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From: iadmr@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Ghost on my mac?
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:23:46 GMT
Reply-To: iadmr@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

In article <1992Apr6.033638.422@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Brian Altman) writes:
>
>  I just experienced a weird thing. The other night I walked by my
>computer (a 9/80 IIsi) and I saw it edit (delete a sentence) of a
>
>document that I had left open in Macwrite II. When I did Undo Typing,
>
>the sentence came back...so it did happen. No one had been near the
>
>computerin over an hour. I activated After Dark when I left. I am
>
>using System 7.0.1 with tune-up an have numerous extensions. The
>
>newest edition is QuickTime. This doesn't seem to be a typical virus
>activity (I checked it with the latest version of disinfectant).
>Does anyone know what might be going on? Should I be worried that
>
>there will be more problems in the future? 
>

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH   OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH   SSSSSSSSSCCCCARYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

I suggest you call a priest!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: HyperCard virus symptoms?
Summary: What does the stack virus do?
Keywords: HyperCard virus help message beep
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 15:47:55 GMT

Question:  What does the stack virus actually do?

  I have several Macintoshes (II si) that are not running HyperCard
the way they used to.  I can no longer make proper use of the message
box.  Specifically, trying to press ReTurn, Enter to execute the 
instruction in the message box just results in a beep.  Some other
keyboard codes (Com-1 first...) also just beep, can still use the
command from the menu though.
  The machines have the latest GateKeeper version, a stack virus
is not detected by this if I remember correctly.

  So, how would I check for a stack virus anyway?

Thanks for any clues.  Reply here or e-mail to parkyn@sfu.ca
From: samjones@lacerta.unm.edu (Sam Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: The mac Jihad
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:01:53 GMT
Distribution: world,public
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <hnqj-rc.ric@netcom.com> ric@netcom.com (Richard A. Bretschneider) writes:
>hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>
>
>>Do you mean those stupid little "Please insert the disk XYZ" boxes?  Since 
>>REAL computers have EJECT BUTTONS on the drives, this isn't needed.
>
>Huh?  You mean that "real computers" don't really control their 
>connected hardware?  The user must push buttons?  Uh huh.

	I'm actually a reader (if only for the last hour) of this group, and I 
really do use macs.  I do admit, I prefer working on UNIX machines to IBMs, and I
prefer working on IBMs to eating maggots, and Macintoshes are a few more steps 
down the line.  I do work with hypercard, though, and I like it.
	I just thought I'd put some words in as an objective observer.
	No, no, no, 'real computers' may do whatever, but ideal computers LET ME
HAVE MY GODDAMN DISK BACK!.  They don't argue.  They don't say, 'That's mine, 
please reinsert it'.  I don't care if the hardware is connected to the Mac, it's
my hardware.  I want plenty of say in what it does.  If I have to push buttons, no
problem.  I can push lots of buttons.

>>Except that real computers have OFF switches.  When a Mac locks up (and they
>>do this often!) it has to be unplugged.
>
>What Mac doesn't have an off switch?  None that I know of.  Of course
>the Mac puts the user in control of the hardware from the OS, so you
>can turn it off from the Finder.  I've never considered the feature 
>to be a shortcoming, but I bet you're pretty unhappy with a lot of
>technological advances, eh?

	As they've mentioned, some don't have off switches.  It was a pretty keen
idea to have a computer that similtaneously parks its drive and turns itself off
(though Mac IIs really stop turning back on after a while).  I consider the entire
feel of Macs a shortcoming, and I am unhappy with a lot of technical advances:  
cars, televisions, MX missiles, junk mail, K-mart videotape rentals, and most of 
all patronizing computers.
	Ahem.
	Hypercard's very nice, though.  Please continue with the discussion.

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From: jbnash@vms.macc.wisc.edu
Subject: Speeding up a search/replace/sort routine
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: 11 APR 92 14:18:04    

Hi
I have a script here that turns the words of a field into a list of words and 
then sorts them alphabetically.  Problem is this script has to look at every 
character of every word, so fields with a lot of text take many minutes to sort. 
 Is there a better way to have it look at each word instead of each character? 
(or some other faster solution?)  Right now it searches for spaces between words 
and converts them to returns, creating a list.  Then it sorts it.
Thanks.  
john

Here's the guts of the script I have now:

on mouseUp
    repeat with x = 1 to length of fld "Concordance file"
      put the charToNum of char x of fld "Concordance file" into temp
      if temp = 32 then
        -- 32 is ascii for space
        put x into theChars
        put return into char x of fld "Concordance file"
        -- replace the spaces with a hard return
      end if
end mouseUp

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: mike@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Michael Kerner)
Subject: Re: Using Hypercard on a Mac PowerBook
X-Post-Machine: pyrite.som.cwru.edu
Organization: WSOM CSG, CWRU, Cleve. OH
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 12:24:44 GMT

If you use a Ram drive you will avoid these problems.  Of course, if
you have HC set up to use a lot of memory this is a problem.  However,
you can greatly reduce the disk accesses if you put your most often
used stacks on a RAM drive.

Mikey
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From: alex@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Hartov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: pixel value?
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:18:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: alex@coos.dartmouth.edu


Howdy

I recall that quite a while back someone asked how one could get a pixel from
the card graphics layer (or the background layer) and check whether it is on
(black) or off (white).  This, of course would be for a black and white mac.
That's all I need.  Has anyone come up with an answer?
I tried and there is no way that I know of to do this, any ideas?

Thanks a lot
Alex.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: atau@ccrma.Stanford.edu (Atau Tanaka)
Subject: audio input hooks
Keywords: comparator
Reply-To: atau@ccrma.Stanford.edu
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 22:27:44 GMT

I wanted to ask if there are any HyperCard tools for dealing with audio in the  
audio input hacks of a Classic, LC, si, etc. Instead of recording or playing  
sounds, I'm interested in just monitoring the signal present at the audio  
input, and starting a HC handler based on the level of the audio. For example,  
could one write a basic VU meter in HC?

--
           Atau Tanaka
	   Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics
	   (CCRMA)

	   atau@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: shannonb@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Mimicing SpreadSheets in HC
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:05:14 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

I am looking for a means to mimic a spreadsheet within hypercard. I have looked
at using several fields, however the amount of objects on the card slows down
the speed. In addition to this, I have looked at Rinald's XCMD / XCFN that
mimics a spreadsheet within a window.

Does anyone know of an XCMD that can do this in a field ?

Regards

Bruce Shannon
From: rbkatz@troy.cc.bellcore.com (Bob Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: audio input hooks
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:33:09 GMT
Organization: Bellcore

In article <1992Apr8.222744.15649@leland.Stanford.EDU>, atau@ccrma writes:
> 
> I wanted to ask if there are any HyperCard tools for dealing with audio in the  
> audio input hacks of a Classic, LC, si, etc. Instead of recording or playing  
> sounds, I'm interested in just monitoring the signal present at the audio  
> input, and starting a HC handler based on the level of the audio. For example,  
> could one write a basic VU meter in HC?
> 

The HyperSound Tool Kit that comes with MacRecorder has an XFCN that may do
some of what you want.  It's called the InputLevel XFCN.  It basically monitors
the level of input to the modem or printer port of the Mac.  Here's a
description of it taken from the Tool Kit:

InputLevel returns a value between 0 and 100 that indicates the input level
from the MacRecorder. Zero (0) is silence, and 100 is the maximum input level.
If you specify the rectangle parameter, the input level is shown graphically
on the card as a meter. The meter will show how the input level varies. The
meter will be displayed until you click the mouse button. When you click the
mouse button, the function returns the maximum value that was read. If you do
not specify the rectangle parameter, the function returns a single value.

The syntax is: 

InputLevel(port, samples/measurement, rectangle, fill-pattern,  smoothing)

Port is 1 for the modem port, 2 for the printer port

Samples/measurement specifies the number of samples used in each power level
measurement.  The default is 300.

Rectangle is the pixel dimensions where the input meter will be displayed.
It must be specified as the rect of a card/background field or button. The
rectangle is always filled from bottom to top or left to right, depending on
which is longer. 

Fill-pattern allows you to select a fill pattern for the power meter.  It must
be either Black(the default), White, Gray, ltGray, or dkGray. 

The smoothing count specifies the number of measurements to be averaged before
the power level is displayed. Lower numbers produce a smoother display. The
default is 10. 


-Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: warner@mtu.edu (NATHAN T. WARNER)
Subject: Re: Book on Writing XCMDs
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:48:23 GMT

In article <16040@bunny.GTE.COM>, rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak) writes:
> i think there is a book dedicated to "how to write XCMDs for HyperCard/
> SuperCard ?". i'm not able to recollect its name.  Does anyone know
> the name and other relevant information ?  please email to me at
> rc05@gte.com.  Thanx.
> 
> - Ramesh
  Rather than just emailing, Please Post!!!  I would like to know what it is too!


	Later Days,
		Nate
			At the end of the rainbow
			and your rope. -- Nirvana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: B.M.Potts@plant.utas.edu.au (Brad Potts)
Subject: HC XCMDS for digitiser
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:21:29 GMT


I'm looking to buy a digitizer in the AUS$500-AUS$2000 range, and I
want to customize the front-end. Optimally, I'd like something that
comes with a HyperCard XCMD interface to cut my development time.

Has any one had experience with programming digitizers/graphics tablets with 
Hypercard XCMDS and can recommed a a suitable digitiser. 
The resolution should be at least 0.1mm, and the accuracy must be
at least 0.6mm. The stylus should be quick and easy to use, since there
will be a large number of points to digitize.

Are there any such digitizers out there?

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Peter A. Cohen <peterco@eff.org>
Subject: SUMMARY: Good HC Books for Neophytes
Organization: ON Technology, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:18:03 GMT

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post.  Here's a summary of the
responses I got.

HyperTalk 2.0 The Book
by Dan Winkler and Scott Kamins
- This one seems to be pretty well-known and well-liked.

The Complete HyperCard 2.0 Handbook
Danny Goodman (2)
- Unanimous approval for this author.

The Hypercard Scripting Guide
Claris

The HyperTalk Bible
The Waite Group

other related info:

hypertalk-help-da.hqx available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- For people beyond the beginning level.

I hopes this helps some fellow neophytes get their feet in the water.

- Peter
From: tsaavalainen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Boolean search
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:56:03 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Is there a way to do a boolean search (with and, or, not - options) in
HyperCard 2.0? I'm trying to write a script that would recognize a background
field line with two or more searched strings. If you have some ideas how to
solve this, please let me know.


				Timo Saavalainen
From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: QuickTime in HC2.1
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:54:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA


In article <41.29e37b35@ivgate> jim.williams@macnet.omahug.org writes:
>
>  I've read that the newest HyperCard release is QuickTime-aware. I'm not
>interested in playing movies through stacks, but would be VERY interested
>to know whether this means the "picture" command can display PICTs that
>have been compressed with QuickTime's built-in JPEG compression. Anybody
>know about this?

Yes, the Picture XCMD can display QuickTime-compressed PICTs.  You don't
even need HC 2.1 for this -- if QuickTime is installed, this will work in
HC 2.0 and HC 2.0v2 as well.

Kevin Calhoun
jkc@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: davids@c3.lanl.gov (David Simmons)
Subject: Help with automated script editing	
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 22:30:48 GMT

I pulled a major boner!  I created this stack for a friend/client,
with some fairly sophisticated inventory checking stuff in it.
There are two buttons that do essentially the same thing, they just
look at different fields--one looks at "actual total available" while
the other looks at her "projected total available."  In my haste to
get this out, I just copied one button's script to the other button, 
and forgot to change the work "actual" to "projected".  The real
problem is that this stack has been cloned 152 times, and we don't want
to have to go into *each* stack and make this simple change manually.

Can I script to do a repeat loop, going to each stack in turn, and
replacing the word "Actual" with the word "Projected" in this bg btn's
script?  I can't figure out how, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

10 - Q

-- 


David G. Simmons
davids@lanl.gov

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: ccetaneh@nuscc.nus.sg (Woppee)
Subject: Problem on Sound again
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 06:08:29 GMT

Thanx to all who replied to my previous message. The solution is to used
"Play stop" as documented in the manual. My apology for not consulting
the manual earlier.

I have now another problem on sound handling in SuperCard. Like before,
I have a piece of music playing in SuperCard and a button containing
script to access "PlayMovie" XCMD to a MacroMind sequence. On activating
this button, the SuperCard music will stop (it's here that I needed 
"play stop") and the MacroMind sequence will play with its own music.
However, when I terminate the MacroMind sequence(using Lingo in
MacroMind), the Supercard music does not play anymore with the "play
MusicName". The music file I am working on is around 300K, and I am
using System 6.0.7 with 8M of RAM on a IIfx running SuperCard 1.5. Any
help would be much appreciated. Thanx in advance.

Regards,
JEFF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: problems using "Send"
From: clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:42:16 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <D2150044.13c7an@boomrang.UUCP>,
 boomrang!dak@mips.com (David A. Kearney) writes:
> 
> I'm using HC 2.1 and I'm having a little trouble using the 
> send command. I'd like to be able to say:
> 
> 	send doTheWildThang to bg btn "Wild One" of bg "Wild Place" of
> 		stack "Wild"
> 
> And it doen't like it.  Is there a way to send messages to objects
> in other stacks?

No, you have to "go" there first.

-----------
This question would have been answered by using my HyperTalk Help 
DA, available on sumex. Matt N.
From: Roger.W.Brown@dartmouth.edu (Roger W. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Spell Checker
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:37:28 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <56941@cup.portal.com>
David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com writes:

> Also, is there any way to "get" the contents of a field while retaining
> information about style variances, so that the variable "it" could be
> put in another fied (even a different font) and still retain words that
> were originally in italic or bold?

We have some XCMD's to do this. We hope to make them available soon in
Dartmouth XCMD's volume 4. I don't know if Claris is going to provide
that functionality in the next release. I would not be surprized.

Send me a note if you would like to try out the XCMDs. Basically, they
allow you to get the full styled text of a field and put it into
another. You could do the same thing in HyperTalk, but it would be
pretty slow.


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Software Development
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
From: EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Speeding up a search/replace/sort routine
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:57:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: cms.167C7B62E.EIVERSO
Organization: Wayne State University, C&IT

In article <1992Apr11.191959.5116@macc.wisc.edu>
jbnash@vms.macc.wisc.edu writes:

>
>Hi
>I have a script here that turns the words of a field into a list of words and
>then sorts them alphabetically.  Problem is this script has to look at every
>character of every word, so fields with a lot of text take many minutes to sort
> Is there a better way to have it look at each word instead of each character?

You got it! You can refer to the number of words in a container.

>(or some other faster solution?)  Right now it searches for spaces between word
>and converts them to returns, creating a list.  Then it sorts it.
>Thanks.
>john
>
>Here's the guts of the script I have now:
>
>on mouseUp
>    repeat with x = 1 to length of fld "Concordance file"
>      put the charToNum of char x of fld "Concordance file" into temp
>      if temp = 32 then
>        -- 32 is ascii for space
>        put x into theChars
>        put return into char x of fld "Concordance file"
>        -- replace the spaces with a hard return
>      end if
>end mouseUp

There are 3 things you can do to radically improve this script.
1: refer to words instead of chars
2: (as another poster mentioned) use variables for text manipulation
3: use the automatic carriage returns created by placing words into lines
   of a container

on mouseup
  get fld "Concrdance file"
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of
    put line x of it into line x of lineVar
  end repeat
  put lineVar into fld "Concordance file"
end mouseUp

If you find that referring to words is not as good as chars, then try this:

on mouseUp
  get fld "Concordance file"
  repeat while offset(space, it) <> 0
    put return into char offset(space, it) of it
  end repeat
  put it into fld "Concordance file"
end mouseUp

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--Eric
From: rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Creating, saving and displaying PICT files from SuperCard
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:03:27 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA

i'd like to use SuperCard as the interface; what i want to do next is
to provide the user an ability to create PICT files, save them and
display them later.  

any ideas on how this can be done from within SuperCard ? any
XCMDs ?

- Ramesh M. Chandak
rc05@gte.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: babb@ucselx.sdsu.edu (babb j)
Subject: disabling the cursor keys
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:44:19 GMT

Hi All,
 I've put "set the TextArrows to true" in my on openStack script
but I want navagation via the cursor keys to be disabled all the
time. Anybody know how to do it? Also, what/where is a good pop-
up menu XCMD? Thanx, Jeff.

-- 
Jeff Babb - Programmer/Technical Support - San Diego State University
Language Acquisition Resource Center (L.A.R.C.) (619)594-4475 
babb@ucsvax.sdsu.edu  
.."now go away or I shall taunt you a second time" M.P.& T.H.G. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu
Subject: Re: ST:TNG stack-OKAY-Windows VS Mac-NO WAY!STack-OKAY
Organization: Wayne State University, C&IT
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:20:45 GMT

In article <11319@mindlink.bc.ca>
Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:

>
>Please go find another group for these discussions. I read this group for news
>on Hypertalk, hypertext, etc., not the hyper-active ramblings about  whose OS
>can do what.
>
>GO AWAY!!!!!!!
>--
I agree they should go away, but don't you think the problem is with the
persons cross-posting from the various Star Trek groups?

--Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,alt.hypertext,uiuc.general
From: bryans@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (B. Charles Siegfried)
Subject: Think C header files for XCMD resources
Reply-To: zig@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:19:41 GMT


        I'm trying to write several short CMDS and/or
XCFNs for Authorware using Think C 4.0.  Supposedly,
Authorware follows the Hypercard standard for both
code resources.  In fact, it even has the header files
and glue routines for LightSpeed C.  However, Think C 4.0
keeps bombing when it tries to compile the header file.
I'm no expert with C, but I'm pretty good at it and
I can't figure out what's wrong (If I change something, I
get another seemingly baseless error).
 
        Does anyone know where I can get more up-to-date
versions of XCMD/XCFN header files and glue routines.  I 
would think that there are no copyright problems with this,
but if there are don't hesitate to tell me.  This has been
do aggravating!
 
        Thanks in advance!
 
__
Bryan Siegfried                                 zig@uiuc.edu
Site co-manager, CCSO Oregon Site, Univ. Of Illinois