Re: SourceForge vs Yahoo

2003-09-12 Thread xbury . cs
The difference may be that any bit of script may be taken by yahoo for commercial exploitation for free and without recourse to legal action in case they would want to take it back. As they say, you grant yahoo the royalty-free bla bla bla... This is not the case with GPL or SourceForge. if

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
There already is an archive of the engines (thank you Mr. Talutto!), and any longer-term plans to host one are in the best interests of both Runrev and the community they serve to be at runrev.com. I can't imagine why they wouldn't jump at the opportunity to provide such a valuable service to

Re: Non-English dates

2003-09-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Hugh Two date questions... I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any non-English system users help me out? [1] Date format convert... on mouseUp put line 6 of the

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: If someone's willing to pay for a neutral host with more space for at least a few years I'm game to use it. OK - so I'll set this up by the weekend. Robert Brenstein wrote: If we really stick to distributing just MC IDE, then sure, 20 mb will suffice. It would be wrong to

Invoking default browser

2003-09-12 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, How can I invoke the default browser in OS X and go to a web site when I user clicks on an URL in a field in MC? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

[ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Oh Grandest of Poobahs and MC List: I've watched a fair amount of discourse fly on the list regarding open source this and SourceForge that, and I'm wondering if it might be time to just dive into some kind of development option. So, I went ahead tried to do something, for better or worse. I

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: It would be wrong to limit the open source project *too* much at this early stage - who knows what form the project will be taking on in 12 months - it could stay the same or it could grow. I agree with Robert that we have nothing to loose by aiming a bit higher. The

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: I've watched a fair amount of discourse fly on the list regarding open source this and SourceForge that, and I'm wondering if it might be time to just dive into some kind of development option. So, I went ahead tried to do something, for better or worse. I took apart

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Dual-use options seem optimal for all. There are a great many very smart, experienced people with a demonstrated interest in producing free software who use only Rev. Those enhancements that work in both IDEs benefit from the combined brainpower available to both camps.

Re: Interim language guide solution

2003-09-12 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacque snapped back: Oh thanks. Appeal to my ego to get me to do work. Nice going, guys. Aw. It wasn't supposed to be a snap. It was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek comment delivered with a twinkle in the eye. I think I forgot the smiley. ;) And I

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: If this seems useful to folks, let's talk about how this can be enhanced/developed/customized/etc. Maybe we can start getting some work done. A way nifty gadget, Scott. Great. I think it's granular enough for now. Uploading doesn't replace stack but uploads a copy to the

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: I went ahead tried to do something, for better or worse. What would it take to enhance it to also work on substacks? While some have expressed an interest in even greater granularity, I think substacks are probably enough for a good

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Bovill wrote: Great. I think it's granular enough for now. Uploading doesn't replace stack but uploads a copy to the root folder. That isn't good, obviously -- by any chance did you download more than one stack? Currently there's no management for this. And the locks

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rossi
BTW, some changes have been made to the stack manager regarding the locking -- those folks who current have it open can close it and relaunch it from the server to get the latest version (isn't online delivery nice?). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design -

new engine on win

2003-09-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi listers, For your information: I just tried to create a win standalone on my win2000 pc with the new (RR) 2.5.1 engine renamed to Metacard.exe. Although everything else works very fine, i get the error: File C:/path/to/mc.exe is not a MetaCard Win32 engine. A look at the script reveals that

new engine on win

2003-09-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi listers, I just tried to create a win standalone on my win2000 pc with the new (RR) 2.5.1 engine renamed to Metacard.exe. Although everything else works very fine, i get the error: File C:/path/to/mc.exe is not a MetaCard Win32 engine. A look at the script reveals that mc is looking for the

Re: Interim language guide solution

2003-09-12 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Returning to my computer after a three days' absence I very much like to join the queue of people congratulating Ruchard on his FWTranscriptDictionary. I think that for most of us it is more of a final language guide solution. The FWTranscriptDictionary is only 2.5 MB, whereas my modified Rev

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Greetings List: Hopefully several fixes are now working in the IDE stack manager (it's a first attempt so there may be other issues). The latest version is available for playing with, via the message box, here: go stack url http://www.i-view.net/tm_stack_manager.mc; The following are some

Re: Interim language guide solution

2003-09-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Like Wilhelm, I've also started to incorporate Richard's dictionary shell into the MC IDE. Mine doesn't do as much as Wilhelm's. But if all you are interested in is the Transcript dictionary contents, then this little utility will move it into the MC IDE, change the Help menu to use the new

Non-English dates

2003-09-12 Thread FlexibleLearning
Two date questions... I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any non-English system users help me out? [1] Date format convert... on mouseUp put line 6 of the abbrev

Non-English dates

2003-09-12 Thread FlexibleLearning
Two date questions... I am trying to manipulate locale-independent dates by using dateItems, system weekdayNames and system monthNames. As I only have an English-based system, could any non-English system users help me out? [1] Date format convert... on mouseUp put line 6 of the abbrev