Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The irony of all of it is that they wind up putting all of the data into a single field, so I'm not sure why the entries aren't just published as htmlText. :\ My stack allows you to highly customise the way, and especially in which order, the parts of each entry should be shown. That would be

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: I like the current mctranscript stack, it's very simple and easy. I don't often feel a need for anything more complex, usually I just need to look up a behavior or syntax. I'd like to see it updated to read the new Rev docs. On the other hand, I'm not familiar enough

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 08 Jun 2007, at 19:42, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: What would it take to be able to open Rev's Help right in MC? About half of their IDE. ;) They use a whole lot of custom Rev handlers. I like the current mctranscript stack, it's very simple and easy. I don't often fee

Re: MC IDE launch using Revolution.exe

2007-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Ray wrote... Richard and I discovered a few nights ago that if you move the 'mchome.mc' and 'mctools.mc' stacks into the directory where the Revolution 2.8.1 application exists. The next time you launch "Rev", it will open the MetaCard IDE. Hey! Neat trick,

MC IDE launch using Revolution.exe

2007-06-08 Thread FlexibleLearning
Ken Ray wrote... > Richard and I discovered a few nights ago that if you move the > 'mchome.mc' and 'mctools.mc' stacks into the directory where > the Revolution 2.8.1 application exists. The next time you launch > "Rev", it will open the MetaCard IDE. Hey! Neat trick, Ken! [... Tries it

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Up for updating the mcTranscriptDict.mc to read the Rev files directly? Their XML isn't hard to parse; the handlers already in there may do most of it. Yeah, maybe. But I don't want Björnke to think I'm competing with him. He's willing to work pretty hard to bring hi

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: What would it take to be able to open Rev's Help right in MC? About half of their IDE. ;) They use a whole lot of custom Rev handlers. I like the current mctranscript stack, it's very simple and easy. I don't often feel a need for anything more co

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: What would it take to be able to open Rev's Help right in MC? About half of their IDE. ;) They use a whole lot of custom Rev handlers. I like the current mctranscript stack, it's very simple and easy. I don't often feel a need for anything more complex, usually I just n

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Folder "documents" now contains an additional subfolder "BvG_docu". This is the only thing you need to run the dictionary, You can throw out folders and files "packaged_XML", "rev", "pdf" (unless you intend to use these special rev-files or the PDF u

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Folder "documents" now contains an additional subfolder "BvG_docu". This is the only thing you need to run the dictionary, You can throw out folders and files "packaged_XML", "rev", "pdf" (unless you intend to use these special rev-files or the PDF user documentation), "gl

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I also browsed the files in the metacard yahoo group, but couldn't find the metacard ide, only the mctools.mc stack. Where do I get the full MC IDE from? Good point! Klaus, I think you should post the full set (mctools, mchome, and mchelp) with each new IDE build even though the home and help do

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:56:46 +0200, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > I fainthly remember I need another license number from rev, gonna > mail support for that... Good question... Richard and I discovered a few nights ago that if you move the 'mchome.mc' and 'mctools.mc' stacks into the directory wher

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Another way to do this: put "revxml.dll" and the Rev folder "documentation" into your MC folder (you can delete most of it afterwards). Open "BvG_docu" stack and add "revxml.dll" under "components, externals". Do the same for substack "docsLib" after topleveling it. Sa

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 08 Jun 2007, at 12:44, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Ken Ray wrote: 3) Add a substack to your main stack window called something like "BVGExternals" and a custom property to your main stack window to hold a path to the revXML external. When you launch

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 08 Jun 2007, at 12:44, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Ken Ray wrote: 3) Add a substack to your main stack window called something like "BVGExternals" and a custom property to your main stack window to hold a path to the revXML external. When you launch check to see if you're in

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Ken Ray wrote: 3) Add a substack to your main stack window called something like "BVGExternals" and a custom property to your main stack window to hold a path to the revXML external. When you launch check to see if you're in MC. If you are, check the custom property to see i

Re: BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

2007-06-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Thank you for your hints. Unfortunately i can't get metacard. Is there any resource on the web that explains what one needs to do, if one has Rev, but no Metacard installed yet? I fainthly remember I need another license number from rev, gonna mail support for that... I also browsed the fi