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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard Glitches
Message-ID: <11553@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:48:22 GMT
References: <29692.2560C5F9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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In article <29692.2560C5F9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Lesh@f102.n269.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Lesh) writes:
>...  I have just created a
>rather complex stack that aids in creating AD&D characters.  It has all
>the information about races, classes, attributes, etc. on cards and
>allows the user to create a character in much the same way that one does
>manually, but it does all the busy work and fills in a rather elegant
>character sheet.

Great!  Maybe you should post it here when you're finished...

>I have discovered two glitches when using the stack:
>1)  When using the ANSWER command with 2 options, sometimes the option
>on the left does not appear.  If you click where it should be, it does
>react, but the option is just invisible.

I've never seen this one before.  Are you sure that you don't have any
funky INITs in your System Folder that are doing something behind your
back?

>2)  I have some locked, fields which contain text on the character
>sheet.  
>...
>When I print the card, sometimes this field is not font smoothed and
>comes out bit mapped.  If I turn on the graphics smoothing option this
>problem goes away on the regular Apple Laserwriters, but not on other
>printers.

Font substitution controls this, not graphics smoothing.

What font is the text in?  Geneva should come out as Helvetica if
"Font Substitution" is enabled.  And Palatino will come out looking
nice on all LaserWriters (Plus, II) except the original LaserWriter
(no suffix), which does not have Palatino built in (so it will appear
as bitmapped).  (This also happens with a few other fonts whose names
escape me at the moment.)  The other printers you mentioned, if
they're not Apple laser printers, may not have the fonts built in.

>BTW, do any of you know where I can get help developing some
>animation.  I know there is a stack out there which does this, but I do
>not know where to find it.

Either (a) do card flipping (put a sequence of pictures over several cards
and flip between them quickly), (b) move icon buttons around, or (c) buy
SuperCard and use its animation abilities.

I haven't heard of a stack that does animation, but if it exists it
will most likely be in sumex.

>Lastly, did anybody else notice that visual effects do not work on a Mac
>IIcx.  They don't work on mine.  Anybody know anything about it.

Did you remember to set your monitor to monochrome instead of color
first?  HyperCard graphic effects don't work in color...  (yet)

>Oops.  One more thing.  I would like to have a field which is a
>scrolling table.  I know how to build one combining a number of
>scrolling fields, but I am not satisfied with the results.  Is there
>an XCMD out there which does this?

Not that I know of.  I'm not entirely sure I understand what you want
to do.  Why not use Courier or Monaco font for the field
(nonproportional, so the columns will line up), and enter the entire
table into one scrolling field?

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