Re: Networking

1999-11-10 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
At 20:24 Uhr -0700 10.11.1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I want to be able to communicate between two stacks over a network. >The only way I could think of is to allow both computers to allow >sharing of there c drives and write access as well. Then create files >on each others c drive for the Met

escaping a repeat loop

1999-11-10 Thread Nelson Zink
Nicolas, > For impatient users of my stacks, I'd like to rescript this > mouseDown-initiated repeat loop so that it can be escaped (via the > return key?) without leaving group "bin-bon!" hidden: Try the following: repeat 2 show group "bin-bon!" wait 400 milliseconds getOuttaHere hide g

Networking

1999-11-10 Thread tagged
I want to be able to communicate between two stacks over a network. The only way I could think of is to allow both computers to allow sharing of there c drives and write access as well. Then create files on each others c drive for the MetaCard program to read and delete. This was a rather slow wa

Re: Bkgnd images in 2.3A5

1999-11-10 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, rice wrote: > I'm not sure this is a bug, probably just me, hence I'll ask for > help here. > > I want to have an image as the background on several cards. I > created the image (JPG) in Graphics Converter. I had a 320x210 pixel > 8bit gray scale image. I pasted seve

Re: QT active

1999-11-10 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hugh Senior wrote: > Since mc2.3 now so easily allows multiple concurrent QuickTime players > (yipee!), such as a background midi soundtrack with a series of interactive > video movie players, it would be most helpful to have some means of > identifying the current state of p

Re: preventing arrow-key navigation

1999-11-10 Thread Karl Becker
>>When I inadvertantly hit my keyboard's up/down arrow-keys, I was >>surprised--and then distressed!--to see me moving between substacks. >>Short of ripping out all the arrow-keys from my school's computers, how >>do I prevent these or any other unbidden navigational key-events? > >Hi Nicolas > >s

Bkgnd images in 2.3A5

1999-11-10 Thread rice
I'm not sure this is a bug, probably just me, hence I'll ask for help here. I want to have an image as the background on several cards. I created the image (JPG) in Graphics Converter. I had a 320x210 pixel 8bit gray scale image. I pasted several copies into a new image and created a 800x

Re: QT active

1999-11-10 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
>Since mc2.3 now so easily allows multiple concurrent QuickTime players >(yipee!), such as a background midi soundtrack with a series of interactive >video movie players, it would be most helpful to have some means of >identifying the current state of play (pun intended) eg: You can get the "pause

Re: escaping a repeat loop

1999-11-10 Thread Nicolas R Cueto
**WARNING Verbose mode fully on ** Hello Phil, Thank you for your help. I inserted your routine, however, it is not working exactly as I expected. (Before going on into the problem, though, I ought to stress that this message is not in any way a complaint about help kindly offered; I simply wish

QT active

1999-11-10 Thread Hugh Senior
Since mc2.3 now so easily allows multiple concurrent QuickTime players (yipee!), such as a background midi soundtrack with a series of interactive video movie players, it would be most helpful to have some means of identifying the current state of play (pun intended) eg: if not the active of p

Re: Mac OSs and MC

1999-11-10 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Nicolas R Cueto wrote: > Hello, > > As I begin to put the finishing touches on my > created-on-a-PC-but-now-being-imported-to-a-Mac, should I be worrying > about the Mac OS version of my end users? Maybe a little. As long as they have System 7.1 or later, most things shou

Re: Mac OSs and MC

1999-11-10 Thread Kevin Miller
On Wednesday, Nov 10 1999, Nicolas R Cueto wrote: > Hello, > > As I begin to put the finishing touches on my > created-on-a-PC-but-now-being-imported-to-a-Mac, should I be worrying > about the Mac OS version of my end users? > > What prompted this question was a comment made on another list that

Re: play command in 2.3

1999-11-10 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dave Cragg wrote: > I've been playing (doing research) with mp3 files. (Kind of > addictive. :)) mp3 is supported by both QuickTime and the latest > Media Player from Microsoft. I have both these loaded under NT 4.0. > Using a player object under 2.3 works fine as expect

Re: escaping a repeat loop

1999-11-10 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Nicolas, If you want a process to be user-interruptable, you have to program it so that it executes in "chunks", so MC can receive new user-generated events at the end of each chunk. Otherwise, MC will wait until the whole handler has executed before checking the event queue. The easiest way

play command in 2.3

1999-11-10 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi I've been playing (doing research) with mp3 files. (Kind of addictive. :)) mp3 is supported by both QuickTime and the latest Media Player from Microsoft. I have both these loaded under NT 4.0. Using a player object under 2.3 works fine as expected. I was wondering what would happen with

Re: preventing arrow-key navigation

1999-11-10 Thread Dave Cragg
At 4:28 PM +0900 10/11/1999, Nicolas R Cueto wrote: >When I inadvertantly hit my keyboard's up/down arrow-keys, I was >surprised--and then distressed!--to see me moving between substacks. >Short of ripping out all the arrow-keys from my school's computers, how >do I prevent these or any other unbi

Mac OSs and MC

1999-11-10 Thread Nicolas R Cueto
Hello, As I begin to put the finishing touches on my created-on-a-PC-but-now-being-imported-to-a-Mac, should I be worrying about the Mac OS version of my end users? What prompted this question was a comment made on another list that Windows 2000 will not be backwards-compatible... and if so, do