RJones@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Bob Jones) (10/14/90)
I have recently obtained BibTeX and Bibstack from the Aston archives. In the main I am very pleased with the results. However, I am having a few problems. When I open Bibstack the top menu bar (file/edit/go) partially covers the buttons at the top of the card making them extremely difficult to press. I would also like to know how one deletes an existing card... perhaps one is just supposed to overwrite them? In the small 'location' window there does not appear to be a way of scrolling the text even though one is able to add text ad infinitum. Finally, the journal button in the article type card does not insert the selected entry. I am using Hypercard 1.2.2 by the way. Thanks in advance, Rob.
hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) (10/15/90)
I will preceed this advice with the statement that I have not used the stack in question. I did look at it briefly, but my advice is based on general Hypercard (1.2.2) techniques. In article <RJONES.90Oct14003251@exua.exua.exeter.ac.uk> RJones@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Bob Jones) writes: >I have recently obtained BibTeX and Bibstack from the Aston archives. >In the main I am very pleased with the results. However, I am having a >few problems. When I open Bibstack the top menu bar (file/edit/go) >partially covers the buttons at the top of the card making them >extremely difficult to press. This problem arises because the stack was probably created by someone using a screen larger than that of the original compact macs (plus/se/se30) on which the menubar does not occlude part of the card surface. The solution in general is to bring up the message box (by selecting Message in the Go menu, or by typing command-m) and type into it: hide menubar (Then press return) This will make the menubar go away. To make the message box go away just click anywhere on the main card, and the stack will come back to the foreground. If you want the menubar back, you must first bring up the message box again. Now, since there is no menubar to select from you must use command-m to bring it up. Then type into it: show menubar (return) >I would also like to know how one deletes an existing card... >perhaps one is just supposed to overwrite them? select "Delete Card" from the edit menu. I just looked at the stack scripts and it doesn't look like this will cause any problems (ie there arent any indices being manually maintained that would need to be updated, as far as I can tell). Note, that you will not be able to delete the last remaining card for a given card type. That is, there must always be at least one entry for each entry type, such as InProceedings. With a little massaging of the stack this could be eliminated. The problem is that the stack needs an existing entry to use as a template for creating new cards of that type. For publication quality stacks I usually make an attempt to hide these "Template" cards from open view. >In the small 'location' window there does not appear to be a way >of scrolling the text even though one is able to add text ad >infinitum. This is a bit more involved. Since you mention above that you have only the (file/edit/go) options in the menubar, I assume you are in something below "authoring" mode. To fix this you must be in "authoring" mode. This involves bumping your user-level up by typing set userlevel to 4 (return) in the message box. Now from the "Tools" menu select the field tool which is the top-right tool. Now click on the "location" field to select it, and choose "Field Info..." from the "Objects" menu. When the dialog box comes up, you will notice a series of check-boxes on the right for setting the field's type. Simply click in the box marked "Scrolling". Then click the "OK" button. Finally, select the hand tool from the "Tools" menu, and you are back in business. Note you will have to do this to the location field on each of the different card-types separately, but only on one card per card-type. That is, changing the field on one "Book" card will chang it on all "Book" cards, but will not effect it on "InProceedings" cards. Finally, if you are uncomfortable being left in "authoring" mode, just type set userlevel to 3 in the message box. >Finally, the journal button in the article type card does >not insert the selected entry. I am using Hypercard 1.2.2 by the way. This one I can't answer without looking through the pertinent scripts to track the bug down. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rob. Hope this helps. By all means, make a copy of your stack and fool around with it in "authoring" mode. This is one of the best ways to learn hypercard. If you get really adventuresome and want to check out the scripts (programs) try userlevel 5. Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Hodas Home Phone: (215) 222-7112 4223 Pine Street School Office Phone: (215) 898-9514 Philadelphia, PA 19104 New E-Mail Address: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu