Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> >> I wonder: if all of us posted to the message board there, we'd probably >> have more "get over it, get MetaCard" messages than all the "gosh, but I >> like HyperCard" messages. :) > > I think it's better to just leave them alone.

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Mark Talluto
Cl! I can't wait. I know there are a lot of other people here that can't either. -Mark On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 05:53 PM, Scott Raney wrote: > And speaking of OS X ports, we should start testing the next release > of MetaCard in a few days, including the new Carbon engine. Archive

Cloned Ask and Answer Dialogs

2001-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Ok, Please confirm then Use of the "ask" and "answer" commands will invoke ONLY the "ask dialog" and "answer dialog" substacks of the mctools.mc If that is true, the suggestion to "use of the ask dialog is discouraged, however... a better idea is to clone this dialog and give it a more descripti

OS X (was: Re: Read this?)

2001-03-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 6:53 PM -0700 3/30/01, Scott Raney wrote: >And speaking of OS X ports, we should start testing the next release >of MetaCard in a few days, including the new Carbon engine. Though Whooo!!! Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info:

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone read this? It's a hoot. > > http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/26.hypercard.shtml It's also probably just plain inaccurate: if our own porting experience is any guide, it'd be a *lot* more work to port HyperCard to Carbo

Re: iHUG

2001-03-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Klaus Major wrote: > > Hi folks, > > this is especially for Pierre. > > Please, Pierre, this is your last post, but where is the punchline? > > I mean, what did you really post. > > All i can read are quotes. > > Remember the discussion about wasting bandwidth? > Well, ehm... > > This is a

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > > > > I wonder: if all of us posted to the message board there, we'd probably > > have more "get over it, get MetaCard" messages than all the "gosh, but I > > like HyperCard" messages. :) > > I think it's better to just leave them al

Re: List auto-unsubscribe? (was "OS X")

2001-03-30 Thread Phil Davis
I un-subbed on my @home account and re-subbed on another e-mail account. Hopefully that'll take care of it. I saw (by looking at the list archive site, cuz I stopped receiving it by e-mail) that someone else has had problems with list mail via @home service too. Thanks. Phil Davis - Origin

RE: answer/ask dialogs + repeat loops

2001-03-30 Thread Monte Goulding
I have found this also but it's not only a rev bug. A workaround I use is "wait 6 ticks" after wach call to a modal dialog which usually forces a screen redraw. > > When an answer or ask dialog triggers a longer repeat loop (e.g. > colorizing particular strings in a fields with a greater number of

Re: Oh my god...

2001-03-30 Thread andu
Simon Lord wrote: > > Now the Hypercard users got themselves on Slashdot! ...with the big boys... > > http://www.slashdot.org/ > > -- > > Cheers, > Simon Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug re

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Richard MacLemale
As a former HyperCard advocate, I have to say that I agree that making fun of HyperCard users is lame. Yes MetaCard blows HyperCard away, but at 10 times the price. We need to remember that MetaCard is not priced for beginner programmers and hobbyists. It's priced for pros. If HyperCard could

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread andu
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > > > > I wonder: if all of us posted to the message board there, we'd probably > > have more "get over it, get MetaCard" messages than all the "gosh, but I > > like HyperCard" messages. :) > > I think it's better to just leave them al

Oh my god...

2001-03-30 Thread Simon Lord
Now the Hypercard users got themselves on Slashdot! http://www.slashdot.org/ -- Cheers, Simon All your .com .net and .org domains for only $14.50 each. Get them while they last... http://www.amigo-3.com/hosting/ -- "The great discoveries in sc

Re: List auto-unsubscribe? (was "OS X")

2001-03-30 Thread Phil Davis
If this message makes it to the list, I wasn't auto-unsubscribed at the end of the day I sent my last message. However, I haven't received any list mail since that day (28 March). H. Phil Davis - Original Message - From: "Phil Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > I wonder: if all of us posted to the message board there, we'd probably > have more "get over it, get MetaCard" messages than all the "gosh, but I > like HyperCard" messages. :) I think it's better to just leave them alone. Those who need a more full-bodied tool hav

Re: Read This

2001-03-30 Thread andu
> >>Anyone read this? It's a hoot. >> >>http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/26.hypercard.shtml > >>This guys didn't have sex in a very long time. >>They are probably the same people who say MetaCard is too expansive but >>they have the >>money to buy MacOS X and put up a stand to express unf

Re: iHUG

2001-03-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi folks, this is especially for Pierre. Please, Pierre, this is your last post, but where is the punchline? I mean, what did you really post. All i can read are quotes. Remember the discussion about wasting bandwidth? Well, ehm... This is a very "good" example for that topic. Or am i overs

Re: [OT] Scriptics.com? Osterhaut gone?

2001-03-30 Thread Rick Rice
andu: Is this it? http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/scripting.html andu wrote: > > > >I've been looking for the Osterhaut paper on "Scripting: Programming for the > >21st Century", but it seems the Scriptics.com server is offline -- for about > >a month now.

Re: Ask and Answer Clones/How to invoke

2001-03-30 Thread Kevin Miller
On 28/3/01 6:19 am, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to I make sure the "Input" dialog stack opens and not the native/on > board "Ask" dialog opens? And will it pass the data to the variable it, > regardless of the stack name? This isn't supported - you would need to write a custo

Re: Read This

2001-03-30 Thread Rob Cozens
>Anyone read this? It's a hoot. > >http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/26.hypercard.shtml >This guys didn't have sex in a very long time. >They are probably the same people who say MetaCard is too expansive but >they have the >money to buy MacOS X and put up a stand to express unfulfillment

Re: answer/ask dialogs + repeat loops

2001-03-30 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
> Subject: > answer/ask dialogs + repeat loops >Date: > Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:25:11 +0200 >From: > Wilhelm Sanke > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > When an answer or ask dialog triggers a longer repeat loop (e.g. > colorizing particular strings in a fiel

Re: [OT] Scriptics.com? Osterhaut gone?

2001-03-30 Thread michael kann
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html+ousterhout&hl=en The above URL took me there. All one word of course. Ousterhout brought in the money guys and changed the name from Scriptics to Aruba to service the B2B market. Aruba was then sold to a

HowToFindSMTP?

2001-03-30 Thread michael kann
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LexiBot

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Re: answer/ask dialogs + repeat loops

2001-03-30 Thread Dave Cragg
At 11:25 am +0200 30/3/01, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: >When an answer or ask dialog triggers a longer repeat loop (e.g. >colorizing particular strings in a fields with a greater number of >textlines or changing the color/shape of a greater number of graphics or >fields etc.) the dialogs remain on top of

answer/ask dialogs + repeat loops

2001-03-30 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
When an answer or ask dialog triggers a longer repeat loop (e.g. colorizing particular strings in a fields with a greater number of textlines or changing the color/shape of a greater number of graphics or fields etc.) the dialogs remain on top of the screen until the repeat loop is finished. In t

Re: iHUG

2001-03-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Klaus Major a écrit : > > Hi Andu, > > > From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Read this? > > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:29:30 -0500 (EST) > > > >> > >> Anyone read this? It's a hoot. > >> > >> http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/26.hypercard.shtml > > > > This guys didn't have se