The second issue, which I'm still wrestling with, is how to get the
documents for my App to show up on the Windows desktop with the icons I've
assigned to them. I'm learning it takes a lot more than simply assigning
them in MetaCard's Standalone Builder. Ken Ray has a wonderful piece on
on 9/27/02 7:16 PM, Shari at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MetaCard has its creator and type codes set up to only display Mac
files in its open file dialogs. You can still compile for other
platforms, but you'll have to type in the engine path manually.
Ignore the button that lets you choose an
I would like to copy a field and paste it into a word
document - and retain the text format. Can this be
done in metacard? I can copy and paste fine but the
formating is lost.
I think this is inevitable, but if there is a way to
copy text by hand or programmatically such that it
saves the
--On Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:19:09 -0700 Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you tell if an Internet connection is availble without typing up
the user's machine?
On Mac classic if you do [put hostnametoaddress(localhost]) with no
internet connection you get an error
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
How do you tell if an Internet connection is availble without typing up the
user's machine?
Not sure about Macs, but I've done some testing with connections on Windows.
It appears that any call to a Web-based URL will automatically open a
connection if a
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/28/02 12:24 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
I've encountered two issues in making my Windows App.
The first one is doing something about Window's propensity to open a second
copy of my App if it's double-clicked again after a
I copied a card from a stack that was originally created in Hypercard.
When I pasted the card into another Metacard stack, new created fields -
created after the pasting - still require to be addressed with card
field.
Is there a possibility to convert the pasted card to get rid of the
Hypertalk
On 9/29/02 3:19 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
Is there a possibility to convert the pasted card to get rid of the
Hypertalk terminology (apart from rebuilding the card from scratch by
creating a new card with new controls and new scripts)?
Set the hcaddressing of this stack to false
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On 9/29/02 3:07 PM, Scott Raney wrote:
I think what is required here is an attitude adjustment rather than
some sort of engineering change. Repeat after me: Windows is not
MacOS. Starting up multiple copies of an app is the the way it's
*supposed* to work if that's what the user wants. If
