Re: Quintessential XCMDs

2002-12-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
For anyone who's interested, the list in question is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/messages Alas, I don't know the available XCMDs well enough to know what each of the ones on the list does. I'm curious, though -- what were the seven and what do they do? On Tuesday, December 24,

Player and Field

2002-12-25 Thread Vikram Singh
I try typing a sentence in a field; the card also has a player. On pressing the Space Bar the player starts/stops. Is there a way to avoid this. Your help will be appreciated. Rgds Vikram PS (The platform is Windows) ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Visual Basic and video

2002-12-25 Thread Braintree Athletics
Klaus Major wrote: revVideoGrabber videograbbercommand>,optionalparameters :-) How do you like this line ;-) All this and more in the next version of RR. And crossplatform, of course... Okay Klaus - I'll bite! Do you really think that "videoGrab" is a part of Rev 2.0? Do you think it would be

Re: Visual Basic and video

2002-12-25 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jack, Klaus Major wrote: revVideoGrabber videograbbercommand,optionalparameters  :-) How do you like this line ;-) All this and more in the next version of RR. And crossplatform, of course...   Okay Klaus - I'll bite!  Ouch ! ;-) Do you really think that videoGrab is a part of Rev

Re: Visual Basic and video

2002-12-25 Thread Braintree Athletics
I don't know about details (i do not have any video device yet, although it is christmas :-(, but on a Mac you can do it with Quicktime and on windoze you have the choice of QT of Video for windoze Wow! This sounds very cool! Now - I hate to keep bugging here - but I am actually a

Re: Visual Basic and video

2002-12-25 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jack, I don't know about details (i do not have any video device yet, although it is christmas :-(, but on a Mac you can do it with Quicktime and on windoze you have the choice of QT of Video for windoze Wow! This sounds very cool! Now - I hate to keep bugging here - but I am actually

Re: Player and Field

2002-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/25/02 7:36 AM, Vikram Singh wrote: I try typing a sentence in a field; the card also has a player. On pressing the Space Bar the player starts/stops. Is there a way to avoid this. This is one of the built-in behaviors of QuickTime. There are a lot of other keys that activate various

RE: Player and Field

2002-12-25 Thread Vikram Singh
J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the built-in behaviors of QuickTime. There are a lot of other keys that activate various behaviors too, which allow a player object to be controlled from the keyboard. In one of my stacks, this was a big advantage and I appreciated the

Re: Visual Basic and video

2002-12-25 Thread Vikram Singh
Klaus Major wrote: The grabimage command grabs the current frame, and copies it to the specified variable (videoimagedata) as imagedata (rgb, rgb). You can then set the imagedata of an image.to display the frame. Useful if you want to take a photograph. Sounds promising, doesn't it ?! :-) Got

Re: Quintessential XCMDs

2002-12-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: I thought this was interesting: Today on the HyperCard mailing list a member posted a list of 66 XCMDs/XFCNs that he considered quintessential -- externals that a serious developer simply could not do without. I was familiar with almost all of them, having used most of

[ANN] RevNet launched

2002-12-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Announcing RevNet - a new service for Revolution and MetaCard developers This free plugin downloads and opens RevNet, an AOL-like online journal and resource index specifically for Revolution and MetaCard Developers. RevNet's index of downloadable stacks provides a form so you can add your own

Re: Quintessential XCMDs

2002-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/25/02 6:02 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Alas, I don't know the available XCMDs well enough to know what each of the ones on the list does. I'm curious, though -- what were the seven and what do they do? I just knew somebody was going to ask me that. ;) I had to go back and re-read the list,