Long name of this stack
I'm just starting to use OSX on the Mac, and I've noticed the long name of this stack doesn't start with the name of the volume. I've always used this to determine the name of the volume the stack is on. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can get this information on OSX? The only work around I can think of is to get all of the drives and then start guessing, but that's not really bullet proof if there's another stack of the same name on another volume. Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Long name of this stack
At 8:04 AM -0700 7/23/03, Ray Horsley wrote: I'm just starting to use OSX on the Mac, and I've noticed the long name of this stack doesn't start with the name of the volume. I've always used this to determine the name of the volume the stack is on. Paths on the boot volume don't include the name of the volume. (The boot volume - instead of the desktop - is the filesystem root in OS X, so there's actually a reason for this.) If the file is on the boot volume, the path will look something like: /Applications/Test Apps/mystack.mc but if it's on a non-boot volume named, say, Backup Disk, the path will look like: /Volumes/Backup Disk/Applications/Test Apps/mystack.mc So the path is unique even though it doesn't include the boot volume. If you need the boot volume's name, it's the first one in the drives. -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought http://www.runrev.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Standalone Builder question
Hi JB, Hi list, I'm about to do something I haven't done before : build a MC standalone for Windows on a Mac (OS 9). So I guess I simply need to select the MC Win engine, and that's all, right ? This has been described before on this list so I guess it shouldn't be a problem... Yes, that's the way it works :-) You may have to type the path to the win-engine manually, since the choose button will not show the mc.exe, but then it works... Beware to doubleclick that EXE file, because the some resource is added which says I am an apple app :-) and so that would not be a good idea ;-) But that resource will be lost anyway once that file arrives on some win-hd :-) Be sure to test it carefully before shipping :-) You'll never know... And there may be some font issues, too... Hey, its windoze ;-) So doublecheck, please :-) However I have a question regarding the resource mover : can I move resources like ask answer dialogs to my stack on Mac (before building the standalone of course) so that they'll be recognized on Win ? Yes. Thanks, You're welcome :-) Hope that helps. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Standalone Builder question
Hello jbv, I'm about to do something I haven't done before : build a MC standalone for Windows on a Mac (OS 9). So I guess I simply need to select the MC Win engine and that's all, right ? Affirmative. can I move resources like ask answer dialogs to my stack on Mac (before building the standalone of course) so that they'll be recognized on Win ? Yes. Go forth and be happy! ;-) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Standalone Builder question
You may have to type the path to the win-engine manually, since the choose button will not show the mc.exe, but then it works... Very good point, Klaus. My *easy* workaround is to put both engines in the same folder. In the build standalone dialog, you select the Mac engine, and thereby get the full path to the folder that contains both engines. All you have to do is change the last item of the path, e.g. the filename, so that it builds with mc.exe instead. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Standalone Builder question
And there may be some font issues, too... Hey, its windoze ;-) I encountered font issues. Even with the most generic font I could choose, it doesn't always look the same on Windows. Ditto for some colored graphic objects I was using. Ditto for some color blends, that were supposed to be cross platform, but looked different on each platform. I ended up writing a startup handler to get the OS, and make certain changes to the objects/fonts of the affected areas. That worked like a charm. As a Mac person who just released my first two Windows programs, I HIGHLY recommend that you test it on a Windows machine thoroughly before releasing it. Not all things work the same, I discovered. The convert command, for example, gave a different result on Windows, because it was a negative number being converted. Shari C Gypsy King Software -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MC IDE discussion list
Quote Actually, I would not mind continuing such a general list for metacard as we have now. The Rev list has more noise and significantly more traffic. People who would likely remain on the MC list will be the hardcore MC users and thus likely interested in at least theoretical participation in changes to GUI. A separate list for GUI developers can be always spun off if the situation warrants it./quote I like it because it takes a step out of the process. ;) To some degree this has been happening naturally already: most of us on this list also subscribe to the larger Rev list, so if this list has a little more IDE-specific traffic and maybe a less language discussion than some would prefer, then there's already a great community for that. But moreover, I don't think there are likely to be very many IDE-specific posts, since it seems what most MC users want is to maintain iits simplicity. I guess all we need now is for someone from the mother ship to lay down some ground rules on the mechanics of this process. Dr. Raney, what's the word? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Buggy post url cmd - socket stays open
Hello Scott and y'all, I have a persistant problem with the post url syntax of MetaCard 2.5, as I did with 2.4 as well. The client is a MetaCard 2.5 stack with the following handler in a button : on mouseUp put http://www.giguere.uqam.ca/; into myHost put myHost XA/MenusXApost.cgi into myURL if the openSockets is empty then post field 1 to url myURL if the result is not empty then answer the result else answer it else beep end if end mouseUp The CGI program on the server-side is a HyperCard-based CGI which performs marvelously. It returns the minimum set of HTTP headers required by MetaCard. The proof of this is that the first click on the above button indeed returns what it is supposed to. Btw, I am using Webstar 2.1 on MacOS 8.6 on the server-side. The problem arises after the first click of this button. On the second and subsequent clicks of this button, the handler beeps, e.g. the openSockets is not empty which, IOW, means that the socket remains open after the first click. In fact, it (the socket) *never* closes, and this inhibits it from doing its thing more than once. My diagnostic, therefore, is that there is a bug in MC's post command whereby the socket that is opened is never closed. Please fix this *bug* by making the socket close automatically ASAP after the reply is received by the MC client. Or give us the new syntax we need to *close* the open sockets ourselves. If you disbelieve my account, then feel free to download a copy of my client stack which exhibits this problem : http://ufp.uqam.ca/MC/test_url_stuff.mc.zip Thank you for your time and earnest work, :) Alain Farmer NB: This is relatively URGENT for me. Please respond as soon as you can [Scott]. It has nothing to do with the interface; this is clearly an engine issue. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
