On Monday, Oct 25 1999, Geoff Canyon wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't clear before. Here's the scenario:
1. Joe, of Joe's Diner, downloads my application, MetaApp.
2. Joe licenses MetaApp from me.
3. This gives Joe the right to modify MetaApp slightly and distribute it.
MetaApp is a way for Joe to
On 10/26/99 4:04 AM, Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think my previous repy covered all of this? Either the customizer is a
stack, in which case the main application anticipates it and downloads it or
opens it from disk at the right time, or its a standalone, in which case it
must be
3. Is there a better way to do this with a MetaCard application? In
other
words, is it possible with a MetaCard application to do this with
something like,
You can control another MetaCard app on Windows with DDE and on Mac with
AppleEvents. Problem is an application is locked while executing,
Geoff,
You can easily do what you suggested in Question 3. All you need to do is
build another stack to modify mod.app. This stack could have a field and a
button that work as follows:
- User types the new text for testProperty into the field, called "Property
value"
- Button has the script:
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Geoff Canyon wrote:
(snip)
I then opened the application with BBEdit, and searched for the text,
"This is the really the text to modify." When I found it, I changed it
to, "This is some dangerous text to modify." (note the identical
character length)
I saved
On Saturday, Oct 23 1999, Geoff Canyon wrote:
If you wanted to give an end user the ability to hardwire some
customer-specific information into an application, without the use of any
external files, one way to do it would be to build the application just
for them, after making the necessary
Sorry, I wasn't clear before. Here's the scenario:
1. Joe, of Joe's Diner, downloads my application, MetaApp.
2. Joe licenses MetaApp from me.
3. This gives Joe the right to modify MetaApp slightly and distribute it.
MetaApp is a way for Joe to display information placed on his web site to
If you wanted to give an end user the ability to hardwire some
customer-specific information into an application, without the use of any
external files, one way to do it would be to build the application just
for them, after making the necessary changes to the source stacks.
Another would be
