Initiate a tabKey Message

2003-03-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Hello List: Why doesn't this work (script of a card)? on arrowKey tabKey end arrowKey on tabKey pass tabKey end tabKey When pressing an arrow key, MC throws up an error saying "can't find handler" with "tabKey" being the token that it chokes on. I would like to use arrow keys to navigate b

Re: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Thomas McCarthy
This thread was originally about finding out if a particular cd was in the drive. Would MCIsendString do what you need? I know it will tell you if media is present. (which might be enough) Also, you could just see if a file which you know is on your CD is present Something like... if there is

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
BTW: ASP > is less of a slug if it's already open... :-) HA! What are the chances! ;-P Monte ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Ray
I don't believe so, without writing a custom external to do it. BTW: ASP is less of a slug if it's already open... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Network versions of applications

2003-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> > But, if you want to launch from a webpage (say by clicking on an link) > > then > > you'll need a 'helper' app which resides on the local machine. You set > > the > > MIME for the app document file and it launches the helper app which in > > turn > > can load the downloaded stack. Hi Chipp

Re: Network versions of applications

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Talluto
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Mark, Of course, if the servers are on a local area network, and you can see them on the desktop, then you can double-click and launch. You can have multiple instances launching of the same program. But, if you want to launch from a

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Ken Is there any way to do it without the system profiller? That thing is a slug! Cheers Monte > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Ray > Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2003 9:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Disk serial numbe

MetaCard Web Browser

2003-03-12 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
Very kewl! It doesn't seem to work for me though. I enter a URL and it just says 'loading be patient' in the message box, and nothing ever happens. ?? | Message: 3 | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: MetaCard Web Browser | Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:15:16 -0800 (PST) |

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Shari
Thank you, Ken! I could make a whole lot of users much happier if I could retrieve disk serial numbers :-) (Believe it or not... as much as folks holler about it, my users would benefit. I would be fulfilling a Feature Request :-) Shari C -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsywar

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Ray
That should be no problem. Apple System Profiler provides that information in OS X, but returns it as Unicode text: tell application "Apple System Profiler" get the system profile end tell You can't run it effectively in Script Editor, as you can only see the first 2 characters in the Resul

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Sorry I meant the serial number Thanks Monte > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Ray > Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2003 7:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Disk serial numbers > > > Well, with Macs, you can check "the dri

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Ray
Well, with Macs, you can check "the drives" to see if the disk you're expecting is mounted. Although this doesn't tell you if there's nothing in the CD drive, it takes you a lot farther than in Windows. If you really need to know if there's nothing in the CD drive, let me know, and I'll hunt around

Re: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: > Hey, Richard! You have something there... if you do a shell to switch to > a drive (like "D:") and there's no media in the drive, it's return "The > device not ready." under XP, and it DOESN'T throw up a dialog box in > your face! > > Now all you know is that the device isn't rea

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
HI Ken Can you get this info on OS X? Thanks Monte > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Ray > Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2003 7:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Disk serial numbers > > > Hey, Richard! You have something the

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Ray
Hey, Richard! You have something there... if you do a shell to switch to a drive (like "D:") and there's no media in the drive, it's return "The device not ready." under XP, and it DOESN'T throw up a dialog box in your face! Now all you know is that the device isn't ready (not necessarily that the

Re: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: > > CDs have serial numbers as well... you can retrieve it this way: > > http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/metacard.htm?disk001 Wouldn't calling the DOS dir command on a series of devices throw an exception in XP for those devices without media in them? -- Richard Ga

RE: Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Ray
Shari, CDs have serial numbers as well... you can retrieve it this way: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/metacard.htm?disk001 Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [m

Disk serial numbers

2003-03-12 Thread Shari
I've noticed when formatting floppies on a Windows machine, the dialog shows what appears to be a unique serial number for the disk. Do CD's have this unique number as well, and can it be queried for within Metacard? Shari -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com

Re: extracting data from audioclips

2003-03-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Dave, Hi Is there an easy way to extract audioclips that are embedded in a stack? (I want to transfer the audioclip data to custom properties.) The following doesn't seem to work. put audioclip of stack into tAudiodata Cheers Dave i am afraid not :-( After importing an audioclip, its he

MetaCard Web Browser

2003-03-12 Thread eric . allen . engle
Hi! I built a very primitive web browser using metaCard. It is available on the RR site (MC/RR Internet Browser, MIB) http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/developerdownloads/usercontributions.html It's not particularly stable, not due to my fault. It never crashes my system (Windows 98)

Standalones: drag and drop

2003-03-12 Thread Mathewson
How come when I build a standalone of my 'Music Theory' (user contribs at www.runrev.com) the drop targets stop working? Richmond Mathewson --- Great Macintosh Products The MacLaunch Store! http://www.maclaunch.com/cgi-launch/store/agor

Re: Checking drives on XP

2003-03-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 1:22 am -0800 12/3/03, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave Cragg wrote: At 10:32 pm -0800 11/3/03, Richard Gaskin wrote: To test for the presence of a CD, I use a technique widely discussed here in which we get a list of mounted devices by checkng the drives function, and then walk through the list

Re: Checking drives on XP

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: > At 10:32 pm -0800 11/3/03, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> To test for the presence of a CD, I use a technique widely discussed here in >> which we get a list of mounted devices by checkng the drives function, and >> then walk through the list checking for a specific file known to be

Re: Checking drives on XP

2003-03-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 10:32 pm -0800 11/3/03, Richard Gaskin wrote: To test for the presence of a CD, I use a technique widely discussed here in which we get a list of mounted devices by checkng the drives function, and then walk through the list checking for a specific file known to be on the CD we're looking for. O