Folder for stacks
Hello, Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would someone please enlighten me? 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folder as the application you work on? (I usually start an application with "toplevel mystack") What about aliases of the engine or mchome, or full path for the application? 2. What about the files MC external and MC externalData, what are they for? Can they be removed? --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: RTF import and export
Bruce Lewis wrote/ schreef:
How can you import styled text from an MS Word document to a Metacard
field and vice versa while keeping the styles intact?
I do this in HyperCard using RTF (rich text format). There are
various XCMD's that people have written for that purpose. I believe
Hugh Senior, who frequents this list, wrote one (though I don't use
it.)
Do these XCMD's work in Metacard? Is there some other way of doing it?
I don't know. I do it like this: I save a Word document as HTML, and set the
htmlText of a field to that file:
on mouseUp
ask "The name of the field:"
put it into mFieldName
answer file "Open HTML doc:"
if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp
set the htmlText of field mFieldName to the htmlText of field mFieldName
url ("file:" it) -- so that you keep earlier (formatted) contents of the
field
end mouseUp
Thanks.
Bruce
Hope this helps,
Sjoerd
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Re: RTF import and export
I wrote:
How can you import styled text from an MS Word document to a Metacard
field and vice versa while keeping the styles intact?
I do this in HyperCard using RTF (rich text format).
Sjoerd Op 't Land wrote:
I do it like this: I save a Word document as HTML, and set the
htmlText of a field to that file:
on mouseUp
ask "The name of the field:"
put it into mFieldName
answer file "Open HTML doc:"
if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp
set the htmlText of field mFieldName to the htmlText of field mFieldName
url ("file:" it) -- so that you keep earlier (formatted) contents of the
field
end mouseUp
Thanks,
I tried it using an Internet Explorer document saved as html. I can
see where it would work for me with some tweaking.
However, just as I am still using HyperCard, I am also using Word 5.1
for the Macintosh. It doesn't recognize html. I got Word 98, but
discarded it. I will get it out and experiment.
Sigh, the world changes.
Bruce
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Re: Folder for stacks
On 5/1/01 8:54 am, Signe Marie Sanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would someone please enlighten me? 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folder as the application you work on? (I usually start an application with "toplevel mystack") What about aliases of the engine or mchome, or full path for the application? In order to do development work, mchome, mctools must be in the same folder as the MC application. Of course, you can make an alias to the MC application and put that anywhere. 2. What about the files MC external and MC externalData, what are they for? Can they be removed? Only useful if you are writing externals. Otherwise you don't need them. Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Opening a tabbed group from within a script
Hi Everyone, I have a stack with two cards, X and Y. Card Y has a tabbed button that displays a different group of fields under each tab. I have a script in card X that opens card Y, but I'd like card Y to display a particular tabbed group by default regardless of which tab had been clicked on previous visits to card Y. How can I do this? in the card script for card Y: on preOpenCard select line 2 of button "Tabs" --or whatever, haven't checked syntax end preOpenCard Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Folder for stacks
Hello, Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would someone please enlighten me? 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folder as the application you work on? (I usually start an application with "toplevel mystack") What about aliases of the engine or mchome, or full path for the application? 2. What about the files MC external and MC externalData, what are they for? Can they be removed? I find it hard to believe you didn't experiment to see what happens if...;-) --- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutttel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway --- Regards, Andu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Players in Windows
If the dontUseQT property is set to true in Windows 95 (haven't tested 98 yet) I cannot get a controller to show when playing an aiff file inside a player object, regardless of the setting of the showController property. Is it possible to have a controller without QuickTime? Also, without QuickTime, the width of the player seems to be random. I have a line of script that sets the preferred width but it doesn't work. The width of the player is fairly random with each instance I create (one player showed up as 938 pixels wide. The script asks for 132.) How much can be done with player objects if QuickTime is not available? Playing audio is about all I can get it to do, and only then if the file has an ".aiff" extension. Without the extension, the audio won't load at all. Can someone provide some guidelines? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Answer File and window ghost
Hi Everyone, I have a stack with the following standard "answer file" handler. answer file "Show me the data." put it into dataFile open file dataFile for read The handler works fine, but when the file is selected from the "open file" dialog window on my Mac, it leaves a white ghost image obscuring the topmost card while the rest of the handler is executing. Interesting, it didn't do this initially. Any suggestions? Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Players in Windows
Recently, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: If the dontUseQT property is set to true in Windows 95 (haven't tested 98 yet) I cannot get a controller to show when playing an aiff file inside a player object, regardless of the setting of the showController property. Is it possible to have a controller without QuickTime? The controller is provided by QuickTime so if you set dontUseQT to true, you won't get any controller. Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
win2k
Somebody gave me a win2k Professional (as opposed to hobby?) cd, do I have any reason to replace my NT4Server besides curiosity and considering I only use windows for testing mc stacks? Regards, Andu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
RE: Opening a tabbed group from within a script
try sending a click at the loc of the correct tab then that will run all your scripts for changing tabs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregory Lypny Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Opening a tabbed group from within a script Hi Everyone, I have a stack with two cards, X and Y. Card Y has a tabbed button that displays a different group of fields under each tab. I have a script in card X that opens card Y, but I'd like card Y to display a particular tabbed group by default regardless of which tab had been clicked on previous visits to card Y. How can I do this? Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
RE: Opening a tabbed group from within a script
I don't think this would actualy run any scripts ie send the menuPick message -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sjoerd Op 't Land Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 11:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Opening a tabbed group from within a script Gregory Lypny wrote/ schreef: Hi Everyone, I have a stack with two cards, X and Y. Card Y has a tabbed button that displays a different group of fields under each tab. I have a script in card X that opens card Y, but I'd like card Y to display a particular tabbed group by default regardless of which tab had been clicked on previous visits to card Y. How can I do this? Case the three tabs are "Une", "Deux" and "Trois", and you want to select tab "Deux", the script would be: on mouseUp lock screen go to card "Y" select line 2 of button "Tabs" end mouseUp Regards, Greg Hope this helps, Sjoerd Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
RE: Answer File and window ghost
I have had simmilar problems like this on Windows. The answer to this problem may be (as suggested on this list) to put a wait 6 ticks message after the answer file commannd. This lets the screen refresh if you have lots of script after showing a modal dialog. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregory Lypny Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Answer File and window ghost Hi Everyone, I have a stack with the following standard "answer file" handler. answer file "Show me the data." put it into dataFile open file dataFile for read The handler works fine, but when the file is selected from the "open file" dialog window on my Mac, it leaves a white ghost image obscuring the topmost card while the rest of the handler is executing. Interesting, it didn't do this initially. Any suggestions? Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
RE: Folder for stacks
This is not quite the full case. You can do development work on a stack that is saved anywhere but to open it you will need to use the file selecter not a toplevel command. I think a good feature would be to enable the user to set up folders of stacks that could be read into the stackfiles somewhere and then opened with toplevel commands. This means we don't need to clutter up one folder full of developing stacks. Regards Monte -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Miller Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Folder for stacks On 5/1/01 8:54 am, Signe Marie Sanne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would someone please enlighten me? 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folder as the application you work on? (I usually start an application with "toplevel mystack") What about aliases of the engine or mchome, or full path for the application? In order to do development work, mchome, mctools must be in the same folder as the MC application. Of course, you can make an alias to the MC application and put that anywhere. 2. What about the files MC external and MC externalData, what are they for? Can they be removed? Only useful if you are writing externals. Otherwise you don't need them. Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Cursor in Field
Hi to all. I am trying to track the loc of the cursor in a field that is not locked. I need to know at a minimum what line it is on while the user is typing. Would someone please tell me how to do this? Thanks a bunch. -Mark Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
