> I'm thinking along the lines of using
>MetaCard to create something like Filemaker's ability to view the same
>information through multiple different interfaces. Sure, it can be
>scripted, but if someone is doing this on a heavy-duty basis, it would
be a
>most considerable shortcut just to set
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:14:35 -0700 (MST) Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Not really. The output from DOS or Windows shells is a stream of
> bytes. I/O from an AppleScript can only be done via the baroque
> AppleEvent structure. It will therefore never be as easy to use
> AppleScript
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:32:34 + David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Just a thought (while reading up on the shell() function...
>
> When considering cross platform authoring, wouldn't it be reasonable
> to
> consider AppleScript as the equivalent to DOS, or Unix shell
> commands?
>
>Since mc2.3 now so easily allows multiple concurrent QuickTime players
>(yipee!), such as a background midi soundtrack with a series of
interactive
>video movie players, it would be most helpful to have some means of
>identifying the current state of play (pun intended) eg:
You can get the "pause
>Given that I need to run the temp directory copy of MC to execute my
>installer stack, I can't use the 'rename' command' to "move" the
>player from the temp directory to its intended location (as the file
>is in use at the time). I had hoped to 'copy' the MC player and
>mctools.mc from the t
On Tue, 26 Oct 99 16:34:01 -0700 Richard Gaskin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >You can control another MetaCard app on Windows with DDE
>
> I was hoping to do this with FileMaker Pro. How is this done?
>
It seems that FileMaker Pro can act as a DDE client, which means you can
send DDE messages
>3. Is there a better way to do this with a MetaCard application? In
other
>words, is it possible with a MetaCard application to do this with
>something like,
You can control another MetaCard app on Windows with DDE and on Mac with
AppleEvents. Problem is an application is locked while executin
>I have a substantial language program which plays a text until the mouse
is
>released, moving a grc underscore line to show the word being spoken.
Each
>"word" is an individual sound file; mc simply plays them consecutively.
>This results in something of a bumpy ride.
>DLL solutions also consider
>Isn't there a drag-and-drop utility which will set the type and creator
>codes for MC automatically (or was that OMO?).
I just submitted a stack to Cross Worlds which changes the creator codes
of the files dropped on it to MC.
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Tuviah Snyder
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>I'd like to use Metacard as as Front-End and Analysis Tool for ODBC
>compliant databases.
>
>Has anyone else any experience of this ?
>Is there a suitable external ?
>If not is anyone interested in writing one ? (obviously for payment)
>Am I totally off track and should look at another solutio
>Any advices or more information or examples to how manage DDE with
metacard ?
Yes, I have a skeleton C app with client side DDE which I'll send you.
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>Is there some simple way to import styled text into a MetaCard field?
>I'd like to have external help files etc. constructed in HTML or RTF
>which can be imported and displayed through MetaCard windows. I see
>that MC can generate HTML from fields, but I can't see how it could
>work the othe
>As I want to use a mixture of real
>URL's and local copies of Web pages, I was hoping to do the same as
>the Win tip. Is there any equivalent way of getting MacOS to give
>the path of the default browser?
Maybe, either through Applevents or AppleScript(via my external).
Also note that on Wi
>Or perhaps a common URL on the web that has the manufacturers latest
>drivers?
http://www.driverguide.com/
It's a searchable database of drivers people post, and it's likely
whetever windows drivers you need you can find there.
Best of all when you finish downloading a driver, you can post a mes
>Because DDE is old and complicated I use another way of communication:
DDE would be a far better method, and easier to implement now that my
external adds DDE to MetaCard. If you have the source to the other
program I can send you a little skeleton app showing how to get the basic
DDE into your p
>It occurs to me that you might be able to do this using DDE - the
Windows
>equivalent of AppleEvents. The External Collection on our web site
includes
>support for DDE on Windows.
There was a windows 3.1 DDE command which shut down the program manager,
but this doesn't do anything in Win9x.
Ins
The External Collection 1.0 which can now be found at Cross Worlds web
site consists of two externals for MetaCard, one for the
MacOS, and one for Windows. These externals provide a number of different
commands and functions on the two platforms.
The version currently posted here is the final pu
>Okay, what I'm trying to do is to put fonts into the MetaCard stack
>itself (the standalone anyway) so that no matter what fonts you have on
>your system you will still see the correct fonts in the stack. Now I
>was able to do this with the Macintosh by using ResEdit to open the font
>file of my
>A bit related to the recent discussion: does anyone know how to
>convert BMP to GIF or JPG from MetaCard? I guess one would
>have to use some other program which accepts commandline
>parameters. Anyone know such a freeware program for PC (or
>some other way to do the thing)?
Sorry I was late answ
With all this talk of Sound Channels I added playing sound resources
ansyc using up to 5 sound channels(why would you need more) to my
forthcoming Mac external. So if you can wait...
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>Can't. If you have a game where you need multiple people talking and
>chatting to create a realistic, real-life atmosphere, you can't use
midis
>or quicktime's in the background. If there is a way where you could
play
>a quicktime movie as fast as playing a wav sound with the "play"
command
>About hour ago I begun exploring how to do a folder tree kind of thing
>in MetaCard. :-) Is there going to be such control in near future? I'd
like
>to know, so that I don't spend xx hours "for nothing".
>If not, have someone else already done (or attempted to do) something
>like folder trees (no
>Pretty close to the top of mine, Tuviah, and certainly in terms of
>day-to-day needs. I did try Report Generator but could not, at that
early
>time in its development, get my head around it.
Ok, I'll post a demo stack shortly with illustrations and all which
guides you through the creation of you
>I had no success with SuperCard externals myself but most Hypercard ones
>I've tried worked fine, even some very early ones. But I'm glad to hear
you
>develop MC externals for mac too. One thing I could have used on several
>occasions for was a "do appleScript" kind of external that works with MC
>I agree with this wholeheartedly. We have an application (CD-based
>performance coaching) in which the manager and rep choose activities
>from a list and print out the development activities with descriptions
>and actions. Right now, I simply export everything out to a text file
>and ask the user
>>Problem is it clips text, but I'm sure
>>once that is fixed it will get plenty of use:-)
>Tuviah, could you take the last line off as a safety zone?
Actually it was a sarcastic comment:-)
>I did this on
>a recent project, and while it does in some cases leave a little more
>white space than
Andu wrote:
>What I don't understand is the fact that no one mentions externals for
MC
>to supplement special needs.
I do all the time.
>With your extensive HyperCard culture I'm sure you can find an external
for
>printing that does what you want and works with MC too, few of them
don't .
I've f
>While I wouldn't say no to such a feature, I wonder how many people's
>printing needs it would satisfy. Such is the nature of commercial
>clients that nothing short of full page layout facilities sometimes
>seems to be required. :( It only needs a request for a graphic logo
>or a multi-lined
There have been a lot of inquiries recently into how you record sound in
Windows. You can do this in Windows using MCIsendstring here's how:
open new type waveaudio alias mysound
record mysound
stop mysound #do this when finished recording
save mysound "C:\METACARD\NEWSOUND.WAV" #save mysound to
>And should I put off the task of
>developing some nasty printing trickery that I know I have to do in
>the next few days/weeks/months?
Which platform do you need to print on, and is it plain text or styled
text?
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Tuviah Snyder
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>Agreed. I would love to see DDE support to compliment MC's Apple event
>support.
You won't have to wait long for complete DDE or Applescript support:-)
>I've been using the openProcesses() function.
That doesn't seem to return the names of applications not opened with
open process.
regards,
T
> open process tURL for neither
> put the result into tResult
>if tResult<>"" then
>set the itemDel to "\"
>put last item of tURL into tFile
>get smartAnswer("Process already open",kwote(tFile)&&"has been
>updated but it cannot be displayed because another instance is alr
>This has worked for me on a number of different NT machines with both NN
and
>MSIE. The only problem I have ever encountered is an intermittent crash
of
>MetaCard when trying to start the browser, but this happens rarely, and
I have
>not been able to reproduce it with any reliability, and it is p
>I need to implement a method of recording a sound and saving that sound
to a
>metacard stack.
Can't you do this using MCISendstring in Windows?
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Am I the only one who thinks that if MetaCard catches on as a browser,
Microsoft will copy it and give it away for free?
Remember what happened to Netscape.
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>Of course, this wouldn't work for any
>window which can be resizes smaller than the palette window region,
since
>it would not be able to clip the drawing of that window to match the
>mainstack, but aside from this it looks like a wonderful design option.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly, bu
>>between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
>Files! This would be great. I have in the past written many small apps
to
>perform a simple task on many files, selected either by dropping them on
>the application's icon, or dragging them into a window, either resulting
>in th
>within a MetaCard project/application?
>between two MetaCard project/applications?
>between a MetaCard project/application and another application?
What do you need to drag&drop, and on what platform?
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
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>Has anyone found a way to use DDE in MC?
I'm working on it:-)
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>Sounds like you might be thinking in terms of the kind of inter-app
>communication supported by AppleScript/Apple Events on the Mac; if so,
>I'm not aware of any similar IAC support on the Win32 platform. That
>means it can't be intelligent apart from the enablement your MC session
>gives it. It'
>Besides the MC demo, is there a source of MC stacks with open scripts
>that my students can examine? Heck, I need to examine them myself as
>I'm new to MC.
My games which can be found at the MetaCard site, or from clicking
tools.metacard.com from within MetaCard.
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
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> Seriously, couldn't I even create a cursor graphic in MC 2.3 and
> then copy & paste it into a stack in MC 2.2.5?
Have you tried saving the stack with just the image, then opening it with
2.2.5? Just tried it and it worked here.
regards,
Tuviah Snyder
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> Hi all,
> Another basic question I'm afraid.
Not at all a few weeks ago someone asked me how to export GIF images in
Mac.
>How would I go about exporting
> Image objects as JPEG or GIF, or exporting the card image as a JPEG or
> GIF.
It's not built into MetaCard, but I've found a way to do
On Wed, 3 Nov 99 23:34:35 -0800 Richard Gaskin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >This should be no problem on the Mac. Even running applications can
> >be even moved without problems on the Mac.
>
> And the resource fork?
You can copy the resource fork with MetaCard. If you need to copy the
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