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

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 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 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. Save BvG_docu

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 where

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

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 user

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), glos.index,

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

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

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

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: 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,

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

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
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