matrix algebra and stats routines

2000-11-12 Thread John Vokey
Of all the matrix routines to be built-in, among the most useful would be the computation of eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Better yet, of course, would be generalised, singular value decomposition (SVD). With SVD and a good matrix inversion routine built-in, the remaining routines (and full,

built in matrix-algebra routines

2000-11-17 Thread John Vokey
on 11/17/00 1:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I second the motion: we are already planning to add some features in this area for the next release and a list of the most useful matrix operations to have built in would be very handy for

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n086

2000-11-28 Thread John Vokey
on 11/29/00 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed I got infected by merryxmas and even know where from. Someone in the know or someone who knows someone in the know with these script viruses should definitely write a Vaccine for Metacard. The guy who sent

Multiple Regression in meta/hypercard and meta/hypertalk

2001-01-31 Thread John Vokey
on 1/31/01 12:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/27/01, 9:15:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: statistics: Does anyone have any Metatalk statistical functions to determine 1.correlation coefficients(Pearson and/or Spearman), 2.multiple and logistic regression? mike

Re: multiple regression [not metacard]

2001-02-01 Thread John Vokey
on 2/2/01 1:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding John's comments on multiple regression: 1. Matrix algebra is not necessary, and for purposes such as stepwise multiple linear regression will actually get in the way. -In your opinion, what type of statistics are better suited for

Re: pointer tool - author mode

2001-04-24 Thread John Vokey
on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am suggesting, however, is to have a static or author mode as a *normal standard feature* of Metacard that is available to anyone - even to a beginner that tries to find out how Metacard works by looking at the scripts of

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n377

2001-06-28 Thread John Vokey
on 6/28/01 8:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: member(commentTag).text=member(myParent.myComments).text.line[theLine] Do we love the dot notation, or do we not? ;-) Regards, Scott 'We' do not. At least, not me. I find it ugly and hard to read. -- 6. Stanislaus

[Metacard] capturing the return key in a field

2001-11-26 Thread John Vokey
Ok, I give up. What's the secret? This should be obvious and simple, but I can't get any of the alternatives to work. I have a simple field that collects responses when given the focus, and I want to prevent the user from typing a return into the field. However, none of keyDown, rawKeyDown,

[Metacard] RE: capturing the return key in a field

2001-11-26 Thread John Vokey
, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Lethbridge -- From: John Vokey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:04:11 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: capturing the return key in a field Ok, I give up. What's the secret? This should be obvious

Puzzling image drift

2002-01-26 Thread John Vokey
I have a stack that presents a series of disk-based images by replacing the file name of the image object on the card. The images are not the same size, and over images the object appears to drift up and to the left. As this effect does not happen with identically-sized images, I suspect it

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #80 - 4 msgs

2002-01-27 Thread John Vokey
Thanks Philip. That indeed does seem to be the problem. Thanks for the suggested fix as well. On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 10:12 AM, Philip Chumbley wrote: To illustrate the situation in one dimension, if a line is 99 pixels wide, its centerpoint is at 50 with 49 pixels before and 49

RE: the large file challenge

2002-11-14 Thread John Vokey
To be fair: most of metacard is coded in metatalk; it is a boot-strapped language, much like many of the TILs (threaded interpreted languages) of yesteryears (e.g., forth, apl). On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 10:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | MC, as well, is also coded in C, so in

That find command

2003-01-29 Thread John Vokey
All, I'm baffled. I know other commands, such as offset, are faster and more useful, but I was trying to use the metacard (2.4.3, Mac OS X 10.2.3) find command and discovered that for some reason it doesn't work, or at least I can't get it to work. I finally stripped it down to a simple

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #552 - 2 msgs

2003-03-18 Thread John Vokey
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:03 AM, WA wrote: Hi again, If Mr J. Vokey is right about the permutations Mr E. Engle really wants then things could have looked like this: on mousUp put perm(fld in) into fld out end mouseUp function perm factors put the length of factors into x put

indexing slow-down (i.e., speeding up programs)

2003-04-12 Thread John Vokey
Here's my task: I've got two LARGE text files, one a spelling dictionary (from Excalibur) and the other a dictionary of lexical frequencies (i.w., item and frequency); there over 113,000 unique words (as lines) in the first, and about a million different entries (as separate lines) in the

Re: MetaCard/Revolution Evangelism

2003-11-17 Thread John Vokey
I agree wholeheartedly with everything Wilhelm Sanke wrote in his recent post about the functionality of MC vs. RR. I, too, still use MC preferentially, as do my colleagues and students. Its interface is clean, fast, and easily extensible. In contrast, RR is cluttered, confusing and slow,

Re: The Microsoft office approach to xTalk programming

2003-11-18 Thread John Vokey
Funny! BTW, although `Vokey' is an old English name (and unduly common in Newfoundland), my mother was a Scot, but she only tried make her children eat haggis *once*. We all survived, although memory of the experience still gives me shivers. I still think, however, that the RR interface

Auto MC setup stuff

2006-08-31 Thread John Vokey
Sorry, Richard, I did mean to reply in the affirmative: a one-click solution for setting up MC would be welcome. On 31-Aug-06, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be interesting to learn of anything you find there that's attractive. MC is getting old, and the more they make

Re: metacard Digest, Vol 36, Issue 17

2006-09-21 Thread John Vokey
As a Canadian Scot, I take serious offence at this comment: Bagpipes by definition are always in tune; it is the ignorant listeners who aren't. Besides, I heard the Romans left because of the advent of the accordian... Now, as a one time player of same, that is an instrument deserving of

metacard IDE devotees

2007-06-04 Thread John Vokey
The recent discussion over one user's less than happy switch to the Rev IDE from that of Metacard leads me to add my little bit of history. I have tried and tried the Rev IDE, and even beta-tested for the original (see the lengthy thank-you list in Rev), and I have praised Runtime

Just too strange

2007-11-15 Thread John Vokey
Metacardians, This is just so strange. Metacard IDE version: 2.8.4, Engine version 2.8.1, Build number 470. Leopard (OS X 10.5) on a dual-intel Macbook. All buttons, etc. of the IDE look normal (i.e., rounded-3D), and the defaults have the throbbing blue. As do pre-created buttons

Re: metacard Digest, Vol 61, Issue 2

2008-11-02 Thread John Vokey
Same on Mac OS X On 2-Nov-08, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send metacard mailing list submissions to metacard@lists.runrev.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard or, via email, send a message

RE: Still here

2009-08-18 Thread John Vokey
I, too, prefer the MC IDE, as do the students in the lab, despite my best efforts to get them to start with the Rev IDE (assuming that they will prefer what they first learn, and that my preference is the bias of my original MC learning). Nope, within a few months, I find them using the

Re: metacard Digest, Vol 69, Issue 1

2009-10-06 Thread John Vokey
Me too. Well, actually, 100%. I never use the Rev IDE to program in. Indeed, the only thing I use it for is to execute Jacqueline's metacard_setup stack to licence the engine for MC IDE! On 6-Oct-09, at 11:00 AM, metacard-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: For a number of - maybe very