Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Powell wrote: Joe, You and I are both veterans from the Hypercard days, where there was no such animal as custom properties. Ergo, we are old dogs that need to learn new tricks. I know this in my bones, but try as I might I have never segued over to this feature...instead staying in the c

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Mark, Thanks for the encouragement. It helps to know there are others in the same boat with me. Incidentally, no one has responded to my question about whether or when we'll be able to create Mac Classic stand alones. I tried to do it last night and was rebuffed by the Set up dialog telli

RE: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Powell
Joe, You and I are both veterans from the Hypercard days, where there was no such animal as custom properties. Ergo, we are old dogs that need to learn new tricks. I know this in my bones, but try as I might I have never segued over to this feature...instead staying in the comfort zone of global

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Show off! Just kidding, of course. Don't know when I'll ever get around to using this feature, but once I've digested it, I feel pretty sure that it's amazing qualities will hit me right between the eyes! Not only that, but you will almost never use a global variable

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Show off! Just kidding, of course. Don't know when I'll ever get around to using this feature, but once I've digested it, I feel pretty sure that it's amazing qualities will hit me right between the eyes! Thanks, Jim, Joe Wilkins Custom properties are very fast, powerful, and get saved w

Re: Manipulating custom props (was Re: Enabling a Menu)

2007-03-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Jim, Of course you are right: I just wanted, breaking it down, to point out the process principle for all :-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 25 mars 07 à 19:24, Jim Ault a écrit : The syntax I like for updating/appending data to a custom property is on mouseup set the the

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/25/07 9:44 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the added info, Jim. I'm not 100% sure that I really like > all of this added functionality, what with the attended downsides, > but guess I don't have much of a choice. > > Joe Wilkins > Custom properties are very f

Re: Manipulating custom props (was Re: Enabling a Menu)

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Ault
The syntax I like for updating/appending data to a custom property is on mouseup set the the clickCount of me to (the clickCount of me +1) end mouseup On 3/25/07 9:36 AM, "Jim Ault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, just typed and sent a little too fast. > Thanks > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks for the added info, Jim. I'm not 100% sure that I really like all of this added functionality, what with the attended downsides, but guess I don't have much of a choice. Joe Wilkins On Mar 25, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On 3/25/07 7:50 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Manipulating custom props (was Re: Enabling a Menu)

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Ault
Yep, just typed and sent a little too fast. Thanks Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/25/07 9:29 AM, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > >> on mouseup >>add 1 to the clickCount of me >> end mouseup > > Would be great and simple! > But (and I know you know it :-), manipulating cus

Manipulating custom props (was Re: Enabling a Menu)

2007-03-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Jim, on mouseup add 1 to the clickCount of me end mouseup Would be great and simple! But (and I know you know it :-), manipulating custom props needs to put them first into a variable: local tClickCount - put the clickCount of me into tClickCount add 1 to tClickCount set the clic

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/25/07 7:50 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark(s)! > > As always, there are a variety of ways to do things, but you've got > to get the syntax "exactly" right. My bone to pick with this is that > my first attempt, which didn't work, didn't get caught by the script > edi

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Mark(s)! As always, there are a variety of ways to do things, but you've got to get the syntax "exactly" right. My bone to pick with this is that my first attempt, which didn't work, didn't get caught by the script editor when I did as I usually do, hit the enter key twice, to close it. I

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Smith
Joe, you can also and Best, Mark On 25 Mar 2007, at 08:17, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Well, I figured it out. You don't set "enable" to true. You set "disabled" to false. Thanks, anyway, Joe Wilkins On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi all, Probably something I'm

Re: Enabling a Menu

2007-03-24 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, I figured it out. You don't set "enable" to true. You set "disabled" to false. Thanks, anyway, Joe Wilkins On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi all, Probably something I'm doing wrong, but the following in an OpenCard handler doesn't do the job: set the enabl

Enabling a Menu

2007-03-24 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, Probably something I'm doing wrong, but the following in an OpenCard handler doesn't do the job: set the enable of button "Edit" of group "Coloring Book Menu Bar" of this cd to true Initially, I tried it without the reference "of this cd", but it didn't work either. Normally, th