On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 07:48:27 -0400, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>And, for similar reasons, LISP stands for "Lots of Idiotic Stupid Parentheses".
I thougt the S stood for Superfluous...
>Now if we could only come up with something for Python and all the
>stupid tabs...
Put Your Tabs Here O
At 11:18 -0400 4/13/01, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 07:48 -0400 2001.04.13, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>>Now if we could only come up with something for Python and all the
>>stupid tabs...
>
>Please You Tab-Hit Often and Necessarily
appending: or space out.
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At 07:48 -0400 2001.04.13, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>Now if we could only come up with something for Python and all the
>stupid tabs...
Please You Tab-Hit Often and Necessarily
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At 7:55 PM -0700 4/12/01, John W Baxter wrote:
>At 0:33 +0900 4/13/01, Gero Herrmann wrote:
>> $path =~ s/(["\\])/\\$1/g;
>> $url =~ s/(["\\])/\\$1/g;
>
>It is this sort of thing which led, years ago, to the coining of "LTS" or
>"leaning toothpick syndrome" to describe the effect. Havi
At 0:33 +0900 4/13/01, Gero Herrmann wrote:
> $path =~ s/(["\\])/\\$1/g;
> $url =~ s/(["\\])/\\$1/g;
It is this sort of thing which led, years ago, to the coining of "LTS" or
"leaning toothpick syndrome" to describe the effect. Having to use \ to
escape \ in an 'outer' language only
At 15:56 +0100 2001.04.12, Alan Fry wrote:
>> >I find incidentally that the version of InternetConfig.pm in MacPerl
>>>5.6.2 does not work with MacPerl 5.2.1a1. Is that to be expected I
>>>wonder?
>>
>>Hm, I haven't looked at it; what about it doesn't work?
>
>This error message:
>
>"# Can't
At 11:25 -0400 2001-04-11, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 17:24 +0200 2001.04.11, Bart Lateur wrote:
>>On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:51:12 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>>> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
>>> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
>>
>>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
>>backslashes
At 7:15 pm -0400 11/04/01, Chris Nandor wrote:
>GetURL works in place of the ICLaunchURL calls. This is its implementation:
>
> sub GetURL {
> my $url = shift or return;
> ICGeneralFindConfigFile($ICInstance);
> ICLaunchURL($ICInstance, 0, $url);
> }
>
>N
> >So the creator string could be handed off to
>>"ICLaunchURL($ICInstance, 0, $url)" to do the business without the
>>user needing to know anything of the technicalities going on behind
>>the scenes.
>
>Alan, I'm not sure how to apply the creator string to ICLaunchURL.
>Would $ICInstance conta
At 23:41 +0100 2001.04.11, Alan Fry wrote:
>At 8:51 am -0400 11/04/01, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>* If you have the Mac::InternetConfig from the cpan-mac distribution, you
>>can [use GetURL($url)], instead of the three lines of code you (Morbus) have:
>
>The point being that the browser could be launch
At 9:29 am -0400 11/04/01, Morbus Iff wrote:
>This, although usable for technically savvy people, wouldn't work
>for the program's audience. A larger portion of people know where
>programs are located on their hard drive. On a side note, though,
>does asking for the creator string allow me to s
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:34:30 -0400, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >>> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
> >>> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
> >>
> >>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
> >>backslashes.
> >
> >Oops!
>
>Well, it looks like I'm the horribly confused ... What'd I'd miss?
The fact
At 11:34 -0400 2001.04.11, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >>> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
> >>> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
> >>
> >>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
> >>backslashes.
> >
> >Oops!
>
>Well, it looks like I'm the horribly confused ... What'd I'd miss?
Script:
$
>>>$path =~ s/"/\"/g;
>>>$url =~ s/"/\"/g;
>>
>>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
>>backslashes.
>
>Oops!
Well, it looks like I'm the horribly confused ... What'd I'd miss?
Morbus Iff
.sig on other machine.
http://www.disobey.com/
http://www.
>> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
>> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
>
>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
>backslashes.
Bart, Chris was escaping the quotes so that the Applescript doesn't read
them as the end of it's command. For example:
$path = qq[MacHD:my "secret"
At 17:24 +0200 2001.04.11, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:51:12 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
>> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
>
>I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
>backslashes.
Oops!
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Chris Nandor [EMAI
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:51:12 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
> $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
> $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
I don't think this will do much. You must have forgotten to double the
backslashes.
--
Bart.
At 2:19 pm +0200 11/04/01, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:05:23 +0100, Alan Fry wrote:
>
>>You could, on launching the runtime, put up a dialog with
>>MacPerl::Ask() and set a global variable;
>>
>> $SETTINGS->{creator} = MacPerl::Ask("Enter browser creator
>>type", "MOSS");
>
>
At 09:36 -0400 2001.04.11, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >* AppleScript, with path
> >
> > $path =~ s/"/\"/g;
> > $url =~ s/"/\"/g;
> > MacPerl::DoAppleScript(qq[tell application "$path" to GetURL "$url"]);
>
>This looks the most viable to me. As in the other message, overriding for
>the Mac us
>>However that would not seem to me to offer much advantage over the
>>default Mac arrangement. It is after all very easy to change the
>>default browser type in InternetConfig by the 'Internet' Control
>>Panel. It strikes me it might be unlikely the user would choose a
>>different browser fo
>>What I'm looking to do is give the user a choice besides their default
>>browser - they'd pass the full file path to the browser in question. I, in
>>turn, would instruct that file/app to open $url.
>>
>>Ultimately, I'm looking to duplicate the following:
>>
>>unless( fork ) { exec("/
At 13:05 +0100 2001.04.11, Alan Fry wrote:
>However that would not seem to me to offer much advantage over the
>default Mac arrangement. It is after all very easy to change the
>default browser type in InternetConfig by the 'Internet' Control
>Panel. It strikes me it might be unlikely the user wou
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:05:23 +0100, Alan Fry wrote:
>You could, on launching the runtime, put up a dialog with
>MacPerl::Ask() and set a global variable;
>
> $SETTINGS->{creator} = MacPerl::Ask("Enter browser creator type", "MOSS");
Better use a "choose file" dialog, and get the creator typ
At 7:25 pm -0400 10/04/01, Morbus Iff wrote:
>Good day, all. Currently, in a script of mine, I use the following code to
>launch the default browser on the users' machine to a specific URL:
>
>use Mac::InternetConfig qw(:DEFAULT $ICInstance);
>ICGeneralFindConfigFile($ICInstance);
>IC
Good day, all. Currently, in a script of mine, I use the following code to
launch the default browser on the users' machine to a specific URL:
use Mac::InternetConfig qw(:DEFAULT $ICInstance);
ICGeneralFindConfigFile($ICInstance);
ICLaunchURL($ICInstance, 0, $url);
What I'm looking to d
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