Re: About movies (long)
Bonjour Klaus, i did this very often and never had trouble. Well, i'm now trying with the 2.4b4 version... and also trying to import the movies into the stack in order to have only one file... That will be a big stack because there are many movies (about 420 Mb...) ! hum, just a try... Maybe you can supply some more info about your hybrid-cd etc...? Made with Toast Deluxe 4.1.2 on Mac Mac Datas are : - a standalone Mac (the stack) - a readme file - a datas folder with the movies (shared, common) ISO (pc) datas are : - a standalone PC (the stack) - a readme file - a datas folder with the movies (shared, common) datas has subfolders audios and anims playing the audios (.aif) works on the pc cd but files.mov in the anims folder don't launch on the pc cd... Take a deeper look into the index - QuickTime, playing. There you will find more informations about using and controlling QT-movies. ok, I'll take a look... Drop a line if you still do not get the picture. I will supply some examples in that case :-) a code example for a button : on MouseUp play down.aif -- the sound of the mouse click (audioClip imported) play videoClip player movie -- where 'movie' is the short name end MouseUp file name in the player movie is : datas/anims/file.mov Code in the player : on MouseUp play down.aif play stop videoClip player movie go to next cd end mouseUp on playStopped go to next cd end playStopped ok, that's enough for now, I have to test it and read more carefully the doc ;-) Sorry for all those 'newbie' problems. Thanks ! HMB (just initials my parents give to me...) you can also call me 'Herve' 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: About movies (long), even longer ;-)
Bonjour Herve, ... datas has subfolders audios and anims playing the audios (.aif) works on the pc cd but files.mov in the anims folder don't launch on the pc cd... Take a deeper look into the index - QuickTime, playing. There you will find more informations about using and controlling QT-movies. ok, I'll take a look... Drop a line if you still do not get the picture. I will supply some examples in that case :-) a code example for a button : on MouseUp play down.aif -- the sound of the mouse click (audioClip imported) play videoClip player movie -- where 'movie' is the short name end MouseUp file name in the player movie is : datas/anims/file.mov Looks like a syntax-problem. Try the following: on mouseup start player movie ###!! ... ###that should do the trick end mouseup You can play imported (internal) videoclips with: on xxx play videoclip name of clip end xxx See the index - play command (number 3) for detailed info... Hint: I never got the following working on windows: Playing a sound with the play audioclip xxx together with a player-object. I never heard the sound of the play audioclip xxx. Looks like QuickTime overrides the play audioclip xxx handler. You should use players for the sound, too. Works very fine, even with lots of sounds simultaniously... Make a new player, set the filename to your aif-file and start that player with : on xxx start player your player's name with the aif-file here ... end xxx You can (should) hide that player, because it has no visual representation. MC will find it anyway, even if it's dark ;-) Code in the player : on MouseUp play down.aif See above... play stop videoClip player movie go to next cd end mouseUp on playStopped go to next cd end playStopped That should work... ok, that's enough for now, I have to test it and read more carefully the doc ;-) Sorry for all those 'newbie' problems. Pas de problem ;-) Feel free to ask even more questions :-) Thanks ! HMB Au revoir... 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: license renewal
Uh, yeah, I could have SWORN I didn't send that to the list. Sorry folks, more sleep now. 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.
CrossPlatform
I've created a stack on my Mac to keep track of the editions of my wife's bronze sculpture. Cross town the gallery is PC, is there any way to get my stack to run on their PC without creating a standalone? Nelson Zink 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: socket streams
Robin-David Hammond wrote: I have encountered a problem with the MC environment. I wrote a script to repeat forever and scan a socket for new input. it seems to HANG inside the script. it hung far longer that the socketTimeoutInterval (now thats some CONFUSING capitalisation) result had to kill the app after 3 minutes of gefingerpoken got me nowhere. what is the nice way to scan a socket stream for new data? You mean something like accept connections on port X with message Y? rdh 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. -- 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: CrossPlatform
Nelson, I've created a stack on my Mac to keep track of the editions of my wife's bronze sculpture. Cross town the gallery is PC, is there any way to get my stack to run on their PC without creating a standalone? Nelson Zink In theory (and in practice), if they download the right version of the MC Starter Kit, they'll be able to run your stack. This trick works for Linux too. 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.
Palettes with Icons
Is it possible for MC palette windows to to appear in the Windows program bar without changing their behavior (ie raisePalettes)? I have an MC standalone app where the main window is a palette that controls other stacks. But the palette is launched by another stack and does not contain the engine. Thanks for any suggestions. 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: CrossPlatform
I think all they need is the mc.exe file. They don't need to have the home stack and help files. I'm sure I tried this way back when, I used to hand out a stack with the SGI mc file and things ran wonderfully. On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 05:20 PM, jbv wrote: Nelson, I've created a stack on my Mac to keep track of the editions of my wife's bronze sculpture. Cross town the gallery is PC, is there any way to get my stack to run on their PC without creating a standalone? Nelson Zink In theory (and in practice), if they download the right version of the MC Starter Kit, they'll be able to run your stack. This trick works for Linux too. 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. 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.
Printing double
I am using a simple print this card command to get a printout of a card comprised of several text fields. Some of the text comes out looking overprinted -- that is, within a rectangular area near the center of the card it looks like the text was printed twice, the second time with a 1-pixel offset. That part of the text looks blurry and bold, and is illegible. The double printing within this imaginary rectangle isn't related to any of the field rects, hidden or otherwise, and can start anywhere, even at the center of a character in a line of text. This happens whether formatForPrinting is set to true or false. The font is Times 12, which is installed on the Mac. Printcolors is set to false to avoid the gray background problem. The problem occurs in tests using three different print drivers. Has anyone seen this before, and what causes it? -- 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.
MatchText creates variables?
In the docs, it says to be sure to initialize variables before using them to store matches found with MatchText. Yet the following works: on mouseUp get matchText(test this,(.*) ,tNeverInitialized) put tNeverInitialized -- puts test end mouseUp Any ideas? MC 2.3.2, Mac OS 9 regards, Geoff 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: Palettes with Icons
Nope, at least if there is then Kevin couldn't work it out for Rev. He's now using a topLevel with the can't modify set to true. You can do a funky workaround so that the program can me minimized to the taskbar but it sucks eggs. Is it possible for MC palette windows to to appear in the Windows program bar without changing their behavior (ie raisePalettes)? I have an MC standalone app where the main window is a palette that controls other stacks. But the palette is launched by another stack and does not contain the engine. Thanks for any suggestions. 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. 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.
image conversion: an answer leads to another question
Okay, I found the solution for converting images: Instead of exporting and import, I simply imported from the rectangle of the original object. I had avoided this approach originally, since I was under the impression that the resulting bitmap would be uncompressed. Oddly enough, after conversion the image data size seems smaller, maybe by around 10% or so. Is this common? Here's the conversion script if anyone needs it: ---- on ReplaceImage pImageObj lock messages put the short name of pImageObj into tImageName put the rect of pImageObj into tSaveRect put globalLoc(item 1 to 2 of tSaveRect) , \ globalLoc(item 3 to 4 of tSaveRect) into tGlobalRect import snapshot from rect tGlobalRect delete image ID (the short id of pImageObj) put the long ID of last image into tNuImageObj set the rect of tNuImageObj to tSaveRect set the name of tNuImageObj to tImageName unlock messages end ReplaceImage ---- -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 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.
