Re: divide by zero erro
Rick, Avoids the repeat loop and potential problems there. For one-stop shopping for random numbers: put random(gUpper-gLower) + gLower into MCH Nelson 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.
numeric sensitive (?)
Nicolas,
Does mc have a specific function that, like caseSensitive, restricts
data-input to numbers? If not, any alternate suggestions? Use matchText or
offset, right?
I ask because, after implementing Nelson Zink's clock-timer script (thank
you!), I realized what some misguided (evil minded?!) user could do when
prompted by:
ask "Count down how many seconds?" with 300
Try this:
ask "Count down how many seconds?" with 300
if it is not a number or it1 or it1 then --pick your own upper
limit
beep
answer quoteitquote" is not a number I like! Enter something
reasonable."
exit mouseup
end if
Nelson Zink
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Re: Script Editing in Browse Mode
Sivakatirswami, But what about a global implementation? I tried to put that into the front script, but after the first mouseUp which open script editor. Try this in the stack script: on mousemove if the optionkey is down then edit script of the target else pass mousemove end mousemove With the optionkey down any mouse movement over a target will open its script. Nelson 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
Mary, gTextToSkip needs to be reset in the Find Again script. 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. 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. on mouseUp global findIt,searchLight if the short name of me is "Find" then ask "What text do you want to find?" if it is empty then exit mouseUp go cd 1 --or whatever is the first cd of the search fld put "go" into searchLight put it into findIt find whole findIt in fld "Storytext" if the result is empty then set the name of me to "Find Again" set the backcolor of me to "red" else answer "Sorry, the text was not found." else find whole findIt in fld "Storytext" if searchLight is "stop" or the result is "not found" then answer "Sorry, no more occurrences of the text were found." set the name of me to "Find" set the backcolor of me to "green" end if end if end mouseUp For multi-card searches put the following in the cd script of the first cd of the search field. It just stops FIND from endlessly wrapping around. on openCard global searchLight put "stop" into searchLight end openCard If you're talking about a one cd search field you can remove the searchLight stuff from the btn script. Or leave it in. Whatever suits your housecleaning preference. NZN 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
Mary, I sure could use some help wrappin' my head around this one. Try the following: FIND BUTTON SCRIPT: on mouseUp global gTextToFind,gTextToSkip,gChunk 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 go first cd --you may need this # start looking repeat forever put offset(gTextToFind, fld "storyText") into tTextOffset if tTextOffset 0 then -- found it! beep 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 if the number of this cd=the number of cds then exit repeat else go next cd end if 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 repeat forever put offset(gTextToFind, fld "storyText",gTextToSkip) into tTextOffset if tTextOffset 0 then -- found it! beep put "char" tTextOffset "to" tTextOffset + \ length(gTextToFind) -1 "of fld 1" into \ gChunk -- for colorizing add tTextOffset + length(gTextToFind) - 1 to \ gTextToSkip -- tells Find Again where to start # colorizing here # scroll the field exit mouseUp else if the number of this cd=the number of cds then exit repeat else put empty into gTextToSkip --reset for next cd search go next cd end if end if end repeat answer "Sorry, no more occurrences of the text were found." end mouseUp The repeat loops are practically the same. You need to ADD to gTextToSkip in the Find Again script. gTextToSkip needs to be reset in the Find Again script. Not sure you need gChunk as a global. Take out the beeps if they're annoying, I used them to be sure things were working. Nelson 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.
cut copy paste buttons on the mac
Jeff, just hard to stop my brain loop of hitting the f keys... any solutions out there??? The following is mine--placed in the home stack. I use it mostly for F5 and F8--they both toggle. F1 (undo) is a little quirky sometimes, but I don't think I understand what 'undo' means in MC. on functionkey theKey if thekey is 1 then undo if thekey is 2 then cut if thekey is 3 then copy if thekey is 4 then paste if thekey is 5 then get the tool if it="browse tool" then choose pointer tool else choose browse tool end if if thekey is 8 then get the openstacks if "tools" is in it then close stack "tools" else palette "tools" end if if thekey is 9 then edit the script of this cd if thekey is 10 then edit the script of this stack if thekey is 11 then edit the script of stack "home" end functionkey What's the thing (critter?) under your name? Nelson 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.
button bounce script
Brian , The idea is to make a button react when you click on it. Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? on thumb put 30 into RR --number of repeats put 5 into WW --speed setting repeat RR --contract put the rect of the target into temp add 1 to item 1 of temp add 1 to item 2 of temp add -1 to item 3 of temp add -1 to item 4 of temp set the rect of the target to temp wait WW milliseconds end repeat repeat RR --expand put the rect of the target into temp add -1 to item 1 of temp add -1 to item 2 of temp add 1 to item 3 of temp add 1 to item 4 of temp set the rect of the target to temp wait WW milliseconds end repeat end thumb on thumb2 put 3 into FR --flicker rate put the backgroundcolor of the target into temp repeat 5 set the backgroundcolor of the target to green wait FR ticks set the backgroundcolor of the target to red wait FR ticks end repeat set the backgroundcolor of the target to temp end thumb2 Or do you just want to make extra double sure that the button doesn't creep on you? If so, try: on downThumbnail put the rect of the target into temp move the target relative 2, 2 in 90 millisecs move the target relative -2, -2 in 90 millisecs set the rect of the target to temp end downThumbnail NZN This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
MetaCard CGI
By request, the personal story of "Setting up a website to do e-commerce using MetaCard as the CGI component" has been updated and is back online at: http://www.navaching.com/pagem.html Nelson Zink This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Apache Server and Metacard CGI's
David, Anyone out there who can help me set up Apache on Linux to run Metacard CGI's? I just went through a torturous two week doing just that. It sounds like you're considerably more advanced than I, so it should be easier for you. I decided to write about my experience and what I learned. Find it at www.navaching.com/pagem.mt You won't need to do anything with either Apache or Linux. Nelson Zink
Apache Server and Metacard CGI's
I fouled up the ending of the address. The email I just sent in should say: David, Anyone out there who can help me set up Apache on Linux to run Metacard CGI's? I just went through a torturous two week doing just that. It sounds like you're considerably more advanced than I, so it should be easier for you. I decided to write about my experience and what I learned. Find it at www.navaching.com/pagem.html You won't need to do anything with either Apache or Linux. Nelson Zink
converting seconds to minutes seconds
Leston, I've got a "countdown" clock in my app that shows time remaining Stick the following into a cd fld script and you're set. on mouseUp global CountTimer ask "Count down how many seconds?" with 300 put the milliseconds+(it*1000)into CountTimer set the backcolor of me to red send mousedown to me end mouseup on mousedown global CountTimer if CountTimerthe milliseconds then set the numberformat to "00." put (CountTimer-(the milliseconds))/1000 into temp put trunc(temp/60) into mints put temp mod 60 into seccs put mints":"seccs into me send mousedown to me in 300 milliseconds else set the backcolor of me to green put "Reset" into me end if end mousedown
escaping a repeat loop
Nicolas,
For impatient users of my stacks, I'd like to rescript this
mouseDown-initiated repeat loop so that it can be escaped (via the
return key?) without leaving group "bin-bon!" hidden:
Try the following:
repeat 2
show group "bin-bon!"
wait 400 milliseconds
getOuttaHere
hide group "bin-bon!"
wait 600 milliseconds
getOuttaHere
show group "bin-bon!"
end repeat
on getOuttaHere
if the commandkey is down then
show group "bin-bon!"
exit repeat
end if
end getOuttaHere
Nelson Zink
NETIQUETTE
RenÈ Thanks for using an appropriate wording of the subject of your mail. Check out NETIQUETTE if you do not know what I am talking about, please. Where would I find NETIQUETTE? Nelson Zink
Re: Digest metacard.v003.n121
Dear Nicolas, On one card I have 20 buttons whose script is the same but which I now want to change, preferably with some sort of repeat loop rather than manually button by button, e.g.,: Easy to do. Change the script of cd btn 1 to what you want, then: repeat with zz=2 to 20 set the script of cd btn zz to the script of cd btn 1 end repeat In hindsight, I should've scripted some sort of subroutine. Then take care of it now. Make the script of cd btn 1: On mouseup ShakeRattleAndRoll end mouseup set cd btn scripts as above and stick the ShakeRattleAndRoll handler somewhere in the message path of the cd btns. Nelson Zink
Distant Finding
R¸diger, There are better options: if "007" is in fld "Agents" of cd "Espionage" then ... H, the old 'it's obvious' trick again. Thanks, just what I wanted. Nelson
Distant Finding
All, I want to know whether a particular number resides in a distant cd fld and am using the Find function to make the determination. However, I don't want to be transported to that card. Any clever combination of Find and Result? What I really want to say is: if the result of find "007" in cd fld Agents of cd Espionage is "not found" then MailThePackage Nelson Zink
