Re: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

2001-03-17 Thread Alan Fry
At 1:51 am +0100 17/03/01, Detlef Lindenthal wrote: >Your and Nobumis programm gave me the thought of trying a >little step ahead: Thank you for your kind comments. However a word of warning: the 'regex' looking for /TEXT/ and /styl/ are not really secure. Both strings can (and do) occur in pl

Re: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

2001-03-17 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:17:10 +, Alan Fry wrote: >So we really need to find a better way of isolating 'TEXT', 'styl' >(and others like 'PICT' for example) from the string returned by >LMGetScrapHandle. It must be set out somewhere in IM: the question is >where. I'm too tired and too busy r

Re: FW: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

2001-03-17 Thread Alan Fry
At 12:57:50 +0100, Sat, 17 Mar 2001 Bart Lateur wrote: >On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:17:10 +, Alan Fry wrote: > >So we really need to find a better way of isolating 'TEXT', 'styl' >>(and others like 'PICT' for example) from the string returned by >>LMGetScrapHandle. It must be set out somewhere in

Re: FW: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

2001-03-17 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:02:55PM +, Alan Fry wrote: > At 12:57:50 +0100, Sat, 17 Mar 2001 Bart Lateur wrote: > > >On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:17:10 +, Alan Fry wrote: > > >So we really need to find a better way of isolating 'TEXT', 'styl' > >>(and others like 'PICT' for example) from the st

[MacPerl] [ANN] DBD::DtfSQLmac 0.1201

2001-03-17 Thread Thomas Wegner
Dear MacPerl users, I'd like to announce the first public release of my module DBD::DtfSQLmac 0.1201, a Mac DBI driver for the dtF/SQL 2.01 relational database engine. ***DESCRIPTION dtF/SQL is a relational database engine for Mac OS, Windows 95/NT, and several Unix platforms from sLAB Banzh

[MacPerl] CueCat and MacPerl

2001-03-17 Thread Chris Nandor
OK, so I had CueCat installed (this barcode reader + software you can get at Radio Shack etc.), and the software seemed like it might be acting up, and I wasn't using it, so I disconnected it. I am cleaning my office today, and so I just scan something with a text window open, and I notice that t

[MacPerl] Mac GUI Q: STDOUT to Mac::Windows?

2001-03-17 Thread miku
Thank you for that inspiring repl(a)y, Mr Fry, it clarfied things for me, too, a lot and made me curious again to look at handling other window-related events in MacPerl. Your easy-going style and good.humored way of explaing I appreciated very much! Regards, Michael Kuyumcu > Von: Alan Fry <[E

Re: [MacPerl] CueCat and MacPerl

2001-03-17 Thread Chris Nandor
Here's another nifty hack. On newer Macs and newer Mac OS, open the Keyboard Control Panel, select Function Keys, and make sure the checkbox for "Use F1 through F15 as Hot Function Keys" is NOT checked. Save this AppleScript as a Classic Applet (Never Show Startup Screen, and Do NOT Stay Open).

[MacPerl] Reading pdf files

2001-03-17 Thread Steve Swantz
I need to extract the text of some pdf files so that I can add the words in them to a sites search index. The modules I've found on cpan appear to deal with creating pdf files as opposed to extracting the text from them. Can anyone here point me to an appropriate module? Thanks, Steve Swantz

Re: [MacPerl] Reading pdf files

2001-03-17 Thread Steve Swantz
Umm, disregard I already had it, just had to look at it a little harder with Shuck. use PDF::Core; and $string = UnQuoteString($pdfstring); I'll be back when I can't get it to work. ;-) Steve > From: Steve Swantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:03:03 -0600 > To: <[EMA