>How does one open a document in a specific app from within MetaCard if that
>app is already open?
One way would be to set the creator portion of the filetype of the
file to the creator portion of the filetype of the application you
want to have open the file, and then send the finder the odoc
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> How does one open a document in a specific app from within MetaCard if that
> app is already open?
Tuviah's external collection?
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Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In Mac OS, the launch command only seems to work when the target app is not
already open. If open, attempts to use launch to open docs within it fail
with an AE error.
How does one open a document in a specific app from within MetaCard if that
app is already open?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth
> However under 2.32 none of the buttons within the group work. They won't
> activate if I click on them. Can anyone shed some light on this behaviour?
Are they combo boxes? I just reported a bug to Scott about grouped combo
boxes not showing the text insertion point.
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I am in the process of updating some stacks from 2.31 to 2.32 when I
noticed the following behaviour:
I have a group called "editing" which contains several buttons used for
editing elements of the card. This group contains the following script:
on mouseEnter
if within(group "editing", the mou
Yep, that's what i meant. But you said it better!
>Simon Lord wrote:
>
>> There is no reason why it could not be made to run, except for the
>> fact that most of these PDA's have very limited RAM. If an MC exe
>> takes up ~2mb of space then that's got to hurt the poor guy who owns
>> a PDA.
Simon Lord wrote:
> There is no reason why it could not be made to run, except for the
> fact that most of these PDA's have very limited RAM. If an MC exe
> takes up ~2mb of space then that's got to hurt the poor guy who owns
> a PDA. If however, it can be setup such that the user is told that
> > This is standard Windows and Motif behavior: the underlined
> > character (the mnemonic) specifies what button will be activated
> > when >you press that character when no field has the keyboard focus.
> > It is >indeed an undocumented feature that this also works in the
> > MacOS look >and fe
This script formats long numbers with commas. 1234567
turns into 1,234,567
on mouseUp
repeat while kv is not empty -- kv holds "1234567"
put comma&char -3 to -1 of kv before withCommasV
delete char -3 to -1 of kv
end repeat
delete char 1 of withCommasV
end mouseUp
Now go to
http:
Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in response to my question about
the keyboard behavior of the answer dialog:
>This is standard Windows and Motif behavior: the underlined character (the
>mnemonic) specifies what button will be activated when you press that
>character
>when no field has the
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If some one out there is well versed with alpha channels on photoshop and
> converting it to .png for use in Metacard...please share!
There's no need to use alpha channels when creating PNG files in Photoshop.
Just create your image normally using layers and
In response to my query about getting icons to show on stacks that were
being opened by a standalone, Monte Goulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
replied as follows:
>Hi John
>
>A substack of the standalone should do it. Make sure that the icons on that
>stack have the correct id's.
I think this is what
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I can't say enough good things about using Fireworks for
> doing UI graphics. Used well, you can modify entire sets of buttons in one
> move, and export all of them -- up and down states -- in one move. A modest
> script in MC to import those and set the IDs, a
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