Various Problems

[Ken Ray]

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Max,

 >  Hello to all. This is my first post here. Any help is appreciated. 

Welcome to the list! You've asked a bunch of interesting questions; I
don't have answers to all of them, but here goes:
 
> 1. Do you ever notice that popup menus that have more than 100 items
do not 
> return the selected item every time? Espectially items near the bottom
of the 
> list? Any workarounds? 

No, actually, I hadn't. Are these menus of type 'popup' (that is, not
'option' or 'pulldown')? If so, do you get no 'menuPick' message, or do
you get one but the button label doesn't update?

> 2. Do you ever notice that printing a second page can sometimes
interrupt the 
> printing of the first page? I did not see a "Wait until the printing
is done "
> command. Is there one?

Not that I'm aware of. Is this a two-card stack that you're printing
(i.e. a single 2-page print job) or two separate cards (i.e. 2 separate
print jobs)?

> 3. Do you ever notice that copying and pasting an icon for a file or
folder 
> is easy on the Mac, just pasting into the "Get Info" box? Isn't there
an easy 
> way to do it on Windows?

Well, it depends. If you're doing it manually, you can change the icon
of an executable through the Properties window. In Windows XP, you can
also do that with folders, but files get their icons from the Registry
based on their file association to an executable, so you really can't
change it.

> 4. Do you ever notice that unlocked files on the CD turn to locked
files even 
> after you drag them to the hard disk? (I know there is a Shell()
command, 
> but it doesn't work on Windows ME. I just cannot find a workaround. 

The shell command with 'attrib -r' does work in ME; perhaps you have a
file path with spaces in it? For example, I have a file on the "C:"
drive called "test.txt". When I do this;

on mouseUp
  set the hideConsolewindows to true
  get shell("attrib -r c:\test.txt")
end mouseUp

It works to change the read only flag. However, if I move it to the "My
Documents" folder, you have to use quotes around the filename because it
includes spaces:

on mouseUp
  set the hideConsolewindows to true
  get shell("attrib -r " & quote & "c:\My Documents\test.txt" & quote)
end mouseUp

Hope this helps,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/