Cursor in Field

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Talluto
Hi to all. I am trying to track the loc of the cursor in a field that is not locked. I need to know at a minimum what line it is on while the user is typing. Would someone please tell me how to do this? Thanks a bunch. -Mark Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ I

RE: Folder for stacks

2001-01-05 Thread Monte Goulding
This is not quite the full case. You can do development work on a stack that is saved anywhere but to open it you will need to use the file selecter not a toplevel command. I think a good feature would be to enable the user to set up folders of stacks that could be read into the stackfiles somewhe

RE: Answer File and window ghost

2001-01-05 Thread Monte Goulding
I have had simmilar problems like this on Windows. The answer to this problem may be (as suggested on this list) to put a wait 6 ticks message after the answer file commannd. This lets the screen refresh if you have lots of script after showing a modal dialog. -Original Message- From: [EM

RE: Opening a tabbed group from within a script

2001-01-05 Thread Monte Goulding
I don't think this would actualy run any scripts ie send the menuPick message -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sjoerd Op 't Land Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 11:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Opening a tabbed group from within a s

RE: Opening a tabbed group from within a script

2001-01-05 Thread Monte Goulding
try sending a click at the loc of the correct tab then that will run all your scripts for changing tabs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregory Lypny Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Opening a tabbed grou

win2k

2001-01-05 Thread andu
Somebody gave me a win2k Professional (as opposed to hobby?) cd, do I have any reason to replace my NT4Server besides curiosity and considering I only use windows for testing mc stacks? Regards, Andu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists

Re: Players in Windows

2001-01-05 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > If the dontUseQT property is set to true in Windows 95 (haven't tested > 98 yet) I cannot get a controller to show when playing an aiff file > inside a player object, regardless of the setting of the showController > property. Is it possible to have a con

Answer File and window ghost

2001-01-05 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Everyone, I have a stack with the following standard "answer file" handler. answer file "Show me the data." put it into dataFile open file dataFile for read The handler works fine, but when the file is selected from the "open file" dialog window on my Mac, it leaves a

Players in Windows

2001-01-05 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
If the dontUseQT property is set to true in Windows 95 (haven't tested 98 yet) I cannot get a controller to show when playing an aiff file inside a player object, regardless of the setting of the showController property. Is it possible to have a controller without QuickTime? Also, without QuickTi

Re: RTF import and export

2001-01-05 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Bruce, you might try using one of the html externals for hypercard to generate the html to bring into metacard or one of the freeware html editors out there. know the resistance to moving up to word98, still one of the most suspect applications on my system when there is a crash... hc is still

Re: Folder for stacks

2001-01-05 Thread andu
> >Hello, >Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several >years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would >someone please enlighten me? > >1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on >Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folde

Re: Opening a tabbed group from within a script

2001-01-05 Thread Geoff Canyon
>Hi Everyone, > > I have a stack with two cards, X and Y. Card Y has a tabbed button >that displays a different group of fields under each tab. I have a >script in card X that opens card Y, but I'd like card Y to display a >particular tabbed group by default regardless of which tab had been

Re: Folder for stacks

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin Miller
On 5/1/01 8:54 am, Signe Marie Sanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several > years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would > someone please enlighten me? > > 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard o

Re: RTF import and export

2001-01-05 Thread Bruce Lewis
I wrote: > > How can you import styled text from an MS Word document to a Metacard > > field and vice versa while keeping the styles intact? >> I do this in HyperCard using RTF (rich text format). Sjoerd Op 't Land wrote: > I do it like this: I save a Word document as HTML, and set the >

Re: RTF import and export

2001-01-05 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Bruce Lewis wrote/ schreef: > How can you import styled text from an MS Word document to a Metacard > field and vice versa while keeping the styles intact? > > I do this in HyperCard using RTF (rich text format). There are > various XCMD's that people have written for that purpose. I believe > H

Re: Opening a tabbed group from within a script

2001-01-05 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Gregory Lypny wrote/ schreef: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a stack with two cards, X and Y. Card Y has a tabbed button > that displays a different group of fields under each tab. I have a > script in card X that opens card Y, but I'd like card Y to display a > particular tabbed group by default r

Folder for stacks

2001-01-05 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Hello, Even though I have worked extensively with MetaCard for several years, I still have not found the answers to the following. Would someone please enlighten me? 1. Is it necessary that the files mchome, mc.exe (or metacard on Mac), mc.tools and mchelp always are in the same folder as the