HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: How to display full-screen PICT?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:04:28 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <BvnsFs.1Ds@news.udel.edu>, johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
wrote:
> 
> I'm stumped!  I would like to display a 640x480 PICT on a 
> 640x480 screen using the Picture XCMD.  Without adjusting the
> window loc, the PICT is displayed with 0,0 at 0,40 in terms
> of the screen coordinates such that a 40x640 strip at the 
> bottom is chopped off.  That's what I expected.  
> 
> But if I move the window loc to correspond to 0,0 on the screen, 
> the same 40x640 strip is cut off on the bottom.  Am I missing a
> work-around, or is it impossible to display a full-screen image 
> with HyperCard? (HC v.2.1, System 7.0.1, Tuner 1.1.1 ... ).
> 
> script excerpt:
> 
>     picture pictWindowName,file,none,false,8
>     hide menubar
>     set loc of window pictWindowName to "-16,-40"  -- (quick & dirty)
>     set cursor to none
>     set visible of window pictWindowName to true
> 
> Same thing happens when using a PICT resource.  I assume the 
> truncation is done by the Picture XCMD, and by the time the 
> window is moved the rest of the image is not loaded/available?
> 
> Suggestions?

You're not changing the size of the window, just moving it.

I've got some code that does this, but it uses my screenList XCMD to find
the location of the deepest screen and doesn't come across very clearly. 
The important difference I notice is that I use the globalRect instead of
the loc of the window.  I also add 16 to the right and bottom for the
scroll bars.

I guess it would come out like so:

get the screenRect
add 16 to item 3 of it
add 16 to item 4 of it
set globalRect of window foo to it

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: K.R.Hauge@easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge)
Subject: Re: postcript saves on HC 2.1 cards
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: U. of Oslo
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:46:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.023820.10897@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
steven@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Stergakis) wrote:
> 
> anyone out there know of a way to print (take a copy)
> of a card and save it into a postscript file.... i dont actually
> wish to print the card right away but i want it saved in a format
> whic can be imported into a word processor such as Word 5...
> 
> i cant find any such functionality in the menus...
> steven 

Select one of the painting tools, and then select the item "Export
paint..." which now appears in the "File" menu. This exports the current
card as a MacPaint file.
Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo, P.O.Box 1030, 0315 Oslo, Norway
Tel. 856710 Fax 854140 E-mail K.R.Hauge@easteur-orient.uio.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: roh@gmd.de (Peter Rohleder)
Subject: Pulse Dialing with HyperCard
Keywords: Dial Modem Hypercard
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:34:29 GMT

Hello,

is someone listening who has managed to dial with HyperCard in an
area where you have to use Pulse Dial.

After having initiated a Pulse Dial Command with HyperCard via my modem
(it is a Teleport 2400 SendFax-Modem), the serial driver closes after
the first beeps.

What may be wrong there?
Is it a problem of HyperCard or is it a problem of the modem.

Peter Rohleder
--
  Peter Rohleder, e-mail: roh@gmd.de    Tel.:  +49 2241 14-2208
  German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
  Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1316, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FR Germany
From: holmes@ruc.dk (Esbern Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Source for PICT display
Keywords: XCmd, Source, PICT
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:13:58 GMT
Organization: Roskilde Universitetscenter, Danmark

Hi there,

We are in desperate need of the source code of a
XCmd that is able to display PICT in a scrollable window.
SOmething like hypercards own PICTURE XCmd. We are only 
interested in the source code - preferaby Think Pascal,
but C is OK. 

Yours sincerely

		  Esbern Holmes
From: fredb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Fred Brock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: What is 'Unexpected error 5454'? -- bad card
Date: 9 Oct 92 05:36:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Oct8.223650.827
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

In article <9227915.28355@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> dpg@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel
Patrick GOTTLIEBSEN) writes:
>       One of my stacks quits hypercard with 'Unexpected error 5454'
whenever
> I go to a particular card in it or attempt to compact it. Does anybody
know
> what this error message means? Also I have heard of a stack called
Recover
> or something like that, that will automatically copy the uncorrupted
cards.
Does
> anyone know of an FTP site where it is available?

Rescue 2.0, a commercial product from 9 to 5 Software (List $99) can
probably save your stack, but may not be able to recover all the
information from the corrupted card. You can reach them at 800 2925 925.

ProLine:  <LOGIN>@<HOST>
Internet: <LOGIN>@<HOST><DOMAIN>
UUCP:     crash!<HOST>!<LOGIN>
==============================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: NJTaber@MITRE.Org (N. J. Taber)
Subject: Re: How to switch to desktop question
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:57:53 GMT

My private mail response to an earlier message has bounced after one week, 
so I'm posting it here in case the original poster is still awaiting 
responses.

On 7 Oct 92 20:37:25 GMT, Ian_Price@comms.dsto.gov.au (Ian Price) writes:
 
> How is it possible to switch back to the desktop from netnews when I
> cannot see the menu bar.  I would like to be able to switch to other
> applications while still running netnews in the background instead of
> having to quit out all the time.
 
I too am using NetNews Reader (with my own mods :), but on a larger
screen.  To make the menubar reappear so you can switch to another
application, hold down the command key (the one with the apple symbol
and/or four-leaf clover symbol) and press the spacebar.  When you return
to HyperCard, repeat the command-space combination to make the menubar
disappear again.
 
Now that you know how to make the menubar appear and disappear with a
keyboard combination, you may want to remove that "hidemenu" command from
your openStack handler.  That way you can choose whether to see the
menubar.  After all, once you've aligned the NetNews Reader window (with
the menubar hidden) to take full advantage of the screen, turning the
menubar back on should cover only the title bar of the window, not any of
the card itself.  Try it and see what you think!
 
Hope this helps.
N. J. Taber
 
Reply to:  NJTaber@MITRE.org
From: Al@egansys.uucp (Al Egan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: direct data transfer between stacks
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 15:53:50 EDT(-0400)
Organization: Egan Systems & Metalogic S.a r.l.
Reply-To: Al@egansys.uucp (Al Egan)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v0


In article <1992Oct7.194832.42491@urz.unibas.ch> (comp.sys.mac.hypercard), ohnacker1@urz.unibas.ch writes:
> Is there any possibility of a data transfer from a field of a stack A into a
> field of the current stack? All I know is, that
> 
>    put field v of card w of stack A into field x of card y
> 
> won't work. 

you can
lock screen  -- also sets lockrecent to true
lock messages
go to card w of stack A
get field v  -- or put field v into z
go back
put it into field x of card y  -- or put z into field x of card y
-- if you need to show as you go, or you intend to move to another card
-- and need the openxxx, closexxx, and suspend/resumestack handlers to run:
unlock screen
unlock messages

If you need several items from that other stack, it will be faster to collect
all of the items while you are there.  If there are many items, make several
trips, only pick up what you can carry, don't strain your back (or fingers).

--  Alan Egan    Egan Systems    Metalogic S.a r.l.    Holder, Egan & Company, Inc.
    Al@egansys   (Al%egansys@wsu-cs.cs.wayne.edu)      Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
    non-preferred:            CompuServe 73540,556     AppleLink Egan.Systems
From: parshall@ed.ecn.purdue.edu (Jim Parshall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Inverted text in HC
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:52:41 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Oct13.235641.592@oswego.Oswego.EDU> silliman@oswego.Oswego.edu () writes:
>I need a bg fld that is black with white letters.  I have tried to do this by
>selecting the text, but when i go to another card in the same bg the fld turns
>white. This is because it has to select the text on that card.  I then tried to
>lock the screen so that i could go to the next card, select the text,
>and then unlock the screen.  This doesn't work, because  unlocking the screen
>de-selects the text.  
>	Does anyone have any ideas?  Perhaps an inverted font or something? 
> 

   You did not mention if the field is to be edited.  If not, you can invert
the field by simply putting a transparent button over it, setting the hilite
of that button to true and setting the autoHilite of that button to false.

   If it needs to be edited, this is a different problem.  Selecting the
text won't work due to the problems you described.  I am even unsure about
an inverted font since spacing will leave gaps at the edge of your field
(unless you pad with spaces...).

   You could also write an XCMD which puts up a window (that looks like a
field) and invert its contents.

Jim Parshall
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Show/hide menubar
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:56:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <67529@cup.portal.com>, David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com wrote:
> 
> Although you can use the command "show/hide menubar", HC will not
> evaluate the visible state of the menubar.  I.e., "the visible of
> the menubar" does not return true or false.  Does anyone know how
> one could construct a button to toggle between showing and hiding
> the menubar?  Thanks.

on hide x
  global menuVisible
  if x = menuBar then put false into menuVisible
  pass hide
end hide

on show
  global menuVisible
  if x = menubar then put true into menuVisible
  pass show
end show

I can think of a couple of other things to do in these handlers, but you
should get the idea.  I suspect this problem will be fixed in a future
release. ;)

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: mckeetha@utkvx1.utk.edu (Oak Ridge, Atomic City U.S.A.!!)
Subject: Sorting with two conditions?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:14:00 GMT

Does anyone out there know of a way to get Hypercard 2.1 to sort using two
conditions?  For example:, sorting by date and name, so all dates will be 
in order, and if two or more dates are the same, it will sort the two dates
alphabetically by name.  

Thanks, I really need this for a stack I'm doing!

Please e-mail Neil Schulman at nwcs@utkvx.utk.edu (I'm posting this as a favor)
with the answer.

Thanks,

Kelly McKeetham 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: Inverted text in HC
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 06:31:13 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <1992Oct13.235641.592@oswego.Oswego.EDU>,
silliman@oswego.Oswego.edu wrote:
> 
> I need a bg fld that is black with white letters.  I have tried to do this by
> selecting the text, but when i go to another card in the same bg the fld turns
> white. This is because it has to select the text on that card.  I then tried to
> lock the screen so that i could go to the next card, select the text,
> and then unlock the screen.  This doesn't work, because  unlocking the screen
> de-selects the text.  
> 	Does anyone have any ideas?  Perhaps an inverted font or something? 

I generally paint the card black and then use a transparent field with a
font styled with outline.  This works quite well.

Jon
From: macarch9@cars.com (Shawn Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Playing sound files
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:29:28 EDT
Organization: Connelly Automation Research and Services
Reply-To: shawn@cars.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Oct9.162622.843@pro-freedom.cts.com> (comp.sys.mac.hypercard), fredb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Fred Brock) writes:
> In <01050023.flt3a9@sable.cars.com> shawn@cars.com (Shawn Connelly) writes:
> 
> >Is there any way to play a sound file from HyperCard without bringing
> >the snd resource into a HyperCard stack?
> 
> Rather than copying the snd resource into the current stack, you can "start
> using" the stack that currently has the resource in it, if that's the
> situation. 
> 
> on openstack
>   start using stack mySoundStack
> end openstack
> 
> You should remember to include  a "stop using" routine too:
> 
> on closestack
>   stop using stack mySoundStack
> end openstack
> 
> this routine works for most stack resources, and is explained in reasonable
> detail in Goodman's Complete HyperCard 2.0 Handbook, 3rd ed., pp. 519-522.
> Don't forget the word "stack" in the "start using stack xxx" line.
> 

Perhaps this was not clear enough. The snd resources aren't in a stack.
They are in a System 7 sound file which resides somewhere on disk.
In this case, the files are on a server volume, and are accessed at
certain times depending on user action.

Unfortunately, the start using won't work, since there's no stack to
start using containing these resources.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: dpenn@bnr.ca (Dick Penn)
Subject: Re: SuperCard paint objects - fixed b/w?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:06:44 GMT

In article <1762@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> dl1@ukc.ac.uk (Duncan Langford) writes:
>I've ported a lovely street map into SuperCard, and wrapped a driver
>application around it. Works just fine... But!
>
>The map is in b/w, and I'd like to colour it (ideally in 24-bit, but
>I'd happily settle for less). SuperCard lets me create new colour paint
>images, but although I can alter /patterns/ on my map, it won't
>let me alter colours. Everything's black. (Or white, of course!)
>
>The manual says - somewhere - that you can't change colours of paint
>objects. Is this really so? Even if you can change their patterns?
>
>Any advice appreciated.
>
>- duncan
>
>PS  Sorry  - I'm using SC 1.6
>
Just double-click it in SuperEdit, there's a radio-button for 8-bit color
there.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
Subject: Re: postcript saves on HC 2.1 cards
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:14:46 GMT

In article <K.R.Hauge-141092104427@hfmac17.uio.no>  
K.R.Hauge@easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge) writes:
|In article <1992Oct14.023820.10897@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
|steven@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Stergakis) wrote:
|> 
|> anyone out there know of a way to print (take a copy)
|> of a card and save it into a postscript file.... i dont actually
|> wish to print the card right away but i want it saved in a format
|> whic can be imported into a word processor such as Word 5...
|> 
|> i cant find any such functionality in the menus...
|> steven 
|
|Select one of the painting tools, and then select the item "Export
|paint..." which now appears in the "File" menu. This exports the current
|card as a MacPaint file.
|Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo, P.O.Box 1030, 0315 Oslo, Norway
|Tel. 856710 Fax 854140 E-mail K.R.Hauge@easteur-orient.uio.no

Unfortunately this method just saves a bitmap, and loses the TrueType/Type  
1/ATM outline font information. So it works, but it's not as pretty as the  
printout from the card directly. 
--

* Dave Blackburn  dblackbu@alleg.edu  flames to self@home.dev.null *          
* Chemistry, Macs, Hypercard, cats,  <>< religion, & the Dead      *
* (Anyone else who held these opinions would be as crazy as I am.) *
*   "Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own"   *
From: jm7f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Melvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: IBM HC clones
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:06:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ceqQn5a00WB58YN1Y2
Organization: Doctoral student, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


What's the current word on HyperText programs in that lovely IBM world?

Dos?

Windows?

OS/2?  (which, btw, looks to FINALLY be a good answer by IBM to the Mac
        interface)

Thanks in advance,
Joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: XCMD to rename a resource
Organization: Massey University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 22:06:21 GMT

From article <1avuumINNgd5@calvin.usc.edu>, by alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves):
> Does there exist an XCMD to rename a resource? I need something that can
> be invoked from script, not interactively like ResCopy's rename function.
> Can anyone point me to where I might find such a thing? Thanks!
> 
> Bill Alves
> 
> 

See answer above RE: ResCopy for HC 2.1. ResHandle will rename resources
under script control.

Nigel
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Department of Computer Science    Tel: +64 6 356 9099 ext 8900
Massey University                 Fax: +64 6 350 5611
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From: jm7f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Melvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: utility stacks
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:21:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.UeqR1_K00WB5QYN24Y
Organization: Doctoral student, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi -

What's the current slew of great utility stacks to get?  A couple of
years back there was a great one from Dartmouth, one from Apple I think,
and some others I can't remember.  By "utility stacks" I mean ones with
one or more of scripts/XCMDs/XFCNs which might be useful to use in
developing stackware.

Also, there used to be a great anonymous FTP host at stanford, node
SUMEX.STANFORD.EDU (it brings up the address SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU when
you telnet to SUMEX).  I tried to telnet to it today, and couldn't get in
with userid=anonymous, password=anonymous.  Does anyone know how to get
into SUMEX, and/or know of any other good anonymous FTP hosts for
HyperCard, HyperText (IBM PC world included), or Mac stuff?

Thanks much,
Joe
From: niel@cars.com (Niel Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: script FIND puts box around target. Can I remove it?
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:02:19 GMT
Reply-To: niel@chinchilla.cars.com
Organization: Heavy Objects R Us
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Oct5.142242.25140@fcom.cc.utah.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hypercard), tomj@u.cc.utah.edu (Johnson) writes:
>In article <168776A5D.KGODDEN@cmsa.gmr.com> KGODDEN@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
>>In article <qmdbms.718280020@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
>>qmdbms@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Brian Schott) writes:
>>>How can the box around the successfully found phrase be detected and removed?
>>>In our BBS frontend a button threads through messages using FIND. We would
>>>like NOT to see the box since it is distracting and not needed.

>>click at the loc of <some innocuous field that does not have a handler>

>  select browse tool

Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't both of these methods also have
the effect of forgetting that this text has been found?  So if you
try to find the text again, it'll go right back to the first text
it finds on this card.

Niel

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: liebea@vccnw01.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
Subject: 2nd Party HyperCard Books-- i.e., How can I get TFM?
Reply-To: liebea@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 09:21:32 GMT

     My computer came with HyperCard version 2.1.  The paltry documentation
accompanying it doesn't discuss it, but the authoring and scripting capabilities
are there.  So I went to the dealer (RPI's own ITSPC) and asked how I could
purchase the standard HyperCard documentation (all this was included with
earlier Macs).  They informed me that the only way they knew about was to
buy the HyperCard Development Kit.  This should not be necessary.  All I
want is information on using the software I've got.  Could someone please
tell me how it's easy for me to obtain the manuals?

						-Adam Lieberman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Don Lee <DL10@cornell.edu>
Subject: Message when switching applications
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7016B7B6102EC36@cu-dialup-0212.cit.cornell.edu>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 14 Oct 92 06: 15:23 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: dl10@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:10:57 GMT

I see from the HyperTalk Reference stack that the suspendStack message
does not get generated when switching to another application under
Multifinder (which I assume includes System 7's Finder).  Is there any
way a stack can recognize this kind of event?  (Probably not, but I
thought I'd ask...)

Don Lee (DL10@cornell.edu)
From: gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser ><>  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: WindowCraft opinions?
Date: 7 Oct 92 04:46:42 GMT

Hi all,

[Apologies to those sick of the "HyperCard is nice.  Can I port to Windows?"
thread.  I am too.]

Just got a mailing about WindowCraft, which purports to offer HyperCard
conversions for Windows.  I tried Toolbook once -- never again.  Does
anyone have any reactions to using WindowCraft?  I would use it
to port an enormous project (5 disks' worth) and I'm sure I'll encounter
trouble, but do you think it would work in the end?

I'd heard WindowCraft didn't work with 2.x, but this mailing says
it includes converters for 2.0, 2.1, and 1.2.5.  

Reiterating my opening disclaimer, Macs rule, IMHO, and I wouldn't
develop a stack on Windows unless sentanced by law.  If I can spend
a week or two converting my existing work to Windows, however, I'd 
spring for the $300 WindowCraft.

Nate.

--

Nathan Gasser       ><>         
gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (E.J. Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: XTND XCMDs
Date: 15 Oct 1992 14:47:25 GMT
Organization: U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXMessage-ID: <A702EF627901019A@mdarpi1.mda.uth.tmc.edu>
X-XXDate: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:50:26 GMT



Has anybody written an XTND compatible XCMD that would allow formatted
text to be imported into a HyperCard field or shown in an external window?

Is there *any* solution available for reading and displaying formatted
text?

(BTW- I know all about RTF.  Parsing it in HyperTalk is slow and
cumbersome.  If it's going to be necessary to farm it out to an XCMD then
I'd rather write an XTND compatible XCMD and have the added flexibility.)


      |E|J-  ED DRAPER
 rEpar|D|<-  Radiologic/Pathologic Institute
             The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
             draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
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