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From: da003b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Vogon Poet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Closing the Finder
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:49:32 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <BxIBwu.A5s@netnews.jhuapl.edu> avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie) writes:


>I am writing a Hypercard stack for students to run under System 7.  Its 
>purpose is to allow them to access applications while preventing them from 
>messing with the desktop.  (I know about At Ease, but the school district 
>cannot afford it!)  Closing the finder does the trick, but has the drawback 
>of disabling DA's - in particular, the Chooser and the Scrapbook are needed.  
>I would be grateful for ideas on how to achieve the general objective of 
>locking the kids out of the desktop, but allowing them access to DA's.  Would 
>starting the DA's before closing the finder help?  Also, what could one do to 
>prevent those DA's from being closed and becoming unavailable.

>Louis

Interesting problem... Here is one solution that would work but I highly
discourage because it becomed very frustrating even for the administrators:
Make everything on the desktop invisible by pasting in blank icons and name
them all with different numbers of spaces.  You cannot do this for the trash
can, butif the only visible object on the desktop happens to be a locked
alias for your stack (which could be placed in the menubar) you may not have
to worry about it.  

I have seen this done before and the op. in charge of that particular set of
stations is losing hair quickly.

I would suggest guard-dog, a fairly cheap (it may even be shareware, I don't
know) and easy to manage solution.

Hope this helps.

Darrell.

Disclaimer: do this at your own risk.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Craig Fifer)
Subject: Re: HC colorize
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:50:06 GMT

Try sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/hc directory.

-Craig Fifer
cfifer@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
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From: henstock@ecn.purdue.edu (Peter V Henstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: JPEG image viewing in Hypercard
Date: 13 Nov 92 13:46:56 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Anybody have any information or know where to find a JPEG
viewer for use from Hypercard.  We have a viewer which does
GIF's but we are setting up a picture database which will eat
up too much space so we're trying to use JPEGs only we cannot
locate a viewer.

Thanks in advance,

--Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: davids@gardener.lanl.gov (David G. Simmons)
Subject: Re: Remote referencing of fields
Originator: davids@feynman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:15:11 GMT


In article <1992Nov4.230703.13617@pellns.alleg.edu>, dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn) writes:
|> In article <jpugh-031192233301@kip2-14.apple.com> jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)  
|> writes:
|> |In article <1992Oct26.212029.22897@newshost.lanl.gov>,
|> |davids@gardener.lanl.gov (David G. Simmons) wrote:
|> |> 
|> |> put bg fld "xxx" of cd X of stack "YYY" into someContainer
|> |> 
|> |> but got a "Cant' understand arguments to keyword" or some such message  
|> back.
|> |
|> |You can't use the stack part.  You have to go to the stack. Do:
|> |
|> |lock screen
|> |push cd
|> |go stack "YYY"
|> |put fld "xxx" of cd X into someContainer
|> |pop cd
|> |unlock screen
|> |
|> |Jon
|> 
|> Would the stack part work if the stack was either open in a different window,  
|> or part of the message-passing list? This would be great because it would  
|> allow an Index Builder stack, where I now have index builder cards in several  
|> stacks. 
|> --
I know, tacky to follow-up to your own post, but...;-)
 No, it doesn't help to have the stack in question in the message-passing
path.  A stackInUse is no more accessible than a non-in-use one.  Jon
(and others who responded via email) are right in that you do have to
"go" to the stack.  Once there, however, you can reference fields and
cards  without actually going to them.  As always, lockScreen, lockMessages,
and lockRecent speeds things up considerably.

Thanks to all who responded.
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From: lward@husc8.harvard.edu (Lester Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: changing delimiter char??
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:18:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.lward.721081128

KGODDEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:

>If I have a string say, "a b c" and get the second word, it'll return "b"
>because the space is a delimiter.  I am pretty sure that there is a way
>to *change* the delimiter to any character, say '^', but I cannot find any
>reference to this in the Hypertalk reference manual.  Can someone please
>tell me how to do this?  I think there is a parameter to set.  What I *really*
>want to do is have  a string like "foo bar^fubar^fu the bar^..." and if I
>get the FIRST 'word' (or item?) it should return "foo bar" and so on.
>If anyone posts an answer before Monday, could you please also send me
>email at foobaz@AOL.com
>so I can read it at home during the weekend?
>Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>-Kurt
>-------------
>"I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task."
>-Robert A. Frosch, VP, GM Research

set ItemDelimiter to "^"

Then 

 put item 1 of "foo bar^fubar^fu the bar"

will put "foo bar" in the message box.

Les
Programmer, FAS Computer Services, Harvard University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: asgeiro@dhhalden.no (ASGEIR OSTERHUS)
Subject: videologic - XCMD's, converting from Hypercard to SuperCard 
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:11:47 GMT

I am trying to make an application using SuperCard 1.6.

When I try to use XCMD's and XFCN's made for accessing videologic videocard
and controling a Sony(2000) Laserdisk I only succed half way.

Setting up a window, sizing, moving and transparency work just fine. But con-
trolling the Laserdisk dosn't work. Is there a set of XCMD's specially for
SuperCard. Or is there a special trick to converting the HyperCard ones?

Any hint's are welcome!

reply by posting or E-mail. (Your choice, if you think anyone is interested)

asgeiro@dhhalden.no
From: badri@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Personal Finances and Investments Manager Stack
Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:23:28 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics IC group / Warren NJ 07059
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdl.warren.mentorg.com

I am looking for an Email address to reach the author of the
Personal Finances and Investments Manager Stack, recently
distributed on comp.binaries.mac. I have a postal address
in Nova Scotia, Canada but it takes too long to communicate with
someone in Canada via post!

Please respond by Email, thanks!
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(or) ...!uunet.uu.net!sdl!badri                   Make my day.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cecelia A. Dorn)
Subject: Re: How to get rid of the clicktext
Reply-To: cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:04:54 GMT

In article <5NOV199219443992@oregon.uoregon.edu>, derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.104053.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes...
>>In article <4NOV199220221807@oregon.uoregon.edu>, 
>>derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen) writes:
>>> I am doing something using the clicktext in a field.  In the openfield handler
>>> I check the value of the clicktext.  If it is empty, do nothing, otherwise do
>>> something.
>>> 
>>> The problem I have is that when the sencond pass of using the clicktext, even
>>> thoug I do not click on anything, the clicktext still returns the previously
>>> clicked text.
>> 

Victor

Try using 'the selectedText' instead of 'the clickText'.  The
value will not persist when you return to the whole text card.

--Cea
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: brod@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Brodie Lockard)
Subject: Standalone stacks?
Reply-To: brod@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Brodie Lockard)
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 23:11:54 GMT

What's the latest on the version of HC that can create standalone stacks?
Is this 3.0?  When will it ship?  Please email brod@jessica.stanford.edu.


Brodie Lockard      brod@jessica.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: tron@apple.com (Tantek Celik)
Subject: Re: Resizing stacks
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:48:25 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <1992Nov11.232205.11453@erg.sri.com>, marie@paris.erg.sri.com
(Marie desJardins) wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to resize a Hypercard stack (using the Resize...
> dialog under the Stack Info. menu item).  There seems to be
> a maximum area that's allows -- if I try to drag the corner
> beyond a 600x600 square, it won't increase the size.  (I can
> make it wider than this, but then it gets shorter.)  Is there
> a built-in limit, or a way to circumvent the limit?

Try increasing the amount of memory allocated to HyperCard in the Finder
by doing a Get Info on the application and typing in a larger number where
it says Current Size:.

> Thanks in advance.
> Marie desJardins
> marie@erg.sri.com

tron@apple.com

THE OPINIONS CONTAINED HEREIN ARE THOSE OF MY OWN, NOT OF MY USER OR
SYSTEM.

END OF LINE.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Mathew L. Spolin <ms5477a@auvm.american.edu>
Subject: Supercard 1.6 and Quicktime
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A723D6F18D019637@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 13:50:57 GMT
Organization: Cybervision Productions
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:46:36 GMT

Has anyone had any luck playing back Quicktime 1.5 movies from within
SuperCard?  Apple's QT XCMD's don't seem to work.  I found a small XCMD
that does work well under Supercard, but it only supports complete movie
playback in a modal window with no script control.

Has anyone tackled this problem?

Thanks,
---Matt Spolin
   Washington, DC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: bond@rtsg.mot.com (Allan Bond)
Subject: Help: Printing Mailing Labels from Address Stack
Reply-To: bond@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:41:28 GMT


Another novice desperately needs advice...

Frequently when I print mailing labels from the HyperCard 2.0 "Address"
stack, the last sheet of labels is only partially filled.  I would like
to use the rest of the sheet later, but how can I tell HC to start
printing on that partially filled sheet starting at the first available
label?

Your help is greatly appreciated!
_____________________________________________________________________________
 Allan Bond  /  bond@rtsg.mot.com  /  Arlington Heights, IL  /  708-632-6124
From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: New to XCMDs in 'C' - How to begin
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:12:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Nov6.213246.8511@agt.uucp>, Allen Winter
<AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca> wrote:
> 
> I am using THINK c V5.0 and I want to learn how to write XCMDs .  But I
> am having trouble just getting to 1st base.
> 
> I have looked at the source  code in 'XCMD Shell' and also 'XcShell' -
> hoping
> that they would serve as examples.  But they look awfully complicated and 
> also they will not compile on THINK C V5.0.  For one thing I don'tseem to
> have all 
> of the headers needed, such as 'MacTypes.h' etc.  Also there are
> different 
> versions of 'XCMDUtil.c' and also 'HyperXcmd.h'.
> 
> Can anyone provide me with either source code for a simple XCMD that 
> WILL compile (including headers and utility files)? 

Here is about as simple as they get:

#include <HyperXCmd.h>

pascal void main(XCmdPtr pp)
{
    pp->returnValue = PasToZero(pp, "\pThis is a test.");
}

1) Create a project with this source and the MacTraps Lib and the HyperXLib
included.  Compile as either XCMD or XFCN code resource.

Be the ball.

******************************************************************************
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Apple's)
athos@apple.com
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From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard Run Time Module
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:31:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61539.student.cwru.edu

The newer macs only include the hypercard run-time application (no
scripting). Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this? Is it free??

---
The Evil Tofu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: Hypercard Window Size
Reply-To: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Washington State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 18:40:12 GMT


It appears that Hypercard windows are limited to the size of the first
window opened when the app launches.  For example, double-clicking
on Hypercard itself opens the home stack (which happens to be 512x342).
Thereafter, all windows are limited to 512x342, even when opening a
stack "in its own window".

Thereafter, stack windows cannot be resized upwards.

Any hints?

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Academic Computing Services | All standard disclaimers apply
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From: jdwcs@cs.utexas.edu (Joe David Warrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HYPERCARD NOVICE NEEDS HELP
Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:52:54 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: muleshoe.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: help

Hi Everyone,
	I am new to hypercard, have a project due 
in a week, and am having problems with the basics.
(Needless to say I am against the wall on this one)
The problems would likely be easy for you HC gurus
out there, but I am pulling my hair out with this stuff.

PROBLEM 1) I need to hide/show some buttons depending
on whether there are any characters in two fields.
Both of the fields and the buttons are on the same card
which has a painted in background.  I have tried many
variations using on keyDown but have had little success.
The best results make the buttons appear and disappear,
but will place only the first character in the field.  If I
get the script to place all the characters (entered by
keyboard) into the filed then the buttons will not disappear.

PROBLEM 2) I am trying to develop a card with a scrolling 
field that shows a record field (from a database) broken
up by its fields (the record).  The problem is that I need 
verticle lines to separate the record fields located within
the hypercard field.  I tried putting the hypercard field
in the background and drawing the vertical bars on the card,
but then the scrolling field acted as if it were painted
in the card (it had no functionality).  I also thought about
overlapping several scrolling hypercard fields (one for each 
record field) but could not figure out how to get them to 
scroll in unison or to highlight the same line in all the
fields when I click on one.

PROBLEM 3) I need to change the cursor from the pointing
finger to an arrow.


I am sure to have many more problems as this program develops
during the next week, but solving these three problems will
at least get me started.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

			THANKS
			Joe
			jdwcs@cs.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: hsingnan@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel H. Chang)
Subject: HyperCard 2.0 Home
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:43:12 GMT

About a year ago, when Hypercard upgrades were still available at 
dealers, one of the Home stacks which came bundled with the 2.0
upgrade package was particularly elegant (IMHO) in that the 1st
page consisted of an active field where the names of the stacks
or applications which you frequently used were tabulated in columns
(I forget, but I think the contents of the fields were even 
automatically generated from a disk search), and you selected which
one you wanted by clicking.

Does anyone out there have a copy of this home stack? If so, I would
greatly appreciate you mailing it to me in whatever compression format
makes you happy. Thanx in advance.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Distribution: world
From: Aaron_S._Friedman@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:32:56 PST
Subject: Hiding the menubar

Is there a script I can put into a stack that hides the menubar ONLY if the
screen is 9"?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Mathew L. Spolin <ms5477a@auvm.american.edu>
Subject: Supercard 1.6 and Quicktime
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A723D7260C029637@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 13:51:50 GMT
Organization: Cybervision Productions
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:47:22 GMT

Has anyone had any luck playing back Quicktime 1.5 movies from within
SuperCard?  Apple's QT XCMD's don't seem to work.  I found a small XCMD
that does work well under Supercard, but it only supports complete movie
playback in a modal window with no script control.

Has anyone tackled this problem?

Thanks,
---Matt Spolin
   Washington, DC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Allen Winter <AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca>
Subject: New to XCMDs in 'C' - How to begin
X-Xxdate: Fri, 6 Nov 92 13:48:50 GMT
Organization: AGT Ltd
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 21:32:46 GMT

I am using THINK c V5.0 and I want to learn how to write XCMDs .  But I
am having trouble just getting to 1st base.

I have looked at the source  code in 'XCMD Shell' and also 'XcShell' -
hoping
that they would serve as examples.  But they look awfully complicated and 
also they will not compile on THINK C V5.0.  For one thing I don'tseem to
have all 
of the headers needed, such as 'MacTypes.h' etc.  Also there are
different 
versions of 'XCMDUtil.c' and also 'HyperXcmd.h'.

Can anyone provide me with either source code for a simple XCMD that 
WILL compile (including headers and utility files)? 

                   and/or

The name of a reference book?

Allen Winter;   
          AGT Ltd; R&D; Edmonton, Alberta
          AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: d89-pja@zwart.nada.kth.se (Pasi Jakkola)
Subject: Can Hypercard use Excel's databases?
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:52:41 GMT


Is it possible to use Excel's data in Hypercard? 

I have quite many files, which contain Excel's data and I would
like to use them in Hypercard. I know, that I can save the file
in 'text format' in Excel and then read the file as a text file 
in Hypercard, but is there any other (better?) way to do this
task? In Windows, for example, you can use also DDE. Is there
something similar in Mac?


Pasi Jaakkola  (d89-pja@nada.kth.se)



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: Word 5.1 & AppleEvents
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:38:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <69071@cup.portal.com>, David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if Word 5.1 supports AppleEvents?  I got literature
> saying it supports "system 7 features", but that's a little vague.  Thanks.

It doesn't.

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: XCMD - CopyFile
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:00:59 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <konrad.721432974@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>,
konrad@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Konrad Michalski) wrote:
> 
> I am looking for XCMD function "CopyFile" to be used with Authorware.
> 
> I would apperciate if somebody pointed me to an existing stack with this
> function. As far as I know it is in the "Developer Stack" but I don't
> have it, and there must be other people who have written it.

I have written one.  It is on ftp.apple.com in /pub/pugh/hyperstuff as
copyfile.cpt.hqx

Jon
From: derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How to get rid of the clicktext
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:10:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: oregon.10NOV199214103457
Organization: University of Oregon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov10.180454.9738@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes...
>In article <5NOV199219443992@oregon.uoregon.edu>, derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov6.104053.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes...
>>>In article <4NOV199220221807@oregon.uoregon.edu>, 
>>>derthanq@oregon.uoregon.edu (Victor Der-Thanq Chen) writes:
>>>> I am doing something using the clicktext in a field.  In the openfield handler
>>>> I check the value of the clicktext.  If it is empty, do nothing, otherwise do
>>>> something.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem I have is that when the sencond pass of using the clicktext, even
>>>> thoug I do not click on anything, the clicktext still returns the previously
>>>> clicked text.
>>> 
> 
>Victor
> 
>Try using 'the selectedText' instead of 'the clickText'.  The
>value will not persist when you return to the whole text card.
> 
>--Cea

Nope, when I am clicking on something, it will not necessarily be selected.
Besides, I am doing something with the selected text within the same field.

From the replies I got, I would summarize that my original solution would be
the easiest, though not prettiest.  The original solution is to created an
empty field at the location, say 0,0 and click at 0,0 everytime when I want to
get rid of the clicktext.

I would be happy to see some other solutions.

Victor