Re: SEX contributions anyone

2003-09-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
after tFewerLines put true into aTemp[t] end if end repeat should work, albeit a bit more slowly. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: SEX contributions anyone

2003-09-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to thisline of olist if olist is empty then exit repeat end repeat return nulist end FilterLines wouldn't it be even faster as function FilterLines olist,str filter olist with (* str *) return olist end FilterLines ?! Ben Rubinstein | Email

Re: RunRev 2.1

2003-08-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
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Re: MC IDE

2003-08-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
was split across both lists - I'm sure it would have been more helpful to have the discussion unified in one place. Heather - can you confirm what the policy on access to the improve-rev list will be, going forward? Thanks, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: Hefty new fees?

2003-08-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, plus listed upgrade price to 2.1, is less than the price to buy after that date.] HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Can Metacard copy files?

2003-08-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
of 'simply missing' command that we can expect to see merge into MetaTalk/Transcript as part of the new process.) HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Launching a local file in the default browser

2003-08-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to decide how many slashes to use. Hope this helps (?!?) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard mailing

Re: MySQL Support

2003-07-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
what it might cost to cross-grade to Rev. Hope this helps, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard

Re: Moving the MC IDE forward

2003-07-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
at startup and glue itself to the end of the Rev menubar. When the Rev UI is suspended, my bit stays in place.) I'd be interested to hear from anyone who gives this a go. Or RunRev's opinions if in fact they think it's a Very Bad Idea. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Controlling/comunicating w/ USB devices

2003-07-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
managed this - and if so what's their recipe? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard mailing list

Re: open source (Richard Gaskin)

2003-07-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
of the MC IDE, that's for the group who assemble round the mailing list (when it is set up) to decide. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: open source (Richard Gaskin)

2003-07-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 7/18/03 2:34 PM, Ben Rubinstein (me) wrote [... snip...] bug reporting database, which IIRC is now open to all comers. Go to www.runrev.com, click Developers, scroll down to Feedback. They use bugzilla - it's hairy but basically great. Warning - doesn't seem to play well with Safari

Re: HyperCard Porting

2003-06-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
speed (especially if the XCMD is a 68K one). Good luck, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard

tiny feature request: 'macseconds' format for 'convert'

2003-03-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
. Especially now that there's the excellent convert time from format to format option, it would be handy to have macSeconds as one of the available format types. Yes, I know it's just a matter of adding or subtracting 2082844800. But it would be a handy convenience all the same. Ben Rubinstein

Using maskData/alphaData

2003-01-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
received, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com

Re: XCMD Limitations

2002-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
again to all who helped, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: XCMD Limitations

2002-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
your development on OS X where at least you can answer your email while you're waiting for your classic box to reboot ;-) Thanks! At least in this case I was intimate with the external. And next time I'll know where to go looking. Cheers, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL

Re: XCMD Limitations

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
the full set of unsupported calls - I can't afford to just fix the ones that I find which crash, and not know if there are some others that I just haven't come across in testing yet. Obviously Scott knows which callbacks he implemented. Is there a published list anywhere? TIA, Ben Rubinstein

XCMD Limitations

2002-10-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
introduced in HC 2.0 (or whenever it was)? Is there a list somewhere of the supported or unsupported callbacks? Are there any other guidelines? Is there any handy debugging mode built into the engine to help? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Interrupting in dialog boxes

2002-09-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
we can each code round this ourselves. The modest proposal for now is that an interrupt processed during an alert, ask or answer statement should cancel the dialog and take effect in the context of the statement. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: script limits

2002-05-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, and expanding. But admittedly all the data isn't loaded into RAM simultaneously, so it doesn't really count. But it does make the point that humans can assemble very large quantities of quality content (and we're not wasteful with space, honest). Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL

Re: Comparing big lists

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
checking at the end which of the three I actually asked it to save. The combination of 'repeat for each' and MC/Rev's hashed arrays is just blinding. A fantastic illustration of why a fourth generation language can not only give fast development, but also fast execution. Ben Rubinstein

Re: Mystery with arrays (lost key)

2002-04-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a cleaner way to code and eliminates any ambiguities. and I agreed, and pointed out that there was a situation here in which it was not possible to code so as to avoid ambiguities. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600

Re: metacard.com hosting service fiasco redux

2002-04-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
recommend an extra $20/year to keep the DNS out of their hands. (No connection with the company except as a very happy customer.) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0

Re: Launching a URL in OSX is Cake?

2002-01-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
manipulation stacks which recurse over folders now choke on the files that Apple introduced to hold custom icons for folders, named - so to speak - icon%0D (ie the file name ends with a return character - so my lists of files include two names of non-existent files, icon and empty). Ben Rubinstein

Re: [Metacard] OS X: 'icns' resources?

2001-11-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 28/11/01 9:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 04:44 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: on 27/11/01 7:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graphic Converter has one nice touch as it will allow you to save the file

Re: Desktop DragDrop files

2001-11-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
that this (how to make an app respond to files dropped or launched; on all platforms; including how to set file affiliations on the Mac) would make a useful encyclopedia topic. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600

Re: Mac-text

2001-10-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
? I suppose it's too late to appeal for a change in the value of CR; but how about at adding a couple of new constants, asciiCR with value 13, and CRLF with the value being a two-character string, codes 13 and 10? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications

Re: Access Mac File metadata/comments

2001-10-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
AppleScript. tell application Finder set the comment of file Macintosh HD:Picture 1 to This is a test end tell (In Rev 1/MetaCard you can use the external from xworlds; in Rev 1.1 AppleScript is 'built in' - but you knew that! :-) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 'delete' deletes right away... trash?

2001-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to either delete a file or move it to the trash. If delete is changed, we only have the ability to move it to the trash. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273

Re: clickText Default Delimiters?

2001-08-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
information. If you really don't want the links to be visible, you could make a button that locks and unlocks the field; and as it unlocks the field, converts all the group style to some visible style, for easier editing; as it locks the field, it would reverse the process. Ben Rubinstein

Re: File transfer [off topic]

2001-08-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
far :-). Hope this helps, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http

feature request: clipboard

2001-08-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
into x. A more substantial improvement would be (since 'the clipboard' is already defined in MC) some new properties, all three readable and writeable: the clipboardText the clipboardImage the clipboardHtmlTxt Comments? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Printing double

2001-07-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, with subclassing and inheritance. The printing support within RB just arises naturally out of the way that everything else works. But that's a whole other invitation to get flamed...) Yours in swift retreat to the bunker, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: cookie info libURL

2001-07-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
it after each call. No doubt more expert MC users could propose a more sophisticated syntax (eg is it possible to make the URL support a syntax such as get URL xx with headers yy?) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600

libURL and Revolution 1.0?

2001-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, there is no way in MC 2.3.2 (ie in current Rev) to access the header of an http response. At least, I asked a couple of times on the Rev list, and nobody ever replied. I find this really restrictive - does libURL give a better solution to this? If not, could it, please? TIA, Ben Rubinstein

Re: Multi-column lists: interim solution?

2001-07-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a huge hit the first time you try to display the data, or each time the data changes. In my experience, if the number of rows is small, on reasonable machines you get excellent performance - and you know the performance won't change when the size of the data increases. Ben Rubinstein

Re: AppleScript

2001-07-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
have a script that I regularly run over messages on this list, to strip formatting which certain people apply to their messages) Reading contacts isn't to bad; modify contacts by AppleScript there are somethings that just don't work, though they clearly should. Ben Rubinstein

htmlText - what entities, what charset?

2001-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
there is no mapping for the character in the 'local' character set to the destination one (ISO-8859-1, if it is that)? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273

null fun

2001-06-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, perhaps it would be better if the checksums didn't contain them - eg render them out as a string of hex digits. And lastly to Geoff - until either or both those things change, perhaps mcRipper could be enhanced to save strings containing nulls in some escaped format! Ben Rubinstein