runaway sockets

2000-03-29 Thread Yennie
Hello all, I'm experiencing some behavior which I'm not sure what to make of. Occasionally when my Metacard server stack encounters a scripting error while fulfilling a request, it seems to get permanently "stuck" with open sockets. When I check the opensockets(), I will get something like: 1.

Re: More Multilingual Trouble

2000-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
On 3/29/00 1:40 PM, Phil Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have you tried using HTML entity codes? It might work - seems like I had > to do that one time. W3C's list of HTML 4 codes is at: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Not all character entities are supported in MC, only t

double clicking a standalone

2000-03-29 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi all I just received a report from user that he has problems starting a Metacard standalone. He is using Windows NT 4.0. When he double-clicks the exe file, apparently nothing happens. He emphasised "nothing". No program starts, no error message, and no activity is registered in the Task Ma

Re: More Multilingual Trouble

2000-03-29 Thread Phil Davis
Have you tried using HTML entity codes? It might work - seems like I had to do that one time. W3C's list of HTML 4 codes is at: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Have fun! Phil Scott Rossi wrote: > > I've run into a crossplatform character formatting question which I hope > s

More Multilingual Trouble

2000-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
I've run into a crossplatform character formatting question which I hope somebody might have an answer for: can I use a special font or some other means to get "special" characters to display correctly on both Mac and Win platforms? Characters such as the umlaut (sp?) "u" with 2 dots above it are

Re: Dev Tools

2000-03-29 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Phil Davis wrote: > If anyone is interested, the current "Utility Infielder" monthly column > on byte.com discusses something near and dear to my heart. In the second > of a 2-part series, Bill Nicholls discusses how he thinks software dev > tools ought to be. I think Mr. Nic

Dev Tools

2000-03-29 Thread Phil Davis
If anyone is interested, the current "Utility Infielder" monthly column on byte.com discusses something near and dear to my heart. In the second of a 2-part series, Bill Nicholls discusses how he thinks software dev tools ought to be. I think Mr. Nicholls is "spot on". Here's the link: http:/

Re: Flash SDKs released

2000-03-29 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, David Cramer wrote: > I just noticed the following info on Macromedia releasing SDK stuff > for Flash at the FlashForward 2000 promotion. > > I assume this might be useful for future MetaCard support planning. Note that you can play Flash movies in QuickTime using the Meta

Re: playLoudness on Win

2000-03-29 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, k_major wrote: > Hi there, > > starting with version 2.3, MC is using Quicktime to play sounds and videos > on Mac AND Win. Not correct: this is true if you use a player object, but not if you use the older "play audioClip" syntax, which still uses the native audio API call

Re: playLoudness on Win

2000-03-29 Thread k_major
Hi there, starting with version 2.3, MC is using Quicktime to play sounds and videos on Mac AND Win. Unfortunately, because of that fact, the playloudness does't work anymore on WIN (Mac works). I am SURE, this is on top of the todo-list at the MC corp. Isn't it, Scott? A multimedia-authoringt

Flash SDKs released

2000-03-29 Thread David Cramer
I just noticed the following info on Macromedia releasing SDK stuff for Flash at the FlashForward 2000 promotion. I assume this might be useful for future MetaCard support planning. Regards, David MACROMEDIA ENABLES THIRD PARTIES TO SUPPORT MACR

ReplyingToEntireDigestNotGood

2000-03-29 Thread mikekann
When replying to a posting please quote as few lines as necessary to continue the thread, which rarely means quoting an entire digest. Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Victoria, TX. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist

playLoudness on Win

2000-03-29 Thread LK Hagen
The playLoudness on my new Win 2.3 doesn't seem to work. Even when two lines are executed set the playLoudness to 50 put the playLoudness I get "100" as a result. Any insights? Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist

Re: Monitoring URL load status/load with message.

2000-03-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 29/3/00 2:09 am, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was able to access the download stack and got its script see below: > > Several things I didn't get > > 1) I couldn't find the local of the Download Sack all. I can do is open it. > .. .it doesn't appear as a substack of anything

Re: Snapshots vs JPEGs

2000-03-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 29/3/00 2:33 am, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re the EPS "problem" we can obviously as a last resort, open them in > photoshop or illustraor and then: > > Import by taking a snapshot or > Save as a JPEG. > > In terms of memory requirements/bytes used. . .which is more efficien

Re: Delete EPS data from a stack

2000-03-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 29/3/00 2:29 am, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I imported two EPS files into a stack. no objects were created and no images > were displayed by they appeared i the control browser and the stack size > increased in accordance with the two EPS files. How can i delete them now? Sel