Strange behavior
on textoid txt lock messages create stack set name of the topstack to Textoid go to card 1 of stack textoid -- why is the previous line necessary? go figure... create field set the rect of fld 1 to the rect of card 1 put txt into fld 1 end textoid then type in the message something like: textoid hello Sounds simple, but for some crooked reason, what happens is that I get two stacks, both are called textoid, one is empty, the other has one field with the rect of the stack and the text that was in the param, and then there's at least 1 more raw field with no text above the first one... If i reinstall MC, and put it into the blank home stack, it works correctly. But then what good is the lock messages for? I've commented out also the openstack/newfield, etc... scripts... Can anyone explain? Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Strange behavior
Actually i got the same behavior after a couple runs from the clean installed MC stack. I tried in vain to put a breakpoint but that command doesn't work for nothing. Anyone has any idea? Im really lost... and nothing in the debugging section seems to work in this case. There is no error in the script, nothing should intercept the script if lock messages is on but it happens... (im using 2.4b2 and b4). Version 2.3 seems to work ok but im not working with that version anymore... thanks again for the help! Xavier on textoid txt lock messages create stack set name of the topstack to Textoid go to card 1 of stack textoid -- why is the previous line necessary? go figure... create field set the rect of fld 1 to the rect of card 1 put txt into fld 1 end textoid then type in the message something like: textoid hello Sounds simple, but for some crooked reason, what happens is that I get two stacks, both are called textoid, one is empty, the other has one field with the rect of the stack and the text that was in the param, and then there's at least 1 more raw field with no text above the first one... If i reinstall MC, and put it into the blank home stack, it works correctly. But then what good is the lock messages for? I've commented out also the openstack/newfield, etc... scripts... Can anyone explain? Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: WDEF
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? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Strange behavior
The reason you get the strange behavior is the go to card 1 of stack textoid line. The first time I ran your code, I got one window that looked right. Then I closed the window and ran it again, and experienced the behavior you identified. What's happening is that when you close a stack, if the destroyStack property of the stack is not turned on, the stack stays in memory, even if it is closed. The next time you go to open a stack by that same name, it quickly grabs it from memory. In your case, this is what happens (after you have run this already once): 1) the stack textoid is closed, but remains in memory (stack #1) 2) you run the script and encounter the create stack command, which creates a stack in front of stack #1 and names it textoid as well 3) the go to card 1 of stack textoid command actually goes to stack #1, and brings it to the front (this stack already has a field in it, sized properly) 4) you then create a field (which actually creates fld 2 since there's already one there), then set the rect of fld 1 (which has previously been set to its proper size in the previous session) 5) finally, you put text into fld 1 To fix this, I would recommend (a) setting the destroystack and destroywindow properties of the stack to true (couldn't hurt to have it always flushed from memory), and (b) change your go to card 1 line to set the defaultStack to the topStack (which moves the internal focus to the new stack you created so you can create your field). Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:46 AM Subject: RE: Strange behavior Actually i got the same behavior after a couple runs from the clean installed MC stack. I tried in vain to put a breakpoint but that command doesn't work for nothing. Anyone has any idea? Im really lost... and nothing in the debugging section seems to work in this case. There is no error in the script, nothing should intercept the script if lock messages is on but it happens... (im using 2.4b2 and b4). Version 2.3 seems to work ok but im not working with that version anymore... thanks again for the help! Xavier on textoid txt lock messages create stack set name of the topstack to Textoid go to card 1 of stack textoid -- why is the previous line necessary? go figure... create field set the rect of fld 1 to the rect of card 1 put txt into fld 1 end textoid then type in the message something like: textoid hello Sounds simple, but for some crooked reason, what happens is that I get two stacks, both are called textoid, one is empty, the other has one field with the rect of the stack and the text that was in the param, and then there's at least 1 more raw field with no text above the first one... If i reinstall MC, and put it into the blank home stack, it works correctly. But then what good is the lock messages for? I've commented out also the openstack/newfield, etc... scripts... Can anyone explain? Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Strange behavior
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on textoid txt lock messages create stack set name of the topstack to Textoid go to card 1 of stack textoid -- why is the previous line necessary? go figure... create field set the rect of fld 1 to the rect of card 1 put txt into fld 1 end textoid then type in the message something like: textoid hello on textoid txt create stack textoid set the defaultstack to textoid create field field1 set the rect of fld field1 of stack textoid to (the rect of stack textoid) put txt into fld field1 of stack textoid end textoid Didn't test it but that's how I would start. Sounds simple, but for some crooked reason, what happens is that I get two stacks, both are called textoid, one is empty, the other has one field with the rect of the stack and the text that was in the param, and then there's at least 1 more raw field with no text above the first one... If i reinstall MC, and put it into the blank home stack, it works correctly. But then what good is the lock messages for? I've commented out also the openstack/newfield, etc... scripts... Can anyone explain? Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- __ Regards, Andu ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Restart a Mac
On 1/10/02 7:09 AM, jbv wrote: How can I restart a Mac from within a MC script ? Should I use applevents, and send quit to the Finder or something similar ? on mouseUp do tell application quote finder quote to restart as \ applescript end mouseUp Thanks. JB ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
ReReReRe: ss (searchScript)::::-))))
J. Landman Gay wrote on I can't find anything like the HC ss (searchScript): but I suspect a lot of us have made our own Switching from Macs and HyperCard to windo(w)s and metaCard... I missed something like ss and some other things like vw and mw. I deplore that such things aren´t in MC sorry to say that but Revolution is to me still more a fancy-work than a real working area... People using MC should find a place where they put their development-environment-enhancements/improvements as something like opensource... We don´t need to reinvent something like gimp or linux - - but a more comfortable development-environment with our beloved metaCard should be reason?!?!?!? Regards, Ernst ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
POST not working in 2.4.1?
Hello, Has there been any response to Swami's query below? I am having a similar problem with Post. Worked on 2.3. Fails on 2.4 - IF - I build a standalone. I'm using a mail reflector (Matt's FormMail.pl), I have some code that: Hasn't changed Works from a Windows standalone that was built under 2.3 Works as an interpreted (.mc) file from within the 2.4 development environment Does Not Work when compiled into a 2.4 standalone for Windows. I would think this is either a bug, or some resource I'm missing? I moved all resources into the stack. I get the same behavior as SivaKatirswami, namely, the it returned by the post command is empty (and nothing happens). The code line is something like this (name of webserver changed to protect the innocent). Post tText to url http://www-sd.castandcrew.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl; Be happy to hear from anyone who has a work around before I send in a bug report. Thanks! Sadhu . | Message: 6 | Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:37:35 -1000 | Subject: POST not working in 2.4.1? | From: Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Metacard List [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I have a script which works in 2.3.2 but not in 2.4.1 | | it posts a complete URI to a CGI on another server. The CGI check to see if | the file exists and returns true or false.. | | start using stack libURL | put tMonth / tFinalDateString/index.html after tPastFile | POST tPastFile to url www.ourOtherServer.com/cgi-bin/exists.cgi | delete line 2 of it | if it = true then | ## build html links to that day in the past | ## and post to today's page. | | anyway... it is empty now under 2.4.1 even when the file exists... proven, | because I can run the same procedure in the same stack under 2.3.2 and get | true back for the same request.. | | So, how to implement POST now? | | Hinduism Today ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Window Shape/Style
Not getting much of a responce so I'll rephrase the question. Who here can tell me how I can create a stack that uses a custom shape? I need some sort of external to change the shape right? I'd like to be a client of the person that can sell me the solution. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Undoing
Has anybody found a good way to make the standard Undo command apply to specific scripted routines? It seems pretty straightforward to store the status quo ante situation, and catch an undo command that would put things back. The problem is how to make that option expire as soon as it should. Certainly I'd want the undo-this-routine option to disappear if the user has since done something that Metacard itself makes undoable (like typing in a field); or if the user has gone to some other card. Is there a reasonable list of system messages that might be intercepted and taken as signals to clear the custom undo buffer? Is there some way to detect when MC's own undo option (for its own undoable routines) has become (or whether it remains) available? Thanks for any thoughts. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: POST not working in 2.4.1?
on 1/11/02 3:04 PM, Sadhunathan Nadesan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the same behavior as SivaKatirswami, namely, the it returned by the post command is empty (and nothing happens). The code line is something like this (name of webserver changed to protect the innocent). Post tText to url http://www-sd.castandcrew.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl; This was solved: = start using stack libURL Post tText to url http://www-sd.castandcrew.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl; == should work. Previously I had not put the http://; in front on the URL. This is important as libURL handles both FTP and HTTP and parses the beginning of the URL to handle it properly. Post tText to url www.whoever.org/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi will NOT work. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Window Shape/Style
Ok, thanks for the private responses but what I need to do is sell a stack whose shape looks like a circle, star, car, rounded corners etc. I'm told the only way to change the outline shape of a stack is through a WDEF external. I would like to purchase this external from someone. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Next wish: Window outline...
I would like to create a custom resize window widget to replace the default OS look which is currently provided. You know, that thing we click on to drag the window and resize it to be larger/smaller. The problem is that I need to simulate the stacks outline as I drag. I can only do this internal to the card, I'd like the outline to appear outside the stack as well - to show how big the window will be if they let go at that point etc. This gonna cost me another external? :^$ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MetaCard Fanzine
just added a MetaCard Fanzine to my website (see WAY below). so far there is one section, Tools featuring sites from the list. 3 so far! next up is a Handlers section for homemade ss vw mw and you name it handlers. i know there are a lot of great collections on the HyperCard list, but i did not find anything along these lines designed for especially for MetaCard. i will only use links posted in the list and ASSUME that the author is amenable. maybe for commercial sites i should get confirmation, even for a link. or are addresses considered public domain? there are undoubtedly scores of very handy utility handlers in the archives. it may be a while before i read them all closely, right now it is tutorial time for me. please repost on the list anything of general utility that should have a wider audience. Alain Farmers freeGUI etc are an inspiration as are many other excellent xTalk sites. Jacqui's HyperCard/MetaCard tutorial is the most immediately useful for these purposes. this is all tentative and subject to change according to people's responses and advice. --- Ernst M. Reicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote on I can't find anything like the HC ss (searchScript): but I suspect a lot of us have made our own Switching from Macs and HyperCard to windo(w)s and metaCard... I missed something like ss and some other things like vw and mw. I deplore that such things aren´t in MC sorry to say that but Revolution is to me still more a fancy-work than a real working area... People using MC should find a place where they put their development environment enhancements/improvements as something like opensource... We don´t need to reinvent something like gimp or linux - - but a more comfortable development-environment with our beloved metaCard should be reason?!?!?!? Regards, Ernst = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
