converting HC stacks that use Picture XCMD

2001-09-10 Thread Craig Spooner
Hi all, A professor has asked if I can convert his old HC stacks, laden, as he says, with the HyperCard Picture XCMD. He's thinking of moving the data to Director, but I'm more inclined to recommend MetaCard (naturally!), especially with version 2.4's new image handling capabilities. I

Re: converting HC stacks that use Picture XCMD

2001-09-10 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Craig Spooner wrote: I haven't worked with HyperCard in many years, but it seems like it should be possible to make the conversion without too much difficulty. But I wanted to ask if any of you have done this and learned, perhaps the hard way, what works and what doesn't, especially with

Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish

2001-09-10 Thread Christopher Carey
Metacard is great at putting together easy elements fast but the one thing that I miss from Director 8 and others is the ability to make a reliable roll-over. The hilite icon feature really does not hit the spot. I have seen some scripts that rely on the hide show function... Button script on

A few URGENT questions - Thanks

2001-09-10 Thread jbv
Hi people, I have a few VERY URGENT questions - sorry for being so demanding... I am finishing an MC app (2.3.2) that will run on Mac Win and will be distributed on a CD-ROM. QUESTION 1 : At the some point, the app will need to launch the default browser to open an HTML file located on one

Re: converting HC stacks that use Picture XCMD

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: Craig Spooner wrote: I haven't worked with HyperCard in many years, but it seems like it should be possible to make the conversion without too much difficulty. But I wanted to ask if any of you have done this and learned, perhaps the hard way, what works and

Re: Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish

2001-09-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Christopher Carey wrote: Metacard is great at putting together easy elements fast but the one thing that I miss from Director 8 and others is the ability to make a reliable roll-over. The hilite icon feature really does not hit the spot. I have seen some scripts that rely on the hide show

Re: Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish

2001-09-10 Thread Ken Ray
Sorry to ask, but what does the hilite icon NOT do that you would want in a rollover effect? Perhaps I'm just being naive here... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Christopher Carey [EMAIL

Re: Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish

2001-09-10 Thread Ken Ray
Whoops! Sorry, I meant the armed icon, not the hilite icon... My mistake... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:13

Re: A few URGENT questions - Thanks

2001-09-10 Thread Phil Davis
- Original Message - From: jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:59 PM Subject: A few URGENT questions - Thanks Hi people, I have a few VERY URGENT questions - sorry for being so demanding... I am finishing an MC app (2.3.2) that will run

Re: Installation Woes

2001-09-10 Thread THW
Problem solved! Thanks! Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.

Re: Problem with pasting from SimpleText

2001-09-10 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
Raymond E. Griffith wrote: Has anyone else had trouble with SimpleText? Tried on my Macintosh (G3 with system 9.1) Pasting from SimpleText does not work. Pasting from Microsoft word does not work. In my case no errors are returned when pasting in message box. Just no reaction. Also, I can't

Installation Woes

2001-09-10 Thread THW
I've been trying to install MC (the starter kit) on two different Windows systems. The first was on a laptop, and the installation was perfect. I go to the desktop and it isn't working at all. The install doesn't get past the initial directory creation (...Program Files/MetaCard/). I then get a

BBEdit

2001-09-10 Thread slord
Am I nuts or does BBEdit use the MetaCard engine for it's scripting language? If anyone owns a copy, take a look at pg 255 for their example on how to add a confirmation to the quit command. on menuselect(menuname, itemname) if menuname = File and itemName = Quit then