Re: Referencing a Windows CD

[Jacqueline Landman Gay]

Claude Lemmel wrote:
> 
> >  >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine?
> >  >This returns false:
> >  >  there is a directory "D:/"
> 
> Yes but
> there is a directory "D://" ... returns true
> 
> That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS.
> 
> 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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Re: accented vowels

[Dave Cragg]

At 12:15 PM -0600 2/2/2000, LK Hagen wrote:
>On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
>>I am working on grammar stacks (for my language students).  One of the
> >problems that language students have is typing accented vowels. For this
>>reason, I have created butttons which will put accented vowels into the
>> answer field.  The script below allows me to put the accented vowel in the
>> answer field but it will fail substituting  a selected text. Any idea on
>> how to fix the script?
>
>
>Mine worked when I just did
>
>on mouseUp
>put "i" into the selectedChunk
>end mouseUp
>

Hi

Possibly the setting of the traversalOn property of the button affects this.

Set to true, and clicking the button removes the focus from the field 
so the selectedChunk will be empty. Try setting it to false to keep 
the selection in the field.

Cheers
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And now for a MetaCard Moment

[Raymond E. Griffith]

I would like to share a Metacard Moment with all of you.

I am operating an internet Trigonometry course. For the course I have
created dozens of gif files, each with several pages, each page timed to
deliver one part of a concept. The time varied from 1 second to as long as
30 seconds, depending upon the complexity of the individual page.

Some students wanted to be able to page through the files more quickly, so I
converted the gifs to Quicktime files. That was OK for a while, but recently
Tripod (where my course material sits) decided that QT files should not be
allowed to operate.

So today, I threw together a 1-card MetaCard stack, with a viewer and a
button. The student downloads the gif to his disk, opens the MetaCard
standalone, clicks the button, selects the file, and he or she is able to
page through it at their own leisure with the controller.

And it only took me about a half-hour to get it right!

Now good people, where else are you going to get a cross-platform product
that will let you do something like that, that quickly?

Scott and company, I thank you very much!

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Excellent Self-Ed Resource

[Phil Davis]

I've enjoyed freesoft's "Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia" so much
I had to tell somebody:

http://freesoft.org/CIE/index.htm

It helps me make a whole lot more sense out of those RFCs I've been
reading...

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Re: converting with styled text

[Scott Raney]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> It seems that when I convert a HyperCard stack, any style runs in the
> fields are lost. All the text is set to Arial plain. Does anyone know of a
> way to avoid this? Thanks.

Most likely the problem is that those style runs are in a font that
isn't available on the current system.  In this case the engine will
substitute Helvetica (or Arial if Helvetica isn't available).  If
you've really got a stack that doesn't convert properly, please email
a copy of it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: RTF export

[David Bovill]

I'd like to have a peek, and maybe able to contribute...

> From: Hugh Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: RTF export
> 
> I've been working on exporting fields to various different formats in an
> attempt to maintain as much of the layout and styling as possible. It
> includes an rtf option, but further work is needed to handle multiple
> fonts, colors and tab settings.
> 
> Is anyone up for it or interested in pursuing this with me?
> 
> /H
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Re: The Help menu

[Craig Spooner]

Dear Scott and everyone who responded,

Thanks for your help with this.  You were right that the problem of 
the non-scrolling menu was fixed with the latest version of 2.3. 
Somehow I thought that's what I was using, but apparently not.

I'd still like to ask about how I can get the checkmark to appear 
next to the currently selected menuitem.  Is there an example 
somewhere in the MC stacks that I can use as a model?

Thanks,

Craig


>From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: The Help menu
>
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
>
> > Ah, but I am using the most recent build of 2.3.  It must be
> > something simple that I'm missing to get a pop-up menu to scroll up
> > and down, but what?
>
>You shouldn't have to do anything, it should just do it automagically
>if the menu is taller than the screen.
>
> > Regarding the stubborn Help menu, perhaps you're right:  the OS may
> > require that it be there.  Hopefully the menuitems can at least be
> > changed!  I'll put it to the test.
>
>You can change the items in that menu.  Note that the last item is
>moved to the first item of the Apple menu (it should be "About
>yourproduct...") and that there has to be a divider just above that.
>  Regards,
>Scott


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Re: playStopped

[Geoff Canyon]

On 2/2/00 3:47 AM, Nicolas R Cueto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi again,
>
>How do you phrase the playStopped message? From its description in the
>reference, I'm guessing playStopped is what I need to use in order to
>prevent a sound file from starting to play before another sound file has
>finished playing.
>
>FWiW, the reason I need something like playStopped is that I want to play a
>series of consecutively numbered sound files, via something like:
>
>  repeat with i = 1 to (the number of sound files)
>  wait until playStopped (???)
>  play (sound file i)
>  end repeat
>

It's much simpler (and better) than this. PlayStopped is sent when the 
sound stops, so you don't have to use the wait command, MetaCard does it 
for you. The following should play a series of sound files, from 1.au to 
lastSound.au:

local whichSound, lastSound

on mouseUp
put 1 into whichSound
put 30 into lastSound  --here you would put whatever the last sound is
play (whichSound & ".au")
end mouseUp

on playStopped
add 1 to whichSound
if whichSound > lastSound then exit playStopped
play (whichSound & ".au")
end playStopped


On the other hand, if you _want_ to lock out user interaction during 
playback, you'd have to do something different.

Hope this helps,

gc

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Re: splash screen strategy

[Craig Spooner]

Thanks everybody for all your great suggestions.  Based on your 
comments, I believe I will go back to the splash screen as a substack 
of the rest of the project.

Thanks,

Craig

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Re: cant open text files on a CD

[Scott Raney]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Rob Pitt wrote:

> My W95 MC stacks open text files on their CD (ISO 9660) with no problems.
> Now I want to produce a Mac version of my work but MC wont open text files
> on the CD (Mac Files and Folders using Toast 3.5). MC can see them but wont
> open them.
> >From the message box 'open file "D:/readme.txt"' works fine on Windows but
> 'open file "/CDROMname/readme.txt"' wont open on the Mac. In both cases 'if
> there is a file "." then put "yes"' is successful so the Mac version
> can see the file on the CD but it wont open. Both CDs burnt from the Mac.
> Any ideas?

Check "the result" after it fails: it usually returns a helpful
description of the problem.  In your case, I'd guess that the problem
is that the open command defaults to "update" mode, which may fail on
CDROMs because half of "update" is "write".  Try "open file x for
read".
  Regards,
Scott

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Re: Digest metacard.v003.n226

[Claude Lemmel]

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>
> -- BEGIN metacard.v003.n226 --
>
> 001 - Richard Gaskin  002 - Vikram Singh  003 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Re: Screen Capture ?
> 004 - Jacqueline Landman Gay  005 - "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto"  006 - "Steven D'Aprano"  007 - "H. Chaudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Re: splash screen strategy
> 008 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]  - cant open text files on a CD
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> --- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.1 ---
>
> From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:41:21 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> on 2/1/00 7:59 PM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of US $860,000
> > to spend over the next two years on development of
> > easier-to-use software engineering tools for computational
> > scientists and engineers. All of the work will be Open
> > Source, in Python, and have a strong emphasis on design,
> > testing, and documentation. For details, see:
> > http://www.software-carpentry.com
>
> Python?  Who paid 'em to make that choice?
>
> --
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>
> --- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.2 ---
>
> From: Vikram Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:54:57 -0800 (PST)
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
> download the external-collection stack from the xworlds site. it does what u
> want using a dll (on win).
>
>
> >  >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine?
> >  >This returns false:
> >  >
> >  >  there is a directory "D:/"
> >  >
> >  >However, this returns true:
> >  >
> >  >  there is a file "D:/myFile"
> >  >
> >  >Ideally, I'd rather not rely on the "D" designation at all and would
> >  >like to identify the CD path no matter what the letter; is there a way
> >  >to do that?
> >  >
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> --- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.3 ---
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Screen Capture ?
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:03:55 -0500
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> >Tuv, if you already have the WDEF done, then this won't help much, but
> >there is already an existing WDEF that does exactly this. It is called
> >Odo, after the shape-shifting character on Deep Space 9. It takes its
> >window shape from whatever PICT is stored in the same file with the same
>
> Thanks for the tip! My WDEF is being designed to be compatible with the
> windows external, using graphic points. However that PICT as WDEF feature
> is pretty straightforward to implement on the Mac, so that will probably
> make it in as well.
>
>
> regards,
> Tuviah Snyder
> Diskotek
> Custom Application Development & SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low
> price
>
>
> --- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n226.4 ---
>
> From: Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Referencing a Windows CD
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:34:54 -0600
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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>
> Frank Pappajohn wrote:
> >
> > Don't you need to type "D:\" (backslash)?
> >
> > >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine?
> > >This returns false:
> > >
> > >  there

Re: VfW Playback using MCISendString?

[Scott Raney]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Peter Reid wrote:

> Since I don't seem to be able to playback AVI files under VfW using 
> MC 2.3Gamma, can anyone tell me how I might be able to control AVI 
> playing using the MCISendString function?

Anyone else have this problem?  Playback of AVI files using the
built-in VfW features works fine here.  Of course you don't get the
same capabilities you get with QT (e.g., no controller, no selections,
and no alwaysBuffer)
  Regards,
Scott

> Thanks
> Peter
> 
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Re: accented vowels

[LK Hagen]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
>I am working on grammar stacks (for my language students).  One of the 
 >problems that language students have is typing accented vowels. For this 
>reason, I have created butttons which will put accented vowels into the 
> answer field.  The script below allows me to put the accented vowel in the 
> answer field but it will fail substituting  a selected text. Any idea on 
> how to fix the script?


Mine worked when I just did

on mouseUp
put "i" into the selectedChunk
end mouseUp

> 
> Question 2
> 
> How do I save to a file all the student's "wrong answers" so that I can go 
> back and analyze them for their benefit?  All my questions are in one card. 
> The student type his/her answer in a field called "ans".  I would like to 
> save the files created in a folder called "ebank" or something similar. Can 
> the same feature be apllied if I have multiple choice questions (buttons).

The easiest way is to append wrong answers (along with any other data like user's 
name, date, the
name of the question field, etc) to an invisible field, and then at the end of a 
session write
the field to an external text file, which you've stashed away in some folder that 
students can't
readily find.  Thus on your quit, or end button:

on mouseUp
put fld "testLog" into newData
put "/nothingHere/stayOut/secret.txt" into fileName
open file fileName for read
put it into oldData
close file fileName
open file fileName for write
write oldData & return & newData to file fileName
close file fileName
end mouseUp

That way you've got a backup copy inside the stack in case someone trashes your secret 
file anyway.

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Re: Referencing a Windows CD

[Claude Lemmel]

>  >How do I identify the path to the CD-ROM drive on a Windows machine?
>  >This returns false:
>  >  there is a directory "D:/"

Yes but
there is a directory "D://" ... returns true

That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS.

At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:\" (with a final "\") for a volume and
"d:\myDir" (without a final "\") for directories.

An important consequence of this bug : never put MetaCard at the root of your disk.
If you install MetaCard at the root c:/mc.exe
open it
put the filename of this stack -> c://mchome.mc (yes, 2 slashes)
An other consequence : if you put MetaCard at the root, it is fooled and needs
between 20 and 30 seconds to open the script window ...

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accented vowels

[Salvatore Bancheri]

Hi!  I have two questions for the experts. The questions are perhaps basic 
for programmers but obviously not for me.

Question 1

I am working on grammar stacks (for my language students).  One of the 
problems that language students have is typing accented vowels. For this 
reason, I have created butttons which will put accented vowels into the 
answer field.  The script below allows me to put the accented vowel in the 
answer field but it will fail substituting  a selected text. Any idea on 
how to fix the script?

on mouseUp
   focus field ans
   put "ì" into the selectedchunk
   focus field ans
end mouseUp

The original script I had in Hypercard (I am changing all my stack to 
metacard to benefit from the crossplatform/web feature) was:   "select the 
selectedchunk / type the short name of me" (the button had the name of the 
accented vowel.

Question 2

How do I save to a file all the student's "wrong answers" so that I can go 
back and analyze them for their benefit?  All my questions are in one card. 
The student type his/her answer in a field called "ans".  I would like to 
save the files created in a folder called "ebank" or something similar. Can 
the same feature be apllied if I have multiple choice questions (buttons).

Many thanks to all those who will reply.

Salvatore

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Re: playStopped

[Isotalo]

Nicolas R Cueto wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> How do you phrase the playStopped message? From its description in the
> reference, I'm guessing playStopped is what I need to use in order to
> prevent a sound file from starting to play before another sound file has
> finished playing.
>
> FWiW, the reason I need something like playStopped is that I want to play a
> series of consecutively numbered sound files, via something like:
>
>   repeat with i = 1 to (the number of sound files)
>   wait until playStopped (???)
>   play (sound file i)
>   end repeat
>
> As always, thank you in advance. ** And an especially big thank you to Geoff
> Canyon for the line delimiter script. Truly brilliant!
>
> Cheers.
>
> Nicolas R Cueto

Hi Nicolas,

If you don't need control between the sounds you can use 'wait until the sound is 
"done"'. But if
you need some kind of interactivity to be possible while the sound is playing this 
won't work.

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VfW Playback using MCISendString?

[Peter Reid]

Since I don't seem to be able to playback AVI files under VfW using 
MC 2.3Gamma, can anyone tell me how I might be able to control AVI 
playing using the MCISendString function?

Thanks
Peter

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playStopped

[Nicolas R Cueto]

Hi again,

How do you phrase the playStopped message? From its description in the
reference, I'm guessing playStopped is what I need to use in order to
prevent a sound file from starting to play before another sound file has
finished playing.

FWiW, the reason I need something like playStopped is that I want to play a
series of consecutively numbered sound files, via something like:

  repeat with i = 1 to (the number of sound files)
  wait until playStopped (???)
  play (sound file i)
  end repeat

As always, thank you in advance. ** And an especially big thank you to Geoff
Canyon for the line delimiter script. Truly brilliant!

Cheers.

Nicolas R Cueto

Takakura JHS
Nagoya, Japan


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cant open text files on a CD

[Rob Pitt]

My W95 MC stacks open text files on their CD (ISO 9660) with no problems.
Now I want to produce a Mac version of my work but MC wont open text files
on the CD (Mac Files and Folders using Toast 3.5). MC can see them but wont
open them.
>From the message box 'open file "D:/readme.txt"' works fine on Windows but
'open file "/CDROMname/readme.txt"' wont open on the Mac. In both cases 'if
there is a file "." then put "yes"' is successful so the Mac version
can see the file on the CD but it wont open. Both CDs burnt from the Mac.
Any ideas?
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Re: splash screen strategy

[H. Chaudet]

>on 1/31/00 11:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> For those interested, the look-and-feel discussion group for KDE on
>> Linux recently discussed the issue of splash screens. They more or less
>> unanimously threatened grievous bodily harm to anyone who used splash
>> screens :-)
>
>The biggest gripe about splash screens is the annoying way human-loathing
>Windows designers use them:  Too often they stay up until the user
>explicitely dismisses them.

Perhaps, a fair utilisation of a splash screen is to use it for a feedback
to the user while the system initialise its parameters (see adobe
softwares).

H. Chaudet



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