Re: AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Bovill wrote: >> Might there be some way to launch a file in an external app and have the app >> automatically start playing the file? > What happens if ou use "launch document with application?" A good point. I guess the results depend somewhat on the player. When playing a v

Re: AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread David Bovill
What happens if ou use "launch document with application?" Got a question for anyone with QuickTime experience - is it possibe to play a *live* video stream in Metacard? That is is it possible to create a Metacard based viewer for a live webcast (Quicktime not RealPlayer)? > From: Scott Rossi <[

Re: Network help needed

2001-04-02 Thread michael kann
--- Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to get the current ip address of the user (on a LAN or on the Internet?) -- For Windows, don't know about Mac -- put hostNameToAddress(hostname()) into fld 1 He also asked: Is there any way to scan a LAN to see if a server stack is runni

Re: Read This

2001-04-02 Thread slord
And it's with this final response that I think this thread should end. Obviously some of us cannot control our potty mouths and are willing to take some shots at others over a dead product. Get over it, HyperCard *is* dead. Apple has it's reasons for continuing to sell it (A shock to me, it

Re: Death of HyperCard

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Brenstein wrote: >> While it's scary that Apple still doesn't recognize the strategic value of >> supporting a 4GL for its OS (Microsoft figured this out long ago, ironically >> inspired by HyperCard when they made VB -- which was prototyped in SuperCard >> on a Mac), at least the language

Re: AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Scott Rossi a écrit : > > Might there be some way to launch a file in an external app and have the app > automatically start playing the file? > > Specifically, I've got a link in an MC stack that opens a video file in > whatever player software the user has installed in their system. Is there

Re: Death of HyperCard

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Brenstein
>I find myself amazed every day at what I'm able to accomplish with MetaCard. >The product has done more for my business than any other single investment, >truly fulfilling the promise of what HyperCard could be. > >While it's scary that Apple still doesn't recognize the strategic value of >suppor

Re: another AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Rick Rice wrote: > Similar to Scotts question re autostart, is there any way to create a > standalone on a CD so that when the user puts it in the drive it automatically > launches the application on the CD? On Windows, this can be done with a simple text file that you name Autorun.inf

Re: AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Scott Rossi wrote/ schreef: > Might there be some way to launch a file in an external app and have the app > automatically start playing the file? For launching, use the 'launch' command (see help>index). For starting... I don't know, but I believe most systems have their players set to 'auto st

Re: another AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Rick Rice wrote/ schreef: > Similar to Scotts question re autostart, is there any way to create a > standalone on a CD so that when the user puts it in the drive it automatically > launches the application on the CD? > Rick Rice > University College of the Cariboo I remember something about it b

Re: HyperCard and the future of MetaCard

2001-04-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richard Gaskin a écrit : > > David Bovill wrote: > > > No idea when the anniversary is but I think a Celebration is definitely in > > order - July 14th is my vote - which for the few of you who aren't French > > out there - is Bastille Day. > > If we could called it 4/4 we could redesign our si

another AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Rick Rice
Similar to Scotts question re autostart, is there any way to create a standalone on a CD so that when the user puts it in the drive it automatically launches the application on the CD? Rick Rice University College of the Cariboo Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.ru

AutoStart

2001-04-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Might there be some way to launch a file in an external app and have the app automatically start playing the file? Specifically, I've got a link in an MC stack that opens a video file in whatever player software the user has installed in their system. Is there any way to tell the player to start

Re: Death of HyperCard

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Phil Davis wrote: > To me, "insanely great" is the appropriate way to describe the > Hypercard experience and vision. After a dozen years of mainframe > development, I spent a year in the late 80's being retrained in > software development - this time with the human condition, not the > computer

Re: HyperCard and the future of MetaCard

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: > No idea when the anniversary is but I think a Celebration is definitely in > order - July 14th is my vote - which for the few of you who aren't French > out there - is Bastille Day. If we could called it 4/4 we could redesign our site around it for our annual 4/4 celebratio

Re: Read This

2001-04-02 Thread andu
Rob Cozens wrote: > > >>2. I would venture to say you have very little idea of what the spirit > >>driving the HyperCard community is all about. > > > >I don't think it takes a lot of imagination to figure it out. > > Hey Andu! > > When planning my time for January I had two choices: > > 1. A

Re: Network help needed

2001-04-02 Thread andu
Jeremy wrote: > > I have almost finished my first network project (its a game simular to tetris > with a mutliplayer mode). Yet there is still some things i would love to know > to make it easier to use for the end user. > > Is there anyway to get the current ip address of the user (on a local a

Re: Read This

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Cozens
>It's also probably just plain inaccurate: if our own porting >experience is any guide, it'd be a *lot* more work to port HyperCard >to Carbon than what they're estimating. Scott, et al: The direct quote I heard from an Apple employee was "It would take less programming effort to carbonize Hyper

Re: Read This

2001-04-02 Thread Rob Cozens
>>2. I would venture to say you have very little idea of what the spirit >>driving the HyperCard community is all about. > >I don't think it takes a lot of imagination to figure it out. Hey Andu! When planning my time for January I had two choices: 1. Attend the Unified Winemaking Industry Sym

Re: games (was: all for commercial MC-based apps)

2001-04-02 Thread David Bovill
Eva - let's have a look at your site? What's the URL? > From: Eva Isotalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:33:10 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: re: games (was: all for commercial MC-based apps) > > Jeremy wrote: > >> Also: Are there any coo

Re: HyperCard and the future of MetaCard

2001-04-02 Thread David Bovill
No idea when the anniversary is but I think a Celebration is definitely in order - July 14th is my vote - which for the few of you who aren't French out there - is Bastille Day. I have some limited resources to put into this, which would take the form of streaming Media content, and a Metacard ba

Network help needed

2001-04-02 Thread Jeremy
I have almost finished my first network project (its a game simular to tetris with a mutliplayer mode). Yet there is still some things i would love to know to make it easier to use for the end user. Is there anyway to get the current ip address of the user (on a local area network, or/and on the

NT Problem and Send idle

2001-04-02 Thread xbury . cs
Hi all, Anyone who can help would be great... I've written a program that checks our regional servers - some take some time (10 to 20 minutes) to answer and im wondering if the delay in answering is causing a problem. The program in question checks server's information through the NT reskit com