>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
>Is that an open invitation? Judging from the response I've gotten for the
>Report Generator, it seems that printing is at the bottom of people's
>lists.
>
>regards,
>Tuviah Snyder
Pretty close to the top of mine, Tuviah, and certainly in terms of
day-to-day needs. I did try Report Generator but
>> You're wish has been granted:-) DDE support for Windows, Applescript
>> support for Mac. You can even save and load compiled scripts from the
>> resource fork for fast execution. Some of the other things included in
>> the Mac external are
>> a) recording sound to AIFF files.
>> b) speaking tex
> You're wish has been granted:-) DDE support for Windows, Applescript
> support for Mac. You can even save and load compiled scripts from the
> resource fork for fast execution. Some of the other things included in
> the Mac external are
> a) recording sound to AIFF files.
> b) speaking text usin
>I've found that most, if not all of the stuff in the recently released
>WetWare Collection and Listmaster external don't work.
In fairness to Mark Lucas, the externals don't work in MC and HC; they
work very well in SuperCard, for which they were written.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
M
>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
Andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also don't understand the tone.
I apologize for the tone -- it is a result of spending weeks trying to
print from MetaCard, using several different techniques, none of which
worked successfully and all of which were way too much trouble for what
I was trying
>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'
Let me chime in to say that I would have liked better printing
capabilities on several occasions. I did try the Report Generator some
time ago, but frankly, I couldn't figure out how to make it work, and
for my particular need, I was able to solve the problem another way,
although not without quit
>>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
Actually, it need not be an external. As Tuviah reminded us in his
posts, one of the cool things about MC is that one can easily reuse
complex native MC objects:
>The MetaCard Report Generator Supports all the above, and does have full
>page layout facilities.It even has an API to include thes
>> Dave Cragg wrote:
>
>> I think you're being a little harsh on Metacard. It offers more
>> printing support than many other programming/authoring tools.
>
>It offers "print card". You basically get a screen dump. There is no
>good way to calculate pagination, no easy way to send blocks of
>forma
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