Re: SV: BackDrop color

1999-09-27 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>How about saving the backdrop color in a custum prop in a stack that can be > saved instead? Then on 'preOpenStack' you can have 'set backdrop to (the > uColor of stack "soAndSo")'.<< > > The problem I'm having is not about remembering or settin

Re: Desperately seeking help

1999-09-27 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd > >like > >> to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any > >> documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone > >tell >

Re: Desperately seeking help

1999-09-27 Thread Scott Rossi
>> I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd >like >> to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any >> documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone >tell >> me mciString equivalent of >> >> on mouseUp >> p

Desperately seeking help

1999-09-27 Thread LK Hagen
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, I wrote: > I have experience playing video on SC and MC, in MacOS and Linux. Now I'd like > to take some baby steps into Windows, but my institution doesn't have any > documentation on mciString commands. Just to get me started, can someone tell > me mciString equivalent of

Re: Tips on maintaining modal behaviour

1999-09-27 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Hugh Senior wrote: > Having spent more debugging time on this than I would care to confess, the > following may be worth remembering if you meet a similar situation. > > > Topic: Calling a modal from a modal > > This can be useful when sequential user decisions are require

Re: Mouse-wheel

1999-09-27 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Dave Cragg wrote: > I just discovered some unexpected consequences of the mouse-wheel > support for Windows. > > Metacard fields will automatically scroll when you turn the > mouse-wheel on a Windows mouse that has such a doodad. However, this > may not be always what you

Re: SV: BackDrop color

1999-09-27 Thread PEChumbley
>>How about saving the backdrop color in a custum prop in a stack that can be saved instead? Then on 'preOpenStack' you can have 'set backdrop to (the uColor of stack "soAndSo")'.<< The problem I'm having is not about remembering or setting the backdropcolor. The problem is that the backdrop

External Collection 1.0!

1999-09-27 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
The External Collection 1.0 which can now be found at Cross Worlds web site consists of two externals for MetaCard, one for the MacOS, and one for Windows. These externals provide a number of different commands and functions on the two platforms. The version currently posted here is the final pu

Externals Collection 1.0 posted

1999-09-27 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi everyone, Just to let you know we've posted Tuviah's DLL for Windows and XCMD for the MacOS as a package on our web site. Previously freeware named TSX, this updated version is the first commercially available externals package for MetaCard. Please support it by trying out the demo and regis

Re: Positioning the Pulldown

1999-09-27 Thread David C. Tremmel
>On Saturday, Sept 25 1999, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Is there any way to specify the location where the menu drops down from a >> pulldown menu button? > >The only thing you can do is make it a popup, in which case the menu will >appear under the cursor. Unfortunately you can't specify where it wi

Mouse-wheel

1999-09-27 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi I just discovered some unexpected consequences of the mouse-wheel support for Windows. Metacard fields will automatically scroll when you turn the mouse-wheel on a Windows mouse that has such a doodad. However, this may not be always what you want. For example, in a multi-column list with