Re: MetaCard Plugin?
Here's my suggestion re: plug-in dilemma. Maybe someone on the list (Kevin? Richard? Hugh?) could put together a really nice MetaCard Browser, replete with bookmarking, maybe a little news downloader, and all the bells, whistles, and chrome that users expect from RealPlayer. Then just put it up for free ftp somewhere. That way, many end-users could have the security blanket of a stable, reliable "browser" without having to put a lot of effort into it themselves. This would doubtless make a lot of MetaCard users more confident that once they get their stacks finished, others will be able to access them easily and reliably. Thus everyone would not have to reinvent the wheel every time they wanted to start some web-deployable project. I'd be happy to put my 2 cents into the project if anyone is interested. 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.
playLoudness on Win
The playLoudness on my new Win 2.3 doesn't seem to work. Even when two lines are executed set the playLoudness to 50 put the playLoudness I get "100" as a result. Any insights? 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: Movies lagging w/ xanim
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I'm designing a kiosk app. that will run on Solaris. > > All is fine, except for playing a large (40mb) movie file. There is a > 15-50 second lag from when the card opens to when the movie starts > playing. This doesn't happen on Windows or Mac, and, oddly enough, is not > related to the speed of the Ultra stations I'm testing on. Running on Linux, the prepare command has worked well for me with large Qt files, i.e. prepare videoClip myClip Maybe use this on openCard on the previous card and give the user something else to do while video is loading into memory? Along the same lines, I've noticed that when I play several small Qt clips, one afther the other, in Linux, the quality seems to degrade after awhile. These are Qt audio files, and the sound tends to get choppy over time. Closing a stack corrects the problem, though this isn't the ideal solution. Any scripting techniques to fix this? Thanks in advance. This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: accented vowels
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. This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: key down
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: > When I am typing in a field, is there any way of getting the character > number of the letter I just typed? Not the chartonum... the actual number > of the character in reference to the field. In other words, I type the > letter "a" into field 1 and I get "char 1". I type space and I get "char > 2". Maybe try this approach? on KeyDown which put word 2 of the selectedChunk into tChar put which after char tChar of me put the number of chars in me end KeyDown --- LK Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Desperately seeking help
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, I wrote: > I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd like > to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any > documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone tell > me mciString equivalent of > > on mouseUp > play videoClip thisClip at 200,200 > end mouseUp > > If this works I'll try pause and resume. Thanks in advance for your help. Anybody?
Videos on Windows
I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd like to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone tell me mciString equivalent of on mouseUp play videoClip thisClip at 200,200 end mouseUp If this works I'll try pause and resume. Thanks in advance for your help.
