Just to let everyone know, I've run MC in the Classic environment of OS X
now. I haven't tested every feature by a long shot, but so far, so good.
gc
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On Monday, September 25, 2000, at 04:21 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:
> There may be - but changing resolution with MC open is not supported.
I'm curious what you mean by "not supported." While building an 800x600 version of my
app's main window earlier today/yesterday, I was dropping from 1024x76
Just a brief follow-up, over the weekend I got two different sizes of my application
to work pretty well. I'll go for a third tomorrow/today (it's pretty late). A few
things I noticed are:
MetaCard ROCKS! This feature was fairly easy to implement, and had only a few gotcha's
along the way.
If
on 9/23/00 2:49 PM, Gary Rathbone at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The question is 'Do I maintain my competitive advantage by keeping quiet...'
> or 'assist by suggestion...'
To me, there's no question here. You help out if you can. The only question
I ask is, "Am I being intrusively promotional of
on 9/21/00 8:48 AM, Mark Mitchell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If not, I could work for an "average" monitor resolution...what would that be
> these days...or preferably in about a year in the future? What is the
> resolution of the newer imacs?
The iMacs do 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. I a
on 9/22/00 3:27 PM, Scott Rossi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any way to indent text in a text field? I want to try to avoid any
> "hardwired" spacing in the text and MC doesn't seem to understand HTML
> tags. Any other options?
Fields understand tabs, which is better than padding wi
on 9/21/00 6:26 PM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ...By slow I mean more than a second on a fast computer.
>
> That sounds quite fast: how fast do you need it to be?
Actually, now that you mention it, it is. :-) MetaCard is amazing. But
still, one second on a fast machine could be
I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in
MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block
of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page
breaks should occur from beginning to end.
The actual goal is to be able
on 9/21/00 12:23 PM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The XML parsing I need to do needs to be done backwards from the end of the
> file - extracting one tag at a time from the end of the file. I am wandering
> if there is a fast way to do this or I have to consider, converting the data
on 9/21/00 5:32 AM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "btn x of the owner of me" however equates to "btn x of group someName", and
> if there are two groups called someName then it picks the first one,
> regardless if this group is the real owner! This is the problem.
Granted that this
on 9/20/00 3:38 AM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 19/9/00 3:15 am, Sound Medicine, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> metaca
cript
--caused the message. Do stuff here
else
--this background didn't cause the message;
--let something else handle it
pass openBackground
end if
end openBackground
Regards to all,
Geoff Canyon
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...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
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
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)
on 9/18/00 7:14 AM, Blair Moxon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> through it. I would like to automate the 'walk through' process; record all
> of the mouse movements and mouse clicks and turn it into a Macro. Then I can
> hand it off to anyone and they can watch a canned version.
> Has anyone ever f
on 9/17/00 5:29 AM, Raymond E. Griffith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 2. Edit the old stack as a pure text object. Obviously this is tricky, not
>> recommended, perhaps not possible at all, possibly a violation of the
>> license agreement, and in general Not A Good Idea. But it would certainly
>
on 9/16/00 12:59 AM, Andy Bailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to write a patch to an existing application.
Two other possible solutions, which may or may not violate your license,
would be:
1. Instead of trying to copy the new stuff into the old stack, copy the
user-customized stuf
s Scott's weakness? Money? Beer? Beer money?
Come on, Scott, what's it going to take? For pete's sake, my cd shipped
today! :-)
Geoff Canyon, who is busily gassing up the Trooper and throwing contraband
in the back for a quick trip to Colorado...
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Now I have a question, related to the previous post.
I have an intro to my program on the first several cards: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
The actual first card where the user can interact (except to abort the
introduction) is card 5. There are sounds that accompany cards 1-4, and a
sound for card 5.
Normal
I don't think this is a bug, but it tripped me up, so I thought I would
point it out so everyone can benefit, or poke fun as the case may be.
I had set up scripts on several succeeding cards to play some sound files,
and proceed on to the next card when the sound stopped. I used the on
playStoppe
on 9/13/00 7:19 PM, Raymond E. Griffith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't order it. My iMac has only 96 MB of RAM. Sigh. Maybe they will get
> the memory requirements down. Then again, maybe not.
>
> At least MetaCard has a reasonable memory requirement!
>
> Raymond
Great minds think alike
on 9/13/00 4:36 PM, Dave Cragg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you need to control the visibility from the calling stack, I think
> you can use the following (from memory):
>
> open invisible stack theStackFile
This worked. I also had a vague memory about the invisible keyword, but I
didn't se
This seems like a simple question, but my pea-brain isn't cooperating with
me today, so:
I'm using the following code to open a stack invisibly:
set the lockscreen to true --locks the screen?
if there is a file theStackFile then
go stack theStackFile --shouldn't show, but does
hide s
It's not downloadable--you have to buy the cd for $29.
Does it make me a simpering MacFool that I already ordered mine? Don't
answer that. :-)
http://www.apple.com
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on 9/7/00 9:36 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> How about a property for the stack, which would allow you the developer to
>> determine how the stack behaved, regardless of the machine it was opened on?
>
> Sounds good to me. Anyone else? What's the default?
How about a preferen
on 9/6/00 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, for you Mac users, how about each time you try to run an
> AppleScript it instead brings up the Script Editor? Wouldn't be very
> convenient, would it?
But this is exactly the way it works. You can save an AppleScript in two
ways,
on 9/3/00 11:28 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you have
> any questions or download it and can't figure it out, don't hesitate
> to contact either me or Paradigma Software. This is a key technology
> for MetaCard developers to have in their arsenal and we need to do
> what it t
--
>>> Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL
>>> Database?
>>>
>>> Javier Miranda V.
>>> MC Multimedia
> --snip--
>
> on 9/8/00 7:33 pm, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> --snip--...but I think the
MacConsult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/22/00 6:17 AM:
>To clarify more the nature of the project, the intention is to put a
>telephone guide in a CD. Basically its a kardex where the implementation
>of a good interface for searches are important. Also I remember reading
>in the list something
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/13/00 4:09 PM:
>A quick survey of MetaCard developers, if you don't mind:
>
>Of work you've performed over the last year, what percentage has been
>related to the Web?
Almost all of it, in one way or another.
>
>Does your work focus more on the clie
MacConsult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/9/00 6:35 AM:
>Is there any way to get data from a remote server running a SQL
>Database? I understand that programs such as FileMaker use ODBC to send
>SQL commands to the server. Any suggestions?
>Saludos,
>
>Javier Miranda V.
>MC Multimedia
Disclaimer
Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/8/00 6:04 PM:
>I somehow am creating multiple backgrounds with the same name and am not
>sure how they got there. Possibly by option selecting and dragging.
One thing to note is that it doesn't take an option-drag; option-clicking
something duplica
Check out
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Also, stick with it. _Everyone_ goes through the "What the heck??" phase
when checking out MetaCard. It's a fact of life, and we've all learned to
get past it. The development environment has good points to go along with
the bad. Each of us
I haven't tried this in MetaCard, but you might try
put "<[^>]*>" into someReg
That translates to a <, any number of anything but >, and a >
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Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/4/00 6:14 PM:
>If your goal is to create a new standard for page description, then maybe
>you have a reachable (and laudible) goal, but for current HTML, I would
>suggest taking a step back and evaluating if you really have that kind of
>time availabl
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 8/4/00 10:12 AM:
>David Bovill at wrote:
>
>> Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that
>> trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex
than
>> I thought (as ever).
>
>What would be the advanta
Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/26/00 3:31 AM:
>> such a suffix), I don't have a good way of making sure that a file is
>> an image file on a Mac before trying to use it's name as the fileName
>> of my image object. Is there any way to do this?
>
>Not that I'm aware of. You might be
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/25/00 4:21 PM:
>> MetaCard took 0, but seemed to do something strange with it. My system
>> font (Charcoal) didn't display right.
>
>What exactly happened? Could it be an anti-aliasing issue?
Nope, an old-fashioned brain freeze. My system font is Ch
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/25/00 1:53 PM:
>Jacqueline Landman Gay at wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to detect the system's menu font on the machine running
>> MetaCard? On Mac, that could be Chicago, Charcoal, or several others. On
>> Windows, probably MS Sans Serif.
>
>Set the fon
Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/19/00 12:42 PM:
>On 19/7/00 7:29 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> One file many windows? Just spent 20 minutes or so trying different syntax
>> for opening cards (presently stored in a single stack), in their own
>> windows. Looks like t
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/4/00 4:59 PM:
>QT gets penalized for two reasons: 1) it bypasses the OS whenever it
>can (which may explain why forcing it to use GDI calls makes it work
>better on NT because this ties it closer to the OS) and 2) it starts
>its own thread that does stuf
I've uploaded a copy of the stack I'm using to break up AIFF files. It's
primitive, undocumented, and not too pretty. But it works. Download and
use it at your own risk. Feel free to ask questions. If you use it,
change it, or improve it, I'd like a copy of the results. The stack may
change si
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/4/00 4:59 PM:
>It's not so smart as that, it just does something simple like measure
>the percentage of its allotted CPU time a process uses between calls
>it makes to the OS (at which point the process does the equivalent of
>the Roberts Rules "I yield
Scott, the answer sort of turned into a status report, so I thought it
might be useful to the list as well--I hope you don't mind:
Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/4/00 12:52 PM:
>I was wondering if your work with AIFF files would allow for something like
>a script-based audio level m
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 7/4/00 10:11 AM:
>like any good OS, NT
>punishes processes when they seem to be sucking up CPU time for no
>good reason, something QT does a lot
I'm just curious, how does QT suck up CPU time for no good reason, and
how can the OS tell the difference bet
I had a really good day today, and I can't resist sharing:
I write educational software for kids (still coding for the switch from
SuperCard to MetaCard--I never should have committed to monthly releases,
but that's another story...) and a large part of the monthly task
involves recording a bu
I'm just curious if anyone has experimented with using web-database
access tools, such as PHP, Lasso, ColdFusion, ASP, etc., in order to set
up database access for a MetaCard client? It seems like it would be a
pretty painless way to get at corporate data with MetaCard.
Thanks,
Geoff
Archive
>From the Ask Apple MacHack:
>One hacker received a flat "no" when he asked if Apple would release
>Hypercard into the open-source arena. Apple cited the time and effort it
>would take to tidy everything up in Hypercard and manage the project.
>Apple would prefer to allocate such resources to
Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 6/23/00 7:48 AM:
>The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons.
>The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know
>where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want.
Then the installa
can slice that
like butter. Specifically, I broke it down into thousand-line chunks
ahead of time, and ran the filter on each of them. It's actually very
fast, and allows for good results. But it's not 30,000 cards, or even
2000. Just a few, with data displayed dynamically in the
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 6/14/00 8:57 AM:
>My only complains with Nav Services are the lack of live scrolling (geez,
>what year are they designing in?) and the really flakey response to the
>Enter key (it now differs from the Return key, in violation of their own
>guidelines on
andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 6/8/00 7:21 PM:
>What I don't figure out (and this has nothing to do with the original
>post) is the number of companies advertising software for a version of the
>OS which officially, as far as the consumers are concerned, doesn't exist
>yet.
Many of them ar
I'm curious how interested everyone would be in a developer preview
release of MetaCard for OS X DP 4. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at the
keynote address of Apple's WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference):
"For those developers that have been porting their Mac OS X apps already,
we thank you. It
Craig Spooner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 5/31/00 10:09 PM:
>Well, Blair has certainly echoed my feelings. And because everything
>is on the Web these days, wouldn't it make more sense to tie into the
>browser rather than simulate a browser in MC? The MC plugin would
>seem to provide the rich
Hi,
there's a board game I play that I decided I liked so much, I wanted an
online version. MetaCard + four hours = prototype --is MetaCard great or
what?
But now I have a slight problem. The board is simple, but with patterned
squares, much like a chessboard with marble and ebony squares, f
On 5/8/00 9:47 PM, Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A good point -- the problem effects are those that involve movement. I used
>dissolve in an example to illustrate the syntax, but the fact remains it
>would be useful to limit the results of an effect between card transitions,
>not just
On 5/8/00 4:53 PM, Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> For example: I have a series of cards in a stack that use the same header
>>> imagery at the top of each card (in a shared group). I'd like to use a
>>> localized visual effect on the lower portion of the cards, to update the
>>> cont
Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 5/2/00 3:56 AM:
> write newRec to file dataFile at end
>
>HOWEVER, I can't then find out where in the file this new record is
>relative to the start of file and so I can't add an index entry into
>the associated index file. Given that I know the le
andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 4/30/00 4:40 PM:
>>Here's a rather strange request...
>>When someone pastes text into a field, is there any way to get the beginning
>>char and ending char of the text they pasted? I've played around with
>>pasteKey, but can't seem to get anything to work. In o
In addition to MetaCard, I work with REALbasic. REALbasic has a sprite
library built in. It's a third party software package, but bolted in for
ease of use.
Are there any cross-platform (obviously all three platforms would be
best, but I'd still be interested in just about anything that got t
This is raging on the 4D (a database application) discussion list right
now, so I thought I'd ask it here:
2.3 + 2.3 + 2.4 is 7.0, but in binary representation, 2.3 and 2.4 are
repeating decimals, and hence to a computer, the result is actually
something like 6.98 or 7.1.
On 4/28/00 7:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a good point, and one I've never seen quantified very well:
>when is it appropriate to consider libraries when calculating the
>productivity of a language? And if you decide to do this, how do you
>take into account the d
On 4/27/00 4:09 PM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm working with some legacy data in (ugh!) CSV format (comma-separated
>values).
>
>Anyone have a quick-n-dirty method if turning that into the more sane
>tab-delimited format?
Seems like a good candidate for matchtext, as long as y
This is probably a question just for Scott, but I thought the answer
might be of interest to the list, so:
I'm reading Code Complete, by Steve McConnell. He discusses choice of
programming language, and says that, "Programmers working with high-level
languages achieve beter productivity and qu
On 4/24/00 12:41 PM, Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How about something simple like:
>
>replace (cr & cr) with cr in gList
>
>Phil
But that wouldn't guarantee that it only replaces returns at the end of
the global, and it wouldn't get rid of all of them. Using the regular
expressio
On 4/23/00 10:27 PM, Nicolas Cueto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello.
>
>Appended to the end of a global variable there'll be 1 or more blank,
>cr-delimited lines. I want to remove those blank lines, and thought phrasing
>a repeat-loop thus would work but am worried about actually testing it out
On 4/11/00 11:00 AM, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You could also set the passkey, then set the password to empty, clone,
>rename, and then set new passwords on the new and old stacks. This
>one has already been fixed for 2.3.1.
Sounds good, thanks!
>
>> And while we're on the subjec
My standalone consists of several stacks. Some of the stacks change, so I
save them out as external stacks from the standalone, using this script:
hide stack "dirTemplate"
clone stack "dirTemplate"
set the name of it to "iDirectory"
set the loc of stack "iDirectory" to 308,463
save stack "iDirec
On Slashdot there is currently a discussion that might
be of interest. Someone calling themselves Amphigory (no email) said they
had to do some development for Linux and PC, preferably under Linux, and
wanted to know what the best tool was. A great deal of discussion
followed, focusing mainly
I'm trying to build a standalone for the PC, and therefore I need to
create a .ico file.
I have a utility (iconographer for doing this, but the resulting .ico
file is far larger than MetaCard expects. My .ico is 5200 bytes, MetaCard
wants 744. I searched my PC for other examples of .ico files,
Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 3/25/00 9:43 AM:
>But how to use all the internet commands, compress files etc? I don't find
>any user's guidance. . .so how to get a grip on this? The scenario is pretty
>obvious:
I would start with the "URLs as Containers" entry in the help index. It
http://www.inspiredlogic.com/idirectory/index.html
and let me know what you think.
Great thanks go to Scott Raney of MetaCard and Kevin Miller of Cross
Worlds. MetaCard is a great product, and their support has been nothing
short of fantastic as I put this thing together.
Geoff Canyon
Inspired Lo
On 3/17/00 12:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am converting a SuperCard application to MetaCard. The SC project script
>had an openProject handler that would execute when the project was opened.
>I am trying to come up with a similar handler in MetaCard. If I change the
ere. They
have to exist--people do write drivers for this stuff.
gc
Geoff Canyon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your child can learn to read using the classics of children's literature.
Check out C.D. Caterpillar: <http://www.inspiredlogic.com/cd/>
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spsend: plen=15, type=6
nttwr: entry
nttwr: socket 180 had bytes written=15
nttwr: exit
nspsend: 15 bytes to transport
nspsend:packet dump
nspsend:00 0F 00 00 06 00 00 00 ||
nspsend:00 00 03 08 0C 01 02 00 ||
nspsend: normal exit
Geoff Canyon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your child can learn to
On 3/15/00 1:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone had any more luck than me?
Success! Well, not really. I gleaned from
http://www.sch.bme.hu/misc/oracle8/network/a58230/ch10.htm#423022
that Oracle databases _may_ be accessed on port 1575.
I feel this is a moral vic
on ODBC
>that would give me some insight on this. Has anyone had any more luck than
>me? I'd kill to work on this if it was doable.
I haven't found anything yet, but I'm still looking.
Why the heck should it be so difficult to find this? You would think
they'd want eve
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Thanks Kevin...
>
> so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system
> to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically
> appears on the Mac without having to do or use anything else? Still can't
> se
On 3/14/00 5:47 AM, Isotalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I work "on batteries" (or rather the iBook) I noticed some strange
>behavior.
>For example: I have a button moving around using send. But when on
>batteries, if no other action is
>taking place (like mouse move, key pressed, etc) the
To those who know far more than I about database access: is there
anything about connecting to [Oracle|Sybase|MySQL|etc.] that can't be
handled with the new socket support?
In other words, is there any need for an XCMD/DLL for database access at
this point, or is it just a matter of writing th
dd a new entry, type mc, select MetaCard,
and you're done. Works off floppies, at least--haven't tried a cd, but it
should work. I don't know why I didn't think of this before--I, too, have
a file typer just for converting MetaCard files.
gc
Geoff Canyon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your
On 3/10/00 6:00 AM, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't tried this, but there is at least one program (SndSampler for
>> the Mac) that has an option to try to import just such headerless sound
>> data. They don't promise success, but do point out that sound data is
>> relativ
On 3/9/00 9:48 AM, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>There is a stack we want to run off the web. The client wants to charge
>for usage by the hour. Users will be provided with a small MC
>application that simply opens the web stack. They will log into the web
>site when they st
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 3/8/00 3:36 PM:
>Bad news: the export command actually only supports exporting images
>(a fact documented in the Reference). You actually can export
>videoClips and some image formats by getting the "text" property and
>writing that to a file, but even th
On 3/3/00 10:15 AM, Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I find the parameters passed as part of a message sent with the
>"send" command?
It has the potential to be really ugly, but you could store a record of
the command yourself, in an array perhaps. Hmmm... In an associative
ar
On 3/3/00 10:11 AM, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>PS: I don't really understand the engine code that does this, but do
>know that it's one of the things that isn't Carbon compliant and so
>will have to be changed...
Someone with more Mac Toolbox experience than I will no doubt correct
On 3/1/00 10:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm developing a series of CBT packages that'll use animated cartoons
>(GIFs with voice-overs) for illustration rather than video clips to
>keep the file sizes down for use across corporate networks. However,
If your only ob
>But I'm wondering if this is the easiest way to do what you want. For
>example, if the two word lists are both return delimited lists, would
>this do what you need?
>
>repeat for each line tWord in tList1
> if tWord is not among the lines of tList2 then
> -- store tWord somewhere
> end
uot; & theSearchString & ").*" into theSearchString
--the parenthesis turn it into a substring match, and the .*'s make it
fit in anywhere
--Then use matchChunk to see whether you have a match:
put matchChunk(theSourceString,theSearchString,hitStart,hitEnd) into
foundIt
It appears that on 2/11/00 3:12 AM, Raymond E. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
>I checked my code time and again, only to come up more and more frustrated.
>Then I realized I was trying to "send" to a handler in a disabled button.
>Not only does disabling a button keep it from receiving a mouse
On 2/8/00 4:34 PM, Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out some stack behavior through trial and error and was
>hoping someone might be able to save me some time...
>
>The goal I'm shooting for is to hide a stack when it is not in the
>foreground and show it when it is ma
>1) Is there a command which will allow you show/hide the menubar? (In
>Hypercard was Command + spacebar)
hide menubar --hides it.
show menubar --shows it.
I don't know if there is a keyboard equivalent.
>2) Is there a command which will allow you show/hide the message box? (In
>Hypercard was
>function changePropertyName object oldPropName newPropName
> get the customKeys of object -- are now in it,but ONLY THE NAMES
> put newPropName & return before it -- creates the NAME of the new prop
> put the oldPropName of object into oldPropCont -- saves the content
> delete line lineOffset
ipt, now appropriately housed, is working perfectly.
>
>Sorry.
No, it was my fault. The "ghost in [my] imaginative loop" was acting up
when I ignored the fact that you would have to put the on playStopped
into the card script, and rearrange the local variables or the code to
match.
g
end playStopped
On the other hand, if you _want_ to lock out user interaction during
playback, you'd have to do something different.
Hope this helps,
gc
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simplicity to power ratio.
gc
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It appears that on 2/1/00 12:07 PM, Nicolas R Cueto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>The text is already delimited, with a "/".
You could pre-process the text to apply the group style, creating an
associative array along the way to make it easy to extract the
appropriate values. Assuming that the "
It appears that on 1/31/00 10:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>What you really need is a Mac version of the irregular window in Tuv
>>Snyder's external (that feature only works on Windows now).
>>Unfortunately providing this is apparently going to require some minor
>>addition
out, but on a negative note, I got an email back from the
creator of the XCMD, and he thinks it would be difficult to port to other
platforms, because it is dependant on the specifics of MRJ on the Mac.
I'll follow up with him anyway, though.
gc
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