bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell) (06/14/88)
>looking for hypercard on ibm pc I talked to Scott Shwarts of Symmetry Corporation at HyperExpo, and he says that Macintosh Today made a bigger deal of the story than was required. Not only would you have to interpret the HyperCard file format (which they have done) but also include lots of ROM routines. It would be very difficult, at best. >showLines doesn't seem to work with scrolling fields. Your question was brought up at HyperExpo also, and Bill Sez that is because he is relying on textEdit to handle all the field information. >Has AHUG written any more Windoid issues. I have six. I just talked to David Leffler of the HyperCard testing team and past president of AHUG. He is also editor of Windoid. He has been trying to get issue #7 together for a while, but has been delayed. He says he will have it done in the next week or two. It will be about 20 pages long, as opposed to the usual 5 to 10. He has been exceptionally busy getting version 1.2.1 out. I personally enjoy the Windoid issues a lot. >"Save a copy..." from a script. A fellow by the name of Guy de Picciotto has written several XCMD's and XFCN's including ones to copy files, create new folders, read the disk catalog etc. It is available on CompuServe or GEnie. For details, check out a stack I created called the "XCMD Register." It contains a 40K stack telling you about 65 XCMD's and XFCN's what their legal status is, and what their download names are on the two services. You can also get it free with several XCMD's by sending me a disk and an SASE. Else send a check for $4 to cover disk, mailing, postage, and handling. There was an article in MacWEEK about my service for further info. Bryan Menell, Pisces Publishing 17155 Newhope, Suite B Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 540-6744 Fax: (714) 540-6936 CServe 72307,2100 GEnie B.MENELL Alink D1319 UUCP: hodge.cts.com!pnet06!bmenell ARPA: hodge!pnet06!bmenell@crash nosc.mil INET: bmenell@pnet06.cts.com
bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell) (06/21/88)
>I need a function CardExists(cardName). There is a real simple way to do this. HyperCard now returns all errors in the result. So you can "go to card cardName" and if the result is "no such card" then handle it appropriately. >HyperMedium as an intruction manual. I think the tutorial for Migent's In-House Accountant was one of the first to be done in HyperCard. There are many people doing this now including Claris! As for instructions on something other than a software program, try Kinkos Academic Courseware Exchange for stacks on various topics. >Trapping keypresses. Guy de Picciotto's INKEY external command works great. It is available on most services. You can find it and many other external commands in my XCMD Register stack. Send me a disk and a SASE and you'll get it free. >Unexpected error 54321 and "Sorry" This usually happens when you are playing with the "debug writeon" and "debug writeoff" commands that are undocumented commands in version 1.1 ONLY. They turn writing to the disk on and off. Make sure those commands are not in your stack anywhere. A good way to check would be to run the stack under 1.2 and wait for "Cant understand debug" to show up. >Miniature sized set of relevant cards Copy a card, and when you choose Paste, hold down the command and option keys (I believe). Those may not be the exact keys, but it is a combination of command/shift/option while you are choosing Paste. That will put a miniature picture of your card on the screen. You can easily write a script to paste many of them onto a blank card. I will post the code if you like. >Printing on the IISC from HyperCard 1.2 There is a bug in HyperCard version 1.2 that will not allow it to print on the LaerWriter IISC correctly, or sometimes at all. The only solution is to upgrade to HyperCard version 1.2.1 (the most current release). +-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-+ Bryan Menell, Stackhead UUCP: hodge.cts.com!pnet06!bmenell Pisces Publishing/HyperMedia Group ARPA: hodge!pnet06!bmenell@crash nosc.mil (714) 540-6744 Fax: (714) 540-6936 INET: bmenell@pnet06.cts.com -=> CServe <72307,2100> GEnie [B.MENELL] AppleLink: D1319 <=- "Bill Atkinson is as close to a God as you can get!" +-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-+
bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell) (07/12/88)
First of all, thanks to Edward Moy, Tim G. Johnson, and Dave Nowak for responding to my TOPS/hypercard problems. It's all being included in a little information packet to the HyperCard team. How can I put a TIFF image into a card? Or can I only use Macpaint format >images? Is there a way to write a XCMD that would display a TIFF file? HyperCard only accpets MacPaint images. You can write an XCMD to display TIFF files, of course! Or you could think of converting them to PICT and using DisplayPict, an already-written XCMD. I wish I could remember the authors name to credit him/her, but it is available on most BBS's and commercial on-line services. >Re: Too much recursion. Usually what happens is you are trapping "on openCard" in your stack script, and in that script is a "go to next card." Of course, that calls openCard again, executes your openCard script (even though it hasn't quit out of the last one yet) and after 5 times or so, you get your recursion error. If your script was in the card script area, you wouldn't get this problem. You might also try researching the "lockMessages" command in HyperTalk. This will temporarily turn the sending of messages up the HyperCard hierarchy. I've found it useful many times myself in these situations. Bryan +-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-+ Bryan Menell, Stackhead UUCP: hodge.cts.com!pnet06!bmenell Pisces Publishing/HyperMedia Group ARPA: hodge!pnet06!bmenell@crash nosc.mil 17155 Newhope, Suite B INET: bmenell@pnet06.cts.com Fountain Valley, CA 92708 CI$ <72307,2100> GEnie [B.MENELL] (714) 540-6744 Fax: (714) 540-6936 AppleLink: D1319 "We just can't spend the money fast enough." -Gassee at Spring Developers Conf +-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-+