Credit card payments

2000-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi all I know there's not going to be any easy answers to this question but I'm wondering about the complexity of building in credit card payment/registration details into an app using the post command and a CGI script or something on the other end. Idealy I'd like to be able to automatically sen

Re: Max Bytes per Write for Passive

2000-12-06 Thread andu
> >OK, so I got the FTP-a-single file working. > > !*Thank you Andu!*! > >next question: > >what is the "logic-criteria-limitation" behind the "write small 5000 bytes >chunks to the socket at a time" decision? i.e. what determines one's choice >of how much data to send in a single write. Is this a

Max Bytes per Write for Passive FTP Transfer

2000-12-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, so I got the FTP-a-single file working. !*Thank you Andu!*! next question: what is the "logic-criteria-limitation" behind the "write small 5000 bytes chunks to the socket at a time" decision? i.e. what determines one's choice of how much data to send in a single write. Is this a question o

RE: Multi-Player Gaming

2000-12-06 Thread Karl Becker
Multiplayer gaming... now that's a subject that's been on my mind for quite awhile. I'll eventually tie in a multiplayer aspect into a casino game I'm working on (though the architecture, while not the most stifling, isn't designed greatly to be in a multiplayer environment) , and will definit

Backup

2000-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi all I am just wondering if I could have some advice about backing up my data. I am sure that each of you has their own unique system and media that you use. One thing that's good with MetCard is that even quite complex programs are small in size and can even be compressed to a floppy (that's a

RE: Multi-Player Gaming

2000-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding
Yes I am saving my pennies for adsl and in Australia it's only about $80/mo which probably makes it about the chapest in the world considering our dollar is roughly equivalent to the East-Mongolian Conch ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

RE: palette/windows/etc

2000-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding
You could try playing with the grab commmand or even the mouseMove x,y handler - testing for the mouse being down. The other thing you may want to consider is grouping the controls and then you could simply put the following handler in the group script. on mouseDown grab me end mouseDown Rega

RE: Multi-Player Gaming

2000-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding
Sorry, though this is good info too. I actually meant accross dial-up connections on an ISP. I understand that you get assigned an IP address on connection with the computer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of andu Sent: Wednesday, 6 December

Re: FTP Single File Script

2000-12-06 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sivakatirswami a écrit : > > Thanks to Andu's help, we have worked out a simple script based on his FTP > stack that sends a single file, using passive FTP to your web site. > > Hopefully others will find this useful. Note I have no error trapping or > socketTimeout handlers. . .so if you hang,

Re: Multi-Player Gaming

2000-12-06 Thread Pierre Sahores
Monte Goulding a écrit : > > Thanks for all the info. I am still a little confused on how to communicate > with other computers over the internet. Primarily I am interested in knowing > whether is is possible using two dialup connections to find out the IP > address of both computers and then ope

Re: QuickTime MPGs on Windows

2000-12-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: > For those doing multimedia stuff and just getting into it. After many, many > hours of crossplatform struggle we discovered that even the latest version > (4.1.2) of Quicktime for Windows will not play mpg movies. MPEG formatting isn't the problem -- it's probab

Re: Writing to www address

2000-12-06 Thread Pierre Sahores
Jack Rarick a écrit : > > I'm a fairly new MC user - but a fairly experienced programmer - but - I'm > missing something here - I hope. > > It is very easy to READ data from a web address: > get url "Http:www.somewhere.com/mytextfiles/test" > put it into field "MyField" > > That works very well

QuickTime MPGs on Windows

2000-12-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
For those doing multimedia stuff and just getting into it. After many, many hours of crossplatform struggle we discovered that even the latest version (4.1.2) of Quicktime for Windows will not play mpg movies. (maybe 5.0 will but we don't know that yet.) Apple is very careful not to say anything a

Re: palette/windows/etc

2000-12-06 Thread MMessieh
I have a button with the following script below. On using the mouseDown for this button, the user can drag this button and its associated buttons and field anywhere on the screen. Is there a better way to do it? How can all this be changed to a palette? mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] on mouseDown toC

RE: printing cards (beginners Q?)

2000-12-06 Thread Larry_R_Huisingh
> > hello everyone, > > -I really need some help on how to print 2 cards onto > 1 page of an A4 or letter size paper > > -The 2 cards I have are with the rect of 0,0,640,460 > each. > > -I've set the printmargin to 36,36,36,36 from within a > script > > -I've even set the margin to all sides

Re: Playing imported QuickTime (.mov) movies

2000-12-06 Thread Kevin Miller
On 5/12/00 9:01 pm, Carsten Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to controll the playing of video clips in MetaCard, but find > it hard to understand the examples in the help system ... waiting for the > manual to arrive! > Where can we se examples of setting the properties like showC

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n095

2000-12-06 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Dave Cragg, 86,213 records identified in 224 seconds. Beats thumbing through over 3,000 pages of text. Cheers, Greg On 6/12/2000 9:19 am, Dave Cragg wrote: >I think eof is returned in the result. Try this: > >put 0 into counter >open file tDatapath for read >

Writing to www address

2000-12-06 Thread Jack Rarick
I'm a fairly new MC user - but a fairly experienced programmer - but - I'm missing something here - I hope. It is very easy to READ data from a web address: get url "Http:www.somewhere.com/mytextfiles/test" put it into field "MyField" That works very well - super in fact. Now - is it possible t

RE: Print all scripts

2000-12-06 Thread Blair Moxon
Thank you, thank you, thank you! (especially Mark Talluto for contributing the script) This is something we have needed for some time...it actually works extremely well. The only catch is to print the scripts, you have to copy and paste into notepad or any text editor. I can definitley live with t

Re: Help needed please

2000-12-06 Thread Hugh Senior
>1 - How do I launch a standalone in palette mode? # openStack script if ".exe" is in the effective filename of this stack then set the style of this stack to patlette end if >2 - I have a list field (a tutorial index) containing >chapters that when double clicked go to some card: > >on mouse

RE: Multi-Player Gaming

2000-12-06 Thread andu
> >Thanks for all the info. I am still a little confused on how to communicate >with other computers over the internet. Primarily I am interested in knowing >whether is is possible using two dialup connections to find out the IP >address of both computers and then open server/client applications