Re: File selector-MacOS
andu wrote: I'd suggest defaulting to the old file/folder selector. Nonono!!! NavServices are a great improvement, don't turn back that clock! Regards Rüdiger -- GINIT Technology GmbH[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ruediger zu Dohna phone:+49-721-96681-0 Technologieparkfax:+49-721-96681-11 Emmy-Noether-Str. 9 D-76131 Karlsruhe www.ginit-technology.de 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: File selector-MacOS
On 6/14/00 1:00 AM, Dave Cragg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem with this (new) Navigation Services file selector on MacOS is that you can't select a folder like with the old one unless I'm missing something. Besides it has no live scrolling and really looks and acts like a visualBasic thing. I'd suggest defaulting to the old file/folder selector. Forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 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: File selector-MacOS
On 14/6/00 4:03 am, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem with this (new) Navigation Services file selector on MacOS is that you can't select a folder like with the old one unless I'm missing something. Besides it has no live scrolling and really looks and acts like a visualBasic thing. I'd suggest defaulting to the old file/folder selector. Afraid I disagree: navigation services is a much more flexible dialog, allowing, for example, drag dropping in a Finder folder to navigate. Folder answering is fixed in the latest engine. And any future system extensions or enhancements to file navigation are going to be made by NS. Going backwards here is a bit like saying "I don't like OS 9, lets make MC only work on OS 8". (Though you can always set the dontUseNS to true if you want to turn it off.) Regards, Kevin Regards, Andu 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. Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xworlds.com/ Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development. Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. 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: Slicing and dicing tabular data
on 6/14/2000 5:01 AM, Ruediger zu Dohna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Or, if we wanted to entertain the concept of a "colulmn" chunk type, we could look at a broader set of language extensions. We have had an external for this for about 8 years now and I had proposed a different syntax on the xTalk list on March 20th, but I hardly got any response... maybe I too should post to the metaCard list instead ;-) The idea is essential, though! Regards Rüdiger A "column" chunk type would be good. But would it be implemented with items? For example, if you have a several lines, each a comma-delimited list, column(2) of mylist would return item 2 of each line, separated by returns. Yes, I'd like that! In fact, that would make life a *lot* easier in certain areas! Scott? Raymond 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: Slicing and dicing tabular data
Fyi, I've contributed a new stack to the Cross Worlds site. It's a standalone spreadsheet object, with many of the standard features. regards, Tuviah Snyder Diskotek Custom Application Development SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low price Web: http://members.aol.com/diskotek1/ ICQ:66810408 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: File selector-MacOS
On 14/6/00 4:03 am, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem with this (new) Navigation Services file selector on MacOS is that you can't select a folder like with the old one unless I'm missing something. Besides it has no live scrolling and really looks and acts like a visualBasic thing. I'd suggest defaulting to the old file/folder selector. Afraid I disagree: navigation services is a much more flexible dialog, allowing, for example, drag dropping in a Finder folder to navigate. Folder answering is fixed in the latest engine. And any future system extensions or enhancements to file navigation are going to be made by NS. I know I should argue this with Apple but aside for not being able to resize it, I never found something wrong with the old one. Turning it into a complex application, seems to me, is just the old marketing trick of *creating* the need for more and more "features" and always at a price. Going backwards here is a bit like saying "I don't like OS 9, lets make MC only work on OS 8". (Though you can always set the dontUseNS to true if you want to turn it off.) Regards, Kevin Regards, Andu 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. Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xworlds.com/ Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development. Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. 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. Regards, Andu 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: File selector-MacOS
On 6/14/00 8:34 AM, andu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I should argue this with Apple but aside for not being able to resize it, I never found something wrong with the old one. Turning it into a complex application, seems to me, is just the old marketing trick of *creating* the need for more and more "features" and always at a price. My biggest complaint with the old one was that it was fully modal, and that it was not resizable. My only complains with Nav Services are the lack of live scrolling (geez, what year are they designing in?) and the really flakey response to the Enter key (it now differs from the Return key, in violation of their own guidelines on how default buttons work). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 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.
Answer dialog hot keys
Is there any way to specify which keys will be hot keys in the answer dialog for 2.3.1B2? It appears that it just uses the first character by default. Larry Huisingh 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: File selector-MacOS
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, on 6/14/00 8:57 AM: My only complains with Nav Services are the lack of live scrolling (geez, what year are they designing in?) and the really flakey response to the Enter key (it now differs from the Return key, in violation of their own guidelines on how default buttons work). Disclaimer: I agree that we can't go back. I dislike that there is no "Desktop" button in the new dialog, that there is no place to click to go up one folder level (used to be able to click the drive icon), that there is no keyboard command to switch drives (used to be able to command-right arrow and command left-arrow), and finally, that hard drives don't sort to the top of the list in the desktop. curmudgeon While we're at it, what sense does it make to give the desktop special status in a file dialog? On network volumes, the desktop folder is depicted as it really is: a folder at the root level of the drive. Wouldn't it make (some) sense to to do the same for local drives as well? It would tend to remove some of the confusion about what drive holds the desktop, and make it so that the top level would just display all the available volumes, something that makes a lot of sense to me since they don't sort the drives to the top of the list anymore. Why, in my day, computers were steam powered! If you wanted a printout, you had to go out and chop the wood to make the paper! You kids don't know how easy you have it! /curmudgeon gc 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.
