Testing for Quicktime

2000-11-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
I need to do a quick test for Quicktime on a person's machine and simply inform them to either install it or upgrade if the version is too low. Production deadlines on this don't allow me to get into helping them with their problem, taking them to a web site or putting installers on the CD all of

Answer Dialog Stack Cloned/ Now Inaccessible

2000-11-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
I moved some resources into my project, one of which was the "Answer Dialog" stack. Two questions: 1) Now when I go to stack components and try to "topLevel" the Answer Dialog it opens the substack of the Metacard Menu bar, and not the substack "answer Dialog" of my own main stack. How do I acces

lockLoc, alwaysBuffer, and image resizing

2000-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
Here's what I was trying to do: 1. set the filename of an image object to a jpeg file. 2. check to see if the jpeg is bigger than I want to display 3. if it's bigger, scale the image object down proportionately so that the image fits within my size requirements 4. if it's not bigger, have the im

Re: cannot install metacard in Windows 95

2000-11-16 Thread Steven Tripp
On 11/17/00 2:59 AM, "James Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help > Metacard has installed flawlessly for me under MacOS, Linux and Solaris > but of course will not install under Windows 95 > I launch it and I get the Metacard splash screen which refuses to go > away, I get an error message BE

metacard icq like stacks?

2000-11-16 Thread Sound Medicine, Inc.
all this talk about internet interactions... does anyone have a system like icq where a server acts like an exchange for direct computer to computer contact via metacard chat stack?

Re: dontrefresh

2000-11-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Simon Lord wrote: > I have not been keeping up to date with > MC's Quicktime and general movie playback progress - some help would be > appreciated. Scott Raney recently sent this to me (hope it' OK to post it): > Try 2.3.2 beta 5, now available as: > ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/

dontrefresh

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Lord
Does dontrefresh still work? I am downloading and playing a cached movie test but I can't get the last frame to stay. > set the dontrefresh of templatevideoclip to true That's what I pulled out of an older stack which solved this problem for me. Is there anything newer out there? I have not be

Re: cannot install metacard in Windows 95

2000-11-16 Thread Scott Raney
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 James Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help > Metacard has installed flawlessly for me under MacOS, Linux and Solaris > but of course will not install under Windows 95 > I launch it and I get the Metacard splash screen which refuses to go > away, I get an error message BEHIN

Re: Internet Help

2000-11-16 Thread andu
> > >> From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:35:24 -0500 (EST) >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Internet Help > >> Just replace the file name in the url part with whatever file you want to >> download and the >> container type according

Re:built-in matrix functions (was: file sharing (was: Misc. array, ...))

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Jones
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >I second the motion: we are already planning to add some features in >this area for the next release and a list of the most useful matrix >operations to have built in would be very handy for planning purposes. This is what I'd like to see for matrices (for m

Re: downloadNgo

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Lord
Solved it. I just figured it all out and I'll likely post a sample stack soon since I think that this should definitely be posted somewhere. I'd still like to see how people went about creating their own solutions to further my own stack. -- Cheers, Simon Graphic Development: http://www.amigo

Re: MetaCard ... Post to web

2000-11-16 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Carsten Levin wrote/ schreef: > Is it possible to post an URL with a form directly from Metacard via the web > to a web-based database? Yes. put url ("http://www.macinfo.dk/form?name=" & field "Name" & "telephone=" & field "telephone") into tFeedback if tFeedback contains "Your form is posted" t

Re: Internet Help

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Lord
> From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:35:24 -0500 (EST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Internet Help > Just replace the file name in the url part with whatever file you want to > download and the > container type accordingly, what's th

downloadNgo

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Lord
I have solved a few problems with text and images. Now I need to know how to download a movie or audio file to disk from the web and play it in a stack. My current problem is that I have no clue where these files are getting cached so I have no path. I'm trying to modify the "Download Stack" to

Re: Internet Help

2000-11-16 Thread andu
> >Hi all, I need to know a little more to get me started here. Scott was kind >enough to clue me in to the following: > >put url "http://www.amigo-3.com/discreet/019_open.gif" into image 1 > >And it worked! Awesome, but I need the rest. Can anyone provide samples as >easy as the one above for

cannot install metacard in Windows 95

2000-11-16 Thread James Kelly
Help Metacard has installed flawlessly for me under MacOS, Linux and Solaris but of course will not install under Windows 95 I launch it and I get the Metacard splash screen which refuses to go away, I get an error message BEHIND the splash screen which I cannot read. The Splash screen colors are

MetaCard ... Post to web

2000-11-16 Thread Carsten Levin
Is it possible to post an URL with a form directly from Metacard via the web to a web-based database? We want to collect information from distributed MetaCard solutions in one central database. Best regards Carsten Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.r

Re: Streaming

2000-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 9:17 AM +0100 11/16/00, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: >I have discovered that if they quit the program on other cards than >the first one, and then immediately download the same program again, >this will be opened on that same card, so I have inserted 2 more >lines in 'on closeStack': 'lock scree

Internet Help

2000-11-16 Thread Simon Lord
Hi all, I need to know a little more to get me started here. Scott was kind enough to clue me in to the following: put url "http://www.amigo-3.com/discreet/019_open.gif" into image 1 And it worked! Awesome, but I need the rest. Can anyone provide samples as easy as the one above for images fo

Re: layers in groups

2000-11-16 Thread Kevin Miller
On 15/11/00 6:17 pm, Eva Isotalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it so that this 'relayerGroupedControls' is so new that it does not > work with any older version of MC? I tried it earlier but had problems > on the PC. Its new to the most recent 2.3.2 engines! Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Streaming

2000-11-16 Thread Eva Isotalo
Signe Marie Sanne wrote: > snip ... >I'll > explain it in plain words for all those who have not tried it out so > far: > > > Best regards > Signe Marie Sanne > Thank you Signe for explaining this in good, plain words. Finally I could grasp the idea. It will be very useful for th

Re: Streaming

2000-11-16 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
> >Anyone else interested in this type of functionality? Are people doing this >with MC? Yes, we are, and it still impresses me enormously that it can be done. It took quite a long time before I ventured into it, perhaps the talk about it on the list was too 'computerese' for me... I'll explai