Re: metacard and language tools
salvatore writes: I would like to combine my program with another commercially available software (Errata Corrige, an Italian language tool). The idea is to have metacard paste the composition in a new document in Errata Corrige and ask it to choose the menu item "statistics". When asked for statistics, Errata Corrige would produce a graph (image), which I would like to import in metacard or directly in the .txt file or .rtf file. If Errata Corrige is a Macintosh program, some actions may be scriptable with appleScript. I forget how you get a list of scriptable features for a given program, but it's quite easy (I know I've done it before). If it is not scriptable, the best you might be able to do is automatically copy the essay to the clipboard and launch Errata Corrige. You would then have to do the rest manually. I had this problem with a dictionary program I was trying to integrate that was not appleScriptable. good luck, mark mitchell japan ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dragging Lines in a Field
on 4/18/02 3:17 PM, shop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray, I just noticed that you'll probably want to put moveTxt into the label of the sliding btn and give the btn a permanent name (couldn't do this in Hypercard). If you decide to keep it exactly as written, you'll need to get the id of your btn and put it in place of 2713. Rich Payne Sparkman Mfg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Dragging Lines in a Field Thanks Rich! I'll let you know how this works out. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Thanks Rich! I'll let you know how it turns out. Ray ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: database and MC
On 18/4/02 1:35 am, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revolution supports MySQL, ODBC, and Oracle cross platform for this.. Any chanse you can make those db externals available to metacard users too, BTW? We don't have any plans to do this: supporting databases is something that we plan to expand on even further, with closer integration with Revolution and an expanded feature set: it is a core part of the Revolution product. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - The Solution for Software Development Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Subject: Re: Dragging Lines in a Field
Does anybody have a solution for dragging lines up and down in a field to resort them? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software As a reply Rich Payne Sparkman Mfg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted a script that allows to drag lines inside the field. Posted a script that allows to drag lines inside the field. I tested the script and it works, but unfortunately after intensive use it eventually crushes MC v 2.4.2, at least on my computer (Mac OS 9.1 G3 350, 512 Meg RAM). One of the symptoms is that MouseStillDown handler begins to indefinitely calling itself even long after the mouse is UP (indefinite recursion, if I'm not messing up the terms). It keeps calling MouseStillDown until the mouse is clicked outside the field. So, I blocked this behavior with click at -100,100 at the end of the handler. This stopped MouseStillDown to continue working after mouseup but MC 2.4 still crushes, through less frequently. Without having exact recipe I think this has something to do with new async behavior of mouse function The mouse function is now async rather than event based as in previous releases. This means that the mouse will only return down if the mouse is actually down at the exact instant the function checks it. So, I modified script a little (see below) and now it seems to be stable in all versions of MC. note: I'm sure it can be done in more efficient way, but I cooked it very quickly and my goal was to just stabilize the script in MC 2.4.2 Local VertiMouse,MyTop,MyLeft,linHt,CurLinPtr,moveTxt,Actionflag ## you can set any margin for fld and have it with or without vertical scrollbar ## button should have showBorder = false and name DragLineBtn ## field has list behavior. on mouseDown put false into Actionflag pass mousedown end mouseDown on mousestillDown if Actionflag is false then -- MouseStillDown should work only once this way... put the ClickLine into CkLn put value(the ClickLine) into moveTxt if moveTxt is empty then exit mousestillDown delete line (word 2 of CkLn) of me set the label of button DragLineBtn to MoveTxt put the textHeight of me into linHt ## f you want custom cursor while dragging, create one and activate lines below --set the cursor to (the id of image DragLineImg of grp DragLineGrp) -- set the lockcursor to true put 4 into MyTune ## Would love to know why but on my computer it needs this correction ## to let button fit exactly in Field boundaries. Put 0 into MyTune if your ## OS/computer will not require correction set the borderWidth of button DragLineBtn to the margins of me - MyTune put the top of me into MyTop put (the left of me) + MyTune into MyLeft if the vScrollbar of me is true then set the width of button DragLineBtn to (the width of me) - (the scrollbarWidth of me) - (MyTune*2) else set the width of button DragLineBtn to (the width of me) - (MyTune*2) end if set the height of button DragLineBtn to LinHt set the topLeft of button DragLineBtn to MyLeft,MyTop set the visible of button DragLineBtn to true -- put true into Actionflag -- so it never do it again while the mouse is down Send dragLine to me in 1 milliseconds -- end if end mouseStillDown on dragLine if the mouse is up then -- get out and exit -- repeat for each line L in the pendingMessages -- cancel (item 1 of L) -- not needed actually -- end repeat set the visible of button DragLineBtn to false put ((VertiMouse - MyTop) div linHt)+1 into CurLinPtr if the scroll of me 0 then add (the scroll of me div LinHt) to CurLinPtr end if if CurLinPtr (number of lines in me) then put crmoveTxt after the last line of me select the last line of me else put MoveTxt cr before line CurLinPtr of me select line CurLinPtr of me end if set the lockcursor to false exit dragline end if -- put the MouseV into VertiMouse put the scroll of me into temp if VertiMouse MyTop then put MyTop into VertiMouse subtract LinHt from temp end if if VertiMouse the bottom of me then put the bottom of me into VertiMouse add LinHt to temp end if set the scroll of me to temp set the topLeft of button DragLineBtn to MyLeft,VertiMouse-(LinHt div 2) --- send dragline to me in 10 milliseconds -- is 10 Milliseconds OK? end dragline Best regards Tariel Gogoberidze ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Transparent Images
I have some transparent png's on several cards, and sometimes they show up transparent and other times they don't (ie. they have a big ugly white rectangular background). I can even go back and forth between a couple of cards, and images that show up fine one time will not show up ok the next and vice-versa. I have not been able to find a repeatable pattern to it, but it is a fairly common occurance. Has anyone else seen this? Glen Yates ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dragging Lines in a Field
Does anybody have a solution for dragging lines up and down in a field to resort them? Thanks, I use the following in HyperCard. It also drags the lines between flds, but you could easily drop that feature. on mousedown global activeFld if hilite of bg btn Re-order is true then --set up initial values put empty into activeFld put 11 into ht put the clickLine into tbMoved if tbMoved is not empty then put value of tbMoved into wdsTBmoved set the loc of cd btn Outliner to the mouseloc show cd btn Outliner repeat until the mouse is Up --move around to determine where item is going set the loc of cd btn Outliner to the mouseh,the mouseV localize --indicates which fld the mouse is in, i.e. the activeFld if activeFld is not empty then --scrolling if the mouseV (top of bg fld activeFld + 10) then wait 2 ticks set scroll of bg fld activeFld to (scroll of bg fld activeFld - 15) else if the mouseV (bottom of bg fld activeFld - 10) then wait 2 ticks set scroll of bg fld activeFld to (scroll of bg fld activeFld + 15) end if end if end repeat lock screen hide cd btn Outliner if activeFld is not empty --if it is empty nothing happens then put item 2 of the loc of cd btn Outliner - top of background field activeFld + (1*ht) into extra put trunc((scroll of bg fld activeFld + extra)/ht) into MoveToLine if the last word of tbMoved = activeFld then if MoveToLine word 2 of tbMoved then put wdsTBmoved return before line MoveToLine of bg fld activeFld do delete tbMoved else do delete tbMoved put wdsTBmoved return before line MoveToLine of bg fld activeFld end if else put wdsTBmoved return before line MoveToLine of bg fld activeFld do delete tbMoved end if unlock screen repeat while last char of bg fld activeFld is return delete last char of bg fld activeFld end repeat end if end if end if end mousedown on localize -- major revision April 20, 1998 to use is within global activeFld repeat with i = 1 to the number of bg flds if the mouseloc is within the rect of bg fld i then put i into activeFld exit localize end if end repeat end localize -- Bruce Lewis Lewis Collyer 160 John Street, Suite 401 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 2E5 (416) 598-4357 FAX (416) 598-1067 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
number as a fist letter of custom property. Allowed or not?
When you are trying to manually enter a number as a custom property name, MC returns the message A custom property name must start with a letter However when you are trying to do the same through script it works fine on mouseup put 128 into tTest set the tTest of fld 1 to some content -- works end mouseup Another exampleÉ on mouseUp repeat with j= 1 to 10 repeat with i= 1 to 10 put Content of Cell j,i into SheetArray[j,i] end repeat end repeat ## -- this works as it supposed to -- set the customProperties[SheetData] of fld 1 to SheetArray -- put the SheetData [7,2] of fld 1 ## -- but why this works if custom property name MUST start with a letter? set the customProperties of fld 1 to SheetArray put 5,3 into tTemp put the tTemp of fld 1 ## end mouseup So is it allowed to use a number as a fist letter of custom property or not? Best regards, Tariel Gogoberidze ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
