Trapping Cancelled Print job

2000-06-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
cancel button in the print set up dialogue box the printing continues. . . Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailing

TRAP FOR CANCELLED PRINT JOB

2000-07-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
exit mouseup else print card end if Any clues? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm P

Edit Text in Grouped Fields

2000-07-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
card contents appearing, not the edges of the stack window. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please

MC Color Palette

2000-07-02 Thread Sivakatirswami
Setting aside the issue of individual monitor gamma settings . .Is the color palette that ships with the home stack web safe? or (I guess its the same question) cross platform equivalent? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROT

Re: Digest metacard.v003.n427

2000-07-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
; Hope this helps, > Sjoerd Sorry about that, we did try searching "group" but found no reference to selectedgroupedcontrols property. . .we should have searched "select". . When the new documentation is released we will purchase a copy and read it from cover to cover!

Trap for return in field

2000-07-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
I want to prevent users from entering more than one line in certain fields. In SuperTalk I would do this by checking the field contents in a close field handler, but I was wondering if MC has a more efficient approach. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Ma

Academy Beta Site Up

2000-07-09 Thread Sivakatirswami
to one folder and saving the first stack to any other place is not important. If you have time to look and care to comment, please mail your comments off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com. www.himalayanacad

Beta Test Responses-Thank You!

2000-07-11 Thread Sivakatirswami
eophyte, what will happen." We obviously need to get a grip on the Windows installation thing. . . Thank you! What a support group. Amazing. . . Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www

Standalones-How Much Code Is Incorporated?

2000-07-11 Thread Sivakatirswami
standalone, and you haven't delivered the full engine at any point in the users history then your latest "more advanced" stack will break. We are making a lot of assumptions here. Scott, bottom line? Thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manage

Installation Interface

2000-07-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
. .and maybe its a "don't need to know" thing which "Metacard Players" could do for us. Thanks for all your patience! Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Open Closed Stack Still in Memory

2000-07-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
t place in MC's heap space? Or is it placed in a ram sector outside of MC's heap space? The second issue (besides direct access to open the stack from memory) being how far can you go with this before you better make sure you start unloading some URL's . Hinduism Today Sivakatirs

Re: Open Closed Stack Still in Memory

2000-07-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
stack there transparently, . . .but that is another story to be told later. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

systemFileSelector vs Metacard File Selector

2000-07-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
We see there is the option to set a property called the systemFileSelector What are criteria/issues are involved in making a decision to set this to true or to use the Metacard File selector? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [

Re: systemFileSelector vs Metacard File Selector

2000-07-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
rce. Correct? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: Digest metacard.v003.n442

2000-07-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
no images (one way I like to play sounds), load it into a player object then unload the URL. . .will the movie/sound track still be available to play after you unload the URL? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTEC

Downloaded Movies and Sounds in Memory?

2000-07-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
a player object then unload the URL. . .will the movie/sound track still be available to play after you unload the URL? i.e is the sound/movie file held in memory just like a stack that still exists in the mainstacks? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production M

Re: Downloaded Movies and Sounds in Memory?

2000-07-20 Thread Sivakatirswami
d by the cache at any given point in time? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Writing Files to Disk

2000-07-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
":"& "8080" into url ("file:"&tPath) end mouseUp this doesn't work. Why? Later I would write multiple preferences to multiple lines in a single file. Any insights, not only to the above problem but to saving preferences in general will be appreciated. Thanks

Re: Writing Files to Disk

2000-07-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
url ("file:"&tPath) end mouseUp Question: Why, in the Example Two above, is a slash not required after "file:" in ("file:mcPrefs/proxyPrefs.txt") but it IS required to be passed in the two line scenario in Example One? Is it because in example one we are creati

Preferences--Where to Locate

2000-07-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
metimes be MORE volatile than applications folders, the "thirst for computing power" and trouble shooting system problems, (very rare now under Mac OS System 9.0 which is rock solid.) leads to on-going updates, reformatting hard drives, re-installing systems etc. While applicatio

Testing for existence of a file

2000-07-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
om the web end if === on mouseUp put the directory & "/mcPrefs/proxyPrefs.txt" into tPrefsPath if exists url tPrefsPath then put "yes" end mouseUp The above doesn't work but the file is there and can be read from that path. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor&#

Re: Preferences--Where to Locate

2000-07-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
s our current understanding. Yes, certainly stacks will contain most needed info. But it appears for the proxySetting I have to save it as an external pref if we want the user to be able to boot an .exe file and start to download stuff from the net. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor

Re: Preferences--Where to Locate

2000-07-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
.108:8080" on line one of a text file which either exists or does not. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metac

Merge function-- Quotes inside Quotes

2000-07-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
quot; The quote char wasn't in the special char list of escapables. And put "\"whatever\"" into msg didn't work Thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-a

Setting Button Name Probelm

2000-07-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
. . . but weirdly: it sets the name of the button and then opens a second message window (which has never happened before) with a different message history in colored type? What's up? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTE

Moved Icons in Resources

2000-08-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
ht somehow generate a dialogue box requiring these icons? I don't see what they would be other than an OK button. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.

Metacard vs Flash

2000-08-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
t has mature uses), but beyond that too constrained an environment to build anything robust with any ease. But I would like some points from the sages on this list to take to the table. Thanks. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PRO

New MC Portal Key

2000-08-02 Thread Sivakatirswami
lications and require permission for re-use. But all the scripts and stack structures are "open source" freeware, grab whatever you want. Let me know if you improve on anything. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Portal Key

2000-08-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
Rodney: Sorry for my sloppy spelling. The new stack is available at www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/index.html Sivakatirswami Production Manager Hinduism Today www.HinduismToday.com www.HimalayanAcademy.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info

Re: New Portal Key

2000-08-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
Blair wrote: > Thanks to Sivakatirswami for posting the first example that I have seen of a > web-based MetaCard interface. Downloading the "portal" app took less than a > nanonsecond...and downloading content was very fast. Way cool! I can't take any credit. The mod

re: New Portal Key

2000-08-07 Thread Sivakatirswami
Ok, I blew it yesterday and put up some bad links. to everyone who might have tried http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/ and gotten broken links, they are repaired now. both the Mac PPC and the Windows standalones are up. Sorry about that. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor&#

Duplicate Backgrounds/How to Delete

2000-08-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
just the open card. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Write File Anamoly on Windows

2000-08-10 Thread Sivakatirswami
close it, even if the file does not exist to start with (the syntax implies a file exists, but it doesn't need to, at least on a MAC.) but, on the PC, it doesn't write a file to disk. It does create a directory, but if you check inside the folder there is no "proxyPrefs.txt" fi

hakey.mc stack

2000-08-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
solved my > Internet problems: Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to

Re: Digest metacard.v003.n469

2000-08-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
from our IP for some reason. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMA

Re: metacard, internet and security

2000-08-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
ir children use without logging on to the internet. But if you didn't offer a dialogue box and left secureMode false and simply did this on mouseUp create directory "stackOnDisk" save this stack as ("file:stackOnDisk/thisGreatStack.mc") Answer "Saved to your C Drive. Y

Download Stack

2000-08-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
taclass" if you have not done so already and study the one on files. Regards Sivakatirswami Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Optimum Cross Platform Text Heights

2000-08-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
e 8 in the list. OK, anyone have experience with this? Do you have a good solid working "cross platform font principle/formula" that we should adhere to to get things right on mac and PC? Does manually setting the font height make it match on all platforms? Thanks Hinduism Today Siv

Answer and Ask are Broken?

2000-08-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
ring is empty I don't get any dialogue box popping up. Also Ask "Enter a string to search for." with "OK" put it into tSearchString put tSearchstring no dialogue box opens up and I get this in the message box: " ask plainEnter a string to search for." I

Re: Optimum Cross Platform Text Heights

2000-08-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
, can you post your preopencard scripts? That will get me started. Thanks, or email off line, though others might find it useful. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.bes

Loop Sound

2000-08-20 Thread Sivakatirswami
on mouseUp repeat 10 times start player "signatureSound" end repeat end mouseUp This doesn't loop the sound, it plays only once.. .what am I doing wrong? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Loop Sound

2000-08-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
as this stack will be downloaded off the net, then the sound files load in the background, get saved to disk then played. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com

Re: Loop Sound

2000-08-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
between the end of one loop and the beginning of the next. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send

Re: Loop Sound

2000-08-25 Thread Sivakatirswami
so if it doesn't work right, the > problem is in QuickTime. But I'd check to make very sure that the > problem is not that your audio clip has some extra stuff at the start > or end of it, which is a far more likely cause of this type of > problem. > Regards, > Scott

Jaggy Images on Windows/Printing Problems

2000-08-27 Thread Sivakatirswami
hy. . So far the Beta is going incredibly smooth. People in the UKraine are already printing out Mystic Mouse for kids over there. We will go public with this two days from now. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archi

Spherical Photos

2000-09-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
ould like to be able to present these from within Metacard. Right now the only option is via a browser with some plug ins. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40l

Paint Tools/Stand Alones

2000-09-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
t seemed to apply when I tried all the tools) i.e. foreground color and back ground color etc all are inactive. . .and I can remove all those from the color chooser stack that I create for the kids running under a standalone. True? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production M

Saving images and sounds to disk

2000-09-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
rive. Or in some cases we want to save the sounds into a prefs folder we have created before. What would be the way to do that. . .I suspect it will be very similar handler to the above. Thanks! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EM

Re: Saving images and sounds to disk

2000-09-07 Thread Sivakatirswami
issues yet and so it won't be > in 2.3.2. Great! JPEG is fine, and there is no rush. I have to get the painting thing together first. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.c

MC /E Books/Small Devices/Predictions?

2000-09-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com www.HimalayanAcademy.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL P

Metacard Site Went Public

2000-09-25 Thread Sivakatirswami
paradigm" shift away from the misconception that web = netscape and or IE. Scott: I built the PPC with the latest build of 2.3.2b2.1 Let me know a month from how if you have any referrals from our domain form our MC advocacy page. Aloha from Hawaii. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Edit

Crossworld's Development Shell

2000-03-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Crossworld's developer shell/interface for MC was announced for release in Feb. . .will the announcement appear here or on some other list? thanks, Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Production Manager/Promotion www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the MetaCard mailing

MC Internet "Suite" Guidance

2000-03-25 Thread Sivakatirswami
ommands to do this ..." Is there a USER guide on line to implement this side of MC capabilities? Thanks! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Slightly OT: Cyrillic Fonts

2000-03-25 Thread Sivakatirswami
iscussions, which are not particularly "on topic" but still very germane to MC implementation.) thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best

Which Stack/Which Card Is Being Queried by Inspectors?

2000-03-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
rk environment. Also in the scripts for "help.metcard.com" we see on mouseUp downloadNgo "URL" end mouseUp but I don't find any definition and parameter listing for a command "downloadNgo" in the reference stack. I suppose this is a function, but becaus

Launch a URL in the user's Browser

2000-03-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
e whole thing just remain static and then move from card to card to examine the scripts in the cards and objects? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: h

Quicktime Movies and AIFF sound files

2000-03-26 Thread Sivakatirswami
Are Quicktime movies and AIFF sound files supported in MC? thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglis

Re: Launch a URL in the user's Browser

2000-03-27 Thread Sivakatirswami
browser, save the path to a prefs card, (yes) then pre-load html pages with the load URL command (yes) and launch them with his browser app. (not sure) . . .the cached html page is not really a file per se. . .how would this work? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Man

Import EPS

2000-03-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:56:45 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Digest metacard.v003.n300 > &g

Monitoring URL load status/load with message.

2000-03-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
n downloadNgo href put false into cancelled load href put "Loading url" && href into field "url" put empty into field "progress" set the thumbPos of sb 1 to 0 send "updateme" && quote & href & quote to me in 1 second put the long seconds into stime modal me end downloadNgo Thanks! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Delete EPS data from a stack

2000-03-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
I imported two EPS files into a stack. no objects were created and no images were displayed by they appeared i the control browser and the stack size increased in accordance with the two EPS files. How can i delete them now? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Ma

Snapshots vs JPEGs

2000-03-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
; object." there for making the JPEG a better option? For development, the snapshot approach is fast. . thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dat

Apologies for quoting the entire digest

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Apologies for quoting the entire digest on a query. . .won't happen again! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.co

Compact stack after deleting objects.

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
do? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

2 D Vector graphics

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
ctor object and crystal sharp thru all scaling or distortions. Illustrator allows for export to various MC supported formats: BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF89a, Targa, TIFF, PCX, PIXAR. which of these will be "seen" by MC as a vector object? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor'

Externals. . .how to implement

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Holder" & comma & the height of cd grc "pictHolder" end itemSelect How is this done in MC? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Won't Happen Again

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Apologies for quoting the entire digest on a query. . .won't happen again! Thanks to those who pointed it out. . . Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best

Compact Stack/Clean out EPS

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
do? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

2D Vector Objects

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
stal sharp thru all scaling or distortions. Illustrator allows for export to various MC supported formats: BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF89a, Targa, TIFF, PCX, PIXAR. which of these will be "seen" by MC as a vector object? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manage

Externals. . .how to implement

2000-03-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
get the width of cd grc "pictHolder" & comma & the height of cd grc "pictHolder" end itemSelect How is this done in MC? Second goal will be to implement the textTOspeech externals the we depend on heavily. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Ass

Polygon Buttons Possible?

2000-04-02 Thread Sivakatirswami
Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Replace function

2000-04-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
ta replace ", MD-" with ", MD" in thefiledata write thefileData to file fileName close file fileName end mouseUp but this doesn't seem to do anything to my file. . .Probably something very simple.. . . thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/P

Search and Replace Strings/Saving to Field

2000-04-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
ifically I need to replace double returns and some tab & cr combinations. But I would like to be able for the user just to paste those in. . .but if you paste a string that has a return in it into the dialogue box, the return seems to 'disappear." Do I need to use escape sequences? T

Re: Search and Replace Strings/Merge Quotes

2000-04-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
would be very useful in this situation, as well as for HTML generation. . .eliminating having to constantly do & quote & in the scripts. e.g. put Merge (" ") into tPhotoBreak where the ` char is dynamically substituted for a quote. or maybe MC has that already? or has an equally

Opening MC files without creator type

2000-04-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
y. . ." thanks. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Script Editing in Browse Mode

2000-04-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
to the toolbar to switch back to browse mode. . .i think I am close to a solution, but missing something. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: ht

Using Put to Set Image File

2000-04-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
Then it works. . .so what is this "put data in an image as container" mean? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: GURLGURL

2000-04-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
"Windows" work for both Windows 85/98 and Windows NT > > If you have trouble > finding the articles I mentioned, let me know and I'll find them and > send them to you. thanks for the help Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production

Re: Script Editing in Browse Mode

2000-04-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
urse that works, but you have to put it into every object. But what about a global implementation? I tried to put that into the front script, but after the first mouseUp which open script editor. all further mouse activity is 'dead." and I have no choice but to re-boot MC. Thanks! H

CrossPlatform CD formats

2000-04-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
fferent MC engines on the same disk? Or is the preferred method to build a stand alone, which then runs on any platform? and no engines are required on the CD? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.m

Re: CrossPlatform CD deployment

2000-04-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
taclass.] Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Window (Stack) Styles

2000-04-10 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha! How do you set the stack style to have no title bar (known as "plain" in Supercard) the only setable property we see is "resizable" Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metac

Unlock Screen with dissolve

2000-04-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
Stack wait 1 secs set the vis of this stack to true visual effect dissolve slowly unlock screen end openStack What am I doing wrong? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.co

Re: Unlock Screen with dissolve

2000-04-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
estack show grc 1 end closeStack My stack opens with grc 1 already hidden. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.

Relative Paths/Can't Find Sound File

2000-04-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
L because it is on the same folder level? Relative paths MUST be required if you were going to move the whole stacks and external media to a CD. . . So problems are two fold: 1) why doesn't the sound play at all under the simple play command and 2) Why don't the relative paths work in th

setwindow Topwindow

2000-04-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
he tools will work for the new project. How do you implement this in Metacard? Thanks Sivakatirswami Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

change ordinal card position

2000-04-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
How do you change the ordinal card position in metacard? In Supercard you either move card 4 above card 3 in SuperEdit, or, in the Project editor, cut card 4, move back to card 2 and paste card 4 which now takes ordinal position 3 in the stack. thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor&#

Relative Paths/Default Directory

2000-04-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
or an earlier open stack when you focus back on it. I guess an obvious feature request for future upgrades would be to allow you to set another property that would be "constrict to relative paths" that, if set to true, would force all file calls to look down from the current docume

Download Self-bootable stacks?

2000-04-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
quot;go" they are obviously present at that time only in RAM. Can one include a "save" command in their "on closeStack" that automatically will save it to their hard drive? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [

Re: Externals/ Implementation

2000-04-18 Thread Sivakatirswami
ot; internet delivery to a 90% Windows audience is a key aspect of what we want to do ("do it right now" education, children's on-line content i.e. to individuals who won't want to or will not be in any position to "put files in the right directories and ma

Re: Externals/ Implementation

2000-04-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
Thanks to everyone for jumping in on my externals query, and to Scott and to Andu who also wrote offline. What an amazing support group! > Re: Externals/ Implementation Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiv

Update Ink Property changes

2000-04-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
nlocking the screen, but that didn't work. Something has to happen to tell the button to go and re-display the current icon assignment. Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.bes

FTP from within MC

2000-04-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
Is it possible to make a button that initiates an FTP request e.g. you might want someone to download some PDF's from your site by having him just click a button on the stack. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

URL Exists?

2000-04-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
one should really cut his teeth on HTTP protocol if one wants to play this game. . . can anyone point me to docs that we can start studying? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-arch

ReSize Button Icon

2000-04-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
quot; to 200,400,300, 600 end preopencard if you do the above nothing happens to the image. if the rect is too small it simply crops the image. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/m

Text Attributes/Alignment

2000-04-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
available. Is this correct? The text menu does not offer "align" as in Supercard. I can only access it through the font attribute for the field and this changes the text alignment on all cards with that field. Is there a "work around?" Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor&

Re: ReSize Button Icon

2000-04-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
in some off line location: probably as a user prop of themselves would make the most sense. It means we can take our most beautiful Sanskrit fonts in Quark Express, dump all the letters as GIFS and voila we have an alphabet which is cross platform hardware-keyboard context independent. Anyone see any cav

Re: FTP from within MC

2000-04-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
> But you can do it with ftp: check out the ftp stack that Andu just mentioned > (ftp-q_b12.mc) on the MetaCard site.> Regards, > > Kevin Is there a way for the URL command to download the file via HTTP straight to the harddrive? If someone choses to download a 2 meg file the

Re: FTP from within MC

2000-04-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
any URL's that you can offer where this "required learning" can be had? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/m

More Cards/Memory Consumed

2000-04-27 Thread Sivakatirswami
hen that new card will only increase the stack size by the amount of actual new text and new images that it displays and not bring in new bytes "of itself." Is this generally correct? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAI

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