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Introduction
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If you've got a question, simple or complicated, strange or common, send it to us. We'll try to answer as many questions as we have time for. And who knows, maybe your question will be the basis of a future article? Send your questions to any of the electronic addresses listed elsewhere in this issue.
Evil Characters
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Q: I am trying to write a script to send a tilde, but the script editor keeps complaining about an evil character. What am I doing wrong?
- V. Barnes
Hope, AK
A: You are probably missing single quotes around the tilde character. If you don't have single quotes, the script editor will flag the tilde character as evil. If you want to send the tilde character by itself, try this:
Send Text String "'~'"
Remember that MicroPhone provides the double quotes, and you only need to type the single quotes.
Scrolling Off the Top
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Q. How can I prevent lines from scrolling off the top of MicroPhone's scrollback buffer. I am usually doing huge database searches and I don't want to lose any of the information I've found.
- L. Hubbard
Jacksonville, FL
A. The best way to avoid this problem is to create a capture file at the beginning of the session and capture everything to a file on your disk. That way, you won't lose the information in the event that something happens to MicroPhone's scrollback buffer. If you really want to increase the size of the scrollback buffer, you can simply increase the partition of memory allotted for MicroPhone. The standard partition is 640K. You can increase this to something like 1024K to have a huge scrollback buffer.
Icon Where Art Thou?
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Q. I designed a color icon that I want to use in MicroPhone. I used ResEdit to install it, but it's not showing up in the icon selector. What gives?
- T. Bramsky
Los Angeles, CA
A. First, make sure that you've created a cicn, and not an icl4 or icl8, as the latter types of color icons will not show up in MicroPhone's icon bar. Next, make sure that you have a corresponding ICN# for your cicn. So, if you have a cicn of ID 10293, you need an ICN# of the same ID, and preferably a similar design. Finally, try to use ID numbers above 10000, so you don't conflict with the ones that MicroPhone or the System use.
