RE: Japanese textfont

2000-03-21 Thread Hjerppe Roland
Hi, I take this opportunity (as a satisfied long time user) to recommend Nisus Writer - only available for Mac - for anyone in need of multilingual capabilities . >From their site http://www.nisus.com/nw/: "Nisus Writer features unlimited undos, noncontiguous selection, tables, an equation editor

first past the POST

2000-03-21 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
The saga continues. I've been having great difficultly getting my CourseInfo web server to accept a POST from Metacard. Rather than describe the problem in detail here, I've made a testbed stack which illustrates the problem. I've also included a few TCP/IP logs in the stack to show you exact

Re: Japanese textfont

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ron at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't seem to input Japanese > text into a field. It may be the case that you can only do this in Japanese "enabled" apps. I believe Apple provides a Japanese language kit on your OS CD -- have you installed it? This provides a language menu for sw

Re: Japanese textfont

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ron wrote: > Greetings > I think I'm missing the obvious but would appreciate help. I'm evaluating MC > for use as a multilingual language learning tool and search engine frontend. > I need to be able to use both English and Japanese text. (actually greek and > hebrew will be

MetaCard 2.3 release information

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Raney
MetaCard 2.3 release information We stopped patching the 2.3 gamma release quite a while ago, and have delayed announcing it for far too long. The official 2.3 release is buildNumber 10, released on Feb 16. You can check which version you have by running "put the buildNumber"

Japanese textfont

2000-03-21 Thread Ron
Greetings I think I'm missing the obvious but would appreciate help. I'm evaluating MC for use as a multilingual language learning tool and search engine frontend. I need to be able to use both English and Japanese text. (actually greek and hebrew will be added later as well). However I can't seem

Re: visual effect

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > > > Unfortunately speed > > compensated means that if the system can't keep up, most or all of the > > effect can get eliminated. This is particularly likely with dissolve, > > which is by far the most expensive effect. >

Re: visual effect

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > Unfortunately speed > compensated means that if the system can't keep up, most or all of the > effect can get eliminated. This is particularly likely with dissolve, > which is by far the most expensive effect. Maybe in the future you might find some way to cheapen

Re: visual effect

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Just as important how do I get the > >> wipe to be consistent in speed even when the application is run on > >> different platforms with different processor speeds? > > > > No need: effects and an

Found text coloring

2000-03-21 Thread Mary Bull
Thanks for the help, Christoph. Your script certainly will work, but what I did was to colorize the contents of the gChunk global. I don't have the project in this office, but I'll be glad to send the colorizing part to you if you like. Basically, I store the text color and text style of gChunk

Re: Idle loop conversion

2000-03-21 Thread Kevin Miller
On 21/3/00 12:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am converting an old SuperCard app that contains an idle loop. According > to the help files I should use some variation of the "send" command. My > loop processes data from a serial port as well as from a card and message >

Re: Multiple Access to Files?

2000-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
> And I think files are not a very good way to store data. I'd use stacks :-) I second this. With custom properties you can have a very rich data structure and all the "parsing" is done right in the ultra-speedy MetaTalk interpreter, rather than bulkier text-processing scripts. -- Richard Gas

Re: Multi-card glorified Find Again

2000-03-21 Thread Christoph Wollek
An afterthought to Your discussion (Mary/Nelson) of Find Again: get put it into fld (so You could easily restore the text) put it into tlookf repeat with i = 1 to the number of cds get the htmltext of fld of cd i replace tlookf with "" & tlookf & "" in it set the the htmltext of fld

Re: visual effect

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Just as important how do I get the >> wipe to be consistent in speed even when the application is run on >> different platforms with different processor speeds? > > No need: effects and animation (e.g., the move command) are all > CPU-speed co