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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.
Turkey or Turnkey?
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Q: What's a turnkey action, and what would I use it for?
A: A turnkey action is something that MicroPhone will do automatically whenever you open or close a settings document. For example, the Question & Answer settings document in Open Mike has a turnkey opening action that runs a script called "Welcome". So, whenever you open the Question & Answer settings document, the Welcome script is executed, causing the question and answer text window to appear. You can also have a service dialed automatically as part of an opening turnkey action. For closing turnkey actions, you can choose to do nothing or have a specific script executed.
Forever Busy
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Q: The service that I like to dial is forever busy. How can I tell MicroPhone to dial the service until it gets through?
A: There are two basic ways of doing this. The first is very simple and the second involves a little scripting.
Try dialing the service once. If it is busy, go back to MicroPhone's Phone menu. You'll notice an item in the menu called "Redial servicename" where servicename corresponds to the name of the service that you just tried to dial. Select this item from the Phone menu and MicroPhone will dial the service again. And dial again and again until it either connects, or you click the Cancel button in the dial dialog.
If you'd rather write a script to handle this stuff, here it is:
Repeat
Dial Service "'your service'"
Until Success
This script will continually dial the service called 'your service' until it gets through.
Spreadsheet Paste
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Q: I often connect to a service with statistical data in a columnar format. How can I paste this information in my spreadsheet. Whenever I do, it all goes into one cell instead of separate cells?
A: Use the Copy Table item under MicroPhone's Edit menu. This will copy the selection and replace every occurence of more than one space with a tab. Since most spreadsheet programs will accept tab formatted text, you should have no problem pasting this information into separate cells in your spreadsheet.
