Dial a phone number
Hello, Few years ago, I have used the dial function in Hypercard, e.g. : dial 0555 What is the corresponding function in Metacard? Mathias Glaus
Re: is mctools.org retired?
Simon Lord wrote: Funny, the mctools site was taken down for a variety of reasons. The first being that only two submissions in the year that it was up were ever made. It seemed that at the time no-one was interested in submitting articles, tips, tricks or stacks. In the last 3 days I have received a dozen or so requests about it's whereabouts, how to get stacks that were on it (only mine) or how to start it up again elsewhere. Where were all you people during the last year? As they say, Simon, this means that capitalism works ;-). IMHO, a new 'mc'tools site would not have a better fate then the last one, now that metacard as a tool(brand) is loosing most of its user base to Rev. Renaming the site to 'rev'tools would most likely bring in more people specially that that crowd seems to have a good balance of gurus and newcomers/hypercarders in the need of an endless dialog. IMHO, your site was designed too much for interactivity rather than a reference/depository site. That was at least the impression. I think a site with a more passive format, functioning more like a portal to information would be more successful (cf. Hypercard Heaven). This list is enough for interactive activities. A key to your site's usage/growth would be a direct link from MetaCard's site. Also, relying on user contributions is not enough. You would have to be more active in collecting materials. Equally if not more useful would be maintaining an organized collection of links to other sites (MC, Rev, but also HC and SC -- even MC's site has a couple links to HC sites), including sites distributing sample or util stacks or programs. Yes, I do realize that this would require quite an effort from you, but just providing technology base won't cut it. Robert ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MC 2.4.2 Wish --- Graphing Object (Gregory Lypny)
In agreement with Gregory's wish for a graphing object for MetaCard, I created a graphing object that serves some purposes. This object is easy to paste into a stack and does line and scatter plots, but not (yet) bar charts. You can download my stack with this object, plus an enhanced version of Tuviah Snyder's excellent table/spreadsheet object (recently updated), at: http://www2.rhul.ac.uk/~uhss021/technical.html It would be great to see these or some better graphing and table objects perhaps in an additional objects stack distributed with MetaCard. Regards, Ken ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: More on Cmd-tab
On Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to script MC to use Control-tab to change tools, as a couple of people here suggested. The only problem is that controlKeyDown doesn't seem to recognize the tab key. It does recognize alpha keys, but not control (or Fkeys either). So the question is, how do you script the behavior? This yields an empty message when control-tab is typed: on controlkeydown which put which end controlkeydown Alpha keys put the correct letter into the message box. Looks like you get a tabKey message in this case, so you'd have to do: on tabKey if the controlKey then # do whatever end tabKey Note that polling the controlKey in this way is fine performance-wise, but as has been discussed on the various lists recently, it's not 100% reliable because it's async (i.e., if the user lets up the control key between the time they press the tab key and your handler runs, it will miss the tab key). I'm starting to think that what we really need are two sets of functions, one async and one based on the event queue... Also, I routinely load a custom library into the backscripts when MC starts up. I plan to add the above handler to that (if I can get it to work) -- or is there a better place for it somewhere in MC's scripts? That should work fine, but if any of your other scripts handle tabKey and don't pass it, you won't get it there. To be sure, put it in a frontScript and pass the message if you don't need it. Regards, Scott -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
OT -- Animation Programs
Forgive this off topic query, but I can't think of a better group to give recommendations: If you had to purchase animation/cartooning software for your art director/artists, (already fluent in Adobe PS and IL) what would be your choice? End product would be anything from simple animated GIF's to movie cartoons. (email me off list) Thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
search script
continuing good results from your search script utility. i did offer to figure out how to run automatically through a myStacks() list of stacks, but first is that already a feature? one small thing to add would be a put empty into the object field as soon a new stack name appears but before the search button is clicked. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: More on Cmd-tab
On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 07:25 PM, Scott Raney wrote: On Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to script MC to use Control-tab to change tools, as a couple of people here suggested. The only problem is that controlKeyDown doesn' t seem to recognize the tab key. Looks like you get a tabKey message in this case, so you'd have to do: on tabKey if the controlKey then # do whatever end tabKey Okay, thanks. Should controlKeyDown recognize tab? Or maybe even all keypresses? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: More on Cmd-tab
At 9:14 PM -0800 2/28/2002, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: Okay, thanks. Should controlKeyDown recognize tab? Or maybe even all keypresses? What happens to the tabKey (returnKey, enterKey, arrowKey) message in that case? Not sent? Or sent before or after? -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
