every application, that I'm astounded that this
isn't built into MetaCard already. Certainly at least basic print
functions should be native. We should at least be able to send a plain
text block to the printer without building a printing window and writing
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Everything I'm doing in MetaCard is cross-platform. XCMDs won't work for those.
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in the "go" menu.
I used to think it only happened when a menu item was even with the
lower edge of the enclosing menu button, but now I'm not sure that's it.
Has anyone else seen this behavior, and how do you get around it?
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The MetaCard engine is cool enough for the money, but the support has
been a mind-bending good time (how on earth does Raney stay on top of all
his email?).
"clone this Raney"
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version just not do it? It isn't very hard to have a script
select a line in a field if that's what you want.
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or commandKeyDown handler anywhere.
The File menu is completely enabled. The keys that do not work are in
the Edit menu, and the first few items of that menu are disabled (but
the above items are enabled.) Would that make a difference? Shouldn't
these accelerators work?
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the edges of the window but I want the cursor to be
customized within it.
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u are curious, I have uploaded the stack here:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/AddSubtract.mc
Feel free to use it with your kids if you like. It runs on Windows okay too.
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This is the MetaCard mailing list.
Archives
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ify the CD path no matter what the letter; is there a way
to do that?
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ere is a folder 'CDName'" and MC returns
"true". Do I really have to do all that scanning?
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At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:\" (with a final "\") for a volume and
"d:\myDir" (without a final "\") for directories.
Thank you. I knew it would be some kind of bizarre Windows thing. Your
explanation helps a lot.
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What is the minimum version of QuickTime required to run a player
object? Is it the same on both Windows and Mac?
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, this is possible on both platforms. On Windows, you do what Tereza
suggested - reading in the environment variables $0, $1.
Does anyone have an example script they'd be willing to share on how to
do that on Windows?
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the vowel substitution that Geoff talked
about to get your intial search word modified. Once modified though,
this is another way to accomplish the search without having to deal with
matchtext. Also, matchtext only works in one field at a time; the above
will search the entire stack.
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my site in the MetaCard section of the Links page:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/links.html
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r 2.x used to show the MC icon immediately after the build.
Can anyone pinpoint what's wrong?
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Dave Cragg wrote:
Are the finder flags set appropriately?
Urk. Thanks. It was the bundle bit. I never thought to check the finder
flags; I don't remember having to before. The upside is that now I have
a really, really, *really* clean desktop file. :)
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Is MC 2.3 compatible with Mac OS 9? I haven't tried it yet.
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I had a script that used to work in MC 2.2.x -- it loaded a url and then
used "go url theURL" to open it. Now the url will load, but I can't
"go" to it. Did something change? How would I refer to the cached url in
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-- more stuff; handle errors
end loadURL
I don't know if this is bullet-proof. Is it?
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just "ask the user", as was suggested here, and that's why I need
to use the "load" command so that I can do the checking in the
background without interrupting stack usage. If there is a better way to
accomplish any of this, I'm open to suggestion.
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Scott Raney wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
Ping?
It's a standard tool on UNIX and Windows systems.
Could this be done via MetaCard scripts?
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lick
the start arrow, and you can't move it with the mouse. It doesn't look
like a memory problem, since the heapspace reports over 4 megs of free RAM.
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to have to just break down
and implement this feature. This is the fourth request I've seen for it
on the list.
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ntain them, but they work
fine with text import/export.
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typing in fields and
all other user actions while any number of movies play. The location of
the cursor is unimportant.
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Scott Raney wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
HyperCard solves this by putting each QT movie in its own window. You
can show the window as "borderless" and "non-floating" in order to make
it appear to be part of the card. Clicks on th
net Config extension installed
(newer systems call it the "Internet" control panel) and a default
browser must be assigned in the browser section.
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or 3 weeks of entries
are available (at least, that's all I could find the last time I tried
searching for something.)
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editmenu setting at all, it is always false.
How come it won't stay put? What are the rules?
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In HyperCard, the value of any phrase in quotes returns the entire
phrase. In MetaCard, this:
the value of "my dog"
returns "my". Is this right? What are the rules?
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Scott Raney wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
At 5:10 AM -0700 5/23/2000, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
Then what is value("1+1")? Should it be the string "1+1"? Or the
expected re
and set a button icon to
use them instead, but there are almost a megabyte of images and the
stack would get fairly bloated.
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gif first and then import it? Or do snapshots already use some sort of
compression? Which would be smaller?
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worked.
I don't know what happened, but something interfered with it temporarily.
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om creator code to locate the app is a good
one) but it is very straightforward, and because it is so routinely done
on the Mac, no one will question it at all.
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If I use my Mac to build a Linux app or a Windows app, do I need to set
the stack's "look and feel" to the target platform before I do the
build, or will the engine do that automatically for me?
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If the order above is wrong, how does it go?
The docs should have a listing of all message orders for common events.
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Kevin Miller wrote:
On 1/7/00 5:55 am, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the message order for a normal double-click event on an object?
mouseDown
mouseUp
mouseDoubleDown
mouseDoubleUp
Oof. This is way different than HyperCard, and considerably pared down
his syntax:
ask password "What is the password?"
The user's entry will be encrypted and placed in the variable "it". This
is a way to encrypt only the password, without having to encrypt the
entire stack.
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n it won't get there.
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hat seemed obvious to me were, in fact, related to the
actual property name. I believe I searched for "group" but since it
isn't at the beginning of the name, it wasn't found (I should have been
using "find string" but it didn't occur to me I'd have to.)
So, don't feel bad.
designing
custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the
user's selected system font. Can I get this info?
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Kevin Miller wrote:
On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When designing
custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the
user's selected system font. Can I get this info?
At present, a good solution to this particluar problem isn't
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote:
Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running
MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On
Windows, probably MS Sans Serif.
Set the font to 0 (zero)
Aha!! Whee! Thanks
last column's
width is calculated. You'll also probably want to lock the screen while
this runs.
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control
a graphics application to perform these tasks?
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, but that little spot that hides
behind the back of my brain wouldn't let me.
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I'd like to see Command-Q (Control-Q, etc.) built into the engine as a
permanant fixture. You should always be able to quit, no matter what.
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if there are stacks
hidden but open.
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perty. Anything like that available? Or is the inability to display a
custom forecolor over a hilite just a bug?
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