Ask as Sheet - Problem
Hello Everyone, I'm getting strange behaviour with the Ask command combined with the as sheet option in OS X. My stack Y has a button that opens stack X as modal. Stack X has a button with an Ask-as-sheet handler. The trouble is, the sheet is not attached to the stack, but appears by itself partly off the screen! However, if I open stack X without the modal option, Ask-as-sheet works fine. It was working fine for weeks, now the modal option seems to be the problem. Any thoughts? A fix? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Finishing Touches for a Standalone
Hello Everyone, 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? (2) How do I change the application icon. I created a PDF of my icon and simply pasted it into the Get Info window in OS X. Looks good, but I understand that there's more to it than that. Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Invoking default browser
Hello everyone, How can I invoke the default browser in OS X and go to a web site when I user clicks on an URL in a field in MC? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Writing files
Hello everyone, I return to a question I posted some time ago. I received excellent responses then, and I'm hoping to further my understanding of writing files. Suppose I have a 450 MB text file named X, and I want to tack 500 lines of data, Y, onto the end of it. Which of the following is the best way, if any, and why? (Sounds like an exam question. Sorry, it's an occupational thing.) 1. put Y after url (file: X) 2. open file X for write write Y to file X at eof close file X 3. (I don't have any experience with this one.) open file X for append write Y to file X close file X Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous http://pareto.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
htmlText property
Hello Everyone, Can setting the htmlText property in an MC stack field affect the way text is displayed in other applications running under OS X? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Limits on array dimensions
Thanks. I'm not a programmer, so please pardon my incorrect terminology. I find arrays to be invaluable, especially when creating utilities that index large (300 MB and up) flat-file databases (what I'm doing). However, once the number of array elements exceeds about 150,000 (for example, to keep track of record ID's while indexing), processing gets progressively slower and eventually stalls even if the contents of the elements are small. This does not appear to be a memory constraint. My fix is to dump critical array variables to a file from time to time, delete the variable to free space, and recreate the array with new observations. The difference in speed is remarkable. Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University ___ Out of the blue, and into the black. You paid for this, but they gave you that. Neil Young http://pareto.concordia.ca On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:22:36 +0800 Subject: Re: Limits on array dimensions From: LiangTyan Fui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/30/03 1:11 AM, Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanna give me a hint as to which of the dozens of properties I should be looking at? No information on array, but it should be at least comparable to custom property. So that gives 4 GB limit on what you can store in array, and nothing else is using the same RAM, including other variables and apps. Sorry, still no answer to your question. I assume 4 GB limit on the array storage includes the overhead of array index (or a separated RAM space, still limit by 4 GB). Given all the limits MetaCard imposed on other objects, it is safe to assume that the number of element (index) of an array is limited by the machine memory, or up to 4 GB, if you have stored nothing in the array. Don't take my words for it though. I'll be happy if someone else can prove me wrong. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Limits on array dimensions
Hello everyone, Is there a limit on the number of elements that an indexed array can hold? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Limits on array dimensions
Wanna give me a hint as to which of the dozens of properties I should be looking at? Gregory Lypny Associate professor Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://pareto.concordia.ca On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 6 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:40:39 +0800 Subject: Re: Limits on array dimensions From: LiangTyan Fui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/29/03 9:07 PM, Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Is there a limit on the number of elements that an indexed array can hold? go card 900 of stack MetaTalk Reference -- Greg G ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
imageSource syntax
Hello everyone, What is the correct syntax of the image source property? Suppose I want an image, x.jpg to appear in a field wherever the letter z appears. set the imageSource of ??? to ??? in fld ??? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Dumb TAB question
Hello everyone, Setting a field's Auto Tab to true causes the cursor to move to the next field when the Return or Enter key is pressed. I want the same to happen when the Tab key is pressed. How can I do that? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Flagging Letters and Numbers
Hello everyone, What's the best way to flag a character as a letter or number (a,b,c,...,z,0,1,2,3,...) but nothing else? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
File Permissions
Hello everyone, Is there any way to set a file's permissions (e.g., locked, read only) on Mac OS X from within MC? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Saving scripts
Hello Everyone, Is there a way to save scripts while you're working without having to close, and then reopen, the current script window in Mac OS X? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Reading files and memory
Hello Everyone, I recently learned from Xavier that using Open File for Read and the Read command places less demand on memory than Put url (file: etc...) because the latter reads the entire file into memory. Is the same true when writing data to a file? I mean, is it better to use Open File X for write Write etc. Close file X than Put stuff after url (file: X) ? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Files function and Convert command
Hello Everyone, I'm using the detailed form of the Files function to extract creation and modification dates of files, but when I use the Convert command to get the date and time, the result it gives me is earlier than what Mac OS X indicates. For example, Mac OS X shows a creation date of Fri 3 Jan 2003 at 12:38 a.m., but converting the creation date from the detailed files result in MC gives Thu 2 Jan 2003 at 7:38 p.m. Any thoughts on this? (By the way, I get the same result regardless of whether I set useSystemDate to true.) Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Extracting a subset of lines from a large file
Thanks Xavier, That's what I suspected after doing some primitive experiments. I'll try your buffer idea. Gregory I wrote: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:43:44 -0400 From: Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Extracting a subset of lines from a large file To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, I want to take a chunk of 1000 lines at a time out of a text file and display it in a field. Some of the text files are big, 200 MB and up. Is one of the following approaches preferred? [1] put line 1 to 1000 of url (file: filePath) into field X [2] read from file filePath from line 1 for 1000 lines put it into field X Regards, Gregory On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Xavier replied: From: MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Extracting a subset of lines from a large file Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 06:57:42 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregory, the url will force the file to be read completely. for those cases (but not for over 30MB's) it's better to store the data into a variable and treat it in a loop after. In your case, read the file using the read file command. Try to optimize a buffer for your reading (32-64K's may be best... but experiment!) Stocking the data temporarily in a field will definitely slow down things... try to keep that for last... Memory is the fastest you got! cheers Xavier ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Extracting a subset of lines from a large file
Hello everyone, I want to take a chunk of 1000 lines at a time out of a text file and display it in a field. Some of the text files are big, 200 MB and up. Is one of the following approaches preferred? [1] put line 1 to 1000 of url (file: filePath) into field X [2] read from file filePath from line 1 for 1000 lines put it into field X Regards, Gregory ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: POST Command (It worked!!!)
Thanks Dave Cragg and Tariel Gogoberidze, Setting the socketTimeOutInterval to 3 allowed me to download all of the records from my FM database in one shot. Why it is required for this particular database and not other, bigger ones I'm running, I don't know. But it works, by golly! Thanks again, Greg On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 01:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:11:51 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: POST Command Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:42 am -0500 31/1/03, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for responding. Yes, I have checked the result function after the post, and it is always empty. If I omit the CDML tag -Max=All from my post, I immediately get the default 25 records returned. And curiously, when I transfer the database to my local Mac and post to localhost, as I mentioned, all records are, in fact, returned. To check if it's just a timeout, try increasing the socketTimeoutInterval. The default is 1 (milliseconds). Try setting it to 3. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
POST Command
Hello Everyone, I'm using the POST command to download records from an online FileMaker database. The problem I'm having is that no data is returned in the variable *it* when I specify *all* (for finding all records) in my url expression. This doesn't happen with all my FM databases, and I'm usually able to download all records, often in the hundreds, without a glitch. For the problem databases, I can specify a specific number, say, ten, and it works; after that, 20 will work, then 30. But won't return any data when I specify more than 40 (and there are, in fact, about 150 records). I'm guessing that FileMaker delays returning any data if it has to do some indexing first, MC then pulls down nothing, and the handler runs through much more quickly then when there is data returned. Is there a command or setting I can use that will cause MC to wait longer for FileMaker to respond? I've tried to use libUrlSetLogField to get more information but I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ A hard C is better than a soft A. - Bill Cosby http://pareto.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
POST Command (another bit)
Hi again everyone, I had just sent the message below concerning the POST command and FileMaker. I forgot to mention that when I transfer the database to my local machine and post to localhost, there's no problem. Again, as I discuss below, I wonder whether MC is not jumping the gun and returning no data before FileMaker has had a chance to feed it any. Greg Hello Everyone, I'm using the POST command to download records from an online FileMaker database. The problem I'm having is that no data is returned in the variable *it* when I specify *all* (for finding all records) in my url expression. This doesn't happen with all my FM databases, and I'm usually able to download all records, often in the hundreds, without a glitch. For the problem databases, I can specify a specific number, say, ten, and it works; after that, 20 will work, then 30. But won't return any data when I specify more than 40 (and there are, in fact, about 150 records). I'm guessing that FileMaker delays returning any data if it has to do some indexing first, MC then pulls down nothing, and the handler runs through much more quickly then when there is data returned. Is there a command or setting I can use that will cause MC to wait longer for FileMaker to respond? I've tried to use libUrlSetLogField to get more information but I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: POST Command
Hi Dave, Thanks for responding. Yes, I have checked the result function after the post, and it is always empty. If I omit the CDML tag -Max=All from my post, I immediately get the default 25 records returned. And curiously, when I transfer the database to my local Mac and post to localhost, as I mentioned, all records are, in fact, returned. Regards, Greg On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 12 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:05:29 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: POST Command Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 8:28 am -0500 31/1/03, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm using the POST command to download records from an online FileMaker database. The problem I'm having is that no data is returned in the variable *it* when I specify *all* (for finding all records) in my url expression. This doesn't happen with all my FM databases, and I'm usually able to download all records, often in the hundreds, without a glitch. For the problem databases, I can specify a specific number, say, ten, and it works; after that, 20 will work, then 30. But won't return any data when I specify more than 40 (and there are, in fact, about 150 records). I'm guessing that FileMaker delays returning any data if it has to do some indexing first, MC then pulls down nothing, and the handler runs through much more quickly then when there is data returned. Is there a command or setting I can use that will cause MC to wait longer for FileMaker to respond? I've tried to use libUrlSetLogField to get more information but I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Did you check the result function after the post command? This should give you a hint if the problem is on the server end. e.g post whatever to url whatever if the result is not empty then answer the result If the result is empty, then it looks like the problem is at the client end. Before speculating on possible causes, can you confirm that the result is in fact empty? Cheers Dave ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
What to expect when memory's running low
Hello everyone, I'm working on a stack that indexes big (15 to 200 MB) text files and breaks them into smaller files with similar information. This is done by reading the source file into an array whose elements get written to their own output file. The output files are tab-delimited text, between 500 KB and 3 MB, and typically have 100,000 lines (each line represents information from a variable or field from one record of the source file, so you can think of the source file as being a database with 100,000 records). My stack works fine (surprisingly so for me...) as long as I don't mess with more than 90,000 records, I can hardcode a read of about 90,000 lines into various array elements and then dump them to their own files. However, when I let the stack run through the entire source file of about 104,000 records (letting it read until an eof is reached), it hangs (spinning coloured beach ball in Mac OS X) when writing the very last array element to its own file. If I force quit MetaCard, and check the individual output files, it turns out that all of the data is, in fact, written successfully, so the main handler is doing its job, but there isn't enough juice to refresh the stack window (for instance, to display a status field that indicates that the process has been completed, the time, number of records, etc.) or give control back to MC (beach ball to pointer). I've tried to minimize memory usage by putting empty into array elements or deleting them entirely once they are no longer needed. I guess my question (sorry for the diatribe) is this: Am I dealing with a memory problem? And, if so, what's the best way around it? I'm considering writing to files repeatedly rather than once at the end, or running the handler two or more times, effectively breaking up the reading of the source files into many parts. Greg Happy X-Mas Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Free Up Memory
Thanks, Hugh and Monte, for your replies on this one. Greg On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 10:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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). ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Freeing Up Memory
Hello everyone, Does closing a big stack (of a multi-stack project) free up memory? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Listing Files Within a Folder
Hello everyone, What's the best way of getting a list of files that reside in a number of subfolders within a parent folder? What I've done is establish the path to the parent folder. I then use the Directories command to get a list of subfolders, and by setting the directory property to each subfolder in a repeat loop, I obtain files lists using the Files. Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Answer File Command
Hello Richard, Downloaded from a repository of scientific data, I believe they are Unix text files, but I don't know which application created them. How would I find out? Greg On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 12:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Message: 2 Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:43:01 -0800 Subject: Re: Answer File Command From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregory Lypny wrote: Answer File of type TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text Answer File of type TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text What is the file type of these plain text files? And which application created them? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.1: Publish any database on any site ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Answer File Command
Thanks Andu, Richard, Jacqueline, Monte, and Dar: I'll go back and retry some of these suggestions for the Answer File command. I actually experimented with variations of what you've suggested, but the problem was usually that all files were eligible (not dimmed) for selection; that's a big problem because the utility stack I'm developing indexes big (15 to 220 MB) text files, and opening the wrong one would result in endless churning as MC looks for stuff that isn't there. But as I say, I'll give your variations a shot, and send up a flag if it works. Thanks, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Answer File Command
Hello again, In response to my question about filtering out text files with Answer File, there was some suggestion that Mac OS X is a bit quirky in displaying files. Based on some of your suggestions, here's what I got with OS X (Jaguar) and two types of text files (Appleworks and plain text). In the first four cases below, which differ from one another only in the use of the words type or filter and quotation marks, AppleWorks text files are displayed but plain text are dimmed (bad). The fifth case, based on Andu's suggestion resulted in all files in the folder being dimmed! In other words, it does the opposite of what I understood it would do. Answer File of type TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text Answer File of type TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text Answer File with filter TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text Answer File with filter TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text Answer File with filter *.txt - dims everything! Greg P.S. What is the convention for putting quotations around a word or phrase in an email to ensure something reasonable is displayed? Should I use the asterik? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Answer File Command
My apologies for the last message; I forgot to include a subject. Let me try again Hello everyone, I'm writing a handler to open files and restrict the choices to text files. answer file Choose your data file with filter TEXT When I use the filter above in OS X, AppleWorks text files are recognized but plain text files are not (they're dimmed). I'd like to be able to choose among all files with a .txt extension. What am I doing wrong? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: pList File
Hi Shari, I know there was a thread on this topic some time ago, but I didn't pick up on it. Is the pList file the one that should be edited to change the MetaCard menu in our standalones to some other name? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
Thanks everyone for the flood of suggestions! Just got back from an academic disaster and put your adive into practice pronto. Greg On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 12:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send metacard mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of metacard digest... This is the Metacard mailing list. Today's Topics: 1. Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Gregory Lypny) 2. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (J. Landman Gay) 3. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Simon Lord) 4. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Herve Proudhon) 5. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X (Shari) 6. Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 7. Standalone icons (Shari) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:20:41 -0500 From: Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't Build Standalones in OS X To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:33:00 -0600 From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: HyperActive Software To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/6/02 11:20 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong? What engine are you embedding? I had the same problem trying to build a PPC app while running the OS X version. Actually, I can't open the PPC engine under Classic at all, it does exactly what you describe. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:37:26 -0500 From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verify your startup and open stack scripts. Sometimes a runtime will hang on something you have there. For a quick test, comment out those scripts that do something on startup or on open etc. If your stack does not immediately quit then it's likely something in the boot script it does not like. On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 12:20 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:54:52 +0100 Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X From: Herve Proudhon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong? Greg When you ask the system to open a stack with a specific engine, a usro resource is created. This resource is copied into the standalone ; so the system tries to open the standalone with an other one ! Simply delete this resource with resedit. This works with OsX and Classic. Best regards Herve Proudhon Diondine, a nutrition software. http://www.diondine.com --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:27:12 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved
Re: Weird URL thing
Hi Dave, Thanks for responding. The result is always empty and so is the container it. All of the information about the local host is identical to the remote host, even the port number. I have a guess about the source of the problem which I'm going to look at. The FileMaker portal that I tested on the local host had only four records in it, but the portal on the remote host had about 160. It appears that accessing records in a portal and generating the corresponding web page through FM's Web Companion is considerable slower than accessing the records in the master file directly. Doing so in a browser takes more than thirty seconds for the portal (closer to fifty seconds, actually) versus three or four seconds for the master file, and I'm wondering if MC is not somehow timing out before it gets any of the data. I think I can test this by bringing the big portal file over to the local host to see if I can access the records. If the problem is repeated, then I'd keep trying with fewer and fewer records. If timing out is, in fact, the problem, perhaps there is a way to make MC wait longer. Does that sound like a reasonable approach? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition http://pareto.concordia.ca On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 12:03 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:35:17 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Weird URL thing Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:01 pm -0500 30/10/02, Gregory Lypny wrote: It works fine when I test it on localhost using the MC post command as username:password@localhost/path/FMPro?-db=dbName.fp5- lay=layoutName-format=fileName.txt-findAll and the container it returns all of the records I want. But when I test it on the remote machine (simply replacing localhost with the remote host address, and all files the same), the variable it is returned empty --- no data! I confirmed that it is not a problem with FileMaker because I'm able to type the above command string into a browser URL field and the remote host will generate a web page with all the data. All of my other types of MC posts to FileMaker on the remote host work wonderfully and those include accessing portal fields (thanks to the thoughtful suggestions of members of this list). Some quick thoughts ... Did you check the result following the post call? Was any error returned? What happens if you use get instead of post? (I'm assuming the browser uses get and not post.) Did you include http://; at the front of your url? Do you have the correct port number (if it's not 80) for the remote host? Cheers Dave ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Weird URL thing
Hi Everyone, Having trouble with a post to FileMaker (again --- sigh). I'm trying to extract the portal fields from a file that has only one record, but in that record is a portal that displays fields from a master file. (I'm using a portal to get at the records because I've disabled searches in the master file to prevent students from snooping where they shouldn't.) The HTML format file looks like this: [FMP-Portal: relationshipName][FMP-field: relationshipName::field1],[FMP-field: relationshipName::field2], etc... [/FMP-Portal] where the [FMP-Portal: relationshipName] tag tells FileMaker to display all records in the portal. It works fine when I test it on localhost using the MC post command as username:password@localhost/path/FMPro?-db=dbName.fp5-lay=layoutName- format=fileName.txt-findAll and the container it returns all of the records I want. But when I test it on the remote machine (simply replacing localhost with the remote host address, and all files the same), the variable it is returned empty --- no data! I confirmed that it is not a problem with FileMaker because I'm able to type the above command string into a browser URL field and the remote host will generate a web page with all the data. All of my other types of MC posts to FileMaker on the remote host work wonderfully and those include accessing portal fields (thanks to the thoughtful suggestions of members of this list). Any thoughts on this glitch? Incidentally, the remote host is a Mac running Jaguar and I'm using MC 2.4.3 build number 4. Greg P.S. If MC-FileMaker related stuff is not of interest to the list, don't be shy to say so, and I won't post these kinds of questions. Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Put URL - getting files from a remote computer
Hi Everyone, Is there a way to use Put URL to get a file from a remote Mac (OS X) that has FTP access turned on? I've tried put url (file:username:password@address/hardDrive/users/myAccount/filePath/ fileName) into fld X but perhaps I have the syntax wrong. Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://pareto.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Standalone Trouble
Hi Everyone, I have an MC project created in 2.4.2 that consists of a startup/splash screen stack that accesses other stacks via Stack Files. I turned the splash screen stack into a standalone, and everything works fine. Now I want to rebuild that same splash screen stack into a standalone again in order to upgrade it to 2.4.3. When I do, the splash screen stack opens, but buttons are missing, and none of the other stacks open. I moved resources prior to building the standalone. What am I doing wrong? Was I to remove 2.4.2 resources first, then move 2.4.3 resources? Much obliged for any advice. Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://pareto.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Need help with an MC post to FileMaker question
Hi Everyone, I'm kind of desperate on this one. In an MC post to a web-enabled FM database, is there any way to include my FM username and password that would otherwise by requested by a browser? Any advice would be most appreciated. Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition http://pareto.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC Book - Other Ideas
Hi Everyone, I've always found the HyperCard Script Language Guide helpful and easy to read, particularly the examples. Would it make sense to build on the Guide with MC's commands, functions, and selected examples, perhaps submitted by users? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Print stack as PDF in OS 10.2
Thanks Mark, And no need to apologize. I guess I can turn some stacks into standalones for the purpose of creating PDF's. Regards, Greg On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, I see. I thought you were using referring to an app you created. I have not used the print feature from the development tools that come with MC. Sorry, did not read carefully. All apps I create in MC work just fine in this regard. -Mark ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Print stack as PDF in OS 10.2
Hi Everyone, How can I get MC to print a stack as PDF in OS X? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Print stack as PDF in OS 10.2
Hi Mark, That's true for most applications in OS X, but it doesn't appear to be true for MetaCard. The File menu in MetaCard has a Print Card item and the Tools menu has a Print Field item, but neither invokes the OS X print dialog that gives me the Preview or Save as PDF... choice. Greg On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 12:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 9 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:21:16 -0700 Subject: Re: Print stack as PDF in OS 10.2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 08:58 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, How can I get MC to print a stack as PDF in OS X? Greg This is controlled by the print driver in os x. When a user from you app hits the print button, there is an option to save as .pdf in the driver window. Too bad the other OS have not made it this easy yet. Best regards, Mark Talluto http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC Posts to a web-enabled FileMaker Database
Hello Everyone, I'm using MC to management some of my web-enabled FileMaker databases, mostly to download information. I'd also like to be create new records in FileMaker by posting (using the Filemaker -new tag) but I'm not sure how to do this if the database requires a username and password. If I were doing this in a browser, a dialog box would prompt me for that information. Any suggestions? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Here lies PROTECTION It lied throughout its life And now Lies still - Douglas Jerrold ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Unhilite all tabs in a tabbed button
On reflection, I agreed totally. Thanks for your insight. Greg On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:01 PM, metacard- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unhilite all tabs in a tabbed button Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:43:46 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg, This is really counter to the UI of a tab button, which indicates that at least one tab is selected. It would be like having three radio buttons, none of which are hilited. If you need something like this, you should make the tab control itself completely disabled and subject to a control (a checkbox for example) that would alter the disabled state of the tab control. That is, if everything in the tab control does not apply, it would be disabled. If something in the tab control *could* apply, it is enabled with one of the tabs selected. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Unhilite all tabs in a tabbed button Hi Everyone, 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 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC 2.4.3 Final Build Number
Hi Everyone, Where do I find the build number of an MC release? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Take chances, make mistakes. - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
matrixMultiply returns a new array named what?
Hi Everyone, The MC Reference says that matrixMultiply returns a new array. What is the name of that array? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. - The Tragically Hip ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Nested Arrays
Hi Everyone, I think this came up before but I haven't been able to find it in the archives: does MC do nested arrays of the type array[x[y]]. For example, can I use put "Start" into array[state[1]] put 'Stop" into array[state[2]] put "Abort" into array[error[1]] put "Continue" into array[error[2]] ? If so, how would I extract the keys? Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ "Better for us if you don't understand." The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca
matrixMultiply
Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble with matrixMultiply. I've created two 1 x 20 vectors (arrays) named Prob and V. I want to compute the dot product (for example, the expected value of V in statistics), which is prob[1] x V[1] + prob[2] x V[2] + ... + prob[20] x V[20] but it's not clear whether MetaCard treats vectors as columns or rows by default. All of the following result in error messages: matrixMultiply(prob,V) matrixMultiply(transpose(prob),V) matrixMultiply(prob,transpose(V)) Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Lining up numbers in columns
Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble formatting numbers in a field so that the ones, tens, one hundreds, etc. are properly right-aligned in a column. I've formatted the field to be right-aligned with a tabstop of 200. I then generated two columns of numbers, x= (90, 91, ..., 110) and y=(50,000, 51,000, ..., 100,000). I put x and y into the field using a repeat loop: repeat with i=1 to 21 put line i of x tab line i of y return after fld Number Table end repeat The y column (50,000 to 100,000) is correctly aligned but the x column isn't. Any suggestions? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Check-As-You-Type
Hi Everyone, I'm using keyUp at the card level to invoke a handler that checks whether entries into a number of fields are valid. If they are, a Next button is enabled. Everything works fine except that keyUp does not capture deletions using the Delete key. Any suggestions? Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Naming Conventions
Hi Everyone, I have a multi-stack project with a number of information stacks that are very similar in structure, for example, a title field, text body field, and card navigation buttons. Is it a problem if these controls have the same names in the different stacks? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Primer on MetaCard as CGI
Hi Everyone, Can anyone recommend a primer (for dummies) for using MetaCard as a CGI? Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Script Security
Hi Everyone, Is there a way to keep users from peeking at scripts in a standalone that has stack files? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Comparing Big Lists
Thanks Dave, You put a lot of work into your example, and I appreciate it. Sorry, I didn't look at it sooner. I suspect Dave's approach below (which is what I suspect Scott was suggesting as well, although I misunderstood it) will be fastest. To make it more general, I might have to nest another 'repeat for...' loop to capture cases where the item to compared to in tLargeList is not always located in item 3. For those curious, I'm helping a colleague search through the file pertaining to the human genome database. It's about 80 MB. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca -- a snip from Dave Cragg's test... repeat for each line tLine in tLargeList if tArray[item 3 of tLine] empty then put tArray[item 3 of tLine] : tLine cr after tMergeList2 end if end repeat ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Comparing big lists
Thanks for the suggestion, Scott. I'll give it a shot. I've also tried looping over the lines of bigList (i.e., a nested repeat), simply using the 'in' operator: if x is in y, then... It takes about 6 minutes on a modest (300 mHz) iBook running OS X, but I'm hoping for an improvement, Regards, Greg On 27/4/2002 12:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:48:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Comparing big lists Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought I would pick your brains on the topic of comparing two big lists. Both are tab delimited. bigList has about 100,000 lines and 6 items (columns) per line. smallList is about 15,000 lines and 2 items per line. I want to identify the lines in bigList in which the third item is the same as the second item in a line in smallList, and then pull out the intersection. I used something like this, which works fine. set the itemDelimiter to tab repeat for each line j of smallList put lineOffset(item 2 of j, bigList) into thisLine if thisLine is not 0 then put j tab \ line thisLine of bigList return after mergedList end repeat delete last character of mergedList -- Get rid of the trailing Return Using the lineOffset function seemed the obvious choice to me, but I'm also interested in other approaches. LineOffset on such a big variable is going to be pretty expensive. Another option would be to us split to build an array out of smallList and the loop over each line in big list and see if there is an array index for it. Split takes awhile and will use up a good bit of memory, but makes the lookups *much* faster. You could save some of that space by building up an array of just the relevant items in one list or the other by looping over the lines and creating one array index for each. Regards, Scott Regards, Greg Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dragging Lines in a Field
Posts like this are invaluable, Scott. They're keepers. Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 12:02 PM, Scott wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:31:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dragging Lines in a Field Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 Tariel Gogoberidze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Broken record time: 1) Never use repeat until the mouse is whatever 2) Never use idle, mouseStillDown, or mouseWithin messages Think of it like going for a long drive after the oil pressure light in your car's dashboard goes on. You'll learn the lesson the next day when your car starts smoking profusely and burning a quart of oil every 10 miles. Not to mention what your friends and other fellow drivers will think of your automotive skills. Regards, Scott ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Read Command with Offset specified
Hi everyone, I'm working on a utility that filters data in text files of more than 100 MB. I want to read chunks of text from certain points in the file without running out of memory, so I was wondering whether using the Read-from-file-XXX-at-offset form of the Read command would actually read from the offset without loading all data before the read into memory. If so, then it should be pretty easy to index key words in a first pass of the file before embarking on more intensive searches. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dumb Question About Variables (Revisited) Plus Matrices, Good Golly
Thanks, Raymond, Pierre, and others for responding to my question. Both Raymond (quoted below) and Pierre Sahores suggest the use of arrays (vectors) for my problem. That was my first inclination, but I ran into a bit of a glitch when I tried to create vectors out of the columns of a matrix. I don't want to be long-winded here, but maybe my problem is of interest to others, so here goes. I'm developing a simple statistics stack. It reads in a tab-delimited text file of numbers that has N rows of records and K columns of variables. My sample data is N=1,000 and K=10, so each column contains 1,000 observations for a variable. The first thing that my stack does is load the data into an NxK matrix (array) called X with each element indexed by (i,j), so X[3,4] becomes the third observation for the fourth variable. Matrix X will be useful for computing covariance and correlation matrices as well as simple linear regressions (line fitting). But it will also be important to be able to transform or do computations on each column (i.e., variable) separately, for example, to compute the average of variable 7. Apparently, MC doesn't have a command or function to extract or refer to individual columns of numerically indexed arrays (e.g., pull out column 4 by referring to X[*,4]), so I just figured I'd create a separate array (or vector) for each variable. That can be done easily in MC by transposing X and dumping each row into a separate single-indexed array called v like this: put tranpose(x) into XT -- KxN matrix, where each row has N=1,000 observations repeat with j=1 to N repeat with i= 1 to K put XT[j,i] , after v[i] -- v[1] is a comma-delimited list of N observations on variable 1 -- v[2] is a comma-delimited list of N observation on variable 2 -- and so on end repeat delete last character of v[i] -- get rid of the trailing comma end repeat This appears to solve the variable-naming problem that Raymond and Pierre (and others) have kindly be helping me with because now I have K separate vectors (v[1], v[2], ... , v[K]) within an umbrella array called v. And this is fine because most statistics can be computed using comma-delimited lists as input, but, unfortunately, I can't do matrix math on these lists. It would be elegant (for what it's worth) and useful if each element of v referred to a single-index associative array, so that v[1] = (d[1], d[2],..., d[N]) for variable 1 and likewise for the other variables. MC can do arrays within arrays (very, very cool), but wouldn't I get into a naming problem again because the elements in v[1] are named as d, and so would the elements of v[2]. That's what I'm tinkering with now. Greg On 26/3/2002 8:33 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: Hmmm. Here is where an array structure would really shine. repeat with i = 1 to 10 put i+10 into H[i] end repeat It is easy to use, and avoids the problems you note. Cheers! Raymond on Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:33:43 Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, A few days ago I asked about creating variables on the fly. It was suggested that I enclose the unchanging part of the variable name in quotations. So I tried the repeat loop below as an experiment, hoping to generate H1 = 11, H2, =12, and so on, up to H10 =20. repeat with i = 1 to 10 put i+10 into (H i) end repeat ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dumb Question About Variables (Revisited)
Hi Everyone, A few days ago I asked about creating variables on the fly. It was suggested that I enclose the unchanging part of the variable name in quotations. So I tried the repeat loop below as an experiment, hoping to generate H1 = 11, H2, =12, and so on, up to H10 =20. repeat with i = 1 to 10 put i+10 into (H i) end repeat It doesn't fly, unfortunately, and the error message I get is bad chunk and a reference to the left parenthesis. Removing the parenthesis doesn't help, but makes H the bad chunk. However, I remember being able to do this in HyperCard. Any thoughts? By the way, the technique above (as I think everyone knows) works if the container is a field rather than a variable. put i+10 into fld (H + i) -- not a problem Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Dumb Question About Variables
Thanks, everyone. Treat variable as a literal and use quotation marks. Excellent. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Split Command
Hi Everyone, I'm wondering whether the Split command can be used to create a numerical matrix from a tab-delimited field of numbers. Example: I have a field named X with N=1000 rows and K=10 columns for 10,000 observations in total. The data is tab-delimited, and each line ends with the Return character. If I put field X into variable X and use split X by tab I get a single vector instead of a matrix (which I expected because that's how the command is defined), but the dimension of the vector is 1 x 9,001 rather than 1 x 10,000 because the first element of each row is skipped during the indexing process (999 rows), being delimited by Return rather than Tab. I would like to be able to create an NxK matrix where each element is X[i,j] (i=row and j=column) and be able to extract single-indexed Nx1 column vectors of the form X[j] --- X[1], X[2], ..., X[10] in my example here. I know that I can build these easily using the repeat control structure, but I thought that a command like Split, or something similar, may already exist for this purpose. Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Dumb Question About Variables
Hi again everyone, I can't seem to create a series of variables whose names are identical except for a numerical prefix, such as H1, H2, H3, ... (and this is not an associate array). I tried repeat with i=1 to 10 Put stuff into (H i) end repeat but MetaCard doesn't like that. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #133 - 9 msgs
Thanks for the response. But, actually, my question was whether MC treats numerically-indexed arrays in the usual row-column sense that's used for matrix math. As for the question of buying MC or Revolution, there is nothing about Revolution (as appealing as the face lift is) that can justify a switch from MC for me. Greg On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 12:04 PM, metacard- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: crob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Arrays and Matrix Algebra Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] original message: Arrays and Matrix Algebra Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:51:31 -0500 From: Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MetaCard List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, Just wanted to confirm the correct way to set up arrays to be able to do matrix math. If I have an array named X, does MetaCard treat x[3,4] as the fourth element in the third row of X and x[8,2] as the second element in the eigth row? yes: if you put something into X[n], you can retrieve X[n], if you put something into X[m,n], you can retrieve X[m,n], both with MetaCard 2.4.1 and with Revolution 1.1. The problem is: which to buy? (my subscription to MetaCard has expired :(( ) greets crob ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Jeanne's book
I'd snap up a MetaCard book in a second! I haven't read Jeanne's HyperTalk book, but anything with examples that extends the original HyperCard Reference by Apple to the realm of MetaCard would be great. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Arrays and Matrix Algebra
I guess we'll have to experiment with some actual calculations. Any word on this, Scott? Greg On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 12:03 PM, metacard- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:39:39 +0100 Subject: Re: Arrays and Matrix Algebra From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Wolfgang Rost) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 14.03.2002 17:51 Uhr schrieb Gregory Lypny unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Everyone, Just wanted to confirm the correct way to set up arrays to be able to do matrix math. If I have an array named X, does MetaCard treat x[3,4] as the fourth element in the third row of X and x[8,2] as the second element in the eigth row? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University They had the best selection, The were poisoned by protection, There was nothing that they needed, They had nothing left to find. - Neil Young E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Hi Greg, I think so, but the worse (sorry, my English is very poor, I'm a German, or so?) is, that, how Scott me just mailed, you can't adress row's and column's in array's. So I think, a 2-dimensional array brings no advantage and must just be handled like a 1-dimensional one. Is it right? Regards Wolfgang Dr. Wolfgang Rost, Psychologist and Software-Developer, Germany ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Arrays and Matrix Algebra
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to confirm the correct way to set up arrays to be able to do matrix math. If I have an array named X, does MetaCard treat x[3,4] as the fourth element in the third row of X and x[8,2] as the second element in the eigth row? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University They had the best selection, The were poisoned by protection, There was nothing that they needed, They had nothing left to find. - Neil Young E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC 2.4.2 Wish --- Graphing Object
Hi Everyone, My other feature wish (the first was scrolling fields with a lock title column and row) for the next version of MC: a graphing object. Something to spit out simple line and, perhaps, bar graphs; no need for the tacky pie charts and 3D stuff found in Excel. This would be, I think, indispensible to researchers and academics. Cheers, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
OS Background Pattern (Sigh...)
Hi, I know I've asked this before, and so have others, but I can't get the striped background in OS X. This is what I've done: I turned off the Can't Modify of the Home stack. Then in the Message Box, I issued each of these four commands. set the backgroundcolor of stack home to empty set the backgroundpattern of stack home to empty set the backgroundcolor of cd 1 of stack home to empty set the backgroundpattern of cd 1 of stack home to empty What am I missing? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC 2.4.2 Feature Wish
Hi Everyone, I've noticed some discussion on the 2.4.2 beta lately. A feature I'd like to see in MC is the ability to lock the first row and column in a scrolling field much like can be done in spreadsheets. (I know that it's possible to script multiple scrolling fields, but I've never been successful doing it for horizontal scrolls --- the column data in the two fields never align.) Presenting data in tables and graphs is an important part of my research, and being able to easily and dynamically reset column and row titles in a scrolling field would be a big plus. MC is one of the best tools I have. Good work Scott and company. Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ Better for us if you don't understand. The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons under OS X
Hi Everyone, Awhile ago I asked a question about option buttons under OS X, but never got a response, so I thought I'd take another kick at the cat. When an item in an option button --- also popup or pulldown buttons --- is selected, the label of the button is set to the item selected. I was hoping that I coulod make them behave like checkboxes with their Shared Hilite off, where the same checkbox can be checked on one card and unchecked on another when it is part of a background. This would make option buttons much more useful as containers, and a good example of this appears in Apple's Address Book application where the label of a phone number field (e.g., Work, Home, Mobile, Fax, etc.) can be set using an option button and, of course, can be different for each entry in the address book. Is there anyway to do this in MetaCard? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Concordia University ___ "Better for us if you don't understand." The Tragically Hip http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca
Option Buttons in OS X
Hi Everyone, Is there some way to configure an option button in OS X so that the button line selected is not shared across cards when the button is part of a background? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Stackfile Handler in OS X
Hi Everyone, I noticed that calls to substacks (e.g. go to stack X) based on the stackfile handler below, that I use in all my older stacks, does not work in OS X unless each of the substacks is opened individually first. Any thoughts on this? -- script in main stack --- on preOpenStack get the effective fileName of this stack set the itemDelimiter to / put empty into last item of it set the directory to it set the itemDelimiter to comma end preOpenStack --- end -- Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: How to get striped OS X background
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot. Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Option buttons in OS X
Hi Everyone, Are option buttons located in a background restricted to displaying the same item on every card? For example, I find that if the contents of the button are A, B and C then if C is selected on one card, it will also appear on all other cards, which is not what I have in mind. Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: POST Woes (a.k.a. Posting w/MC 2.4.1)
On 13/11/2001 8:22 AM, Andu wrote in part: When in situations like this, best thing is to post to the list or bug report to MetaCard. Things can only be fixed if people report them. Actually, I did post to this list back on November 5th (titled POST Question) when I first discovered the problem, but didn't get anything back that would suggest that the problem is with libURL. I then started tinkering as best as a novice could, thinking I was doing something wrong, and that clearly gobbled up lots of time. Since the problem won't be fixed this release, I'm faced with a bit of a dilemma since I have a large project already started in 2.4.1, and it doesn't seem to make sense spending valuable time learning about hacking libURL or the undocumented intricacies of socket scripting in MC when I have to produce project content and research. I suppose I could create an Internet component as a separate application written in 2.3. But don't get me wrong: I'm not ticked off; I guess I'm expressing the distinction between those who've adopted MC as a valuable tool for their own professions (in my case, financial economics) and those who are full-time programmers. And while I want to learn as much as possible about MC, time forces me to do it as part of my experience as the former and not the latter. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University Better for us if you don't understand. - The Tragically Hip E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: POST Woes (a.k.a. Posting w/MC 2.4.1)
Hi Everyone, The problem that Kevin James describes below is one that I've been trying desperately to resolve for two weeks now (with the very kind help of another list member). THE SKINNY: Using MC's POST command to post to a web-served FileMaker database doesn't work in MC 2.4.1B2 but does in 2.3. In an example similar to Kevin's, if you paste the following URL and FileMaker tags into a browser address field, you'll get a list of student serial numbers that I used in a now defunct class game: http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/registration/FMPro?-db=Registration-lay=Lis t-format=reg_admin_search_results.html-findAll However, the button script below, does not work. -Button Script--- on mouseUp put http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/registration/FMPro; into theURL post -db=Registration-lay=List-format=reg_admin_search_results.html-findAll \ to url theURL if the result is not empty then put the result else put urlDecode(it) into postText put postText into fld Output if HTML is in fld Output then set the htmlText of fld Output to fld Registration end if put I'm done the ticks end mouseUp -End of Button Script-- THE FAT The script does not complete or goes into an infinite loop. For Mac users, the watch cursor will appear if you open the script editor window after clicking the button, and, if you try to close the script editor, you'll get an error message saying that you can't set the script while it's running. It was suggested to me that the on postHTTP x handler in libURL may be going into an infinite loop when it reaches repeat while zStatus[tURL[x]] is empty wait for messages end repeat although I'm a novice, so I'd defer to your take on the problem. The fix that was suggested to me was to ambush libURL to keep it from interfering by placing the following handler in the card script. on postURL stop using stack libURL end postURL That appeared to work for the person helping me out on this problem, but unfortunately it hasn't work for me. When I invoke the stop-using-libURL script above, the POST script in my button runs to completion, but no data is placed in the Output field that I created for the purpose and which, consistent with Kevin's description, implies that data is not being placed in the local variable it. As an aside, I should note that I'm running MC 2.4.1B2 on a Mac with OS 9.2. I also tried this on a Mac running MC Carbon, and the problem is a little different: the button script does not hang or go into an infinite loop, but the local variable it is empty. I'm terribly stuck at this point. Anyone interested, can contact me off-list, and I'll send them a copy of the very simply stack that has the post button. Regards, Greg On 12/11/2001 7:00 AM, Kevin James wrote: From: Kevin James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Posting w/MC 2.4.1 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:18:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed I'm having trouble posting with MC 2.4.1. Specifically, the reply from the server does not get put into the local variable it ... the socket remains open and MC hangs. My particular scenario is posting to a FileMaker database, but the same behavior occurs sometimes ... but not always ... when I post to other cgis. Data is posted to the server without a problem ... and if you observe things with a session watcher, the server does send a reply to MC ... but MC doesn't seem to be able to discern when the server has finished sending its reply. Interested? Have a go at it ... example stack at http://www.hwbf.org/pub/incoming/post_2_4_1.zip Webserved view of what I'm posting to: http://160.129.74.247/FMRes/FMPro?-DB=employees.fp3-Lay=Summary-Token=25 -Format=TableVw.htm-Error=Err.htm-Findall Kevin Gregory Lypny Associate Professor Concordia University Better for us if you don't understand. - The Tragically Hip E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Fonts
Hi Everyone, I'm working on a Mac, creating my first cross-platform stack, and I've read in the archives that Arial, Time New Roman and Helvetica are fairly safe fonts to use. Any others? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada It's not dark yet, But it's gettin' there. - Bob Dylan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Fonts
Thanks, Nicholas and Scott for the font advice. Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Take chances, make mistakes! - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/FileSharing1.html Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
An MC Carbon Observation
Hi Everyone, I've noticed that the line "go to next card" placed in a button under MC 2.4 Carbon takes me to the next card as expected, but it also causes the next stack to be placed on top of the one I'm navigating. Any thoughts? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "The key to a great solution is really mixing it up." - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca
MC Carbon 2.4 and MC PPC 2.4
Hi Everyone, I've got an MC 2.3.2 stack that I want work on under 2.4. I noticed that when I open it under MC PPC 2.4 everything is fine, but when I open it with MC Carbon under OS X, most of the fields are not there, although they do register in the Control Browser. Any thoughts? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada It's not dark yet, But it's gettin' there. - Bob Dylan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Mod function
Hi Everyone, Just confirming that MC does not have a mod function. Right? So, I would use something like 5/2 - trunc(5/2) = 0.5 Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
MC as CGI
Where can I get inforomation and examples of using MC as a CGI? Regards, Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Currency format Draws from a Normal Distribution
Thanks everyone for the suggestion about the format() function to get currency formats. I never thought that such a seemingly small issue would generate such big response. Thanks too for the script for drawing from a Normal Distribution. Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ A hard C is better than a soft A. - Bill Cosby E-mail forum: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Pareto at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca Visit Borsa at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/Borsa_Classroom Crash site for notes and quizzes at http://homepage.mac.com/gregorylypny/ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Currency format
Hi, Is it possible to use MC's numberFormat function to display numbers in currency format, e.g., $23.87? Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Writing a file remotely
Thanks Andu and Ricardo for your advice on Mac-to-Mac file writing over TCP/IP. But how would it work, or could it work, for WinTel users with an MC stack writing to the Mac. (I think that rhymes.) Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Writing a file remotely
Hi Everyone, I'm tinkering with a stack that I hope will write data from one Mac to another. I thought I should be using put fld "Data To Be Sent" into \ URL "file://domain.name.ca/Distant Drive Name/Desktop Folder/Drop Box/fileName" where Drop Box is a folder on the receiving Mac with read and write file sharing privileges enabled over TCP/IP. I'm obviously doing something wrong in my muddling, and I imagine I have to establish a connection between the two machines first, but I'm not sure how. Any suggestions? Cheers, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "The key to a great solution is really mixing it up." - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus
Cases in the switch statement
Hi Everyone, Can the switch control structure handle inequalities in the cases, such as case = 0.235 ? Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Sockets
Thanks for the socket references. I've got some homework to do. Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Sockets
Hi Everyone, Where can I find a primer on sockets, something like "Sockets for Dummies" with lots of MetaCard examples. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Anonymous
Re: PreOpenStack Handler Interferes with Message Box
Hi John, Andu's solution appears to be working for me. In response to your question, my project consists of a main stack, which is essentially a splash screen for the purposes of creating a standalone, and a substack, which does all of the work and saves data. However, I have set up the substack using the stackFiles property. I'm bewildered that your solution using "exit preOpenStack" does not work. Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Anonymous From: John Kiltinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PreOpenStack Handler Interferes with Message Box Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:42:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andu wrote: Use: on preopenstack if the name of this stack is X then...[prompt me for the password] end preopenstack in reply to this from Gregory Lypny: Hi Everyone, I have a stack with a PreOpenStack handler that prompts the user for a password before the stack opens the first card. Very often when I'm editing the stack, my use of the Message Box causes the handler to be invoked inexplicably, prompting me for the password. I'd like to stop this. Any thoughts? Gregory's problem sounds very similar to one I had recently. In my case, the problem was that when substacks of a main stack are opened, they cause the messages preopenStack, openStack, openCard, etc. to be sent, and these get caught and processed by handlers of the main stack. (Gregory, is the message box you were working with one that was cloned and made a substack of your main stack. If so, your problem is exactly like mine.) I tried a solution of the sort that Andu proposes, but wasn't getting it to work. What finally did work was to put do-nothing handlers in the scripts for my substacks, such as: on preopenStack exit preopenStack end preopenStack on openStack exit openStack end openStack John Kiltinen John Kiltinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])Home Office Professor, Dept. of Math. CS Tel.(906) 228-8035 or (906) 227-1600 Northern Michigan University Fax (906) 228-4667 or (906) 2272010 Marquette, MI 49855 USA --- END metacard.v004.n385 ---
PreOpenStack Handler Interferes with Message Box
Hi Everyone, I have a stack with a PreOpenStack handler that prompts the user for a password before the stack opens the first card. Very often when I'm editing the stack, my use of the Message Box causes the handler to be invoked inexplicably, prompting me for the password. I'd like to stop this. Any thoughts? Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ A hard C is better than a soft A. - Bill Cosby Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Scrolling Many Fields
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to create a handler to synchronize the horizontal scrolling of two fields. I've written the following handler based on the online example to initialize the scrollbar. This works right up to the far right (end of the scrollbar) where the last column of data in the two fields is out of alignment. Any thoughts? on mouseUp set the endValue of scrollbar X to the formattedWidth of fld Y set the thumbSize of scrollbar X to the width of fld Y set the lineInc of scrollbar X to the effective width of fld Y set the pageInc of scrollbar X to the effective width of fld Y set the thumbPos of scrollbar X to 0 end mouseUp Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada It's not dark yet, But it's gettin' there. - Bob Dylan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: PreOpenStack Handler Interferes with Message Box
Thanks Andu, Sometimes the simplest solutions are the least obvious. Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition On Saturday, July 7, 2001, at 05:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PreOpenStack Handler Interferes with Message Box Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:09:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a stack with a PreOpenStack handler that prompts the user for a password before the stack opens the first card. Very often when I'm editing the stack, my use of the Message Box causes the handler to be invoked inexplicably, prompting me for the password. I'd like to stop this. Any thoughts? Use: on preopenstack if the name of this stack is X then...[prompt me for the password] end preopenstack Regards, Greg Andu Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Sorting a subset of lines in a field
Thanks for the good advice on the sort question. I've got it working like a charm. Greg Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Sorting a subset of lines in a field
Hi everyone, How do I sort a subset of lines in a a field? I've tried the handler below, but it gives an error. on mouseUp set the itemDelimiter to tab sort lines 2 to 5 of fld "merged results" by item 3 of each end mouseUp Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "I am just going outside and may be some time." - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition
Re: Family Behaviour for A Group of Buttons
Thanks Mattias Alveteg and Dave Cragg for your suggestions. What I'm trying to do is along the lines of what you responded to, Dave. I've implemented a similar script, but your is neater, so I'll borrow a bit of it. Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ The key to a great solution is really mixing it up. - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Getting file information
Hi Everyone, Does MetaCard have functions that get information about text files being read? I'm interested in knowing the size of files being opened. Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Anonymous Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Using URL to work with files
Hi Everyone, I discovered the URL method of file manipulation (yes, I'm a little slow). If I put a file into a container as in put URL (file: tPath) into tVariable do I need to close the file in a subsequent statement? Regards, Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ We live in a political world, Under the microscope, You can travel anywhere, Hang yourself there, You've always got more than enough rope. - Bob Dylan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Basic graphics questions
Hi Everyone, Can I set the icon of a button to a graphics object which I've created with MetaCard's draw tools? That is, this is an object of type "graphic" and not of type "image". I've noticed that the statement Set the icon of button "X" to graphic "Y" does nothing. I'm a beginner (obviously) in the graphics-in-MetaCard arena. I've imported a number of graphics created in Adobe Illustrator, but I'm not getting the quality I'd like to have. For example, I've imported graphics as JPEG, which were created at a "high" quality setting and a resolution equal to the screen depth. These appear in MetaCard as nice crisp images, but they are bounded by a white rectangle, which is a problem on non-white backgrounds. If I use MetaCard's colour tools and set the image's ink to transparent, the white rectangle is largely removed but some annoying white pixels remain on the perimeter of the image. Is there a best format for imported images? Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
When was the last digest sent out?
Hi Everyone, Weird things afoot with my lists. Haven't received a posting in a couple of days. When did the last one go out? Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
MetaCard Posting to FileMaker Web Forms
Hi Everyone, Big thanks to Tariel Gogoberidze for a lucid example of how to use MetaCard to post to a FileMaker web form. Best regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
MetaCard Posting to a Web Form
Hi Everyone, Is there an example script or stack I can look at to learn how use MetaCard as a helper application that will post information to a web form and submit the form, and also to get information from a web page (past postings to this list from Kevin suggested I use "get URL..." for the latter, which I've since tried successfully)? I serve some FileMaker databases (you can see them at http://rubbersoul.concordia.ca/pareto); but, while FileMaker is handy for simple database tasks on the web, like creating, finding, and viewing records, it's scripting capabilities are limited, and it makes more sense to use MetaCard as a "client-side" helper that would get updates from and post new information to the server (FileMaker). MetaCard would do all of the important data handling offline very effectively. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Greg ________ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University Montreal, Canada "It's not dark yet, But it's gettin' there." - Bob Dylan Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
