Re: two monitors
Hi Larry, >> Hi folks, >> >> has anyone an idea on how to detect a second monitor with MC? >> >> The screenrect only returns the rect of the main-monitor >> (the one with the menubar). >> > > First off, what platform are you running under? I am running under Win32 > (MC 2.3.2) and I use the following code in my script to detect how many > monitors I am running under. If I have two monitors (stacked vertically) I > put each of two stacks on separate monitors. If I have only one monitor I > put both on the same monitor. > i am running a Mac. My two monitors are stacked horizontally and the "screenrect" returns just 1280*1024! That's my main monitor. The second is 1024*768. So your smart scripts are no use for me, since MC doesn't recognize the second monitor. But i need a solution to check that on any computer with any monitor configuration. ??? Regards Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MetaScape GmbH 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: visual effects speed
Hi Geoff, > At 10:26 AM +0200 5/30/01, Klaus Major wrote: >> you have to set the "effectrate" property. >> That is a global property and is NOT reset on idle like the itemdelimiter!!! >> >> . >> set the effectrate to 5000 #measured in millisecs >> visual wipe left very slow #!!! >> >> >> That may be a bit difficult to understand, since the effectrate is the >> amout of time in millisecs that a "very slow" transition takes... >> >> Sounds like an oxymoron, but works extremely fine :-) > > Maybe effectDuration would be more descriptive? > > Regards, > > gc > maybe you are right. But please don't start one of these ugly threads again ;-) Regards Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MetaScape GmbH 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.
Copyright a multimedia project
I'm sure a few of you may have ventured down this path of copyrighting a multimedia work with audio, visual, text, scripting, all in one. Did you just send in the CD disc itself, or have you sent in text of the script, pics, music notations, compositions, etc. in separate forms? Scott 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: chat
I created one some time ago. Works well and is commented enough for someone to follow in the script. If you would like it, it can be downloaded at: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/ -Mark On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 09:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone have a functional stack that allows two people to chat back and > forth? > > 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: chat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: > Anyone have a functional stack that allows two people to chat > back and forth? > I do. I managed to program it in a half day last week, and we're using it at work both with local clients and external IPs. The only problem is that it works with a little server program written in C++, so it's more on the IRC model than ICQ... However, modifying the scripts to chat between 2 ppl without using the server should be straightforward... JB 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: menu building via scripts - how to query
Recently, Mark wrote: > I have been able to get to the point of defining menu buttons defined > via scripts, but I have not been able to get the resulting button > group defined as the menu bar on the Macintosh side. Did you set the menuBar (property) of your stack to your button group? Also, did you try cloning the Menu Builder stack and going through the scripts contained there? Perhaps you can adapt what is used in that stack to whatever you're doing. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design 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.
chat
Anyone have a functional stack that allows two people to chat back and forth? 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.
menu building via scripts - how to query
I have been able to get to the point of defining menu buttons defined via scripts, but I have not been able to get the resulting button group defined as the menu bar on the Macintosh side. On the PC side all I need to do is put the resulting group at the upper left of the stack and it should look like a menu built with the Menu Builder. I'm not sure whether I am heading down the right path or not, or for example whether it would make more sense to have the buttons created in the preOpenStack routine, then make them invisible so they do not appear in the card but only in the menubar, or whether I can create them as invisible in the first place etc. If anyone can give a pointer , then that would be very usefull to me. I am happy for the final (working!) scripted menu creation/template using code to be included as sample code in RunRev/MC if this is not already available somewhere else. Cheers, Mark on openstack if there is no button "My Menu" then new button "My Menu" put "Line 1" & return & "Line 2" & return & "-" & return & "Line 3" & return & "-" & return & "Quit &q" into button "My Menu" set the script of button "My Menu" to "on menuPick which" & return & "switch which" & return\ & "case " & quote & "Line 1" & quote & return & "beep"\ & return & "break" & return & "case " & quote & "Line 2" & quote & return & "beep"\ & return & "break" & return & "default" & return & "beep"\ & return & "break" & return & "end switch" & return & "end menuPick" set the style of button "My Menu" of this stack to "menu" set the menumode of button "My Menu" of this stack to popup if there is no button "My About" then new button "My About" set the style of button "My About" of this stack to "menu" set the menumode of button "My About" of this stack to popup put "About This Stack &A" into button "My About" set the width of button "My About" to 50 set the width of button "My Menu" to 50 set the left of button "My About" to the right of button "My Menu" set the name of the templateGroup to "my menus" select button "File" and button "My About" group -- wasn't sure whether the following line, or the one after would define the group as a menu, -- so I tried both, but neither worked :-( --set the defaultMenubar to the short name of group "my menus" of this stack set the menubar to the short name of group "my menus" of this stack end openstack 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: Intercepting keydown events
Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to determine if the user has pressed a key on the >keyboard while a handler is running? I know I can test for commandKey, >shiftKey, etc. but what I need to test for is the "+" and "-" keys. I >suspect the answer is "no" but it never hurts to ask. > >-- >Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 >Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com Hello, Jacque. How long to the handlers take to run? If it is not too long, the problem ought to be solvable. Also, when a key is held down for more than a moment, it sends repeated keyDown messsages, so your solution will have to take this into account. If your problem is like one I wanted to solve recently, maybe what I found to work could be modified to work for you. I wanted to modify the consequence of pressing a certain button by having certain keys held down while pressing the button. What worked for me was to have the following keyDown handler in the script for the button: on keyDown X put X into LetterBox send clearOutBox to me in 2 seconds end keyDown The autoArm property of the button has to be true for it to send the keyDown message when the key is depressed with the cursor on the button. X returns the character of the key. I then put this character into LetterBox, which is a global variable. The mouseUp handler for the button then checks the variable LetterBox to see if it contains one of the relevant letters. If so, it modifies its response accordingly. The variable LetterBox needs to be global so that the keyDown and mouseUp handlers can communicate. Since the contents of LetterBox persists, when the button is next depressed, say with no key down, there is the possibility of an incorrect outcome. That is the reason for sending the clearOutBox message after two seconds. The handler, which simply empties LetterBox, is: on clearOutBox put empty into LetterBox end clearOutBox This solution worked well for me. The user needs to learn the right timing, having the key depressed a fraction of a second prior to depressing the button, but that ought to be something that can happen. The user might hold the key down for awhile, thus sending repeated keyDown messages. My solution takes this into account and isn't confounded by such a contingency. If this sounds a little familiar, it is because I described this sketchily in starting the thread "Answer dialog: Undocumented feature or risky hack?". It was a secondary issue there, but Scott Raney picked up on it and commented with some concern about this approach. He said: >My first reaction would be yes: you probably should be using an option menu >for this choice instead of opening a dialog. UI hacks like having people >hold keys down to change the behavior are just bound to get you in trouble >at some point, even if you do only plan to document them for the expert user >(e.g., some non-expert user will undoubtedly run into it and file a bug report >about this unexpected behavior). A group of radio buttons or a list box could >also be used for this. And never open dialogs one after another for a common >operation: make one dialog with all the settings for that operation in it >instead. Based upon this suggestion, I've modified my approach along the lines Scott suggested. In spite of that, the earlier method worked, and depending on what you need to do, there might be some ideas here that work for you. John Kiltinen 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: Intercepting keydown events
Another approach, assuming your script is looping through a list of things that all have to be processed: Convert the handler containing the repeat loop into a handler that executes once for each thing in the list. It would end with a statement that queues an execution of that same handler, like: send to me in 20 milliseconds This way, if the user presses a key while is running, the key messages will be queued for handling at the next opportunity. That opp would occur when the current run through is completed - and *before* the next one begins. Phil Davis - Original Message - From: "Pierre Sahores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Intercepting keydown events Jacqueline Landman Gay a écrit : > > Is there a way to determine if the user has pressed a key on the > keyboard while a handler is running? I know I can test for commandKey, > shiftKey, etc. but what I need to test for is the "+" and "-" keys. I > suspect the answer is "no" but it never hurts to ask. on mouseup repeat for each line in var1 keydown -- test the keys state --...do what you need end repeat end mouseup on keydown w if w is "+" then --...do what you need else if w is "-" --...do what you need end if end keydown > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 > Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores WEB & VPN applications & databases servers Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis Qualifier & produire l'avantage compétitif 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: URL Support
Reed Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I understand that 2.4 is still in beta version, but I wanted to send this > email out in case I'm just clueless and it's working for other people... > > Does networking work at *all* under Mac OS X? I get nothing for the > following: > > start using stack "libURL" > answer url "http://www.yahoo.com"; Just tested with latest beta 2.4 on MacOS 8.6 and it works fine. It may help for now to add a slash "/" at the end if you don't specify the actual page name. Also the correct syntax is -start using "libURL"-. The dev environment "starts using..." the library on its own so you only need to do that outside of it. > > Likewise, under Mac OS 9, there seems to be some socket support, and the > above works..the first time..occasionally, although it's still iffy at > best. Am I missing the obvious, or are these still known problems that will > be fixed for future releases? > > Thanks, > Reed Andu 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: Intercepting keydown events
Jacqueline Landman Gay a écrit : > > Is there a way to determine if the user has pressed a key on the > keyboard while a handler is running? I know I can test for commandKey, > shiftKey, etc. but what I need to test for is the "+" and "-" keys. I > suspect the answer is "no" but it never hurts to ask. on mouseup repeat for each line in var1 keydown -- test the keys state --...do what you need end repeat end mouseup on keydown w if w is "+" then --...do what you need else if w is "-" --...do what you need end if end keydown > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 > Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores WEB & VPN applications & databases servers Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis Qualifier & produire l'avantage compétitif 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: menu selection
Ah, yes. And the menu builder inserts dummy scripts in those buttons which intercept the menuPick message. This is why my other handlers did not trigger. Robert >It's sent to the menu button. In the Control Browser you should see >the individual button names (corresponding to your different menus, >e.g., "File", "Edit", etc.) under your menu group. > >Regards, >Dave Tremmel > >>Where is the menuPick message sent to? I have created a menu bar on >>Macintosh. It is actually installed in a substack that is the >>frontmost window. I tried to put the handler into the menu group, >>in the card script, in the stack script, but it does not seem to >>get trigerred. I can't find an answer in the help stack. >> >>Robert >> 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: recovering substacks
Robert Brenstein wrote: > > I was trying to switch mainstacks and got a dialog asking me to save > my substack into another file. I cancelled it since that was not what > I wanted. However, for some reason, that substack has vanished from > my stack file. Quite annoying considering that I spent a few hours > creating it but did not get to make any backups. I have, however, a > standalone which contains almost the same version of the substack > that I lost. Is it possible to recover a substack from a standalone? > It is all on Macintosh, BTW. Just the script with a text editor like BBEdit. > > Robert > Andu 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: menu selection
Robert Brenstein wrote/ schreef: > Where is the menuPick message sent to? I have created a menu bar on > Macintosh. It is actually installed in a substack that is the > frontmost window. I tried to put the handler into the menu group, in > the card script, in the stack script, but it does not seem to get > trigerred. I can't find an answer in the help stack. How about placing the script in the actual menu button itself? Should work. > Robert Regards, 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.
Re: menu selection
It's sent to the menu button. In the Control Browser you should see the individual button names (corresponding to your different menus, e.g., "File", "Edit", etc.) under your menu group. Regards, Dave Tremmel >Where is the menuPick message sent to? I have created a menu bar on >Macintosh. It is actually installed in a substack that is the >frontmost window. I tried to put the handler into the menu group, in >the card script, in the stack script, but it does not seem to get >trigerred. I can't find an answer in the help stack. > >Robert > >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.
URL Support
Hi, I understand that 2.4 is still in beta version, but I wanted to send this email out in case I'm just clueless and it's working for other people... Does networking work at *all* under Mac OS X? I get nothing for the following: start using stack "libURL" answer url "http://www.yahoo.com"; Likewise, under Mac OS 9, there seems to be some socket support, and the above works..the first time..occasionally, although it's still iffy at best. Am I missing the obvious, or are these still known problems that will be fixed for future releases? Thanks, Reed 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: two monitors
> From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: two monitors > > Hi folks, > > has anyone an idea on how to detect a second monitor with MC? > > The screenrect only returns the rect of the main-monitor > (the one with the menubar). > First off, what platform are you running under? I am running under Win32 (MC 2.3.2) and I use the following code in my script to detect how many monitors I am running under. If I have two monitors (stacked vertically) I put each of two stacks on separate monitors. If I have only one monitor I put both on the same monitor. # How many monitors do we have? Each monitor set to 1024 x 768 put (item 4 of the screenRect) div 768 into monitorCount if item 4 of the screenRect < 768 then put 1 into monitorCount set the width of wd "ADM High" to 1024 set the height of wd "ADM High" to 768 set the topLeft of wd "ADM High" to 0,0 set the width of wd "Level one maps" to 1024 set the height of wd "Level one maps" to 768 if monitorCount > 1 then set the location of wd "Level one maps" to (1024 div 2), (768 + 384) else set the location of wd "Level one maps" to the screenLoc end if > Too bad that the backdrop only "backdrops" the main-monitor ;-) > I don't use the backdrop. I use a separate startup stack that I can control the dimensions of. This way I can detect a click on my pseudo-backdrop. set the decorations of wd "Start ADM High" to empty if item 4 of the screenRect >= 1536 then # Make the pseudo-backdrop cover both monitors set the height of wd "Start ADM High" to 1536 else # Only need the pseudo-backdrop to cover the one monitor set the height of wd "Start ADM High" to 768 end if set the width of wd "Start ADM High" to item 3 of the screenRect set the topLeft of wd "Start ADM High" to 0,0 > Any suggestions are very appreciated. > > > Regads > > Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MetaScape GmbH 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.
recovering substacks
I was trying to switch mainstacks and got a dialog asking me to save my substack into another file. I cancelled it since that was not what I wanted. However, for some reason, that substack has vanished from my stack file. Quite annoying considering that I spent a few hours creating it but did not get to make any backups. I have, however, a standalone which contains almost the same version of the substack that I lost. Is it possible to recover a substack from a standalone? It is all on Macintosh, BTW. Robert 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.
menu selection
Where is the menuPick message sent to? I have created a menu bar on Macintosh. It is actually installed in a substack that is the frontmost window. I tried to put the handler into the menu group, in the card script, in the stack script, but it does not seem to get trigerred. I can't find an answer in the help stack. Robert 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: visual effects speed
At 10:26 AM +0200 5/30/01, Klaus Major wrote: >you have to set the "effectrate" property. >That is a global property and is NOT reset on idle like the itemdelimiter!!! > >. >set the effectrate to 5000 #measured in millisecs >visual wipe left very slow #!!! > > >That may be a bit difficult to understand, since the effectrate is the >amout of time in millisecs that a "very slow" transition takes... > >Sounds like an oxymoron, but works extremely fine :-) Maybe effectDuration would be more descriptive? Regards, gc 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.
two monitors
Hi folks, has anyone an idea on how to detect a second monitor with MC? The screenrect only returns the rect of the main-monitor (the one with the menubar). Too bad that the backdrop only "backdrops" the main-monitor ;-) Any suggestions are very appreciated. Regads Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MetaScape GmbH 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: visual effects speed
Hi Alex, > hi all > > finally found some time to play with mc 2.4 b1 > > nice.. :) > > questions.. > > With the visual effect command, is it possible to have more control over > the speed, besides the current fast/slow options? > > For example, can you fade in (dissolve) an image over a 5 second period? > > regards > alex > you have to set the "effectrate" property. That is a global property and is NOT reset on idle like the itemdelimiter!!! . set the effectrate to 5000 #measured in millisecs visual wipe left very slow #!!! That may be a bit difficult to understand, since the effectrate is the amout of time in millisecs that a "very slow" transition takes... Sounds like an oxymoron, but works extremely fine :-) Regards Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MetaScape GmbH 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.
