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. -- Dana Carson Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group Mail Stop 1615 UUCP:carson@tron.UUCP carson%tron.UUCP@umbc3.UMBC.EDU ...!netsys!umbc3!tron!carson AT&T: (301) 255-9579 (w)765-3513 WIN: 285-3513
englandr@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. -- - Scott