Re: load url url [with message message] what message?

2000-02-08 Thread David Cramer
Endless thanks to Kevin, Scott, and Andu for answering my question so well. The examples were greatly appreciated! I had missed the point that the "message" had to be a quoted message handler name (not some text destined for the message box). I made a similar mistake when I first tried to use

Loading web-pages

2000-02-08 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Hello all, What method do you use to make hyperlinks to the Internet? On Mac it's something like: send "GURLGURL" to "Finder" with "http://www.metacard.com/" Then the default browser opens, and shows the specified page. What is the correct command on Mac and Win? For the MetaCard team: Is it

Re: Loading web-pages

2000-02-08 Thread Kevin Miller
On 8/2/00 2:22 pm, Sjoerd Op 't Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, What method do you use to make hyperlinks to the Internet? On Mac it's something like: send "GURLGURL" to "Finder" with "http://www.metacard.com/" Then the default browser opens, and shows the specified page.

opening standalones by clicking on a file

2000-02-08 Thread Tereza Snyder
Hi ya'all, On the mac... Has anyone figured out how to open a standalone by dragging one of its files to it, or double-clicking one of its files, and then reading that file? I've looked at the environment variables $0 and $1. $0 has the path to the stack, but $1 is empty (MC2.3g8). Isn't

Re: Path problem in Windows MC2.3?

2000-02-08 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, David Cramer wrote: Hi all, I just spent some more time exploring my old Hansel and Gretel problem, i.e., the Case of the Lost Path. Having sprinkled bread crumbs liberally, I can now report that the problem I thought I had in January with losing graphics in MC

offset from end syntax?

2000-02-08 Thread David Cramer
I thought I ran across a tip, perhaps from Scott, about using a minus symbol somehow with the offset function to do the offset from the end of a chunk. Am I imagining that? David -- David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street PBSC Computer Training Centres (an

write stuff...

2000-02-08 Thread Steven Tripp
Suppose I capture a screen snapshot into an image: What is the the syntax for writing the image to a file (or an existing picture file)? Steve This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info:

Re: Path problem in Windows MC2.3?

2000-02-08 Thread David Cramer
Ah-hah! Now I can make a better mental connection with all the recent talk about setting the current directory. OK. I just got thrown off the track early because I had been developing on a Mac, and the browsers on the Mac don't seem to affect the directory of a MetaCard stack being run from