Re: MetaCard review

1999-12-06 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
Kevin Miller wrote: > http://www.zdjournals.com/sun/9912/sun99c2.htm Clayton E. Crooks II seems to know more about MetaCard than most of us. "built-in support for databases such as Sybase, Access, and Oracle"?!? "multimedia abilities comparable to products like ... Macromedia Director"?!? Why did

Re: sound/floppy/e-mail

1999-12-06 Thread andu
>Hello, > >Sorry about the subject line. > >I'm scripting a standalone for a 12 year old student to use at home for >remedial work on learning letter-sound correspondences, and was looking >for list advice about: > >1. the safest sound-file format and attribute-combination (Hz, >8bit/16bit, mono/s

MetaCard review

1999-12-06 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi everyone, I just came across a review of MetaCard out there on the web. If anyone's interested, you can check it out at: http://www.zdjournals.com/sun/9912/sun99c2.htm Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors,

Re: sound/floppy/e-mail

1999-12-06 Thread Karl Becker
Hi there, Nicolas! >I'm scripting a standalone for a 12 year old student to use at home for >remedial work on learning letter-sound correspondences, and was looking >for list advice about: > >1. the safest sound-file format and attribute-combination (Hz, >8bit/16bit, mono/stereo) for Win or Mac;

Saving feedback

1999-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Nicolas R Cueto wrote: > 2. how to receive feedback about student performance. The only two > non-paper scenarios I can envision are: > > [a] saving to floppy. Does MC have a save-file dialog (like MSWord's), > or will I need to know beforehand the directory letter for the floppy > drive on my

Re: sound/floppy/e-mail

1999-12-06 Thread Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa
Nicolas R Cueto wrote: > Hello, Howdy! > 1. the safest sound-file format and attribute-combination (Hz, > 8bit/16bit, mono/stereo) for Win or Mac; You should be fine with 8-bit mono 22KHz sampling. You could take it up to 16-bit if you suspect that the fidelity difference is great enough to wa

sound/floppy/e-mail

1999-12-06 Thread Nicolas R Cueto
Hello, Sorry about the subject line. I'm scripting a standalone for a 12 year old student to use at home for remedial work on learning letter-sound correspondences, and was looking for list advice about: 1. the safest sound-file format and attribute-combination (Hz, 8bit/16bit, mono/stereo) for

Re: Re-Using text

1999-12-06 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
Hi! I have to agree with Scott that a sourceField-Property is not very useful. It would greatly add to the complexity of MetaCard without adding very much functionality. If you want to use it as a viewer for data in a different stack, you can easily the following generic handlers the stack script