Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread James Parker
>However, one question for anyone on the group: how do you set a custom >icon for a Windows program? That's all I have left to do to make my >fishing game cross-platform... having it Mac only for 2 years has made >Mac people happy, but I think it's time to let the other 90% of the world >p

Re: slow var to fld trick?

1999-09-15 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Walas wrote: > >I have a long handler that puts the contents of 12 different variables > >(each containing about 15,000 chars) into 12 different flds. It takes > >25 seconds for the handler to run on my 6100 Mac running MetaCard 2.2.5 > >If I take out the 12 lines of

Re: slow var to fld trick?

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Walas
>I have a long handler that puts the contents of 12 different variables >(each containing about 15,000 chars) into 12 different flds. It takes >25 seconds for the handler to run on my 6100 Mac running MetaCard 2.2.5 >If I take out the 12 lines of the above, the handler runs in less than 1 >second

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread Karl Becker
>> My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard >> run on windows emulators on a mac? If so does anyone have an opinion on >> which is best? > >I chose SoftWindows98 because emulation is the primary focus of Insignia. I have Virtual PC 2.1 with Windows 95 here (go

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread James Parker
I might be in left field with this one but MC runs on Macs, too. Don't understand why you'd feel the need to run it under PC emulation. As far as which emulator is best, I'm sure you'll find opinions vary. I've only used VirtualPC but have never had any problems with it. Hope this helps ya!

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Talluto
> Hello > > I have been lurking a few weeks. > My city, Glasgow in Scotland is getting PCs for schools, when they used > to have Macs. I am a teacher and have been using HyperCard for a few > years and SuperCard a bit too, MetaCard seems an obvious direction to go. > I downloaded the starter kit

Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

1999-09-15 Thread John Johnston
hello "Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa", Jacqueline Landman Gay, Claude Lemmel,Richard Gaskin (and Rich Herz and Mike Yates who replied off list) thank you for all the information and tips, I guess it will be virtual PC. I am enjoying "PCs for non-dummies" too Warren. John Johnston

Re: slow var to fld trick?

1999-09-15 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> wait for 2.3 which does text flow anywhere from 3 to 10 times faster. > > > >Does 2.3 speed up html translation too? I have variables as htmlText > >being put into only four fields, and each variable is usually less than > >4K. Translating the html

MCI notification?

1999-09-15 Thread Leston Drake
Hello all, I've benefited from some previous posts (I'm sorry that I can't attribute them to the right person(s), since my memory is short) regarding issuing MCI commands using the mciSendString() function. I am trying to play a MIDI file in a loop (restart it again when it gets to the end of

playing MIDI (in Win32) using mciSendString()

1999-09-15 Thread Leston Drake
Hi all, Can anyone help me with playing a MIDI file, using mciSendString() ? Here's my script: on mouseUp local f put "c:/somedir/somefile.mid" into f if there is a file f then get mciSendString("open Sequencer "&f&" alias bgMusic") answer the result # put mciSendString("play b

Re: Metacard on Window NT

1999-09-15 Thread Dave Cragg
At 3:00 PM + 14/9/1999, Christoph Wollek wrote: >I am not an expert on Windows and not at all an networks. My question to >our experts: >does Metacard run under win NT? >I developed a standalone with win 98, but a friend told me, under win NT >the program hung up totally. >(The standalone gets