Mac OS X
Hi, I'm running MetaCard 2.3.1 under Mac OS X DP4 right now (under Classic Envionment). It's neat to see how well Classic works, since MetaCard runs great under it. I know a version has been announced for OS X, but I have a couple questions: I'm trying to write a GUI-based installer, which basically does the same thing as the csh installer script does now. The UNIX version of MetaCard of course works great under various UNIXes, but since it is written for X-Windows, won't run uner OS X. Since I'm not sure which method MetaCard will be introduced to OS X, as a port of the UNIX version, or as a "Carbonization" of the Mac OS engine. Will MetaCard for OS X support shell() commands, since at this time I have no way of issuing a simple "tar -xf file.tar" command under OS X in MetaCard. (Also, if anyone has any idea how I could write this program right now, that would be great, but I'm hoping the OS X version of MC will support all the UNIX aspects of OS X? I'm extremely excited about MC for OS X! Thanks in advance, ReeD. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: More on SSL
Martin Reed writes: I don't know if this is of interest to anybody, but I found an XFCN that allows contact with HTTPS servers. It uses OpenSSL to ecncrypt/decrypt, and even supports receiving/sending cookies (by way of headers). An XFCN might be helpful, but you can totally remove SSL processing overhead using an SSL offloader. These differ from SSL accelerators that still require a secure server. Offloaders store the keys and certificates, decrypting data before it gets to the server and encrypting data to go to the client. A secure server isn't required. Mary Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Re: Mac registry...?
On 23 Jun 2000, at 13:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Just a question: when the user's download the lessons from the Web, how do you guarantee they put them in the right directory without renaming the file? If you use relative paths, you can find subfolders even if the user renames or moves the parent. If you need to find a subfolder "Lesson Data" you should be able to use something like "./Lesson Data/" instead of "My Hard Disk/Bunch of applications/School stuff/LetterPress Software/Lesson Data/" (or whatever weird and tortured folder names the user chooses to use, and believe me, I've seen some bizarre examples!). The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons. The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want. Leston Drake LetterPress Software, Inc. http://www.lpsoftware.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Mac registry...?
On 23/6/00 3:48 pm, Leston Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons. The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want. Ah: now I get it! If you have a specific creator type for your application, you could include/create a small file of that type with your installer, use our Externals Collection to get path to the application from the file, and alter the path relative to that. (That feature hasn't made it into the Externals Collection released on our site yet: please contact Tuviah if you want a copy.) Regards, Kevin Leston Drake LetterPress Software, Inc. http://www.lpsoftware.com Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xworlds.com/ Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development. Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Mac registry...?
Leston Drake wrote: The application *is* using relative paths to launch the lessons. The question I posed is how the INSTALLER program for a lesson can know where to copy the files to. They can install the launcher anywhere they want. On Macs, a very common approach is just to ask the user. You see this with installers and updaters all the time. Most installers will put up a file dialog with the prompt: "Locate the copy of application name to update:" and the user simply finds it. This may not be as automatic as you'd like (in which case Kevin's suggestion of using a custom creator code to locate the app is a good one) but it is very straightforward, and because it is so routinely done on the Mac, no one will question it at all. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay| [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Custom hypermedia solutions | http://www.hyperactivesw.com 612.724.1596 | 612.724.1562 - fax Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: More on SSL
Hi, I don't know if this is of interest to anybody, but I found an XFCN that allows contact with HTTPS servers. It uses OpenSSL to ecncrypt/decrypt, and even supports receiving/sending cookies (by way of headers). Would this be of any interest to MetaCard either? I know I've been wondering about SSL. The XFCN only supports GET and not POST so has limited potential at this time, but since the guy who wrote it is very familiar with OpenSSL, it might not be hard to add in the encoding/decoding aspects of SSL into MetaCard's own HTTP support at this time to allow suport for HTTPS servers. I know this would be great use to me since customers don't want to send confidential information with SSL at this time. Any interest? His XFCN is freeware. I'm interested, thanks for the tip, where can I get it from? Thanks, ReeD. Regards, Andu __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
