Re: .wav and .aiff files
What everyone else said.--Audacity, compressed AU or 22mhz wav. A couple of years ago, I had to make some 'immutable' sound stacks for a school. I recorded the voice actor with a tape deck, captured the sound at high quality settings (44khz, 16 bit) edited them and downsampled to 22khz,8 bit. the results were good. This year I experimented with MP3 encoding successfully if your interested. Decoding to wav is also possible. (mac and win) cheers tom ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: "Various forms of this e-mail
Just my two-bits. I'm a high school teacher (i.e. 'not rich'). I paid for MetaCard with my own personal money (I can't even claim it as a tax right-off). In fact I've paid for MetaCard/Revolution numerous times. Bitter? Not! There are some free software tools out there. Maybe one day I'll have enough time to invest in learning them. Until that glorious day comes, I'll be using Rev. Probably even after that glorious day comes, I'll still be using Rev. (and paying for the privilege) I belong to a Latin teachers email list, and every once in a while I'll whip something up for teachers there. Somethimes I hear, "You can do THAT?" And I chuckle to myself and think, "Sure I can do that. You could, too, if you spent a couple of days with Rev." Just wanted you to know. I'm not making wads of cash from my Rev efforts. I'm not independently wealthy. I pay for my license because it's a great tool with great support and the folks that make it available to us --from the programmers to the sales people-- they need our support, too. I'm not an anti-piracy fanatic, but I would definitely be up in arms--emailing, calling...-- if I saw Rev licenses being "shared". Here's a simple truth: Good things are worth paying money for. tom mccarthy --still not bitter, indeed, happy happy happy! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Unique numbers for discs
Shari et al. I have successfully used Ken Ray's scripts to get unique serial numbers for any kind of disc--hard drive, floppy, CD. (mac and windows) After spending a lot of time creating a registration code for CD's, I discovered that when a CD is copied (when a disc image is made) the serial number is also copied. So there went all my work. Floppies would be better, but now even some windows machines don't have them! In the past, I've written little text files somewhere in the user's system with their registration info on it. This is probably the best bet: 1. get the users hard disc serial number 2. encode it with their name.. 3. write it to a file in the preferences folder That means you need to have the user contact you with their disc number. (I see potential problems here) Perhaps an easier way would be: 1. use the customer's email-address and name, etc to generate a code 2. write that to the file in the preferences folder. 3. display the user's name and email somewhere on the program window. hope that helps tom ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: black menus, still...
I don't often check this list, but just today, I opened an old MetaCard stack (built with 2.4?) using Rev 2.2. And I had black menus, too. tom mccarthy mac ibook G4 ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Slow down
I'm experiencing a very slow execution on Windows NT 2000 (japanese) On my English Mac Powerbook 333 sytem 8.6 (ancient, i know!) this works well. the aim of this script is to move a field of words across the screen so that students can click on the words as they scroll past. I tried it with the "move" command, but the mouseclicks weren't caught on Win NT and the movement was pretty jerky. on movescroll --check for location (i.e. has the field moved all the way?) put the right of fld "scroll" - 2 into x set the right of fld "scroll" to x if x > the righ of image 1 then send movescroll to this cd in .003 seconds --(image 1 sets the boundary for the field) end movescroll It works all right (still a little jerky) but on the NT machine it's sloow. It seems to move fast and then slow way down as the field becomes completely visible on the screen. any ideas/comments would be most welcome! tom mccarthy ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac-keyboard on PC problem
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Re: Mac-keyboard on PC problem
Gosh I think I've opened a can of worms here. Perhaps it's a japanese thing. A quick survey of all the keyboards in our school office--various PCs-- reveals that they share 9 + shift for ')' whereas my USA version mac and my colleagues Japanese version iBook have 0 + shift for ')' Another example shift + 2 is quote on my PC shift + 2 is @ on my Mac keyboard maps differ. this should not be a surprise. What is a surprise is that MetaCard is using the keyboard map from my Mac on my PC. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Mac-keyboard on PC problem
What I mean is the keyboard map on my PC is acting like the keyboard map on my Mac. So
yes, all the characters work and are there, just their position on the keyboard is
different. So the '(' key is shift + '9' on both platforms.
This seems to be true both in script editor and in fields.
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RE: Mac-keyboard on PC problem
Ken you read right. Crazy isn't it? When I first installed 2.5 and moved my homestack
from my mac to my PC (the probable source of the problem) I noticed it when I tried
editing my scripts. The quotes, "(", ")", ect keys weren't working. It took about 10
minutes (I'm slow) for me to figure out that my PC was reading the keyboard like a Mac.
I'm not too concerned about it. Need to upgrade to Revolution soon, anyway and I
figure that will solve the problem. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
tom mccarthy
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Mac-keyboard on PC problem
Ever since I started using MC 2.5 I've had this problem When I do work on my projects with my Windows box, the keyboard acts like my Mac keyboard--it took a little while to get used to, but I didn't mind (much). But now I want to deploy my project among my students and they are almost 100% Windows users. They will be confused by this. Any suggestions? (I've already adjusted the look and feel in preferences--no good) thanks tom mccarthy ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Retrieving Disk Serial Number-international update
Hi, I know many of you are using Ken Ray's excellent scripts. If you are using the
script for retrieving a disk's unique serial number--for registration purposes, for
example-- please be aware that it probably won't work on non-english systems (in my
case japanese).
His script uses MatchText("This disks's serial number is"...
(apologies, i'm not at my regular computer now so I can't paste the exact script)
The trouble is on non-english systems you will never match that text.
I found the info on line 2 of the returned string and extracted it from there by
checking for numbers in the string.
cheers
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Unicode problem--Japanese book
Up to MC 2.4 I was using the htmltext property to do all my Kanji, but it's a real drag. With 2.5 I tried the unicode feature, but have run into trouble--i.e. the Kanji for book, "hon" doesn't show up when I move it from one field to another via script. --strangely other kanji seem unaffected. Here's the script I'm trying: put item 3 of line tline of fld "tText" into fld "kanji" Items 1 and 2 are the english meaning and the Japanese reading in a Latin script. Any hints would be appreciated. On a Mac (still) with system 8.6 (who, me upgrade? seems like yesterday I was using and loving system 6.) tom mccarthy Iyo-Ehime ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Does your MC crash too?
Yes, under these circumstances: MAC OS 8.6 (9.1 also?) Print--anything once or twice... save stack Crash!!! No corruptions so far (except for my patience!) cheers tom mccarthy ___ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Controlling/comunicating w/ USB devices
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Stop everything?
I'm need to stop all routines in my project when the timelimit is up (say, 10 minutes). I've tried "cancel" all the "pendingmessages" but they only work for messages cued with the "send" command. I need something more comprehensive, like "stop everything" Any ideas? Tom McCarthy -- I voted for Gore and I've got the chad to prove it. -- ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Disk serial numbers
This thread was originally about finding out if a particular cd was in the drive. Would MCIsendString do what you need? I know it will tell you if media is present. (which might be enough) Also, you could just see if a file which you know is on your CD is present Something like... if there is file "D:/my folder/whatever.txt" then --My cd is in there! Just some thoughts, tom mccarthy ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Shutting down Windows PC via MetaCard--solved
Thanks to Scott and xbury.cs I've been able to do it with commands found on the web page which xbury.cs provided. http://www.aumha.org/a/shtrstrt.php Below is a copy of the important stuff copied from the site. Cheers tom mccarthy For Windows 9x, there are two sets of commands you can use to accomplish these tasks: The Short Version, and the Long Version. Both are given below. (Only the Short Version works in Win95.) A quite different method is then given for use with Windows XP. The Short Version (Win 9x) The shortcut command line should be as follows: For a shortcut to RESTART Windows: C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindowsexec For a shortcut to SHUT DOWN Windows: C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE user,exitwindows The Long Version (Win 98/ME) Tip from Bill Blanton & MS-MVP George Aker. See also MSKB Q234216. The command line should be as follows: C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32 SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx n Where n is one of the following values, depending on the task you want to accomplish: n=0 LOGOFF: Shuts down all running processes, logs the user off, then restarts the Windows shell. (Same as Logoff on the Start Menu.) n=1 SHUTDOWN: Shuts down the system to a point at which it is safe to turn off the power. All file buffers have been flushed to disk, and all running processes have stopped. n=2 REBOOT: Shuts down the system, then restarts it. (Same as Start Menu | Shutdown | Restart.) n=4 FORCE: Forces all processes to terminate Ñ in effect, shuts down all running programs. When this flag is set, Windows does not query running applications to inform them that Windows is shutting down. This can cause the applications to lose data, therefore, you should only use this flag in an emergency. n=8 POWEROFF: Exits Windows, then turns off the computerÕs power (provided the computer supports the power-off feature). n=-1RESTART EXPLORER: Quickly closes Explorer (i.e., the Windows desktop), then lets it restore itself. These values are additive, in the event you want to do two of them at once. There are varying reports of success with some of these options. For example, inconsistent behavior reported with option 8 may indicate a different behavior with the powerdown system on a particular computer. The solution for this usually is to request both a shutdown and a poweroff by using n=9 (adding the 1 and 8). (Tip from MS-MVP Tom Porterfield.) This command can also be called from the RunOnce registry entry (which means these could be written into Registry files as one means of execution). Additionally, there is a command (which can be run from a shortcut, batch file, or command prompt) runonce.exe -q, which restarts the computer after a 15 second delay. There are no other options when using this command line, and it cannot be called from the RunOnce registry key. Shutdown & Restart Shortcuts for Windows XP & Windows 2000 Windows XP has an actual shutdown command that can be launched from a command prompt Ñ and which, therefore, also can be launched from a shortcut. To see all available options for this command, click Start, click Run, and type: SHUTDOWN /? This command starts a 30-second countdown for a shutdown or restart, which permits you to abort it (with a shutdown -a command). It you want the command to execute, use the -t flag, which lets you set the time lapse in seconds. The examples below use a 1-second delay. For a shortcut to RESTART Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -r -t 01 For a shortcut to SHUT DOWN Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 Unfortunately, this option only shuts down Windows. It does not shut down your computer, at least on most hardware. For that, on Win XP (and possibly on Win 2000) I recommend the freeware utility Shutdown.exe (not to be confused with the Windows XP utility by the same name) by MS-MVP Andrej Budja. IÕve seen several shutdown utilities recommended, but this is the only one that IÕve seen actually shut down Windows XP and then powerdown the computer behind it. For more information on the tool, see here. After you place this utility in the root folder of C:, the commands for a shutdown or restart (respectively), each without a time delay, would be shutdown -u -t 0 for shutdown and shutdown -r -t 0 for restart. If you donÕt want to use a third-party utility, you may be able to get by with a lesser known utility in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The native commandline tool tsshutdn.exe was originally designed for shutting down servers, not work stations. It was introduced in Windows 2000, and retained in Windows XP. See MSKB Q320188, ÒHow to Use the TSSHUTDN Command to Shut Down a Terminal Server in Windows 2000 Terminal Services,Ó and MSKB Q243202, ÒWindows 2000 Terminal Services Session Management Tools.Ó From a command prompt, type tsshutdn /? for a list of its subcommands and syntax. A command line of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TSSHUTDN.EXE 0 /DELAY:0 /POWERDOWN will powerdown most Windows 2000 and Windows XP computers,
Shutting down Windows PC via MetaCard
I guess the subject line pretty much says it all. I'm a teacher and run some stack for my students to use. Today as we finished up, I thought it would be nice to press a button and turn all the machines (or selected ones) off without physically moving (save those calories!) Anyone know how to do it? I imagine it would be some "shell" command Cheers, Tom McCarthy ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Cloning a stack and renaming it.
David, I had exactly the same problem a week ago. The explanation in online manual is totally lacking. I got the answer through searching this list. Ken Ray helped Shari with this. The short of it is you have to close the stack you've cloned and then "save it as" and long file name of where you want it. Search the list and you'll find it quickly enough. Cheers Tom McCarthy ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
erroneous stack resizing
Having some problems recently using metacard 2.4.3 occasionally going to a substack will cause the stack to resize. Even though I've set the sizes (both max and min) to the same numbers in the property window and there's nothing in the script to resize the stack Anyone having such experiences? Tom ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Network Blues
I made a little program that will deliver quizes to my students-- Students log on--the teacher's computer recieves a datagram message. Students choose a quiz--the teacher's computer gets the message and sends the proper quiz back to the student's computer. It worked fine on my little setup at home--1 pc and 2 macs etherneted together. BUT when I tried to use it at my school's computer room (Win98 boxes) Students log on--OK teacher's computer recieves the message Teacher sends data to student--NO GOOD! The datagram message is "on gotnews tWhom tWhat" I use tWhom & a predetermined port to get the student's address and send the data to that address As I said before, it worked at home. Why won't it work on a larger network of Win98 boxes. Thankfully I tried it out on a few computers before I embarrassing myself with a flop of a program!! Any help would be appreciated! Cheers, Tom ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MetaCard's Future
I was just wondering if there was a road-map somewhere of MetaCard's future development plans (schedule?) Perhaps a list like: "to do now", "to do next", "to do when the episode of Star Trek on TV is not one I like" Cheers Tom Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Recording sound on Win32 w/o QuickTime
I've gotten a lot of ideas, examples and help from the list and I figure it's my turn to contribute something. I have a stack for recording .wav files on Win32 using MCIsendString (so you don't need Quicktime!) You can grab it here: http://perlingua.50megs.com/MCI_record.zip Cheers Tom McCarthy Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
UnQuickTime Videos?
I love QuickTime, you love Quicktime--great. But there are a lot of Windows boxes out there without QuickTime. So, my question. Can we play native Windows video files from within MetaCard using MCISendString? If so,how and does anyone have a list of commands for the AVI interface? (The previousely posted and VERY helpful web page of MCI instructions--courtesy TactileMedia-- is too dated for video.) Thanks in advance Tom McCarthy Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Sound Recording
I've wasted a lot of time in the past trying to get QuickTime sound recording working. So before I try again with the latest version of MetaCard, has anyone had any success with it? I still get irritating squeeks on my mac and grabled garbage on my windows. My workaround so far is to use SendMCIstring on Windows and the external from RunRev on my Mac. But I'd rather have the same code for both platforms. Thanks, Tom Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Distributing via stacks
Almost finished and now I'm thinking about distributing. I'm considering builind a small base application with the engine and tools in it, and then running a stack through it. Benifits: Stack can save changes to itself, Easy to update :) Issues: I've made icons for my Windows Builds, but I've never done any for a stack--possible? All comments are welcome Cheers Tom McCarthy Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Remove HTML function
Sorry this is so late, but I think an easy workaround to filtering out HTML tags in a file would be to do the following: Set the htmltext of a field to the html file write that field to a text file. Tom McCarthy Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Japanese help
You might want to try using the htmltext property. Cheers Tom McCarthy Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Windows standalones
Graphic Converter won't work for Window's icons in MetaCard. Scott Raney suggested a nice program which I'm using (shareware $14) Unfortunatly I'm at my mac right now and can't recall the name. You could do a search at Cnet for icon builders. Good Luck tom
Speech Recognition and dialing a phone/modem
Any one have any experience with 1: Speech Recognition (especially on Windows) 2: Dialing a phone/modem. (there used to be a hypercard stack that could dial a phone) Any suggestions would be appreciated tom ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Speech Recognition and dialing a phone/modem
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RE:Quick Time stuttering
I may or maynot have had a similar experience. So I'm not sure if this will apply to you. I've found that it's a good idea to set the filename of a player to empty before starting new movies. This is especially true when recording sounds which you will play with a player. The file remains open, so recording doesn't happen. Tom McCarthy PerLingua Language Tools www.perlingua.50megs.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: More on Cmd-tab--useful code snippet
I also missed the ability to cycle through the tools using the keyboard as was
available in HyperCard.
Here is a piece of code you can put in your project script. I copied the base from the
demo stack that came with MetaCard and then added some new ones for choosing tools. I
hope it helps.
the mnenomics are:
s=Stack script
c=Card script
p=Pointer
h=Hand ("browse")
b=Button
f=Field
on commandKeyDown which
if the optionKey is down then
switch which
case "S"
edit script of the topStack
break
case "C"
edit script of this card of the topStack
break
case "B"
choose button tool
break
case "P"
choose pointer tool
break
case "F"
choose field tool
break
case "H"
choose browse tool
break
default
pass commandKeyDown
end switch
else
if which is "m" then
modeless "message box"
exit commandKeyDown
end if
if which is "w" then
save this stack
close this stack
exit commandKeyDown
end if
end if
pass commandKeyDown
end commandKeyDown
Cheers,
Tom McCarthy
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