Re: Pentium 4 / Millenium w/mc2.32

2001-04-09 Thread Hugh Senior
David wrote: This sort of thing regularly comes up, and I have in the past naturally taken the position the MC should sort this out and stop "blaming" the OS, or hardware manufacturers... as it would then improve and therefore deliver for us all a better product. Counter argument is that the

Re: Test for the day....

2001-04-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi David, Well done - top marks (German of course)... Here is my script: on mouseUp put the long id of the target into targetObject send "delete targetObject" to the target in 2 ticks end mouseUp Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/

Re: name space in backscripts

2001-04-09 Thread Scott Raney
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my understanding that MC puts all backscripts effectively into one "layer" in the script hierarchy. They're actually kept separate, and are executed in the order returned by the backScripts function, which happens to be the reverse of the order in

Re: MC 2.4 a1 is out!

2001-04-09 Thread Scott Raney
David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Support for URL access other than "file:", "binfile", and "resfile" have been moved out into a script library named "libURL" that you must start using before you can access these types of URLs. This new library supports FTP in addition to the HTTP

RE: Test for the day....

2001-04-09 Thread MisterX
try this! This one is for a free test to see who gets these weird things too! made a new stack made a button on mouseUp show msg type "delete button id" (the id of me) type return end mouseUp i made a non-stop recuring button clicking... probably because the button was receiving the

Re: MC 2.4 a1 is out!

2001-04-09 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Scott Raney wrote/ schreef: Support for URL access other than "file:", "binfile", and "resfile" have been moved out into a script library named "libURL" that you must start using before you can access these types of URLs. I don't like this. And I think it's a little inconsistent too: you are

2.4 quantum leap

2001-04-09 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Returning from a longer weekend I find 2.4a1 released (without any prior warning) with a lot of really new features, some of which seem to indicate the beginning of further development towards real HTML and browser capabilities and others a new approach to handle painting and images. We have now

DoMenu implementation in MC

2001-04-09 Thread Sivakatirswami
In Supercard we have a "doMenu" option that will trigger and active menu item. I know that's not available in MC. But is there a slick way to implement the same thing? Of course I could move the menu scripts to custom handlers in the stack script and call those from the menu and then when needed

selecting locked text

2001-04-09 Thread Craig Spooner
Greetings, Has MC changed the way text can be selected since version 2.3.1? A project I published a year ago now won't allow the following script: select line 1 of fld "column labels" set the textStyle of the selectedText to "plain" I was able to get this to work again only after I

RE: DoMenu implementation in MC

2001-04-09 Thread Monte Goulding
send menuPick "New" to btn "File" In Supercard we have a "doMenu" option that will trigger and active menu item. I know that's not available in MC. But is there a slick way to implement the same thing? Of course I could move the menu scripts to custom handlers in the stack script and

Find string Anamolies

2001-04-09 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK as I pursue the solution to an eBook search function we find this anamoly: This is a small 70 page/card book. One field per card. There are about 15 instances of the word "married" in the whole book spread out over as many cards. open message box and enter: find string "married" hit

Long files (2.4)

2001-04-09 Thread LiangTyan Fui
In "README.2.4": The function "the long files" returns a comma-separated list of file attributes including the file name, size, modification date, permissions (UNIX), and creator code and file type (MacOS). While this a one of the feature that I've waiting for long, there is an issue with

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n270

2001-04-09 Thread diskot123
I hope the new helpfiles will be out soon with detailed information about the syntax of the new features, e.g. about the new visual effects, which I could try out only partially (where do you find the "4CC"-abbreviations and what are the special options numbers for the QT effects? Use the

RE: Digest metacard.v004.n270

2001-04-09 Thread Monte Goulding
Wipe,4 You then plug those two into the visual effect command like so: visual effect wipe option 4 Wouldn't it be simpler for the visual effect command to accept two items so: answer effect visual effect it rather than answer effect visual effect item 1 of it option item 2 of it Monte

RE: Long files (2.4)

2001-04-09 Thread Monte Goulding
It seems a strange problem but if you are likely to have it why not read the line backwards. the filename would be item 1 to -5 In "README.2.4": The function "the long files" returns a comma-separated list of file attributes including the file name, size, modification date, permissions

QT effects

2001-04-09 Thread Monte Goulding
Are all the QT effects meant to work? any variation or just the base thing? Implode and Explade only do it one way. There are some cool effects but they don't work. Are they going to? Regards Monte Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: