MetaCard runs fine in Classic

2000-09-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
Just to let everyone know, I've run MC in the Classic environment of OS X now. I haven't tested every feature by a long shot, but so far, so good. gc Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports

Re: Multiple resolutions

2000-09-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Just a brief follow-up, over the weekend I got two different sizes of my application to work pretty well. I'll go for a third tomorrow/today (it's pretty late). A few things I noticed are: MetaCard ROCKS! This feature was fairly easy to implement, and had only a few gotcha's along the way.

Re: resizing and screen resolution

2000-09-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Monday, September 25, 2000, at 04:21 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: There may be - but changing resolution with MC open is not supported. I'm curious what you mean by "not supported." While building an 800x600 version of my app's main window earlier today/yesterday, I was dropping from

Re: resizing and screen resolution

2000-09-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/21/00 8:48 AM, Mark Mitchell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not, I could work for an "average" monitor resolution...what would that be these days...or preferably in about a year in the future? What is the resolution of the newer imacs? The iMacs do 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. I

Re: Can of Worms...

2000-09-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/23/00 2:49 PM, Gary Rathbone at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is 'Do I maintain my competitive advantage by keeping quiet...' or 'assist by suggestion...' To me, there's no question here. You help out if you can. The only question I ask is, "Am I being intrusively promotional of

Re: Pagination experiences

2000-09-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/21/00 6:26 PM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...By slow I mean more than a second on a fast computer. That sounds quite fast: how fast do you need it to be? Actually, now that you mention it, it is. :-) MetaCard is amazing. But still, one second on a fast machine could be as

Re: the owner is not always the owner - was best way torefer to objects in groups...

2000-09-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/21/00 5:32 AM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "btn x of the owner of me" however equates to "btn x of group someName", and if there are two groups called someName then it picks the first one, regardless if this group is the real owner! This is the problem. Granted that this

Re: Searching backwards?

2000-09-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/21/00 12:23 PM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XML parsing I need to do needs to be done backwards from the end of the file - extracting one tag at a time from the end of the file. I am wandering if there is a fast way to do this or I have to consider, converting the data

Pagination experiences

2000-09-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page breaks should occur from beginning to end. The actual goal is to be

An interesting problem solved

2000-09-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
--caused the message. Do stuff here else --this background didn't cause the message; --let something else handle it pass openBackground end if end openBackground Regards to all, Geoff Canyon Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http

Re: Writing and submitting a form from a browser

2000-09-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/20/00 3:38 AM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/9/00 3:15 am, Sound Medicine, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very unsophisticated as a programer. I can't for the life of me get the post comand to work submitting a form. Is there any simple way to have metacard fill

All I want to do...

2000-09-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
...is log any errors that occur in my program. In the past (in SuperCard) I did this by locking error dialogs, and setting a handler at the top level for the errorDialog message. The handler would dutifully write the information on the error to the end of a property, which was later exportable,

Re: Metacard Macro?

2000-09-18 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/18/00 7:14 AM, Blair Moxon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: through it. I would like to automate the 'walk through' process; record all of the mouse movements and mouse clicks and turn it into a Macro. Then I can hand it off to anyone and they can watch a canned version. Has anyone ever

Re: Problem with writing a patch stack

2000-09-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/16/00 12:59 AM, Andy Bailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to write a patch to an existing application. Two other possible solutions, which may or may not violate your license, would be: 1. Instead of trying to copy the new stuff into the old stack, copy the user-customized

Re: Metacard on MacOS X?

2000-09-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
money? Come on, Scott, what's it going to take? For pete's sake, my cd shipped today! :-) Geoff Canyon, who is busily gassing up the Trooper and throwing contraband in the back for a quick trip to Colorado... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http

Re: Apple has released Mac OS X Beta

2000-09-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/13/00 7:19 PM, Raymond E. Griffith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't order it. My iMac has only 96 MB of RAM. Sigh. Maybe they will get the memory requirements down. Then again, maybe not. At least MetaCard has a reasonable memory requirement! Raymond Great minds think alike. My

lock screen doesn't?

2000-09-13 Thread Geoff Canyon
This seems like a simple question, but my pea-brain isn't cooperating with me today, so: I'm using the following code to open a stack invisibly: set the lockscreen to true --locks the screen? if there is a file theStackFile then go stack theStackFile --shouldn't show, but does hide

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/6/00 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, for you Mac users, how about each time you try to run an AppleScript it instead brings up the Script Editor? Wouldn't be very convenient, would it? But this is exactly the way it works. You can save an AppleScript in two ways,

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/7/00 9:36 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a property for the stack, which would allow you the developer to determine how the stack behaved, regardless of the machine it was opened on? Sounds good to me. Anyone else? What's the default? How about a preference at

Re: Valentina XCMDb2 Released

2000-09-03 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/3/00 11:28 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have any questions or download it and can't figure it out, don't hesitate to contact either me or Paradigma Software. This is a key technology for MetaCard developers to have in their arsenal and we need to do what it takes

Re: Large amount of data

2000-08-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
MacConsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/22/00 6:17 AM: To clarify more the nature of the project, the intention is to put a telephone guide in a CD. Basically its a kardex where the implementation of a good interface for searches are important. Also I remember reading in the list something about

Re: MC, the Web, and you

2000-08-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/13/00 4:09 PM: A quick survey of MetaCard developers, if you don't mind: Of work you've performed over the last year, what percentage has been related to the Web? Almost all of it, in one way or another. Does your work focus more on the client side

Re: Duplicate Backgrounds/How to Delete

2000-08-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/8/00 6:04 PM: I somehow am creating multiple backgrounds with the same name and am not sure how they got there. Possibly by option selecting and dragging. One thing to note is that it doesn't take an option-drag; option-clicking something duplicates

Re: Query SQL database

2000-08-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
MacConsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/9/00 6:35 AM: Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions? Saludos, Javier Miranda V. MC Multimedia Disclaimer: I

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
Check out http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/index.htm Also, stick with it. _Everyone_ goes through the "What the heck??" phase when checking out MetaCard. It's a fact of life, and we've all learned to get past it. The development environment has good points to go along with the bad. Each of us

Re: Help with handler stripAllTags...

2000-08-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
I haven't tried this in MetaCard, but you might try put "[^]*" into someReg That translates to a , any number of anything but , and a gc Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-05 Thread Geoff Canyon
Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/4/00 6:14 PM: If your goal is to create a new standard for page description, then maybe you have a reachable (and laudible) goal, but for current HTML, I would suggest taking a step back and evaluating if you really have that kind of time available. I

Re: Metacard based browser?

2000-08-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 8/4/00 10:12 AM: David Bovill at wrote: Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex than I thought (as ever). What would be the advantages of a

Re: Mac file types

2000-07-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/26/00 3:31 AM: such a suffix), I don't have a good way of making sure that a file is an image file on a Mac before trying to use it's name as the fileName of my image object. Is there any way to do this? Not that I'm aware of. You might be able to

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 1:53 PM: Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote: Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On Windows, probably MS Sans Serif. Set the font to 0

Re: System font

2000-07-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/25/00 4:21 PM: MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system font (Charcoal) didn't display right. What exactly happened? Could it be an anti-aliasing issue? Nope, an old-fashioned brain freeze. My system font is Charcoal.

Re: Basic question: opening cards in their own windows...

2000-07-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/19/00 12:42 PM: On 19/7/00 7:29 pm, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One file many windows? Just spent 20 minutes or so trying different syntax for opening cards (presently stored in a single stack), in their own windows. Looks like this should

Re: Screen artifacts with player

2000-07-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/4/00 4:59 PM: QT gets penalized for two reasons: 1) it bypasses the OS whenever it can (which may explain why forcing it to use GDI calls makes it work better on NT because this ties it closer to the OS) and 2) it starts its own thread that does stuff

Re: Another MetaCard Moment--stack available

2000-07-05 Thread Geoff Canyon
I've uploaded a copy of the stack I'm using to break up AIFF files. It's primitive, undocumented, and not too pretty. But it works. Download and use it at your own risk. Feel free to ask questions. If you use it, change it, or improve it, I'd like a copy of the results. The stack may change

Another MetaCard Moment

2000-07-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
I had a really good day today, and I can't resist sharing: I write educational software for kids (still coding for the switch from SuperCard to MetaCard--I never should have committed to monthly releases, but that's another story...) and a large part of the monthly task involves recording a

Re: Screen artifacts with player

2000-07-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/4/00 10:11 AM: like any good OS, NT punishes processes when they seem to be sucking up CPU time for no good reason, something QT does a lot I'm just curious, how does QT suck up CPU time for no good reason, and how can the OS tell the difference between

Re: Screen artifacts with player

2000-07-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 7/4/00 4:59 PM: It's not so smart as that, it just does something simple like measure the percentage of its allotted CPU time a process uses between calls it makes to the OS (at which point the process does the equivalent of the Roberts Rules "I yield the

Database access through PHP?

2000-06-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm just curious if anyone has experimented with using web-database access tools, such as PHP, Lasso, ColdFusion, ASP, etc., in order to set up database access for a MetaCard client? It seems like it would be a pretty painless way to get at corporate data with MetaCard. Thanks, Geoff

Re: Re: Mac registry...?

2000-06-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
Leston Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 6/23/00 7:48 AM: The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons. The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want. Then the installation

Re: MetaCard as database

2000-06-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
e, and ran the filter on each of them. It's actually very fast, and allows for good results. But it's not 30,000 cards, or even 2000. Just a few, with data displayed dynamically in the fields. Just my 2 cents Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best

Re: File selector-MacOS

2000-06-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 6/14/00 8:57 AM: My only complains with Nav Services are the lack of live scrolling (geez, what year are they designing in?) and the really flakey response to the Enter key (it now differs from the Return key, in violation of their own guidelines on how

Re: MetaCard for Mac OS X--developers ask

2000-06-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 6/8/00 7:21 PM: What I don't figure out (and this has nothing to do with the original post) is the number of companies advertising software for a version of the OS which officially, as far as the consumers are concerned, doesn't exist yet. Many of them

Re: MetaCard Plugin?

2000-06-01 Thread Geoff Canyon
Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 5/31/00 10:09 PM: Well, Blair has certainly echoed my feelings. And because everything is on the Web these days, wouldn't it make more sense to tie into the browser rather than simulate a browser in MC? The MC plugin would seem to provide the richer

Re: Limit Visual Effect?

2000-05-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 5/8/00 9:47 PM, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good point -- the problem effects are those that involve movement. I used dissolve in an example to illustrate the syntax, but the fact remains it would be useful to limit the results of an effect between card transitions, not just on a

Re: Limit Visual Effect?

2000-05-08 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 5/8/00 4:53 PM, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: I have a series of cards in a stack that use the same header imagery at the top of each card (in a shared group). I'd like to use a localized visual effect on the lower portion of the cards, to update the content that

Re: Urgent Solution Needed: Position in File

2000-05-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 5/2/00 3:56 AM: write newRec to file dataFile at end HOWEVER, I can't then find out where in the file this new record is relative to the start of file and so I can't add an index entry into the associated index file. Given that I know the length

Sprite Libraries

2000-04-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
In addition to MetaCard, I work with REALbasic. REALbasic has a sprite library built in. It's a third party software package, but bolted in for ease of use. Are there any cross-platform (obviously all three platforms would be best, but I'd still be interested in just about anything that got

Re: General MetaCard question

2000-04-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 4/28/00 7:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a good point, and one I've never seen quantified very well: when is it appropriate to consider libraries when calculating the productivity of a language? And if you decide to do this, how do you take into account the

Re: CSV

2000-04-27 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 4/27/00 4:09 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working with some legacy data in (ugh!) CSV format (comma-separated values). Anyone have a quick-n-dirty method if turning that into the more sane tab-delimited format? Seems like a good candidate for matchtext, as long as you

Re: phrasing a repeat conditional

2000-04-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 4/24/00 12:41 PM, Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something simple like: replace (cr cr) with cr in gList Phil But that wouldn't guarantee that it only replaces returns at the end of the global, and it wouldn't get rid of all of them. Using the regular expression, with

Access Violation on the PC

2000-04-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
My standalone consists of several stacks. Some of the stacks change, so I save them out as external stacks from the standalone, using this script: hide stack "dirTemplate" clone stack "dirTemplate" set the name of it to "iDirectory" set the loc of stack "iDirectory" to 308,463 save stack

Re: Access Violation on the PC

2000-04-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 4/11/00 11:00 AM, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also set the passkey, then set the password to empty, clone, rename, and then set new passwords on the new and old stacks. This one has already been fixed for 2.3.1. Sounds good, thanks! And while we're on the subject, is

.ico file not the right size

2000-04-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm trying to build a standalone for the PC, and therefore I need to create a .ico file. I have a utility (iconographer for doing this, but the resulting .ico file is far larger than MetaCard expects. My .ico is 5200 bytes, MetaCard wants 744. I searched my PC for other examples of .ico

Re: MC Internet Suite Guidance

2000-03-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 3/25/00 9:43 AM: But how to use all the internet commands, compress files etc? I don't find any user's guidance. . .so how to get a grip on this? The scenario is pretty obvious: I would start with the "URLs as Containers" entry in the help index. It

[ANN] iDirectory Ships

2000-03-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
dlogic.com/idirectory/index.html and let me know what you think. Great thanks go to Scott Raney of MetaCard and Kevin Miller of Cross Worlds. MetaCard is a great product, and their support has been nothing short of fantastic as I put this thing together. Geoff Canyon Inspired Logic Archives: http:

Re: Dumb download question...

2000-03-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote: Thanks Kevin... so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically appears on the Mac without having to do or use anything else? Still can't see the

Re: ODBC?

2000-03-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
insight on this. Has anyone had any more luck than me? I'd kill to work on this if it was doable. I haven't found anything yet, but I'm still looking. grumble Why the heck should it be so difficult to find this? You would think they'd want everyone to know... /grumble Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ODBC?

2000-03-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
en=15, type=6 nttwr: entry nttwr: socket 180 had bytes written=15 nttwr: exit nspsend: 15 bytes to transport nspsend:packet dump nspsend:00 0F 00 00 06 00 00 00 || nspsend:00 00 03 08 0C 01 02 00 || nspsend: normal exit Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read

Oracle/other databases access

2000-03-13 Thread Geoff Canyon
To those who know far more than I about database access: is there anything about connecting to [Oracle|Sybase|MySQL|etc.] that can't be handled with the new socket support? In other words, is there any need for an XCMD/DLL for database access at this point, or is it just a matter of writing

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: Portable Mouse Movement?

2000-03-03 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 3/3/00 10:11 AM, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: I don't really understand the engine code that does this, but do know that it's one of the things that isn't Carbon compliant and so will have to be changed... Someone with more Mac Toolbox experience than I will no doubt correct

Re: Controlling Audio Clips?

2000-03-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 3/1/00 10:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm developing a series of CBT packages that'll use animated cartoons (GIFs with voice-overs) for illustration rather than video clips to keep the file sizes down for use across corporate networks. However, If your only

Re: matchText

2000-02-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
But I'm wondering if this is the easiest way to do what you want. For example, if the two word lists are both return delimited lists, would this do what you need? repeat for each line tWord in tList1 if tWord is not among the lines of tList2 then -- store tWord somewhere end if end

Re: Searching for non-English characters

2000-02-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
is turn it into a substring match, and the .*'s make it fit in anywhere --Then use matchChunk to see whether you have a match: put matchChunk(theSourceString,theSearchString,hitStart,hitEnd) into foundIt --then foundIt is true if we got a match, and if we got a match, --hitStart and hitEn

Re: And Now for Another MetaCard Moment

2000-02-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 2/11/00 3:12 AM, Raymond E. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I checked my code time and again, only to come up more and more frustrated. Then I realized I was trying to "send" to a handler in a disabled button. Not only does disabling a button keep it from receiving a mouseup

Re: Behavior Clarification

2000-02-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 2/8/00 4:34 PM, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out some stack behavior through trial and error and was hoping someone might be able to save me some time... The goal I'm shooting for is to hide a stack when it is not in the foreground and show it when it is made

Re: change name of a customproperty

2000-02-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
function changePropertyName object oldPropName newPropName get the customKeys of object -- are now in it,but ONLY THE NAMES put newPropName return before it -- creates the NAME of the new prop put the oldPropName of object into oldPropCont -- saves the content delete line

Re: playStopped

2000-02-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
ck, you'd have to do something different. Hope this helps, gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/ This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-

Re: Screen Capture ?

2000-02-01 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 1/31/00 10:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you really need is a Mac version of the irregular window in Tuv Snyder's external (that feature only works on Windows now). Unfortunately providing this is apparently going to require some minor additions to

Re: Referencing a Windows CD

2000-02-01 Thread Geoff Canyon
eople need to check out MetaTalk's simplicity to power ratio. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons." This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.

Re: xTalk: HyperCard JAVA XCMD

2000-01-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
? It allows javabeans to be used within HyperCard, which leads to some pretty amazing capabilities. Examples include the use of the Swing set widgets, and a full browser running within HyperCard. Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check

Re: Bold and Plain

2000-01-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
s the thing you click shifts suddenly to the left because something before it just became plain text, having been bolded by the last click. Anyway, there you go. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpi

Re: Porting from SuperCard--Is it possible here?

2000-01-27 Thread Geoff Canyon
t building your project in MetaCard, with the old version open in SuperCard to copy out of. I hope this helps; good luck. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

Re: MC for databases?

2000-01-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 1/24/00 4:03 PM, Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: repeat for each line i in tVar if tSearchItem is in item tWhichColumn of i then put x cr after tAnotherVar end if end repeat But I'm wondering if there's a better (faster?) way to do this. Would

More MetaCard vs. Director

2000-01-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
I asked a few days ago for some advice about MetaCard vs. Director, because I have a potential client who wants to do a cd-rom business card, and several computer based training projects. The job is apparently mine but for this MetaCard vs. Director thing. Every resume they've received,

Re: Spell check idea

2000-01-17 Thread Geoff Canyon
tab stop to a suitably high number, then the list will just show the actual words you're suggesting, without the soundexes showing at all. I'm typing this off the top of my head, so I'm sure there's an even better way, but there you go. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C.D. Caterpillar t

Threads Question

2000-01-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
Is there any plan to implement any sort of threading for MetaCard? Scott, I know I've read your comments on this before, and if I remember the answer was a flat no, because there is little perceived benefit and significantly increased complexity, both on the backend for you, and for scripters

Make Filter not case sensitive

1999-11-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
Is there a way to make the filter command not case sensitive, short of (for example) filtering by [tT][eE][sS][tT] to find all lines where test occurs, regardless of case? Thanks geoff canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MetaCard Capabilities and Limits

1999-11-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
Hi, I have some basic questions about MetaCard that I've been pondering over the last few days. Most of them are probably Scott questions, but if anyone else has any practical experience, feel free to jump in. Here they are: What's the practical limit on the number of cards in a stack? I'm

Re: More on ToolBook Vs. Metacard

1999-10-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
. You can start this with the demo, but I would suggest checking the specs, and if they meet your requirements, go for it. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

Re: One MetaCard Application modifying another--take 2

1999-10-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
but obviously this is dependant on MetaCard's internal data structures, and so is more of a question for Kevin or Scott) Thanks Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

https with MetaCard?

1999-10-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
, in an easier way than through sockets. None of the above. Thanks Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

One MetaCard Application modifying another--take 2

1999-10-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
, set the baseAddress of theAppFile to "http://www.joesdiner.com" Thanks gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

One MetaCard Application modifying another

1999-10-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
ut getting into the low-level aspects? Thanks in Advance gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

PC equivalent of extensions

1999-10-18 Thread Geoff Canyon
On the Mac, an application can function perfectly well as an extension based on a few requirements and modifications: the application must have no regular windows, only floating windoids (if anything); the creator type must be set to "appe"; if I remember correctly, you must edit the

re: Screen clutter workaround

1999-10-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 10/4/99 10:44 AM, Leston Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Windows, Alt+Right Arrow and Alt+Left Arrow will navigate to the Next and Previous card, respectively. Woo Hoo! That's one window down! In experimenting on the Mac, I found: option Left Arrow Previous card option Right Arrow Next

Re: Something like pointers?

1999-10-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
ome value" into sourceVar do ("put" quote "some value" quote "into" pointerVar) answer myVar end mouseUp gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."

Re: Feature Request: Three-State-Checkboxes

1999-10-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
heckboxes. The only way to get the semiHilited state of the master is to toggle one or more of the subordinates so there is again disagreement among the subordinates. gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."

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

QuickTime in 2.3a4

1999-09-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
an application. MetaCard froze. Got what I deserved, but it would be good to filter that dialog to appropriate files. :-) gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature. Check out C.D. Caterpillar: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/

Re: RAM questions...

1999-08-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
major improvements will be made for the 2.3 release. Regards, Scott So how are you getting around this for 2.3? gc Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."

Re: Feature Request-MetaCard, the new browser

1999-07-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
On 7/29/99 5:48 AM, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:43 AM -0700 29/7/1999, Geoff Canyon wrote: why not modify the go command to allow something along the line of: go url "http://www.someserver.com/somestack.mc" --downloads and opens the stack Hi Geoff Unless I misunder