MC betas

2002-03-13 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Scott, if you read this: any chance to mirror the new betas somewhere, too ? As long as your ISP is doesn't support anonymous ftp ? I would love to check these new versions... (Maybe i am not alone... ;-) Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stray lines

2002-03-13 Thread Ray Horsley
Does anyone know how to get rid of stray lines which remain on screen after using a pulldown button? I'm getting a border where the pulldown's rectangular area of contents opened on mouseDown. I've only found this on Windows 98 (it was a Dell OptiPlex, GXA machine). Thanks, Ray Horsley

Re: Feature request: open stack visuals

2002-03-13 Thread Shari
Not only does this demonstrate window cloaking of sorts, but it can also do a simple magnify effect. A reset button is included but will have to be messed with to work correctly on Windows without recapturing the stack window (interesting that taking a capture on the Windows desktop reveals

Re: Stray lines

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Ray
If it is a screen redraw issue, you could do: lock screen unlock screen and that will force a redraw. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script: missing '' after literal

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:24 AM, erik hansen wrote: why would the Script Editor return 0,0? could this be a bug? Maybe. Or the missing quotation mark isn't in a place that the parser can accurately recognize, so it can't get a value for the location. You may just have to scan

Re: Feature request: open stack visuals

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Ray
Very cool stuff, Geoff! This is a great resource! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:37 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Feature request: open stack visuals

2002-03-13 Thread Karl Becker
Speaking of graphics, it would be nice if Metacard recognized slots, so that you could have several small graphics together in an image, and just pull one from the appropriate slot as needed. So that makers of adventure games don't end up with 1000 icon sized graphics to import. Though the

Feature idea/request: move object along equation

2002-03-13 Thread Karl Becker
I have an idea for improving the move command but I'm having a tricky time figuring out how the syntax, and even the concept itself, would work. I'd like to be able to use the move command to move objects in non-linear, time-variable ways. If, let's say, the current move command moves

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #127 - 13 msgs

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Crawford
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Re: Stray lines

2002-03-13 Thread Scott Raney
Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to get rid of stray lines which remain on screen after using a pulldown button? I'm getting a border where the pulldown's rectangular area of contents opened on mouseDown. I've only found this on Windows 98 (it was a Dell OptiPlex,

Re: mc 2.4.2 request

2002-03-13 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 Alex Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple function which returned the host ip address (whichever was current or a list of valid ones) without having to open a socket. What use would this be? You'd always get a list, and

Re: Feature idea/request: move object along equation

2002-03-13 Thread Scott Rossi
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Karl Becker wrote: I have an idea for improving the move command but I'm having a tricky time figuring out how the syntax, and even the concept itself, would work. I'd like to be able to use the move command to move objects in non-linear,

Re: Mc betas

2002-03-13 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
jihugzft On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 Klaus Major wrote: Hi Scott, if you read this: any chance to mirror the new betas somewhere, too ? As long as your ISP is doesn't support anonymous ftp ? I would love to check these new versions... (Maybe i am not alone... ;-) Regards Klaus Major

Re: Feature idea/request: move object along equation

2002-03-13 Thread Karl Becker
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Karl Becker wrote: I have an idea for improving the move command but I'm having a tricky time figuring out how the syntax, and even the concept itself, would work. I'd like to be able to use the move command to move objects in non-linear,

Re: Mc betas

2002-03-13 Thread andu
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: It is now a week that we don't have access to the Metacard ftp-site. This must be a very special company that is unable to provide free access to an ftp site. Hope this nuisance will be fixe soon. Indeed this is a very strange arrangement, I use one of the least

Re:Disabling text lines

2002-03-13 Thread Ray G Miller
Listers, Anyone know of a way to display a disabled line in a list field like the - (dash) in a button's list? Are there a flock of little known meta-characters (no pun intended) which can perform wondrous effects (i.e., bold, italics, disabled) on individual lines in these List Fields? Does

properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
when attempting to write something in an object's properties stack, like a name or icon number, the little stack goes blank when i press a letter key. i thought it might be something i was not setting up, and re-took the tutorials, but i can't figure out why this happens. my older objects seem

Re: Disabling text lines

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Ray G Miller wrote: Listers, Anyone know of a way to display a disabled line in a list field like the - (dash) in a button's list? Haven't tried it, but could you set the textcolor of the line to a light grey? Then check the textcolor before

properties stack freezing

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
when attempting to write something in an object's properties stack, like a name or icon number, the little stack goes blank when i press a letter key. i thought it might be something i was not setting up, and re-took the tutorials, but i can't figure out why this happens. sometimes i get this:

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 09:07 PM, erik hansen wrote: when attempting to write something in an object's properties stack, like a name or icon number, the little stack goes blank when i press a letter key. I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean you are trying to

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
It looks like you might be getting a bug from one of MetaCard's scripts. I get those too occasionally, usually from the control browser. if i create an image object, (for example) then bring up the properties dialog, then try to type a char into the Image Name field- the whole dialog goes

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 09:27 PM, erik hansen wrote: if i create an image object, (for example) then bring up the properties dialog, then try to type a char into the Image Name field- the whole dialog goes blank. What version of the OS and what version of MetaCard? I had the same

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
mac OS 9.2 MC 2.4.1 MetaCardPPC if i create an image object, (for example) then bring up the properties dialog, then try to type a char into the Image Name field- the whole dialog goes blank. What version of the OS and what version of MetaCard? I had the same thing happen, only I

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
I ran 2.4.1 under OS 9.1 for ages and never saw anything like that. Sounds like a bug though. On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 09:57 PM, erik hansen wrote: mac OS 9.2 MC 2.4.1 MetaCardPPC if i create an image object, (for example) then bring up the properties dialog, then try to type a

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
put the properties of stack MexCho, or bg btn id 1234, or whatever puts empty into the msg. yet, i can set the name using a line command in the msg. i remember noticing this while going through the Presentation tutorial. --- Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran 2.4.1 under OS

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 10:16 PM, erik hansen wrote: put the properties of stack MexCho, or bg btn id 1234, or whatever puts empty into the msg. yet, i can set the name using a line command in the msg. What you want is customkeys. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: properties stack freezing up

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
--- Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 10:16 PM, erik hansen wrote: put the properties of stack MexCho, or bg btn id 1234, or whatever puts empty into the msg. yet, i can set the name using a line command in the msg. What you want

icon id 3001 where are you?

2002-03-13 Thread erik hansen
the custom icons created in HC and opened in MC cannot be found. in HC they are referenced to the stack and appear in the icon window with the id the creator chooses. guys 4001 etc., dolls 3001 etc. where they can be edited. after going through tutorials, concepts, and references, re: icons

Re: Feature request: open stack visuals

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Talluto
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 07:56 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Quick correction - the URL is: http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ Thanks, Scott! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/