Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!uwvax!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!super.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Importing MacPaint files Message-ID: <5470@super.upenn.edu> Date: 16 Jul 88 18:08:54 GMT References: <60174@sun.uucp> Sender: news@super.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 30 In article <60174@sun.uucp> PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA writes: >I'm trying to read a bunch of MacPaint files into Hypercard, so I tried doing >a doMenu "Import Paint...", but it wants me to pick a filename. This is bogus! >I do not want to manually enter all those names. ... > >Jon > > N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa > M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center > F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > E L PO Box 5509 L-561 > C Livermore, California 94550 > C (415) 423-4239 I don't have an answer, but would like to generalize this flame. My biggest complaint with domenu right now is that It should be possible to have the script supply the parameter instead of necesarrily bringing up dialogs. It should be possible to do this for any domenu which would ordinarily bring up a dialog.. Josh ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-9515 (school office)