server side playground
I'd like to poke at running metacard as a service loading and testing .mc files etc. Just to see what can be done reading and writing and displaying etc. Where is the best place to find examples to start with? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Mouse Click
I don't suppose there is any way to use MC or REV to detect a mouseClick which happens on the host system is there? What I'm trying to do is grab a screen show when the mouse is clicked (as opposed to using an interval which *does* work). The MC or REV stack would be minimized, so it would not have any sort of focus. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Mouse Click
I'm creating a small demo app using another application. I was hoping to tap into MC's ability to take screen shots to augment the presentation by having it send a screehshot to the server with every mouseclick. The server in turn does a lot more the the screen shot, but the point is to get a screenshot first. The demo has nothing to do with MC or REV, I just want to run it in the BG as a service and have it pipe me the screenshots. That said, at no time will the cursor ever be focused on the stack because MC in this case is not even part of the project (well, it is but not a visual part). On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Simon Lord wrote: I don't suppose there is any way to use MC or REV to detect a mouseClick which happens on the host system is there? What I'm trying to do is grab a screen show when the mouse is clicked (as opposed to using an interval which *does* work). Wouldn't you want the click to take place on something related to your stack? Most screenshot apps I'm familiar with either use command key combinations or a dedicated panel to manage the capture. Maybe you can explain a bit more about your setup. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Background process
Thanks Klaus. That works great. Now for the left-hook... I need to save these files to a server. So I'm guessing I need to ftp them there. If there a way to send them over via some xmlsocket style connection where the *line* stays open? I can see the ftp requests slowing things down having to open/close connections with each sent file. On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Simon, It's been a while since I fired up MetaCard but I would like to do the following if possible... Can I run a metacard exe (mac/pc - linux if possible) as a *background* process which takes screenshots every xNum of minutes? How would I do that? Hmm, at least for the mac this would work, just tested :-) on mouseUp send doit to me in 5 secs end mouseUp I clicked and switched to Mail.app, so MC was in the background... on doit export snapshot from rect (the screenrect) to file sc1.jpg as JPEG end doit I am sure you will figure out how to adopt this to your app... If in doubt drop a line :-) And then i found this nice and big (1600*1200) jpg in the defaultfolder... You can set the jpegquality first if you like... For OS X there might be a chance to put your app into the background, read no dock icon, by adding something to the Info.plist... This is from Ken's wonderful and helpful RR page, i hope he won't mind... Just for your convenience ;-) Please bookmark: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Look for - Developer Resources - Revolution ## Hiding a Process (Making a Backgrounded App) (Mac OS X Only) To hide an application process in OS X 10.2 and earlier, open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder of the application package. Add this to the dict section (it doesn't seem to matter where): keyNSBGOnly/key string1/string In OS X 10.3 and later, add this instead: keyLSUIElement/key string1/string Doing this will remove the process from the Dock, and from any menus that list active (visible) processes. To show it again, you can either put in a 0 instead of a 1 for the key, or you can remove the whole thing. Cross-posted from the SuperCard List Updated 8/25/04 by Ken Ray from a tip posted by Devin Asay to the Use-Revolution list ### Hope that helps... Sincerely, Simon Regards from germany Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MouseLoc
How can I get this to work: x-tad-smallerput/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller the /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerscreenmouseLoc/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller into fld curpos ... if the mc app is minimized, IE it's *not* the currently focused app? /x-tad-smaller Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Standalone icon
My latest info explaining how to change the standalone icon to a custom one is over 4yrs old. What's the current method used to set the standalone icon for OSX and PC? I have my ico's etc ready to go. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
SFTP
Does MetaCard/Rev support SFTP as well as FTP? I'm running the MC IDE with the rev engine and was curious. My provider doesn't allow FTP, only SFTP so I before I test something senseless I wanted to ask the list. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
webcolour slider
I'm looking for a slider that can display webcolours (hex) in a fld as the user drags it along from end to end. Anything like this out in the wild? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fld image
I have seen a few posts about embedding images into a text fld, but now that I need to actually do this myself I'd like to know if any samples or articles exist on the topic. I need to embed an image into a fld and have 2 or 3 lines of text aligned to the right side of it (may need to place two flds side by side?). The crux here though is to make the images clickable. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
is prime
Is there a function or command to tell me if a selected line of a fld is a prime number? For example, a user selects line 3 of a fld, I'd like a true or false result to appear in the message box if that number is prime or not. Or do I need to write a little function myself as no such feature exists? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Fld image
Thanks guys, this works great. :) On Dec 8, 2004, at 12:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the imageSource property in the docs, Simon. Meanwhile, this may give you a few ideas. Images are always positioned in-line... To embed: set the imageSource of char n of fld tFld to imageID Fld script: put the imagesource of the clickCharChunk into theClickImageSource switch theClickImageSource case imageID1 ... break case imageID2 ... break end switch /H I have seen a few posts about embedding images into a text fld, but now that I need to actually do this myself I'd like to know if any samples or articles exist on the topic. I need to embed an image into a fld and have 2 or 3 lines of text aligned to the right side of it (may need to place two flds side by side?). The crux here though is to make the images clickable. Sincerely, Simon ___ 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
find something, return false?
I'm trying to find a simple word in a field. -- find string link in fld EmbeddedIndexTemplate ... works like a charm. It finds and highlights the word for me. But if I ask for the result it returns empty. -- if the result is empty then beep ... am I using this correctly? MC 2.5.1 Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
filename
I thought we could set the filename of an image to *none*. Appears we can't. Correct? set the filename of img sample to none ... simple complains that it cannot find that image (IE, image *none*). What's the correct or alternate way of doing this? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: filename
Yeah, under the 2.5 engine though it still seems to create the could not open image error if I use *empty* or . Sorry, I neglected to mention that in my first post. On Nov 23, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Simon Lord wrote: I thought we could set the filename of an image to *none*. Appears we can't. Correct? set the filename of img sample to none ... simple complains that it cannot find that image (IE, image *none*). What's the correct or alternate way of doing this? Use either empty (no quotes) or . Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Development Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ 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
Re: Proportional scaling
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
Re: Proportional scaling
Uber Danka. :) On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Simon Lord wrote: I have an object 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 Hello Simon, The following may not match exactly your expectations, but is maybe a starting point. I have a zoom script on card slideshow of my stack Slideshow Light, 82 KB (formerly to be found in Rev's User Contributions, now on my website http://www.sanke.org, English version, page Sample Stacks). From the short description: Slideshow allowing JPG-, GIF-, PNG- and BMP-images. Preview and re-ordering possible. Different display sizes can be set. Zoom function; adjusting of display duration during show. This zoom function does not change the images continuously, but sets the new size - with the correct aspect ratio - after the dragging of the scrollbar thumb has finished. I also had a continuously changing version of such a zoom, but for some reason did not implement it in this slideshow stack. Examples from the scripts to put the aspect ratio into Var Proportion: set the numberformat to 0.00 put the formattedheight of image 1 into FHoehe put the formattedwidth of image 1 into FBreite put FBreite / FHoehe into Proportion script of the zoom scrollbar (assumes there are two extra scrollbars - that become visible when needed - to navigate inside the enlarged image): global Proportion, Stelle local Neuhoehe, Neubreite on scrollbardrag x put x into Neuhoehe put Neuhoehe * Proportion into NeuBreite put trunc(Neubreite) into Neubreite put NeuBreiteXNeuhoehe into fld Rechteck end scrollbardrag on mouseup set the cursor to watch lock screen set the height of image 1 to Neuhoehe set the width of image 1 to NeuBreite set the loc of image 1 to 512,384 if NeuBreite 1024 then put (Neubreite - 1024) div 2 into BreitDiff set the Startvalue of scrollbar horizontal to -Breitdiff set the Endvalue of scrollbar horizontal to Breitdiff show scrollbar Horizontal else hide scrollbar horizontal end if if Neuhoehe 768 then put (Neuhoehe - 768) div 2 into HoehDiff set the Startvalue of scrollbar vertical to -Hoehdiff set the Endvalue of scrollbar vertical to Hoehdiff show scrollbar vertical else hide scrollbar vertical end if set the thumbpos of scrollbar vertical to 0 set the thumbpos of scrollbar horizontal to 0 put the 512,384 into Stelle set the cursor to hand end mouseup Maybe this helps, if not - discard it. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke http://www.sanke.org ___ 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
Proportional scaling
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
Re: Can't Delete Directory
One of those little annoyances; if I run the command delete directory myPath where myPath is a perfectly valid path to a folder on the local hard disk, I get the result can't delete that file. Any ideas anyone? Using: Metacard 2.5 on Mac OSX 10.2.8 First thing that comes to mind is permissions. Who are you running metacard as and who owns the rights to the folder? What rights was the folder set with? I haven't tried it myself, I'm just pointing out the uber obvious. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ 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
Vector data
Back in the day I was able to export vector data to SuperCard by saving as the PICT2 format. This gave me the ability to import and print vector information from SuperCard for certain projects which was very handy. Now I find myself requiring the same thing of MetaCard. I have a variety of vector files in Freehand that need to find there way into the stack and retain their vector data (else it looses the high res printing advantage). Anyone have a solution to this? I seem to remember a post saying we could import EPS somehow. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Vector data
Exporting to SVG is an option for me, is RevNet part of the Revolution website? On Jul 19, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Lord wrote: Back in the day I was able to export vector data to SuperCard by saving as the PICT2 format. This gave me the ability to import and print vector information from SuperCard for certain projects which was very handy. Now I find myself requiring the same thing of MetaCard. I have a variety of vector files in Freehand that need to find there way into the stack and retain their vector data (else it looses the high res printing advantage). Anyone have a solution to this? I seem to remember a post saying we could import EPS somehow. Only on Unix systems, if I understand correctly. Would be very cool to have that for all platforms. I have a simple example of how to export objects to SVG available in RevNet. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev ___ 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
Re: Vector data
I own both Freehand and Illustrator, I use Freehand to work in and Illustrator to import my work and save as .ai for certain clients. Working in Illustrator is near impossible for me, the concepts and workflow are a55 backwards... I'm saving as Illustrator version 7 (eps) **from** within Illustrator but I'm getting thrown errors with the eps importer. Trying different things until something works... On Jul 19, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 Simon Lord Ok, found the EPS import stack from Alejandro, the only issue now is how can I scale the imported data to fit a specific area in my project? In the same website, you could download a stack named: graphic_transmormations_01.zip By the way, Freehand files are compressed binary data. Could you use the Adobe Ilustrator format? I have posted there a handler to export vector graphics as Adobe ilustrator too. You have to look in the RR mail list to get the exact download direction. al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi __ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ ___ 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
Re: Vector data
I figured. It works now, only issue is the sort order happens to be backwards so when everything gets drawn it appears upsidedown. I'll keep poking at it, seems to be doing something. :) On Jul 19, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 Simon Lord wrote: I own both Freehand and Illustrator, I use Freehand to work in and Illustrator to import my work and save as .ai for certain clients. [snip] I'm saving as Illustrator version 7 (eps) **from** within Illustrator but I'm getting thrown errors with the eps importer. Trying different things until something works... Probably is my fault to call this handler EPS import, because in fact it imports the AI file format that is a subset of the full featured EPS format. Try to export to Illustrator version 7 from Macromedia FreeHand. (not .eps, but .ai) If possible, i'll like to download the AI test file that you are importing to metacard. Post it compressed as zip in a web or ftp link. Do you find in the Read me about the differences between ilustrator and metacard vector formats? al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi __ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ ___ 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
Re: Will Supercard 2.3b1 run on Windows XP?
Where are you going with this question? I bet you meant to say MetaCard 2.3b1 right? I've been running MetaCard 2.3 to 2.5 on my XP box without any issues to date. As for SuperCard, the last version I used was version 3.0.1 from Allegiant back in 1996 and was (still is I believe) - MAC only. RIP SuperEdit. On Jul 15, 2004, at 9:34 AM, John Ranck, D.M.A. wrote: We have the Supercard release 2.3b1 and are migrating to Windows XP computers. Will this release of Supercard run on XP? Many thanks. JR -- John Ranck, D.M.A. Harvard University Development Office 124 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617 495 9752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johnranck.net/ ___ 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
Re: String comparison
Got it. answer replaceText(fullPATH, sessionPATH, ) On Jun 30, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Simon Lord wrote: I have two strings, file paths actually. Both path names are the same for the first ~5 directories, then the rest is what I'm actually interested in. My questions is, how can I compare string A to string B and get the difference? Sincerely, Simon ___ 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
HTML Colors
How can I turn 0,0,0 into #00 or 255,255,255 into #FF? Anyone have the secret for converting rgb to webcolors? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Rev question
A couple of things... 1) If I buy Rev, how do I assure myself I can keep the MC IDE? I have not actually seen screenshots or a download link. Then again, I haven't been part of the list in almost 2 years so I'm a little out of date. 2) Does Rev support the *brushed aluminium* look in OSX with the rounded corners? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Editing groups
I'd like to use a group as a mask object. That way when objects are dragged they are clipped at the edge of the group unlike the current situation whereby the object can be dragged willy nilly over the interface. My question is how can we choose the image tool and draw an image in the group during runtime? I remember doing this years ago but have since lost that stack. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Resize aspect
Thanks! This is a great launch board to start from. On Jun 13, 2004, at 2:52 AM, Brian Yennie wrote: Simon, How about something like this: 1) When you create a new stack, set a couple of properties of the stack to remember what size it wants to be: set the actualHeight of this stack to (11*72) ## 11 inches at 72DPI set the actualWidth of this stack to (17*72)## 17 inches at 72DPI set the zoomPercent of this stack to 100 ## start viewing at 100% 2) Ditto for objects- you want to remember what size they _want_ to be as accurately as possible (if you just translate each time, cumulatively, you'll probably notice them start to drift) ex: on newButton set the actualHeight of the target to (the height of the target * 100 / the zoomPercent of this stack) set the actualWidth of the target to (the width of the target * 100 / the zoomPercent of this stack) set the actualLeft of the target to (the left of the target * 100 / the zoomPercent of this stack) set the actualTop of the target to (the top of the target * 100 / the zoomPercent of this stack) end newButton 3) Create a simple handler which resizes the stack itself and you can call when needed: on zoomLayout toPercent set the zoomPercent of this stack to toPercent get the rect of this stack put (item 2 of it + round(the actualHeight of this stack * toPercent / 100)) into item 4 of it put (item 1 of it + round(the actualWidth of this stack * toPercent / 100)) into item 3 of it set the rect of this stack to it end zoomLayout 4) Catch the resizeStack handler to fix your objects: on resizeStack newWidth, newHeight, oldWidth, oldHeight repeat with i=1 to (number of cd parts) put the actualLeft of cd part i * (the zoomPercent of this stack / 100) into newLeft put the actualTop of cd part i * (the zoomPercent of this stack / 100) into newTop put the actualHeight of cd part i * (the zoomPercent of this stack / 100) into newHeight put the actualWidth of cd part i * (the zoomPercent of this stack / 100) into newWidth set the rect of cd part i to (round(newLeft)commaround(newTop)commaround(newLeft + newWidth)commaround(newTop + newHeight)) end repeat end resizeStack All of this (with some work I'm sure, this is off the top of my head) should buy you fairly reasonable resizing, although you probably won't achieve ultra-accurate layout by nature of the beast- Rev isn't vector graphics nor able to store higher zoomable resolutions for you to maintain in the background when someone is zoomed out. When the user is working at 800x600 pixels, newly created objects are going to be limited by the available pixels and when you zoom way back out, you might get nudged slightly by rounding inconsistencies. If you need finer alignment, you might consider other tactics, such as allowing objects to be aligned horizontally / vertically and carefully honoring that when zooming, etc. But the above approach should give reasonable results. You might also investigate the Rev geometry manager for inspiration... HTH Hi all, I want to throw out the following question to see if anyone has a stack already done that can do the following... My stack allows users to create a layout using template objects that fit the printed page. However, some users don't have monitor that can display the full resolution, and 11 x 17 layouts are near impossible for most. So I'm looking to make a stack that can resize all objects on a card *proportionally* to fit the new stack size (for example, a user wants to scale the stack down to 77% because that's all that fits on his viewable screen space). But it will always be an aspect ratio proportionate to the layout they are working on. That way when it comes time to print (or preview a print) I can scale everything to 100%. Or is there another way? 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
Resize aspect
Hi all, I want to throw out the following question to see if anyone has a stack already done that can do the following... My stack allows users to create a layout using template objects that fit the printed page. However, some users don't have monitor that can display the full resolution, and 11 x 17 layouts are near impossible for most. So I'm looking to make a stack that can resize all objects on a card *proportionally* to fit the new stack size (for example, a user wants to scale the stack down to 77% because that's all that fits on his viewable screen space). But it will always be an aspect ratio proportionate to the layout they are working on. That way when it comes time to print (or preview a print) I can scale everything to 100%. Or is there another way? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Format question
I have a tricky issue where I want to run a script to remove double spaces in the script of an object but not damage any code which is actually injecting it into something. To be clear, I want the following: set the visible of image monkey to true ... to look like this: set the visible of image monkey to true ... but what i don't want to do is affect any code trying to do something with spaces. For instance: put Hellothere into fld 1 ... depending on how many times I run my code to clean the extra spaces between words this script can end up looking like this: put Hellothere into fld 1 So I guess what I'm saying is I don't want to affect spaces between quotes. Any ideas? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Split
Helps big time. Thanks very much for the clarification. On Jun 2, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Ken Ray wrote: pd is primary delimiter (and sd is secondary delimiter). Here's a simple example where you can take a list of people's names and put them into a numerically indexed array: put Ken,Simon,Richard,Harry into tPeople split tPeople using , -- tPeople is now an array that holds 4 elements put tPeople[1] -- puts Ken put tPeople[2] -- puts Simon put tPeople[3] -- puts Richard put tPeople[4] -- puts Harry HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:04 PM To: MetaCard Subject: Split I'd like to learn a little about how Metacard's split function works. I tried reading the reference stack but I'm unsure about what it means to split a variable *using pd*. What's pd? If the responder can provide a real-world sample it'd be much appreciated. 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
Split
I'd like to learn a little about how Metacard's split function works. I tried reading the reference stack but I'm unsure about what it means to split a variable *using pd*. What's pd? If the responder can provide a real-world sample it'd be much appreciated. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Split
Whoops, I thought we could split a fld directly without having to place it into a variable. Ok, so i think I have it working and tested a paragraph of text using to split the text and place it into a second fld. This worked, but curiously the paragraph which was combined using # appears to be scrambled afterwards. This is an unexpected event. Any reason for the words in the paragraph to randomize their location when a combine is used? On Jun 2, 2004, at 12:03 AM, Simon Lord wrote: I'd like to learn a little about how Metacard's split function works. I tried reading the reference stack but I'm unsure about what it means to split a variable *using pd*. What's pd? If the responder can provide a real-world sample it'd be much appreciated. Sincerely, Simon ___ 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
Re: Flash swfs
Not sure about a dll, I would need it to be a little more officially supported for Mac, PC and Linux like Flash is right now. All my work is not streamed via the web so I do very little work in MetaCard anymore, it's all Flash and FlashComm Server. But being able to build my projects in MetaCard with embedded Flash files would be so much easier than creating the entire application in Flash. Flash is just not geared towards building interfaces in a timely manner. Too bad the browser plugins are not compatible with any application. On May 10, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: on Mon, 10 May 2004 Simon Lord wrote: Yeah, that only takes care of half the features. Quicktime does a good job at playing swfs which were made using the timeline to generate animation. Any interaction you normally see if just a hotspot pointing to a new location on that timeline. Click and go interaction... with the advantage of having cached already the destination frame. something that web browsers still could not do. However, when coding directly in ActionScript and NOT using the timeline at all it fails to run in Quicktime - thus fails in MetaCard. I do not think that the Quicktime developer team could keep the fast pace of the Macromedia Flash developer team. :-( Flash and MetaCard each have drawbacks, but combined they make for an extremely powerful tool. Or *would* have made for a powerful tool if it was directly supported as an object that could be embedded and played. Simon, for the platform Neobook does exist a dll that put a flash movie into the neobooks projects. Check this link: http://www.flashnpack.com/neobook/ This russian developer have a lot of experience with the Macromedia Flash format: http://www.unhsolutions.net/Flash-Saving-Plugin/index.shtml Do we start a poll to know how many developers will use Flash in their projects? If there are many of us, maybe we could raise an initial good sum of money to contract one of these developers to create a dll for RR/MC. He could keep the source code and keep selling it to more RR/MC developers. I put a tag price of $50.00 dollars for an individual unlimited commercial use of this dll. What do you think simon? al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ 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
Re: Flash swfs
Yeah, that only takes care of half the features. Quicktime does a good job at playing swfs which were made using the timeline to generate animation. Any interaction you normally see if just a hotspot pointing to a new location on that timeline. However, when coding directly in ActionScript and NOT using the timeline at all it fails to run in Quicktime - thus fails in MetaCard. That sucks. Flash and MetaCard each have drawbacks, but combined they make for an extremely powerful tool. Or *would* have made for a powerful tool if it was directly supported as an object that could be embedded and played. Anyhow, I didn't really expect it to be supported, was just hoping it was. Thanks! On May 9, 2004, at 6:28 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Simon, Does RunRev support embedding Flash movies into projects directly? Not tested, but you should be able to import a swf-file and play with: play vc flush.swf But unfortunately only with quicktime installed. Hope that helps... Sincerely, Simon Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ 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
Flash swfs
Does RunRev support embedding Flash movies into projects directly? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MC to Rev upgrade
What's the deal with the free upgrade from MC to the current revolution version? I remember when RR took over there was some deal in place that allowed current MC users to upgrade to their Enterprise version but only at the end of your current MC license or something. Sorry to sound so confusing, I just want to make sure I don't miss that upgrade path. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard support
To use the current version of the engine with the MC IDE you need to go to runrev.com and download a package named Revolution. You can rename it to anything you like, but for communicating with the community as a whole it may be less confusing to just use its current name. I guess this would seem logical due to the new ownership (if not out of respect for Revolution - it's their right). But I have to wonder about all the people out there that have used HyperCard and SuperCard or XTalk and never heard of MetaCard. I switched from HyperCard to SuperCard v1.5 when I saw the name (plus SC supported colour, BONUS!). Then I moved to MetaCard v1 because I was working on an SGI (and I saw an engineer at the company using it, that's how I saw the name MetaCard and nearly died of joy), now I program in Flash because I need full browser support (and it has an exe and works on Linux and SGI so I'm covered). I still use MetaCard 2.5 to build my custom XML creation tool which feeds Flash it's data, but will move that to PHP in the near future. I'm sure I'll be using MC 2.5 for some time to come. RIP MetaCard, you and I had a good ~11 year run together... Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Movie Controller
Works like a dream. Thanks! On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Simon, I had once made a movie controller for a project done in MC, but it was s long ago I cannot even remember which one it was done for. I'm looking to make a stack that can play mpg movies on mac, sgi and windows. The controller needs to do a few things: 1) Display the timecode 2) Play/Pause/Restart buttons 3) Controller to jog through movie (but also moves as movie plays) check this old stack of mine: Custom Controller for Players v1.0 You find it on: http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/ usercontributions.html waaay down the page :-) It will cover line 2 and 3 of your wish-list ;-) Since it is created with custom images/graphics it will look the same on all platforms :-) For line 3: I also made a smpte_lite function a long time ago. Wait a minute, i will check my archieves... (5 looong minutes later...) Found it! (...he said with clouds of dust floating around his head, hands and shoulders... :-) Cough, cough..., will only handle minutes and seconds, but no, cough, frames... Did not need this kind of accuratèsse ;-) function smpte_lite dauer1,ts ## duration1, TimeScale set the numberformat to xx ## force a leading 0, if necessary... put dauer1 div 60 into minu put dauer1 mod 60 into seku return 00 : minu : seku end smpte_lite And this in the start button of the player: on mouseUp if the duration of player 1 = 0 then exit mouseup ## No movie set yet... ## will also prevent divide by 0 errors :-) put round(duration of player 1/the timescale of player 1) into gesamt put the timescale of player 1 into ts set the paused of player 1 to not the paused of player 1 ## ON/OFF diezeit gesamt, ts end mouseUp on diezeit gesamt, ts ## the time :-) if the paused of player 1 then exit diezeit put round(the currenttime of player 1/ts) into jetzt ##now put round(gesamt - jetzt) into restzeit ## remaining time put Current : TAB smpte_lite(jetzt) cr Remaining : TAB smpte_lite(restzeit) into fld zeit send diezeit to me in 1 secs end diezeit You get the picture... Hope that helps. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de P.S. Are you the S.L. that i know somehow from my SuperCard days? :-) ___ 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
Movie Controller
I had once made a movie controller for a project done in MC, but it was s long ago I cannot even remember which one it was done for. I'm looking to make a stack that can play mpg movies on mac, sgi and windows. The controller needs to do a few things: 1) Display the timecode 2) Play/Pause/Restart buttons 3) Controller to jog through movie (but also moves as movie plays) That's about it. It took forever to get that done when I made it. I imagine that there are better methods and tools provided to do what little I need. If anyone has a sample stack I'd love to see it. Thanks. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Movie Controller
Oh, and these controllers need to look identical across all the 3 platforms... On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Simon Lord wrote: I had once made a movie controller for a project done in MC, but it was s long ago I cannot even remember which one it was done for. I'm looking to make a stack that can play mpg movies on mac, sgi and windows. The controller needs to do a few things: 1) Display the timecode 2) Play/Pause/Restart buttons 3) Controller to jog through movie (but also moves as movie plays) That's about it. It took forever to get that done when I made it. I imagine that there are better methods and tools provided to do what little I need. If anyone has a sample stack I'd love to see it. Thanks. Sincerely, Simon ___ 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
Re: Drawers
I haven't tried this yet (I may have back during the beta), but can you tell me if this works on all platforms or is this an OSX only thing? On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 01:57 AM, Tuviah M Snyder wrote: Create three drawer stacks whose sum of heights is the height of the base stack (or otherwise, if you like). It is possible..it hasn't been documented for some reason drawer x1 at right,top in stack parent drawer x2 at right,center in stack parent drawer x3 at right,top in stack parent Same goes for other directions where the syntax is drawer stackname [at pintoside,[alignment]] So you can have multiple drawers on one side. Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought ___ 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
Re: Moving the MC IDE forward
Agreed. I tried to give Rev an honest chance this weekend and got totally frustrated with all the palettes. I was genuinely happy to see support for MySQL and other items I need but the interface simply turned me off and I had to use MC in the end. It's not that I didn't understand the palette options and offerings, it's just that I don't want/need to know about these things while developing. It's *too* helpful, kinda like a car salesman. Maybe Kevin will add a pref dialog that allows us to decide what palettes and menus we want to see in our work environment. That would help considerably and I don't see it as being that difficult to provide. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: So putting it just as bluntly, that there is a perception of MC's value is reason enough. If that perception changes over time the MC engine will whither away naturally. There should be no need to force change, and doing so would not have the liberating feeling of a choice. I'm not proposing forcing anyone to switch. That's not even what I'm asking about. I'm specifically curious why people would expend significant effort updating/enhancing the MC environment. If all we're talking about is maintaining compatibility with new engines, then that's a minimal task and I don't see any reason not to. Well, I for one have just renewed MC licence, so I am stuck so do speak with MC for another year. Not that I despair. I am happy with MC, and I see no need for fork out a few hundred bucks to switch to Rev any time soon. I am among those for whom Rev's interface is too rich and gets in my way. Robert ___ 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
Re: Moving the MC IDE forward
Not that I'm here to speak for RunRev or anything (and for all I know those folks may know of a reason why this suggestion is a very bad idea); but if you're interested in things like the database support, but find the interface too rcih/in your face, have you tried the Suspend Development Tools option under the Development menu? Interesting, I missed this menu item. It's encouraging only because it proves Kevin can easily provide a *minimalist* authoring environment that MC users are accustomed to. I'd have thought this might mean you get all the advantages of Rev in terms of extended libraries - but effectively get rid of all their UI (except for one tiny pallete with a Restore button on, which you minimise). I'd guess you could then just open the MetaCard UI instead (but of course I could be wrong). I think it was meant to hide the Rev tools while you tested your stack. It otherwise does not appear to do much in *suspended* mode. Maybe that is the way forward for those who will want to continue to upgrade to new engines etc, benefit from the additional libraries, but use their own or the classic MetaCard UI. It might even be possible to formalise this in a future version of Rev - eg have preferences to switch off the Rev UI at startup, and to open some other UI at the same time. (Actually the latter may hardly be needed; I have a little toolbar which supplements the Rev UI, which is implemented as a Rev plugin, and set to open at startup and glue itself to the end of the Rev menubar. When the Rev UI is suspended, my bit stays in place.) Agreed. Seems trivial to make an MC IDE as a *plugin* which is built and supported by MC users and use the *Suspend* type feature to switch between the two. Seems easier to do this than to support two independent IDEs. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who gives this a go. Or RunRev's opinions if in fact they think it's a Very Bad Idea. Same here. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ 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
Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
Wow. See what happens when you only go through your lists once a week... My feelings on this are mixed, on the one hand I'm hoping Scott got a sweet deal and can retire/relax after years of hard work. I haven't read through all the RE:'s on this thread but if it hasn't been said yet then I'd just like to say thanks to Scott for everything he has done for me personally and for the list. As for RunRev, I have no feelings about them or their products one way or another. I will say this however, I truly hope that they maintain both UI's independently of each other. After using MC for the last 12 years I can honestly say that I'd probably ditch MC in a heartbeat if RunRev decided to only support their authoring environment (I'm having a hell of a time learning Flash - don't need more OUIE GUI to deal with). UI arguments aside, I doubt I'm the only one that feels this way. Hell, after 12 years I kind of know where everything is. Nothing can beat the simplicity of the MC interface! I'd like to congratulate Kevin on building up his company to what it is today as well. As Eminem would say, that's my 10 cents, my 2 cents are free. On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Just went over to the RunRev site and saw this headline: Runtime Aquires MetaCard Technology You can read all about it here: http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html How does everyone feel about this? I can see good and not-so-good things (depending on how RunRev acts on this)... Your thoughts? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ 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
Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
The first order of business will be to set up a mailing list so that we can start discussions of how that group should be organized and later, what changes to the UI everyone wants (and are willing to contribute to!). That should help keep this list focused on *using* the UI, with some discussions of the engine technology it shares with the new standard development environment, Revolution. I'd say *this* is that mailing list. Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm exactly happy about using the RunRev UI, and if this list gets merged with theirs then I won't know what the hell people are talking about when they start mumbling about RunRev windows/palettes etc. If RunRev wants to give me a free upgrade to their current product I'd be willing to test it on my current stacks. But no promises on me liking it, I'm a big fan of the MC IDE. Huge fan. But at least you're still around Scott. I felt a wave of relief reading your post! OK, so who wants to host that mailing list? Regards, Scott PS: it's at times like this that I miss Grant Schampel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He always loved a good brouhaha, and always had something insightful to say about the back-room dealings that make them possible... Shari C Gypsy King Software -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
2 Questions
Does Metacard support drag and drop yet? IE, can I drag a file from the desktop to an area of a metacard stack and code it to react to the object? Basically all I need is for the *drop* to register the path names to the objects I dragged to MC. Samples? Second, MC support the brush steel look on OSX yet? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: 2 answers
Oh wow. That is cool. Thanks Klaus! On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 07:20 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Simon, Does Metacard support drag and drop yet? Yes, since 2.5... IE, can I drag a file from the desktop to an area of a metacard stack and code it to react to the object? Yes :-) Basically all I need is for the *drop* to register the path names to the objects I dragged to MC. Samples? See my Drag and Drop 1 stack on the RunRev contributor page... (nicely commented ;-) Will surely get you started dragging and dropping :-) Second, MC support the brush steel look on OSX yet? Not per se... You'll have to fake it with images and/or background-patterns... Sincerely, Simon Hope that helps. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ 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
MySQL Support
Hi all, I need to write an app that will allow me to read/write data to MySQL. I'd like to tinker with this on the weekend and I've seen it mentioned here a few times but was not in the market to use such a combination. That said, can some kind sole provide me with the following: 1) Information about what I need in order read/write to MySQL 2) A sample stack (I can change the MySQL table calls) just so get a frame of reference This would be much appreciated, I look forward to playing with it. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
From the FAQ on the press release page at http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html: What happens to existing MetaCard customers? Existing customers will get a free upgrade to Revolution with their next subscription renewal. What does that mean? Can I cross-grade now or do I have to wait until Nov 2003? And when I read this I literally see that they are offering a FREE upgrade from my 2.5 license when it expires in Nov. That does sound good, but I bet I'm not reading it the way they intended it to sound. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm exactly happy about using the RunRev UI Whoops, that should read I'm NOT exactly happy... Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fwd: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
Wow. See what happens when you only go through your lists once a week... My feelings on this are mixed, on the one hand I'm hoping Scott got a sweet deal and can retire/relax after years of hard work. I haven't read through all the RE:'s on this thread but if it hasn't been said yet then I'd just like to say thanks to Scott for everything he has done for me personally and for the list. As for RunRev, I have no feelings about them or their products one way or another. I will say this however, I truly hope that they maintain both UI's independently of each other. After using MC for the last 12 years I can honestly say that I'd probably ditch MC in a heartbeat if RunRev decided to only support their authoring environment (I'm having a hell of a time learning Flash - don't need more OUIE GUI to deal with). UI arguments aside, I doubt I'm the only one that feels this way. Hell, after 12 years I kind of know where everything is. Nothing can beat the simplicity of the MC interface! I'd like to congratulate Kevin on building up his company to what it is today as well. As Eminem would say, that's my 10 cents, my 2 cents are free. On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Just went over to the RunRev site and saw this headline: Runtime Aquires MetaCard Technology You can read all about it here: http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html How does everyone feel about this? I can see good and not-so-good things (depending on how RunRev acts on this)... Your thoughts? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fwd: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
The first order of business will be to set up a mailing list so that we can start discussions of how that group should be organized and later, what changes to the UI everyone wants (and are willing to contribute to!). That should help keep this list focused on *using* the UI, with some discussions of the engine technology it shares with the new standard development environment, Revolution. I'd say *this* is that mailing list. Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm exactly happy about using the RunRev UI, and if this list gets merged with theirs then I won't know what the hell people are talking about when they start mumbling about RunRev windows/palettes etc. If RunRev wants to give me a free upgrade to their current product I'd be willing to test it on my current stacks. But no promises on me liking it, I'm a big fan of the MC IDE. Huge fan. But at least you're still around Scott. I felt a wave of relief reading your post! OK, so who wants to host that mailing list? Regards, Scott PS: it's at times like this that I miss Grant Schampel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He always loved a good brouhaha, and always had something insightful to say about the back-room dealings that make them possible... Shari C Gypsy King Software -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!
As Scott said the MC IDE is now open source so you can continue to maintain an engine license and use the MC IDE instead of Rev. It's up to you if you want to switch or not but it seems that all development will go into the engine and the Rev IDE. As long as the new features are documented then I don't see why I need RunRev. I can just code it if I know about it. Do we have any idea how this will work? For example, if you have a Rev license will you be able to use your choice of Rev, MC or FreeGUI (or whatever else)? That seems to be the most logical way to do things. Cheers Monte ___ 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
Re: MC to SVG translation
I can't seem to find this link for mc2svg. Can you supply one? On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: Check out this page for the possibilities: http://www.adobe.com/svg/demos/main.html ...and the mc2svg stack downloadable through RevNet -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ 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
Re: Comm Server
This would be perfect. How do I go about contacting them and seeing a demo? Anything exist yet guys? On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:49 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Has anyone built a metacard based comm server? Something akin to IRC that has multiple rooms etc? I'm interested in setting something like this up for myself. Shao Sean has one. Not sure if he is still working on it. What about the MC-based Jabber client that OPN started many months ago. Jabber, as you probably already know, is a *gateway* to several IRC/chat systems which also manage your *presence*. Moreover, underneath the hood of Jabber, there's a solid architecture based on XML, for messaging as well as [meta-]data structures. OPN was/is : David Bovill, MisterX, Monte Goulding, and myself, albeit I didn't contribute *directly* to the development of this particular Jabber-client stack. Just a thought, Alain Farmer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ___ 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
Comm Server
Has anyone built a metacard based comm server? Something akin to IRC that has multiple rooms etc? I'm interested in setting something like this up for myself. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Forced to use Applescript
Sorry for the delay in my reply, used the wrong email address. Actually this is a bad idea under OSX. Even though this is a perfect solution for copying some files, many files and applications in OSX still have resource info attached to them. I'm stuck with 5gigs of data that I am slowly resurrecting by reseting the file creators etc. (no backup). Anyhow, if you want to use the command line to copy files around, a PERFECTLY SOUND solution as Brian points out, you need to use the following command instead: ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users Do a man on ditto to learn more. On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 02:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use shell() on OS X? get shell(cp -R /MyFolder/MyApp.app /AnotherFolder/MyAppCopy.app) Brian The only thing that didn't work using native MetaCard routines in OSX was copying the 'Mach-O' resource from an '.app' package. There was some kind of corruption going on, and I couldn't track it down any further than to the Metacard engine itself. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: 2.5b3 was posted tonite!!!!
It states 2.5B2 when launched. That just an oversight? On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:11 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.5/ -- snip -- MetaCard 2.5 release notes ** A SIGTERM signal sent to the UNIX (including Mac OS X) engines causes a shutDownRequest message to be sent to the defaultStack. Passing the message causes a normal exit, not passing it causes the signal to be ignored. Thank's a lot, Scott, for this very usefull feature and the secure vay it will let us reboot remote deamons from within metacard's client-server apps without having to log in using SSH or SSL based front-ends. -- snip -- -- Cordialement, Pierre Sahores Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis. Applications et bases de données WEB et VPN Qualifier et produire l'avantage compétitif ___ 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
acceptDrop
I may be missing the point here, but I set acceptDrop to true, then in my stack script I say: on dragSource put the result end dragSource Then I dragged a file from the desktop to the stack. I assumed the output in the msg box would be the long name of the file as explained in the Readme. I may not be clear on this I think, I see no result at all. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
OT question
Anyone here use MM Director MX? How easy was it for you to learn the Lingo language (assuming you knew MetaTalk first)? I have some clients that need some online projects and I'm using Flash but - well, it's hell. And Lingo looks much more familiar. If only we could export to SVG from metacard - solve almost all my problems with regards to online/offline projects. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Virtual reality lens
Hi all, if you are not interested in photography or 360° virtual imagery then please ignore my post. I'm selling a 360° lens for standard 35mm cameras which has served me very well in the past for creating QuickTime VR's and panorama's. All the details are here: http://www.marelina.com/behere/ Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Virtual reality lens
Yes, but you need an SLR camera like the Nikon D100 which is a digital camera but uses standard Nikon AF lenses. On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Michael Kann wrote: Interesting concept. Would it work with a digital camera? --- Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, if you are not interested in photography or 360° virtual imagery then please ignore my post. I'm selling a 360° lens for standard 35mm cameras which has served me very well in the past for creating QuickTime VR's and panorama's. All the details are here: http://www.marelina.com/behere/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ 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
Re: darwin mc?
Speaking of which, has anyone written a good (and open) communication stack to simulate a kind of IRC client? I would like to use a Flash interface to speak to metacard on the server to tie in multiple conversations between people. I've tried installing other cgi and java based solutions but they are really really bad. So it might be time to roll up my sleeves and write my own server side solution with metacard. But if I can get leg up then that'd be great. On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Richard MacLemale wrote: On 1/8/03 10:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, thanks for the perspective. What is darwin mc ?? Sadhu It's the metacard engine for Darwin. You can slap it into your CGI-EXECUTABLES folder and then write MetaTalk scripts to do cool CGI stuff. -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School ___ 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
New window style
I sent an email to Scott with this question, he hasn't responded so I'm wondering if my support ran out :^) My question is for MC under OSX. Is there, or *will* there be a new window style that would allow me to create the brushed steel window with rounded corners? The API to do this has been included in the latest versions of OSX (I see Apple Script can make these windows now). So how long before we can state: set the style of this stack to brushed Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
player object
Can anyone tell me if the movie player objects actually work? I dragged one out, set the filename to a quicktime movie on the desktop and I can play the movie if I state: start player will ...but I'm more interested in using the actual movie controller which is drawn below the movie yet is completely unresponsive to any of my requests to play the clip, fwd, back, volume etc. I'm running 2.5b1 build 3 on OSX 10.2.3 Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8
Ken, would it be possible to get a sample stack from you? In a past life I wrote a SuperCard stack that would display a movie in a card with a controller, the controller would have handles at either end (custom made SC controller). The first controller represented the 00:00:00 timecode while the end controller represented the end of the movie's timecode, ie 00:03:57 Moving these timecodes to the right or left allowed for the user to play just the selection *in-between* the timecodes. I have included a screenshot of that SC project below, hope that helps. Having said all this, I'm trying to find some samples in the MetaCard universe that would allow me to shave a few weeks off my development if I could find a stack which had a few basic samples such as: (1) How to get the movie length in time (so I can make set timecodes again) (2) How to play from timecode to timecode (if possible, maybe an alternative?) That's it really, maybe a few extras but it's late and I'm barely awake at this point in the email. In essence, I'm hoping for a *rosseta* MC stack that will instantly show me all the movie controls/handles MC can perform (aside from the obvious like, play, stop etc). From the email below, I take it you probably have worked out many of the issues I'm looking to develop for a small internal project. Thanks. PS: SuperCard 2.5 works fine in Classic. Had a bug where it would crash if you selected the Finder, but since it does not exist in Classic, it runs fine. Cool, cause I liked SuperEdit very much. inline: pastedGraphic1.tiff On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Scott, Any chance of getting the posterTime property for player objects (which returns the timepoint in the movie where the poster frame was defined) working for 2.5? Additionally we'd also spoken about a couple of other items: (1) the ability to grab a frame from a QT movie as image data so it could be stuck into an image object using the QT API call GetMoviePICT, and (2) an extension of the prepare command that would force MC to render a player object into its buffer before it was displayed so that one could have a hidden player object, set its currentTime to a specified time, and then show it, optionally with visual effects. I'm assuming the last two aren't in the works for 2.5, but I just wanted to remind you of them in the event that there was still some fleshing out to do on them. Thanks, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8 MetaCard 2.5 alpha-test 8 is now available in the directory: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.5/ See the file README.2.5 in that directory for the list of new features. The new debugging features of the engine are complete in this release, though the UI still needs a little tweaking. Now would be a good time to take it for a spin to get your must-have features in for the first beta-test release, due up next. Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon
Re: Can't Build Standalones in OS X
Verify your startup and open stack scripts. Sometimes a runtime will hang on something you have there. For a quick test, comment out those scripts that do something on startup or on open etc. If your stack does not immediately quit then it's likely something in the boot script it does not like. On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 12:20 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, Using MC 2.4.3 to build a standalone. I moved resources and followed the steps in the standalone builder, but whenever I double-click the standalone, it opens, its window appears for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. What am I doing wrong? Greg Gregory Lypny Associate Professor John Molson School of Business Concordia University _ I am just going outside and may be some time. - Captain Lawrence Oates, 17 March 1912, Scott Expedition ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Opacity
Is it possible to set the opaqueness of a card/stack? My stack is acting like a window definition tool, so ideally the user can set the look of their window before I output and xml style sheet. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Need a good open process sample
My original post doesn't seem to have made it to the list. So here it is again. I can never get this command straight. Anyone have a straight forward example of metacard using open process to launch a process via the shell. I'm going nuts running put shell() and having mc wait around until the process is completed. This would help a lot. Thanks. Sincerely, Simon Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Need a good open process sample
I can never get this command straight. Anyone have a straight forward example of metacard using open process to launch a process via the shell. I'm going nuts running put shell() and having mc wait around until the process is completed. This would help a lot. Thanks. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Need a good open process sample
Hmm, has it always been that easy? I remember having real problems with this a few years ago on the SGI. It was a real pain to get it to do anything. And these samples are much more straightforward than I remember. But, that said. Thanks Andu. On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 11:40 PM, andu wrote: --On Sunday, October 06, 2002 03:01:52 -0400 Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can never get this command straight. Anyone have a straight forward example of metacard using open process to launch a process via the shell. I'm going nuts running put shell() and having mc wait around until the process is completed. This would help a lot. Thanks. On Linux: open process netscape -- pops up the browser. open process netscape http://www.metacard.com; --with url open process netscape -mail -- pops up messenger Regards, Andu Novac ___ 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
sudo on OSX
Hi all, I have a minor problem with the StartupItems under OSX. It's owned by root. So the application I'm writing can't set a script there to launch on startup. This is likely a security measure so my option is to send a command to sudo and write/copy the script to the StartupItems directory. Problem is how does one do that? I'll need to ask the user to enter the password (root only, users cannot modify) but then how do I actually run it in a command line *with* the password? IE,. I don't want to run the script and have the Terminal say ok, what's the password, I want to include the password in the command to copy the script to the StartupItems folder. Any ideas? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Drag and Drop
Does MC support this feature? Basically I want a user to be able to drag a file/folder from their desktop (OSX, OS9) onto the interface of the MC app and have the app get the location of that file(s). That all. If I can get the path names then it's pretty simply to do some post edits on those files. Just trying to make it easier for people by not having to have them go through the dialog box and pick files one at a time. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Text length
Here is a small problem I'm having with text *collisions*. I have a field who's contents are the names, dates and sizes of all the files in a directory. The items are separated by a set of tabs, which can me adjusted left or right via a widget at the top of the field. So imagine sliding this widget and seeing the filenames stationary on the left but the filesize and date are in motion on the right. The are moving because the distance (via tab length) is being adjusted to increase the space between these items. My problem is that if I adjust the tabs too far to the left the size column collides into the names and the formating goes completely out the window (ie the fake columns I created by setting tab widths is completely disregarded and stuff just formats willy nilly) My question is, is there a way to return the length of text in pixels? My column data is still separated by comma's so I'd love to see a solution that would allow me to get item 1 and return that length in pixels. There is a backwards solutions that allows me to get the length in characters, ad if I wrote a function I could sort of assume 5 pixels per character and multiply that by the length but this starts to slow things down. Is there a faster method? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Directory listing off server
Andu seemed to have this figured out in his FTP sample stack. But I'm trying to stick to libUrl seeing as it's working out for me nicely thanks mostly to the help I've been receiving here. Currently I'm trying to get a listing of filenames in a directory on a remote server. Not having any luck and nothing in libUrl sticks out as being the *one* solution. Anybody have a answer for this one? Mr. Cragg? ;^) Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
filename extension
Here's a toughy. At some point I want to offer some stacks to a client. They'll all be runtime stacks. But I'd rather just build a generic standalone that allows the stacks to run which will help reduce the total filesize dramatically (since each stack would be roughly 16k to 180k rather than 6mb each). Now, this project is for Mac OSX only. And my question is, does anyone know how to run a command line that will hide the extension on all files that end in .mc? You can do this in the Get Info box from the Finder but I want to do this more discretely so as to make the stacks look more like individual applications (which they are) rather than a collections of files that belong to one runtime app. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
the detailed files
Is it possible to get the detailed files of a particular file only? How? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Upload
I got this mostly working I think. but Here's what happens: The url: ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads/osxhints/ The file: /Applications/MetaCard/Direct_Chat.zip The error: error File not specified I'm using the code you sent with the obvious variables hardcoded in just to test it out. I'm wondering if it has something to do with a product we use on our server but I won't know that until morning. If you spot anything please let me know. Thanks! On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 01:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Lord wrote: I have a great script that allows MetaCard to download a file from my server. Now I need one to upload a file to the server. Does anyone have a stack with a sample script to do this? Just a time saving question. LibURL makes it easy: put container into url ftpUrl e.g.: put ftp://; tUser:tPword@tHost/tFileName / into tDestUrl put url (file:tLocalFile) into url tDestUrl -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ 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
Re: 2.4.3 final?
I did not get the FINAL indication by email either, that is, if it did go out. On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 03:20 PM, Karl Becker wrote: I may have missed this message due to a different computer checking my email, but 2.4.3 is apparently final, right? Is the 2.4.3 download I downloaded from the 2.4.3 directory on the FTP servers the same as the 2.4.3 that is now on the general Get MetaCard page? The Get MetaCard page app has a modification date of July 27, but my app I had from before (which does not have any indication of it being a beta, the folder is also named 2.4.3X) has a modification date of July 15. Sorry if this is a dumb question :-) -- Karl Becker, KB Productions http://www.karlbecker.com ___ 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
Re: Upload
This is working properly for me now, thanks very much. I read a little on the runrev site concerning libURl and I found that libUrlFtpUpload does the same thing. Now which method is better? On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 05:24 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: At 11:18 pm -0400 28/7/02, Simon Lord wrote: I got this mostly working I think. but Here's what happens: The url: ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads/osxhints/ The file: /Applications/MetaCard/Direct_Chat.zip The error: error File not specified I'm using the code you sent with the obvious variables hardcoded in just to test it out. I'm wondering if it has something to do with a product we use on our server but I won't know that until morning. If you spot anything please let me know. You need the full file path of the destination url. For example; ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads/osxhints/Direct_Chat. zip Also, you'll probably have to urlEncode your user name as it contains the @ symbol. For example: put ftp://USER:PASS@www.marelina.com/downloads/osxhints/Direct_Chat.zip into tUrl put urlEncode([EMAIL PROTECTED]) into tUser put into tPass replace USER with tUser in tUrl replace PASS with tPass in tUrl put binfile:/Applications/MetaCard/Direct_Chat.zip into tSourceUrl put url tSourceUrl into url tUrl if the result is not empty then answer the result end if For more infor on libUrl, see the following: http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/interimreleases/liburl/liburldoc. shtml Cheers Dave Cragg ___ 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
Hopes crushed
Ok, I'm trying to use the libUrlFtpUpload data, url [, message] as noted on the RunRev site. Before I paste the code I want to explain the problem which is, the file gets created on the server but that's as far as it goes. I see a file on the server which has the correct name but is usually only a few bytes in size (I'm using 1.2mb files to test). So it seems like the showStatus routine is not working out for me as directed. Here is the lower portion of my mouseUp statement (only sets the variables up) and the showStatus routine: ... put ftp://; ftpUser:ftpPass@ftpDomain/ftpDirectory / ftpFileName into ftpPath libUrlFtpUpload ftpFile, ftpPath showstatus end mouseUp on showStatus global ftpPath,ftpFile put urlStatus(ftpPath) into tStatus put tStatus ##show in message box if tStatus is not among the items of uploaded,error,timeout then send showStatus to me in 50 milliseconds end if end showStatus Help is greatly appreciated, success is in the air. I can get this script working fine, but I'd rather use libUrlFtpUpload because I can work a progress bar into the mix and show the user something is happening. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Hopes crushed
How? This is what I was using: put url (binfile:ftpFile) into url ftpPath But that was locking up my script until it was done uploading. At the very least it works, my files get uploaded in full and I can download them and uncompress + execute successfully. So I know that works. Now I'm trying to use this...: libUrlFtpUpload ftpFile, ftpPath ...because the docs on RunRev say it doesn't lock up the script, meaning I can continually check the progress and make a progress bar. My problem is the file gets created but nothing else. It thinks the file has successfully been uploaded the second the file has been created and simply exits with the message uploaded. So, I have a working solution and a busted, but better option. Now I need feedback to tell me what I'm doing wrong with libUrlFtpUpload. ;^) On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 01:37 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: don't forget and use binfile! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hopes crushed Ok, I'm trying to use the libUrlFtpUpload data, url [, message] as noted on the RunRev site. Before I paste the code I want to explain the problem which is, the file gets created on the server but that's as far as it goes. I see a file on the server which has the correct name but is usually only a few bytes in size (I'm using 1.2mb files to test). So it seems like the showStatus routine is not working out for me as directed. Here is the lower portion of my mouseUp statement (only sets the variables up) and the showStatus routine: ... put ftp://; ftpUser:ftpPass@ftpDomain/ftpDirectory / ftpFileName into ftpPath libUrlFtpUpload ftpFile, ftpPath showstatus end mouseUp on showStatus global ftpPath,ftpFile put urlStatus(ftpPath) into tStatus put tStatus ##show in message box if tStatus is not among the items of uploaded,error,timeout then send showStatus to me in 50 milliseconds end if end showStatus Help is greatly appreciated, success is in the air. I can get this script working fine, but I'd rather use libUrlFtpUpload because I can work a progress bar into the mix and show the user something is happening. 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 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Open or ask file, or other?
I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the file browser on their default OS. In this case I'm talking about the Mac OSX OS. I'd like a dialog box to open which allows them to click a file and select ok etc. Problem is I can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they pick a name and location to save a file. I briefly thought of the Open command but you need to know the path for that. I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file on their own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing off this otherwise great weekend. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Open or ask file, or other?
Hehe, yeah that's the one. Simon On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Lord wrote: I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the file browser on their default OS. In this case I'm talking about the Mac OSX OS. I'd like a dialog box to open which allows them to click a file and select ok etc. Problem is I can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they pick a name and location to save a file. I briefly thought of the Open command but you need to know the path for that. I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file on their own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing off this otherwise great weekend. answer file Select a file: -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ 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
Re: Upload
Thank you VERY much Richard. I love examples! On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 01:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Lord wrote: I have a great script that allows MetaCard to download a file from my server. Now I need one to upload a file to the server. Does anyone have a stack with a sample script to do this? Just a time saving question. LibURL makes it easy: put container into url ftpUrl e.g.: put ftp://; tUser:tPword@tHost/tFileName / into tDestUrl put url (file:tLocalFile) into url tDestUrl -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ 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
Upload
I have a great script that allows MetaCard to download a file from my server. Now I need one to upload a file to the server. Does anyone have a stack with a sample script to do this? Just a time saving question. Thanks. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
htmlText
I need to allow a user to type as regular text with formatting etc and then at the flip of the switch convert that to html and back again. Can htmlText do that? Anyone do anything fancy with it? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
text editor
Has anyone written a humble text editor with abilities which rival those of Note Pad or TextEdit? Are you willing to part with a copy? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
the detailed files
There are a few elements in what is returned by the detailed files that need a little extra work. For instance, does anyone know how to turn the date, filesize, and modification date into human readable form? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
the drives
Can I assume that when the drives returns a list of all drives that the very first one is the boot disk? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Current drive name
This is a Mac OSX related question. When I get the full path to my stack it returns something like this: stack /Applications/MetaCard/directory-navigation.mc My question is, how can I tell which *drive* the stack is on? I have upwards of 5 drives (3 internal, 2 external). My stack has it's own directory navigation system made for SGI's way back in the old days and it works fine under OSX as long as I don't try to go to the root directory. As soon as I try I completely lose the path to the stack which not only needs the drive name now, but has to be precluded by the word /Volumes. The Volumes problem is easy, but I'd appreciate any tips on getting the name of the drive the stack or standalone is currently sitting on. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: set directories with spaces
I wonder if this is a OSX problem, but the following does not work at all: set the directory to /Volumes/Mac OS X I cannot set the directory to any path that has spaces in the filename. On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 06:54 AM, Klaus Major wrote: set the directory to /Mac OS X Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Fwd: Current drive name
My posts sometimes appear to get eaten along the way... Begin forwarded message: From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Jun 27, 2002 11:36:41 PM America/Montreal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Current drive name This is a Mac OSX related question. When I get the full path to my stack it returns something like this: stack /Applications/MetaCard/directory-navigation.mc My question is, how can I tell which *drive* the stack is on? I have upwards of 5 drives (3 internal, 2 external). My stack has it's own directory navigation system made for SGI's way back in the old days and it works fine under OSX as long as I don't try to go to the root directory under OSX. As soon as I try I completely lose the path to the stack which not only needs the drive name now, but has to be precluded by the word /Volumes. The Volumes problem is easy, but I'd appreciate any tips on getting the name of the drive the stack or standalone is currently sitting on. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: set directories with spaces
Doesn't work either. Under most Unices you would use quotes to close the filename: cd /Volumes/Mac OS X This works if I run it through shell(), but that's not what I'm trying to do. I want to set the directory internally to MC, driving me a little nuts at the moment. On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 01:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if this is a OSX problem, but the following does not work at all: set the directory to /Volumes/Mac OS X I cannot set the directory to any path that has spaces in the filename. What happens if you escape the spaces: set the directory to /Volumnes/Mac\ OS\ X I think that's what you need on the command line, so... HTH, Brian ___ 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
Saving a standalone
Is it possible to have a standalone make changes to itself and actually save those changes? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Editing an object script
The most incredibly useful feature of SuperCard that I really miss is simply using the keyboard to to edit the script of a selected object. Select and object, hold cmd+ E and you were scripting. Scott, anyway we can do this for the next release? Anyone here have time to create a keyboard mapper for MC so we can define keys in MC? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
card border
Is there a way to control the thickness of the show border or 3D effects when selected from the Card Properties palette? I'd like to get a 1 pixel border vs the standard 2-3 I typically see. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Editing an object script
LOL, I was hoping it was. I got the contextual menu which is what I'm trying to avoid. I currently use the right mouse key to select/get menu, but I'd rather hit cmd+E. Anyway, it came up only because I did that key combo tonight. Odd that several years after using SC it would just spring up on me while I was working! On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 01:34 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Simon Lord wrote: The most incredibly useful feature of SuperCard that I really miss is simply using the keyboard to to edit the script of a selected object. Select and object, hold cmd+ E and you were scripting. Scott, anyway we can do this for the next release? Anyone here have time to create a keyboard mapper for MC so we can define keys in MC? Well, it's not exactly the same but control+click the object is pretty close(?)... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ 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
Chat server
Has anyone built a chat server? basically run a p2p chat by placing MC on the server and allowing multiple people to chat? If so I'd like to see it if possible (ie nab a copy). If not, my next question is, can MC return the IP of the computer without using the shell? Thanks, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
