact behavior is documented on the

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Scott, thanks for the answers to a lot of my questions. It's stuff I need to know and your response helps, but my primary complaint is that it is so hard to find out about MetaCard's behaviors in the first place. I know you have documentation on your list of things to do -- I should be patient,

Re: Dumb download question...

2000-03-09 Thread David Bovill
Got you. In my case ZipIt tries to convert CR to LF, and I had to turn this option off... Does this mean that for disk based transfers, the file/creator types will be set correctly, whichever platform the movie is saved on? From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: exporting audio

2000-03-09 Thread Leston Drake
Does anyone know the syntax of the "export" command to write a AudioClip to a file? Bad news: the export command actually only supports exporting images (a fact documented in the Reference). Based on everyone's input (thank you very much!) I will look for other options. Since I am on a

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote: Ping? It's a standard tool on UNIX and Windows systems. You supply a host name or IP address and it tells you whether that host is alive. By specifying the IP address of a known router or root DNS server (which are actually redundant and so always

Metacard List server anyone?

2000-03-09 Thread David Bovill
Now that's a thing... From: andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:21:39 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Broken records -:) Maybe a good, flexible MC-list server should be on the to-do list of those experts out there ;-) Does anyone have

Re: Dumb download question...

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote: Got you. In my case ZipIt tries to convert CR to LF, and I had to turn this option off... Does this mean that for disk based transfers, the file/creator types will be set correctly, whichever platform the movie is saved on? No: There is no support

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Scott Raney wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote: Ping? It's a standard tool on UNIX and Windows systems. Could this be done via MetaCard scripts? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Yennie
Jacque, Hopefully these will help... The following scripts work well for me in local one-machine tests. They require two stacks: a metacard "server" stack and the client stack. You will, of course, need to replace the "1.1.1.1" with your actual IP/domain name... In the server, I put: on

Re: submenu items

2000-03-09 Thread Craig Spooner
On second thought, am I asking for something that would violate user-interface guidelines? It seemed to me like a feature I've seen before, but I can't seem to think of an actual example... Craig Is there a way to control which menu item gets hilited when you select a submenu from an

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: Scott Raney wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote: Ping? It's a standard tool on UNIX and Windows systems. Could this be done via MetaCard scripts? Other than running these programs with shell(), no. It requires

Re: submenu items

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Craig Spooner wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to control which menu item gets hilited when you select a submenu from an option menu button? The menuHistory of such a button seems unaffected by the selection of a submenu item, and setting the label to the submenu

Re: submenu items

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Craig Spooner wrote: On second thought, am I asking for something that would violate user-interface guidelines? It seemed to me like a feature I've seen before, but I can't seem to think of an actual example... Damn, you beat me to it. I guess it's just another

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully these will help... I'm impressed. A complete client/server application in one message, and it even fits under the free Starter Kit limits ;-) Regards, Scott The following scripts work well for me in local one-machine tests. They

Re: Load url reprise

2000-03-09 Thread Yennie
Well, you deserve the credit on that... I wish I had about a month to do nothing but play with all of the sockets programming that I never wanted to deal with in C. Brian I'm impressed. A complete client/server application in one message, and it even fits under the free Starter Kit limits