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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 28 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 43
Today's Topics:
AppleDraw DA Version 4.1.1
Contour81
Finder hanging Jasmine DD140
Fix for Developer Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2
Fonts/DA's & Multi-launching
here comes DiskFit_1.5df
HyperCard Graphing
Locking a hard disk directory
Non-proportional Font
Sharing a Modem Port
Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
stuffed binary files often fail to download correctly ?!?!
VD 2.1 bug
XCMD problems
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 11:28:31 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleDraw DA Version 4.1.1
A new version (V4.1.1) of the *Draw Desk Accessory is available
now. (Read the "*" as an apple symbol; I don't know how to type
it on this dull terminal:) It requires at least a Macintosh Plus
with at least System 4.1. It is still shareware for still not
more than $30.
New Features:
- The text styles "condense" and "extend" are supported.
- Polygons are fully supported. This includes introduction of
new corners and transformation of lines, arrows and rectangles
into polygons.
- Groups are supported. Grouped objects can be edited in place
with the "Edit Group" menu command.
- Zooming (with the magnification factor 4) is supported.
- Auto-scrolling has been added.
- A new application *Drawer allows opening *Draw files from the
Finder as well as printing of *Draw files.
User Interface:
- The *Draw window has a zoom box.
- Fonts and styles are available in hierarchical menus. Up to
50 different fonts may be installed.
- Font sizes can directly be selected from a hierarchical menu.
The "smaller" and "bigger" commands are not present any more.
- The disk icon and the save/load dialog box have vanished;
instead, the file operations can be selected directly from the
menu.
- The operation "Load picture" has been split into two commands
"Open" and "Load", which open a new picture or add another
picture to the current one, respectively.
- The "Alignment" command has been separated into two
hierarchical menus "Align Objects" and "Align Text".
- The "Align Objects" submenu is a graphical menu with a
special command for fast repetition of alignment operations
via a keyboard shortcut.
- Check marks in the font, style, size and text alignment menus
indicate the attributes of the selected objects.
- The state of the modifier keys is now significant at any time
during drawing and moving operations (not only at the time of
the mouse click).
- The arrow keys are supported during text editing.
- The "Save Defaults" command also saves the size and location
of the *Draw window (a gift for Mac II users and owners of big
screens).
- *Draw has an "Open" submenu that shows up under "hierDA".
Other Improvements
- The pattern "pull aside menus" are now implemented as pop-up
menus; selection of patterns is therefore significantly faster
than before.
- The *Draw default settings aren't kept in a resource in the
System file any more but rather in a configuration file
"*Draw Defaults" in the System Folder.
- Several bugs and inconveniences have been removed.
The package consists of three independent archive files:
- *Draw DA and the *Drawer application
- 13 page MacWrite Documentation + Release Notes + Installation Hints
- a couple of sample pictures.
Make sure to get all three files from the archive.
DO NOT GIVE INCOMPLETE COPIES OF *DRAW AWAY|||||
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/da/appledraw-411.hqx; 64K
/info-mac/da/appledraw-411-docs.hqx; 57K]
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 20:58:17 EST
From: roberk@mars.njit.edu (kozlowski robert)
Subject: Contour81
Contour81 is a contouring and graphing utility that generates
three-dimensional surface plots and plan-view contour plots
>From regular or irregular collections of three-dimensional
data points. It only runs on the Mac II and supports full
color, the 68881 coprocessor, and to a certain extent,
MultiFinder. It saves graph files in PICT, TEXT or AutoCAD
DXF formats.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/contour81.hqx; 163K]
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 22:50 CST
From: Richard <Tilley%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Finder hanging Jasmine DD140
Finder hanging when many folders open.
Most often happens when doing a drag copy of a folder
containing many files (eg 53) from a Jasmine DD140
partition to an 800K floppy.
Only some of the files get copied (eg 18).
If no third party INITS or CDEVS are installed then the maximum
number of folders need to be open before it happens.
With several INITS installed then 1 open folder is enough.
Doens't seem to matter which INITS.
Even Vaccine is enough if lots of windows are open.
Mouse does not freeze but wristwatch hands stop moving and red
DD140 access light comes on solid.
The bare facts: 512KE, Dove Macsnap 548S, Jasmine DD140,
System 6.0.2, UniFinder 6.1
Have spent hours on this. Anyone have a fix?
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 19:13:35 PST
From: eynon@lindy.stanford.edu (Barry Eynon)
Subject: Fix for Developer Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2
Hot off Compu$erve, here's a stack that will fix problems with Developer
Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2, as per the recent request. Enjoy.
-Barry Eynon
eynon@lindy.stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/developer-12r-fix.hqx; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 11:57 CST
From: <NH2031S%DRAKE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fonts/DA's & Multi-launching
>From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services"<KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
>SWITCH-LAUNCHING
> Big problem on our network. We've got access to
> LOTS of fonts and DAs that we'd like to let our student
> users use. The problem is caused by the fact that our
> students use the network from a lab full of 2-floppy SEs
> with no hard drive. Minimal room on the startup disk
> for all the fonts and DAs we'd like to provide.
This is in reference to the above posting requesting a method of accessing
a lot of fonts and DA's on a network (server). Instead of taking up room on
the startup disk you can put any desired fonts and DA's into the applications
on the network. This takes up a little more space on the network server (by
putting duplicate fonts and DA's in each application), but thats really the
only place there is room when using floppy systems to access the network.
Using the Font/DA mover you can load fonts and DA's directly into application
files. You have to open the application from inside the Font/DA mover. This
is done by holding down the OPTION key when you click on the OPEN button.
When openning with the OPTION key down, the open dialog box lists all files
and applications (not just System files or Font/DA suitcases). With the
application file open, you can copy fonts and DA's into it as normal.
There was also a question on making applications multi-launching. I would be
interested in seeing some of the replies posted here on Info-Mac. I can't
understand that all you have to do to make a program multi-user is change one
bit. Why wouldn't the programs be packaged with the cache bit on? Don't the
programs need to be written with the intent of being multi-user; maybe all
programs are? Are there any programs that can't be changed to multi-user.
Nicholas L. Hayes
Microcomputer Support Specialist
Drake University
BITNET: nh2031s@drake
[In current versions of ResEdit, it is the "shared" bit and not the "cached"
bit which controls whether or not the Finder will allow you to launch more
than once. A program which does not write to itself nor use a temporary file
with a hard-wired name is a good candidate for this bit-switching trick.
Be sure your license allows the software to be used by more than one person
at a time before turning this bit on. -Bill]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 6:50:39 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: here comes DiskFit_1.5df
[Archived as /info-mac/util/dataframe-diskfit-15df-part1.hqx; 149K
/info-mac/util/dataframe-diskfit-15df-part2.hqx; 134K
Requires a Dataframe hard disk.]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 18:32:14 PST
From: GPR006R%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard Graphing
Does anyone know of a good Graphing/Ploting HyperCard Stack? I am mainly
looking for the ability to use Pie,Bar,Line and Scattergram formats. I have
been trying to write my own and have made little progress. The Plots stack that
is included with the HyperCard program just doesn't suit my needs. Thanks-
Replies:
GPR006R@CYB720.HSU.CALSTATE.EDU
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 13:51 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: Locking a hard disk directory
Is there something, preferably on the archive, that will allow me to
"lock" a hard drive directory so that others can't easily use or modify
anything in that directory? Thanks,
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 23:20:15 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Non-proportional Font
Apart from other commercial fonts probably available out there, anybody with
access to the standard System disks included in any Mac and the fonts disk
>From any Laserwriter can find and use the following (and only)
non-proportional (monospaced) fonts available from Apple:
Monaco, an adequately good looking sans-serif bitmapped font. Only drawback
is that it only comes in size 10 and 12 point.
Courier, a better looking serif bitmapped and Postscript font. The bitmapped
(screen) version comes in sizes 9 to 24 point. The Postscript version
is found inside any flavor of Laserwriter.
Hope this helps.
Juan M. Courcoul
Monterrey Inst. of Tech.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 11:58:37 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Sharing a Modem Port
We use a "DATA-SWITCH" which has one "common" port (cabled to the Mac
modem port) and four other ports (A, B, C, D) which can go to four
different devices. The one limitation is that you can't use more than
one of the DATA-SWITCH connected devices simultaneously (the switch has
no smarts whatsoever -- just contacts).
If you go this route, be sure you get a "straight-thru" cable to connect
your modem port to the "common" port on the switch. I thought I would
save some money by using an extra ImageWriter cable for the purpose.
Unfortunately, the ImageWriter cable is a "null modem" cable, not a
"straight-thru" cable though you can't tell that by looking at it),
so it won't work for the purpose.
We get the switch and the cable from the maker:
Computer Friends, Inc.
14250 NW Science Park Dr.
Portland, OR 97229
(503) 626-2291
Applelink D0438
They also make cables, ribbon re-inkers, and other paraphernalia of
Macintoshing. (I have NO connection with Computer Friends, other
than that I buy, use, and like their product).
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
Academic Computing Services YEIDEL@WSUVMS1.WSU.EDU
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1220
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 08:54 CST
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
The easiest way to share a port is to use a switchbox to switch between
devices. According to their 1988 catalog, a 2-port 8 pin mini-Din switchbox
stock # ABMD8-2 sells for $28.95, from:
Alltex Electronics
300 Breesport
San Antonio, TX 78216
1-800-531-5369
I have been satisfied with purchases made from them before.
Note that you will need a special cable to connect the switchbox to the Mac.
The cable that comes with the device, ie, modem-Mac, scanner-Mac, will plug
into the switcbox fine, but these cables reverse the send and receive lines,
etc.
It will be tempting to just use a Mac-Imagewriter II cable to go from the box
to the Mac, but this would re-reverse the send/receive lines and not work.
You must have a straight-through male-male cable, part # AC-11, $9.95. I just
called and spoke to John, who confirmed the above prices and availability. He
said to ask for him if you decide to order.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 7:11:54 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: stuffed binary files often fail to download correctly ?!?!
a friend came to visit me last night telling me that I better put up
or shut up when I claim that the binary files can be downloaded correctly.
well, the particular file he had had problems with (TalkingMoose_1.21_bin
in RASCAL's ~ftp/mac/NEW-in-8901) sure gave me problems, too in most any-
thing I tried (variations on XMODEM and Kermit Binary) in a rather obnoxious
way: the downloaded file did not have the correct file-type information,
thus trying to unstuff it would fail. However, the good news is that
downloading with Kermit of the binary file and receiving in the Kermit
MacBinary mode of VersaTerm 3.20 worked like a charm.
This problem has been reported before, that file-attributes are not correctly
set during the download process, and, unless the user immediately tries
out the file, he may not notice until too late (after having deleted the
online file, assuming that the download process succeeded as no error messages
were given. BTW, just changing the File Creator and Type fields to SIT!
did not help me get the file unstuffed - so there must be something else
that needs modifying; it must be minor thing, because I run a Compare File
of MacZAP Tools 5.1 and the "good" file downloaded with MacBinary Kermit
and the "bad" file downloaded in xmodem showed no difference, to my surprise)
Sigh, ---Werner
--------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------
INTERNET: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1)
or: werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner
ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 09:21 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VD 2.1 bug
Even though you should not use VD to remove any resources keeping the Remove
button from working at all may have been going a little too far :-> (It was a
typo, really!) To correct for the silly mistake change 2 occurrances of:
4A6B 003A 67
to:
4A6B 003A 66
I will be posting 2.1.1 within 24 hours with this fix and one other (seems
the parser will accept certain illegal hex patterns). Sorry for this
inconvenience. These bugs DO NOT affect VD's ability to locate any resources
however!
Jeff
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Date: 28 Feb 89 10:55 -0330
From: <dgraham%mun.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMD problems
Please excuse two naive questions from a programming novice:
1. Can anyone tell me how to go about debugging XCMDs in LSP2.0 without
having to leave LSP and actually install the XCMD into a stack? I
presume you have to write a small program that calls the XCMD?
2. I entered the source code for the About Box XCMD given by Danny
Goodman in his HyperCard Developer's Guide and can't get it to work. This
XCMD is supposed to put up an about box for a stack, which you create from
a template in ResEdit. The XCMD saves the HC port, calls a procedure to
center the about box in the window,calls MoveWindow to position the box
and activate it, calls ShowWindow, draws an outline around the OK button,
calls InitCursor, and calls ModalDialog. What actually happens when I
use it is that the box never appears on screen, but the cursor does change
to an arrow, and a click anywhere on screen produces a beep, as if I were
clicking outside a modal dialog box. Set the visible flag of the DLOG
resource to true causes the box to flash on screen for about 1/10 second
and then it disappears. Does anyone have any idea what may be happening
here? There is quite a bit of built-in error checking in the source code
but no errors are returned at any point. This is driving me *crazy*, because
I suspect some simple elementary mistake on my part is causing this behaviour...
I'd appreciate any help--thanks in advance|
David Graham
dgraham@mun.bitnet
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