Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Hello, Could someone please enlighten me as to why ordinary text (no formatting) uploaded via ftp to a server behaves perfectly when uploading it from Windows, whereas on Mac all returns have disappeared and been replaced by lots of boxes? This is with MC2.4. The script I use: put

Re: wait for moves

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Walas
I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the screen. Depending on user choices, sometimes there are simultaneous moving objects ( because without waiting was used for the objects move). This is the problem.. I want all the objects to finish their moves before the

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Klaus
Hi Signe Marie, Hello, Could someone please enlighten me as to why ordinary text (no formatting) uploaded via ftp to a server behaves perfectly when uploading it from Windows, whereas on Mac all returns have disappeared and been replaced by lots of boxes? This is with MC2.4. The script I

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Domi
Signe Marie Sanne ecrivait / wrote: Could someone please enlighten me as to why ordinary text (no formatting) uploaded via ftp to a server behaves perfectly when uploading it from Windows, whereas on Mac all returns have disappeared and been replaced by lots of boxes? That is the different

Fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Everyone, I'm working on a Mac, creating my first cross-platform stack, and I've read in the archives that Arial, Time New Roman and Helvetica are fairly safe fonts to use. Any others? Regards, Greg

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Domi
Signe Marie Sanne ecrivait / wrote: Could someone please enlighten me as to why ordinary text (no formatting) uploaded via ftp to a server behaves perfectly when uploading it from Windows, whereas on Mac all returns have disappeared and been replaced by lots of boxes? That is the different

Re: wait for moves

2001-10-31 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Michael, I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the screen. Depending on user choices, sometimes there are simultaneous moving objects ( because without waiting was used for the objects move). This is the problem.. I want all the objects to finish their

Re: Visual effects and/or QT effects

2001-10-31 Thread Domi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrivait / wrote: I use the following handler to deal with visual effects. Visual effects that are from the answer effect dialog have a long sequence of characters. I store these in separate fields. Then I just call their contents when I need them OKay! One cannot call

Re: Fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Gregory Lypny wrote: I'm working on a Mac, creating my first cross-platform stack, and I've read in the archives that Arial, Time New Roman and Helvetica are fairly safe fonts to use. Any others? Verdana is also good for on-screen use. Regards, Scott

Re: Visual effects and/or QT effects

2001-10-31 Thread Domi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrivait / wrote: I use the following handler to deal with visual effects. Visual effects that are from the answer effect dialog have a long sequence of characters. I store these in separate fields. Then I just call their contents when I need them OKay! One cannot call

Re: Fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Gregory Lypny asked: I've read in the archives that Arial, Time New Roman and Helvetica are fairly safe fonts to use. Any others? Helvetica is not listed in my MSWord. But Century, the Latinate font which my Japanese OS prefers, seems ubiquitous. Cheers. Nicolas Archives:

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 9:54 AM -0600 10/31/01, Ken Ray wrote: This has to do with the fact that the Mac uses a carriage return/line-feed combination (CRLF) at the end of each line, and Windows generally uses just LFs (or is just CRs? I can't remember right now). CRs are ASCII 13, LFs are ASCII 10, BTW. In any event,

Re: wait for moves

2001-10-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Michael Walas wrote: I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the screen. Depending on user choices, sometimes there are simultaneous moving objects ( because without waiting was used for the objects move). This is the problem.. I want all the

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 31/10/01 3:54 PM, Ken Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has to do with the fact that the Mac uses a carriage return/line-feed combination (CRLF) at the end of each line, and Windows generally uses just LFs (or is just CRs? I can't remember right now). CRs are ASCII 13, LFs are ASCII 10,

Re: wait for moves

2001-10-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 7:08 PM +0100 10/31/01, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Michael, I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the screen. Depending on user choices, sometimes there are simultaneous moving objects ( because without waiting was used for the objects move). This is the

Arrays! We have arrays?!?

2001-10-31 Thread Ray G Miller
I was amazed and delighted to learn MC had array tools! They could be a bazillion times faster than running thru a repeat loop But where are they? I looked under every bushel basket Scott has scattered around but could find nary a mention of array, itemArray, or thingieArray. These neat

Re: Arrays! We have arrays?!?

2001-10-31 Thread andu
Ray G Miller wrote: I was amazed and delighted to learn MC had array tools! They could be a bazillion times faster than running thru a repeat loop But where are they? I looked under every bushel basket Scott has scattered around but could find nary a mention of array, itemArray, or

Re: Arrays! We have arrays?!?

2001-10-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 1:37 PM + 10/31/01, Ray G Miller wrote: Do squre brackets, [], define an array? Are arrays tab delimited, comma delimited or can any char work? Besides itemArray, what are the other array tools? So many questions, so little doc... How many other undocumented functions are there? [Of

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Ken Ray
Ben, Thanks for the clarification... I *knew* I'd forgotten something... As for your comment about CRLF, VB has that as a constant (vbCRLF), so why shouldn't MetaCard? ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: Ben, Thanks for the clarification... I *knew* I'd forgotten something... As for your comment about CRLF, VB has that as a constant (vbCRLF), so why shouldn't MetaCard? ;-) Seconded (that's the only ToolBook token I fell in love with). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: wait for moves

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Walas
This list is the best! The line below worked. Thanks everybody. How about: wait until the movingControls = empty Maybe that'll do it. Phil I wrote: I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the screen. Depending on user choices, sometimes there are

Re: Fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks, Nicholas and Scott for the font advice. Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Take chances, make mistakes! - Ms

RE: Fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Monte Goulding
Fonts are a bugger! I can't remember the url but if you search for fonts on the Microsoft website you will find a cross platform package of fonts that are free to download and are also distributed with IE 5. I think you can even distribute them but I'm not sure. Note that Windows 95 has a very

Re: RFC: Optimizing stripDup()

2001-10-31 Thread LiangTyan Fui
On 10/29/01 11:09 PM, eugen helbling wrote: Hi LiangTyan, just to demonstrate that the new split(I like them) can do in case of duplicate removing. for example you have a field/variable having something like nameA,firstnameB cr nameA,firstnameC in it, you can use split handler to

Re: RFC: Optimizing stripDup()

2001-10-31 Thread andu
LiangTyan Fui wrote: On 10/29/01 11:09 PM, eugen helbling wrote: Hi LiangTyan, just to demonstrate that the new split(I like them) can do in case of duplicate removing. for example you have a field/variable having something like nameA,firstnameB cr nameA,firstnameC in it,