Re: LiveCode's http methods
Alain, I haven't heard your name in so long. Good to hear from you again. My son Jason and I are currently working on this very thing. I believe you've found your bounty-hunters. We'd love to explore CRUD via http. What we have to offer right now is what we've discovered uploading/downloading files in various file formats. It seems the only thing we're missing is delete. That is, if we can read we can certainly edit what we've read and thenPut, thus accomplishing the Update part of CRUD. Our next tasks include deleting files as well as creating and deleting directories, in addition to listing the contents of directories. We're working with standard Linux/Apache using MySql. Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Apr 17, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, Does LiveCode support HTTP-methods other than GET and POST ? IOW, does LiveCode support the following http-methods : HEAD, PUT, DELETE I'm asking because there are web-based CRUDs that could therefore be leveraged. Ex: Couch-DB CRUD = Create, Read, Update, Delete Create = PUT Read = GET Update = POST Delete = DELETE If it is not currently implemented, are there any bounty-hunters wishing to take this on ? Btw Couch-DB is a powerful noSQL database, open-source of-course, that is accessed via HTTP. It's speciality is replication and synchronization. Supports any topology: master-slave, peer-to-peer, etc. Couch stores everything as JSON, which is JavaScript's native data-exchange format. JSON is used by many applications. It's easy to generate, and easy to parse. This could REALLY open-up things for RunRev! :-)) Alain F. ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: I'm back!
Alain - I'll answer as best as I can, inline, below... On 9/20/2012 10:25 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, It's Alain, the HyperCard Pantechnicon host.. I have been using HyperCard since 1986, MetaCard 2.5 since 1996, but I never made the leap to RunRev, specifically LiveCode these days. Now I am seriously considering it, so I have some questions for y'all: * With MetaCard 2.5, above a [few] thousand cards, performance slowed down dramatically. Is Rev faster than this? Can Rev handle tens-of-thousands of cards? I believe so. Would it require Valentina? Does Rev support mySQL databases ? Drivers exist for some databases including Valentina. * MetaCard started in the UNIX world, was then ported to windows, then ported to Mac. Does Rev run on Linux? Does Rev run on Debian ? Yes to Linux. Not sure about Debian. * Rev's web plugin is available for which browsers ? FireFox ?IceWeasel? Chrome ? Unfortunately RunRev has discontinued all support of the plugin. It's currently broken with no plans from RunRev to fix it. * Is there a Rev licence that allows standalones ? If so, how much does it cost ? I think it's about $400. They might have lowered this fee. * Best way(s) to learn LiveCode ? Alain, as far as I can tell RunRev is concentrating all their efforts in the mobile app arena. You can of course still use Livecode to create traditional desktop apps, however, if you're looking to create web applications you're probably better off with something like Construct 2 which exports directly to HTML5. Regards, Ray Horsley Thanks y'all, and I hope that I will be joining you soon, :) Alain ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Still here
I still use Metacard quite a few hours daily. I've recently tried once again switching to Rev but it's a time consuming thing to do and there are parts of the MC IDE which I too appreciate such as the Control Browser. Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Aug 19, 2009, at 6:21 AM, Shari wrote: You can all help me a bit by simply encouraging me! After the release of the last IDE 3.5, the one with the complex datagrid support, I only got 1 (ONE/EINE/UNO/UN/EEN/UM) response/thank you/whatever, which is a tad disappointing and not really meant to encourage a volunteer! YO :-) Why wait? How about a HUGE round of applause right now! Woo hoo! One of my favorite parts of the MC IDE is the Control Browser. It gets me right where I want to go without a fuss. I struggle with the Rev browser, it just doesn't get me there as easily and I waste a lot of time hunting around trying to figure out where Rev would put my control. Yes I know that's old news, but it's one of my favorite aspects. There are so many. Like those students said, it doesn't get in my way. Exactly right. The MC list doesn't get much activity now that's its IDE only, all other stuff goes to the Rev list. But yes, we're still here, still loving the MC IDE, and very thankful that you are still making it possible. Shari -- Dogs and bears, sports and cars, and patriots t-shirts http://www.gityasome.com WlND0WS and MAClNT0SH shareware http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Span Tags in HTML
Thanks Brian but I'm afraid including the body tags doesn't render anything either. I've also tried including a document declaration as in the example below but I'm still getting nothing rendered. (That's the trouble when working with externals. You can't open them up to see what's going on.) Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software Example: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN html head titleTitle of the document/title /head body The content of the document.. /body /html On Feb 9, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: Ray, What happens if you include body tags? Your HTML probably won't render without them: put htmlbodypThis is an example./p/body/html into myHtmlDoc Greetings again, The RevBrowser external works great in Metacard, even as far back as 2.7.4. Nonetheless, I'm trying to pass in my own html document instead of a real web page and it doesn't respond. So, this works fine: put revBrowserOpen(tWinID,http://www.google.com;) into sBrowserId set the BrowserId of image BrowserImage to sBrowserId But this doesn't: put htmlpThis is an example./p/html into myHtmlDoc put revBrowserOpen(tWinID, myHtmlDoc) into sBrowserId set the BrowserId of image BrowserImage to sBrowserId Any ideas? Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Span Tags in HTML
David, Thanks for the functions! I'll send you some if I go this route and write any of my own. I just can't believe that the RevBrowser external doesn't allow for the rending of a local html doc passed through. Ray Horsley LinkIt! Sofware On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:40 AM, David Bovill wrote: 2009/2/10 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com Thanks Brian but I'm afraid including the body tags doesn't render anything either. I've also tried including a document declaration as in the example below but I'm still getting nothing rendered. (That's the trouble when working with externals. You can't open them up to see what's going on.) Any other ideas are welcome. Hi Ray - did a bit of work on this recently. AFAIK the only way is to process the raw html, and create your own htmltext. Here are the handlers I've got so far: -- HTML | Span - /* Strip span tags These functions replace html span tags such as those found in basic html / jabber / im html with tags for rev htmltext */ function html_BasicToRev someHtml put html_BoldSpanToRev(someHtml) into someHtml put html_ColourSpanToRev(someHtml) into someHtml return someHtml end html_BasicToRev function html_RevToBasic someHtmlText put html_RevToColourSpan(someHtmlText) into someHtml return html_RevToBoldSpan(someHtml) end html_RevToBasic function html_RevToColourSpan someHtml replace quote with ' in someHtml put (?miU)(font color=').*(/font) into someReg repeat if matchchunk(someHtml, someReg, oTagStart, oTagEnd, cTagStart, cTagEnd) is true then put /span into char cTagStart to cTagEnd of someHtml put span style='color: into char oTagStart to oTagEnd of someHtml else replace quote with ' in someHtml return someHtml end if end repeat end html_RevToColourSpan function html_RevToBoldSpan someHtml put (?miU)(b).*(/b) into someReg -- put (?mi)(b)[^\]*(/b) into someReg repeat if matchchunk(someHtml, someReg, oTagStart, oTagEnd, cTagStart, cTagEnd) is true then put /span into char cTagStart to cTagEnd of someHtml put span style='font-weight:bold' into char oTagStart to oTagEnd of someHtml else return someHtml end if end repeat end html_RevToBoldSpan function html_ColourSpanToRev someHtml -- U is for non-greedy replace quote with ' in someHtml put (?miU)(span style='color:).*(/span) into someReg -- put (?mi)(span style='color:)[^\]*(/span) into someReg repeat if matchchunk(someHtml, someReg, oTagStart, oTagEnd, cTagStart, cTagEnd) is true then put /font into char cTagStart to cTagEnd of someHtml put font color=' into char oTagStart to oTagEnd of someHtml else replace ' with quote in someHtml return someHtml end if end repeat end html_ColourSpanToRev function html_BoldSpanToRev someHtml put (?miU)(span style='font-weight:bold').*(/span) into someReg -- put (?mi)(span style='font-weight:bold')[^\]*(/span) into someReg repeat if matchchunk(someHtml, someReg, oTagStart, oTagEnd, cTagStart, cTagEnd) is true then put /b into char cTagStart to cTagEnd of someHtml put b into char oTagStart to oTagEnd of someHtml else return someHtml end if end repeat end html_BoldSpanToRev If you improve them do post back. I'm interested in getting robust two way html span to rev htmltext based style sheets working :) ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Span Tags in HTML
Dave,Ken, Thanks for the boost. I've got it rendering now. Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Feb 10, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 10 Feb 2009, at 04:40, Ray Horsley wrote: But this doesn't: put htmlpThis is an example./p/html into myHtmlDoc put revBrowserOpen(tWinID, myHtmlDoc) into sBrowserId set the BrowserId of image BrowserImage to sBrowserId Ray, try with revBrowserSet, using the htmltext property. E.g. put htmlpThis is an example./p/html into tHtml put revBrowserOpen(the windowID of this stack) into tBID put 0,0,200,100 into tRect revBrowserSet tBID, rect, tRect revBrowserSet tBID, htmltext, tHtml Cheers Dave ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Span Tags in HTML
Greetings,
Anyone with any ideas on how to use span tags when setting the
htmlText of a fld? Example:
html
head
style type=text/css
span.blue {color:lightskyblue;font-weight:bold}
span.green {color:darkolivegreen;font-weight:bold}
/style
/head
body
pMy mother has span class=bluelight blue/span eyes and my
father has span class=greendark green/span eyes./p
/body
/html
This works fine in any browser, but setting the htmlText of a fld
ignores the span tags.
Thanks,
Ray Horsley
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Re: Span Tags in HTML
Greetings again,
The RevBrowser external works great in Metacard, even as far back as
2.7.4. Nonetheless, I'm trying to pass in my own html document
instead of a real web page and it doesn't respond. So, this works fine:
put revBrowserOpen(tWinID,http://www.google.com;) into
sBrowserId
set the BrowserId of image BrowserImage to sBrowserId
But this doesn't:
put htmlpThis is an example./p/html into myHtmlDoc
put revBrowserOpen(tWinID, myHtmlDoc) into sBrowserId
set the BrowserId of image BrowserImage to sBrowserId
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software
On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
Anyone with any ideas on how to use span tags when setting the
htmlText of a fld? Example:
html
head
style type=text/css
span.blue {color:lightskyblue;font-weight:bold}
span.green {color:darkolivegreen;font-weight:bold}
/style
/head
body
pMy mother has span class=bluelight blue/span eyes and my
father has span class=greendark green/span eyes./p
/body
/html
This works fine in any browser, but setting the htmlText of a fld
ignores the span tags.
Sorry, Ray... the htmlText of a field only has limited HTML support,
and
span tags aren't one of them, nor is any CSS. You'd have to
replace your
span tags with old-style font tags in order to get what you
want, so you
could do something like this (assuming field 1 contains the actual
HTML and
you want to render it into field 2):
-- watch line wraps
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into tData
put replaceText(tData,style.*/style,) into tData
replace format(span class=\blue\) with format(font
color=\lightblue\b) in tData
replace format(span class=\green\) with format(font
color=\darkolivegreen\b) in tData
replace /span with /b/font in tData
set the htmlText of fld 2 to tData
end mouseUp
HTH,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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Re: Font Chooser in MC-IDE 2.9 and 3.0b
Jackeuline, can you help me out? What are the new arrays? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Klaus Major wrote: Ken, I was wondering if you had any plans to update the variable watcher so it works with the new arrays? I'm not sure what the best way to do that is, and it would be a huge undertaking, but it sure would be nice to have. If you are willing to tackle that, then maybe it could go out with the 3.0 IDE too? Sorry, I'm afraid I do not have the time for this task. Me either. But more importantly, I don't have the brains for this task. :) I think we need Ken. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [SPAM] Avoiding openField on resumeStack
David, Try setting the traversalOn property of the field to false. Ra Horsley LinkIt! Software On Jan 12, 2008, at 6:50 PM, David Epstein wrote: MC 2.2 on Mac OSX 10.4. While observing the message watcher, I click on the titleBar of a (not frontmost) stack that contains an unlocked field. The message watcher shows these two messages: resumeStack openField and the unlocked field gets a blinking insertion point. How can I suppress this behavior? I only want an insertion point if the user clicks on the unlocked field itself, not if he simply brings the stack to the front. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: strange error in MC IDE script editor
Greetings, This has been going on with m copy of 2.7.4 for several years. I hit the enter key, I get an error report that there's something wrong with the script, I look for the error, can't find it, hit the enter key again, and she closes just fine. As far as I can tell it has something to do with editing how the script was typed in. It seems the engine is still seeing text you've typed and deleted. I've grown used to it, but if anybody can provide a fix it sure would be nice. Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, I am encountering some errors when closing script windows with the ENTER key in the MC IDE 2.8.5. But this buggered me spoaradically with earlier version if I remember right. This does not happen with all scripts and when I hit ENTER the second time, it closes without error?! This is the error: missing '' after literal Line: 0 Column: 0 ? What difference might the engine see in the first time hitting ENTER and the second time I hit the ENTER key? Anyone seen this, too? Any hints are very appreciated, this drives me crazy :-) Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Color of text when it's hilited
One of the longest standing thorns in my side is developing on the Mac, then viewing the app on Windows and getting reminded that Metacard has the nasty habit of changing the color of text, when it's hilited, to something really light. Text is usually black so it makes sense to set the highlight color of the background block surrounding the text when it's hilited to something light like a light blue so the black text itself can still be red when it's hilited against the light blue background. Looks great on a Mac. Move it to Windows, highlight your text, and the color of the text itself also changes to some other color I never specified, usually something light, so you lose your contrast and can't read the text. Any ideas on how to put this to bed once and for all? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Screen Resolution
On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:33:07 -0400, Ray Horsley wrote: Ken, this is on Mac OSX and Windows (no Linux). OK, for OS X you can download and implement Jon's Commands X with AppleScript (http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/). He has an AppleScript command called screen list that lets you get data on one or more screens, and set screens to to change them. Or you can use the 'cscreen' command line application, although the original developer has gone off the grid and his site is nowhere to be found (but you might be able to scare it up with a web search). For Windows, you can use one of these three third-party command line executables (MultiRes, Resolution Changer, or VidRes): http://www.entechtaiwan.com/files/multires.exe http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/1365Vidchng.zip http://www.jddesign.co.uk/ HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Screen Resolution
Your always very helpful, Ken. Thanks, Ray On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:33:07 -0400, Ray Horsley wrote: Ken, this is on Mac OSX and Windows (no Linux). OK, for OS X you can download and implement Jon's Commands X with AppleScript (http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/). He has an AppleScript command called screen list that lets you get data on one or more screens, and set screens to to change them. Or you can use the 'cscreen' command line application, although the original developer has gone off the grid and his site is nowhere to be found (but you might be able to scare it up with a web search). For Windows, you can use one of these three third-party command line executables (MultiRes, Resolution Changer, or VidRes): http://www.entechtaiwan.com/files/multires.exe http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/1365Vidchng.zip http://www.jddesign.co.uk/ HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [SPAM] Re: Screen Resolution
Ken, this is on Mac OSX and Windows (no Linux). Thanks for your interest, Ray On Apr 20, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:54:10 -0400, Ray Horsley wrote: Anybody have a way to present users with available screen resolutions and then get the current resolution, change switch to the one chosen? I'm concerned many of my school teacher end users aren't familiar with how to do this using their system software so it might be nice to offer them the option of doing this from my standalone, then returning it to their previous setting on quitting. Is this on Macs, PCs, Linux... all of the above? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Screen Resolution
Anybody have a way to present users with available screen resolutions and then get the current resolution, change switch to the one chosen? I'm concerned many of my school teacher end users aren't familiar with how to do this using their system software so it might be nice to offer them the option of doing this from my standalone, then returning it to their previous setting on quitting. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RevCreateXmlTree and RevXmlNodeContents
Greetings, I'm working with some calls available in Revolution but not in Metacard such as the revCreateXmlTree() function and the revXmlNodeContents() function. Do these functions exist in a stack somewhere that comes with the Revolution distribution or are they an inherent part of Revolution which simply can not be used in Metacard? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [SPAM] Re: RevCreateXmlTree and RevXmlNodeContents
Thanks for the help! I'm trying to open the file named RevXml.Bundle from within Rev 2.7.4 and Metacard 2.7.4 and unable to, getting the error in the result stack was produced b a newer version. This happens with both theRevXml.Bundle from Revolution 2.7.2 and 2.7.4. Any ideas? thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ray and Richard, Ray Horsley wrote: I'm working with some calls available in Revolution but not in Metacard such as the revCreateXmlTree() function and the revXmlNodeContents() function. Do these functions exist in a stack somewhere that comes with the Revolution distribution or are they an inherent part of Revolution which simply can not be used in Metacard? Those libraries are part of the Rev IDE stacks, so their handlers aren't normally accessible in MC. A short-term solution is Ken's great XML library: http://sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm For the long-term, I've been working on an experimental fork of the MC IDE which I'm tentatively calling M2. Among the other things I've been experimenting with is the ability to load Rev's runtime libraries for use within MC, and to include those as options in the standalone builder. It'll be some time before it's ready for public consumption, but when it is I suspect the Rev compatibility module will be completed in a way that will make it easy to contribute as an MC plugin. Actually revCreateXMLTree etc. are part of the EXTERNALS, which can be used with MetaCard without problems, I have worked this way many time! I still cannot get used to the Rev IDE, spoiled by many years with MetaCard ;-) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: RevCreateXmlTree and RevXmlNodeContents
Ahh. I'm thinking of this file as a stack like LibURL. Evidently not. Thanks, On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ray, Thanks for the help! I'm trying to open the file named RevXml.Bundle ??? You are trying to OPEN the external? Did I understand you correctly? You should set the externals of your stack(s) to that file... from within Rev 2.7.4 and Metacard 2.7.4 and unable to, getting the error in the result stack was produced b a newer version. This happens with both theRevXml.Bundle from Revolution 2.7.2 and 2.7.4. Any ideas? thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: RevCreateXmlTree and RevXmlNodeContents
on mouseUp set the externals of this stack to [file path to revxml.bundle] end mouseUp Still doesn't let me execute handlers using these functions. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ray, Thanks for the help! I'm trying to open the file named RevXml.Bundle ??? You are trying to OPEN the external? Did I understand you correctly? You should set the externals of your stack(s) to that file... from within Rev 2.7.4 and Metacard 2.7.4 and unable to, getting the error in the result stack was produced b a newer version. This happens with both theRevXml.Bundle from Revolution 2.7.2 and 2.7.4. Any ideas? thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: RevCreateXmlTree and RevXmlNodeContents
Much thanks, Klaus. On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ray, on mouseUp set the externals of this stack to [file path to revxml.bundle] end mouseUp Still doesn't let me execute handlers using these functions. What am I doing wrong? You are a bit impatient that's all ;-) After you set the external of your stack, save it and close it. Then after opening the stack again, you are ready to use all the command/finctions the external provides. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Charting
Does anybody have any suggestions for a charting tool which could be distributed with a standalone? Something which numbers and text could be plugged into to produce dazzling 3-D line, dot, bar, column, and pie charts would be nice. thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Which port does LibUrl use
Greetings two days in a row! Many of my clients have a variety of security systems or settings in place which block LibUrl's calls to put and get from our remote server. From time to time I get asked whether my standalone uses port 80 or not. I've also been asked if it could use http protocol instead of ftp (which is what I believe LibUrl is using). Can anybody shed some light on this for me? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Can't upload a Mac OSX App using 'put url'
Greetings all, Some of my clients are having trouble opening StuffIt files so I've written a small stack which uploads for me and downloads for the client my uncompressed standalone and support files. It runs via FTP protocol using Lib URL's simple 'put url...' command. Everything uploads and downloads fine except the Mac OSX app, which is actually a 'package', more of a folder than it is an app, although I still don't fully understand Apple's point in the 'package'. Can anybody provide some insight here? Do I really need to open the whole 'package' and deal with each folder and file in it, or can I upload and download this in one 'put url' command? Thanks for any insight into this, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: UB standalones - update
I wrestled with it for a while and I believe I broke down and ended up making my standalone in Rev instead. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Dec 5, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm testing w/2.7.4, trying to make a standalone with the latest MC IDE. After following the steps to set up the runtime engines (as outlined in Ken's doc), I can build the standalone successfully but it doesn't run. What might I be missing? Since then I've gone through the process a second time, downloading a new copy of the IDE, making a new runtime engine to build from, and even including Jacque's plist file which works for her to make sure it isn't that. Still no go. Tereza has mentioned a similar experience. How many of you are able to sucessfully make v2.7 builds in MC? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [ANN] ErrorLib 1.0.1
Can you give me a link to this page. I'm unfamiliar with the Economy- x-talk area. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Dec 1, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Dear MetaCard users, An ErrorLib user reported a problem with ErrorLib, which we have fixed. We have also added a new feature. ErrorLib is a shareware library which gives you control of execution errors. With ErrorLib, you decide whether errors are reported and how they are reported. Password protected stacks no longer hamper bug reports from your clients and you will get all error information Revolution can possibly provide. With errorLib, you have a simple light-weight set of scripts that you can include with your standalones and use in your IDE. The execution error dialog will no longer lock up your IDE if you use errorLib instead. You can easily parse error information and display the error, using either the built-in routines of errorLib or your own custom error dialog. New in this version: - a problem causing the error log files to be useless has been fixed - the log file now also includes information about platform and machine - errors were sometimes parsed as “theParsedData” but are now parsed correctly You can download ErrorLib from the Developers section of the Economy-x-Talk homepage. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Consultant and Software Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.economy-x-talk.com eHUG coordinator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ehug.info Advertise with us and reach 1000 truely interested internet users every month. See http://economy-x-talk.com/advertise.html for more information. ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Text Color on Mac and Windows
Thanks, Dave. I'm sure that would work. It just seems like an inconvenience to have to do all the time when writing for both platforms. I wonder why the inconsistency? Ray On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 8 Nov 2006, at 20:54, Ray Horsley wrote: Here's one of those things that's bothered me for some time now. On the Mac I create a list behavior field, leave the default text color as black and set the highlight color as something light, like a light blue, to contrast against the black text. Then I look at it on Windows and discover that highlighting a line of text in the field there turns it white which is all but unreadable against a light blue highlight color. Anybody know how to stop text in a list behavior field from turning white when clicked on Windows? Try setting the text color of the text in the field rather than the color of the field itself. (Make any sense??) Like this: set the forecolor of char 1 to -1 of field 1 to 0,0,0 Cheers Dave ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Reading from Excel Files
Greetings,I'm using "open file myPath for binary read" to read an Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I believe it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format. If I save the Excel file as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it fine. The problem is I have about 500 of these file. To manually convert all of them would be extremely time consuming.Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the garbage characters?Thanks,Ray horsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! Software___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Reading from Excel Files
Never got into AppleScript. That's not a bad idea, though.On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:37 PM, jbv wrote:Ray , If you're on Mac, I've you tried some applescript to convert all your excel files to tab/return test files ? JB Greetings, I'm using "open file myPath for binary read" to read an Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I believe it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format. If I save the Excel file as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it fine. The problem is I have about 500 of these file. To manually convert all of them would be extremely time consuming. Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the garbage characters?___metacard mailing listmetacard@lists.runrev.comhttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
Thanks, Jacqueline. Just one last thing, where can I find the engine I need to create the classic standalone? My version 2.6.1 is for OSX which has the bundle instead of a classic style app. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: Thanks to all for ideas on this. After changing the stackFileVersion for these stacks, where do I find the engine to use when creating the standalone which will run on Mac OS 9? I think you'll have to use the 2.6.1 engine, that's the most recent Classic I could find. If your stacks use any 2.7 features, I'm afraid you may be out of luck. If it helps, the team knows they need to do a Classic release soon (as well as some of the unixes.) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
Thanks, Jackie. I downloaded all of these engines, but I just got documents. They're unavailable when selecting an engine in Metacard's standalone builder. However, I downloaded the "Revolution 2.6.1.sit file in the Distributions folder and that engine seems to be giving be an OS9 application.Thanks for your help,Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! SoftwareOn Oct 21, 2006, at 3:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/2.6.1/MacOSfat.dir.gz ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
Thanks to all for ideas on this. After changing the stackFileVersion for these stacks, where do I find the engine to use when creating the standalone which will run on Mac OS 9?Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! SoftwareOn Oct 19, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Klaus Major wrote:Hi Ray, I can try this, setting the stackFileVersion to "2.4". you could write a little repeat loop which iopens all these "new" stacks andsave them in old format:...set the stackFileVersion to "2.4"lock messages ##!!!repeat for each line i in fld "list of all the new (2.7) stacks with full pathnames" toplevel stack i save stack i close stack iend repeat...Not tested, but should work.(Famous last words ;-) Just two quickies. Why not set it to 2.6.6 which was the last version of MC I used before upgrading? There is no stackFileVersion "2.6.6" ;-), only stackfileversion "2.4" which was used until version 2.7 of Revand "2.7" which is used from version 2.7x of Rev. There had been a change in the fileformat. The other question is, will I find any speed decreases in doing this? Don't think so. I'm thoroughly enjoying my new MacPro quad Intel running 2.7. I'd hate to loose any of that speed, although I believe all the speed is coming from the app, not the stacks.Thanks,Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! Software RegardsKlaus Major[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.major-k.de___metacard mailing listmetacard@lists.runrev.comhttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
Anybody know where I can get an engine to build a Mac OS 9 stand alone using stacks saved in 2.7 (not legacy)? I work with schools, many of which tend to hang on to old technology for a long time. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
Ouch! Is there any work around for this at all? We've got hundreds of public school tests which are 2.7 stacks, but many schools which are still running 9.x. Is the only option (other than telling them they have to upgrade) maintaining two separate piles of all these tests? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 19, 2006, at 1:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: Anybody know where I can get an engine to build a Mac OS 9 stand alone using stacks saved in 2.7 (not legacy)? There isn't one yet, I'm afraid. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mac OS 9 Stand Alone Engine
I can try this, setting the stackFileVersion to 2.4. Just two quickies. Why not set it to 2.6.6 which was the last version of MC I used before upgrading? The other question is, will I find any speed decreases in doing this? I'm thoroughly enjoying my new MacPro quad Intel running 2.7. I'd hate to loose any of that speed, although I believe all the speed is coming from the app, not the stacks. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 19, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi all, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: Ouch! Is there any work around for this at all? We've got hundreds of public school tests which are 2.7 stacks, but many schools which are still running 9.x. Is the only option (other than telling them they have to upgrade) maintaining two separate piles of all these tests? Unless your app requires features unique to v2.7, you can have your v2.7 app simply save them in the older format using the global property which governs that: set the stackFileVersion to 2.4 That's my suggestion too. Also, note that we've added a preference in the Prefs dialog that lets you set the stackfileversion permanently. Just check that, re-save all your stacks, and you should be good to go. Ray Horsley clearly wrote: - We've got hundreds of public school tests which are 2.7 stacks... He wants to open existing stacks stacks in new (2.7) format, not save new stacks in old format. Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can't assign App and Doc icons building stand alone
Please don't apologize, Klaus. I just downloaded the latest and it works fine now. Your work is greatly appreciated! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 10, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Klaus Major wrote: HI all, oh my god, how embarrassing :-( Apologies to all for the inconveniences! I corrected this mistake and will upload the fixed IDE to the Yahoo group immediately. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: New Variable Watcher
I'm looking for the new Variable Watcher, clicking 'Files' after logging in to Yahoo Groups, but somehow I'm missing it. Where is it? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can't assign App and Doc icons building stand alone
The error I've always gotten is Icon is the wrong size. If I copy the SB from 2.6b12 will this solve the problem? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 9, 2006, at 6:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ken Ray wrote: On 10/8/06 1:19 PM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, did you get a chance to bugzilla this? Let me know if there's anything I can do to help resolve this. Yes, bug #3895... The problem is that the older SB was accidentally included in the IDE 2.7 archive, looks like. I just checked out 2.6b12 and 2.7 and the 2.6b12 SB is the correct one. Just a simple oops. There is a lot to keep track of in there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can't assign App and Doc icons building stand alone
Ken, did you get a chance to bugzilla this? Let me know if there's anything I can do to help resolve this. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 8, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ken and all, On 10/5/06 8:48 PM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problems once again with assigning desktop icons. This time it's the application's icon during the build of the Windows stand alone which is not cooperating. I thought I had created the right 16X16 .ico files. They worked with Metacard 2.6. But suddenly that's broken. Actually, I'm running into the same problem - I have full icon sets (created in Iconographer) for Windows that have worked great up until 2.7 and now don't. I get an error that they're the wrong size; when I get info in the Finder, they're 26,588 bytes, but MC 2.7.4 asks for 25086 bytes. Oddly enough, the same bad icons, work fine in Rev 2.7.4. Anyone else experiencing this, or has anyone else successfully built a Windows standalone with icons in 2.7.4? just did a short test, and yes, 2.7.4 throws an error that the three 32 bit icons are missing in the icon file, but they are definitively there! Did the test with MC, so it IS an engine issue. The error text must be coming from the engine, since this error string is definitively NOT in the script of the standalone building routine of MetaCard! Oh my god scotland, big fun :-/ Could you please bugzilla thgis, Ken? Thanks. I am a bit in a hurry. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
How to Build Stand Alones Using 2.7.4
My apologies if I missed a recent thread on this. Is there a recipe somewhere for building stand alones in 2.7.4? Errors: File [path into app's bundle] is not a Metacard engine. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: How to Build Stand Alones Using 2.7.4
Klaus, thanks a lot! Building stand alones is now much less tedious without having to edit the pList files.Just two other things: I'm assuming the PowerPC-32 engine produces a stand alone for the Mac OSX platform, and the Universal engine produces a stand alone for the Mac Intel platform. I'm not sure what the x86-32 engine for. Any light you can shed on this is appreciated.Thanks,Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! SoftwareOn Oct 5, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Klaus Major wrote:Hi Ray, My apologies if I missed a recent thread on this. Is there a recipe somewhere for building stand alones in 2.7.4?Errors: File [path into app's bundle] is not a Metacard engine. please take a look at the Yahoo MC IDE group.There you will find explicit info about this topic.http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/Drop a line if you do not want to register for this group and I will sendyou the infos directly. Thanks,Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! Software BestKlaus Major[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.major-k.de___metacard mailing listmetacard@lists.runrev.comhttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Can't assign App and Doc icons building stand alone
Problems once again with assigning desktop icons. This time it's the application's icon during the build of the Windows stand alone which is not cooperating. I thought I had created the right 16X16 .ico files. They worked with Metacard 2.6. But suddenly that's broken. Anybody? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: New Variable Watcher
Thanks, Ken, for your attention regarding the VW. Generally speaking, the inherently close relationship between the VW and the Script Editor [SE] beckon several questions. Typically throughout my day I open the SE without opening the VW and write my scripts. I then run them with the debugger on, in which case I nearly always want the VW open. I assume a lot of us work this way but I'm not sure since I never stand over anybody's shoulder and look. But if my assumption is correct I think the following short list would greatly increase productivity and eliminate a lot of repetitive chores: 1) When the SE opens in debug mode the VW should automatically open -- or at least have a keyboard shortcut to open it 2) When closing the SE the VW should also close -- a keyboard shortcut to close here would also be nice 3) Keyboard shortcuts typed after clicking in the VW should pass through to the SE The last one of these would really be a welcome addition since it can be quite exasperating to click somewhere in the VW during debugging, then forget to click in the SE and instead just type a keyboard shortcut to step to the next line of script. The whole script runs and blows all the work you just did positioning windows and so forth to debug. This area also brings up the question, why does the command-M shortcut to step through a script never work in the out-of- the-box McTools.mc stack? I always have to change this to command-D (easier to do with the left hand) and then trap for it in both the VW as well as the SE. On a note of appreciation, I really like the new VW's ability to remember not only where I left it on screen, but also the height of the fields within it. I use to add my own handlers for this, too. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Ken Ray wrote: I have uploaded a new build of the Variable Watcher to the MC_IDE group in the Files area (in the Extras folder) that fixes a bug in the VW where you would get a Parameter is not a variable error if you tried to bring up the VW and you had either a variable where there should be a quoted string (like set the decorations of this stack to title) or where you accidentally named a variable the same as a reserved word (like put 123 into tExt). If you leave the VW open when not debugging, it normally displays the globals in the state they were in when you stopped debugging, but they didn't update if you changed them subsequent to that. A new feature has been added that the VW will update its global list when you pass the mouse over any of the fields in the VW. If you run into any other problems, or have any other suggestions for the VW, please let me know. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: New Variable Watcher
Thanks Ken. I was unaware of the VW's context menu. I agree it would be great to add some way to store those choices as preferences. Future additions to the context menu such as auto opening and closing could also be stored. For right now I'm happy having altered the Step Over menu to command-D and setting up command- E to open the VW. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/4/06 7:19 AM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Ken, for your attention regarding the VW. You're welcome! :-) Generally speaking, the inherently close relationship between the VW and the Script Editor [SE] beckon several questions. Typically throughout my day I open the SE without opening the VW and write my scripts. I then run them with the debugger on, in which case I nearly always want the VW open. I assume a lot of us work this way but I'm not sure since I never stand over anybody's shoulder and look. I agree with you... I do the same thing. But if my assumption is correct I think the following short list would greatly increase productivity and eliminate a lot of repetitive chores: 1) When the SE opens in debug mode the VW should automatically open -- or at least have a keyboard shortcut to open it 2) When closing the SE the VW should also close -- a keyboard shortcut to close here would also be nice This would be a great optional addition to the VW/SE - I'm not sure if you're aware, but the VW has a context menu that lets you change the font, text size, and colors used for different kinds of tokens, as well as bringing up the Execution Contexts window (just Control/Right-click on any field in the VW). Obviously I need to store those preferences, so I could add two preferences to AutoOpen and AutoClose the VW in that menu so they could be set to each person's individual tastes. 3) Keyboard shortcuts typed after clicking in the VW should pass through to the SE Command-keys in the SE are flaky right now... and I'm not sure if it's an SE thing or a MetaCard/focus thing. I'll see what I can do about passing command-keys from the VW to the SE. The last one of these would really be a welcome addition since it can be quite exasperating to click somewhere in the VW during debugging, then forget to click in the SE and instead just type a keyboard shortcut to step to the next line of script. The whole script runs and blows all the work you just did positioning windows and so forth to debug. Been there, done that! ;-) This area also brings up the question, why does the command-M shortcut to step through a script never work in the out-of- the-box McTools.mc stack? I always have to change this to command-D (easier to do with the left hand) and then trap for it in both the VW as well as the SE. The reason is that it was a poor choice of command keys because when the SE is open, it still has the MC menubar, so typing a command-key that corresponds to an existing menu item in the menubar seems to get routed there and not to the SE sometimes. I'll see if there's anything I can do to stabilize that... On a note of appreciation, I really like the new VW's ability to remember not only where I left it on screen, but also the height of the fields within it. I use to add my own handlers for this, too. This goes along with being able to store the VW prefs I was mentioning above... Once that was possible, saving the sizes/positions/colors/font/etc. was cake. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Fixed VW is up
Just downloaded and test drove the new Variable Watcher, Ken. 'sWonderful I don't know how new some of these other features are. Maybe a missed something a while back, but I especially like the ability to click a variable in the Script Editor and have the Variable Watcher respond. Saves a lot of hunting in lengthy scripts. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Fixed the bug I'd mentioned in my last email... it's good to go now (same place as before). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: New Variable Watcher
Absolutely, Ken. I for one would find such an addition very useful. On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/4/06 9:25 AM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) When closing the SE the VW should also close -- a keyboard shortcut to close here would also be nice Obviously I need to store those preferences, so I could add two preferences to AutoOpen and AutoClose the VW in that menu so they could be set to each person's individual tastes. Actually I looked into it, and it would be very difficult to tag the closure of the VW to the closing of the SE, since it is possible (and I do it frequently) to have multiple SE windows open (as I'm tracing through things for example) and to be able to tag the VW to a specific SE. However, I *could* close the VW when your debugging session is over (like if you close the script you're debugging, or choose Abort). Would that work for you, Ray? Obviously it would be an option that people could turn on or off, and defaults to off... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Modified Script Editor
Here's a good head scratcher. The recent thread about upgrading to 2.7.4 was incentive for me to finally do so. Everything went smoothly and I made various personal changes I prefer such as adding the keyboard shortcut command-E to the Script Editor so I can easily open the Variable Watcher during debugging. Then when I used it, only in certain scripts, I got the error:Keys: Parameter is not a variableIt appears the offending line in my script was: set the decorations of stack "•Standards•" to titleIf I make "title" a literal, as in: set the decorations of stack "•Standards•" to "title"I have no more problems, for the moment.Anybody got any ideas?Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! SoftwareMacPro, Quad Core Xeon, 10.4.7, MetaCard, 10.7.4___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Modified Script Editor
Thanks for the insight, Jackie. I'm usually pretty good about avoiding the use of reserved words. This was a case where I thought the engine actually needed to see the reserved word without the quotes. After all, that's how it worked with previous versions of the engine. Anyway, live and learn. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: Here's a good head scratcher. The recent thread about upgrading to 2.7.4 was incentive for me to finally do so. Everything went smoothly and I made various personal changes I prefer such as adding the keyboard shortcut command-E to the Script Editor so I can easily open the Variable Watcher during debugging. Then when I used it, only in certain scripts, I got the error: Keys: Parameter is not a variable It appears the offending line in my script was: set the decorations of stack •Standards• to title If I make title a literal, as in: set the decorations of stack •Standards• to title I have no more problems, for the moment. Anybody got any ideas? I get this same error all the time, and Ken finally cleared it up for me the other day. In your example, title is a reserved word in Revolution, and without the quotes it is seen by the debugger as an invalid variable name. Decorations are supposed to be in quotes anyway; not putting them in quotes is handled in a forgiving fashion by the engine in some cases but not in all. In my case, I was using a variable called tExt (for storing the extension of a file name) and the engine saw it as the word text -- also a reserved word and therefore not a variable. Gotta watch those. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Good new features - Rev IDE
I'm enjoying following your discoveries in Revolution, Shari. One of the things I recall missing in the Rev IDE a while back was the Control Browser. This feature in Metacard was and continues to be the easiest way I know of to open the script of a grouped object. Without it I was a little put out in the Rev IDE. Have you found an easy way to edit the scripts of grouped objects? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Shari wrote: Working in the Rev IDE to help familiarize myself with all the changes and new features. Found a happy change. With a script open, can save the stack with Command-S. In my old version of MC, Command-S with the script open told it to search the script. Good new feature :-) Another happy change is the ability to hit Command-M with the script open, and get the message box. Previously it added something to the script itself, I do not recall, maybe on mouseUp/end mouseUp? Another good new feature :-) I miss the buttons at the top of the script that let me view all the handlers, though. I know I can turn on this list in a field at the left of the script. But this means to either widen the script window, or narrow the area for script editing. Miss this feature a LOT :-( Shari -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Displaying Stacks in Browsers
My most sincere thanks to all who have replied to my inquiry regarding the display of stacks in a browser. Some very creative ideas came out of this, especially those presented by Bill Burman. Richard Gaskin's approach was also very helpful. It's been a very interesting thread. Thanks to all who responded! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Displaying Stacks in Browsers
Greetings, It may sound a bit dreamy, but does anybody know of a way to display a stack in a browser for normal interactive use with the cgi processing the input? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Metacard to Revolution
Anybody know where to post questions regarding moving from Metacard to Revolution? It seems there should be a Revolution mailing list to post these kinds of questions to instead of here on the Metacard mailing list. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard to Revolution
Thanks Richard. By the way, what's the latest version of Metacard and where can I download it? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: Maybe I mis-worded my request. I'm not really 'moving away' from using Metacard. Instead, I just intended to 'add Revolution' to the list of tools I use. I purchased an enterprise license a few years back but I never took the time to really get set up using Revolution. Recently, Heather tempted me with an attractive upgrade offer, so I purchased it and I'm now trying once again to get set up so I can use either tool. I'm assuming each one has its pros and cons, I'd just like to broaden my horizons a bit as they say and have both available. In any event I am definitely still an avid 14+ hour a day Metacard IDE user and fan, and will more than likely remain so. Hope this is helpful, Very. If you find things in Rev that are especially useful please drop a note here so we can consider adding them to either MC IDE or my own variant of it. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Disappearing windows
On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On Mac OS X, using the RC-1 IDE, I have twice had all visible windows disappear on me entirely. I accidentally double-clicked on (I think) the message box's titlebar and everything went away. The MC icon in the dock does not show any windows in its contextual menu, so I can't get them back. The message box is hidden so I can't type any commands. The only way out is to quit MetaCard. MC knows the stacks are there and asks if I want to save them (thank god) but I have to quit and restart. When I re-open the stack I was working on, it has been saved as invisible and I have to issue a show command to see it. This sounds like it might be related to Klaus' changes that minimize all open windows when only one is minimized, except that none of these stacks appear in the dock, so they aren't really minimized, they are just invisible. I don't have time right now to track down where the handler is and check it, but I'm hoping someone else has seen this and knows where to change it. Klaus? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Disappearing windows
By george you're right, Jacqueline. I'm getting the exact same behavior by double-clicking the message box's title bar. I'm using IDE version 2.6b12, engine 2.6.6, build number 152. I never noticed that before. I'll goof around a little with it to see if I can trace it. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On Mac OS X, using the RC-1 IDE, I have twice had all visible windows disappear on me entirely. I accidentally double-clicked on (I think) the message box's titlebar and everything went away. The MC icon in the dock does not show any windows in its contextual menu, so I can't get them back. The message box is hidden so I can't type any commands. The only way out is to quit MetaCard. MC knows the stacks are there and asks if I want to save them (thank god) but I have to quit and restart. When I re-open the stack I was working on, it has been saved as invisible and I have to issue a show command to see it. This sounds like it might be related to Klaus' changes that minimize all open windows when only one is minimized, except that none of these stacks appear in the dock, so they aren't really minimized, they are just invisible. I don't have time right now to track down where the handler is and check it, but I'm hoping someone else has seen this and knows where to change it. Klaus? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Sending E-mail
Thanks. I've downloaded several of the lib... files from the libraries page of this site, but none of them open in Metacard or Revolution on my Mac OSX. The document type is listed as a .php (Hypertext Preprocessor) document and double-clicking them attempts to open Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Any ideas? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Apr 29, 2006, at 12:32 AM, LiangTyan Fui wrote: On Apr 29, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: Anybody know of a way to send an E-mail from Metacard? You can find one with: http://shaosean.tk/ -- Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Sending E-mail
Anybody know of a way to send an E-mail from Metacard? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI calling on Metacard
Hi Shari, I'm working on a simpler but related project right now which is simply to solicit an E-mail address from a Metacard stack and then use it to send an ID number or something to the user. The intention is to receive valid E-mails in exchange for providing access codes to various parts of my software. Your project sounds a little more complex, but as a suggestion you might try looking through Ken Ray's SonsoThunder site at: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/cgi001.htm Good luck, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Shari wrote: All this CGI talk has me thinking about this again. Every once in awhile I ponder a desire. But don't know how to approach it without wasting many weeks or months over something I do not understand. I'd like to automate my registration system. Currently I will get an email, pull out certain info from the email and enter it into a Metacard stack, which gives me the registration code, which I email back to the person. I've never automated this online because I just don't know enough about online security to protect it. Nor do I know anything about writing CGI or PHP. I use pre-written CGI and PHP scripts on occasion. But would not trust someone else's to actually generate registration code for me. I don't know enough about online security to even trust that my CGI script is not gettable somehow. You hear so much about hackers. I do trust my ability to create a Metacard app which hides the algorithm used to generate codes. So using CGI to send the info to Metacard and retrieve the info from Metacard would be within my safety zone. A lot of discussion occurs here linking Metacard with CGI. Most of it is way over my head. Think of me as a CGI kindergartner. Or better yet, a pre-schooler. Also, as I do not know the C programming language, only Metacard's language, a lot of CGI script is gobbledygook to me. Is it possible for a simple CGI script to just take the parameters from an email and send that to an online Metacard app somehow? And for the Metacard app to generate the code, send it either back to the CGI or as an email to the purchaser without my help? And trap for errors (such as the email didn't go out) and email me? The whole Metacard app would presumably need to reside online. I am guessing this goes into the CGI folder? Would one simply create a Metacard app just like I'd use it on my hard drive? And upload it to a CGI folder? I'm assuming I'd have to compile it for Windows for most web hosts to handle it? Is anyone doing this? Are there any how-to's with detailed (How To for Dummies) step-by-step instructions on how to do it? Shari Gypsy King Software -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: ColorizeScript challenge
Hi Richard, I've found the 'repeat for each' structure, the first one below, to be incredibly faster than the second and third ones below since it doesn't have to count returns or spaces to get to lines and words. For example, in the second repeat loop I believe the second line 'put line cline of s into curline' is going to take a long time to count all those return characters in long scripts, so I believe replacing the 'repeat while...' structure with another 'repeat for each line' structure would speed things up substantially. In the third repeat loop there's a similar situation with the 'repeat with curword...' structure. Here a 'repeat for each word...' structure might speed things up substantially, also. Of course, in each of these replacements you'll have to add 1 to a variable for each repetition in the loop so you know where you are, but that's just math which isn't going to slow anything down. Hope this helps, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Anyone have ideas on how to speed up MC's script colorizing? Here's the handler from the card script of the Script Editor stack: on colorizescript if tokencolors[if] is empty then setupcolors local s put field Editor Field into s put s into field Editor Field go to card 2 local curword put 1 into curword repeat for each word w in s if tokencolors[w] is not empty then set the textColor of word curword of field Editor Field of card 1 to tokencolors[w] add 1 to curword end repeat local oldline, cline, curline, nwords put min(lineoffset(#, s), lineoffset(--, s)) into oldline put 0 into cline repeat while oldline is not 0 add oldline to cline put line cline of s into curline put the number of words in curline into nwords repeat with curword = 1 to nwords if char 1 of word curword of curline is # or char 1 to 2 of word curword of curline is -- then set the textColor of word curword to nwords of line cline of field Editor Field of card 1 to DarkOrchid4 exit repeat end if end repeat put min(lineoffset(#, s, cline), lineoffset(--, s, cline)) into oldline end repeat go to card 1 unlock screen end colorizescript On short scripts it's fine, but run it on lengthy ones like libURL and it takes some time. Any suggestions welcome... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Tabbed Button's Formatted Width
Greetings, Anybody got an easy way to get the formattedWidth of a button whose appearance is set to Tabbed? I'm running through a repeat loop while setting the label or name of the button to each line of its contents, adding the formattedWidth each time, but I'm still coming up short. Thanks! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Tabbed Button's Formatted Width
That did it! Thanks, Ken. Ray On Mar 23, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 3/23/06 9:56 AM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Anybody got an easy way to get the formattedWidth of a button whose appearance is set to Tabbed? I'm running through a repeat loop while setting the label or name of the button to each line of its contents, adding the formattedWidth each time, but I'm still coming up short. Thanks! Here you go: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/btn001.htm :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
What's in a group
Really basic question which I should know: How do I get a list of all objects in a group? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Formatted Width of a Tabbed button
Hi Ken, That did the trick! Thanks for your help. Very much appreciated! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Feb 7, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 2/7/06 7:12 PM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just trying to find out how wide I have to make the button in order to see all the tabs. Unlike other button styles, a tabbed button shows all lines of its contents, but the formattedWidth property only returns the width of one line of the contents. I'd like to get the width of all the contents as they're displayed horizontally. Thanks for your concern. Let me know if you've got any ideas. Here you go, Ray... try this: on mouseUp put tabFormattedWidth(long id of btn 1) into tWidth set the width of btn 1 to tWidth end mouseUp function tabFormattedWidth pBtnDesc put the text of pBtnDesc into tTabs lock screen put 0 into tWidth put the number of lines of tTabs into tNum put the label of pBtnDesc into tOrigLabel repeat with x = 1 to tNum set the label of pBtnDesc to (line x of tTabs) put the formattedWidth of pBtnDesc into tFW add tFW to tWidth end repeat put tWidth + (18* tNum) into tWidth set the label of pBtnDesc to tOrigLabel unlock screen return tWidth end tabFormattedWidth HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Formatted Width of a Tabbed button
Does anybody know how to get the formattedWidth of a btn when it's appearance is set to Tabbed? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Formatted Width of a Tabbed button
I get the same number returned regardless as to what the contents or the name of the button is. What I'd like to get is the formatted width of the entire contents since that's what is displayed for a button set to Tabbed appearance. Thanks, Ray On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Why can't you just use the formattedWidth? Mark Ray Horsley wrote: Does anybody know how to get the formattedWidth of a btn when it's appearance is set to Tabbed? Thanks, Ray Horsley -- eHUG coordinator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ehug.info http://home.wanadoo.nl/mark.sch http://www.economy-x-talk.com Please inform me about vacancies in the field of general economics at your institute. I am also looking for new freelance programming projects. ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Formatted Width of a Tabbed button
I'm just trying to find out how wide I have to make the button in order to see all the tabs. Unlike other button styles, a tabbed button shows all lines of its contents, but the formattedWidth property only returns the width of one line of the contents. I'd like to get the width of all the contents as they're displayed horizontally. Thanks for your concern. Let me know if you've got any ideas. Ray On Feb 7, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Ray, The formattedwidth of a tabbed button is determined by its name or, if it has one, its label. If you change the name or the label, the formattedWidth will change as well. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Best, Mark Ray Horsley wrote: I get the same number returned regardless as to what the contents or the name of the button is. What I'd like to get is the formatted width of the entire contents since that's what is displayed for a button set to Tabbed appearance. Thanks, Ray On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Why can't you just use the formattedWidth? Mark Ray Horsley wrote: Does anybody know how to get the formattedWidth of a btn when it's appearance is set to Tabbed? Thanks, Ray Horsley -- eHUG coordinator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ehug.info http://home.wanadoo.nl/mark.sch http://www.economy-x-talk.com Please inform me about vacancies in the field of general economics at your institute. I am also looking for new freelance programming projects. ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Second copy of app launching
Thanks Shari. I wrote this solution a while back for this particular app which is for elementary school teachers. The problem I'm encountering is it seems no matter how simply and straight forward I word the dialog which comes up when a second copy is launched, the teacher's, especially beginners, just don't get it. Unfortunately, with this method I've got to count on them to decide whether they should continue or not, since they could have forced the first app to quit (control-alt-delete) in which case it would be legitimate to continue launching what appears to be a second copy of the app. I'm going to try the two suggestions I've gotten from Ken Ray, one of which will hopefully remove the end user from the decision making process. I'll let you know how it works out, but thanks for your alternate idea! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jan 25, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Shari wrote: Another way is to have your application either create a text file on launch, or write something to it. Then, anytime the app launches it looks for that text file, and if the file exists or the wording inside of it say something specific, the app is running. On quit, either delete the file or write something else to it. The key here is to catch any type of quit the user uses. If the program doesn't go thru your quit routine, the file will not be changed on quit, and will give a false positive on the next launch. Mine has a text file that on launch, it opens the file for read, reads from it etc. If the word Windows is in the text, my app is already open. If it is opening for the first time, it writes something with the word Windows to the file, signifying that the game has been launched and is running. On quit, it writes something else to the file. Shari -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Second copy of app launching
This could be an old topic. Does anyone have a way to detect if a copy of an application is open? I need this to prohibit launching my app when a copy of it is already running. It's only a problem on Windows since the Mac OS simply brings the already open app to the front instead of launching a second copy. A list of all open applications would be nice. Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: How to edit a script with a script?
Reinhold, Try working with the variables instead literals. That is, instead of using keywords like then as literals in your script, put them into variables and work with the variables. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jan 7, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert wrote: Hi! I have a stack Karten with a lot of cards and a lot of images (BiFra1, BiFra2, BiFra3, ... ,BiFra20). I want to move the images with the mouse. Therefore I will add the following lines to the scripts of the images: x-tad-biggeron mousedown/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger if the visible of btn Krtgeaendert then # /x-tad-biggerKrtgeaendert means card is changed. This button is visible when the user is changing the cards x-tad-bigger grab me/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger# /x-tad-biggerand it stopps the changing. Only in changing-mode it shall be possible to drag the image to another position. x-tad-bigger end if/x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerend mousedown/x-tad-bigger Because I don't want to change each script manually I created a little stack and a button with this script: x-tad-biggeron mouseUp/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger global ScriptMerk/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger go stack Karten/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger repeat with i = 1 to 20/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger if there is a img (BiFra i) then/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger put the script of img (BiFra i) into ScriptMerk/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger if on mousedown is not among the lines of ScriptMerk then/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger add CR on mousedown CR if the visible of btn Krtgeaendert then CR \/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger grab me CR end if CR end mousedown to ScriptMerk/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger set the script of img (BiFra 1) to ScriptMerk/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger edit the script of img (BiFra i)/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger end if/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger end if/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger end repeat/x-tad-bigger But when I try to apply the script I get the Script Error: x-tad-biggerif: not a command/x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerif: error in command/x-tad-bigger Metacard is grumbling about the word x-tad-biggerKrtgeaendert/x-tad-bigger. It understand it as a command, because it follows a behind the second quotation mark. In what way can I put the name of a button in a script? Thanks Reinhold ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MC IDE v2.6b12 posted
Thanks Richard. I've downloaded and installed. Everything looks great so far. Just one thing: Should I be concerned with the note which appears warning me the Tools stack, version 2.6.1 does not match the engine version which is 2.6.6? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The latest build of the MC IDE is now available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/files/Latest%20Test%20Version/ Among other enhancements, this build include an updated Variable Watcher from Ken Ray, and the latest libURL from Dave Cragg. Thanks to all for their contributions to this build. Earlier, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: 1. When the MC IDE is started, stack mctools appears to have been be loaded twice. This was mentioned by Tariel Gogoberidze [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sept 1, 2005: Also, one kind of strange thing I just noticed in my copy of IDE. In freshly launched MC if I type in msg box put the stacks, it puts mctools.mc twice I see this this happening here, too. Maybe the double-loaded stack is the cause underlying the nex item: I was unable to reproduce this. Please let me know if this recurs with the latest build, and if so what OS and engine version. 2. Launching the IDE from a CD you get a warning Cannot build a Plugins folder - or the like. If you press the skip button, the same warning is repeated. Only after after the second skip the IDE is started. Could it be that both mctools stacks are involved here? And maybe we could let detect the script from where the IDE is started, then in case of a CD we could skip the warnings altogether. What is the cause of the double-loaded mctools stack? I think we can rule out that the stack may launch itself another time (as that could lead to an infinite loading of mctools stacks). Same as above. Has the home stack been changed or is the cause the new Metacard/Revolution engine? (for another engine-related bug see below). The Home stack has not been updated since it was first made open source by Dr. Raney. 3. The Find tool comes up with bwidth; the replace tools comes up with bwidth for the find string and 4wDev for the replace string. They should come up blank. 4. The Standalone Builder displays 4W WebMerge Folder/WebMerge24.mc for the stack name and /Area 51/4W/WebMerge/wm24/dev... for the standalone file name. They should come up without any preset entries. Mea culpa. Pardon the poor housekeeping. I belive I've cleared all old strings out in this build. Please let me know if you find any remaining anomalies. 5. The Standalone Builder builds standalones according to the look-and-feel for OS native even if Windows 95 has been set in the preferences. I noticed this when I build the splash stack for my Colorpattern Toolkit (http://www.sanke.org/Software/PatternToolkitWin.zip) and tested it with other stacks. I tried to find out whether version 2.6 of the two embedded (in mctools) standalone builders was the cause, but it wasn't. Even using an older standalone builder (of MC 2.5) , but with the 2.6.6 engine, made no difference. But changing to an older engine, namely that of MC 2.5, produced a standalone with Windows look-and-feel even when the new standalone builder was being used. Which means that the culprit must the new engine! I built a standalone of the same stack in the Rev IDE with Windows emulated checked: Same result, the produced standalone displays MacOS native features (like they appear on Windows). Do we have a confirmation that this is an engine issue? BZ#? 6. Width of answer dialogs Also on Sept 1 Tariel Gogoberidze had written: Great, especially because I recently noticed that in my copy of B11 IDE answer dialog can't expand it's width dynamically more than about 460 pixels, trims my forth button in half. I myself noticed that one button was cut in half in the longer dialogs of my Colorpattern Toolkit (when six button were displayed), but only when OS native was checked. With Windows set, all buttons appear in full length, but - see item above - when the standalone had been built, it was transformed to OS native and the last button cut in half. The Revolution answer dialogs display all 6 buttons in full length irrespective of the chosen look-and-feel. However, I do not like the overall length of the Revolution dialogs. The Ask and Answer dialogs have been substantially revised for this build. Please give 'em a whirl and let me know how they work for you. 7. The case of the placed answer and ask dialogs One thread of the discussion had ended Sept 5 with statements from Scott Rossi and Richard Gaskin: Scott: You can of course use the available IDE dialogs: Just add the two script lines I have proposed (at the right place) to them, this is what I normally do when a new version appears. Not when I'm delivering tools to other developers, no. I have no problem messing around with my own development environment
Re: MC IDE v2.6b12 posted
This solution has turned out to be the best for me. Thanks much and Happy New Year to all! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Klaus Major wrote: set the mcversion of stack mctools to 2.6.6 RETURN and thats was it... Dont forget to: save stack mctools ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Anyone interested in customizing the Execution Error stack
I've successfully customized the execution error substack from the McTools stack, thanks to help from Richard Gaskin and Xavier. This is something I think a lot of us could use, so for anyone who's interested, here's how I did it. I decided to alter the existing Execution Error stack instead of trapping for the errorDialog message and writing my own window since I couldn't seem to get the data out of the field in the Execution Error stack called Error Message soon enough (although it's nearly the same as the data supplied with the parameter for errorDialog). With this approach in mind, I changed the name of the Help button on the Execution Error stack to Submit Report. I then wrote my own handler which grabs all the error data from the field in the Execution Error stack called Error Message. Of course I added data like the date and the user's registration, and I gave the user an area to provide extra notes of what lead to the error. Finally, my script grabs a screen shot of the entire monitor. Then, a text file of the report is uploaded to my FTP site as well as the picture. I studied a little the data Metacard provides regarding errors, but I still don't understand what some of the numbers mean. The whole thing is kind of a weird area of Metacard to work with, a lot of unexpected behavior. I eliminated a problems by sending the message from the Submit Report button in 30 instead of executing it right away. I hope this is helpful. Thank again to Richard and Xavier! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Customizing the Execution Error stack
Greetings members, I'm working on customizing the Execution Error stack, but it's a weird thing to work with. Each time I add buttons or fields to it they seem to disappear. Looking at it in the Control Browser produces weird behavior, too, such as clicking on one control and highlighting another. I'd like to add a Submit Report button to it which posts the specs of the error on an ftp site or something. Specifically, it would be nice to know how it's triggered, what messages are sent to it, from where, and how to trap for them. Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Thank you to Metacard and RunRev...
And I second all that, Shari! I came into this very much the same way you did, i.e. through HyperCard originally. I hope Scott get this somehow. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Shari wrote: No questions, no answers, just a happy thought that I love Metacard! I want to take a moment to say Thank You to Scott, for creating Metacard, and to RunRev, who has allowed Metacard to grow forth and flourish, and keep on being. I truly love this language and the doors that it opens. It allows me to pursue a dream that I so enjoy. As a person who came into the computer world one generation too early, before computers became a mainstay, where manual typewriters still existed in the classroom and electric typewriters were all the rage... I say THANK YOU! As a person who did not experience computers in any capacity until my late-thirties was it? Dunno, just a guess... As a person who, thanks to Hypercard, discovered the world of programming, never having studied an official programming language... never having even used a computer but almost immediately upon purchasing my first Macintosh, discovered Hypercard and created a program with it... albeit a simple program but one that opened the doors of creativity... That Metacard allows me to create that which I can imagine... I say THANK YOU! Shari -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Order of execution
Shari, Did you try locking messages just in case something else is catching your handlers? Also, are other stacks like the menubar or McTools maybe the culprit? Good luck, Ray On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Shari wrote: I am trying to find out why there is a long delay. The following command is issued from a stack: go invisible stack Felix as toplevel In the preOpenStack handler of stack Felix I've put the following to help debug the delay: answer preOpenStack Felix This is at the very beginning of the preOpenStack handler. There is a very long delay between the go and the preOpenStack commands. I've put various answer commands into other preOpen- and open- handlers of various stacks in an attempt to see what the trouble is. Nothing seems to happen in between the two. The only theory I have is that I recently added a large number of hidden objects to the main card of stack Felix. I've tried setting the alwaysBuffer of stack Felix to ON and OFF. There is no difference. Still a very long delay. Is there anything that can happen with a stack before preOpenStack? I would have assumed this to be the first thing that would happen. Any ideas? Shari -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: standalone don't find images
You could try importing your images without the Link Only box checked so they reside in the stack itself. On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert wrote: Hi! The standalone, that I built, don't find the images in the folder Media In the stackscript I set the directory with x-tad-biggeron preopenstack/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger get the effective filename of this stack/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger set the itemdel to //x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger delete last item of it/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger set the directory to it/x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerend preopenstack/x-tad-bigger every image was imported with Link Only and Set Directory and has the Filename Media/Imagename.jpg and the Media-Folder is at the right place, in the same folder as the standalone. What is wrong? Reinhold___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Printing PDF Files
Hi Ken, Thanks for your response. I'd like to print directly from a script. Hopefully, this would be something like placing an image on a card, linking it to a JPEG and printing the card. I need this to work on Mac Classic, Mac OSX and Windows, so I'd like to avoid getting into launching another app and then running Apple Script or something. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Sep 24, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 9/23/05 3:38 PM, Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have a way to print PDF files from a script? Ray, do you mean *directly* printing PDF files from a script, or automating launching an app that can do the printing, and print it from there? Also, what platform(s) do you need this to work on? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Printing PDF Files
Does anybody have a way to print PDF files from a script? Thanks in advance! Ray Horsley developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Moving files among machines on a common router
Greetings, I use the LibUrl commands to move files back and forth (local to an ftp server) a lot. The following works well for me: put ftp://myUserName:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mytopdirectory/ myNextDirectory/ into someLocalFilePath Does anybody know how a variant of this could be used to move a file from a Mac to a PC which is connected to the same router? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Moving files among machines on a common router
I guess the issue then is the fact that my Windows machine in the other room is not an FTP Server, it's just another PC. Any suggestions? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Sep 22, 2005, at 9:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray, FTP is a net protocol. It should work the same everywhere. Regardless of router or network as long as there is an ftp server on the other side and a connection to there ;) cheers Xavier x-tad-smaller[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 22/09/2005 15:22:03:/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > Greetings,/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > I use the LibUrl commands to move files back and forth (local to an ftp /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > server) a lot. The following works well for me:/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > put /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > ftp://myUserName:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mytopdirectory//x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > myNextDirectory/ into someLocalFilePath/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > Does anybody know how a variant of this could be used to move a file /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > from a Mac to a PC which is connected to the same router?/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > Thanks,/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > Ray Horsley/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > Developer, LinkIt! Software/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > /x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > ___/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > metacard mailing list/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > metacard@lists.runrev.com/x-tad-smaller x-tad-smaller > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard/x-tad-smaller Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Networked stacks
Why not just write text files on the local server and use them to load fields in your stacks? You can include traps as to whether they're currently open, when they were last updated, etc. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Aug 8, 2005, at 9:59 PM, David Epstein wrote: Can someone suggest a source for examples or explanation of using Metacard in a networked environment? What are the best ways to script interactions between stacks on two or more computers on a local area network, e.g., passing text back and forth easily? Are there some stacks available that exemplify this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Calendar
Works like a charm. Much thanks! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Aug 2, 2005, at 1:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have [and willing to share] a calendar maker? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software From ssBk: on mouseUp # Syntax: FLCcalendar (startDay 1-7, Month 1-12,Year 1970-2037) # Gives a language-localized calendar with selectable first day of week put random(7) into weekStartsOn put random(12) into tMonth put random(67) +1969 into tYear put FLCcalendar(weekStartsOn,tMonth,tYear) into cd fld Calendar end mouseUp function FLCcalendar tStartDayNum,tM,tY put the system monthNames into tMonthNames get the abbrev system WeekDayNames repeat for each line L in it if len(L) is 2 then put space L into L put char 1 to 3 of L cr after tAbbrevWeekDayNames end repeat delete last char of tAbbrevWeekDayNames # Verify params... put tM /1/ tY into tCalendarMonth convert tCalendarMonth to dateItems if the result then return Date error put item 1 of tCalendarMonth into tY # Build Calendar title... put line (item 2 of tCalendarMonth) of tMonthNames tY into monthHeader # Build Calendar day header line, starting from selected day of the week... put tAbbrevWeekDayNames into dayHeader put (line tStartDayNum to -1 of dayHeader)cr(line 1 to tStartDayNum -1 of dayHeader) into dayHeader replace cr with space in dayHeader # To centre the monthHeader... put char 1 to round((length(dayHeader)-length(monthHeader)) div 2) +1 of before monthHeader # Build Calendar... put empty into days if tStartDayNum is 1 then put 7 into tEndDayNum else put tStartDayNum -1 into tEndDayNum # Calculate position of first date... put (item 7 of tCalendarMonth) - (tStartDayNum)+1 into dayOffset if dayOffset 1 then put (7+ dayOffset) into dayOffset repeat with dayNum = 1 to dayOffset -1 put after days end repeat # Complete Calendar... repeat while item 2 of tCalendarMonth is tM getitem 3 of tCalendarMonth if length(it) is 3 then get it if item 7 of tCalendarMonth is tEndDayNum then get it cr put it after days add 1 to item 3 of tCalendarMonth convert tCalendarMonth from dateItems to long system date -- to force next line to update convert tCalendarMonth from long system date to dateItems end repeat return monthHeader crdayHeader cr days end FLCcalendar /H ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Calendar
Does anybody have [and willing to share] a calendar maker? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: How to get feedback if a substack is opened
I wrote a tiny function for this a while ago which has worked fine for me: function stackIsOpen stk set the wholeMatches to true put the openStacks into tmp if lineOffset(stk,tmp) = 0 then return false else return true end stackIsOpen Hope it works for you, too. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jul 21, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert wrote: Hello! How do mc reports if a substack is open / visible or not? I tried it in two ways but I failed: on mouseUp if the openstack of stack xyz is true then put stack xyz is opened else put stack xyz is closed end if end mouseUp I this case I get stack xyz is closed as well if the stack in opened. on mouseUp if the visible of stack xyz is true then put stack xyz is visible else put stack xyz is invisible end if end mouseUp I this case I got stack xyz is visible as well if the stack is invisible. What's the right way? Reinhold PS: Hi Klaus, how are you? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Posting to E-mails via scripts
Greetings, Anybody know of a simple way to send text to an E-mail address? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Posting E-mails
Thanks Xavier, I guess then that there are no tools such as the URL suite which I can use inside of Metacard to accomplish this? I'm always looking for a way to write just once for both platforms. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:11 AM, MisterX wrote: Hi Ray mac or windows? mac - applescripts windows - shell tools like Postie.exe (or others)... they do everything as far as i know... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Horsley Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 14:50 To: Metacard List Subject: Posting E-mails Greetings, Anybody know of a simple way to send text to an E-mail address? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: And here is the Super Card 4.5 'Killer'
Don't we already have scrolling fields with embedded images? I do this by assigning the imageSource of a character an id number of an image. Or were you referring to something else? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Jul 1, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Mathewson wrote: allowObjects this allows embedded objects (images and so forth) inside FIELDS Of course SC is limited to Macs which seems a bit odd as a lot of people (!!!) use Windows and Linux. Notwithstanding this - it would be really super to have scrolling text fields with embedded images: at least from an educational point of view. Richmond __ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html ___ --- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --- ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Standalone RSRC Item?
Shari, thanks for posting this again. I tried these steps a while back when you posted them but somehow it didn't work out for me regarding the doc icons. Maybe I missed something. I'll try them again. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On May 19, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Shari wrote: In my app which is named LinkIt! I renamed the MetaCard.rsrc file to LinkIt.rsrc (I left out the exclamation mark since it usually causes problems). I also replaced the text Metacard with LinkIt for all occurrences inside the file. I did this in an attempt to get my own app and doc icons to appear on the desktop, a process I still don't fully understand. So far I've gotten the app icon to appear, but my docs are taking the app icon, too, instead of the doc icon. It's been a thorn in my side for a long time. I'd love to see some a simple list of the steps to accomplish this on OSX, Classic and Windows posted somewhere. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software What has worked for me is to do the following. 1. In the MacOS folder, I rename the MetacardCarbonMach-0 file to GoldCarbonMach-O (replacing the word Metacard with Gold, short for Blackjack Gold, my program). 2. In the Resources folder I rename the .rsrc file to GoldCarbonMach-0.rsrc 3. In the Resources folder I place two files, Gold.icns and Data.icns, which are the icon files for the program and its associated files. 4. PkgInfo has the following text in it: APPLbJg3 5. My info.plist is as follows: Note that bJg3 is my creator code which has been registered with Apple. Blackjack Gold is the name of the program, and 1.1.4 is the version. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd plist version=0.9 dict keyCFBundleDevelopmentRegion/key stringEnglish/string keyCFBundleDocumentTypes/key array dict keyCFBundleTypeExtensions/key array stringmc/string /array keyCFBundleTypeIconFile/key stringData.icns/string keyCFBundleTypeName/key stringBlackjack File/string keyCFBundleTypeOSTypes/key array stringMSTK /string /array keyCFBundleTypeRole/key stringEditor/string /dict /array keyCFBundleExecutable/key stringGoldCarbonMach-O/string keyCFBundleIconFile/key stringGold.icns/string keyCFBundleIdentifier/key stringcom.gypsyking.BlackjackGold/string keyCFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion/key string6.0/string keyCFBundleLongVersionString/key string1.1.4, Copyright 2002-2005 ¬Gypsy King Software/Shari L. Coxford-Yingst/string keyCFBundleName/key stringBlackjack Gold/string keyCFBundlePackageType/key stringAPPL/string keyCFBundleShortVersionString/key string1.1.4/string keyCFBundleSignature/key stringbJg3/string keyCFBundleVersion/key string1.1.4/string keyLFPrefersCarbon/key true/ keyNSAppleScriptEnabled/key stringYES/string keyNSHumanReadableCopyright/key stringCopyright © 2002-2005, ¬Gypsy King Software, All Rights Reserved./string /dict /plist -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Can't Start Jobs
I believe I've wrestled with this one before. I click a button with the script: open printing print this card stop printing Metacard sends the job to Apple's Print Center, version 2.3, but a few seconds later Print Center behaves as if I clicked the Stop Jobs button. If I click the Start Jobs button the automatic switch back to Jobs Stopped continues. Printing from other programs works fine. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software Using Metacard 2.5 on System 10.2.8 Printer = Canon BJC - 85 ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can't Start Jobs
Yes, I did mean 'close printing'. Thanks Jackie On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 04:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/28/05 2:50 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I believe I've wrestled with this one before. I click a button with the script: open printing print this card stop printing Metacard sends the job to Apple's Print Center, version 2.3, but a few seconds later Print Center behaves as if I clicked the Stop Jobs button. If I click the Start Jobs button the automatic switch back to Jobs Stopped continues. Printing from other programs works fine. Any ideas anyone? Yes, this started a vew versions ago. It worked fine before that, but somewhere around 2.4 it changed. Now you can't get a job to print unless you open printing with a dialog. By the way, you probably mean close printing above, right? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Saving SA settings
On Sunday, January 23, 2005, at 12:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/22/05 6:39 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Would someone mind if i create a MCIDE folder in the prefs folder on your HD and save all infos there in a text file or stack? Fine with me. I'd prefer this approach over storing stuff in the IDE itself. I do too. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fast Searches
Greetings Listers, I'm working with large amounts of data, say 50,000 tab delimited lines, where the 4th item in each line is the same for every 20 or so lines. Does anybody have a fast way of determining how many unique 4th items there are in the 50,000 lines? A repeat loop examining each line is certainly out of the question, and I've tried using various functions such as itemOffset after sorting ascending and descending, but this too is turning out to be kind of slow. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Fast Searches
Thanks for such quick reponses! Each line of my data represents an elementary school student's answer to a test question. The line has about 18 tab delimited items in it (such as the question number, date it was answered, number of points it's worth, whether the student got it right or wrong, etc). The 4th item is the studnet's personal info and looks something like Smith,John,William,12345. Each student has anywhere from 10 to 20 lines of data, and the goal is to get a total count of how many students there are. Richard's idea of the repeat for each structure is super fast, but I'm having a hard time applying it here to get the total student count. I think the best way is to delve into the Valentina data base idea. Any suggestions on how to get started with this are very much appreciated. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 05:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ray Horsley wrote: I'm working with large amounts of data, say 50,000 tab delimited lines, where the 4th item in each line is the same for every 20 or so lines. Does anybody have a fast way of determining how many unique 4th items there are in the 50,000 lines? A repeat loop examining each line is certainly out of the question, and I've tried using various functions such as itemOffset after sorting ascending and descending, but this too is turning out to be kind of slow. I've had good luck using repeat for each on data sets up to 40,000 lines. Sure, there's a pause, but it's not so bad -- give it a whirl and you might be pleasantly surprised. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Fast Searches
Many thanks! Now I've got a better idea of how the repeat for each can solve this, although I must say, I've also become curious about Valentina data bases and SQL and will probably continue to look into that, too. Nonetheless, these solutions have greatly increased speed! Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 07:15 AM, Wil Dijkstra wrote: Now I better understand your datastructure problem. Don't think it's necessary to delve into Valentina. Just try this: repeat for each line myline in mydata add 1 to myArray [word4 of myLine] end repeat put keys (myArray) into myList put the number of lines of myList It puts the number of different students into the message box Wil Dijkstra -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ray Horsley Reply To: Discussions on Metacard Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 18:32 To: Discussions on Metacard Subject: Re: Fast Searches Thanks for such quick reponses! Each line of my data represents an elementary school student's answer to a test question. The line has about 18 tab delimited items in it (such as the question number, date it was answered, number of points it's worth, whether the student got it right or wrong, etc). The 4th item is the studnet's personal info and looks something like Smith,John,William,12345. Each student has anywhere from 10 to 20 lines of data, and the goal is to get a total count of how many students there are. Richard's idea of the repeat for each structure is super fast, but I'm having a hard time applying it here to get the total student count. I think the best way is to delve into the Valentina data base idea. Any suggestions on how to get started with this are very much appreciated. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at 05:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ray Horsley wrote: >> I'm working with large amounts of data, say 50,000 tab delimited >> lines, where the 4th item in each line is the same for every 20 or so >> lines. Does anybody have a fast way of determining how many unique >> 4th items there are in the 50,000 lines? >> A repeat loop examining each line is certainly out of the question, >> and I've tried using various functions such as itemOffset after >> sorting ascending and descending, but this too is turning out to be >> kind of slow. > > I've had good luck using repeat for each on data sets up to 40,000 > lines. Sure, there's a pause, but it's not so bad -- give it a whirl > and you might be pleasantly surprised. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > ___ > metacard mailing list > metacard@lists.runrev.com > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Can MC drag and drop with a list field?
David, Sure would be nice. I'd like to have a simple way to do this, too. But if nobody responds with an easy solution you might find it not that much harder to create a graphic to highlight the lines (clone it, resize it and position it as needed) and then you can work with a simple field with the text locked which might offer the flexibility you need to get lines of text from and to various destinations. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Thursday, November 4, 2004, at 05:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found a way to drag and drop among the lines of, from, or to a field with list behavior? I want to be able to select one or more lines, then drag and drop it or them to a different line or to some other control; and also be able to drag from other controls and drop on some line of the list. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Saving projects
Nice idea, Shari. Thanks! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Friday, November 5, 2004, at 09:55 AM, Shari wrote: We all know that you should save often when programming. You never know when you might need to go back to an earlier version. I learned a neat trick from an accountant awhile back, and they are nitpicky buggers, accountant's are. But sometimes that's a good thing I frequently save my projects into a separate file, and use the date as part of the file name. I found that not having a date in the file name and trusting the created/modified date can easily fail. If you open the file and don't do anything and close it, it might show the newer date and throw you off. For example, today's folder is called BJG 11-5-04. Throughout the day as I am working, I will save a copy of the folder. By the end of the day I will have several folders. Each will have today's date 11-5-04, with a Copy 1, Copy 2 etc. I look at the created/modified time for the most current version on a particular day, rather than the Copy 3. At the beginning of a new day, I change the folder name for the new date, making sure there is a copy first. All previous saves go into a Saves folder. And as the days pass, I will clear out the Saves folder so that only that last save for each day remains. I keep copies going quite a ways back. Sometimes you need to go back and review how a piece of code was written way back when. Just one gal's methodology :-) -- Mac and Windows shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: taking a picture of the card programmatically?
Eric, Use import snapshot and specify the rectangle if you don't want the user to have to drag open a rectangle. For more information type import into the script of any object, highlight it, and then Lookup Selection under the Tools menu in the Script Editor window. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Eric Engle wrote: I need to take a screenshot of the card window (no more, no less) - but I have to do it programmatically, and not by hand. Any ideas are appreciated! ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Proportional scaling
Simon, Wouldn't this be just a matter of making sure you increase or decrease the object's width the same number of pixels its height is increased or decreased for every change in size that's made, or am I not understanding your question? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 02:46 PM, Simon Lord wrote: I have an abject on my card which can be scaled at runtime, the next step is to get this object to scale proportionally using it's current H x W as the aspect ratio when the shiftKey is down. So if the object is currently shaped like a rectangle, when I hold the shiftKey down and continue dragging the object will maintain the same aspect ratio at the time I held the shiftKey down. Unfortunately I'm at a lose at to where to even start the math on this. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Proportional scaling
Ah yes. Now I see what you want. How about this. Pick either one, say width, and adjust it by (the amount you've adjusted height) times (width divided by height). In your rectangle laying on its side example, if it's 100 pixels wide by 50 tall and you want an increase in 10 pixels of height to force an increase in 20 pixels for the width (so width is still double the height) your adjustment of 10 pixels in height multiplied by 2 (100 divided by 50) should do the trick. Running into negative numbers shouldn't matter, and you can always flip whether it's height or width change which is the determining factor. That is, you can always grab the user's first movement of the mouse, whether it's up/down or left/right, to determine whether height or width is dictating change. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 09:47 AM, Simon Lord wrote: This would only work for an object who's height and width are the same. Objects like a rectangle on it's side will get wider at a faster rate than they will get taller. That's where the math kinda runs away from me (and when fond memories of me doodling in 6th grade math come to mind). On Sep 21, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: Simon, Wouldn't this be just a matter of making sure you increase or decrease the object's width the same number of pixels its height is increased or decreased for every change in size that's made, or am I not understanding your question? Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 02:46 PM, Simon Lord wrote: I have an abject on my card which can be scaled at runtime, the next step is to get this object to scale proportionally using it's current H x W as the aspect ratio when the shiftKey is down. So if the object is currently shaped like a rectangle, when I hold the shiftKey down and continue dragging the object will maintain the same aspect ratio at the time I held the shiftKey down. Unfortunately I'm at a lose at to where to even start the math on this. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Copy command in 2.61
I spent a good deal of time working with this in 2.5 and ended up simply not password protecting the substacks with scripts which needed to be modified or copied. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 05:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We seem to have a related issue to the broken 'clone' command in password protected stacks in v2.61... 'Copy [obj] to [dest]' results in a 'Can't cut object [stack is locked]' error. Can anyone else confirm this? Similarly, we used to be able to 'get' and 'put' scripts in password protected stacks (for example on mouse enter; put line 1 of the script of me into fld feedback). This also broke under engine 2.5 I suspect a plot to disable any form of self-modification! /H ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
