Speed of different versions of MC?

simpler to design but less efficient to parse would cause no detectible lag. Many thanks for any thoughts. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Where do Command-C and Command-V get handled?

combinations are used? Many thanks. David Epstein (MC2.5 on Mac OSX 10.4.) ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

When can MC find stacks?

. the stack whose script contains the go command? c. some other open stack? d. a stack that is in use? 6. Other conditions I haven't thought of? A related question: Is it good practice to use the file extension .mc or .rev in a go stack shortName command? Many thanks. David Epstein

Metacard 2.5 to Revolution 2.9 glitch

things? Or does the fact that my stacks are Metacard files cause a problem? Can anyone offer a diagnosis or remedy? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Printing a PDF with Metacard

thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Copying an image, or part of it, to the clipboard

to convert to screen coordinates the coordinates of rect r in a stack whose topLeft is at s -- eg for use in import snapshot repeat with i = 1 to 4 add item (1 + (i+1) mod 2) of s to item i of r end repeat return r end shiftedRect Any insights about this would be greatly appreciated. David

Making a pasted image opaque

, I'd like to make the image I've pasted fully opaque. Is there a way to script this transformation? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Controlling PDFs in Player Object on Mac

In case anyone else wonders about this question, I have found a solution by trial and error. This may not be the best way (and the play command, according to the MC help, should be replaced in future development by the start command, although there is no mention of start step), but it seems to

Controlling PDFs in Player Object on Mac

-1) where z is the number of pages in the PDF. But set the currentTime of player 1 to (n-1)*75 does not consistently cause page n to be shown. Does someone know how to do this, or where I can learn how to do this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard

Disappearing property palette objects

? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Disregard previous

Hope nobody has been puzzling over my problem with the property palette, which I just solved. Turns out my own handler executed a select empty on suspendStack, which unselected the group, and so made the group property palette no longer appropriate. David Epstein

Re: Re: Is the clipboardData really an array?

Many thanks to Jacqueline Landman Gay for a very thorough and lucid explanation. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Is the clipboardData really an array?

] is not empty) after fld 1 put the clipboardData into myArrayVar put return *** the keys of the clipboardData after fld 1 put *** the keys of myArrayVar after fld 1 put *** the clipboard after fld 1 end mouseUp Any insights? David Epstein ___ metacard

Copying fields and their contents

, and this would make sense to me since copying a field (as distinguished from creating a new field) should copy its properties. But now I am only getting the empty field. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http

Networked stacks

that exemplify this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Toxic Text Crashes MC 2.5

can't really know what's wrong with it. Anyone have any related experiences, insights, or suggestions of how to proceed? Thanks very much. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

Debugging dragDrop handler crashes Metacard

Using MC2.5 on OSX 10.2, I am writing a fairly complicated dragDrop handler, which decides what text to insert at the dropChunk, and whether to preserve or delete the chunk that was originally dragged, and then carries out those decisions. I'm handling and not passing both the dragEnd and

Re: Option and shift keys down undetected

to scripts that check the commandKey (always returning up), even though command-letter combination commands still work. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Option and shift keys down undetected

. And just now it returned very promptly. The option key is not completely disabled even when this condition strikes; for example, with the pointer tool selected, option-dragging will successfully duplicate a button. Is there a recognized cause or cure for this problem? Many thanks. David Epstein

Does raisePalettes not work in OSX?

document window, while still looking like a palette (with the narrow title bar)? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Cloning a stack and renaming it.

as longName ** This is the line that's not working as I expect. My model stack gets cloned, with Copy of ATCMO in the title bar. But the next line does not manage to change its name, and so the last line can't save a stack that doesn't exist. Many thanks. David Epstein

Re: Handling a system shutdown

if end appleEvent This does the job. Thank you! Can something like this be done in Windows? David Epstein PS: Apologies to all for having accidentally replicated the digest in my original query. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Mysterious popup stack behavior

will be what it was before you tried to set it in this preOpenStack handler. I hope these results may be found useful by others, and look forward to any corrections to them that others may discover. David Epstein on 11/3/02 11:14 AM, I wrote: Does anyone understand how Metacard handles

Mysterious popup stack behavior

specify and whose controls will not scroll. Is there some height range within which I can do this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Detect ResizeStack completion?

? Further suggestions are welcome. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Feature requests: page setup info and styled text transfer

that for printer-required margins). Legal paper, landscape, 50% choices = 1872,1224. If this information were available, the excellent print... into rect command would be much more useful. Can this be done? And how about pasting styled text? David Epstein

Popup menu with a selected Line?

if the list of choices is taller than the screen? 3. Is it a reasonable feature request for MC to add a selectedLine or hilitedLine property to a button whose style is popup? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Menuhistory bug?

choice). But it appears that for a menu to be part of a group that will be displayed in the Mac menubar it must have the pulldown style. Thanks for any insights on this. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com

Undoing

to clear the custom undo buffer? Is there some way to detect when MC's own undo option (for its own undoable routines) has become (or whether it remains) available? Thanks for any thoughts. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Why all the empty opencard handlers?

be frustrated as the message is intercepted by the card script's empty opencard handler? I suspected this might be a property of the templateCard that I could change, but when I try to get the script of the templateCard I get nothing. Any ideas? David Epstein