IDE Interoperability

2009-04-27 Thread David Bovill
I'd be real interested in starting to use / develop for the MC IDE, but don't want to have to switch between applications. Here are my thoughts on some future directions for discussion: 1. Separate as many as possible MC IDE components out as standalone componenets that can be used in any

Re: IDE Interoperability

2009-04-27 Thread David Bovill
2009/4/27 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com I have been thinking into a similar direction lately. The main issue is about how to decide what is a component and what isn't. For example a script editor contains stuff for debugging, auto-completion (... sometimes), colorisation, undo handling,

Re: Span Tags in HTML

2009-02-10 Thread David Bovill
2009/2/10 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com Thanks Brian but I'm afraid including the body tags doesn't render anything either. I've also tried including a document declaration as in the example below but I'm still getting nothing rendered. (That's the trouble when working with externals. You

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Richard - maybe you could advise - I want to develop some plugins for all 3 environments - Rev, MC and Galaxy. At the moment I use Galaxy, but as it looks like I am going to make a custom Script Editor, I thought I would start to use MC again more seriously. Develop is not quite the right

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
Going to install MC on a new machine. Whats the latest strategy for interop with RunRev? Can you switch between the environments? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Home as a Plugin

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
I've read the instruction about installing MC - and remember some earlier discussions and experiments along the lines of installing it within the Rev environment. I've got an experimental stack which switches the default menubar from Rev to MC... was wandering if anyone has a set up with MC IDE as

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
On a basic note - can't really find installation notes in the group: On OS X you need to copy the executable from the the Revolution bundle in * Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution* to * MetaCard.app/Contents/MacOS/MetaCard* Doesn't really any anything about getting the home stack

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm... still failing on OSX - I've tried changing the pList in copied Rev bundle - renamed things as stated. Put the Home and help and tools stack at the same level for 2.9 On OS X you need to copy the executable from the the Revolution bundle in * Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution*

Plugins

2007-07-16 Thread David Bovill
I took a quick look at the Plugins interface for MC - it differs from Revs naturally :) My question regards the plugin API - is it the same as Revs - so are plugins compatible? Are there any docs? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-16 Thread David Bovill
How about what the marketing people would say - give on a .mc extension and colour it yellow or soemthing and the other one a .rev extension and colour it blue? Talking of which - how do you tell which environment you are in? If there is no way can I suggest we have something in the backscript

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
With a little fear and trepidation I downloaded and installed successfully! In the introduction it would be reassuiring to say that the existing Rev installation won't be touched? In my igorance, which could possibly (but I'm sure unlikely) be shared by future users, I wrongly selected the:

Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
A few related questions: 1. How and where are the ask and answer dialogs called? Are the stack names fixed in the engine (now that would be a bad idea) - or is it a script in the IDE? If so can't we just rename these stacks and hack the script - so we can have both IDEs open at the same

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/07/07, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the stack names fixed in the engine (now that would be a bad idea) I'm afraid this is the case. OK - that officially sucks MC uses other differnet stacks (stored as Answer dialog and Ask dialog as substacks of mctools.mc) than Rev

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/07/07, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are one or two experts who tried this. It appears that closing the Rev IDE and firing up the MC IDE isn't that much of a problem. Closing the MC IDE and restarting the Rev IDE with all globals, locals, properties and everything else

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
Can't imagine what that could be? After all if Jerry can do it with Galaxy then it can be done with MC can as well? Dialogs... seems to me that if you dynamically hack out the stackfiles lines in RunRev: Ask Dialog,/Users/david/Desktop/Revolution Studio/2.8.1-gm-1/Toolset/revaskdialog.rev

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
it :) On 15/07/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't imagine what that could be? After all if Jerry can do it with Galaxy then it can be done with MC can as well? Dialogs... seems to me that if you dynamically hack out the stackfiles lines in RunRev: Ask Dialog,/Users/david/Desktop

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-13 Thread David Bovill
I have not found any problems with name space collision using the technique Chipp described. Locking messages and loading a stack with the same name into memory seems fine - you just remove it from memory using the file name (long stack name). I tested it quite a bit and routinely run through 40

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-04 Thread David Bovill
On 02/07/07, Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading from a file should be perfectly safe even if it is in use - writing is the dangerous one. True - but I see no advantage over using the built in exists() function and removing the stack from memory afterwards - it is not subject to

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-02 Thread David Bovill
These are the functions I have: function stack_Exists someName -- will not add stack to memory set lockmessages to true put the mainstacks into stacksInMemory put empty into shortStackName if exists(stack someName) then put true into safeExistence put

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-02 Thread David Bovill
sure there are better ways. On 02/07/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Bovill wrote: These are the functions I have: function stack_Exists someName -- will not add stack to memory set lockmessages to true put the mainstacks into stacksInMemory put empty

MetaCard IDE

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
Its been a while since I have been on this list! At Richards prompting I have just downloaded and tried out the Metacard IDE - and I must say the interface has changed :) Which prompts me to ask a couple of questions: 1. Is there is a change list - or anything like that? 2. What are the

Looking for Pre -2.5 Engine for PC

2004-03-02 Thread David Bovill
Is there an archive of engines somewhere still ? Thanx ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Revolution and my license...

2003-09-20 Thread David Bovill
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Sorry, I apparently forgot the smiley. Thanks... I got the smiley on my system - in fact I got a nice big chuckle :) I'm going to download today. A question though - have the downloads moved over to the one month try out? And if so is this going to work after expiration?

Revolution and my license...

2003-09-16 Thread David Bovill
OK - so how do I / can I get my license working in Rev? Besides the little 'ol problem of not knowing where I put it (i've been using my home stack)? I've got a license for 2.4.3 but not 2.5 yet... am I out or in luck :) ___ metacard mailing list

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

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: [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: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Ken Ray wrote: The only concern about PD I have is that it is just that: public domain. Anyone can take what we have and do whatever they want with it, including marketing it commercially. In other words, PD may be too a broad license. Do we care? No. If someone wants to take the MC IDE

Re: SourceForge vs Yahoo

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
MisterX wrote: it's probably changed now but this was yahoo's agreement.. By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Dave Cragg wrote: One possible problem not discussed so far is the inclusion of libUrl with the IDE. The same (identical) library script is distributed with Rev, and I don't imagine they would like it to be covered by any of the more restrictive licenses. (And I don't suppose it could be.) The

Re: SourceForge vs Yahoo

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: MisterX wrote: it's probably changed now but this was yahoo's agreement.. By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-10 Thread David Bovill
J. Landman Gay wrote: After reading all the responses, I'm going to vote for this. It seems to me that public domain is the easiest solution, doesn't require any special handling, allows anyone to do anything without legal entanglments, and is just generally easier to manage. So I vote for

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote: Creating distribution packages, as Scott used to do, may not be worth the effort for this group, but it may be desirable to have an option to make engines available on IDE web site for a single-stop downloading. We do not have to have them, but... A

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #788 - 13 msgs

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Ray G. Miller wrote: Do we have the SourceForge URL yet? http://sourceforge.net/projects/opn-repository/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Has anyone checked: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html I read it. It seems a good discussion of GPL issues as they relate to libraries. What do you see as the implications for the MC IDE? GNU use LGPL (lesser GLP) for libraries - and the reasons they argue

Re: MC IDE's home

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: I asked Scott if we could have an FTP account set up for the IDE project at metacard.com. While that won't work, he suggested setting the project up at SourceForge.net. In accordance with his wishes, I'll set up the project's home there as soon as we get a copy of

Re: MC IDE's home

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Cool. What's the URL? I thought you couldn't set up a project there until you had a file ready to go ( Better still send me your user name and I'll register you as chief poobah! Think you should get an email with all the instructions sent to you and can play to your

Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: I don't think LGPL is really inteded for this kind of thing. It's more for libraries that can be included in commercial apps without breaking the license or making the commercial app open source. The difference is that with LGPL you have no problem

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: The simple story is to use the LGPL if you may wish to distribute the open source code with 'linked' libraries (read IDE or engine here) which is not GPL'd. Hmmm I had never considered including the Rev engine with the MC IDE distribution

Re: MC IDE - next steps

2003-08-26 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Every project needs an owner. Not in the legal sense of property, but in the terms of responsibility. Yes. maybe it is better to let leadership emerge based on work done and contributions to the group. Neutrality and the ability to bring people together around the project

Re: MC IDE - next steps

2003-08-26 Thread David Bovill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - It would be essential also to track versions. David Bovill was hinting at CVS and it's a possibility but I had an idea were we could track these as customproperties instead. Im sure there's advantages to both as well as disadvantages. The essential would be to track

Re: Unicode problem--Japanese book

2003-08-25 Thread David Bovill
I think you need to use the unicodetext property not the text property: set the unicodetext of fld 1 to the unicodetext of fld 2 Thomas McCarthy wrote: Up to MC 2.4 I was using the htmltext property to do all my Kanji, but it's a real drag. With 2.5 I tried the unicode feature, but have run

Re: Script Limit

2003-08-15 Thread David Bovill
This is exactly the sort of service / product that will be destroyed by the proposed change. My situation is similar for open source programming books - students / readers need to be able to do limited coding. The fact that this does not effect anyone with a licenced home stack is clear, but

Re: Script Limits and solid IDE evolution!

2003-08-15 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:13, Klaus Major wrote: I still think the free StarterKit was the best thing ever. One could play with it, get used to the app and even build useful things :-) ...and 30 (contiguous?) days may be not enough, even with no script limits... 30 days is not

Kiddy Paint - Digital Camera's and Twain drivers.

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
I am making a sound and music machine for my daughter - unfortunately I can't find the work i did a couple of years back on this and am running out of time (it's a birthday present)- so am looking for any MC/Rev bits and pieces that I can use to cobble this together. The bits: 1) Pretty

RE: SoCal RevDevCon: August 26

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:59, Chipp Walters wrote: If you set up a video stream - I can toast you from here (London)! Monte can join us for breakfast (Australia) and Chipp - how about some live action footage from the ranche ? Sure, but there's not much live action here considering it was

Re: ? How to get the pixel color without relying on mouseColor

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:02, Sparticus Zarris wrote: Please, don't tell me to write a function like this: function convolutedGetPixelColor aPoint set the screenMouseLoc to aPoint get the mouseColor return it end convolutedGetPixelColor Oh go on - let me :) Not done it - but

RE: SoCal RevDevCon: August 26

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
If you set up a video stream - I can toast you from here (London)! Monte can join us for breakfast (Australia) and Chipp - how about some live action footage from the ranche ? On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 01:05, Monte Goulding wrote: Yes it made me green with envy given OZ-RUG has a grand total of 4

Re: Script Limits vs dynamic programming

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:31, Dr. John R. Vokey wrote: Thus, rather being an essential part of metacard/RR, this dynamism becomes a feature *only* licensed users (developers?) can use, but can't retain in the stacks they produce. for some, at least me, it is the dynamism that is my

Re: Script Limits

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:40, Robert Brenstein wrote: What I meant in my earlier post is that maybe Rev can introduce procedure to lift these limits for specific projects (they could review them to ensure that the app can't be used to bypass their licensing and thus reduce sales) for a

Re: MC OpenGL (update)

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:00, Tuviah M Snyder wrote: WW4 Bush hasn't started WW3 yet, give him some time. Please contact me offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to work with you on this. Which feature Tuviah - WW3 or the OpenGL thing? ___

Re: MC OpenGL (update)

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:50, jbv wrote: I had a look at 3D Lingo (I dropped Director around version 4, andit made me feel strange to go back to this crappy sprite stuff)... Please don't take it personal, but it's the typical example of what I'd like to avoid... Snap - left around the same

Re: Script Limits

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:12, jbv wrote: And BTW again, did anyone contact Kevin privately about this script limit thing, as suggested in his original message ? And did anyone get an answer ? I'm not so interested in the content of the answer, but much more in knowing if any answer has been

Re: MC OpenGL (update)

2003-08-10 Thread David Bovill
My understanding is that WW4 has begun. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:56, jbv wrote: Hi all, I'm a bit surprised by the lack of response to my post from 2 weeks ago regarding the best way to implement openGL in MC... Has everybody lost interest in that feature ? Or is everyone on vacation

RE: Script Limits

2003-08-10 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 04:53, Chipp Walters wrote: In order to create the next generation: a new and much faster version of RR, we're going to have to remove the 'set the script' command and treat Transcript just as other compilers-- like C++, etc.. Would this make a difference? IOW, if

Re: MC OpenGL (update)

2003-08-09 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:05, jbv wrote: But my main question regarding the implementation of openGL in MC was : how end users would like to access 3D properties and functions from within MetaTalk scripts... Anyone who has some experience with openGL coding in C/C++ or Java knows that using

Just in case...: a suggestion

2003-08-03 Thread David Bovill
Adopting a core technology such as a programming language is a major investment. Most people qualify the risk of this investment by going with the big-boys - just in case. On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 05:12, Chipp Walters wrote: Dan, most excellent point! This is and should be a huge concern for

Re: Passing (lot's of) data to a process...

2003-06-13 Thread David Bovill
with this. I remember someone saying that the command.com command ( used by the shell() command ) was not so reliable. So, i gave up with this solution. BTW, i was on WIN 98 box. Yes - I think this is not a problem in Linux? Then, instead of passing from metacard to Perl a full program, i

Passing (lot's of) data to a process...

2003-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Trying to avoid writing a file then reading it in. The data I have is in a variable - and may contain quotes. Best way? Thinking that I should open the process and write the variable to the opened process as shell syntax may not work so well? Any help?

MC Documentation in wiki format...

2003-06-07 Thread David Bovill
If there aree a few people on the list who would value and contribute to a public Wiki for issues related to Metacard and Rev - I'll put one up. I think it could help with the support / documentation? Scott - any issues problems taking existing MC help material and ReadMe files and putting them

Re: php wikis

2003-06-07 Thread David Bovill
I have swiki installed on my server if you would like to try it. It has some nice features that many wikis do not have, such as : (1) the editing form includes a field to change the name of the page; (2) when you change it, the name of a page is replaced everywhere in the wiki, e.g. no

Re: php wikis

2003-06-07 Thread David Bovill
The gist of what I was getting at, though, is that the reason why David might prefer blogs over wikis is that wikis lack the automation of blogs. Nice sentence Alain :) It's close but in fact I like wikis and dislike blogs. But I was pretty sure that Blog's would work for people and that

Re: php wikis

2003-06-06 Thread David Bovill
PS: Blogs are very hot right now. FreeCard has its own blog now, at : http://www.communautic.uqam.ca/blog/ . A blog is similar to a wiki, and many existing blogs were crafted with wiki source-code. But the 'kicker' is that all blogs ( apparently some wikis too) can be remotely controlled via

Re: php wikis

2003-06-06 Thread David Bovill
Do you mean creating a server side implementation or did any one use it :) I've not used MC to create server side blog/Wiki stuff -- it's already been done, but adding custom stuff to the core structure is I think a more productive line to take. On the end-user side, I've never been a fan of

Re: php wikis

2003-06-06 Thread David Bovill
Well, wikis are meant to do a different thing (i.e. documenting a group project), weblogs are personal expression. I'm not too crazy about wikis myself though if they are well designed they could be useful and easy to use. Regards, Andu Novac A couple of interesting links regarding

Re: Unix time

2003-06-05 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Ken / Richard, Seems like the seconds is unix time providing your time zone is set right on the local machine = seconds since glamrock hit. internet time is used in email etc David, See the internet date... doing that from my copy of MC (I'm in Wisconsin) gave me: Mon, 2 Jun 2003

Datagrams and transferring files over networks...

2003-06-04 Thread David Bovill
Was in a position on holiday (in an internet café), where I had to transfer files from Linux to Mac to PC without the network that I'd set up at home / work.. so put something together that used datagram sockets instead... Found that the quick hack I used only worked for small files. Think I need

Unix Time

2003-06-03 Thread David Bovill
Is there a way of getting the unix time = date since the epoch? This is like the seconds but adjusted to be independent of time zones... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Unix time

2003-06-03 Thread David Bovill
Forgot to mention ... needs to work cross platform (including MacOS). If there is not a built in function, then does anyone have any code for returning the time zone a machine is in? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Matchtext / Regular expressions: searching multiple lines

2003-02-13 Thread David Bovill
Having problems figuring out how to set the matchText regular expressions to search multiple lines: the perl reference inclded in the Readme file talks about using /s as a modifier to achieve this - but stuck there? thanx ___ metacard mailing list

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-24 Thread David Bovill
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:07, Ken Ray wrote: My knowlege of Linux is severely limited... how does 'netscape' associate the program with the Netscape browser, and can you give an example of how would you associate it with another browser? Just trying to understand... I think this is down to

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-24 Thread David Bovill
get shell(konqueror http://www.slackware.com;) Blocks and you have to type command-period to exit, same with: get shell(konqueror http://www.slackware.com ) which is what actually works in the shell. Any suggestions? Thoughts on how to combine a browser and MC on Linux for 2-way

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-24 Thread David Bovill
No way to pass a url to open process I think. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-23 Thread David Bovill
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:07, Ken Ray wrote: My knowlege of Linux is severely limited... how does 'netscape' associate the program with the Netscape browser, and can you give an example of how would you associate it with another browser? Just trying to understand... I think this is down to

Re: Alternative to FTP

2002-09-23 Thread David Bovill
you could post the contents of a web page (url encoded) and then urldecode it in a cgi the other end? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Hard one :)

2002-09-23 Thread David Bovill
Ok Linux gurus So how do you use metacard as find the url the browser is currently on? In MacOs you can use an AppleScript... The only thing I can think of is to configure MC as a file helper, or maybe create a cgi which uses the $HTTP_REFERER and then do something with a bookmark?

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-23 Thread David Bovill
get shell(konqueror http://www.slackware.com;) Blocks and you have to type command-period to exit, same with: get shell(konqueror http://www.slackware.com ) which is what actually works in the shell. Any suggestions? Thoughts on how to combine a browser and MC on Linux for 2-way

Re: Launching a url in a web browser on Linux...

2002-09-23 Thread David Bovill
No way to pass a url to open process I think. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Video On Linux: help anyone?

2002-09-03 Thread David Bovill
Any recommendations regarding the best video format to use for cross platform use? Not sussed video on Linux yet :( ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Demo stack not working in Linux

2002-09-02 Thread David Bovill
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:30, andu wrote: I use Fluxbox as wm which is as lean and fast as it can get (makes you feel really sorry for kde users;-). The windows looks and behavior can also be customized easily. For desktop I use Rox which uses gtk (I stayed away from gtk 2.x since I got

Linux and Video

2002-09-02 Thread David Bovill
What's the latest? What's the best format to use for xplatform video in MC? I thought that MPEG1 was the crossplatform format... looking at the man pages for xanim... MPEG playback is incomplete, and the player choked on a downloaded movie. Noatun plays it using Mpeglib... Reference talks about

Linux Window Managers

2002-09-02 Thread David Bovill
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:42, Scott Raney wrote: No, it's apparently just a conflict in the way the KDE (didn't try Gnome) window manager stacks windows: it's putting the backdrop window on *top* of the other windows. Worse, KDE at some point completely lost the ability to

Video On Linux: help anyone?

2002-09-02 Thread David Bovill
---BeginMessage--- Any recommendations regarding the best video format to use for cross platform use? Not sussed video on Linux yet :( ---End Message---

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread David Bovill
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 23:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course now I just need a way to maintain some persistent memory (i.e. database cache). Any ideas? I can write globals to disk if needed, but I can't afford to re-create the database cache on every run of the script. Sounds like maybe

Sockets and Servers with Linux 2.4.3

2002-08-30 Thread David Bovill
Haven't tracked this down yet... but in moving a simple http server stack over to run under the Linux 2.4.3 engine - I get no connection. The same stack serves up files fine with the 2.4.2 MacOs PPC version. I note there have been some changes to the way datagram sockets work in 2.4.3: The

Re: MC CGI - What can't I do?

2002-08-27 Thread David Bovill
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 05:31, andu wrote: --On Monday, August 26, 2002 21:21:49 -0700 Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - paint tools do not generate an error: choose brush tool set the brushcolor to blue drag from 60,60 to 80,80 select img 1 of stack

Re: Demo stack not working in Linux

2002-08-27 Thread David Bovill
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:42, Scott Raney wrote: No, it's apparently just a conflict in the way the KDE (didn't try Gnome) window manager stacks windows: it's putting the backdrop window on *top* of the other windows. Worse, KDE at some point completely lost the ability to show a window with

Re: Demo stack not working in Linux

2002-08-27 Thread David Bovill
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:30, andu wrote: I use Fluxbox as wm which is as lean and fast as it can get (makes you feel really sorry for kde users;-). The windows looks and behavior can also be customized easily. For desktop I use Rox which uses gtk (I stayed away from gtk 2.x since I got

Re: Linux and Video

2002-08-27 Thread David Bovill
What's the latest? What's the best format to use for xplatform video in MC? I thought that MPEG1 was the crossplatform format... looking at the man pages for xanim... MPEG playback is incomplete, and the player choked on a downloaded movie. Noatun plays it using Mpeglib... Reference talks about

MySQL form shell()

2002-05-06 Thread David Bovill
Does you have any scripts for connecting (+ running SQL) to a MySQL database? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MySQL form shell()

2002-05-06 Thread David Bovill
OK the way I'm doing it at the moment is to pipe SQL from MC into MySQL using the shell() command - not sure if there is a better way but this works without having to use php or another intermediate scripting language. function executeSQL someSql, mySqlHost, userName, password put | mysql -h

LibUrl - and multipart/form data

2002-05-04 Thread David Bovill
Does the library support posting data with this format? Would this work if I: 1) use a function to encode the data as multipart/form encoded, 2) set the httpheaders to include Content type: mulipart/form-data; boundary= someboundary 3) post the encoded data using libUrl?

Re: Cookies?

2002-05-01 Thread David Bovill
Anyone played with this any further with the new liburl stuff... From: LiangTyan Fui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:09:07 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cookies? set httpheaders to Cookie: xxx

Re: MataCard Spreadsheets and 2.4.2

2002-02-18 Thread David Bovill
I'd love to Roy, I've been working on a collaborative framework for working open source MC projects off and on for around 9 months now. If you would like to open source the code then let me know... Either way I'd love a look, David PS - don't announce anything on the list yet, till I've got

Open Source Project

2002-02-18 Thread David Bovill
Ho-humm... Pesky reply-to buttons. Oh well maybe it's for the best... it's a kind of pre-release :) - anyone interested get in touch and I'll add you to the list. The initial framework will be based around XML and CVS. The project is currently hosted on Sourceforge - though there will be

Re: Open Source Project

2002-02-18 Thread David Bovill
From: andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Source Project So what is this project about? What does it do? It's designed to do the same sort of thing CVS does for open source projects - allow easy sharing and standards based documentation of handlers. The handler repository is held on

Re: MC 2.4.2 Feature Wish

2002-02-16 Thread David Bovill
From: andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MC 2.4.2 Feature Wish Regards Monte Goulding B.App.Sc. (Hons.) What means B.App.Sc (Hons.), if you don't mind? In the UK it stand for brilliant applied scientist - which more recently has become extended to cover non-scientific fields such as

Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 1

2002-02-14 Thread David Bovill
Oh wow! From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 1 snip There are also a few new things including a new regex library /snip Now as this would have been my number 1 request - I can't complain - *but* I had just finished 2 days coding to get around this!!!

Re: SSL

2002-01-16 Thread David Bovill
No - you can get MC to do this by using ssh on Linux (and prob/soon Mac OSX), and there are ddl's on Windows I believe. From: edb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSL Can MetaCard use SSL to communicate with a server? Thanks Eldon at DxR ___

Re: WDEF

2002-01-11 Thread David Bovill
I think it's a number - you should be able to get it from Apple - but I'll sell you one if you want :) From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WDEF So who here is selling this WDEF? Does it work under OSX? Is it ULTRA stable? And can I buy it now?

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