mcHTTPd

[Steven Tripp]

I'm playing with the MetaCard Server stack and I have good news and 
two mysteries:

It runs perfectly on an old Mac which is my temporary server 
http://endevour.u-aizu.ac.jp:8080/.  Pardon the weird spelling of 
endeavour.

When I access this from a Mac or a Sparcstation all is cool.

Mystery 1: When I access it from a Win98 machine I get a white screen.

Mystery 2:  When I run the MC server on the Win98 machine, it serves 
the text files but not the graphics to both Mac and Unix. 
http://vivid.u-aizu.ac.jp:8080/.

Any hints?  I'm not Windows fluent.







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Custom Property Sets

[Steven Tripp]

OK.  I give up.  How do you delete a customproperty set?

The Help says, "set the customkeys  of this stack to empty" will do 
it, but it doesn't seem to.

Also the default custom set is named "empty" I guess.  If one is so 
foolish as to as to load a bunch of properties into it, how does one 
select it later?

I also accidentally created multiple custom sets of the SAME name (or 
so it says when I look at the stack properties).  How do I get rid of 
the duplicates?

It isn't obvious at first but I take it that only one custom property 
set is currently "active."  Does set the custompropertyset to 
"frog" select that a set (if it exists) or create a new set called 
"frog"?

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Story space

[Steven Tripp]

Eastgate Systems www.eastgate.com has a hypertext writing system 
called Storyspace.

This package contains a HyperCard stack that converts a Storyspace 
story to a HC stack.

Given HC's moribund status and MC's capabilities, someone might like 
to develop an MC version of this stack, or if they knew about 
MetaCard, Eastgate might be interested.



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write stuff...

[Steven Tripp]

Suppose I capture a screen snapshot into an image:

What is the the syntax for writing the image to a  file (or an 
existing picture file)?

Steve

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.au sound on SparcStation

[Steven Tripp]

Recently I have had trouble getting .au audioclips to play on my SparcStation.

I have not tried very hard to debug this, but:

1.  Has something changed that I didn't notice?

2.  I prepare my sound on a Mac, convert it to .au and ftp it to the 
Sparc.  Then I import it to MC and get nothing.

3.  Recordings made on the Sparc are very scrambled, when played back 
in MC.  (Wrong speed?  Wrong sampling?)

4.  Old stacks with .au clips play perfectly!!!

Steve

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minutes and seconds

[Steven Tripp]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 On Fri, 12 Nov 99, Leston Drake wrote:
 
  Hi all,
 
  I've got a "countdown" clock in my app that shows time remaining. For example,
  I want to have it start at "5:00" (five minutes) and count down to "0:00". The
  formatting is important so that it reads correctly. I am using the send command
  to update it every second and to let me know when it's finished. To do this, I
  am using the seconds() function.
 
  My question is this: Once I compute the seconds remaining, how do I convert it
  to a "MM:SS" format?

Play with this.  The convert function is very useful for date
calculations also.  First convert to seconds, add/subtract seconds,
then convert back to date.


on mouseUp
  put 300 into x
  --
  convert x to  dateitems
  put x into fld 1
  put item 5 of x":"item 6 of x into y
  put y into fld 2  -- but seconds won't have leading zero
  convert x to long time --gives hours and AM/PM
  delete  last word of x --delete AM/PM
  set itemdelimiter to ":"
  delete item 1 of x  --delete hours
  put x into fld 3
end mouseUp
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