Re: Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish
Hi Christopher, Metacard is great at putting together easy elements fast but the one thing that I miss from Director 8 and others is the ability to make a reliable roll-over. Roll-overs in Director (Ooops the D-word ;-) HAVE to be scripted, too. (If you do not want to use these UGLY pre-made behaviours ;-) And it is very easy to do that in MC !!! The hilite icon feature really does not hit the spot. The hilite icon is supposed to be displayed when the mouse is down inside the button. EXAMPLE: (Images can be displayed INSIDE a button with its icon-property !!! Far more flexible than showing/hiding images !!!) Take 3 images and import them into MC: image 1 for the normal btn-state image 2 for the roll-over image 3 for the hilite Write down the IDs of these images Properties - Name Then you can even hide these images. In this example i will use these IDs: ID 1003 for image 1 ID 1004 for image 2 ID 1005 for image 3 In the Porperties-palette - Extras set the icons for the buttons: Icon 1003 HiliteIcon 1005 Now you need these 2 handlers in the button script on mouseenter set the icon of me to 1004 ##the rollover end mouseenter on mouseleave set the icon of me to 1003 ##to restore the normal icon end mouseleave That's it... I hope that helps and you get the picture. If not, feel free to mail me offlist and i will send you a tiny demo-stack or will try to explain this even more precise :-D 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.
disabled in 2.4
What happened to the disabled appearance of a button in MC2.4? I have a standard button, with show border,3D, opaque and disabled, white text (255,255,255) on red background. On Mac (8.5) there's no difference in the disabled/enabled states, on Windows 2000 the white text seems greenish, but otherwise there is no difference from the enabled state. Is it no longer enough just scripting: enable/disable btn x or checking/unchecking the disabled in the button properties? -- 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: Urgent MC QUestions
QUESTION 1 : At the some point, the app will need to launch the default browser to open an HTML file located on one of the local volumes (CD-ROM or HD). -- Make the url file:// instead of http:// to open a local file. This will actually launch plug-ins and helper apps, too. Not sure about the other two. Good luck. -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 6034 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org 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: Rollovers,URLs, and a Wish
on 09.10.01 3:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Sorry to ask, but what does the hilite icon NOT do that you would want in a rollover effect? Perhaps I'm just being naive here... As I wrote in an earlier post: I found that if you set the armed icon, and set auto-arm to true so that it shows when you roll over the button, the hilite icon no longer shows when you actually click the button. I've had to fall back to how I used to do rollovers (mouseenter, mouseleave, etc). I guess the distinction is that rollovers don't require the mouse to be down. tereza + Tereza Snyder + Senior Software Developer + Attainment Company, Inc. + www.attainmentcompany.com + 800.327.4269 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: converting HC stacks that use Picture XCMD
Thank you, Jacque and Richard. I'm looking forward to trying this! Craig Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:10:10 -0500, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: No sweat. Use the versatile shareware program Graphic Converter. It has an option where you can point it at a file and it will save every PICT resource (and icons too) to individual files on disk. You can grab everything all at once that way in just a few seconds. Then you just re-import the images as MetaCard objects and you are on your way. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:30:05 -0700, Richard Gaskin wrote: One small addition to Jacque's wise recommendation of the great Graphic Converter: For cross-platform use, have the PICTs converted to another format when they are saved out, as MC can only display PICT in Mac OS. PNG is generally good for those, but if they're photos you may get better compression with JPEG. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Craig Spooner Instructional Technology Training and Development WebCT Administrator Office of Instructional Services Colorado State University (970) 491-2516 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.
Buttons, Rollovers and Icons
OK, so I've got a button with icon, hiliteIcon, armedIcon, and visitedIcon set. A couple of questions: The icons remain visible behind, as the armed, hilited, and visited icons appear. I end up with a mish-mash of leftover bits behind/around the current icon--is there a property to set to eliminate this? Or must all icon states always have the same size and shape transparency mask? How do I reset the visited state of a button, other than closing and opening the stack? Is this a property of the button, of which I am not aware? Thanks, in advance, - Charles -- Charles Buchwald Design Programming eTraffic Solutions, Inc. www.etrafficsolutions.com ** Superior products and services for the rapidly expanding elearning and educational technology community. Custom Design - Custom Applications - Software Development Visit http://www.etrafficscholar.com/ for more information! *** 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.
backdrop Win task bar
Hello, I would like to give users of my project the option of using the MC backdrop. On Windows (at least one 98 and one NT system), the Win OS task bar gets hidden below the MC backdrop (apparently always on the NT system, and almost always on the 98 system, even with task bar always on top option set). This causes a problem when user minimizes (iconifies) one or more of the MC stacks (can't access the task bar to maximize it again). And, in an apparent bug, MC crashes when one of several MC stacks is iconic and I try to make a change in the backdrop setting (MC 2.3.2 on NT, at least). Does anyone know of a way to keep the Win OS task bar on top of the MC backdrop? Is there a similar problem on unix/linux? Is there an option to have the MC backdrop cover only the windowBoundingRect vs. the screenRect? Are there other strategies people use for a backdrop for MC projects? As primarily a Mac user, I was puzzled by a student's comment that my MC project should take over the entire screen like other Windows apps (or all app windows being contained within a parent window of that app). Now I am beginning to think that the student's comment is related to Windows OS behavior, in contrast to Mac OS behavior, of not activating all windows belonging to an app whenever one is made active. Does anyone have strategies to make life simpler for a Windows user, other than taking over the entire screen? Thanks, Rich Herz [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.
How to say...
Friends, Be sure, we are all americans, from yet and, probably, for a very long time. Cheers, 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.
Opening substacks as invisible
Hi, How can I open a substack, rearrange (by script) various controls on it, and then print it, without ever disokaying it on screen ? Is there any special parameter associated with the open stack command that I missed ? Thanks. 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: Opening substacks as invisible
jbv wrote: How can I open a substack, rearrange (by script) various controls on it, and then print it, without ever disokaying it on screen ? Is there any special parameter associated with the open stack command that I missed ? set the visible of stack MyStack to false open stack MyStack DoPrintingStuff close stack MyStack -- Richard Gaskin _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com The American Red Cross needs your help: http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html 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.
