carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson) (11/09/89)
I'm trying to open programs from inside Hypercard. Some of them only
work in 2 color mode while others will work with 8 bit colors. Wanting
to automate it as much as possible (6 year old is a user) I decide a
doMenu on a Macromaker macro to fiddle with the control panel. Seemed
like a good idea but it doesn't work.
Details are the doMenu by itself works fine but when I do a
doMenu Black an White
open Macpaint
it opens on a color system. When I go to quit it asks if I want to
interrupt the macro that is running. But the macro never changes the
colors.
Putting the doMenu in a function almost seems to work but when I call
a function to change to 2 bit and then one to change back to color it
does them in the wrong order!
Using Mac II, System 6.0.3, Hypercard 1.2.2
Thanks in advance for your help.
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WIN: 285-3513englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) (11/14/89)
I once tried to use MacroMunger with a HC stack, and while it worked at
first, it would inevitably break upon encountering the smallest change
in the conditions or environment. So i gave up and instead changed the
application that MM was controlling to one that had its own macro
language. But this is not a solution for what you want to do. Perhaps
you might try one of the fancier commercial macro programs like AutoMac
or Tempo. I have not used either of these recently.
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- Scott