Xmas Vaccine

2000-11-29 Thread Steven Tripp
# on idle --merryxmas # -- # pass idle # end idle This placed in the stack script stops the merryxmas virus. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.

Re: QT freezes MetaCard

2000-11-29 Thread Hugh Senior
Hugh Senior wrote: Playing QuickTime movies in 2.3.1 freezes computers with 64Mb RAM. Fine on the machine with 128Mb. Jacqueline replied: What platform? I am having similar problems in Windows 98, even if there is 128 MB of RAM. It only happens on some machines (Dells, particularly.) Same

Re: Xmas Vaccine

2000-11-29 Thread Monte Goulding
I'm sorry I'm unfarmilliar with this virus (thankfully) but how does this script commented out or not stop a virus? Regards from a not cheeky but quite confused Monte - Original Message - From: "Steven Tripp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000

Re: Posting or sending stacks

2000-11-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Kind of - I can see how this would probably be better but perhaps more complex than the functionality that I would like which is being able to play pass-the-parcel with completed files. - Original Message - From: "andu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November

Re: QT freezes MetaCard

2000-11-29 Thread Hugh Senior
Playing QuickTime movies in 2.3.1 freezes computers with 64Mb RAM. Fine on the machine with 128Mb. Okay... Found perhaps what is required. Before playing a clip, run this to clear its digestive system: on cleanUpVideoPlayer lock screen set the paused of player "classroomVideo" to true

Re: Hyperlinks

2000-11-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 28/11/00 8:33 pm, Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen that but I really want to do something so simmilar to teh reference that it would be silly for me not to look at the script. Does anyone know where the mouseClick script is in the reference stack? edit script of stack

Re: Popup buttons

2000-11-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 28/11/00 5:47 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What settings should I use in a popup button to make its menu drop down aligned to the left side of the button? I see that menu buttons placed in a menu group always drop down with the correct alignment, but when a popup

Re: Processing a big data file

2000-11-29 Thread Gregory Lypny
Yes, I see. Good point. I'll experiment with your handler, although I guess I need a better understanding of potential unseen errors. The raw data files are unlikely to change in format generally. My approach has been to examine a small, random subset of records visually and then

Re: Popup buttons

2000-11-29 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Kevin Miller wrote: On 28/11/00 5:47 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What settings should I use in a popup button to make its menu drop down aligned to the left side of the button? I see that menu buttons placed in a menu group always drop down with the correct

More on button styles

2000-11-29 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
More results from button style selection testing: If I create a new button and set its style to "pulldown" in the Button Properties palette, MC immediately re-selects "popup". However, the button behaves like a pulldown. If I type "the style of btn 1" into the message box, it returns "popup".

Re: running mc as winnt background service

2000-11-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
andu a écrit : Hi Anybody, As i have, this time, to do with WinNT, i'm searching the right way to configure an .mc app as an NT long-running background service, to get it starting without having to open an user session before it start (just like Apache or IIS4 are starting at boot

Re: Xmas Vaccine

2000-11-29 Thread andu
Monte Goulding wrote: I'm sorry I'm unfarmilliar with this virus (thankfully) but how does this script commented out or not stop a virus? Regards from a not cheeky but quite confused Monte You can find a full explanation of why this works, as well as other Hypercard-related virus

Re: Xmas Vaccine

2000-11-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks Jacqueline, I have now installed the innoculation and understand what it does. Regards Monte - Original Message - From: "Jacqueline Landman Gay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:17 AM Subject: Re: Xmas Vaccine Monte Goulding wrote:

Re: Hyperlinks

2000-11-29 Thread Kevin Miller
On 29/11/00 8:53 pm, Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I halso have one more question on this subject or perhaps on general message heirachy. I can not find a frontscript or backscript message for this handler and it also works when you open these stacks directly so how is this

Re: Xmas Vaccine

2000-11-29 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
andu wrote: But I was wondering if the infection can occur if the Home stack is password protected? Yes, I think they will still infect stacks, since password protection doesn't stop script-based commands from executing. However, locking your Home stack at the OS level (that is, making it a