nds very helpful to me, as I, too, ran into this problem a while
back. Is it better to change the behavior of "the owner" or create a
new "ownerID" property?
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> >Does > "frog"> select that a set (if it exists) or create a new set called
>> "frog"?
>
>Yes!
Yes? Would that be "yes, it selects it" or "yes, it creates it if
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>>> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?
>>
>> I've used the name of the CPU to as a rough measure of the speed of
>> the machine. If the function returns the slowes
mply
>> "Motorola PowerPC."
>
>I'd say this is an improvement over SuperCard's behavior ;-) But
>we're open to suggestions as to what the return values of this, and
>the machine() function, should be.
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; I started wondering what MC
would do, and discovered that it sees all Power Macs as simply
"Motorola PowerPC."
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or me scrapbook!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing! Thanks Richard.
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One more thought about this... I know the dreadful history of
SuperCard's Web plugin and wouldn't want to see MC step into the same
hole. But it seems to me (in my utter ignorance of the programming
required to accomplish this) that MetaCard, with its cross-platform
architecture, has already
>1. Although you and I hear a good many requests for this sort of thing, for
>most folks there are only three tolerable plugins: Real, QuickTime, and
>Flash. All others have such a tiny slice of the download pie that they're
>not even worth mentioning.
Yes, I agree. But there are other special
cumbersome. Have I, indeed,
misunderstood how this should work?
I don't know how, but I forgot to mention this in the MC survey :-/
Thanks in advance for any clarification on this important issue.
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>Thanks I'll give that a spin. Recording sound like that would be a good
>addition to the externals collection though.
>
>Michael
Amen to that!
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be done
>(http://www.totallyhip.com).
This sure sounds great to me! Scott, is support for wired sprites in
QT somewhere in the upper echelons of planned enhancements for
MetaCard?
Craig
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the word "sequence", which appears many times.
>
> What's the best way to cycle through the field to pick up each
>instance of the word "sequence"?
>
> Regards,
>
Greg
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With
that capability, using MC over Director, at least in our shop, would
be a no-brainer!
My 2 cents.
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of the tree. It's very cumbersome and
I'm wondering (hoping!) there's a better way. Any suggestions?
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Craig
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industry?
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tricks. I think many of
us would benefit from this, but especially the newcomers to MetaCard.
I will have several such stacks to share in the next few weeks. Is
there a common place where we can post them, along with a sentence or
two of description?
Craig
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asking whether MC isn't more consistent in its use of that word?
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sing to start up the browser. One trick that
>can be used to get around this problem is to append extra characters
>(like spaces) to the string you pass to open process to allow it to
>open two identical processes as far as the OS is concerned (it strips
>extra spaces), except that the
random -- it returns an
error message of "Process is already open."
Does anyone know why this error appears sporadically? I don't see the logic.
Many thanks,
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Thanks, Phil.
Craig
>Hi Craig,
>On the MC FTP site, there's a stack that compares the vocabularies of
>MC, SC and HC on a word-for-word basis. Not exactly what you wanted, but
>it's related. Here's the link:
>
>ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/contrib/HCSCMC.mc.gz
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>HTH - Phil.
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the propertyNames function - and is there a messageNames
>function as well?
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>try
>http://www.metacard.com/ideh.html
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Ingenious! Thank you, Scott.
Craig
>Sure -- here's a quick and dirty option...
>
>Create a graphic suitably sized for dragging the bottom right corner of the
>palette. Place the following script in the grc.
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Is there no way to create a *resizable* floating window? This is
really what my application calls for, yet none of the stack modes
seem to support this. I'm assuming it's because a palette-type
window isn't modifiable. Does anyone know of a workaround?
Many thanks,
Craig
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Sivakatirswami,
Here's a handler in the stack script of my current project:
on launchInternetApp tAddress
switch the platform
case "MacOS"
send tAddress to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL"
if the result is not empty then -- if there's an error
-- report error to user (I've
Does anyone have some figures about MC's "vital statistics?" I'll be
giving a presentation about MetaCard later this month and I'd like to
be able to talk about the number of commands, functions, object
properties, etc. in MetaTalk. To take the a step further, I'd like
to compare the size of
7;s a note about "certain window managers" not behaving
predictably. Is that referring to the Mac OS?
Craig
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ff with the "quote"
>constants is not required...
> Regards,
>Scott
>From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Did you try it without the final backslash (after ...command\")? That
>can make a difference.
>Regards,
>Phil
>
>
>
tKey
put queryRegistry(tKey)
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n Fri, March 17, 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I've noticed that MetaCard sets the default font for new buttons to
>"none," which on Windows looks good in both plain and bold styles
>(incidentally, when the style is changed to bold, the font name
>sw
Windows Stack Properties dialog doesn't show the "Edit Menus" option
that appears on the Mac...
Anyway, thanks. I'll read the documentation more closely.
Craig
>On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
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> > As I near completion of my latest project and begin
As I near completion of my latest project and begin to test it for
cross-platform uniformity, I'm finding a few glitches. The latest is
the apparent difference between Mac and Windows ink effects. A
button set to the "adMin" fill effect works as I would expect on the
Mac, but in Windows appe
Do menu panels work differently across platforms? I've created a
panel with buttons, each of which passes the mouseUp message to the
stack script, where it's supposed to put the short name of the target
into a global variable. On the Mac this works fine, but in Windows
neither the mouseUp me
Ah ha! Thanks Scott!
Craig
>The properties dialog allows this just as a convenience. If you set
>the property directly, you have to use the old "& cr &" syntax (unless
>you want to run it through the format() function first).
> Regards,
> Scott
>
>O
tton appears
in the correct 2-line format. Is this a bug, or have I missed
something?
Here's my script:
set the label of btn "PDF Launcher 1" to \
"1999 Interpretive Media\nCompetition Award Winners"
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Leston and Tuviah,
Thanks very much for the suggestions. I'll try them out later today.
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I've decided to do just that! Thanks Dave, and all on the list.
Craig
Dave Cragg wrote:
> However, it's probably much easier to get Tuviah Snyder's external
>collection which provides AppleEvent and AppleScript support. I
>haven't used these particular commands and functions, but if they
>work
ot; key in just the same way as you'd check "http." Here's the
path:
hkey_local_machine\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command\
This is probably obvious to everyone, but I thought it might be helpful.
Craig
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>browser / email information, but none for storing normal applications like
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Greetings,
I've been studying the great examples of launching a web browser on
both the Mac and Windows posted by Hugh, Tuviah, and Kevin. Thanks
you all for sharing that stuff. I have a couple of questions about
it that I was hoping someone could help me with.
One is simply what does "GURL
submenu from an option menu button? The menuHistory of
>such a button seems unaffected by the selection of a submenu item,
>and setting the label to the submenu item doesn't affect what gets
>hilited when you click on the button.
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in my approach, I'd like to know that, too.
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Ah ha! Thank you, Scott.
Craig
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
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> > Hmm, am I in the twilight zone, or has anyone else noticed an
> > irregularity in the version 2.3's keyboard shortcut for Paste? It
> > seems to have become Command - Y instead of V.
Scott and Hugh,
Thanks very much for your feedback. Is there a list been started for
version 2.4? ;-)
Craig
> > I have a popup menu -- a btn set to the "menu" style -- that contains
> > 55 items. I was hoping I could limit the number of menu items
> > showing at any one time, and I really t
of a
combo box nicely, but seems to have no effect on an Option-style
button. Anyone know if I'm doing something wrong or if there's
another way to accomplish this?
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Craig
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have one pop-up menu that hides or
shows other fields and buttons depending on its label (i.e., the menu
item selected).
Thanks for any insight you can give.
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eckmark to appear
next to the currently selected menuitem. Is there an example
somewhere in the MC stacks that I can use as a model?
Thanks,
Craig
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>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Craig Spooner wrote:
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Thanks everybody for all your great suggestions. Based on your
comments, I believe I will go back to the splash screen as a substack
of the rest of the project.
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>--
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Can someone point me in the right direction for creating a splash
screen that shows briefly, then disappears to reveal the main screen
of an application. I've created a small stack as the splash, to
which I've added the other stacks as substacks. In the small splash
screen stack I've put the
I'm sure this is a stupid question, but can anyone tell me why I
can't get the Help menu to go away? I'm using the Menu Builder,
which creates three menus -- File, Edit, and Help. I want only the
File menu, so I delete both the Edit and Help btns in the menu group,
but the Help menu still sh
gt;Definitely look into the filter command. It involves a little work on
>your part getting the filter key correct, and be sure to work on a copy
>of the data, since it works on the data in place, but it's very fast,
>even when you use an odd key to, say, match data only in the seventh
clicked. The only way I can think to do it is to set everything to
"plain," but then I lose the grouped text!
What I guess I want is something like "set the textStyle ... to
"notBold" Is that possible?
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appreciate any suggestions from those who have already been down this
road.
Thanks very much,
Craig
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Terrific! Thank you Andu and Eva for your help.
Craig
>Try "put the openStacks".
>I use >if "myStack" is in windows() then>
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something like "if the long ID of wd xyz is in the windows..."
Anything similar (or more direct) in MetaCard?
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Could someone take pity on a poor retch like me (and dare I think there
might be others out there?) and explain how to use the MC Report Generator?
Its abstruse capabilities have eluded my grasp on several attempts, yet
several people on this list have referred to it as a terrific little tool.
How
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