Re: putting a stack on a homepage

od what a path and a home directory were, but now am not too sure.) Apologies for bothering the list with this. Nicolas R Cueto P.S. The MC instructions talk about Netscape only. Any advice for Explorer? > To use MetaCard as a Helper Application, you'll need to put > the engine and

Re: transitions and players

lace QT3 with QT4, and to beware how and at what point in the script my stack was setting the player-object's file name. Anyway, FWIW, my first suggestion is update QT. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com

Re: player object and Quicktime

Hello, Now that I've downloaded Quicktime 4 (nifty look!), all my player-object/player-stopped woes are gone--thanks Mark and Claude. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworld

standalone vs Windows95/98

rt of putting the original non-standalone stack and a demo copy of mc itself on a cd-rom ;-) (One final note: my hunch continues that the player object is behind it, despite my goofy scripting skills.) Uncheerfully. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive

Re: player object and Quicktime

ts, who may or may not be connected to the internet. As I rummage thru all my old CD-ROMs (I know I have an integral QT3 installer somewhere!), anyone know a site which has an all-in-one QT installer (version 3 or plus)? Again, sorry for continuing with this. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS

player object and Quicktime

7;s a QT-for-Windows installer somewhere (any ideas where?) and that, if I included it with my stack on a CD-ROM, my students could use it in case QT is not present on their home computer. Thank you, and apologies if this is off-topic for the list. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya,

Re: player object stopped

Scott Raney wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Nicolas R Cueto wrote: > > > Thanks to Kevin Miller for the target advice. > > > > One additional question now, though: is there supposed to be a > > noticeable delay (3-5 seconds) ... > > No. This could happen i

Re: player object stopped

embedded the handler that, upon playStopped, calls up the turn-to-the-next-page sound)? Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to

player object stopped

, but I want to know when one particular type (the player object, as opposed to the "play sound" type) is over, so that I can ring a bell and let the user know that the page has finished reading and they can therefore go on to the new page/card. Thanks. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SH

title bar

Hello. I'm wondering whether the mc logo that shows in the title bar of a stack is substitutable, and if so, how. I'd still want any other decorations to remain, though. Thanks. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40list

color depth

rtance of knowing this dawned on me this evening as I watched the stack I'm porting to mac suddenly go yucky during a card transition (all because my four-year old had neglected to reset the monitor after a heavy-duty session of Tonka Construction). Thanks. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/

wav on mac

'd be nice to know I can rely on this behaviour re-occuring on any mac machine and thus avoid having to convert all my wav files to au! Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com

Re: Japanese textfont

bbledegook in which only the first character matches what was originally intended. (Even within a single word, Japanese combines multiple Chinese-characters and native alphabet-like syllabary characters, while words and even whole sentences need not be space delimited or punctuated.) Cheers. -- Nicol

set fileName

the old card's? Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

player object

Hello, Is there a command for resetting a player object, so that the slider-knob on the controller returns to start and the player's file resumes from the beginning? Similarly, is the height of a player object's controller bar resizeable? Thanks. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/

Re: Japanese textfont

;s all these and more, because it's the amazing Ginzu from Japan :-). Cheers. PS How's computer programming (xtalk or whatever) going over at the elementary/secondary level in your country? -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/met

large images

Hello, I have a jpg image much too large to display on a card, but I don't want to use lockLoc. Can scrollbars (horizontal and vertical) be added to images? Or are there perhaps other better solutions than scrollbars (like click-move)? Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS N

Re: set cursor

Scott Raney wrote: > > > Seems to work fine here. How does it fail there, It wasn't working yesterday but today it is. Strange! The only reason I can imagine is that restarting my win-desktop this morning somehow cleared things up. Guess it's Windows' fault then. T

set cursor

k you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

noisy sound playback

dvice from the list and the mc reference, I'd rather have the .au format's cross-portability. (If it means anything, my pc opens .au file types thru Goldwave.) Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archi

Re: matchText

, I'd rather have the .au format's cross-portability. (If it means anything, my pc opens .au file types thru Goldwave.) Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.

matchText

uot; and "C++" get stored in tRegex. I'm aware that special characters can be escaped but how can I do this if tRegex is a container and not a literal? (Hope I'm making more sense to someone about my containers/literals distinction than I am to myself.) Thank you. -- Nicol

Re: playStopped

I answered my own question (about why playStopped wasn't working) by re-consulting MC's reference on playStopped: "the playStopped message is sent to the current _card_". My script, now appropriately housed, is working perfectly. Sorry. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS

Re: playStopped

& "/" &\ tWhichSound & ".au" into tThisSound play tThisSound end mouseUp on playStopped add 1 to tWhichSound if tWhichSound > tLastSound then exit playStopped put gPrepReaderCardsPaths["sounds"] & "/page" & (field

re: line delimiter?

m > by typing option-spacebar. Any ideas on what the win equivalent is? Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

playStopped

r the line delimiter script. Truly brilliant! Cheers. Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

Re: line delimiter?

pasted each item (sentence) after another field. As I thought, the "/" char disappears from the sentence, but so does the group textstyle! So, back to square one. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

line delimiter?

k, clickChar, etc., and thought about playing with the itemDelimiter (there's no such thing as a lineDelimiter, is there?) but can't figure out anything, elegant or ugly. Thank you in advance. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives

line delimiter?

k, clickChar, etc., and thought about playing with the itemDelimiter (there's no such thing as a lineDelimiter, is there?) but can't figure out anything, elegant or ugly. Thank you in advance. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives

fine-controlling "play sound"

oes one do that or where do I begin looking up references?) Again, thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

Re: MetaCard vs. Director, Authorware

Phil Davis wrote: > (Also, it occurs to me that this content might best belong on the xTalk > list. How/where do I subscribe to that list? -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.be

Re: Message box

m I asked for related advice, also wrote that: >> Nelson's article was extremely entertaining as well as informative. I >> wish all manual's were written in that style. Thank you. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing

Re: Downloading images using URL

Scott Raney wrote: > When you get stuck like this, just try putting the URL into the MB. Sorry but, what's an MB? -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ In

Message box

. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

stack decorations

stack x to "minimize,menu" Thank you in advance. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

option style button

Hello, Is there a way of resetting the size of the drop-down window of a button set to option style? I'd like more items to be visible at one time, so as to not oblige my students to use the scrollbar too much. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the Met

installation packages

acknowledgment: thank you to the Cross World folks for their time and generosity in providing plenty of thoroughly practical advice through the various articles at their site.) -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: MC and WinFrame

time and generosity in providing plenty of thoroughly practical advice through the various articles at their site.) -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com

managing the current directory path

magine, the solution is to script an explicit directory path, any suggestions about how to do this when the directory letter (C:/, D:/, etc:/)for the HD, FDD, etc., is unknowable beforehand? Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan This is the MetaCard mailing list. Arch

Re: sound/floppy/e-mail

andu wrote: > > [b] e-mail. Assuming the student > > Sure, using the newly implemented sockets. The student might have to fill > in the subject and stuff. Label me stupid but, what's a socket? And does "newly" refer to a particular version of MC? -- Nicolas R

Re: sound/floppy/e-mail

Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa wrote: > Howdy! Howdy! Thank you for the sound advice. Cheers. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

sound/floppy/e-mail

s home computer? [b] e-mail. Assuming the student is on-line while the stack is up, is there a one-click way for an MC standalone to send text as e-mail, or am I looking at something more complex here? (Note: all I have is an e-mail account.) Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

My standalone question (repost)

tween substacks. A similar question is how to get the standalone's icon to appear on the Windows taskbar. Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

Re: Standalone question

end preOpenStack Be sure to call "quit" in the external stack when you close it or the invisible standalone will still be running. on closeStack save this stack quit end closeStack Cheers Dave Cragg ---END--- Hope it works for you as well as it did for me. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

Re: Standalone question

you select Standalone Builder from the Tools menu, there's a help button on the Standalone Builder panel which explains some about the Standalone process. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

foremost on the screen

etely, depending on the comparative sizes) my MC stack. Is there a way of ensuring my stack is always the foremost object on my Win or Mac screen? A similar question is how to get the standalone's icon to appear on the Windows taskbar. Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

restricting the use of a standalone

Is there a way of "copyrighting" a standalone? I was thinking of inserting an "if the short date is x then quit" line so that, after a trial period, the stack/standalone would no longer start up. Are there other/better/politer ways of controlling access? Thank you. -- Nico

standalones and vanishing field-info

(rather than in a text file, which anyone can access) is not being saved as part of the stack/standalone, even though I scripted an "on closeStack; save this stack; end closeStack". Essentially I just want to keep sensitive info secret. Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

Re: escaping a repeat loop

than within this specific handler, could it in turn affect the "cancel item 1 of the pendingMessages" in Phil's routine (see below)? Or, most likely, is the problem simply how and where I implemented the revised repeat loop? Sorry for imposing with the long post. Cheers, -- Nicolas R Cueto Ta

Mac OSs and MC

, does this in turn mean that MC stacks created on Win95/98 won't work under Win2000? Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

escaping a repeat loop

compatible mac/pc file settings, when all it needed was a simple "open stack x" typed into Message Box. Ditto on the what-an-idiot-I-am thought. Perhaps this simple little line should be appended to MC's reference stack? Which now reminds me: anyone know what Japanese fonts are mos

preventing arrow-key navigation

erting the stack into a standalone didn't do the trick.) Thank you. -- Nicolas R Cueto Takakura JHS/SHS Nagoya, Japan

automating script changes / cloning stacks along with their substacks

ubstack by ... Is there an easier way? Thank you. Nicolas R Cueto

put any

;, one possible although unwanted result might be "6 1 6 32 6". How would I script a random function so as to prevent the same item being picked more than once? My solutions haven't been too pretty, and so I'm fishing here for something more elegant. Perhaps my understanding of "any" is incorrect? Cheers, Nicolas R Cueto