Re: More Decorations.. & visual bug...
>"Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Alex Shaw wrote/ schreef: > > > > > >> I've just encountered this problem on the MAC with a borderless stack with > >> white background etc which works fine on PC. Black of course is fine but > >> any other colour... hmmm ... ive looked round but can you just somehow set > >> this colour? How do you hide or get rid of this border ?? any 2.4 > >> options/hacks welcome :) > > > > This can't be done from within MC itself. It's something Mac specific, and > > you have to change it in your standalone using ResEdit (search the > > Internet), but I don't know what exactly and in which resource... > > > > Anyone? Scott? > >The problem is that there is no borderless window support built into >MacOS, so developers have to create their own (as a WDEF resource). >You can't just add one to the resource fork, unless maybe you e.g. >replace the palette WDEF (which would give you borderless windows >but no palette windows), because the engine has to know about it. > >MetaCard 2.4 has such a WDEF, which means RR will get it in its >next release. >Regards, > Scott Yay ! No border in MAC MC 2.4B2 ! Luv your work guys.. but the visual effect bug is still present :( I've decided to do a MAC/PC CDROM project with 2.4 (with a deadline of mid-july) which requires a lot of nice smooth transitions for hundreds of beautiful wildlife imagery. Beta software it may be but I'm very happy that QT effects are accessible directly from MC. Blendlevel is also very handy. With access to the image buffers I'm sure it would be easy to roll your own routines to emulate all the QT effects but who has time for that?? :) It's great not having to pre-render quicktime effects for the simple display of still images... but a bug is a bug.. i'll try to explain in more detail what i'm trying to do, maybe some1 could suggest another way. the main problem seems to be when i simulate a cross-fade by either: 1. Having 2 images grouped, both the same dimensions & stacked 1 directly on top of the other. The top one is initially hidden & slowly dissolved in with a show with visual effect command. 2. Having 1 image displayed. Locking the screen while putting a 2nd image into the 1st image container with a show with visual effect command before unlocking. In both cases (mac-only, fine on pc) OCCASIONALLY while the 2nd image is coming on it flickers with askewed corruption. I'm using the crossfade for rollover images & a slideshow and it also occurs for other effects (although I havent tested all the effects). I've got round cross-fading by designing a nice fading system using blendlevel but using some of the other effects would be nice for displaying text/image panels. Any suggestions? Thanks Alex 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: Digest metacard.v004.n359
> > Hmmm... I tried that but get an error: >> Warning: tools stack versiob (2.4B1) does not match engine version >> (2.3), and typing in record "mysound" in the message box returns "no >> permission to send that", "group: bad object type", "go: error in >> background expression", and "move: bad end point expression" :-( >> >Well that's the answer. You have replaced the tools stack but not the >engine. Okay, now I'm a really confused newbie :-) I downloaded the current Macintosh MC 2.3.2, then downloaded 2.4B1, then copied everything from the 2.4B1 directory into the 2.3.2 directory, overwriting existing files. Am I missing something? I even tried using the tools stack from the PC side, but no difference :-( 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.
RE: metacard player
It's quite easy to build your own player using the standalone builder. Just create a stack that when run will open your program then use the standalone builder under the tools menu. Make sure you move the resources you need too using the resource mover. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salvatore BancheriSent: Friday, 15 June 2001 8:11 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: metacard player My apologies for posting this message once more. I have created some language tests in Metacard 2.3.10. Will these tests run properly on the player 2.3.3? If not, can anyone send me a copy a player 2.3.10 or tell me if it is possible to strip the license codes from my licensed version? Many thanks,Sal Salvatore Bancheri Online Status:
MetacardCarbon + externals
Hello Scott, all, Does MetacardCarbon support externals yet? It seems to crash upon opening any stack with an external in it, before even calling the external on OS9.1 and OSX. I tried re-compiling my externals with only carbon libs, but that didn't seem to help. Crashes are either type 1,010 or 2 when running OS9.1. What can I do / how can I help to get externals running under OSX? Has anyone else tried this? Thanks, Brian 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.
Browser Close Workaround?
Has anyone found a workaround for the situation where a browser that was launched from an MC stack is closed when MC is quit? I've come to expect that "standard" behavior of MC's launch command is to typically shut down any MC-launched app when MC is quit. However, I have some clients who are able to successfully continue using their Web browsers after they were launched by an MC stack that was quit. In fact, this is very desirable behavior considering the fact that a user might go on to compose their email or create a presentation, only to have their work mysteriously lost when the MC application is quit. Now I'm being asked to see if I can find a way to implement the above behavior: allow a launched app to continue operation after my MC app is quit. Might there be some way to achieve this? Thanks for any ideas -- it's very difficult to explain to a client that we can't implement a feature in our software which already occurs in our software but shouldn't be there in the first place... 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.
RE: Hilite color for pulldown menus
Try the accentColor. > > How to set the hilite color of the menuitems of a pulldown menu ? > > Claude > > > 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: Beta Test
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Hi all, mctools.org ( http://www.mctools.org/index.php ) is > ready for alpha testing. It would be great to have as many > people take a look and offer their opinions on the site as > possible, this will help release a site that serves you better > when it goes live. > > If you're typing in the URL, please include "index.php" at the > end, we are keeping it hidden until the site is officially > released to the MetaCard community. > > More information is offered on the site itself. > > Thanks, hope it's as hot and sunny in your part of the world as > it is here today. Stinky hot. > > 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. Realy great ! Thank's to do it, Slord :-) 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.
Beta Test
Hi all, mctools.org ( http://www.mctools.org/index.php ) is ready for alpha testing. It would be great to have as many people take a look and offer their opinions on the site as possible, this will help release a site that serves you better when it goes live. If you're typing in the URL, please include "index.php" at the end, we are keeping it hidden until the site is officially released to the MetaCard community. More information is offered on the site itself. Thanks, hope it's as hot and sunny in your part of the world as it is here today. Stinky hot. 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.
metacard player
My apologies for posting this message once more. I have created some language tests in Metacard 2.3.10. Will these tests run properly on the player 2.3.3? If not, can anyone send me a copy a player 2.3.10 or tell me if it is possible to strip the license codes from my licensed version? Many thanks, Sal Salvatore BancheriOnline Status:
flaming emails!
| | You make a point of telling people their car's gas tank "may" | explode while driving but that doesn't stop them from driving | anyway. Your point is based on what a driver knows about their | environment, to put it another way, what if a passenger came | along and placed a flaming rag into the gas nozzle and got into | the car with the driver without telling them. Two scenarios: | A) Tell the driver, who promptly freaks out B) Car may/may not | explode. | | As a server admin, I like it when my clients inform me of any | executable they install on the server. That's all I'm saying, | I'm sure the other admins would like to know also. | Yes, I'm sure they would. Sorry, didn't mean to come across in a derogatory way if I did. Email can be dangerous in that regard. Ok, me too. I would like that too if everyone using my servers told me everything they were doing. I would also like all my programmers to put enormous amounts of comments in their code. Oh well, dream on, I would be the first to advocate common courtesy but we have to be realistic. Some ISP's might panic and cancel your account if you said, I installed a new executable but don't worry. In the case of my programmers I review all the RCS logs every week so I know exactly what has changed. I would like it if the guy in front of me bothered to signal before making a turn also, but if he doesn't, I realize I have to have control of my own car and not be following too close. Same with a sys admin, I think one has to be proactive. But I apologize if my mail offended you. It would not be hard to write a script to locate all new executables on a server and check it once a week, right? My point was regarding, probabilities. I think the probability of danger is rather high if someone sticks a flaming rag in the gas nozzle. Say, more than 50%? I think the probability of having someone take control of an ISP's server and delete operating system files using root permission just because a regular user installs MC is rather low, say, less than 1%. Would you agree, those are fair assessements? Yes, there are plenty of hackers out there, but I would guess less than 1% of the web sites on the net (how many millions do we have now?) are hacked, what do you think? Of course almost anything is possible given time and extraordinary desire on the part of the hacker. 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: Installing MC at your ISP, a "How-To"
Delete anything on the server? Take control of the server? Yes. Yes. I would think most if not all ISP's have set up the file permissions in such a way that root permission is required for that. Installing MC is not going to give users additional permissions that they would not have anyway. Right? Setting the permission can help to curb some trouble, but *back in the day* it was possible to get admin status by using cgi's to place stealthy scripts in strategic locations on the server. This is very hard to do today with wrappers in place, many crackers jumped to Java and Javascripts when wrappers got too smart for them. Java was new, and everyone wanted it but it provided the exact same problems as cgi's, so special measures had to be taken to safeguard the servers against that too. See what I mean? There are ways around anything, it would be a fluke for a cracker to find *your* server running mc, and then another fluke if he even knew how to program metatalk. Then another fluke if they were even interested in finding a way to use mc to break the server or at the very least wipe out your existence on it. It's very remote that anything will happen. But my point was not - "don't install mc" - it was "don't do it without informing the server admin". Just common courtesy. You make a point of telling people their car's gas tank "may" explode while driving but that doesn't stop them from driving anyway. Your point is based on what a driver knows about their environment, to put it another way, what if a passenger came along and placed a flaming rag into the gas nozzle and got into the car with the driver without telling them. Two scenarios: A) Tell the driver, who promptly freaks out B) Car may/may not explode. As a server admin, I like it when my clients inform me of any executable they install on the server. That's all I'm saying, I'm sure the other admins would like to know also.
MacOS X Background Pattern
How do I set the backColor of the HomeStack to empty with MetaCard 2.4B2. Cheers Rolf 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.
No more Play player "music" in 2.4??
Did I miss something here? I just downloaded 2.4b and noted I can no longer play player "music" I have to do a start player "music" is this a mini bug or something we are going to have to go back change our scripting to "start" instead of play for players? 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: Installing MC at your ISP, a "How-To"
| | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Installing MC at your ISP, a "How-To" snip | | And | if you launched it as a user with admin privileges, cross your | fingers. Sir, Isn't this highly unlikely, that an ISP would grant regular users any kind of admin privileges? No wrapper is required to set the umask so that users can only modify things in their own home directory or below. See excerpt from a Unix man page on umask below. If ISP's don't take at least this extremely elementary precaution (which is probably the default installation for most Unix systems) they are asking for trouble from any kind of cgi activity. I think that admin privileges for regular users must be an extremely remote potential, although, yes, it could be possible. When so many people were all hyped up about potential disasters prior to Y2K I used to tell them .. yeah, its *possible* but its also *possible* the gasoline in your car's tank could explode. No one seems worried about that. I think the potential of dangerous activity here is being somewhat overhyped. Can't users who install MC on their ISP take simple precautions like, set permissions on the mc file so it is owned and can only be operated by themselves, check the referrer in their MC cgi scripts etc? Regards, Sadhu umask(1) umask(1) NAME umask - set or display the file mode creation mask SYNOPSIS Set Mask umask mask Display Mask umask [-S] DESCRIPTION The umask command sets the value of the file mode creation mask or displays the current one. The mask affects the initial value of the file mode (permission) bits for subsequently created files. 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: Digest metacard.v004.n325
> > >kept. However, I have experienced strange error messages on some > >Macs, but, even stranger, if you just ignore the messages, the files > >come down all right. I would be happy to find out about the messages, > >anyone out there able to explain why? > >It might help if you told us what the error messages say. ;-) > I have finally digged out a Mac (an IMac) on which the error messages occur (during the Decoding Binhex): "The archive "FraMeny.sea" has been corrupted and may not be a valid archive. Do you wish to continue working with it?" - I click Yes. Then: "Sorry, but a disk related error (File Locked) has occurred." I click OK. Then it says: "This archive is damaged." After all these frightening messages, the file FraMeny.sea is the only one downloaded to the Mac and it behaves perfectly when opening the .sea file and extracting the file FraMeny. Regards Signe Marie Sanne --- 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: Installing MC at your ISP, a "How-To"
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Installing MC at your ISP, a "How-To" snip | that if a real malicious MetaCard user wanted to they could | write a script to use mchttpd to help them spew out spam or | worse - delete anything on the server or take control of the | server. Delete anything on the server? Take control of the server? I would think most if not all ISP's have set up the file permissions in such a way that root permission is required for that. Installing MC is not going to give users additional permissions that they would not have anyway. Right? 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.
Hilite color for pulldown menus
How to set the hilite color of the menuitems of a pulldown menu ? Claude 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.
