Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 30 May 01 Volume 18 : Issue 82 Today's Topics: [*] VCD Player 1.5.0 - Full Screen VCD Player Applescript Problem Applescript Problem Auto Start a Mac Filemaker advice Filemaker advice Magic Schoolbus Human Body / System 9 OSX compatibility and Adaptec cards Reading PC disks on a MAC (R) screen flicker from nearby equipment The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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VCD Player smoothes the video playback process and allows you to watch full-screen movies in the MPEG format, without any headache-inducing distortion to make the movie unwatchable. There are various configurable options that control sound and playback, and just as with a sound-only CD player, you can control which track to start watching. VCD Player can remember where you stopped playing the movie after you quit the program, restarted your Mac, or even changed to another disc then changed back. System Requirements - Power PC - QuickTime 2.5 or later - QuickTime MPEG Extension 1.0 or later What's new? - Added a new option, Full Screen Wide, for wide screen monitor sizes. - Users can choose different aspect ratio, 4:3 or 16:9, to playback movies. - When presenting movie, VCD Player correctly hides the cursor again after the mouse has been moved. - VCD Player now prevents screen saver from active when presenting movie. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/vcd-player-150.hqx; 167 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:53:20 -0500 From: WJ Shack To: "Clare N. Shumway (by way of Hugh Lewis)" , Subject: Applescript Problem On Mon, 28 May 2001 20:27:30 -0500, "Clare N. Shumway" (by way of Hugh Lewis) wrote: > I'm running OS 8.6 on a Blue&White G3 and am unable to write >scripts using Applescript. The error report states "Could not compile the >script because the dialect is not available." Have you removed or inactivated (using Extension Manager) the security libraries: Security Cert Module Security Library Security Manager Security Policy Module Security Storage Module Try activating or installing them and see if it fixes the problem. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:20:09 -0400 From: "Clare N. Shumway" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Applescript Problem I'm running OS 8.6 on a Blue&White G3 and am unable to write scripts using Applescript. The error report states "Could not compile the script because the dialect is not available." The following items are present and loaded: AppleScript extension v 1.3.7; AppleScriptLib 1.2.2; English Dialect v 1.3.6; in System folder there is a Scripting Additions Folder that contains among other things AppleScript Dictionaryè and a sub-folder containing English dialect v 1.1.2, French Dialect v 1.1 and Japanese Dialect v 1.1. Script Editor is version 1.1.2 and Scriptable Text Editor 1.1. I've tried changing and these items from my backup disks but this did not correct the problem. I tried to find Applescript items on the OS 8.5 and 8.6 CD's but could not locate them. The Apple web site lists only an update for OS 9.0. Is there any way for me to go short of reinstalling the whole system? Clare Shumway ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:55:14 -0400 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Auto Start a Mac At 10:17 -0400 5/29/01, "Erica W. Hunter" wrote: >Check out a product called PowerKey at: > > > >It sounds like it might do what you want. The Classic version is selling at a discounted $35 right now. While I love the PowerKey to death (it's a core technology for my automated system), the older models are ADB units. I haven't visited Sophisticated's website to see whether they've come out with a USB model, although I suspect they have. Still, if you have a pre-G3 Macintosh (PowerPC or 680x0), the PowerKey is definitely a Good Thing. +- Saint John -+ | "The Ampoo is intensely neat | +-- Its head is small, likewise its feet." (E. Gorey) ---------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:09:32 -0700 From: Barb Lange To: Nick Pappas Subject: Filemaker advice Nick here are two FileMaker groups FMPexperts Digest List-Subscribe: List-Digest: FILEMAKER PRO TALK List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Archives: and a website ---------------------------------- Barbara Lange Distance Education Simon Fraser University (604) 291-4776 / 3525 (604) 291-4964 [fax] http://www.sfu.ca/cde/ ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:36:35 -0400 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Filemaker advice At 10:17 -0400 5/29/01, Nick Pappas wrote: >And just in case anyone in this forum can help, I want to print labels for >my ice cream packages and am trying to figure out how to print a page of >identical labels (i.e all one flavor of ice cream) when my database of >flavors has one record for each flavor. In other words, I am trying to force >data from the same record to print 6 labels for that flavor on one page. The >manual (version 4) doesn't cover this point. Easy as can be. Define a new Layout, perhaps called "6-up labels," in your ice cream flavor database. You'll need to switch to Layout mode for this, then choose "New layout" (also in the Mode menu). "Single page form" will be nice so that you can see where the page breaks are. (I'm using 3.0, so excuse me if there are some differences-- I think that the basic ideas will serve you though.) The page will have all of the fields in your database on it. The only one you really want is "Flavor," or whatever your name for that field is. You can specify the font and style that it will be printed in, as well as other things. Now, using the arrow tool (in the toolbar to the left of the layout), select this field and option-drag it to another spot on the page-- probably right next to the original. Align them as you would like them to look; the "Set Alignment" command is good for this. You can shift-click on the two duplicate fields and option-drag them downward, twice, to create six identical copies of the same field. (There's also a "Duplicate" command in the Edit menu.) "Voila," as the cellist said! When you're displaying this layout, using the "Browse" mode, you will see the same information several times. Print it out-- a black border around the field (which you create using Layout mode) will let you know what the graphical limits of the text are. Hold this printout in back of a used sheet of labels, ones which have had the six labels removed; see how much you need to tweak the rows and columns. Do so, and when you're finished, you have your six-up label printer layout. You can gussy it up as you desire, with graphics or ingredient lists. It may be best to do the trial-by-error printing with plain black boxes first, so you can see how much room you have, before you start importing pictures. ("Grouping" your graphics, static text, and fields before you option-drag is a good way to keep all six looking the same.) I have a sample database which I can send you if you're interested. Now, about my consultancy fee... ;) +- Saint John -+ | "The Ampoo is intensely neat | +-- Its head is small, likewise its feet." (E. Gorey) ---------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:45 +0300 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Magic Schoolbus Human Body / System 9 I bought the MS "Magic Schoolbus Human Body" for my kids a few years ago and it ran well. Ever since I upgraded to System 9.0 I have problems running it. I cannot use the 'installer' to reinstall it, since it causes the computer to crash. I searched the MS web site, there is no update/patch and the product itself no longer appears. Does anyone have an idea what I can do to get this running again? Thanks! Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:39:16 -0600 From: Neil Fiertel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: OSX compatibility and Adaptec cards For those thousands of us with Apaptec 2940 UW cards, hold off on replacing them for an OSX compatible card. I received a letter in response to my own rather irate letter to them regarding the loss of support for that card with OSX. I received a letter which stated that a driver is right now in Apple's hands being tested for certification!!! The remainder of the letter mentioned how Adaptec changes its policy on the basis of feedback from customers so I suggest that when you have a problem with them that you let them know about it. If a driver does in fact appear for that card I will be one happy camper! Many of you will be glad also I suspect. Just check back to their site from time to time as it might very well take a few months before a new driver update is posted. -- Neil Fiertel Email: nfiertel@ualberta.ca or nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca The opinions expressed are mine alone. "THE EYE EXISTS IN A WILD STATE. THE ARTIST KNOWS NO OTHER." Andre Breton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:21:37 -0400 From: sdavidson@mac.com (Steve Davidson) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC (R) In response to Arthur Snoke's 5/24/01 message on "Reading PC disks on a MAC": >I want to have the longer file names appear when I bring up the CD on any >platform. Part of my reason is that we are using HTML as a navigational >aid on the CDs, and the names in the HTML files have to agree with the >names on the CD for that to work. I would rather not change all my files >to fit the 8.3 convention if I can help it. The extraordinary freeware package Joliet Volume Access is your solution (for CD-ROMs). You can download it at http://www.tempel.org/joliet/ (and I'm sure it is on the Info-Mac archivce as well). If Apple had supported the (Micro$soft proprietary) Joliet format, you wouldn't be having that problem. I wish they would license Joliet Volume Access and bundle it with Mac OS 9. Good luck. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:41:03 -0400 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: screen flicker from nearby equipment At 10:17 -0400 5/29/01, ngpappas wrote: >Since installing my DSL Router, I have had quite a bit of flicker on my 18" >monitor that sits about 12" from the router. It is not convenient to move >the router or the monitor. I ASSUME the problem is due to the router. > >Is there any easy solution (like some shielding around something)? It is >REALLY inconvenient to move the router. I mentioned this in passing for another video problem, but: Back in the Apple //gs days, people would put a cookie sheet or shallow cake pan in between the monitor and the source of interference. I suspect that this might help, and is certainly a cheap solution-- if it doesn't work, you can use it to bake cookies. (NB: Don't block any ventilation holes.) +- Saint John -+ | "The Ampoo is intensely neat | +-- Its head is small, likewise its feet." (E. Gorey) ---------------+ -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************