Re: Script Editing Keys

1999-08-18 Thread dohna
> > command-option-S edits the stack script immediately. > > command-option-C edits the card script. These are part of the MCTOOLS. Try edit the script of btn "menuButton" of stack "MetaCard Menu Bar" This button is inserted into the front, i.e. it recieves messages before the object itself doe

Re: Digest metacard.v003.n040

1999-08-18 Thread Claude Lemmel
> --- MESSAGE metacard.v003.n040.10 --- > > From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Notes about MetaCard > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 99 22:01:29 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Maybe everyone else knows this, but just in case,

Notes about MetaCard

1999-08-18 Thread Geoff Canyon
Maybe everyone else knows this, but just in case, since I don't think it's documented: command-option-S on the Mac edits the stack script immediately. I don't know what the Windows equivalent is, but control-option-S seems like a reasonable first guess. command-option-C on the Mac edits the c

Re: SoundChannels

1999-08-18 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 8/18/99 5:55 PM, Karl Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you have a game where you need multiple people talking and >chatting to create a realistic, real-life atmosphere, you can't use midis >or quicktime's in the background. Actually, you could--you just need the _right_ Q

Re: SoundChannels

1999-08-18 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
>Can't. If you have a game where you need multiple people talking and >chatting to create a realistic, real-life atmosphere, you can't use midis >or quicktime's in the background. If there is a way where you could play >a quicktime movie as fast as playing a wav sound with the "play" command

Re: SoundChannels

1999-08-18 Thread Karl Becker
>midi and wav use different channels so you can indeed have navigation >clicks with bg music at the same time. I recently geeked up (?) a >multimedia photo slideshow with background midi music plus voiceover >narrative for a client. Just gotta choose your media formats carefully. Can't. If you h

pixvu

1999-08-18 Thread Klaus Major
Hello everyone on the list, here is a little pixvu-app that i wrote for myself, because i needed it but mainly because it is so much FUN to make stuff like this with MetaCard :) Maybe this is of some use fore some of you, maybe someone comes up with a better or smarter solution or a hint on how

Re: PNG update

1999-08-18 Thread Mark Talluto
> From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PNG update > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 99 03:07:25 -0700 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > It appears that on 8/17/99 3:47 AM, Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I am reporting this so anyone who needs that

Re: Tree view

1999-08-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On Tuesday, Aug 17 1999, Tuviah M Snyder wrote: >> About hour ago I begun exploring how to do a folder tree kind of thing in >> MetaCard. :-) Is there going to be such control in near future? I'd like to >> know, so that I don't spend xx hours "for nothing". If not, have someone else >> already d

Re: PNG update

1999-08-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On Tuesday, Aug 17 1999, Mark Talluto wrote: > Hi everyone. After some work, I found that GraphicConverter was indeed > broken when making the PNG24 file format. Their PNG8 works fine though. > Photoshop 5.5 was able to make an image with a transparent background in the > PNG24 format that load

Re: SoundChannels

1999-08-18 Thread Jarno Järvenpää
Hugh Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >midi and wav use different channels so you can indeed have navigation >clicks with bg music at the same time. I recently geeked up (?) a >multimedia photo slideshow with background midi music plus voiceover >narrative for a client. Just gotta choose your media for

Re: SoundChannels

1999-08-18 Thread Hugh Senior
>I have to agree that ability to have even just two separate sound >channels can have a big impact on some projects. For example >if there is music playing, and when the user clicks a button the >"click" sound stops the music, the user doesn't get too good >impression. midi and wav use different

Re: PNG update

1999-08-18 Thread Geoff Canyon
It appears that on 8/17/99 3:47 AM, Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am reporting this so anyone who needs that format knows that they will >need a $5-600 dolor program to make this happen. Just fyi, Photoshop can be had for significantly less than $500. Quoting from www.deal-mac.com: