Re: Simpler way to retrieve the names of a sub group?

2000-09-06 Thread Phil Davis
Hi David, David Bovill wrote: > > I wanted to get the names of the groups on a card but not all the groups - > is there an easy way to do this? To make sure we're solving the right problem, could you please describe elaborate on which groups you want to identify? > These functions work, but

Saving images and sounds to disk

2000-09-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, we download a GIF put it into image "A" now we let the user color the picture and now she wants to save her picture to disk as a GIF or JPEG. on mouseUp ask file "Please name your picture." put "binary:" & it into tPicturePath put image "A" into url tPicturePath end mouseUp The above

Paint Tools/Stand Alones

2000-09-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
Amazingly, after downloading a black and white GIF that originally started in Illustrator as a vector drawing, and putting it into an image. . .it is paintable with MC paint tools! I didn't know a b/w GIF became "bit map" image. "Fills work inside what were previously closed paths in Illustrator

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, andu wrote: > >Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > > > >> This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > >> applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > >> over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > >> appli

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread andu
>Are you going to sit at your WWW server console 24x7 so that every >time a CGI program runs it won't start up the development >environment?) That's a good idea - it will shrink the unemployment to -10;-) > Regards, >Scott > Regards, Andu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ar

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread andu
> >Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > >> This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or >> applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places >> over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them >> applications, whereas people with a less techn

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote: > Lot's of philosophy here, which seems to go with everyone's previous user > experience and background... > > But cutting through this there is a practical problem. If (as I do) you are > interested in distributing information, to people in a number of se

Reg expression syntax: regExp 1 | regExp 2

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
Tired many things over the past weeks and still can't get this syntax to work. I create tow regular expressions that independently do what they are supposed to and when I try to combine them with something that looks like the syntax indicated in the help section it breaks. Can someone send me a

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
Lot's of philosophy here, which seems to go with everyone's previous user experience and background... But cutting through this there is a practical problem. If (as I do) you are interested in distributing information, to people in a number of separate stacks you want them to be able to open any

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > > > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > > appl

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > Scott Raney wrote: > > > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > > app

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Scott Raney wrote: > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > applications, whereas people with a less technical background tend

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > applications, whereas people with a less technical backg

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote: > I want to be able to launch a stack directly from the file system, but with > all the usual features of the development environment. I've filled in the > Menubar field in the Stack Properties" dialog and copied the following > script from the home stack:

Graphic Display

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Yates
Hi I have just finished a presentation stack displaying a varying number of gif files on each card. It works beautifully on my 266 MHz Mac G3. Some of the gif files are moderately big - up to 200k - and so the little watch shows up briefly. But on Windows 98 on my 450 MHz P3, the larger ima

Re: menuPick problem

2000-09-06 Thread Hugh Senior
>You can check the menuHistory property of the button - this contains the >number of the item picked. For such a key issue, may I suggest this is included in the SLG menuHistory entry, along with an equivalent entry in the menuPick entry? Once again, MetaCard has a built-in solution but not an ob

Re: modem questions

2000-09-06 Thread Larry_R_Huisingh
I believe that what you are seeing when you read what you wrote to the serial port is the modem echoing what you wrote to it. I would suggest you issue two reads. I imagine the first will give you what you sent to the modem ("ATZ") and the second would be the response from the modem ("OK"). L

Re: modem questions (modem independent suggestion/question)

2000-09-06 Thread andu
> >On the Mac you could get an AppleScript to dial out for you (for which I >guess you would need Tuviah & RunTime's external collection), is there a dll >or way to do the same thing on windows? Unix? > >I'm guessing but it seems that a lot of people would like to be able to >create applications

Simpler way to retrieve the names of a sub group?

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
I wanted to get the names of the groups on a card but not all the groups - is there an easy way to do this? These functions work, but as I want objects to send messages to other objects at the same level when the stack is resized I don't really want this to be too slow. Is there a faster way? fun

Re: How to access a 'share path'

2000-09-06 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/ schreef: > You also need the server name. The form is > > \\Server\Share (DOS/Windows form) > > //Server/Share (MetaTalk form) > > so you probably will want > > answer url "file://Server/My_Share/Test.ini" > > Where "Server" is the name of the server that has the sh

Re: modem questions (modem independent suggestion/question)

2000-09-06 Thread Miel
no, i don't think that there are any dll's for that (i always work with Windows95) however I would be interested in that 'package' so I also encourage everyone to have a go at it... regards, Emiel -=[MieL]=- - Get free email at http://mail.l

Re: modem questions (modem independent suggestion/question)

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
On the Mac you could get an AppleScript to dial out for you (for which I guess you would need Tuviah & RunTime's external collection), is there a dll or way to do the same thing on windows? Unix? I'm guessing but it seems that a lot of people would like to be able to create applications that use

Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
I want to be able to launch a stack directly from the file system, but with all the usual features of the development environment. I've filled in the Menubar field in the Stack Properties" dialog and copied the following script from the home stack: send "preOpenStack" to card 1 of stack "Me