Re: More on SSL
Martin Reed writes: I don't know if this is of interest to anybody, but I found an XFCN that allows contact with HTTPS servers. It uses OpenSSL to ecncrypt/decrypt, and even supports receiving/sending cookies (by way of headers). An XFCN might be helpful, but you can totally remove SSL processing overhead using an SSL offloader. These differ from SSL accelerators that still require a secure server. Offloaders store the keys and certificates, decrypting data before it gets to the server and encrypting data to go to the client. A secure server isn't required. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: MetaCard 2.3.1 beta 2
Scott Raney posted: MetaCard 2.3.1 beta 2 is now available in the directory ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.3.1/ Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leston Drake wrote: Can someone repost the URL for downloading 2.3.1 b2? Thanks. Leston Drake LetterPress Software, Inc. http://www.lpsoftware.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: MetaCard Plugin?
Blair Moxon wrote: Believe it or not the response that I have heard is that people are more comfortable within a browser because it has a "forward and back button". I suppose this is because they don't lose context of where they are (by keeping everything in the same window) and they can leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind them... When my partner and I started our major project over a year ago, we considered building it in HTML, but didn't want to rely on a browser. As Blair mentions, Forward and Back buttons give folks a security blanket. Where things get ugly (navigationally) is when you throw Next and Previous buttons into the works, as we have had to do. Then try to document the suckers. g The same people who are very comfortable with a web page having Forward and Back buttons at the top of the screen and Next and Previous page buttons are stymied with an application built with the same behaviors. Most of our alpha testers have "gotten used to it", though I have had feature requests for a list of Forward and Back locations on a mouseDown event. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: relative paths to media
Kevin Miller wrote: You need to set the directory property of the stack to on preOpenStack to match its fileName. I think there is a good argument for making relative paths (images, players) work like stackFiles has just been changed to work: i.e. relative to the fileName rather than the current directory? Scott? I apologize for being totally dense, but how does this affect stacks already in development? For example, I have the following basic structure: standalone level graphics graphic1 ... graphicN indexes index01 ... index60 stories story01 ... story60 I keep the current directory set for the standalone level and use the stackfiles entries to keep track of the whereabouts of everything else with the exception of graphics, which are loaded using information relative to the directory. For example, the stackfiles entry for the text for Hound of the Baskervilles is hountext,stories/hountext.mc Has/Will this be changing? Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Phlebotomy for MC?
Hi, Craig. I wrote one about a year ago. I'll dig around and see if it survived the massive hard drive(s) failure (yes, plural) of last spring. It worked well on Windows 95, but I hadn't used it on the Mac yet. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Craig Spooner wrote: Does anyone know of a script extracting utility like John Perry's SC Phlebotomy project for MetaCard? I was starting down the road of writing my own, but I figured I should ask to see if I'm re-inventing the wheel. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Found text coloring
Thanks for the help, Christoph. Your script certainly will work, but what I did was to colorize the contents of the gChunk global. I don't have the project in this office, but I'll be glad to send the colorizing part to you if you like. Basically, I store the text color and text style of gChunk in gTextColor and gTextStyle, respectively. Then set those items to the text color and text style from a global that loads on starting the main stack (this project will end up being about 150 stacks in size). The resetFoundText is called when any of several messages are generated. It resets the gChunk text to the stored gTextColor and gTextStyle. The fields to be searched are a mixture of text colors and text styles, all with specific uses. Thanks again! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Christoph Wollek wrote: An afterthought to Your discussion (Mary/Nelson) of Find Again: get text looked for put it into fld store (so You could easily restore the text) put it into tlookf repeat with i = 1 to the number of cds get the htmltext of fld text of cd i replace tlookf with "FONT color=" quote "#FF" quote "" tlookf "/FONT" in it set the the htmltext of fld text of cd to it end repeat --All occurances of the found text in fld text of the stack will be in red colot --if You are looking for a second word then put: --Tget text looked for put it into line 1 of fld store (so You could easily restore the text) put it into tlookf get text looked for2 put it into line 2 of fld store (so You could easily restore the text) put it into tlookf2 repeat with i = 1 to the number of cds get the htmltext of fld text of cd i replace tlookf with "FONT color=" quote "#FF" quote "" tlookf "/FONT" in it replace tlookf2 with "FONT color=" quote "#FF" quote "" tlookf2 "/FONT" in it set the the htmltext of fld text of cd i to it end repeat --To restore the text: get fld store put line 1 of it into tlookf put line 2 of it into tlookf2 repeat with i = 1 to the number of cds get the htmltext of fld text of cd i replace "FONT color=" quote "#FF" quote "" tlookf "/FONT" with tlookf in it replace "FONT color=" quote "#FF" quote "" tlookf2 "/FONT" with tlook2 in it set the the htmltext of fld text of cd i to it end repeat Maybe that is what You want? Regards Christoph Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Multi-card glorified Find Again
Thanks for the reply to my questions, Nelson. Let me know what you're thinking. I don't want to reset it outside of the FIND button because I always want to find the next occurrence after the previous found occurrence. In the single-card stacks, I could just hit Find Again all the way to the end of the field. It's reset before moving to the next cd so searching will start at the beginning of the fld. Yes, I caught that upon a further reading. Thanks - you're exactly right. I've cut out the colorizing and scrolling bits with rely on gChunk as well as resetFoundText, which returns the highlighted text to its original format. Then you've removed your reason for using OFFSET. FIND is an easier way to go anyway and you can locate, hilite text, etc. using FOUND information anyway. The following is a single background button script that should do the job. Changes its name and color as it does its work. Thanks for the additional scripts. I haven't had a chance to play with them, yet, but they look pretty solid. You're right about find being easier to script...MUCH easier; however, it just didn't do the job. I didn't want to use find because of the bounding box that significantly deteriorates the look of the screen. The piece I'm working on is a reference work, and keeping the screen clean is very important. I did some tests with end users employing the find, find with coloring, and the offset with coloring and style change. The latter option was deemed to be far more attractive and easy to find with the potential market, many of whom have "older" eyes. The other problem I had with find was returning the background color for every instance, which is why I use the developer-scripted resetFoundText command. Thanks again, Nelson, for all your help! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Multi-card glorified Find Again
Thanks, again for the help, Nelson. I had to re-institute the tStartText variables to get everything to run smoothly, otherwise the returned text chunks were off. I did a little other stuff too. Thanks, again! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Multi-card glorified Find Again
Good day! Well, things were bookin' right along until I had to make my fancy Find engine run for more than one card. I'm using the offset function to help highlight found text. It works great with the Find button: I simply rearranged a few lines and added a repeat loop to go to the next card if the text isn't matched on the current card. The problem occurs when I try to alter the Find Again. I need it to not only go to the next card, but stop and tell the user when there are no more occurrences. I'll quote an abbreviated version of the Find and Find Again. I sure could use some help wrappin' my head around this one. FIND BUTTON SCRIPT: on mouseUp global gTextToFind,gChunk,gTextToSkip ask "What text do you want to find?" if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp else put it into gTextToFind -- to feed Find Again # start looking repeat with s = 1 to the number of cds in this stack put offset(gTextToFind, fld "storyText") into tTextOffset if tTextOffset 0 then -- found it! put "char" tTextOffset "to" tTextOffset + \ length(gTextToFind) -1 "of fld 1" into \ gChunk -- for colorizing put tTextOffset + length(gTextToFind) - 1 into \ gTextToSkip -- tells Find Again where to start # colorizing here # scroll the field exit mouseUp else go next cd end if end repeat answer "Sorry, the text was not found" end if end mouseUp FIND AGAIN BUTTON SCRIPT: on mouseUp global gTextToFind,gTextToSkip,gChunk resetFoundText -- takes highlighting off put offset(gTextToFind,fld 1,gTextToSkip) into tTextOffset if tTextOffset = "0" then answer "Sorry, no more occurrences of the text were found." exit mouseUp else put tTextOffset + gTextToSkip into tStartText put "char" tStartText "to" tStartText + \ length(gTextToFind) - 1 "of fld 1" into \ gChunk -- feeds next Find Again put tStartText into gTextToSkip # colorizing here # scroll the field end if end mouseUp Thanks, in advance, for any pointers! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Portable Mouse Movement?
Geoff Canyon wrote: Someone with more Mac Toolbox experience than I will no doubt correct this, but if I remember correctly, Apple recommends strongly against setting the location of the pointer. They consider it a violation of the Apple User Interface Code of Conduct(tm) :-) In any case, Scott, aren't you simply setting some bytes at a very low level to do this? I don't think there are any OS calls to do it. Apple has threatened repeatedly that the location of those crucial bytes will change over the course of time; maybe the location changed on the PowerBooks. If this is the case, the original poster might be able to move a transparent .gif image to mimic pointer movement, then splice in mouseUps where necessary. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: found text display
Norval Bard wrote: A while back I asked this question, and when I recently encountered the problem again, I returned to the archives to see what answers were provided, but I couldn't locate the query, so here goes (again)... Using a find command to locate the clickText in a given field returns the string with a thin, black box around it. What can I do to elimate (render invisible, etc.) that box? I ran into the same problem and had the assistance of a lot of helpful and knowledgeable folks on the list. I'm appending the scripts I'm using for this problem...finding and highlighting with a color while changing the font style. When you click some place else, either in the field or elsewhere, the appearance changes back. It may not be exactly what you need, and I may have documented it poorly, but it may give you a start. Don't hesitate to e-mail me with any questions. BTW, I'm sure the real wizards on the list can clean it up, but this works for me in several different functions - both for searches initiated from within the stack and from other stacks. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] - THIS IS IN THE STACK SCRIPT: on resetFoundText global gChunk,gTextChunk,gOldStyle,gOldColor,gOldBack -- the info stored in gOldStyle, gOldColor, gOldBack is put there in the "find" script if gChunk empty then-- this find comes from another stack lock screen set the backColor of gChunk to gOldBack set the textStyle of gChunk to gOldStyle set the textColor of gChunk to gOldColor unlock screen end if put empty into gChunk end resetFoundText THIS IS IN THE SEARCHABLE FIELD'S SCRIPT: on selectionChanged resetFoundText end selectionChanged THIS IS IN THE CARD SCRIPT: on selectionChanged resetFoundText end selectionChanged THIS IS IN THE FIND BUTTON: on mouseUp global gTextToFind,gChunk,gTextToSkip global gOldBack,gOldStyle,gOldColor global gFoundBack,gFoundStyle,gFoundColor -- gFoundBack is the background color of the highlighted text; -- gFoundStyle is the text style of the highlighted text; -- gFoundColor is the color of the highlighted text; -- these are all set in the openStack handler of the stack script ask "What text do you want to find?" if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp else put it into gTextToFind -- I store this for use in a "Find Again" button script put offset(gTextToFind, fld "storyText") into tTextOffset if tTextOffset = 0 then answer "Sorry, the text was not found" exit mouseUp else put "char" tTextOffset "to" tTextOffset + length(gTextToFind) \ -1 "of fld 1" into gChunk put tTextOffset + length(gTextToFind) - 1 into gTextToSkip # begin colorizing here put the backColor of gChunk into gOldBack put the textStyle of gChunk into gOldStyle put the textColor of gChunk into gOldColor set the backColor of gChunk to gFoundBack set the textStyle of gChunk to gFoundStyle set the textColor of gChunk to gFoundColor # scroll the field set the scroll of fld 1 to the formattedTop of gChunk - the top of \ fld 1 + the scroll of fld 1 - 15 end if end if end mouseUp This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Searching for non-English characters
Good day! I have quite a few user-searchable texts that contain non-English characters. Is there a convenient way to convince MC that when I type "debris" into the Find box, I want it to return an instance of "débris"? I have spoken with my collaborator, and we agree that we could anglicize all such occurrences (a lot of them, I might add); however, we'd really like to provide this type of search without users having to remember all the key commands to generate the characters. Thanks in advance! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Making the Windows standalone
Hi, Mark. It's not a pathetic question -- I had to ask, too. g You do need to download the Windows version of MC. I copied the mc.exe file into my MetaCard directory, simply to make it easier to find. This file will not be listed when you try to "select". Click "Select" next to the field, and select the MC engine listed (which will be the Mac one). Replace the file name at the end of the path with "mc.exe". I can't help you too much on the Windows INFO dialog. I simply fill in the information that makes sense in my situation. Kevin, what about adding a MetaClass on creating and building cross-platform applications? Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a pathetic question...forgive me. Working on a Mac, made a mac standalone, no problem (though it seemed a bit large, but these days, who cares? :) BUT, couldn't make a windows standalone. When prompted for the engine, I hit select, but couldn't find a "windows" engine to select. Do I need to download this separately? I also don't understand the "Windows INFO" dialog box. Nor can I find step by step instructions on how to do this in the help files or on the web. I downloaded the windows starter kit, but could only open this on a windows machine and windows Meta card would not open the original Mac stack on that machine. Sigh. I'm missing something, something big. thanks mark
Re: Re-Using text
Scott Raney wrote: Sounds like a recipe for spaghetti to me. What happens when the source field changes, do all fields that point to it have to be live-updated with it? And what if you change the field, does the "sourceField" get updated? What happens with fields with sharedText set to false, do you have to specify the card? And the biggest question: What would this be useful for? I think the original request had to do with an address book, but I've needed something of the sort. In doing computer-based training, I've had to be able to report participant responses to open-ended questions which were sporadically placed throughout the training materials. One client wanted the participants to be able to look their answers over before posting them. So I set up a card with question and answer fields which displayed the questions and answers. The fields were updated with an openCard handler that copied the contents of the specified fields. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Data saving
In response to a question about saving data in standalones, Marni Centor wrote: I create courseware with MetaCard, and I use my standalone stack to show a splash screen animation and then launch a menu stack. The menu stack then launches my various courseware stacks. I can track user progress in both the menu stack and the individual courseware stacks because they are separate from the standalone. That's a good method of doing it, Marni. You can also use text files written out to track progress and save the contents of "notebooks". I've done both of those, especially when someone else needs to see the scores, progress reports, and notes participants have taken. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Standalone: 2.3 meg 1.44 ! erp!!
Kevin Miller wrote: Its not quite that simple. You have to build a seperate standalone for each platform you plan to distribute on. Download the engine for the platform you want to build on, and select that engine in the standalone builder to create a standalone using that engine. To add just a bit to the great info that Kevin has shared, when you open the Standalone Building and try to select the other engine (mc.exe, for example), you won't see it in the list of files displayed. I copied the mc.exe engine into my MetaCard folder. Then I can just enter "mc.exe" into the field. If you have the engine file someplace else (or you have set the directory to something else), you'll need to specify the path. The easiest way to do this is click Select next to the file name field and select some MC file in the directory. You can copy this path, paste it into the engine field, and replace the file name with the name of the engine. Other than that little fiddling now and then, it works slick! Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scroll property behavior
Dave Cragg wrote: There is also a selectedLoc function that could be used instead of the foundLoc. First select the line you get from lineOffset, then get the selectedLoc, and then calculate the scroll. That looks like the ticket, Dave. Thanks! I had totally forgotten about that function. Best... Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scroll property behavior
Howdy!
I'm having problems scrolling to a specific line from a field. I have a
long field ("fld 1") that I'm linking to. I've been using the offset()
function to highlight the found text, then (because this text may be
farther down), I've set the scroll of the field to
(lineOffset(foundText,fld 1) * the textHeight of fld 1)-the textHeight
of fld 1
Think the problem lies in the lineOffset() function. A "line" is defined
by having a return at the end of it. I can't split up the individual
lines of the field (wrapped) into return-delimited chunks. The user
needs to be able to find a string of text that may bridge two lines. How
can I change this delimiter?
Barring the possibility of that, I'd love to hear some ideas on how to
solve this problem. Thanks!!!
Mary Bull
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