Re: How to get printer info

2003-01-02 Thread livfoss
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:02:48 +1000 Sarah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The printPaperSize property will return the selected dimensions for the current >printer & paper. [...] This amazed me, as the Transcript Dictionary entry for printPaperSize implied that you can set the paper size (I had assum

RE: Internationalisation

2003-01-04 Thread livfoss
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:29:36 +1100 Igor Couto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Revolutionaries, I've read the (rather clever and useful) recommendation that all text (string) that is to be displayed to a user, anywhere in the interface, should be kept on a separate text file, so that this file can

Message Path Problems

2003-01-25 Thread livfoss
Dear List I found out the hard way that when there is a compile error in a script, then **all** the handlers in that script are nuked, i.e. they simply evaporate and so messages that expect to find such handlers in the message path suddenly generate 'can't find handler' errors. So it's no good

Re: Message Path Problems

2003-01-25 Thread livfoss
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:50:28 -0800 (PST, Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I suggest you go in and 'comment' each handler one at >a time to see if that fixes the problem. This should >help you pinpoint the offending handler. >Maybe we can come up with a better strategy if you >tell us what

doMenu limitations/ technique

2003-01-26 Thread livfoss
In the Transcript Dictionary, there is an entry for 'doMenu' which executes menu commands - something I'd like to do. However there is a caveat: "The doMenu command is not implemented for all menu items." What does this mean? How does the engine know which items are being called for, anyway? If

Re: page setup - A4

2003-02-19 Thread livfoss
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:11:25 +0100 Carsten Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > And Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] answered: > Query the printPaperSize global property. Thanks, but my problem is that when I use the "Page Setup" menu to choose A4 everything prints perfect and the settings ar

Re: Transparent images

2003-03-06 Thread livfoss
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:02:51 +1000, Sarah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >AAARGG! I've done this before and now I can't get it to work. I am >importing an image and I can't get the background to be transparent. I >am using GraphicConvertor as my image editor and I have tried both PNG >& GIF file

RE: menu paradigm of Rev/MC and other goofiness

2003-03-13 Thread livfoss
on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:03:31 -0800, "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 6:45 AM -0800 3/5/03, Ivers, Doug E wrote: >Does anyone have an example they could send me in which a >menubar menu is a stack? You can't make a stack menu into a menubar menu, I'm afraid. (I suppose you could

Subject: Reading the docs (was Menu manager/switch problem)

2003-03-13 Thread livfoss
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:46:18 -0500, Ken Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:00:06 -0800 > Subject: Re: Menu manager/switch problem > From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I remember how hard it was for me to learn SuperCard when I came from a > backgroun