perty. Anything like that available? Or is the inability to display a
custom forecolor over a hilite just a bug?
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ridden by a preference checkbox that forces
all stack launches to be opened in development mode.
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t sure what will happen if there are stacks
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boot the Mac
besides, so it is a major irritation.
I'd like to see Command-Q (Control-Q, etc.) built into the engine as a
permanant fixture. You should always be able to quit, no matter what.
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wo?
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control
a graphics application to perform these tasks?
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ps that extend past its
right edge. If it does, you'll have to change the way the last column's
width is calculated. You'll also probably want to lock the screen while
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Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Kevin Miller wrote:
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> On 25/7/00 7:03 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > When designing
> > custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the
> > user's selected system font. Can I get this info?
>
> At
know. When designing
custom dialogs, it is important that certain buttons display in the
user's selected system font. Can I get this info?
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tried looking for, but none
of the words that seemed obvious to me were, in fact, related to the
actual property name. I believe I searched for "group" but since it
isn't at the beginning of the name, it wasn't found (I should have been
using "find string" but it didn
a different
group, then it won't get there.
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a dialog box, you can
use this syntax:
ask password "What is the password?"
The user's entry will be encrypted and placed in the variable "it". This
is a way to encrypt only the password, without having to encrypt the
entire stack.
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Kevin Miller wrote:
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> On 1/7/00 5:55 am, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What is the message order for a normal double-click event on an object?
> mouseDown
> mouseUp
> mouseDoubleDown
> mouseDoubleUp
Oof. This is way different than
order above is wrong, how does it go?
The docs should have a listing of all message orders for common events.
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If I use my Mac to build a Linux app or a Windows app, do I need to set
the stack's "look and feel" to the target platform before I do the
build, or will the engine do that automatically for me?
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custom creator code to locate the app is a good
one) but it is very straightforward, and because it is so routinely done
on the Mac, no one will question it at all.
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as Scott said, the control keys don't work.
The flushevents are necessary or you will cycle till daybreak if you
hold the key down longer than a second or two. Even so, I wouldn't go
leaning on it. :)
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s. (My
previous tests were flawed.) One exception seems to be the shift key,
which is what I really want to use. Shift doesn't seem to be detected.
There are some other keys which aren't being detected either on my Mac,
mostly control keys like control, command, and opti
preferences folder and store your
data in that. There are also a number of XFCNs that will give you the
path to the preferences folder; these would only work on a Mac, but
that's the only place you'd need it.
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to use the shift key -- but this key by
itself doesn't trigger any messages at all, no matter what.
Any ideas?
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I closed the debugger, re-opened it, re-ran the profiler, and it worked.
I don't know what happened, but something interfered with it temporarily.
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r
gif first and then import it? Or do snapshots already use some sort of
compression? Which would be smaller?
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u group to the substack's
menu property, without actually adding the menu group to the substack.
Preliminary tests seem to indicate this will work. Am I asking for trouble?
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"Raymond E. Griffith" wrote:
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> On 6/13/2000 11:05 PM Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various
> > images. Is there a way to keep these in memory
stack and set a button icon to
use them instead, but there are almost a megabyte of images and the
stack would get fairly bloated.
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osted, but got no hits. Is there a backward limit
on the number of posts available for searching? I haven't had much luck
finding older messages in the archives.
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s the original moving image
(now hidden,) not whatever is currently under the pointer.
There must be something more to the "mousecontrol" function that isn't
documented, because it does not seem to be registering what is under the
mouse. What am I missing?
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Scott Raney wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
>
> > At 5:10 AM -0700 5/23/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> > >> > Then what is value("1+1")?
l to
its string literal, i.e., "President, HyperActive Software". In MC, I
get a fairly random string returned.
> Then what is value("1+1")? Should it be the string "1+1"? Or the
> expected result of 2?
I'd say if it were in quotes, it should be treated as a
In HyperCard, the value of any phrase in quotes returns the entire
phrase. In MetaCard, this:
the value of "my dog"
returns "my". Is this right? What are the rules?
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anging the
editmenu setting at all, it is always false.
How come it won't stay put? What are the rules?
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answer in the archives. I think only the last 2 or 3 weeks of entries
are available (at least, that's all I could find the last time I tried
searching for something.)
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fig extension installed
(newer systems call it the "Internet" control panel) and a default
browser must be assigned in the browser section.
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Scott Raney wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> >
> > HyperCard solves this by putting each QT movie in its own window. You
> > can show the window as "borderless" and "non-floating" in order to make
> > it appear t
This arrangement allows typing in fields and
all other user actions while any number of movies play. The location of
the cursor is unimportant.
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not contain them, but they work
fine with text import/export.
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s standard on MacOS?
Yes, pretty standard. My Apple keyboard has "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", etc.
printed under those F-keys. I've missed this functionality too.
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and implement this feature. This is the fourth request I've seen for it
on the list.
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move when you click
the start arrow, and you can't move it with the mouse. It doesn't look
like a memory problem, since the heapspace reports over 4 megs of free RAM.
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Scott Raney wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
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> > Ping?
>
> It's a standard tool on UNIX and Windows systems.
Could this be done via MetaCard scripts?
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der to see if the user is still connected. That's why I
can't just "ask the user", as was suggested here, and that's why I need
to use the "load" command so that I can do the checking in the
background without interrupting stack usage. If there is a better way to
ac
loading")
-- other stuff here
break
default
-- other stuff
end switch
end repeat
-- more stuff; handle errors
end loadURL
I don't know if this is bullet-proof. Is it?
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the text into a field?
It sure would help if someone would document this stuff.
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I had a script that used to work in MC 2.2.x -- it loaded a url and then
used "go url " to open it. Now the url will load, but I can't
"go" to it. Did something change? How would I refer to the cached url in
a script?
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is actually done (add 0 to
the value.)
In MetaCard (I'm guessing) pulling the value out of the custom property
and putting it into a variable is enough to force the numberformat
conversion. That would happen in the above script before the math is done.
If my theory is right, the
Is MC 2.3 compatible with Mac OS 9? I haven't tried it yet.
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Dave Cragg wrote:
> Are the finder flags set appropriately?
Urk. Thanks. It was the bundle bit. I never thought to check the finder
flags; I don't remember having to before. The upside is that now I have
a really, really, *really* clean desktop file. :)
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r; standalones
built under 2.x used to show the MC icon immediately after the build.
Can anyone pinpoint what's wrong?
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udoTable at Cross Worlds web site, or at
my site in the MetaCard section of the Links page:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/links.html
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f
You would still have to do the vowel substitution that Geoff talked
about to get your intial search word modified. Once modified though,
this is another way to accomplish the search without having to deal with
matchtext. Also, matchtext only works in one field at a time; the
ble on both Mac and Win?
>
> Yes, this is possible on both platforms. On Windows, you do what Tereza
> suggested - reading in the environment variables $0, $1.
Does anyone have an example script they'd be willing to share on how to
do that on Windows?
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What is the minimum version of QuickTime required to run a player
object? Is it the same on both Windows and Mac?
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That's a bug inherited by MetaCard from an inconstancy of MS-DOS.
>
> At the beginning of the story, DOS returns "d:\" (with a final "\") for a volume and
> "d:\myDir" (without a final "\") for directories.
Thank you. I knew it would be some kind of
a file I know exists on the CD. That seems pretty Gatesian, given
that on a Mac I can say "there is a folder 'CDName'" and MC returns
"true". Do I really have to do all that scanning?
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to do that?
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ith MC version 2.2.5.
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This is the MetaCard mailing list.
Arc
ds here are less clear, but to be fair, different
tools for different activities were the norm when HC was first written.
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me.
If you are curious, I have uploaded the stack here:
<http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/AddSubtract.mc>
Feel free to use it with your kids if you like. It runs on Windows okay too.
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just an idiosyncracy to be aware of.
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ck versions. So,
the type and icon for MetaCard do exist in the app, but they are not the
first one. What criteria does MetaCard use to determine the type and
creator of saved stacks?
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resize the edges of the window but I want the cursor to be
customized within it.
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commandKeyDown handler anywhere.
The File menu is completely enabled. The keys that do not work are in
the Edit menu, and the first few items of that menu are disabled (but
the above items are enabled.) Would that make a difference? Shouldn't
these accelerators work?
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previously. Is
there a "reset find" command? Or a way to loop continuously through a
"find" without stopping?
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ws you to use
your original list over and over to extract random items without ever
getting the same item twice.
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was disrupted afterward, and restarting didn't clear the
problem. The owner of the PC reported that printing had worked fine
before I ran my standalone, and he had just that morning been printing
from Office without any problems.
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to add a
"select none" button?
Jacque
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a Unix convention? Windows? Could
the Mac version just not do it? It isn't very hard to have a script
select a line in a field if that's what you want.
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I would like a stack to check periodically to see if there is an active
online connection. What is the best way to do that?
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text for four fields takes several
seconds on a G3, and forever on anything else.
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r printer, but when I took the
MetaCard project over to a real Pentium III/Win 98 machine, the HP
printer had a spasm and threw up reams of blank paper until we unplugged
it. :)
I tried not to gloat.
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Richard Gaskin wrote:
> The MetaCard engine is cool enough for the money, but the support has
> been a mind-bending good time (how on earth does Raney stay on top of all
> his email?).
"clone this Raney"
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the upper items in the "go" menu.
I used to think it only happened when a menu item was even with the
lower edge of the enclosing menu button, but now I'm not sure that's it.
Has anyone else seen this behavior, and how do you get around it?
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hem don't .
> For Windows...
Everything I'm doing in MetaCard is cross-platform. XCMDs won't work for those.
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merical business applications. It
also won't move styled text, unless you export as htmltext and print
from a browser.
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no one is willing to
talk about it. I'm inclined to believe it's the former, because printing
capabilities in MetaCard are basically nonexistent. Or maybe it's just
that the code you have to write to get anything out on paper is so ugly
and tortuous that no one is brave enough to
basic
function for almost every application, that I'm astounded that this
isn't built into MetaCard already. Certainly at least basic print
functions should be native. We should at least be able to send a plain
text block to the printer without building a printing window and writing
paginati
the first time
after the stack is launched.
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of the field's
htmltext outside of the visible field and calculate link destinations by
getting the clickChunk and then scanning forward through the text until I find
the link info.
I've tried to talk him out of duplicate link phrases, believe me. :)
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the last several
versions. I found that if the editor is already open, the insertion point
doesn't move. If the editor is closed and you click the "script" button to
open it after an error, then it moves.
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part of
the htmltext) when I enter various test words in an experimental tag, but I'm
not sure what triggers this tag to be created or whether I could use it for my
purposes.
Any ideas whether embedded links are possible?
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That was where I saw it. I think it is misleading.
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Oh god. Needless to say, that last note was a personal reply; I had no
idea it was going off to the list or I would have been much more circumspect.
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ured out that he was the guy who commissioned
the Simple Adding and Subtracting Machine too.
Jacque
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