Adam.Lesh@f102.n269.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Lesh) (11/14/89)
Hi, I'm new to this echo, and to Hypercard, so if I am repeating an already discussed subject, please do not jump all over me. I have just created a rather complex stack that aids in creating AD&D characters. It has all the information about races, classes, attributes, etc. on cards and allows the user to create a character in much the same way that one does manually, but it does all the busy work and fills in a rather elegant character sheet. I have discovered two glitches when using the stack: 1) When using the ANSWER command with 2 options, sometimes the option on the left does not appear. If you click where it should be, it does react, but the option is just invisible. 2) I have some locked, fields which contain text on the character sheet. One looks like: I t e m s When I print the card, sometimes this field is not font smoothed and comes out bit mapped. If I turn on the graphics smoothing option this problem goes away on the regular Apple Laserwriters, but not on other printers. ... If any of you know why this happens, and how to fix it I would be grateful. BTW, do any of you know where I can get help developing some animation. I know there is a stack out there which does this, but I do not know where to find it. Lastly, did anybody else notice that visual effects do not work on a Mac IIcx. They don't work on mine. Anybody know anything about it. Oops. One more thing. I would like to have a field which is a scrolling table. I know how to build one combining a number of scrolling fields, but I am not satisfied with the results. Is there an XCMD out there which does this? Thanks, in advance, for all of your help. Adam Lesh -- Adam Lesh via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!269!102!Adam.Lesh INET: Adam.Lesh@f102.n269.z1.FIDONET.ORG
bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (11/16/89)
In article <29692.2560C5F9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Lesh@f102.n269.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Lesh) writes: >... I have just created a >rather complex stack that aids in creating AD&D characters. It has all >the information about races, classes, attributes, etc. on cards and >allows the user to create a character in much the same way that one does >manually, but it does all the busy work and fills in a rather elegant >character sheet. Great! Maybe you should post it here when you're finished... >I have discovered two glitches when using the stack: >1) When using the ANSWER command with 2 options, sometimes the option >on the left does not appear. If you click where it should be, it does >react, but the option is just invisible. I've never seen this one before. Are you sure that you don't have any funky INITs in your System Folder that are doing something behind your back? >2) I have some locked, fields which contain text on the character >sheet. >... >When I print the card, sometimes this field is not font smoothed and >comes out bit mapped. If I turn on the graphics smoothing option this >problem goes away on the regular Apple Laserwriters, but not on other >printers. Font substitution controls this, not graphics smoothing. What font is the text in? Geneva should come out as Helvetica if "Font Substitution" is enabled. And Palatino will come out looking nice on all LaserWriters (Plus, II) except the original LaserWriter (no suffix), which does not have Palatino built in (so it will appear as bitmapped). (This also happens with a few other fonts whose names escape me at the moment.) The other printers you mentioned, if they're not Apple laser printers, may not have the fonts built in. >BTW, do any of you know where I can get help developing some >animation. I know there is a stack out there which does this, but I do >not know where to find it. Either (a) do card flipping (put a sequence of pictures over several cards and flip between them quickly), (b) move icon buttons around, or (c) buy SuperCard and use its animation abilities. I haven't heard of a stack that does animation, but if it exists it will most likely be in sumex. >Lastly, did anybody else notice that visual effects do not work on a Mac >IIcx. They don't work on mine. Anybody know anything about it. Did you remember to set your monitor to monochrome instead of color first? HyperCard graphic effects don't work in color... (yet) >Oops. One more thing. I would like to have a field which is a >scrolling table. I know how to build one combining a number of >scrolling fields, but I am not satisfied with the results. Is there >an XCMD out there which does this? Not that I know of. I'm not entirely sure I understand what you want to do. Why not use Courier or Monaco font for the field (nonproportional, so the columns will line up), and enter the entire table into one scrolling field? -- | Brian S. Kendig | I feel more like I | bskendig | | Computer Engineering | did when I got here | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | | Princeton University | than I do now. | @PUCC.BITNET | | Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom / General Electric WP3 |
pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke) (11/17/89)
In article <29692.2560C5F9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Lesh@f102.n269.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Lesh) writes: >2) I have some locked, fields which contain text on the character >sheet. >One looks like: >I >t >e >m >s >When I print the card, sometimes this field is not font smoothed and >comes out bit mapped. If I turn on the graphics smoothing option this >problem goes away on the regular Apple Laserwriters, but not on other >printers. HyperCard has a nefarious feature about printing text in fields. Normally it prints text normally, which means that the regular QuickDraw text drawing calls are made to the printer port, so LaserWriter fonts get printed out at LaserWriter resolution, and if Font Substitution is checked, many screen fonts are printed using a reasonable approximation of the font by a LaserWriter font, which is usually acceptable. However, when there are graphics over the field, and HyperCard determines heuristically that the graphics *have a chance* of overlapping the text, the entire text field is printed as a bit map. What happens is that HC converts the text to bits and then combines the bits with the graphics bits that it thinks might overlap them. A single opaque white pixel can be the culprit. These are very easy to put in by accident and very hard to detect. So, to get rid of the problem, fully erase, or make white and transparent, the entire area over the field. Also, of course, make sure you have Font Substitution checked. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
johnsonr@boulder.Colorado.EDU (JOHNSON RICHARD J) (11/19/89)
pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes: /HyperCard has a nefarious feature about printing text in fields. Normally /it prints text normally... /However, when there are graphics over the field, and HyperCard determines /heuristically that the graphics *have a chance* of overlapping the text, /the entire text field is printed as a bit map. Gack! So that's why I've been having similar problems with printing text in fields (but only some fields). Is this on the list of things to fix for HyperCard 2.0? If not, is the bug ever going to get fixed? Hint, hint... | Richard Johnson johnsonr@spot.colorado.edu | | CSC doesn't necessarily share my opinions, but is welcome to. | | Power Tower...Dual Keel...Phase One...Allison/bertha/Colleen...?... | | Space Station Freedom is Dead. Long Live Space Station Freedom! |