Scott:
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
put "http://www.metacard.com" into tURL
get shell("start" tURL)
Not sure if I love you or hate you!
/H
Resubscription test.
/H
In a message dated 02/08/2002 06:01:10 PM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ARGH!!! I just answered my own question. Sorry about the bandwidth waste.
PreOpenStack in my stack script was not working AT ALL. It was being
totally ignored. And I couldn't figure out why. The reason was
When a tabbed button is created, the first tab is automatically
hilited. Is there any way to unhilite all tabs in such a button?
Greg
Hi Greg,
I think the short answer is No. Setting the menuHistory of a tabbed button allows you to script the selected tab, but at least one tab must be
I have a very short sentence to be recorded in (standard) Arabic.
Can anyone help me out? Please drop me a line off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks in advance!
/H
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Okay, so one day I'll track down a list of Bourne Shell options as mentioned in the Help entry on Filters, but just for now...
[1] Using AND
How do we filter to extract both *.gif AND *.jpg from a list of file names?
[2] Using NOT
And how do we do the reverse, such as 'All files except *.txt' ?
Thank you, Michael... A sneaky bit of latteral thinking there which will certainly accomplish the required result!
But is there no Bourne expression for AND, OR and NOT in a filter command? The Help entry is a bit rudementary on the subject.
/H
How do I get the Mac menubar to update without clicking outside the
window? Without clicking on anything? From within the script? So
that when the program goes to a different card, the menubar
automatically updates without the user having to click somewhere?
(Sometimes the user choosing a
Remote database access contract
I have a client who wants a solution to remotely logging, updating and interrogating a whole raft of key skills forms (currently over 200 at 3 levels) to track employee progress through their in-house development and diploma courses. Their current solution is a
Shari:
I come in late on this, but what does the Result return for you after the delete folder command? If the ubiquitous 'Can't delete folder', then try deleting all nested files before deleting the folder. I know that some OS protocols such as ftp can require this somewhat mystifying action
Richard:
Maybe we need a new name for what Transcript does.
Transcript pre-processes scripts into pointer-based bytecode, which
generally outperforms purely interpreted xTalk by anywhere from several
times to a few orders of magnitude.
What about 'pre-processed'? 'Tokenised' sounds like
Does closing a big stack (of a multi-stack project) free up memory?
Yes it will... but only if you set the destroyStack and destroyWindow properties to true (see the check-box in Edit/Stack properties).
/H
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In a message dated 28/01/2003 01:39:34 AM GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A newbie question:
I want to wrap some single line text in a text box and not use a
horizontal scroll bar. I have an algorithm that works.
But it is horribly inefficient and I'm sure there must be a better
I have searched for, but can longer find, the script posted a while ago to build a hierarchical menu of nested directories and files given the directory to start from...
Could someone please re-post?
Many thanks!
/H
Hugh Senior
The Flexible Learning Company
Consultant Programming Software
In a message dated 15/03/2003 05:02:55 PM GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Memory? I know that this can cause major slowdowns if there's not enough
RAM.
No: he has at least twice as much RAM as me.
How many other processes are running on his computer, Richard? If there is nothing
In a message dated 15/03/2003 05:02:55 PM GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Memory? I know that this can cause major slowdowns if there's not enough
RAM.
No: he has at least twice as much RAM as me.
How many other processes are running on his computer, Richard? If there is nothing
Q: How to find the 'top' of a nested group so the scroll of the parent goup can be set to it (and so jump so it appears at the top of the parent).
Been fighting this for a while, so I thought someone else might have already found how to. I suspect formattedHeight is in here someplace!
Thanks!
Remember SuperCard? Richard G. and the rest of us lived through quite a torrid time.
Aaaarggh! Pray God we run a true course with this shift in ownership!
I have every respect for Kevin dating from a long time ago, and Scott's continued input is certainly something which I welcome. As Shari and
Shari asked:
One anomaly I've found is that sometimes when I'm setting colors for
things, all of Metacard suddenly becomes colored, and nothing fixes
it but a quit/relaunch. Anybody else experience this?
First port of call is your video driver. Is there a more recent version available?
You
I though this was simply
send tAddress to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL"
where tAddress resolves to either a local or internet url. Or did I miss the original point once again? :)
/H
Having been 'out of things' for well over a year, I am delighted to see how much RR has evolved since 'the early days'. So much discussion on the 'take-over' and Kevin's reasuring post would seem to pave my way to adopt the RR approach BUT
Q1. Can I still use my MetaCard stacks in the RR GUI?
Well done, Shari! Excellent news and well deserved. The learning curve may be steep, but the views when you get there are marvellous.
/H
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Fax/Voice: +44
I am presently Mac-less :(
Could one of you let me know if this works on both flavours?
put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into tURL
if the platform is "MacOS" then
get the systemversion
set the itemdel to "."
if item 1 of it = 10 then # OS X
put "open location" quote tURL quote into tScript
do
In response to Xavier's image display and crash problem, Xbury writes:
To me part of the problem seems that the allocation of the image space in the
stack is not "solid" - it is not compactable it seems for one, and once an image
is decompressed, that's it, you're stuck with that size...
Is this
Ken suggests that this syntax works for Macs...
send "file:///" tPath to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL"
but is the "file:///" actually necessary?
I understood that send tPath to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL" works fine on both flavours.
Not sure whether "/" has to be replaced by ":" as
The Original:
send "file:///" tPath to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL"
Ken wrote:
I tried it without the "file:///" in OS X as well as with other
variations with less than three slashes. All did nothing. Perhaps it's
the fact they are "/"-delimited paths that they require "file:///" ?
This works fine on MacOS9
Ken, Brian... Could you let me know if it also works on MacOSX, please?
replace "/" with ":" in tURL
delete char 1 of tURL
put "tell application" quote"Finder"quote cr\
"open file" quotetURLquote cr\
"end tell" into tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
Almost
This has been around since about 1985, fist in HC then SC, latterly in MC. Designed for scripters to collect their own tips, tricks and trinkets, The Scripters Scrapbook is not only a personal archive tool but now also allows links to on-line resources, documents on your computer and email
Is there a property (in MC2.4.1) for setting a checkMark in popup stack menu buttons? I am working around it by using a graphic checkMark, but I don't find it very elegant.
/H
I vote for Richard as President next year! oops, Im not a US citizen.
Belatedly I would also wish to express my support for the MC 'fast-track' contuance. Two points...
[1] I am not a U.S citizen either, but Richard gets whatever is worth of my UK vote, depending also whether he actually wants
In a message dated 28/08/2003 05:59:43 PM GMT Daylight Time, Xavier writes:
You could keep my Script Editor X 2.4 up to date! Im considering deprecating it... ;)
Yeah! A job at last!
/H
I want to be able to click on a word within a text field so that that one
word and not any other instances of it in a text-field becomes identified.
put num of words of char 1 to (word 4 of the clickChunk) of fld (word 7 of the clickChunk)
/H
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Also, one of my stacks became corrupted with all the experimenting.
Unfortunately, it was the stack that holds some key pieces of code.
(The backups do not hold the "successful" pieces of code that I wrote
Has anyone got a set of handlers to manage stack-specific retrace and untrace lists (as in Browser back and forward buttons with their respective pulldown lists)?
Brain is dead here and going in circles!
/H
My apologies if I am unclear (four days of very little sleep!)...
I know about recentNames, go back/forth etc etc. The task is to script Browser-like navigation logic and implementation, both for the 'Back' and 'Fwd' buttons, along with a 'BackList' and 'ForwardList' whilst maintaining the
Pierre saysTop right
Shari says Bottom.
Hugh says Any way I can get it. I'd also like it to be intelligent enough to move and resize if necessary when the screen gets full, preferably auto-typing by telepathy and the ability to make tea would be considered a bonus.
/H
In case anyone has already downloaded the Scripters
Scrapbook, please collect an update from
http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk.htm
Hi Hugh,
When I visited your site, the link to
download is not working.
Most strange... I've just checked both download links (for RR and MC) and successfully
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The Scripters Scrapbook
Thanks to all those who have provided feedback over the past few weeks, including import/export, publishing to web pages, history management and interface enhancements. All your requests have been included in the version now available for both Revolution and MetaCard at
Two date questions...
I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system
weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any
non-English system users help me out?
[1] Date format convert...
on mouseUp
put line 6 of the abbrev
Two date questions...
I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system
weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any
non-English system users help me out?
[1] Date format convert...
on mouseUp
put line 6 of the abbrev
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'll save this post for use as an interim FAQ once we get the home
distribution page set up. Thanks for the good questions. It was
about time
for a status report anyway. :)
Thanks Richard that was very informative.
My thanks
Two quick questions about standalones, neither of which I could find
in the archives.
(1) How do I change the name in the MetaCard menu from MetaCard to
the name of my application?
The last item in a "Help" menu will be used and shown in the Apple menu, although OSX is different. Can't help
Does anyone have a one-line test for whether a file is a mc or rr stack on a Mac?
switch the platform
case"Win32"
return (char -3 to -1 of tFilePath is ".mc") or (char -4 to -1 of tFilePath is ".rev")
break
case "MacOS"
return fileType(tFilePath) is in "MSTKMCRD,whateverRRis" --
break
Does anyone have a one-line test for whether a file is a mc or rr stack on a
Mac?
Usually you don't have to test at all. The file formats of Rev and MC
stacks are identical. You can open any stack with either program.
Everything is completely interchangeable. Is there a different reason
The test is needed to establish if a file is mc/rr as opposed to other file
formats before opening it. Looks like the detailedFiles is the answer.
My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via [EMAIL PROTECTED] A function that returns the Mac fileType of a file:
function fwMacFileType pPath
local
The test is needed to establish if a file is mc/rr as opposed to other file
formats before opening it. Looks like the detailedFiles is the answer.
My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via [EMAIL PROTECTED] A function that returns the Mac fileType of a file:
function fwMacFileType pPath
local
The test is needed to establish if a file is mc/rr as opposed to other file
formats before opening it. Looks like the detailedFiles is the answer.
My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via [EMAIL PROTECTED] A function that returns the Mac
fileType of a file using the detailedFiles information:
I am assuming we have checked the computer's Keyboard extension / control panel / setting / thingy?
/H
Has anyone figured out a way ever to check if there's an
internet connection in MetaCard?
Low-tech: Try to download a small but known url. Trap error.
$0.02 please.
/H
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internet connection in MetaCard?
Low-tech: Try to download a small but known url. Trap error.
$0.02 please.
/H
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My question is: After prininting is started, I decide I do not want to
continue printing the selected material. How do I just simply cancel the remaining printing? I have an HP Deskjet 697-C printer and connected to Windows XP on HP Computer.
Not sure you can from within mc as the task has been
does anyone have ideas for where to get a set of graphing externals for
use with metacard/rev on both the mac and PC? I need to
draw line, bar,
and pie charts on the fly from data given to the external.
Try http://www.flexibleLearning.com and click the Xtalk section. ChartMaker is there
Shari...
I need a download link for version 2.4.3. Looked high and low on
Metacard's site and Revolution's site for download links to versions
other than the latest.
Can someone point me to a links page?
Try www.canelasoftware.com
/H
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Does the current build of MC support customProperties containing compressed
data in password protected stacks, or does does the data still get scrambled?
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Alain:
For those who have html-interpreted email readers, all your carefully
included angle brackets are interpreted as tags so the text is displayed as if links
rather than raw!
Would you like to re-post and replace them with [ and ] please? I think even
using equivalents are similarly
In a message dated 27/3/2004 5:01:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Subject: Graph object
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Here's a start: http://www.rpi.edu/~simonk/mc/
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Another option may be http://www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk where there is a
chart-making utility.
/H
Here's a start: http://www.rpi.edu/~simonk/mc/
On 26-Mar-04, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listers,
Does anybody have any ready-to-go scripts which draw charts?
Preferably, I'd
Strange behaviour ...
A stack that is popped up from a cascading menu button is consistently offset
BEHIND the menu panel in win32. This makes selecting objects in the popup a
triffle tricky given the darn popup stack closes at the drop of a hat as the
mouse leaves the cascading button. A fast
A stack that is popped up from a cascading menu button is
consistently offset BEHIND the menu panel in win32.
I've seen this happen on old window systems (nt4) with
option menus... I dont use much the pop stack menus...
Maybe a color depth problem? (off my hat...)
Try a different menu style
Scott wrote:
...I think saving/honoring the stack's style is a good thing.
I concur. If I set the style of a stack, this is me the user specifying a
property. I would not expect the IDE to over-ride me.
/H
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Version 4 of The Scripter's Scrapbook is now in progress.
Following feedback, it will sport a new interface, include direct link Internet
searches and support enhance Drag Drop for folder and document
icons.
- What else would you like implemented?
- What would make it a 'Must have' for
Apologies if you could not access the page previously posted... This
linkis inthe correct case, should your browser need it:
http://www.flexiblelearning.com/ssbkFeedback.htm
Version 4 of The Scripter's Scrapbook is now in progress. Following
feedback, it will sport a new interface, include
I'd like to use a group as a mask object. That way when objects
are dragged they are clipped at the edge of the group unlike the current
situation whereby the object can be dragged willy nilly over the
interface.My question is how can we choose the image
tool and draw an image in the
Version 4 of The Scripter's Scrapbook is now available! Spread
the word to other scripting newsgroups you may belong to...
And abig 'THANK YOU' to all of you who have not only
made suggestionsand reported areas for improvement, but also then tested
the implementations so thoroughly.
I was impressed with the beta version a while ago, Alain, but could not
work out how to applythe DHTML conversionto an existing stack. Do I
understand correctly that the design has to be done in your program?
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Recently, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: So the
question is: Do we need an "active" mode for
plugins in addition to the engine-supported "open" and
"library" options? Cast my vote for no. My preference is
to keep things simple. Same for
me :-)
And from me.
/H
Seems a useful function to me, although it would of course break under
earlier versions of mc which would still require a longer test handler.
btw does the environment() still return 'player' when running XPpro in the
development IDE?
/H
Richardwrites:
So I'm
proposing that I add this
One of those little annoyances; if I run the command "delete
directory myPath" where myPath is a perfectly valid path to a folder on
the local hard disk, I get the result "can't delete that file".
Any ideas anyone?
'Cos the folder is not empty, Ray.
/H
I usually use:
function alertLoc return round(item 3 of the screenRect
/2)","round(item 4 of the screenRect /3)end alertLoc
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I've posted a preview of the icons I've assembled
here:Excellent, Scott. Us non-arty types can really hate some
people!
/H
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The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.0
Important Bulletin
If you are using the current version 4.0 of the Scripter's Scrapbook, there
is an unlikely but potentially important bug in a sub-function of the File
Attachments dialog window...
If you use the File Attachment dialog's 'Save as' to
The following did not appear in the Metacard Digest vol 11 issue 7, nor in
the use-Revolution digest 24 which seems to have been skipped entirely...
The Scripter's Scrapbook v4.0
Important Bulletin
If you are using the current version 4.0 of the Scripter's Scrapbook, there
is an unlikely
The Scripter's Scrapbook
v4.01
Released 6-AUG-2004
Version 4.01 of the free software is now on-line at
www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk.
If you are using version 4, you are stongly recommended to replace it from
the About screen of your Scrapbook at your earliest convenience. If you
Do I need to worry that I get a "Tools stack version (2.6) does not match
engine version (2.6.1)" message with the current mc.exe and IDE stacks?
/H
Hugh
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set the mcversion of stack "mctools" to "2.6.1"; save stack
"mctools"
Thanks for the confirmation, troops.
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Is there a message we can trap when the user moves the mouse out of a
pulldown menu, for example to automatically dismiss the menu?
/H
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Has 'clone' broken in 2.61 for password protected stacks? Can someone else
confirm?
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We seem to have a related issue to the broken 'clone' command in password
protected stacks in v2.61...
'Copy [obj] to [dest]' results in a 'Can't cut object [stack is locked]'
error.
Can anyone else confirm this?
Similarly, we used to be able to 'get' and 'put' scripts in password
This is now becoming crippling...
After v2.5
- We cannot "clone" an object
- We cannot "copy" an object
- Andwe cannot "set the script" of an object
if astack is password protected (I'm using v2.6.1 build 9). All
workarounds seemblocked.
Okay, top marks for consistency butfor goodness
Hi Klaus,
Not entirely true. v2.5 prohibited set/get script and copy [obj] in
password protected stacks, but clone has always been available.
My points:
[1] I can appreciate protecting script and copying access to prevent
circumventing protected stacks, but clone can do nothing except
What on earth has happened in this release? 'Set the cursor to hand' now
results in a vertical splitter icon!
Oh boy... This is not the robust and predictable environment to which I had
become accustomed. It would help (or at least show willing) if such changes were
flagged in the ReadMe
Looks like you have already reported, Robert. Thank you. Meanwhile,
importing a 'hand' image and hard-coding the stack internally is a work-around.
Hugh wrote:
What on earth has happened in this release? 'Set the cursor to
hand' now results in a vertical splitter icon!
Robert replied:
I
So what's the next step? How easily/quickly can Tuv (?) close the loophole
that has been created in 2.6.1 so clone (and other commands that have now
been disabled) can be made to work again in a protected stack? I am assuming
bribary is allowed?
And what's the workaround to allow 2.6.1
Another problem has crept in... Applying imageSource no longer works as
expected. Setting the imagesource of an existing character works (although the
field locks up), but you cannot insert a new one correctly...
on mouseUp
put empty into fld 1
put 1 before fld 1
set the imagesource of char
Now voted. I wish I could allocate more... With changes in 2.61 it has
become a *critical* issue in terms of implications rather than simply preferential.
The workaround you propose it not viable, unfortunately. I guess the
'ultimate' solution is to prohibit stack access to the affected
It is all rather worrying, Robert, and I can confirm that simply closing a
stack no longer re-sets the protection.
Bug 546 (http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=546) requests
the ability to re-set protection without closing the stack, but it only has
15 votes. If 'clone'
Maybe something simpler is in order: new cursors use new
IDs.
--
Richard Gaskin
Gets my vote.
/H
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Anyone interested in a conversion of the Mickey mouse's animated
hand cursor? Cheers Xavier
For aMickey Mouse app? Hmmm... (slap, ouch!)
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Which neatly returns us to the crucial issues of either re-introducing
'clone' for template stacks etc in password protected stack, AND/OR allowing
runtime password protection to maintain security.
MC IDE issues are preferential; 'broke' engine problems ain't. :-)
/H
(Still has bee in
What's the procedure to dynamically make the externals of a stack
readily available?
Scenario:
Stack with externals is copied to a new machine. Stack opens, externals
filepaths are re-set, so ask user to quit and try again??
Nah. There's got to be an easier way!
/H
That's silly. How does RunRev get around it? Or do they just assume we don't
use an external until the next session?
/H
What's the procedure to dynamically make the externals of a stack readily
available?
Scenario:
Stack with externals is copied to a new machine. Stack opens,
Thanks Chipp and Brian... I think I didn't clarify very well.
'the externals' can easily be set, using relative or calculated paths. This
is not a problem. What I find strange is that the stack has to be closed and
re-opened for the externals to 'fix' and so make the externals available
Thanks, Chipp... Shame that a mainstack cannot benefit from a substack's
externals. This would make distributed mainstack programs immediately
operational. The way it works at present is "Welcome to the program! Please quit
and start again for it to work."
/H
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Hugh,You can set a
Does anyone else have a problem when using the revUnloadSpeech command when
not using the revolution IDE?
I get an error that the function is not recognised although the other
speech functions work fine.
Since the speech sapi cannot be unloaded, theprogram hangs on exit
and requires a
Has anyone else noticed that the MC IDE hangs (requiring an End Task from
the task manager) after a stack using the speech dll closes in Windows?
Also, revUnloadSpeech is not recognised (it throws a 'handler not
recognised' error), so if this is meant to be called as the documentation says
Has anyone else noticed that the MC IDE hangs (requiring an End Task
from the task manager) after a stack using the speech dll closes
in Windows?
The MC IDE is just scripts. Anything that causes a hang is an engine
problem -- please post the recipe to Bugzilla so it can be addressed
I do not use the speech features in any of my apps, so I may be off
here. I would think that the revSpeech.bundle would only be useable
with OS X.
Mark Talluto
RevSpeech.bundle is the only external for Mac available. It seems to contain
a MacOS component.
/H
I hope this does not read as a rant, but when Rev messes with long-standing
behaviours it is more than a little disquieting, even an increasing concern,
especially when no mention of such changes is made. Maybe they feel that Rev
owes nothing to MC-users who should be 'converted' by now
I am investigating the options available for peer-to-peer messaging and
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sockets and would like to be involved, please contact me off-line at
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