RE: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Monte Goulding
That's the educated reply I wish I could have come up with. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Opening windows behind >>> Many programs have support for

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread andu
> Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into the main window. This would be a great feature. >>> You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. >> >> Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Windows >> "feature". I

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread andu
> >While it's too early to predict exactly what other new features will >make it into the next release, and that list will be much shorter >than what we were originally planning (we didn't figure OS X would be >an issue until summer sometime, which may still turn out to be the >case ;-), we do h

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 Richard MacLemale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, the official release date for OS X is now March 24... > > How about the MetaCard engine for OS X? Is there any chance that we can get > an idea as to when this blessed event may occur? I can't wait to start > designing on O

Re: ANSWER FILE command

2001-01-18 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks to all of your helpful responses, I've now got it working. I appreciate Sjoerd's suggestion as to how I could have pin-pointed the problem myself by using answer file "Show me the file." answer it && return && the result to discover that the variable "it" did not contain what

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
>>> Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into >>> the main window. This would be a great feature. >> You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. > > Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Windows > "feature". I have ye

Re: toggle

2001-01-18 Thread MMessieh
Does anyone have a handler to change the size of a group (height and width) using a mouseDown command. I have several fields grouped together. I want a button or other object that toggles the size of this group to adjust for the diferent sizes of user computer screens. I kind of remember a "gr

Re: Toggle

2001-01-18 Thread MMessieh
This is a better toggle script but the problem now is that it is SLOW on mouseDown global dx, dy set lockmessages to true put mouseLoc() into mousePos put the loc of me into buttonPos put item 1 of buttonPos - item 1 of mousePos into dx put item 2 of buttonPos - item 2 of mousePos int

Re: toggle

2001-01-18 Thread MMessieh
Does anyone have a handler to change the size of a group (height and width) using a mouseDown or mouseDrag(?) type of command. I have several fields grouped together. I want a button or other object that toggles the size of this group to adjust for the diferent sizes of user computer screens. I

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Karl Becker
>OK, the official release date for OS X is now March 24... Hooray for that! >How about the MetaCard engine for OS X? Yes, this is the main thing that's preventing me from switching over to OS X... as soon as it hits, it may be time to get one of those G4 Cubes... >I also recommend that we (M

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Karl Becker
>OK, the official release date for OS X is now March 24... Hooray for that! >How about the MetaCard engine for OS X? Yes, this is the main thing that's preventing me from switching over to OS X... as soon as it hits, it may be time to get one of those G4 Cubes... >I also recommend that we (M

OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Richard MacLemale
OK, the official release date for OS X is now March 24... How about the MetaCard engine for OS X? Is there any chance that we can get an idea as to when this blessed event may occur? I can't wait to start designing on OS X. I also recommend that we (MetaCard developers) pool our resources to c

RE: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Monte Goulding
Really this was just a thought, I didn't mean to panic everyone. If i really thought it was important I'd be a visual basic programmer then wouldn't I. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2001 10:56 PM To:

RE: ANSWER FILE command

2001-01-18 Thread Monte Goulding
"Cancel" is actually in the result in the answer file,ask file and asswer folder commands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Rarick Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2001 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANSWER FILE command Gregor

Re: ANSWER FILE command

2001-01-18 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Jack, That seems to be contrary to the way that ASK and ANSWER work in general. I thought I had read in the MetaCard Reference that "it" would be passed the name of the button clicked. I'll try out your suggestion. Regards, Greg On 18/1/2001 2:39 PM, [EMAIL PRO

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Simon Lord
I have to agree. Nested Windows drive me nuts. This is probably because I'm a Mac and UNIX user, the idea of a Window within a Window simply defies User Interface logic. If you want this then you can simulate it with groups very easily. > > >>Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef: >> >>> Many prog

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread andu
> >Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef: > >> Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into >> the main window. This would be a great feature. >You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Wi