On 22/9/00 9:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In hypercard, there is an option to transpose a single sound up and down a
scale such as
play "harpsichord" "c d e f g a b"
is there a similar property in metacard instead of recording different notes
for a single sound?
on 9/21/2000 3:36 PM, Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied
to:
Any objection to changing behavior of "the owner" property so
that it returns the long id of the object instead of the name? Seems
to me that this will eliminate the ambiguity problem with minimal
backward compatibility
on 9/16/00 12:59 AM, Andy Bailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to write a patch to an existing application.
and on 9/17/2000 5:10 AM, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
suggested:
Two other possible solutions, which may or may not violate your license,
would be:
1. Instead of
on 9/13/2000 6:51 PM, "Geoff Canyon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] gloated:
It's not downloadable--you have to buy the cd for $29.
Does it make me a simpering MacFool that I already ordered mine? Don't
answer that. :-)
http://www.apple.com
I can't order it. My iMac has only 96 MB of RAM. Sigh.
on 9/03/2000 2:10 PM, Andu wrote:
Vertical tabs is not a bad idea but how do you write the names?
Ahh, the problem of putting text at a 90 - degree angle!
I have often wished for vertical tabs and the ability to put some fields at
90-degree angles to make labeling easier.
Generally
on 8/13/2000 11:29 PM, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied to
"opus.species" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But we have now to consider the security...
A *.mc app can do anything : destroy all the data of a computer, use a
computer to destroy all the data on a network, ...
Just like any email
on 8/13/2000 11:29 PM, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The gifs are "optimized"
but Windows MetaCard can display them.and the Mac MetaCard can't
(properly). The gifs display properly on the Mac in the shareware
program gifbuilder. Do I have to take apart the gifs and reassemble
them
on 8/10/2000 3:41 PM, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
Is there any interest in a more or less complete E-mail program I wrote ?
I used it for the past several months (mostly without complains) and I think
it would be
most useful as a tutorial. I'm still not sure about the general concept of
on 7/16/2000 1:11 PM, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] tried to help me with my
problem below:
I am trying to send an attachment file with the mcmail.mc file. So far, this
is what I have done:
I put a field "theAttachment" into the card. The script is from the button
"Send", with my addition
I am trying to send an attachment file with the mcmail.mc file. So far, this
is what I have done:
I put a field "theAttachment" into the card. The script is from the button
"Send", with my addition clearly marked.
It does something, but it doesn't place it as an attachment, but as a part
of the
I am having a really *weird* problem lately.
I have a field which I can switch from being locked and listbehavior = true
to unlocked with listbehavior = false. The trouble is that when I click into
the field, there is no indication in the field as to *where* the cursor is.
Instead of a blinking
I have to say that I have also had this problem. I would copy from a word
processor doc, and try to paste it into MC, but without success.
I discovered that part of the problem one time was that I had installed the
menu bar (which traps copy and paste commands without allowing them to
pass).
on 6/14/2000 5:01 AM, Ruediger zu Dohna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Or, if we wanted to entertain the concept of a "colulmn" chunk type, we
could look at a broader set of language extensions.
We have had an external for this for about 8 years now and I had
proposed a
On 6/13/2000 11:05 PM Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various
images. Is there a way to keep these in memory even after the image
content changes so that, once loaded in, they are immediately available?
Sort of
on 5/27/2000 7:11 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes!
As I understand it, those people will need help. Asymetrix seems to be at
least putting ToolBook on the back shelf: it's been two years and all
they've come up with is a minor upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1.
MetaCard is
"Steven D'Aprano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] reasonably corrected my view
thusly:
I wrote:
I think you may have hit upon a bug.
Steven replied:
I don't think so. That seems like expected behaviour to me.
I put the following into the message box:
answer value("This is my dog.")
and it
Jacque,
I think you may have hit upon a bug. I put the following into the message
box:
answer value("This is my dog.")
and it returned a "double binary operator" and flagged the word "is" as a
bad token. Evidently it was trying to evaluate the trueness or falseness of
the expression
on 5/09/2000 1:02 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
I disagree -- the latter behavior would be fine. If I really needed to, I
could lock and unlock the screen to update the outer card regions.
For example: I have a series of cards in a stack that use the same header
imagery at the top of each card
From: Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sharing the Metacard Survey
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:53:12 +0100
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On 19/4/00 4:55 pm, Mark Lacy [EMAIL
Subject: Re: NumberFormat
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:50:22 +1100
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Raymond E. Griffith wrote:
I set the numberFormat to 0.## (10 places to the right
Just a question about what ought to be a simple thing, but I seem to be
missing the obvious.
I am working with a field. I would like to make the font size resizable for
the user's visual comfort.
Certain functions related to data selection and input require the textHeight
of the field.
I
My apologies to Scott, since I have lost the address to the place I should
send bug reports to:
I am having difficulties with numberFormat. Here are the details.
I set the numberFormat to 0.## (10 places to the right of the
decimal point) for calculation, but all answers are returned as
"Raymond E. Griffith" wrote:
Just a question about what ought to be a simple thing, but I seem to be
missing the obvious.
I am working with a field. I would like to make the font size resizable for
the user's visual comfort.
Certain functions related to data selection
From: Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Blank Images from Disk (Mac MC2.3g)?
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:58:16 +
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I'm trying to load various images that make up the screen design of
my stack directly
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
I have been working like crazy on an educational project. This set of
mathematics exercises required some intricate programming -- particularly
since I have the Starter Kit. Very heavy use of "do" and "send."
These things worked quite well. I set up my problem set with a "Start"
button, which
a half-hour to get it right!
Now good people, where else are you going to get a cross-platform product
that will let you do something like that, that quickly?
Scott and company, I thank you very much!
Raymond E. Griffith
This is the MetaCard mailing list.
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com
Nicolas R Cueto [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked.
Hello.
When a user clicks on a word in a sentence (not a cr-line but a
grammatical sentence), how could I find out the number of that sentence?
I'd like to create sound files for each of the sentences in a paragraph,
and then label each sound file
Oh, boy! Just what I was looking for, too!
You could loop over all the buttons and set their hilites to false,
but the easy way to do this is:
set the hilitedButtonName of grp "mButtons" to empty
Scott
Thanks, Scott!
Thanks David, for asking. I had done the loop bit, but I went back and
I wrote:
I am working with the graphics in MetaCard, and would like to attach a
label
to a filled oval. Unfortunately, the label is placed inside the oval.
Filling the oval obscures the label.
And Scott Raney replied:
I can't reproduce this: the label is always drawn on top of the
I am working with the graphics in MetaCard, and would like to attach a label
to a filled oval. Unfortunately, the label is placed inside the oval.
Filling the oval obscures the label. Another problem is that the label is
likely to be longer (in width) than the oval, but the oval's width is
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 18:47:12 Andrew Griffin[EMAIL PROTECTED] answered his
own question:
Hey, you idiot! The answer to your problem is simple. Just type: open
"stack name" into the message box of metacard on the mac. Gosh, you're so
stupid. I sent the message and then figured it out, so
Interactive Software, Inc.
http://www.summetric.com
Cheers!
Raymond E. Griffith
I would like to add a hearty "AMEN!" to the accolades being given Scott
Raney and his product.
In a message dated 13/9/99 1:04:54 am Richard Gaskin wrote:
The MetaCard engine is cool enough for the money, but the support has
been a mind-bending good time (how on earth does Raney stay on top
I love the announced feature set. However, I could not get this to run on my
iMac 266 (Mac OS 8.6, 96 MB).
It worked when I dragged a MC file onto it, but again, I could not test any
of the features or interface that way.
Hope to see a running copy soon!
Raymond
I have been trying to pass a variable which contains an array with no
success.
One button has a handler like this
on mouseUp
put empty into fld "thekeys"
put fld "thelist" into xx-- a 100-line field, 2 items per line
repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of xx
repeat with j =
From: Nelson Zink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Distant Finding
All,
I want to know whether a particular number resides in a distant cd fld
and am using the Find function to make the determination. However, I
don't want to be transported to that card. Any clever combination of Find
and
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