At 6:42 PM +0100 9/20/00, Hugh Senior wrote:
Situation:
The need is a built-in email facility so the CDROM users can select any
listed destination email address, type a message and click 'Send'.
Question:
Using Windows, is there a way to identify the SMTP_Server information
(preferably also the
Anyone know whether it is faster to get text information from a field, a
custom property or returning the result directly from a function sush as:
function returnValue
return "Hello"
end returnValue
I assume the text-in-field is the fastest, but I often have to decide
between storing values
If I have large amounts of XML data (say 30-100MB), which I need to parse.
The first thought was to load it into an array, at start-up and then get the
keys, and loop through each key (using repeat for each line) - testing to
see if there is a match and returning the value if there is.
However I
On 20/9/00 9:23 pm, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having a lot more problems than I anticipated with uniquely referring to
objects within a group. The aim is to do this consistently so that if needed
the group can be duplicated on the same card and each group behave as
expected.
On 21/9/00 8:59 am, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A search for my smtp server address in the Windows Registry only
produced a result in the settings for Outlook. So I guess each mail
client keeps its own settings. I think you'll have to ask your users
to enter the address themselves.
On 21/9/00 8:48 am, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know whether it is faster to get text information from a field, a
custom property or returning the result directly from a function sush as:
function returnValue
return "Hello"
end returnValue
I assume the text-in-field is
Craig Spooner wrote/ schreef:
I thought it was possible placing it there with a contextual menu on the
program in the taskbar.
Sjoerd,
Can you explain this a little more, please?
No I can't, I don't have a PC here available.
Are you saying it *is* possible?
Yes.
Thanks,
Craig
I'm looking towards Valentina (http://www.paradigmasoft.com) for a
relational database solution for MC. However you need to get the data from
the format its in, to the format suitable for Valentina import.
A solution I've use in the past is to index the records into a file
structure depending on
Is it hard? Any pointers appreciated?
Anyone know if QuickTime will (or the new version is about to) do this for
me?
Finally, Metacard can't "get" the contents of a QuickTime text track yet???
Any idea of an ETA for this feature?
Archives:
Thanks Gary...
From: Gary Rathbone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:23:55 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XML parsing (loads of data question)...
I'm looking towards Valentina (http://www.paradigmasoft.com) for a
relational database
At 1:13 PM +0100 9/21/00, Kevin Miller wrote:
On 21/9/00 8:59 am, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A search for my smtp server address in the Windows Registry only
produced a result in the settings for Outlook. So I guess each mail
client keeps its own settings. I think you'll have to
on 9/21/00 5:32 AM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"btn x of the owner of me" however equates to "btn x of group someName", and
if there are two groups called someName then it picks the first one,
regardless if this group is the real owner! This is the problem.
Granted that this
On 21/9/00 4:31 pm, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hm - if you know the location for the settings for Outlook, then you should
just use those. 90% of people will be using Outlook as it is preinstalled,
so reading in those settings and then bringing up a screen for the user to
check the
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote:
I've done some testing on a simple stack and if you put the following lines
of code in a group on a card:
1) "btn x of me" will uniquely refer to the object.
2) "btn x of the owner of me" will not.
That's because "me" is a function, which
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Dave Cragg wrote:
At 1:13 PM +0100 9/21/00, Kevin Miller wrote:
On 21/9/00 8:59 am, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A search for my smtp server address in the Windows Registry only
produced a result in the settings for Outlook. So I guess each mail
client
David Bovill wrote:
Anyone know whether it is faster to get text information from a field, a
custom property or returning the result directly from a function...
To determine the fastest of two possible solutions, you might consider using
our freeware MetaBench tool:
Hi there,
playloudness for player-objects, image export
(only tried png yet, it even preserves transparency!!!)
Wow, love that...
But a question arises:
How can one adress a specific image?
The syntax is: export png to file ...
No word about what image is being exported.
Any clues?
I have a MC program written in 2.2.5. A potential user contacted me to ask if it
would run okay under Win NT 4.0 sp6. Has anyone had any experience with MC on NT
machines?
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/
Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
I'm trying to set up some "load URL" tests on a Windows box using a
dialup connection (to get some sense of timing, etc). Currently the
computer is set up with Internet access via an Ethernet network. Anyone
know what settings I should change so the machines knows to use the modem
instead
Agreed. Any objection to changing behavior of "the owner" property so
that it returns the long id of the object instead of the name? Seems
to me that this will eliminate the ambiguity problem with minimal
backward compatibility problems...
Regards,
Scott
I'd buy you a huge bunch of
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Monte Goulding wrote:
I've been reading the list heaps and finding out almost all that I need to
know at this stage but I have one big problem.
I am developing a stack that needs to redraw an ellipse and a circular arc
that intersects with the ellipse at two points.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a MC program written in 2.2.5. A potential user contacted me to ask if it
would run okay under Win NT 4.0 sp6. Has anyone had any experience with MC on NT
machines?
That's the platform the Win32 engine is developed on, and so in
general
I run Metacard to manage disk space and production server applications in
an ultra-secured environment with NT4 sp5, NT2k, Metaframe, PCA9, and it
runs like a charm. The res kit can be easily controlled. Saves a lot cmds!
SP6 is just around the corner on some of our servers so I haven't tried
Dave Cragg wrote/ schreef:
At 1:13 PM +0100 9/21/00, Kevin Miller wrote:
On 21/9/00 8:59 am, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I think the most neat solution is to use the "mailto:" url. It's possible to
give a parameter for the message. Script was in some earlier post.
+ The user has
Will do Richard.
From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:34:23 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which is faster?
David Bovill wrote:
Anyone know whether it is faster to get text information from a field, a
custom property
Any objection to changing behavior of "the owner" property so
that it returns the long id of the object instead of the name? Seems
to me that this will eliminate the ambiguity problem with minimal
backward compatibility problems...
Regards,
Scott
Sounds very helpful to me, as I, too,
The XML parsing I need to do needs to be done backwards from the end of the
file - extracting one tag at a time from the end of the file. I am wandering
if there is a fast way to do this or I have to consider, converting the data
first by reverse sorting it?
Any ideas on searching backwards for
If you are creating an object that you want a user to be able to paste into
his own stack, or if you simply want to have tow groups on the same card and
be able to use the clone command to achieve this, and have everything
guaranteed to still work...
The group must be independent of the
I've been reading the list heaps and finding out almost all
that I need to
know at this stage but I have one big problem.
I am developing a stack that needs to redraw an ellipse and a
circular arc
that intersects with the ellipse at two points. I thought that the oval
graphic was
Can't help too much on the Valentina specifics as I'm evaluating it myself.
Suggest you take a look at the site http://www.paradigmasoft.com.
and ask the guys there (they've been very helpful). I know Scott endorses it
...
Post dated 3/9/2000
--snip-- Anyone building (or contemplating building)
Cartesian equation: x2 + y2 = a2
or parametrically: x = a cos(t), y = a sin(t)
Polar equation: r = a
but the rest is at...
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?exec=FAST+Searchtype=allquery
=code+pixels+circle+points
even if you can't plot using the pencil tool, you can
estimate the
on 9/21/00 12:23 PM, David Bovill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The XML parsing I need to do needs to be done backwards from the end of the
file - extracting one tag at a time from the end of the file. I am wandering
if there is a fast way to do this or I have to consider, converting the data
On 21/9/00 6:08 pm, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
playloudness for player-objects, image export
(only tried png yet, it even preserves transparency!!!)
Wow, love that...
But a question arises:
How can one adress a specific image?
The syntax is: export png to file
On 21/9/00 6:35 pm, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to set up some "load URL" tests on a Windows box using a
dialup connection (to get some sense of timing, etc). Currently the
computer is set up with Internet access via an Ethernet network. Anyone
know what settings I
I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in
MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block
of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page
breaks should occur from beginning to end.
The actual goal is to be
I've heard anecdotes about how much Scott Raney despises the way the Mac
operating system handles memory. I've noticed myself how easy it is to
crash my MetaCard apps due to memory issues. OS X should resolve this
issue. So I'd like to know if there has been any announcements about how
swiftly
on 9/21/2000 3:36 PM, Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied
to:
Any objection to changing behavior of "the owner" property so
that it returns the long id of the object instead of the name? Seems
to me that this will eliminate the ambiguity problem with minimal
backward compatibility
...
the MetaCard "carbonization"
process is already done, and so it shouldn't be too long a wait before
we'll be able to start public testing of the new engine.
...and Scott gets a huge standing ovation from the crowd!
But you should keep in mind that the final release of Mac OS X is
many, many
Title: Ok, what now?
Hi all
I've just downloaded the MetaCard starter kit, and had a bit of a look at the demo, and quite frankly it impressed the hell out of me. What I'd like now is a few ideas on how I might put this thing to good use. If anyone has any great ideas or tips on how make
Hi all
I've just downloaded the MetaCard starter kit, and had a bit of a look at
the demo, and quite frankly it impressed the hell out of me. What I'd like
now is a few ideas on how I might put this thing to good use. If anyone has
any great ideas or tips on how make the most of MetaCard,
whatever it is you need to do, you can do it in MetaCard.
If you do it yourself, that much more power to you!
Best way to learn is to disassemble (like legos!) but always
keep a backup just in case!!!
# Hi all
#
# I've just downloaded the MetaCard starter kit, and had a bit
# of a look at
#
I have a MC program written in 2.2.5. A potential user contacted me
to ask if it would run okay under Win NT 4.0 sp6. Has anyone had
any experience with MC on NT machines?
Yes, indeed it does, I use NT on a daily basis for testing out the
Windows platform. My students download the stacks
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