Can't hurt to ask...

2002-08-08 Thread Richard MacLemale
This falls under the Yeah, right category, but you never know until you ask. What would be involved with having a MetaCard stack talk to a digital camera? (Stop laughing.) In theory, could a stack communicate via USB with a camera, and control it, as in tell it to take a picture, then download

Re: Can't hurt to ask...

2002-08-08 Thread Shao Sean
What would be involved with having a MetaCard stack talk to a digital learn it's language (the protocol).. some companies release this information, most don't.. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Feature requests: page setup info and styled text transfer

2002-08-08 Thread David Epstein
I have been following this list for 6 months or so and have seen a couple of wish lists that corresponded to my own highest priorities: 1. some readable property that would allow a script to know what settings the user made in the page setup dialog called by the answer printer command. 2. an

Re: Can't hurt to ask...

2002-08-08 Thread Braintree Athletics
What would be involved with having a MetaCard stack talk to a digital camera? -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School I haven't had a chance to work with QT 6 yet ... but it might have some inertersting hooks to a camera. I know that BTV Pro ( a

Text length

2002-08-08 Thread Simon Lord
Here is a small problem I'm having with text *collisions*. I have a field who's contents are the names, dates and sizes of all the files in a directory. The items are separated by a set of tabs, which can me adjusted left or right via a widget at the top of the field. So imagine sliding

Re: Feature requests: page setup info and styled text transfer

2002-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Epstein wrote: For printing, Metacard itself must be able to read the page setup conditions so that it can execute print commands. But if scripters don't know those conditions, they can't design appropriate printing routines. A suggested syntax: pageArea property values: two

Re: Text length

2002-08-08 Thread Ken Ray
Simon, this was fixed in 2.4.2. All you need to do is to turn on the vGrid of the field and the text will truncate and allow the columns to be displayed properly. If you don't want to display the grid lines, you can change the field's border color to white. From the Read Me: