Re: NT ?
I have a MC program written in 2.2.5. A potential user contacted me to ask if it would run okay under Win NT 4.0 sp6. Has anyone had any experience with MC on NT machines? Yes, indeed it does, I use NT on a daily basis for testing out the Windows platform. My students download the stacks (course ware for language studies) from Internet and they report back using Windows 95, 98 and NT. The stacks are also tested on Mac 68k and PowerPC (the last is my daily work station). I am very happy with MetaCard (despite a rather steep learning phase for me as a longtime SuperCard scripter). Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: c cédille
I seem to have forgotten how to type the lower and upper case of the following French letters: ç (c cédille) and ¦ (the o and e attached) in a standalone on Windows. I'm grateful for any suggestions. Thanks to Pierre Sahores and Scott Rossi for answering, however, your suggestions did not solve my problem. But luckily a colleague of mine helped me out. I usually import all text and do most of the work on a Mac, so there is no problem with entering these letters (or other strange letters in French or Norwegian). When the students - in a standalone - type these on Mac, they just use alt+c (alt+Shift+c) and alt+o (alt+Shift+o). To make all strange letters appear on the Windows I used my own conversion routines (1 1/2 year ago), but now (I do not know when it changed) all letters (French and Norwegian) appear correctly both in fields and as button names, no need for conversion anymore (Thanks a lot to Scott Raney!). The only place I still, unfortunately, have to stick to html-text is in CustomProperties (Scott, will that be taken care of soon?). Well, back to the original problem: When on Windows, just activate the NumLock key, hold down Alt and type 0 (zero) + the ISO number (which you find under Character Chooser on Windows (!). Strangely enough - at least for me - you find completely different values for the same letters if you look them up on Mac). The values for the letters in question are: ç = alt+0231, Ç=alt+0199, ¦= alt+0156, = alt+0140. Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
clickChunk
Hello to all, I was wondering why the clickChunk renders 'char 1 to 0 of fld..." when you click on an empty space between two words? Any chance to get the real number of the char? In the meantime I let the program find the clickloc, lock the screen and click a little to the left of the actual blank (to find the clickChunk of the previous word) and then add 1 to word 4 of it). It works, but is a bit too slow. Better solutions? Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Optimum Cross Platform Text Heights
We are beta testing our little MC "internet portal" site now with about 15 users of both MACs and PCs in Ukraine, Singapore, India, USA, Canada and Malaysia. So far reports are good, surprisingly, no one is having any problems at all with the MC standalone and the download url technology. . .I expected a host of problems but everyone says it works great. . . but we are getting considerable variance on font matters, as expected. In particular I set up a page where little images were lined up with text in ARIAL font and the vertical alignment, vertical position of the images is supposed to be in line with the base line of the lines. nine image and nine lines in one colomn. But on a PC the text height value shrank considerably and the image and lines are all off. Image 1 and line 1 line up and then by the time you get to image six down the left column it is across from line 8 in the list. OK, anyone have experience with this? Do you have a good solid working "cross platform font principle/formula" that we should adhere to to get things right on mac and PC? Does manually setting the font height make it match on all platforms? (Hello to Sivakatirswami and thanks for the two stacks you sent me.) Working and being able to test on only 2 platforms (Mac and Windows NT) I have found out that setting the textproperties manually both for fields and buttons on each card is the only acceptable solution. (I do not think the recommended Helvetica 14 is estetically nice enough, and often is is not present on Windows). For each card I supply the values for textfont, textsize,textstyle and textheight for each control and on each platform. Then my scripting routines in 'on preOpenCard' take care of making text in fields and buttons look fairly nice. As to fonts I almost all the time stick to Geneva on Mac, and MS Sans Serif or Arial (depending on which size I use) on Windows (also Verdana, but I am not sure that will be present on all Windows PC's.). Regards Signe Marie --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Answer and Ask are Broken?
I am building a simple tool to search giant text files both the "answer" and "ask" commands seem to be "dead" if fld "searchString" is empty then answer "Enter a search string!" with "OK" exit MouseUp end if If the field String is empty I don't get any dialogue box popping up. Also Ask "Enter a string to search for." with "OK" put it into tSearchString put tSearchstring no dialogue box opens up and I get this in the message box: " ask plainEnter a string to search for." I must be missing something here. Are you by any chance working on a standalone and not having used the Resource mover to move the Ask Dialogue and the Answer Dialog before you made the standalone? --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Keyboard shortcuts
In the latest README it is said that 'numerous keyboard shortcuts' have been added. Where can I find these? Is there shortcuts to access the customProps of a card, the stack or controls? Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Standalone
Hello, would someone, please, provide me with instructions on how to access the scripts of a standalone, I know how to do it in SuperCard with ResEdit (on Mac), but when I try to change Type (=APPL) to MSTK and Creator (=MSTD) to MCRD, I am still not able to open it. By the way, I need it to download Sivakatirswami's latest programs. I downloaded his hakey.mc from his web page, and that solved my Internet problems: No more need to work with SuperCard Web plug-in, or learn Flamethrower, or learn Java etc. The students just download a small standalone (in MC), which I adapted from Sivakatirswami's stack. This stack reads data (which are nothing less than ordinary MC stacks situated on a server) and displays them just like like an ordinary stack (there's no need to even have the browser open, nor have the engine present neither on the local machine nor on the server!). It's just fabulous!! The basic scripts for the downloading should be posted somewhere to make it available to the whole MC community! Again lots of thanks to Sivakatirswami! --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Print card with dialogs
What has happened with 'with dialogs'? When I click on dialogs in the index stack, it leads to Stacks. --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: StackFiles
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: Hello, I need help to solve a problem. The scenario is as follows: A main stack called "Veloxdat" in a file called "Veloxdat.mc" is a template/authoring tool to help teachers create their own language exercises. I have placed it inside a folder called "VelDat1". A standalone called "Velox.exe" states the correct path in its StackFiles and starts "Veloxdat". So far so good, but I have imposed a limit of 12 exercises for the stack. (This both for reasons of space for the exercise menu, but also in case the teacher should do something completely irrational and lose his/her data.) When the teacher has developed 12 exercises, I naively thought he/she could just make a copy of both files, rename them for instance Velox2.exe and Veloxdat2.mc and start working on the next 12 exercises. But, there is no "VelDat1/Veloxdat2.mc" listed in the Stackfiles of "Velox.exe"... I would be grateful for any tips on how to solve this problem. The fileName property of the main stack in a standalone will have the path to the application in it. You could use that to change the strings in the stackFiles property, or probably even better, to build a full path to the stack you want to open instead of relying on the stackFiles property (which is mostly useful when going directly to a substack). Regards, Scott Thanks to you and Phil Davies who put me on the right track. In the standalone I anticipate 10 different stack files named Prog1 to Prog10 (each containing 12 exercises). These are listed in the StackFiles of the standalone. Luckily MC does not care about whether these files exist or not. When the teacher starts from scratch there exist only 2 files (mainstacks) in the folder VelDat1, one which should be left untouched (OrigProg) and only used for copying later on. The other one is named Prog1. When the standalone opens it searches for the files in the folder: if there is a file and pops up a menu list for the existing files. When a file is selected, I use 'open file (full path name)' The mainstack of each file carries the same name, whereas each file is named as listed in the StackFiles. When the teacher has developed the 12 exercises he/she just makes a copy of OrigProg, renames it Prog2 etc. I do not know if there are other ways of doing this, but at least it seems to have solved my problem, even though there is a limit of 12x10 exercises. And for the first time I have understood why it is useful to be able to have different names for the mainstack and the file! ------- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
StackFiles
Hello, I need help to solve a problem. The scenario is as follows: A main stack called "Veloxdat" in a file called "Veloxdat.mc" is a template/authoring tool to help teachers create their own language exercises. I have placed it inside a folder called "VelDat1". A standalone called "Velox.exe" states the correct path in its StackFiles and starts "Veloxdat". So far so good, but I have imposed a limit of 12 exercises for the stack. (This both for reasons of space for the exercise menu, but also in case the teacher should do something completely irrational and lose his/her data.) When the teacher has developed 12 exercises, I naively thought he/she could just make a copy of both files, rename them for instance Velox2.exe and Veloxdat2.mc and start working on the next 12 exercises. But, there is no "VelDat1/Veloxdat2.mc" listed in the Stackfiles of "Velox.exe"... I would be grateful for any tips on how to solve this problem. ------- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Note pad
However, I would like to block the possibility of clicking in the mainstack which still shows on the screen, and thought that 'set the defaultstack to "carnet"' would do the trick, but it does not. Any help appreciated. Open the substack with *modal stack "carnet"*. Regards, Andu Thanks a lot to Andu, now everything works perfectly! Regards Signe Marie --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/sanne/default.html Norway ---
Note pad
Hello, I have struggled with something which probably is simple if you do the right things. The problem is: I want a note pad to appear covering approx. 1/3 of the screen of the mainstack. I have tried toplevel, modal, palette, lockscreen to true etc., before I ended up with the following script (in MetaCard 2.2.5) on åpneblokk put the topleft of stack "franpo" into tl --"Franpo" is the mainStack open inv stack "carnet" -- the substack set topleft of stack "carnet" to tl show stack "carnet" end åpneblokk (The substack has a button to close it.) Then strange things happen: On the Mac: When in Standalone the substack appears only after a second click). On the Windows: With the above script the loc of the mainstack changes to 0,0 while the topleft of the substack remains in the right place. Both in standalone and development: When I click outside the substack (both), the controls of the mainstack behave as usual, but sometimes the substack stays in front, at other times it goes away. In development environment the substack appears after one click, but the message box pops up at the same time. Any advice as to show the note pad (and block the controls of the mainstack) is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards ------- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Øisteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/sanne/default.html Norway ---
