Re: files only one line long under Windows?

2001-06-20 Thread Mattias Alveteg
It seems like all the inexplicable problems (see earlier thread on functions under Windows) I have on the PC-side is due to some kind of corruption of the stack I'm using. When starting from scratch with the thing below everything works as it should. So the good news is that I'm not all that

Re: files only one line long under Windows?

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Cragg
At 10:21 am +0200 20/6/01, Mattias Alveteg wrote: Can someone help me with this probably stupidly simple problem? When I try reading a file under Windows and putting the entire contents in a variable the variable will only be one line long!?! When looking at the read data everything looks fine

Re: files only one line long under Windows?

2001-06-20 Thread Mattias Alveteg
Dave Cragg wrote: [snip] put url (file: filename) into theInput that was a nice short one! Thanks. I managed to get my stack semi-working again. A few things that I discovered while playing around with small test scripts is that the Mac version of MetaCard swallows some code that

Re:rolodex with pictures

2001-06-20 Thread MMessieh
Does anyone have a simple rolodex MC stack that stores/imports pictures as well as basic info? I would like to develop a registry of pictures and be able to search the registry easily. Any ideas? should the pictures be placed in the stack or retrieved from the HD or a server by the stack? mike

Re: Drop Activation on Mac/Win

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/6/01 7:29 pm, Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to write a small file conversion utility and I'd like to be able to drag and drop a source file on to the icon for a standalone written in MetaCard. The idea is that it starts up and opens the source file, converts it into a

Re: viewing doc and app icons in MC

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/6/01 6:21 pm, Craig Spooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to post this again, but I got no reponse the first time and wonder if anyone has ever tried to do something like this. Any ideas would be welcome! It should be possible to do this, but it won't be straightforward. You

Re: Can MC talk to Perl scripts on server?

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Spooner
Andu wrote: Craig Spooner wrote: I would like to write a little app in MC that sends commands to the server in the same way that I do currently in telnet from the command line. If this is possible, would the app have to be running on the server or could it be a stack or standalone on

Re: Can MC talk to Perl scripts on server?

2001-06-20 Thread andu
Craig Spooner wrote: Andu wrote: Craig Spooner wrote: I would like to write a little app in MC that sends commands to the server in the same way that I do currently in telnet from the command line. If this is possible, would the app have to be running on the server or could

Re: Drop Activation on Mac/Win

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Reid
On 19/6/01 7:29 pm, Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to write a small file conversion utility and I'd like to be able to drag and drop a source file on to the icon for a standalone written in MetaCard. The idea is that it starts up and opens the source file, converts it

RE: Drop Activation on Mac/Win

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Reid
Use the externals collection. That sort of works! In fact I find I often get a Type 2 error on my Mac when I try drag drop - this leads to a system freeze. Also, even the externals collection doesn't provide a solution to dropping onto the icon of a closed standalone application. Compare

Re: Can MC talk to Perl scripts on server?

2001-06-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Craig Spooner a écrit : Andu wrote: Craig Spooner wrote: I would like to write a little app in MC that sends commands to the server in the same way that I do currently in telnet from the command line. If this is possible, would the app have to be running on the server or