Plea for sensible fonts

s/New York. So fall back on those ugly defaults if you must, but please please please spend a few minutes to choose some attractive fonts, and more importantly READABLE fonts, and use them if available. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161

Re: HTML in emails

ntaining three words (two of which are misspelt) superimposed over a 500K background image, I'm going to buy a Linux box and start some serious mail-bombing. No offense meant to any hotmail users on this list, who are obviously the cream of the group. Or whatever it is that floats :-)

More netiquette

of reader's time as they scan the message looking for anything new. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161

Re: MacOS root directory

nd the best thing about Apple's solution is that if the user decides to rename their hard disk, it won't break your application. And if I can make a suggestion, how about calling the configuration file something like "User Settings.txt" or another name that suggests what its contents are?

Re: Support for Windows Video

ow, reinventing the wheel and doing things that Apple did ten years ago.") Note: I do not condone the practise of installing software on other people's computers without their knowledge, no matter how pig ignorant and stupid they are. -- Steven D'Aprano =

Re: Spell check idea

ctionary you can use something like: put soundex(field "Dictionary") into field "Soundex Dictionary" (although if you do this, I'd recommend putting some sort of progress indicator into the soundex function). Hope this is useful. -- Steven D'Aprano =

Re: MetaCard vs. Director, Authorware

format which is kept in memory for immediate execution, rather than interpreting each handler on every call. Does Metacard do something similar, or does it interpret each handler from scratch on every call? -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh

Re: splash screen strategy

, but if you find yourself putting wait commands in, you should rethink your strategy. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail

Open Source tools [was Re: Referencing a Windows CD]

at supporting and upgrading Metacard, but what guarantee do developers have that Metacard Corp will still be around in 12 months time, let alone 12 years time? This isn't an attack on Scott. All software developers have to deal with Open Source in their own way, and still make a living. -- Steven D'Aprano

Re: What's with www.MCtools.com ?

can't even delete the offending email without also deleting all the other messages in that digest; and (2) the attachment usually ends up as a useless stream of hex characters in the body of the message instead of a binary attachment. -- Steven D'Aprano

Re: Data input: Many fields or just one?

ld? Now you have to go through the scripts and edit them all again. It is *much* easier to refer to them by name. None of these issues are insurmountable with the single-field data entry method, but it takes extra work to implement it. I'm not sure why you think it is nec

Re: NumberFormat

. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

List question

there should be? -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com

Re: Mac UI

). As a long time Mac zealot, recent convert to Linux, and long-suffering Windows user, I'd have to agree with you Scott. Time and time again Apple develop excellent UI standards, and then almost as quickly break them in the most bizarre ways. -- Steven D'Aprano

Re: Click Click Click

shed (mouse button released); If the mouse is still down from the previous click, clickLoc(up) returns empty. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: relative paths to media

. What is the problem with it, and what would you suggest? -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http

Re: The value

nswer value("3 = 2+1") both return true even though I hoped to get a string back for the second. Why say answer value("3 = 2+1") when all you really need is answer "3 = 2+1" ? -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales P

Re: The value

ccurs return str -- this isn't correct syntax else return myresult end custom_value -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com

Re: Features, etc

ven RealBasic, a Mac-only product, has 23,000 hits. It is no coincidence that VB starts with a $100 "learning" version, going all the way up to $1299, with generous upgrade paths, especially from competitors products. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pt

Re: divide by zero error

one from the random value. That is, it uses: trunc(random(3)/3 * (upper - lower)) + lower Note if you call the function with a lower limit GREATER than the upper limit (eg myRandom(25,1)) the results might not be what you expect. -- Steven D'Aprano =

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

to support column ranges and negative offsets. Not every possible feature needs to be part of the Metacard engine. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61 3 9462-1161 Archives: http://www.mail-a

Re: Mac registry...?

and (2) any subdirectories you create within the directory that contains your app. But the actual directory containing your app is subject to change without notice. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.C.N. 005-964-796Fax: +61

Re: Mac registry...?

to be more generous towards non-standard behaviour. And I say this as a long-time Mac and Windows user, and short-time Linux user. Speaking as a developer, I'd say "Drat!" :-) -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61 3 9460-5244 A.

Re: Re: Mac registry...?

son Data/" instead of "My Hard Disk/Bunch of applications/School stuff/LetterPress Software/Lesson Data/" (or whatever weird and tortured folder names the user chooses to use, and believe me, I've seen some bizarre examples!). -- Steven D'Aprano ===

Re: print quality and mouse tracking

t any bias caused by the hardware. Or is this crazy idea a non starter? Its definately a starter. Whether its a finisher is another story, but all good scientific ideas need to be tested to seperate the "sounds good in theory" from the "its really worthwhile". Go

Re: Writing Files to Disk

with the shell() function to query the operating system for the user's home directory. shell("ls -d ~") should work. I think someone made a feature request for a function to return the name of the system folder under any platform at some stage? What is the progress on that? -- Steve

Goodbye

Microsoft have, and Delphi and Borland before them, will see the wisdom in capturing the home/small business market and use that as a foothold in gaining the lions share of the software development market. -- Steven D'Aprano == M.B. Sales Pty LtdPh: +61