DDE

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Tuviah

I'm having a problem using dde. I have initialised the dde server in the
script of my splash screen then assume that the messaged are sent the the
card script of that stack even if it is closed. Is this the case because it
doesn't seem to get through. Also if the dde command is [fileOpen("%1")] do
the [ & ] actually appear in the message or is the message then
fileOpen("the stack url") so that you could go get command and then have a
fileOpen function.

Thanks for the help

Regards

Monte


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Re: how to update delivered stacks & script limit

[Sivakatirswami]

Kevin wrote:

> Right: this is the only limitation on standalones, they revert to the
> Starter Kit limits.  Otherwise you could write a product that competes with
> MetaCard and sell it as a standalone.  The solution to this type of problem
> is to replace the entire object by copying it in and deleteing the old one
> (being careful to set stuff like the layer or grouping it if necessary).

Do we read this correctly that means you cannot swap out the project script.
. .since that is not an "object" per se.

I guess card scripts could be changed copying in the card and deleting the
old card. True? Or are the swappable objects limited to "controls."


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Re: Using graphics as buttons

[Gregory Lypny]

OK Sjoerd Op 't Land,

 I think we're starting to converge, but I don't understand you when 
you write

 "...set the hilite icon to the graphic..."

 Do you mean there's a button property that allows you to explicitly 
hilite its icon if it exists?  If so, then that is what I want.
 
 Regards,

  Greg


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>Gregory Lypny wrote/ schreef:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I'd like to use some imported graphics as buttons.  I know I can set
>> a button's icon to a selected graphic or I can attached a script to the
>> graphic itself; but what I'd really like to do is give the graphic a
>> button-like autohilite behaviour when clicked.  Is there any way to do
>> that?
>I don't exactly understand you, but do you mean that the icon of the button
>changes when you click it? That's very easy: create a button, set the icon
>to the desired graphic, and set the hilite icon to the graphic you want to
>show when the button is clicked.





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Re: PCI cards (part two)

[David Bovill]

Try MidiShare - it has Microsecond timing, and .dll/xcmnd interfaces amongst
others and I bet there is a DMX module there somewhere?

> From: "Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:51:31 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PCI cards (part two)
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm still busy with writing software for the DMX (stage lights controller
> system) PCI card.
> 
> After having read all the docs, the timing appears to have to be very
> accurate (the're measuring time in microsecs!), so I need an external to
> write to and read from memory adresses.
> 
> Does this exist? How hard is it to make it myself (I don't know anything
> about C or whatever.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sjoerd
> 
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RE: International date format

[Monte Goulding]

I must have missed that post on RR list but as far as I'm concerned it would
be a bloody disaster ir mc returned the users settings. I'd rather do the
conversion myself then at least I know what I'm dealing with. The best thing
would be a property that would return the users date format or another
convert function like:

put the date into tDate
convert tDate to userDate

This would be much easier to script.

Otherwise weve got to get the date then work out the beast it is then do
whatever to it.
>
>
> >As far as I know altering the date
> >format in the Control Panels doesn't alter the way that Metacard
> reads the
> >date.
>
> True.  FYI, the RunRev List has requested that Metacard, at a minimum,
> include the capability to return the Control Panel date/time format to the
> scriptor so that stack date display can conform to the user's preferences.
> So far as I know, Scott is persuing this along with other requests from
> RunRev.
>
> >Much better to use the abbrev date because then everyone knows what your
> talking about.
>
> Best to display the date as the user has asked to have it displayed in the
> Control Panel settings, when Metacard provides that capability.  Until
> then, second best is a Date Format substack where the user can duplicate
> the Control Panel Date/Time settings.
>
> Rob Cozens
> http://www.serendipitysoftware.com/who.html
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Re: modal-dialog NOT centerd - "second trial to get an answer"

[Ernst Michael Reicher]

many thanks to Alan Beattie and Monte Goulding...
set the loc in the "preOpenStack"-handler was the easiest solution...

Regards,
  Ernst

> From: Alan Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: modal-dialog NOT centerd - "second trial to get an answer"
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:41:42 +
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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>
> On 30/1/01 12:01 pm, Ernst Michael Reicher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi gurus,
> > is it possible that when you open a stack in modal-mode that MC
> > automatically centers it to the open stack???
>
> Hi, Ernst. AFAIK, MC centres it to the loc of the defaultStack, providing
> that the loc of the defaultStack is within the screenRect + the height of
> the menubar.
>
> > I use a selfe made list-dialog which I adapt to my needs in size and
> > additional buttons
> > after lock screen and toplevel it, I do the adaption
> > then I make it modal (modal stack xy)
> >
> > but when I also customize the loc its automatically centered or say its
loc
> > is set to the loc of the open stack
>
> How about storing the defaultStack, setting the defaultStack to the name
of
> the stack that is to be modal and then resetting the defaultStack:
>
> on mouseUp
>   set the loc of stack "modalStack" to 300,300
>   put the defaultStack into tDefault
>   set the defaultstack to "modalstack"
>   modal "modalstack"
>   set the defaultStack to tDefault
> end mouseUp
>
> Alternatively, you could set the loc of the stack in the preOpenStack
> handler - I think preOpenStack gets sent when the stack is opened as modal
> even if the stack is already open as topLevel (note though that you don't
> have to topLevel the stack in the first place to do your adaptations).
>
> on preOpenStack
>   set the loc of me to 300,300
> end preOpenStack
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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> Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909.  Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.

> From: "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: modal-dialog NOT centerd - "second trial to get an answer"
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:56:36 +1030
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>
> put set the loc of me to the screenLoc in preOpenStack



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Re: Flash movies in Metacard

[Simon Lord]

Yes.  Qucktime, as you may know, can play all Flash movies (this is 
the case for me anyway).  I set up my browsers to play flash via 
Quicktime to save ram since we don't need two plugins doing the same 
job.

So, with respect to MetaCard, Quicktime is used to play the flash 
movies too.  I just rename the flash file to end with .mov and it 
seems to work like a charm for me.  But we're talking about a stack 
that runs on the Mac.  PC users would *have* to install Quicktime for 
this to work.

As for MC supporting flash files *directly*, I'm not sure.  I never 
tried ithas anyone?

>We would like to create some Flash movie animations and play them 
>using the current Metacard player object in some projects that will 
>run on both windows and mac platforms. Is anyone currently doing 
>this?
>
>If so, what versions of flash and Quicktime are most successful, and 
>do you have any tips or lessons learned you can pass along?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark Lacy
>LetterPress Software, Inc.
>
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Re: Flash movies in Metacard

[Klaus Major]

Hi Mark,

> We would like to create some Flash movie animations and play them using the
> current Metacard player object in some projects that will run on both
> windows and mac platforms. Is anyone currently doing this?
> 
> If so, what versions of flash and Quicktime are most successful, and do you
> have any tips or lessons learned you can pass along?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Lacy
> LetterPress Software, Inc.
> 
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you need QT 4.1.2 for sure.

Animations play fine, but you can hear the sound of flash-files
seldom or never. (Mostly never ;-)

This is for both platforms.

These are at last my experiences so far...
(No experience with flash-scripts...)

Regards

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PCI cards (part two)

[Sjoerd Op 't Land]

Hello all,

I'm still busy with writing software for the DMX (stage lights controller
system) PCI card.

After having read all the docs, the timing appears to have to be very
accurate (the're measuring time in microsecs!), so I need an external to
write to and read from memory adresses.

Does this exist? How hard is it to make it myself (I don't know anything
about C or whatever.)

Thanks in advance,
Sjoerd


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Flash movies in Metacard

[Mark Lacy]

We would like to create some Flash movie animations and play them using the 
current Metacard player object in some projects that will run on both 
windows and mac platforms. Is anyone currently doing this?

If so, what versions of flash and Quicktime are most successful, and do you 
have any tips or lessons learned you can pass along?

Thanks,

Mark Lacy
LetterPress Software, Inc.


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RE: Network Help - more

[MisterX]

warning: lengthy
>
> Thanks Xavier I've got some more questions

never a problem (with me at least! response to my answers are not my
responsibility!)

> > HKLM (the regedit abbrev) is only local to your machine but changing the
> > other keys will not affect the network! Rather, it's the network
> > system that
> > will change your keys.
>
> Do you mean that the network file classes get forced into the workstation
> while loged on?

in an enterprise bound network, your user "profile" administrator can do
what he wants...
Less on a mac (i believe). Unix, is even worse than PC (to my impression).

> Does this or could this cause files with the custom key to
> not appear in the ask file dialog when the filter is set to the
> custom key?

Literally, yes. If the admin reset's your profile each time you log-on and
that includes what you can see (concerns also user's permissions [to a
share] to see files of whatever type) then you can be without files.

But it's not that complicated. You put the files in a share, file types are
usually disregarded. However, it can be that the profile doesn't allow you
to install or change the registry and a program running under your
user-account-type prevents your program from changing the registry to
associate those files to a program...
(yes, Belgian Beer Jupiler is that potent and good!)

> > If you want a special file association spread out, you'll have to
> > include it
> > into the login script to add the missing key. Ask your domain admin or
> > consult www.ntfaq.com.
>
> I don't need this infact this i just need files to be associated on the
> machine that my program is installed on. This has worked at all times with
> the exception of the NT laptop when logged on.

check the user's policy. I mean the user you log in with. If he doesnt have
the permission to install or do modifs to the registry... you'll be sorry
for a long time...
d same for unix

> > Another solution would be to write it when your program runs BUT, if the
> > user is not admin of his workstation or the policy forbids the users to
> > change their registries (which it should), then it's back to the login
> > script.
>
> If this is a common policy then the program may not be able to support
> networked computers. It does seem odd though because quite a few common
> programs use the registry for storage like user preferences and
> recent docs.

if i'm right, that would be a bad programmer's assumption. In the Mac world,
it's not correct to write to a resource to save prefs. Reason being that you
make it messier. If you write to an ini or cfg file (in pcs) you're safe
since
the file is easy to copy around. Remember that on a mac they made a prefs
folder
in the system folder. lot's of times, backup of the program requires the
pref file
for successful restores and operation of the program. Tricks like this are
dangerous to the popularity of your program.

With a pref file in the program's folder, it's much easier. Look at
Quake3...

> I would think that these softs would completely fall down under a
> situation like this.

it's up to you to make it complicated... I have programs on my nt
workstation
that dont require registry entries and they never have a problem running
(much
like mac programs). IOW, avoid the registry and any ms dependent format.
Your
product will be less portable elsewhere. In the same line, remember that
cd's
are read only (like some net-shares or your priviledges in the net) so some
kind
of cookie sometimes is necessary... good old sugar for the processor type of
thinking req. here...


> > Concerning the slashes and quotes and command
> >
> > use this script in your startup (unless it's for Macs of course) (please
> > correct if im wrong but it works between NT and 95x.
> >
> > on CheckShellPlatform
[snip]
> > end CheckShellPlatform
>
> cmd.exe is for NT then is it? Is command.com not reliable on NT or is
> cmd.exe just better? Would this cause files not to be seen or the
> program to
> freeze when cloning stacks from a data folder but all only when
> the computer
> is logged on and fine the rest of the time?

dont question MS. cmd for nt, command for w*
it's gonna change soon anyway... vbs, wsh, wmi and virii for all!

[snip slashes]

> I dont use this I guess it's equivalent to
> set the directory to blah
> get the files
> Is the way you describe more stable? I guess the problem is I've never had
> the opportunity to muck around on a network so I'm a bit
> concerned that I'm
> going to have to say "sorry can't fix your problem, don't know how" to my
> clients.

in unix and windows shells, you either have to be in the folder where the
file is
or have the folder's path in your %path% environment variable. This is much
like
hypercard. if the path is not in the variable, you'll never will be able to
execute
that file. The mac is smart about this but it has it's drawbacks (but much
less than
represented by the path environment variable's limitations...

> Thanks again Xavier all help is

Re: how to update delivered stacks & script limit

[Kevin Miller]

On 7/2/01 4:21 pm, Ernst Michael Reicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> how to update delivered stacks???
> if they contain userData you have to make something like exportImport
> routines if you send the whole stack/s to the client...
> 
> but what if you just find a small bug in a script???
> 
> I tried to write an updater which sets the wrong script to the right script
> 
> it works well while testing it with my registered homestack open...
> 
> but not when it´s closed
> even when I make a standalone with my registered version the updateprocess
> causes a scriptLimiterror if the altered script is longer than I think this
> 10-line-limit

Right: this is the only limitation on standalones, they revert to the
Starter Kit limits.  Otherwise you could write a product that competes with
MetaCard and sell it as a standalone.  The solution to this type of problem
is to replace the entire object by copying it in and deleteing the old one
(being careful to set stuff like the layer or grouping it if necessary).

Regards,

Kevin

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Re: how to update delivered stacks & script limit

[David Bovill]

I haven't done this so don't quote me, but Kevin I believe mentioned a while
back that while you can't change the script you can replace/update
objects/controls.

So if your faulty script is in a control you can replace that control.
Otherwise you could play with front/back scripts/ using stacks (or you're
stuck -:)


> From: "Ernst Michael Reicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:21:43 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: how to update delivered stacks & script limit
> 
> Hi list,
> how to update delivered stacks???
> if they contain userData you have to make something like exportImport
> routines if you send the whole stack/s to the client...
> 
> but what if you just find a small bug in a script???
> 
> I tried to write an updater which sets the wrong script to the right script
> 
> it works well while testing it with my registered homestack open...
> 
> but not when it´s closed
> even when I make a standalone with my registered version the updateprocess
> causes a scriptLimiterror if the altered script is longer than I think this
> 10-line-limit
> 
> ???
> any ideas??
> 
> Regards,
> Ernst
> 
> 
> 
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Re: International date format

[Rob Cozens]

>As far as I know altering the date
>format in the Control Panels doesn't alter the way that Metacard reads the
>date.

True.  FYI, the RunRev List has requested that Metacard, at a minimum,
include the capability to return the Control Panel date/time format to the
scriptor so that stack date display can conform to the user's preferences.
So far as I know, Scott is persuing this along with other requests from
RunRev.

>Much better to use the abbrev date because then everyone knows what your
talking about.

Best to display the date as the user has asked to have it displayed in the
Control Panel settings, when Metacard provides that capability.  Until
then, second best is a Date Format substack where the user can duplicate
the Control Panel Date/Time settings.

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Re: Using graphics as buttons

[Sjoerd Op 't Land]

Gregory Lypny wrote/ schreef:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'd like to use some imported graphics as buttons.  I know I can set
> a button's icon to a selected graphic or I can attached a script to the
> graphic itself; but what I'd really like to do is give the graphic a
> button-like autohilite behaviour when clicked.  Is there any way to do
> that?
I don't exactly understand you, but do you mean that the icon of the button
changes when you click it? That's very easy: create a button, set the icon
to the desired graphic, and set the hilite icon to the graphic you want to
show when the button is clicked.

> Regards,
> 
> Greg
Hope this helps,
Sjoerd


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how to update delivered stacks & script limit

[Ernst Michael Reicher]

Hi list,
how to update delivered stacks???
if they contain userData you have to make something like exportImport
routines if you send the whole stack/s to the client...

but what if you just find a small bug in a script???

I tried to write an updater which sets the wrong script to the right script

it works well while testing it with my registered homestack open...

but not when it´s closed
even when I make a standalone with my registered version the updateprocess
causes a scriptLimiterror if the altered script is longer than I think this
10-line-limit

???
any ideas??

Regards,
  Ernst




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