RE: Problem with scrollbar redraws

2000-09-19 Thread xbury . cs
Thanks Pierre, here's my autosave script, as you can see you dont have to specify the path to save! here's my autosave handler on AutoSaveStack global autosave,autoSaveExceptions if autosave="" then put the hilite of btn "Auto Save Stacks" of stack "home" into autosave put "execution err

Re: Problem with scrollbar redraws

2000-09-19 Thread Serge Grenier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lastly, I decided to put all the handlers into the stack of MCtools The trouble with this approach is that it adds work everytime you upgrade to a new version of MetaCard, since they comme with a new version of MCTools also. That's why I tend to leave MCHome and MCTool

Writing and submitting a form from a browser

2000-09-19 Thread Sound Medicine, Inc.
I am very unsophisticated as a programer. I can't for the life of me get the post comand to work submitting a form. Is there any simple way to have metacard fill in the fields of a form on a browser like Internet Explorer and somehow hit the submit button? And, while I'm asking, is there an

Re: All I want to do...

2000-09-19 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/9/00 11:38 pm, Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...is log any errors that occur in my program. In the past (in SuperCard) I > did this by locking error dialogs, and setting a handler at the top level > for the errorDialog message. The handler would dutifully write the > information

All I want to do...

2000-09-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
...is log any errors that occur in my program. In the past (in SuperCard) I did this by locking error dialogs, and setting a handler at the top level for the errorDialog message. The handler would dutifully write the information on the error to the end of a property, which was later exportable, in

Re: system tray

2000-09-19 Thread Miel
On Tue, 19 September 2000, "Sjoerd Op 't Land" wrote: > > Miel wrote/ schreef: > > > Hi all, > > > > has anyone ever acomplished to put a stack into the windows 9x system tray? > System tray? What do you mean: the program switcher? no, i mean the little space in the windows95 bar with the to

Re: Problem with scrollbar redraws

2000-09-19 Thread Pierre Sahores
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Serge, > > Thanks to Kevin, I managed to put an auto-save feature for all of MC. > Fortunately my stacks remain small but with all the changes I do, and the > stability I got is not 100%, I need to have these saved often. > > So I stuck a few saving routines wher

Re: Feature request: clone as substack

2000-09-19 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote: > on 9/19/00 10:41 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If you clone a substack, the copy *is* a substack of the same main > > stack. It's not possible in general to do what you want, though, > > because that would require nested substacks (

Re: Feature request: clone as substack

2000-09-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/19/00 10:41 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you clone a substack, the copy *is* a substack of the same main > stack. It's not possible in general to do what you want, though, > because that would require nested substacks (which is something > MetaCard supported before the 1

Re: Feature request: clone as substack

2000-09-19 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote: > If you are doing anything fancy with cloning multiple windows it would be > really nice to be able to have the new cloned stack behave as a sub-stack, > and be able to use the main stacks scripts without a lot of fiddling (ie > send) or using the stack (

Re: Feature request: clone as substack

2000-09-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/19/00 2:02 AM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are doing anything fancy with cloning multiple windows it would be > really nice to be able to have the new cloned stack behave as a sub-stack, > and be able to use the main stacks scripts without a lot of fiddling (ie > send)

Re: Metacard Macro?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Blair Moxon wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions... hadn't thought of the frontScript - in > fact I'd never heard of it! > > Blair Moxon > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Richard Gaskin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Subject: Re: Metacard Macro? >> >> Have you considered using a fron

RE: Problem with scrollbar redraws

2000-09-19 Thread xbury . cs
Hi Serge, Thanks to Kevin, I managed to put an auto-save feature for all of MC. Fortunately my stacks remain small but with all the changes I do, and the stability I got is not 100%, I need to have these saved often. So I stuck a few saving routines where needed including some exception handlin

RE: Metacard Macro?

2000-09-19 Thread Blair Moxon
Thanks for all the suggestions... hadn't thought of the frontScript - in fact I'd never heard of it! Blair Moxon > -Original Message- > From: Richard Gaskin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Metacard Macro? > > Have you considered using a frontScript and log messages to a fi

Re: system tray

2000-09-19 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Miel wrote/ schreef: > Hi all, > > has anyone ever acomplished to put a stack into the windows 9x system tray? System tray? What do you mean: the program switcher? (It sounds very Windows- like to me) > > cheers, > > Miel Regards, Sjoerd Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists

Re: Problem with scrollbar redraws

2000-09-19 Thread Serge Grenier
> > IF ANYONE HAS A FORCE SAVE SCRIPT/STACK or CARD > > AT ANY EVENT OF MC IM VERY VERY INTERESTED Hypercard is built with the idea of saving all the time so it saves rapidly just a little chunk at a time and we barely notice it. MetaCard is built with the idea of saving at the end of the sessio

system tray

2000-09-19 Thread Miel
Hi all, has anyone ever acomplished to put a stack into the windows 9x system tray? cheers, Miel - Get free email at http://mail.limpbizkit.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/met

MC Version Testing

2000-09-19 Thread Peter Reid
Title: MC Version Testing Hi I don't know if this will be of any help to anyone, but I find it helps me when running stacks upgraded to use features from new versions of MetaCard. In order to avoid problems whilst running a stack I always include a call to a handler to check that the current Met

Feature request: clone as substack

2000-09-19 Thread David Bovill
If you are doing anything fancy with cloning multiple windows it would be really nice to be able to have the new cloned stack behave as a sub-stack, and be able to use the main stacks scripts without a lot of fiddling (ie send) or using the stack (which can interfere with the global environment.