HyperCard Price

2001-04-13 Thread doug rogers
it turns out that what they want is something that's already in MetaCard but the remaining HC folks are generally resistant to paying professional prices for professional tools oh, c'mon. (exaspered sigh!) Have you read the threads there? Well, no I don't read c.s.m.h I have a few

Re: HyperCard Price

2001-04-13 Thread andu
doug rogers wrote: MetaCard is simply out of range and too, uhm, difficult, for some who aren't professional programmers or developers. Why shouldn't a 'hobbyist' or just plain Mac user have a reasonable, inexpensive, and accessible programming environment? A plain Mac user is a

Re: Metacard anniversary

2001-04-13 Thread Simon Lord
This would be a better idea for the Starter Kit than for the paid version. I for one will never use MM Director simply because of the name branding (I did use it for a period of 1 year before they released the *runtime* engine which started it all). I hate that, somehow it implies (in my

Re: Metacard anniversary

2001-04-13 Thread Simon Lord
This would be a better idea for the Starter Kit than for the paid version. I for one will never use MM Director simply because of the name branding (I did use it for a period of 1 year before they released the *runtime* engine which started it all). I hate that, somehow it implies (in my

Re: Metacard anniversary

2001-04-13 Thread Simon Lord
Kevin, is there any reason my posts are getting to the list twice? I've noticed the same thing for a few other people on the list. Hmmm, maybe they are on mac.com also -- Cheers, Simon All your .com .net and .org domains for only $14.50 each. Get them while they last...

Re: TCP/IP security considerations

2001-04-13 Thread Scott Raney
Robin-David Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in any case MC hasnt been rigorously analysed for buffer-overrun attacks afaik. Not only should you be cautious about using it for sensitive data, but also on any virtual file system with sensative or mission critical data, unless you are very

Changing Sizes of text in a field

2001-04-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, my first little ebook project in MC is going well ... deep into the text attributes territory, which I am not too familiar having spent most of my xTalk life mostly concerned with raw data...and my old eBooks in SC were not concerned with aesthetics but we are going public with these so...

Re: Hilite color bug in 2.4

2001-04-13 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:22 PM -0700 4/13/2001, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You most likely have the look and feel set to something other than the native for whatever platform you're using. MacOS uses relatively light hilight colors and *doesn't* invert the text color. ...except if the highlight color is

Geometry Management puzzle

2001-04-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK I am slowly getting into geo management. puzzle: I have a set of controls on card 1 call it group A on cards 2 to the end, there is another set of controls as a group B. If I set up a resizestack handler in the main stack script which "talks" to the positions of all the objects in group A