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- Hyper-Hackers Digest, Vol. 1 #32
- June 14, 1988
-
- Subjects:
-
- DIAL dropping dtr ???
- Scrolling fields to their last virtual line
- Re: CD ROMs and Video Disks
- Unix Hypercard Stack
- Has anyone created "Help Stack"
- Re: Print Report Problem...
- Thoroughly protecting stacks
- HC is mean with mouseUp's
- Re: Thoroughly protecting stacks
- Old Bug in HC1.0.1
- A Little Question
- Writing cards to a text file
- Hypercard document opening across AppleShare
- Re: Writing cards to a text file
- Re: Writing cards to a text file
- Re: Hypercard document opening across AppleShare
- Re: Help with: "Print Report..."
- HyperCard Buttons and Mouse Events
- Need result of Save a Copy...
- Faster HyperCard Phone stack -- script code enclosed
- OOP mailing list
- HyperCard Menus
- SORT changed in HC 1.2
- SFO HyperExpo and V1.2.1 bug fix
- database program wanted for cataloging albums
- Re: SORT changed in HC 1.2
- New Stack...
- Various Replies
-
- [Moderator's note: Due to news failures here at Sun, some messages
- to this digest were lost. My apologies for this, but there's nothing
- I can do about it -- chuq]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
- Subject: DIAL dropping dtr ???
- Date: 3 Jun 88 08:17:54 GMT
-
- I should hope this is old hat: Running on an SE now, I find that
- I can't DIAL any numbers. HC starts dialing the number and then
- just drops DTR which hangs up the phone (before finishing dialing.)
-
- Huh? What gives? More importantly, how can I fix it?
-
- HC 1.1, System 5, SE, US Robotics
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: GFX@PSUVM.BITNET
- Subject: Scrolling fields to their last virtual line
- Date: 3 Jun 88 14:46:55 GMT
-
- Writing a script to scroll to the last line of a field is an easy
- task when all logical lines--those delimited by return characters--
- contain less characters than the field's virtual line. Eg:
-
- on openCard
- get the textHeight of fieldID
- put it * (the number of lines of fieldID -1) into top
- if the wideMargins of fieldID is "true" then add 4 to top
- set the scroll of fieldID to top
- end openCard
-
- I use this script to go to the bottom of my phone log. A problem
- arises when the lines wrap around in the field. The above script
- will then scroll short to what it should have been. Anyone knows
- how to get the number of virtual lines or see a way to fix the
- script?
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: solution@ditsyda.oz ( George Bray)
- Subject: Re: CD ROMs and Video Disks
- Date: 4 Jun 88 12:00:05 GMT
-
- > >I strongly suggest that anyone looking for a videodisk driver out of
- > >Hypercard get The Voyager Company's (213-474-0032) "The Voyager
- > >Videostack: A Toolkit for Interactive Video".
-
- So what videodisks are available now? I saw Apple Australia showing
- a disk with all sorts of paintings, artists and information on it.
- WOW!@ If thats what you call interactive video I can hardly wait
- for someone to lend me one (he said displaying his postal address ;-)
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: dale@ora.UUCP (Dale Dougherty)
- Subject: Unix Hypercard Stack
- Date: 6 Jun 88 19:15:16 GMT
-
- "UNIX in a Nutshell" HyperCard Stack
-
- I've been wondering how much interest there is out there
- for a HyperCard Stack containing a lot of useful
- information for users of UNIX. We are publishers of
- Nutshell Handbooks. One of our titles,
- "UNIX in a Nutshell," is a complete quick reference
- containing sections on commands, shells, editors,
- nroff/troff requests and macro packages, and other facilities.
- I have done a prototype of a HyperCard stack that includes
- this information. I think it has
- several important benefits over a printed quick reference:
-
- 1) Accessing information on-line where you
- can easily read or print individual cards;
-
- 2) Searching for commands or functions by name or by keyword;
-
- 3) Customizing the stack by adding new or local
- commands and removing unused or inapplicable commands.
-
- In addition, we would probably provide stacks for System V, Berkeley,
- and A/UX. If your system is a hybrid, you could mix and match
- from System V and Berkeley to create your own stack.
-
- This stack would be a natural for A/UX users but
- I understand that HyperCard does not yet run under A/UX
- on the Mac II. Nonetheless, I think there are a fair number
- of UNIX users who are also Mac users,
- perhaps using the Mac to communicate with a remote UNIX system.
- For instance, IF you had enough memory and were using Multifinder, you
- could open the HyperCard stack during a communications session with a
- UNIX system.
-
- Ideally, UNIX would have a general-purpose tool like HyperCard
- for presenting information on-line. Perhaps in the
- not-too-distant future, there will be Hypercard-compatible
- engines written for UNIX machines that would allow this stack to live
- where it rightly belongs. Until then, HyperCard is available on the Mac.
- I hope that a crossover product like the one we are developing might help
- to seed the UNIX market.
-
- Please let me know what level of interest you have in seeing
- "UNIX in a Nutshell" Hypercard Stack. Do you think
- others are interested? Is it worth developing further?
- Any remarks on the possible use and development of this HyperCard
- stack will be greatly appreciated.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
- Subject: Has anyone created "Help Stack"
- Date: 6 Jun 88 11:25:35 GMT
-
- Has anyone made or is thinking of making help stacks for
- existing applications. We have an AppleTalk network here
- (MacJANET) and of course not all programs have sufficient
- on-line help. I've thought about using Hypercard and set
- up some sort of help facility.. But, AppleTalk is so slow
- I wonder about how responsive such a system would
- be. Has anyone tried this. If someone has a stack like
- this I'd like to see it. Thanks.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen)
- Subject: Re: Print Report Problem...
- Date: 6 Jun 88 19:34:55 GMT
-
- I just encountered this bug recently too. Typically, page 13 of a long report
- will be blank with no way to reprint just that page. Inserting dummy cards
- just before the blank page sometimes does a work-around. Incidentally, I
- haven't found the time to upgrade to 1.1 (or is it 1.2 now?) This is probably
- already fixed. I'm sure sophisticated HyperBabble routines can do all sorts
- of nifty printing formatting, but it's just a quick and dirty mailing DB for
- my wedding in June and I don't have time for bells, whistles, etc.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: taylorj@byuvax.bitnet
- Subject: Thoroughly protecting stacks
- Date: 7 Jun 88 04:59:14 GMT
-
- For those interested in giving a stack protection beyond that of the built
- in password, the following should help (and will open a real can of worms!)
-
- put an "on domenu" message handler in your stack script. This lets you
- intercept just about anything. If you add a "params" container to your
- handler, you can see what the menu request was and act accordingly.
-
- WARNING: Make sure you first leave yourself a way out (a secret button or
- something) or you can very easily lock up your stack with no way to get
- back in.
-
- You can also intercept the arrowkey, returnkey, enterkey, etc. messages.
-
- We have so far found no way to break into or go against the constraints
- of a stack protected with these techniques. If anyone comes up with a way
- to do it, please let me know.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: esh@otter.hple.hp.com (Sean Hayes)
- Subject: HC is mean with mouseUp's
- Date: 7 Jun 88 14:15:13 GMT
-
- some naive questions concerning HyperCard (only v 1.01)
-
- *1 Why is it that mouseUp is only given to a button if the mouse
- is in the same region as the button started out in. If the button moves
- I think its more sensible to see if the mouse is still over the button
- on release REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE BUTTON IS.
- Is this the same in later versions of HyperCard?
- Is there a sensible way of getting a mouseUp to a button
- in a different location from when it recieved the mouseDown?
-
- *2 What is the recommended way to copy/delete buttons? when I try:
- ...
- choose button tool
- click at loc of the target
- doMenu Copy Button
- doMenu Paste Button
- set the loc of last button to newH,newV
- ...
-
- Sometimes it works, sometimes I get a "Cant find menu entry Copy Button.." error
-
- If I put a wait after choosing the button tool it fails less often the
- longer the wait. If I replace the target with the clickLoc or the mouseLoc I get
- the
- same problem. Anyone any ideas?
-
- *3 What is the sensible way of deleting a button on a card, if it causes
- a jump to a different card, such that the user doesnt see it go until coming
- back to the card, but does see the visual effect of the transition?
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
- Subject: Re: Thoroughly protecting stacks
- Date: 8 Jun 88 04:14:38 GMT
-
- There is one easy way to get around ANY executing script, even a
- "DoMenu" handler: Command Period.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: hsd@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Harry S. Delugach)
- Subject: Old Bug in HC1.0.1
- Date: 8 Jun 88 14:01:00 GMT
-
- This is probably long-since discussed here, but I have encountered a nagging
- problem: showLines doesn't seem to work with scrolling fields.
-
- That is to say, the showLines attribute is set properly, but in no case do
- lines appear. Not a fatal problem, to be sure, but a little annoying.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: schmoldt@dcdwest.UUCP (Daryl Schmoldt)
- Subject: A Little Question
- Date: 8 Jun 88 18:08:24 GMT
-
- I know that this is an issue that has been brought up before but
- unfortunately it was something that I wasn't interested in at the time
- at which it was being discussed. Anyways, what I am interested in
- doing is creating a screen in the spirit of the HyperCard "Go Recent"
- command in which a miniaturized set of relevant cards are shown and
- the user can then select any one of the cards by clicking on the
- miniaturized version of a given card.
-
- If there is a straight-forward or even a not-so-straight-forward
- way of doing this which someone can explain to me I would be most
- grateful. Please send replys to me rather than posting them to the
- net being as this issue has already been discussed on the net.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: ryan@CS.UCLA.EDU
- Subject: Writing cards to a text file
- Date: 9 Jun 88 15:45:59 GMT
-
- I just completed a database that contains over 500 records and need a better
- alternative to a subroutine. What I want to do is write all the information
- I have on all of my cards to a file using the open file and write commands.
- The problem is that in order to write the next I actually have to be
- on that physical card. As you can imagine, trying to write 500+ cards takes
- a long time... Is there any way to do this other than the way I do it?
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: danm@tekig5.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron)
- Subject: Hypercard document opening across AppleShare
- Date: 9 Jun 88 17:35:26 GMT
-
- The following hypercard command:
-
- open "docname" with "appname"
-
- does not work when the document is on an AppleShare volume and everything else
- (stack, HyperCard, application) is on the startup volume (in this case, an
- internal hard disk). If the document is on the startup volume, or even on
- another disk, such as a floppy, the command works fine. I have tried this
- with two different applications (4D and MS Word) and each one reports that
- the document file could not be found. Again, this happens only if the doc
- is on an AppleShare volume.
-
- The configuration is: several Mac SE's networked with AppleShare via PhoneNet.
- The file server is a CMS-60.
-
- The specific scenario is that HyperCard is being used as a "finder" shell to
- launch other app's with specific documents.
-
- If anyone has experienced the same thing, or if you've tried the same thing and
- it has worked for you where it has not for me, please let me know. Also,
- if you know of a fix or a workaround, I need that too.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
- Subject: Re: Writing cards to a text file
- Date: 10 Jun 88 00:34:03 GMT
-
- >What I want to do is write all the information
- >I have on all of my cards to a file using the open file and write commands.
-
- Well, I don't really know how you are doing it, but here is a generic
- script that I use to export text from all BACKGROUND fields. It creates
- an ASCII file in the TAB TAB TAB CR type of format. It also strips all
- carriage returns found in fields, leaving CR to be unique as a record
- separator. (Tab is the field separator).
-
- on mouseUp
- put the short name of this stack & ".tx" into defaultName
- ask "Export text to what file?" with defaultName
- if it is empty then exit mouseUp
- put it into fileName
- open file fileName
- go to first card
- repeat for the number of cards
- repeat with i = 1 to the number of fields
- put field i into temp
- repeat
- if return is not in temp then exit repeat
- put space into char offset(return,temp) of temp
- end repeat
- write temp to file fileName
- if i<> the number of fields then
- write tab to file fileName
- else
- write return to file fileName
- end if
- end repeat
- go to next card
- end repeat
- close file fileName
- end mouseUp
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
- Subject: Re: Writing cards to a text file
- Date: 9 Jun 88 20:47:31 GMT
-
- >The problem is that in order to write the next I actually have to be
- >on that physical card. As you can imagine, trying to write 500+ cards takes
- >a long time... Is there any way to do this other than the way I do it?
-
- Use container expressions such as
- "bkgnd field 1 of card i"
- Where i is the number of the card.
- You don't have to be "on" the card in order to access its data.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: danm@tekig5.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron)
- Subject: Re: Hypercard document opening across AppleShare
- Date: 10 Jun 88 23:45:23 GMT
-
- > The following hypercard command:
- >
- > open "docname" with "appname"
- >
- > does not work when the document is on an AppleShare
-
- The problem is not that *HyperCard* can't find the document. Even if it
- couldn't find it, HyperCard would ask me where it is. The problem is that
- the *launched application* (4D or MS Word) can't find it once the app has
- started. Again, this only happens if the doc is on the AppleShare file
- server. The app starts up (complete with opening greetings or menu bar
- drawing) and then gives me an error message that it can't find the file.
- The two apps I've tried give different style alerts, but both have the
- same meaning.
-
- BTW, if everything (HyperCard, Home, the application, and the document) are on
- the file server, no problems occur. This configuration is not acceptable,
- however, because the network is too slow.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell)
- Subject: Re: Help with: "Print Report..."
- Date: 9 Jun 88 17:47:10 GMT
-
- At the Spring Developers Conference in San Jose, I asked some
- of the HyperCard gurus (David Leffler in particular if I remember
- correctly) about the printing problems. He said the real problem
- was in the Macintosh, not HyperCard. He said they weren't really
- sure what the problem was, and were open to any suggestions from
- developers. There is also a limitation to printing. I think HC
- can only print 128 pages maximum.
- I would like to mention that one of the greatest (I think)
- things about this new 1.2. series release is that EVERYTHING
- is returned in the result. No more error codes popping up on
- the screen to the user. This is especially handy for
- debugging external commands and functions. You will just get an error
- returned, instead of the big la bamba.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
- Subject: HyperCard Buttons and Mouse Events
- Date: 10 Jun 88 02:45:09 GMT
-
- I thought I would share with you something I just found out about
- buttons and catching the mouse up. Pardon me if this has been posted
- before.
-
- I was working on an animated button, where there are two buttons lying
- on top of each other, both of them opaque. When there is a mouse down
- on the button in front, I wanted to show (make visible) the button
- underneath the present button, and after the person let the mouse up,
- I wanted to show the original button that he clicked on.
- Easy enough, right?
-
- Well, I wrote the following script:
-
- on mouseDown
- set visible of card button "Front" to false -- exposes the button in back
- end mouseDown
-
- on mouseUp
- set visible of card button "Front" to true -- brings original button back
- end mouseUp
-
- A logical first attempt at trying to do such a task. Well, it seems
- that if the person doing the clicking clicks down inside the button
- and then moves the pointer out of the button and then mouse Ups, then
- the 'on mouseDown' does not get called. This thereby jammed my button
- into showing the other button.
-
- I pondered a bit and then looked into the APDA HyperTalk guide and
- discovered that you can issue the command: "wait until <condition>".
-
- Well, says I, why don't I try using this instead?
-
- So I wrote:
-
- on mouseDown
- set visible of card button "Front" to false -- exposes the button in back
- wait until the mouse is up -- wait for the up!!
- set visible of card button "Front" to true -- brings original button back
- end mouseUp
-
- This works great...where ever you move the mouse on the screen before
- your mouse button comes up, the script will catch it. It is something
- that is not hard or advanced, but something that will help write
- cleaner environments.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
- Subject: Need result of Save a Copy...
- Date: 12 Jun 88 17:27:57 GMT
-
- OK guys and gals, here's a problem.
-
- We need to execute a doMenu "Save a Copy..." from a script, this is easy.
- But we need to know the pathname of the copy typed by the user.
-
- I see two possible solutions:
-
- a magical incantaion to get Hypercard to tell us the name specified (Wouldn't
- it be nice if "the result" in general contained this type of information.
-
- An XCMDD to copy files used in conjunction with the NewFileName XFCN, to sim-
- ulate domenu "Save a Copy..."
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
- Subject: Faster HyperCard Phone stack -- script code enclosed
- Date: 12 Jun 88 19:37:21 GMT
-
- I use Focal Point in HyperCard to dial the phone (look it up in address
- book, then press dial button and let my modem go to work). With HyperCard
- 1.1, the Phone stack comes with a field for the user to put local prefixes
- in -- 3 number codes so that the phone stack can figure out if the call is
- long distance or not. Rather nice, but in Seattle there are approximately
- 50 prefixes that are local to me; the Phone stack goes through each one
- until it finds the match (no Find command is used). This is really slow,
- especially when you're dialing a number with a "932" or such prefix.
-
- Well, I made a few quick changes to the Phone stack script (located under
- the Stack menu option) which speed up the dialing to an almost instantaneous
- process. Used the Find command; imagine you could use some of the new "Find
- word" or "Find string" under HyperCard 1.2, but since all the prefixes are 3
- numbers long, and seperated by spaces or commas (they should be), there
- really isn't any reason to.
-
- Here's a before/after listing of the script. I think you'll find this
- useful if you use HyperCard to dial your phone for you.
-
- Original script from the Phone Stack:
-
- else if dialLength = 7 then
- put char 1 to 3 of dialNumber into prefix
- repeat with index = 1 to number of words in field "Local Prefixes"
- if word index of field "Local Prefixes" is prefix then
- doDial field preamble & dialNumber
- exit dial
- end if
- end repeat
- answer "Is this a local (non-toll) call?" with No or Yes
-
- My alterations to said stack:
-
- else if dialLength = 7 then
- put char 1 to 3 of dialNumber into prefix
- find prefix in field "Local Prefixes"
- if the result is empty then
- doDial field preamble & dialNumber
- exit dial
- end if
- answer "Is this a local (non-toll) call?" with No or Yes
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: ACOUST%BNR.BITNET@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU (N.)
- Subject: OOP mailing list
- Date: 13 Jun 88 01:14:19 GMT
-
- Everybody in Canada who is interested in the Object-Oriented Programming
- (OOP) and/or in the behavioral design research as related to the
- development of human-machine interfaces (however remotely connected to
- these subjects) - please reply to my e-mail address. The long-term
- objective - organization of a corresponding Canadian bulletin board.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
- Subject: HyperCard Menus
- Date: 12 Jun 88 18:14:02 GMT
-
- Is there an XCMD or easy way to make a popup menu in a HyperCard stack?
-
- I get a list of names, and I want to be able to have the user click on
- a button and then a menu popups beneath it with those names as
- choices. The user can then select whatever name it wants from the
- menu. Since a dialog box can only handle a few items, I wanted to do
- it with a pop-up menu.
-
- Any source code, XCMDs or friendly advice would be appreciated...
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies)
- Subject: SORT changed in HC 1.2
- Date: 13 Jun 88 15:30:32 GMT
-
- Time was, in HyperCard 1.0.1 and 1.1, that you could pass a function as
- the "with" parameter to sort, as well as chunk expressions. It seems that
- HyperCard 1.2 doesn't like this, and instead puts up and error dialog saying
- something to the effect that "xx is an invalid expression on every card".
-
- The value of passing a function to sort is that you used to be able to
- perform parsing and concatenation of strings used as the sort keys. For
- instance, if you want to sort a stack of names by last name, and yet want
- the first and optional second and third names to be significant in the sort,
- and at the same time ignore any instances of "Jr", chunk expressions just
- won't suffice--you need to write a function to message the names into the
- desired order before they are looked at by sort, which sorts them.
-
- Although using a function as the sort parameter was not documented, it worked
- fine in 1.0.1 and 1.1, and it is a consistant generalization of using "&" to
- concatentate chunk expressions for sort (which is how I found out that it
- worked in the first place). I can't imagine why this capability was removed
- in 1.2, and sincerely hope that it is reinstanted, and documented, in future
- versions.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: SCHWER@KL.SRI.COM (Leonard Schwer)
- Subject: SFO HyperExpo and V1.2.1 bug fix
- Date: 14 Jun 88 00:57:21 GMT
-
-
- I attended HyperExpo in San Francisco over the weekend. It seemed
- poorly attended; I estimate <1000 since the large session room was only
- filled once when Bill Atkinson spoke about V1.2, but it was worth the $25
- registration fee.
- Bill Atkinson mentioned there is a bug fix release called V1.2.1
- which fixes a problem with V1.2 and ImageWriter printers and a few other
- unmentionables. The deal is take your V1.2 disk to your retailer and they
- give you the V1.2.1 disk. I don't know if you get to keep V1.2 or if it's
- a one for one trade.
- The hotest stack on the Expo floor was ManHole (by PROLOG I think).
- It and adventure/exploring game for pre-readers and the best demonstration
- of what HyperWare is really capable of doing. The graphics were outstanding and
- the 7 year old I saw using it seemed to be enjoying himself.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: rabbit@psivax.UUCP (Joe Kwan)
- Subject: database program wanted for cataloging albums
- Date: 13 Jun 88 21:20:35 GMT
-
- Two neophyte users, one with no experience w/ computer experience
- at all, the other with no programming experiece, are seeking to create
- a data base for the catalog for their LARGE record collection (LPs
- and 78 rpms). Nine fields, probably six of which would be used
- as search keys for reporting, and around 15,000 records (as in
- Database Records). We have some questions which we haven't been
- able to answer, and while we appreciate related information, we
- can't run before we learn to walk and a lot of the information we've
- received thus far is unfortunately beyond our comprehension.
-
- #1. Could HyperCard run this volume at a reasonable/acceptable rate?
- Does anyone out there have first-hand experience w/ this? What
- hardware is needed?
-
- #2. If not HyperCard, would FoxBase, Fourth Dimension, dBase Mac,
- Omnis 3, or Helix (other?) require much programming?
-
- Is it unreasonable to hope that two greenhorns could, without devoting
- all our waking hours, reach an intelligent decision as to what to buy
- (we're starting w/ nothing and a budget of about $3,500-$4,000), and
- be entering data and generating reports by Sept. 1?
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
- Subject: Re: SORT changed in HC 1.2
- Date: 13 Jun 88 18:53:07 GMT
-
- >Time was, in HyperCard 1.0.1 and 1.1, that you could pass a function as
- >the "with" parameter to sort, as well as chunk expressions. It seems that
- >HyperCard 1.2 doesn't like this, and instead puts up and error dialog saying
- >something to the effect that "xx is an invalid expression on every card".
-
- It would be funny if this has really changed. I recall a Mr. HyperTalk (forgot
- his name, Dan something-r-other) posting that suggested passing the
- random number function to "shuffle" the cards in a stack.
-
- It would be nice if Dan would answer this one. I made up my mind a while back
- that I would put off buying any book on hypertalk until I found one that
- documents this function. My reasoning is that it is an obscure usage of sort
- and anyone who knows about it possibly knows alot. Of course, if this is
- no longer true, my heuristic is in error.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: mark@pnet06.cts.com (Mark Murphy)
- Subject: New Stack...
- Date: 13 Jun 88 18:17:09 GMT
-
- I need to creat e a new stack from script without user interaction. If I
- issue a doMenu "New Stack...", the user is presented with dialog asking for a
- name and whether or not to copy the background. For my application, this is
- undesirable. Does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish this?
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- From: bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell)
- Subject: Various Replies
- Date: 13 Jun 88 20:47:10 GMT
-
- >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.
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