Re: ODBC?

2000-03-20 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
Hi! I'd like to add some info that I have about Oracle's SQL*Net: To get access to the documentation to this protocol you'll have to sign a non-disclosure agreement. That is why open source firewalls can not support it. The protocol is complicated, so forget about reverse engineering it... it's

Re: Mac UI

2000-03-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Scott Raney wrote: I continue to be dumbfounded by Mac users' zealous claims about the sacred nature of the MacOS UI, yet they put up with or even encourage absolutely bizarre behavior in the Apple-standard tools (the Finder, Simpletext, and QT 4.0 player being

[ANN] iDirectory Ships

2000-03-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
Hi, everyone, this just a product announcement, so hit "next" if you're not interested. My first commercial MetaCard project is shipping. It's called iDirectory. It is a portable directory application for companies with too many people to use a simple paper or html directory. It grabs its

visual effect

2000-03-20 Thread rice
I use the following to hide an image; hide me with visual effect wipe right very slowly The problem is it's too fast. How do I slow it down? I tried "very very" but that seems to make it faster. Just as important how do I get the wipe to be consistent in speed even when the application

Multi-card glorified Find Again

2000-03-20 Thread Nelson Zink
Mary, gTextToSkip needs to be reset in the Find Again script. Let me know what you're thinking. I don't want to reset it outside of the FIND button because I always want to find the next occurrence after the previous found occurrence. In the single-card stacks, I could just hit Find Again all

HTMLtext and/or RTF?

2000-03-20 Thread Craig Spooner
It's great that MC can preserve some of the formatting of an HTML document, and I'm using that feature to simplify importing of formatted text files. But it would be nice if it could also preserve formatting for ordered and unordered lists, as well as blockquote formatting. Is RTF an

Re: Multi-card glorified Find Again

2000-03-20 Thread Mary Bull
Thanks for the reply to my questions, Nelson. Let me know what you're thinking. I don't want to reset it outside of the FIND button because I always want to find the next occurrence after the previous found occurrence. In the single-card stacks, I could just hit Find Again all the way to the end

alt.excuses

2000-03-20 Thread Hugh Senior
Thanks to a recent comment to me from Mike, I feel the need to extend my range of excuses. I therefore kick off with "My programs don't have bugs, they display moments of rebellion" Does anyone else have a favourite? /H Hugh Senior The Flexible Learning Company Consultant Programming

Multiple Access to Files?

2000-03-20 Thread Peter Reid
I'm developing a CBT package which needs to store user progress details on a central file server. Various people might wish to look at such details whilst the master "database" is being updated. I want to have a database consisting of several related files which are open for

Idle loop conversion

2000-03-20 Thread Larry_R_Huisingh
I am converting an old SuperCard app that contains an idle loop. According to the help files I should use some variation of the "send" command. My loop processes data from a serial port as well as from a card and message box commands. Is there a particular program structure I should use that

Re: visual effect

2000-03-20 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, rice wrote: I use the following to hide an image; hide me with visual effect wipe right very slowly The problem is it's too fast. How do I slow it down? I tried "very very" but that seems to make it faster. Set the effectRate property. It defaults to 2000 (2

Re: Idle loop conversion

2000-03-20 Thread Phil Davis
One way to do it: -- DISCLAIMER: this code is untested -- global gSerialPortData on startReadingPort set the serialControlString to tMyPortSettings put empty into gSerialPortData open file "COM2:" for read send "readSerialPort" to me in 100 milliseconds end startReadingPort on

Re: alt.excuses

2000-03-20 Thread Phil Davis
Define "bug". ;-) Phil Hugh Senior wrote: Thanks to a recent comment to me from Mike, I feel the need to extend my range of excuses. I therefore kick off with "My programs don't have bugs, they display moments of rebellion" Does anyone else have a favourite? /H Hugh Senior

QuickTime crashes in 8-Bit

2000-03-20 Thread Arkadius Mientus
Our stack is used to display various jpeg and gifs and some QT-Movies. As long as I am in 16-Bit mode everything works fine. When I start the stack in 8-Bit-mode, all the pictures are displayed well (dithered). But when I start a QT-Movie, all kinds of color-changes occure and after some klicks

Re: Multiple Access to Files?

2000-03-20 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
Peter Reid wrote: I want to have a database consisting of several related files which are open for multiple-readers and a single-writer at the same time. - does MC "lock" a file when opened so other programs cannot access it? No. You can use a lock file, if you like. - can reader programs