Locking contents of option buttons
Is it possible to lock the contents of an option button? I have a stack with many cards, and many option buttons scattered throughout. Some of the buttons are populated on openCard, and I want to idiot proof those particular buttons so that I don't inadvertently try to add something and ball up the works. Is there an easy way? Or will I need to create some mumbo jumbo for it? Shari -- Gypsy King Software Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
>As was stated before, your other option is to "strongly recommend" a monitor >set to display 16 bit color. Your app will *run* under 256 colors, it just >may not run as smoothly. This is standard industry practice. Actually, other than launching, it looks good from 256 to millions. I took great care when creating my graphics to ensure that :-) -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
>> The wierd colors you experience may be related to your 256-color monitor >> settings, since each window that is running could potentially have a >> different color palette. My suggestion would be to set your monitor to >> thousands and see if you still get the color shifting problem. > > No weird colors on launch when my monitor is set at thousands or > millions of colors. But the issue isn't weirdness just on my > computer. It bothers me that my users might experience this. > > And if redoing all the graphics is the only solution, that solution > I'm not willing to use. As was stated before, your other option is to "strongly recommend" a monitor set to display 16 bit color. Your app will *run* under 256 colors, it just may not run as smoothly. This is standard industry practice. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
>Shari, > >The wierd colors you experience may be related to your 256-color monitor >settings, since each window that is running could potentially have a >different color palette. My suggestion would be to set your monitor to >thousands and see if you still get the color shifting problem. > >Ken Ray No weird colors on launch when my monitor is set at thousands or millions of colors. But the issue isn't weirdness just on my computer. It bothers me that my users might experience this. And if redoing all the graphics is the only solution, that solution I'm not willing to use. Unfortunately, my next big project, the graphics are already done. About 1000 of them if I remember correctly. It's an adventure game with little tile sized graphics. The C programmers have a way of using sheets of graphics, with maybe 100 graphics to a sheet, and referring to slots. As the name of the graphic is a key factor in the programming of the game, just getting a rect of a big graphic won't be enough. I must be able to refer to a graphic in some unique way. So yup... about 1000... -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
Shari, The wierd colors you experience may be related to your 256-color monitor settings, since each window that is running could potentially have a different color palette. My suggestion would be to set your monitor to thousands and see if you still get the color shifting problem. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: "Shari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Option buttons > >You may need to "set the colors of this stack to the colors of stack > >home". You only need to do this once during development. When you > >save a stack for the first time using the File menu, it is supposed > >to do that automatically for you but I have had instances where it > >didn't -- probably I saved from the message box or something. The > >stack colors are inherited from the Home stack unless you set them > >differently. When you remove the Home stack from the hierarchy, > >there are no colors to inherit. Make sure the stack has its own. > > That brings up another question... > > Often during development, all of Metacard's stacks will change color, > often to a very dark grey. In checking the color settings of the > stacks, the settings haven't changed. Yet on screen suddenly all the > Metacard windows are another color. The only fix is to quit and > relaunch. > > Even if I set the cantModify of the home stack to true, it happens. > > My own stacks remain fine. But Metacard's change. > -- > --Shareware Games for the Mac-- > http://www.gypsyware.com > ___ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
>You may need to "set the colors of this stack to the colors of stack >home". You only need to do this once during development. When you >save a stack for the first time using the File menu, it is supposed >to do that automatically for you but I have had instances where it >didn't -- probably I saved from the message box or something. The >stack colors are inherited from the Home stack unless you set them >differently. When you remove the Home stack from the hierarchy, >there are no colors to inherit. Make sure the stack has its own. That brings up another question... Often during development, all of Metacard's stacks will change color, often to a very dark grey. In checking the color settings of the stacks, the settings haven't changed. Yet on screen suddenly all the Metacard windows are another color. The only fix is to quit and relaunch. Even if I set the cantModify of the home stack to true, it happens. My own stacks remain fine. But Metacard's change. -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Option buttons
On 9/19/02 9:40 AM, Shari wrote: > These are supposed to be simple, white, Option style buttons. This > shouldn't be a big hairy thing! You may need to "set the colors of this stack to the colors of stack home". You only need to do this once during development. When you save a stack for the first time using the File menu, it is supposed to do that automatically for you but I have had instances where it didn't -- probably I saved from the message box or something. The stack colors are inherited from the Home stack unless you set them differently. When you remove the Home stack from the hierarchy, there are no colors to inherit. Make sure the stack has its own. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons final cross platform solution
Well, the only choice that works perfectly on all three platforms is for the button to be Cascade style buttons. Pulldown is good, but has no arrow to indicate to the user there are choices. Ditto for Popup. Cascade, Option and ComboBox are the only choices with arrows. The ComboBox cuts off the text in buttons where the menu choice is wider than the button. And the user can only click on the arrow, not the whole button (unless I script it). The Option style messes up the color choices I've made. And cuts off the text on some platforms to the width of the button. -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons
Dang! This is FRUSTRATING! Turned the buttons back to Option buttons (was going to try to work with ComboBox but when you try to choose a menu item, the width of the text is limited to the width of the button and most of it is cut off where the user cannot read it). So now it's Options again. In stack mode still, won't compile till I get them working in all three modes. Perfect in Macintosh mode. In Native mode, buttons whose script is in the card rather than the button, don't work! You cannot even pull them down to see the items. In Windows mode, they have no border and look awful. and all text beyond the edge of the button is cut off (the pull down list is limited to the width of the button). This is VERY frustrating! These buttons are a primary function of the program! These are supposed to be simple, white, Option style buttons. This shouldn't be a big hairy thing! Aaarrrggghhh! -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons under OS X
Hi Everyone, Awhile ago I asked a question about option buttons under OS X, but never got a response, so I thought I'd take another kick at the cat. When an item in an option button --- also popup or pulldown buttons --- is selected, the label of the button is set to the item selected. I was hoping that I coulod make them behave like checkboxes with their Shared Hilite off, where the same checkbox can be checked on one card and unchecked on another when it is part of a background. This would make option buttons much more useful as containers, and a good example of this appears in Apple's Address Book application where the label of a phone number field (e.g., Work, Home, Mobile, Fax, etc.) can be set using an option button and, of course, can be different for each entry in the address book. Is there anyway to do this in MetaCard? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ "Better for us if you don't understand." The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca
Option Buttons in OS X
Hi Everyone, Is there some way to configure an option button in OS X so that the button line selected is not shared across cards when the button is part of a background? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons in OS X
Hi Everyone, Are option buttons located in a background restricted to displaying the same item on every card? For example, I find that if the contents of the button are A, B and C then if C is selected on one card, it will also appear on all other cards, which is not what I have in mind. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Graphics or images on option buttons
Thanks Kevin Ok thats cool I can work that out, now all i need to do is set the icon on each button to the id of a graphic that is just one marker. Is this possible? If not would you suggest creating a snapshot of each graphic and using that as the icon or simply place eack graphic above a button. PS If anyone thinks this would be a usefull tool then I could send them a copy when done. Best regards to all Monte >From: Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Graphics or images on option buttons >Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:41:42 + > >On 4/11/00 12:17 am, Monte Goulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience creating stacks to be set as menu names for > > option buttons. I'd like to create an option button with the same look >and > > feel as a text option button that a user could use to select a graphic > > marker. I'll offer it to the list when it's done if I work out how to do >it. > > If anyone could offer guidance or a template for this it would be much > > appreciated. > >A good place to start is to have a look at the ones in the MC dev UI. >E.g.: > >clone stack "MC selectedObject menu" > >Regards, > >Kevin > >Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> >Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). >Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. > > >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. > _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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: Graphics or images on option buttons
On 4/11/00 12:17 am, Monte Goulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have experience creating stacks to be set as menu names for > option buttons. I'd like to create an option button with the same look and > feel as a text option button that a user could use to select a graphic > marker. I'll offer it to the list when it's done if I work out how to do it. > If anyone could offer guidance or a template for this it would be much > appreciated. A good place to start is to have a look at the ones in the MC dev UI. E.g.: clone stack "MC selectedObject menu" Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. 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.
Graphics or images on option buttons
Hi all Does anyone have experience creating stacks to be set as menu names for option buttons. I'd like to create an option button with the same look and feel as a text option button that a user could use to select a graphic marker. I'll offer it to the list when it's done if I work out how to do it. If anyone could offer guidance or a template for this it would be much appreciated. Best regards Monte _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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.
making option buttons
Hi all I'm wondering if anyone has experience making option buttons for graphics or images. I wan't to make an option button for a user to select a marker style. I'd like to have the same look and feel as the text option buttons i.e scrollbar on the side if I have greater than five markers to choose from, when a marker is hilited turn the marker white so it can be seen etc. If anyone has done this r has a good idea of the steps I need to take to do it then please let me know. Best regards Monte _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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.
