Re: Open-source version of LiveCode

2013-05-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/9/13 5:36 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 09.05.2013, at 04:51, J. Landman Gay wrote: This list is pretty much deserted now. I'm a tumbleweed! *wheee* LOL. We are desert wanderers. Your reply reminded me of a joke. It's what the snail said when he rode on a turtle

Re: Open-source version of LiveCode

2013-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
This list is pretty much deserted now. Most of your questions have been discussed on the LiveCode list many times. You can look in the archives here: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ Basically the only difference is there is no password protection in the OSS version, and you

Re: Building MetaCard 6.0 OSS

2013-04-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/13/13 12:36 PM, Vokey, John wrote: Same here. I suspect it has something to do with the (former) licensing code, but the constant throwing of the error makes it impossible to open the script to edit it. I agree it's likely due to the missing security module. If there's a locked stack in

Re: Speed of different versions of MC?

2013-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/12/13 12:19 PM, David Epstein wrote: After years of using Metacard 2.5, I've started using LiveCode 4.5 and 5.5.3 as well as the the Metacard interface for those. Particularly on my older Mac (PowerPC chip System 10.4) I have noticed some significantly slower operations with the newer

Re: MetaCard 2.3.2 and Windows 7

2012-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/12 6:06 PM, Huisingh, Larry R wrote: I have just moved to a Windows 7 PC from Windows XP. This is the first time I have tried to modify my stack on the Windows 7 platform. When I try to show a stack with the show wd xx (where xx is a stack name) command in the Message Box I get the

Re: I'm back!

2012-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/20/12 3:25 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: * With MetaCard 2.5, above a [few] thousand cards, performance slowed down dramatically. Is Rev faster than this? Can Rev handle tens-of-thousands of cards? Would it require Valentina? Does Rev support mySQL databases ? For that many cards you should

Stacks always open on launch

2011-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Where does the plugin manager store its lists of auto-open stacks? Two of my stacks always open on launch without me telling them to and I can't get rid of them. I figure they must be in that list. They aren't plugins, btw. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: Stacks always open on launch

2011-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/11 6:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Where does the plugin manager store its lists of auto-open stacks? Two of my stacks always open on launch without me telling them to and I can't get rid of them. I figure they must be in that list. They aren't plugins, btw. Never mind, I see it reads

Re: Stacks always open on launch

2011-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/11 8:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Never mind, I see it reads the folder contents. Something's completely screwed up with my plugins manager. It's off by two. And when I tried to debug the script, none of the variables show up in the variable

Re: Indenting scripts

2011-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/8/11 12:23 PM, Shari wrote: Is there some way to fix the indents so that the only additional indents are for script errors, and not empty places that I just haven't filled in yet? This is driving me up a wall! Remove the carriage return between the get random line and the first if it

Re: Indenting scripts

2011-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/8/11 12:51 PM, Shari wrote: Remove the carriage return between the get random line and the first if it is. Then the rest will align. No luck. I moved the first if right up under the get to no avail. It still doesn't align. Works in 4.6.4. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Indenting scripts

2011-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/8/11 1:34 PM, Shari wrote: On 9/8/11 12:51 PM, Shari wrote: Remove the carriage return between the get random line and the first if it is. Then the rest will align. No luck. I moved the first if right up under the get to no avail. It still doesn't align. Works in 4.6.4. Ah. I'm at

Re: Proposed stack name changes for the MC IDE

2011-06-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/30/11 8:33 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Hey all, I just gave a presentation last weekend at the LiveCode Live event on the MC IDE and one of the things I brought up was the fact that a great benefit to the MC IDE vs the LiveCode IDE is that it really tries to get out of the way of the developer.

Re: MetaCard Setup 2.01

2011-06-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/30/11 5:18 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Whacko! This built Metacard perfectly: EXCEPT it copied all the files from my Home directory into the target directory as well as the MC files: odd. Thanks Richmond, appreciate the test. Yes, it copies everything in the main folder. On Windows,

Re: MetaCard Setup 2.0

2011-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/29/11 5:32 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I wonder why 4.5-dp-4 is NOT recognised Is this on Linux, where I didn't test? If so, thanks for trying it. Could you tell me the full path to the application please? Setup uses a very simplistic test to see if you've chosen a valid app.

Re: MetaCard Setup 2.0

2011-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/29/11 11:31 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 06/29/2011 06:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/29/11 5:32 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I wonder why 4.5-dp-4 is NOT recognised Is this on Linux, where I didn't test? If so, thanks for trying it. Could you tell me the full path

Re: Metacard Setup 2.0

2011-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/29/11 12:17 PM, Vokey, John wrote: Thanks! That fixed it. The next upload will fix it too. :) I'm just waiting to see if anyone has Linux ideas. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

MetaCard Setup 2.01

2011-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
MetaCard Setup 2.01 is uploaded, and contains a bug fix for OS X and better engine version identification: http://www.metacard.livecodejournal.com/files/other_plugins/metacard_setup_201.rev.gz This version corrects the naming problem in OS X where Home wasn't properly renamed, and also makes

MetaCard Setup 2.0

2011-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
In the shadow of giants, I've updated MetaCard Setup to work with LiveCode 4.5 or higher. This version will not work with engines less than 4.5; if you need to install the older Rev engines into the IDE then use the older MetaCard Setup 1.0.3. You can download the older version from RevOnline

Re: LibURL and MC IDE

2011-06-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/10/11 9:27 PM, Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: Dave Cragg was maintaining documentation athttp://www.lacscentre.com/liburl/releases.html but the latest release notes are about vs 1.1.6 and I can't find any LibURL vs 1.2 release notes in LiveCode IDE as well. RR took over maintenance a couple

Re: [MC_IDE] Quick Poll

2011-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/11 11:10 AM, Shari wrote: I remember having some sort of frustration with the whole standalone issue which may be why I stayed at MC/Rev 4.0 and did not move forward. I don't recall if I had to build with the engine from 3.5 or if 4.0 was okay. I just know that the whole thing was such

Re: [MC_IDE] Quick Poll

2011-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/11 2:00 PM, Shari wrote: I no longer embed those stacks either, and my two newer (in the works) projects don't use Ask/Answer at all. I created my own versions and call them up differently. But that doesn't help the existing projects. The easiest way to proceed would be to use one of

Re: [MC_IDE] Quick Poll

2011-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/11 4:03 PM, Shari wrote: REALLY prefer the Control Browser in MC enough to forego some of the finer features of Rev like the ability to update multiple objects with one click (like lock/unlock location etc.) You can do that in LiveCode too. Actually, the only thing I haven't found in

Re: [MC_IDE] Quick Poll

2011-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/11 6:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: As for the protection of the standalone builder I assume RunRev believe it's critical to protect their investment and therefore my investment in my business. As a result when I considered some development I was considering for the GLX framework and I

Re: revCopyFile unsupported on MC?

2010-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/10 4:24 PM, Zryip Theslug wrote: Dear MC List, The revCopyFile command seems unsupported in the MC IDE. When I'm trying to use it in the msg box, I get this error: can't find handler. However when I'm checking in the MC dictionary plugin, the command is well described. What I am

Re: Remove the password protection of a stack Application

2010-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/10 1:01 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: The MC IDE lost the ability to set/remove a password became lost after v4.0 when the encryption in the engine changed. It works if you use the message box though. I think we are still waiting for Edit menu Stack Properties Password/Passkey

Re: Remove the password protection of a stack Application browser

2010-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/10 12:45 PM, Richmond wrote: * Message box: set passKey of stack xyz to abc To remove a password after setting the passKey: set password of stack xyz to empty * One wonders what the point of password protection is then (at least vis-a-vis stacks). Well, you do have to know

Re: Remove the password protection of a stack Application browser

2010-12-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/15/10 6:34 PM, Zryip Theslug wrote: Dear MC Group, I'm pretty more familiar with the LiveCode IDE. Could someone point me out: 1) How removing the password protection of a stack in the MC IDE. In the LC IDE the IDE asks me for the password when I'm trying to open a script in the stack.

Re: Building standalones AARRGGH

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 2:20 PM, Shari wrote: I just spent three hours trying to build a standalone. I want to make sure I understand what is going on. It cannot be done in Rev or MC 4.0 at all because of some new internal hoohah Rev put into the engine? Rev spit out an error without telling me what caused

Re: Building standalones AARRGGH

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 5:08 PM, Shari wrote: Jacques, Thank you for the URL. From some of what I was reading about the whole 4.0+ change, I got the impression that there may come a time when we cannot build standalones in Metacard. So it would be good to know how to do it in Rev. I've never successfully

Re: Jacque's auto setup

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 5:44 PM, Shari wrote: None of it wants to play nice with me today! Got an error attempting to set up Metacard 4.0 using Jacque's Metacard setup 102 on my Mac. Error in function handler Can't find handler Line 199 Col 7 Proc Token: revPathToApplescript Maybe I was supposed to use the

Re: Two more tries and it worked!

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 5:56 PM, Shari wrote: Took me a minute but apparently the setup stack needed to be launched in Rev to find that handler, as I suspected. The 4.0 Metacard build took but more importantly, it was able to create a standalone. We're back in business! Hoo hah! Good to hear. But I'd still

Re: Building standalones AARRGGH

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 6:23 PM, Shari wrote: Two things to try. First, tell us what those error codes are and I'll look them up. That should give a clue. Tried removing all the stacks except xWhatever and I couldn't even launch my stack since it looks for libUrl on launch. So took out just the one I

Re: Jacque's auto setup

2010-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/10 6:27 PM, Shari wrote: It is, but the scripts are supposed to handle that. The latest version is 1.03 which should work from MC, so try re-downloading it. You can find it on RevOnline. I got it from the Yahoo groups Metacard list. Will go to the other... Oops. I'll try to remember

Re: (no subject)

2010-07-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alain Farmer wrote: Hello. :) I have been using MetaCard 2.5 for over a decade now, and, with some free time on my hands, I was wondering what RunRev was up to these days. I must say.. I am impressed! Particularly with all of the new [web] features: * save stack as revlet and deploy-to-web

Re: MC IDE 4

2010-04-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus on-rev wrote: I have been sick for a longer time and had (and still have) a lot of personal problems and now I lost my job and will so have the time to finish and release a new IDE at some time in may. So sorry, Klaus. You're too nice a guy to have that kind of bad luck. I guess the

Re: MetaCard Setup 1.0.3

2010-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: On 27.03.10 at 21:33 -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: on startup if the version =2.7 then start using stack mctools.mc if the platform MacOS then open stack mctools.mc end if set the defaultStack to Home reset cursors end if pass

Re: MetaCard Setup 1.0.3

2010-03-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: I just created MetaCard 3.5. Everything seems to be working fine except that when it opens, the buttons of the home stack have no icons, just names. Clicking any button makes the icon show up. I wonder what gives. That's a really old bug. I think the fix is this mod

Re: Control browser

2010-01-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: No problems here, even in BG Edit Mode! OS X 10.6.2, IDE 3.5. Thanks Klaus, you and Wilhem seem to confirm my suspicion. I think it is because these stacks are HC imports. I've hit some other weird snags with those too, and if the layering issue were really a problem for

Re: Control browser

2010-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Hugh Senior wrote: Yes, I have noticed this but not for a while. I put it down to digital indigestion. Thanks for the confirmation. I think it's an engine layering problem. When I edit a background in a stack that's affected, every object reports it is layer one. Sigh.

Re: Control browser

2010-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Anyone else having trouble with the control browser when trying to edit objects in a background? Frequently I click on an object and it immediately unselects. I can change the object via the message box (i.e., set its color

Control browser

2010-01-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Anyone else having trouble with the control browser when trying to edit objects in a background? Frequently I click on an object and it immediately unselects. I can change the object via the message box (i.e., set its color or layer, etc.) and I can select it manually with the edit tool. It

Re: Questons to IDE 4

2010-01-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: Thanks for the reminder, Klaus... how soon do you see making this available? (I just want to know how much time I have to get the VW ready...) Oh, I'm sure no one will mind waiting a few hours. Take your time. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: Questons to IDE 4

2010-01-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus on-rev wrote: OS X: Would you like to output a: ppc, fat AND intel apps at the same time like Rev does? This would require to create subfolder(s) in the target directory! b: ppc OR fat OR intel apps = only one app at a time? I don't build standalones in MC any more, so I'm not sure my

Re: Standalone Building

2009-10-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Unless, of course, the whole thing will be resolved by the Rev team in a different way other than Oliver's workaround. It might be a good idea to wait and see what happens before we put a lot of work into revising the MC IDE. RR version 4 is still changing. --

Re: Standalone Building

2009-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Hugh Senior wrote: This is good. The less, the better. Or as my husband says, The less, the more. :) I agree with you. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Standalone Building

2009-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: The full sentence in which RunRev's Oliver Kenyon suggested the need for an engine change is worth noting: To fix the issue, we will need to make an engine change, possibly the addition of a repeat for each control loop form. So rather than something irritating,

Re: Standalone Building

2009-10-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Hugh Senior wrote: Wilhelm: IF the new standAlone builder forces the inclusion of spurious development properties to each control, I for one shall not be upgrading. Rev doesn't add development properties during the build (unless you choose to include libraries), it just checks each control to

Re: Metacard 4

2009-10-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: This may have been already noticed here, I just want to make sure: The Rev Standalone files - necessary to build standalones - of versions 4 dp3 and dp4 do not work with the Metacard Standalone Builder. Version 3.5 does. Mark Waddingham mentioned to me some time ago

Re: metacard Digest, Vol 69, Issue 1

2009-10-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
John Vokey wrote: Me too. Well, actually, 100%. I never use the Rev IDE to program in. Indeed, the only thing I use it for is to execute Jacqueline's metacard_setup stack to licence the engine for MC IDE! If you want to be a purist, you don't even need to do that. :) The MC Setup stack

Re: Metacard 4

2009-09-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alain Farmer wrote: Specifically: Which UserLevel does a Revlet allow ? Rev has no user levels. Stacks allow whatever you program them to do. 1) Browse : e.g. navigate, click on buttons, activate menus ...) Yes, of course. Without that it wouldn't be worth much. 2) Edit : is it possible

Re: Still here

2009-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ray, I still use Metacard quite a few hours daily. I've recently tried once again switching to Rev but it's a time consuming thing to do and there are parts of the MC IDE which I too appreciate such as the Control Browser. aha, I see, but I also miss the encomium on

Re: Shortcuts in the MC IDE

2009-04-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Hi all, while I am changing the IDE to support DataGrids and reviving the disappeared shortcuts for debugging etc. in the Script Editor what about adding some shortcuts to the menu? Like: CMD-N for New Stack CMD-ALT-N for Create Card CMD-ALT-BACKSPACE for Celete card

Re: Shortcuts in the MC IDE

2009-04-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Hugh Senior wrote: These properly belong in the main menubar, not in the script editor as they have nothing to do with the script. We should keep only script-specific commands in the SE menubar. Nice idea, but I vote 'No'. I originally got caught by the same thing, but on second reading I

Re: Shortcuts in Script Editor with engine 3.5

2009-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: So, you have remove script of btn revScripts from back -- in case if sLibURLInserted = true then stop using stack libURL if the platform = MacOS then displayOSXfolder tDestPath,open Whoops. Thanks Tariel. I didn't get the error because I am loading the

MetaCard Setup 1.0.3

2009-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thanks to Tariel for finding the Rev library bug. There's a revised MC Setup stack online now with the bug fix, version 1.0.3: http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revnet/metacard_setup103.zip -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Shortcuts in Script Editor with engine 3.5

2009-04-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: Jacque, When I was doing 3.5 installation with your tool metacard_setup.mc (great stack and very helpful), I got script error on revPathtoApplescript function. on displayOSXfolder pFolderPath,pAction -- open or close the Finder folder to force icon update put

Re: Fwd: Shortcuts in Script Editor with engine 3.5

2009-04-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: I only got one response to my important question, thanks Hugh. Could you please check this and give a short notice? Verified. If there is a matching command in the MC Menubar, that one executes instead of the one in the script editor. Shortcuts that have no matches in the

Re: revappversion()

2009-02-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Klaus, It looks like the docs need to be updated. It still responds correctly for me in Rev. I get 3.0.0 in Rev, and 0 in MC. I hope it doesn't change, because I use it a lot of stacks. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: revappversion()

2009-02-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, after reading and answering a mail form Malte (how to distinguish between MC and REV) I checked revappversion() after a very long time (since version 2.9 I think) and was VERY surprised that: answer revappversion() gives me: 2.5.1 2.5.1 ? WTF??? I'm using

Re: Where do Command-C and Command-V get handled?

2008-11-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Epstein wrote: In my own customized defaultMenuBar, I have included an Edit menu with my own copy and paste commands, with command-C and command-V equivalents defined using the / convention. When those commands are chosen from the menu, my copy and paste scripts are executed as expected.

Re: Embedding fonts in Metacard

2008-11-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: I could swear the answer to this exists somewhere but I've looked high and low to no avail. I know that revLoadFont exists for Revolution. I thought I read where it became part of the engine. I saw the synonym XLOAD_FONT in the Rev docs so I thought perhaps that call would

Re: Embedding fonts in Metacard

2008-11-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: It's an external, a dll on Windows and a bundle on Macs. You'll need to ship the appropriate external with your app, and set the externals property of your mainstack to point to the file's location. Then you can use revFontLoad and revFontUnload to manage the fonts. Thankee!

Re: Font Chooser in MC-IDE 2.9 and 3.0b

2008-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Ken, I was wondering if you had any plans to update the variable watcher so it works with the new arrays? I'm not sure what the best way to do that is, and it would be a huge undertaking, but it sure would be nice to have. If you are willing to tackle that, then maybe it

Re: Engine 3.0 gm3 unable to open legacy stacks on MacOS?

2008-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Another question: Is there a way to start the 3.0 engine inside the MC IDE and coming up as Metacard (like it was possible with earlier versions)? After I rename the Revolution file deep down in the OS bundle it refuses to start. You will also have to change some strings

Re: Font Chooser in MC-IDE 2.9 and 3.0b

2008-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Since I did not get any negative response form the beta 3, actually NONE at all (hint, hint!) I will take a look and publish the final IDE 3.0 in the next time. I am guilty of not looking at your beta release, and I apologize. You had mentioned that the biggest change was

Re: Font Chooser in MC-IDE 2.9 and 3.0b

2008-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: cid:part1.02020207.01020200@hrz.uni-kassel.deIf the font of a button is empty and you open the font chooser it displays none as the font name as it should. Then after having chosen a font, e.g. Arial, nothing is visible in the Size and Height fields as a default. Using

Re: When can MC find stacks?

2008-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Epstein wrote: I am trying to understand under what conditions Metacard 2.5 can find a stack that is called without its path, i.e., by a go stack shortName command. My tentative and incomplete list is below, but I wondered if the full rule set is explained somewhere. There is this from

Re: [OT] Jacques and the Dentist

2008-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Jacques, How did it go at the dentist? Are you human again? No. I am to remain a monster until the problem localizes enough for them to identify the tooth. We have it narrowed down to two. They don't want to guess wrong, and after some consideration I agree with them. Back to

Re: Weird error when saving stack

2008-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Fixing the image on the card fixed the saving. I cannot explain why. All I did was change the filename of the image to what it was supposed to be. (And learned a cool new thing: You can set the filename of an image to an img URL on the internet!) Now the stack saves as it

Re: Weird error when saving stack

2008-09-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: It's as though the pathway to the stack got munged, but only on this one card. I can save from the other cards. The error: Can't save stack, error was: invalid URL: /Users/myAccount/Desktop/someFolder/downhillFromHere downhillFromHere should be myFileName.rev Instead it is:

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: I've had both RunRev and MC open at the same time, but have not attempted to work on a stack in one then the other with both open. I'm guessing there'd be memory issues there. I'm sure others can answer that one better. I do this all the time, opening the same stack in both

Re: Metacard still wins

2008-08-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Okay, so I've been learning the Rev IDE. Yesterday I had a bunch of option buttons and I was putting scripts into them via copy/paste. Didn't want to group them. I pasted the scripts, closed and saved the script, and saved the stack. Went back to discovered most of the buttons

Re: Metacard still wins

2008-08-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: What is gRevDevelopment? (Please don't tell me you have to turn Execution Errors on in Rev? MC just automatically does them!) Rev behaves identically and will show errors unless you specifically turn them off (there is a toolbar icon to toggle that.) The gRevDevelopment

Re: Help - Cannot delete a folder

2008-08-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alain Farmer wrote: I think it does. You could test by creating a single empty folder in the finder, and then seeing if MC will delete it. Excellent methodology, Jacque. You're a PRO! Alas, I tried this TOO and it failed. Therefore, I can only conclude, [at this point], that MetaCard 2.5

Re: Help - Cannot delete a folder

2008-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alain Farmer wrote: Thanks for your advice, Brian. :) If you are really stuck in Transcript land, you could try using shell() to call through to the command-line where things behave like you are accustomed to? If you use rm on the command line (UNIX / Linux / MacOS X), there are options to

Re: Setting up MC from scratch

2008-07-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: I downloaded the MC IDE which is just mctools.mc and put it in a folder with the Rev engine, renaming the engine to mc.exe. I found an old version of Home and the other stack in the older files of the Metacard IDE site, and put them in the folder. But something is missing to *

Re: Calendar widget crafted with MetaCard

2008-07-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alain Farmer wrote: Hello fellow MetaCard users/developers, :-) Have any of you ever crafted a CALENDAR widget ? I've done a few, but all for client work. Sarah Reichelt has one publicly available: http://www.troz.net/Rev/libraries.php -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: Thank you Metacard 2.4.3!

2008-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: On 19/05/08 at 08:36 -0700 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: That's verty disturbing, since ostensibly nothing in the HC conversion code has changed in versions since 2.4.3. I would encourage you to send your stack and your test results to RunRev for evaluation. --

Re: Thank you Metacard 2.4.3!

2008-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: I have Enterprise. All my versions have been Enterprise including the original Metacard prior to Revolution. I tried a test of MC 2.9 to see if it would open other old Hypercard stacks I had. I did succeed with one, but others failed. I don't know what differentiates the

Re: Thank you Metacard 2.4.3!

2008-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: I don't think externals would matter, since those are completely ignored and are never brought into Rev/MC. When you say the import doesn't work, what exactly happens? Do you get an error message? Or could the stack just be invisible? I'd be happy to try one if you want to send

Re: Thank you Metacard 2.4.3!

2008-05-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Jacques, I just sent it to you. As I said, I did finally get into it with my trusty old MC 2.4.3 so I am able to access it. Once 2.4.3 opened it I could save it in a format that the newer versions would handle. Just a bit of a puzzle why I had to go back that far to get in,

Re: launch url

2008-04-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Best guess is that some sort of Windows update has broken it. If this is the case, I'm a bit lost how to repair it. My code cycles thru several attempts to go to a web page, do this, if it fails do that, etc. That machine hasn't had any new Windows installs, only patch

Re: launch url

2008-04-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: This is getting weird. After trying all sorts of things on the Windows machine, I figured I'd compile it with my previous MC version 2.8.1 and go back to the old code that I know works. But even that failed to fix it. I just had a chance to test this on Windows XP using

Re: Scrollbar cutoff 2.9?

2008-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, the puzzle has been solved by Mark W. :-) See here: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6279 If you use the setup utility I wrote, it updates the theme bundles for you. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive

Re: Scrollbar cutoff 2.9?

2008-03-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Hi Klaus I see the same difference on Mac OS X 10.5.2 ppc . Wild guess: text rendering issue, because the scrollbar number in MC needs more space, and is a bit further down for the same font settings, then the one in Rev. That sounds logical. If that's the case,

Re: Avoiding openField on resumeStack

2008-01-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Epstein wrote: MC 2.2 on Mac OSX 10.4. While observing the message watcher, I click on the titleBar of a (not frontmost) stack that contains an unlocked field. The message watcher shows these two messages: resumeStack openField and the unlocked field gets a blinking insertion point.

Re: AllowInterrupts 'False' By Default?

2007-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: So the big question... are any of you experiencing this same problem in the MC IDE? The basic test I did was (a) launch MC, open the message box, type put the allowInterrupts... Rev engine 2.8.1, MC 2.8.3: allowinterrupts is true Haven't had time yet to install MC 2.8.4. --

Re: AllowInterrupts 'False' By Default?

2007-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:12:58 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ken Ray wrote: So the big question... are any of you experiencing this same problem in the MC IDE? The basic test I did was (a) launch MC, open the message box, type put the allowInterrupts... Rev engine 2.8.1, MC

Re: Printing a PDF with Metacard

2007-09-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Epstein wrote: I'm trying to use Metacard to superimpose field text on a PDF displayed in a player object. Things work well until I try to print, at which point Metacard (2.5, on Mac OSX 10.4) crashes. You're running a pretty old engine, and unfortunately you missed the fix by one

MetaCard Standalone builder

2007-07-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
I was starting to think about creating the standalone-building engines in the MetaCard Setup utility I just released, when I thought, wouldn't it be better if we didn't need to create special copies of MetaCard to build with? So I altered my copy of the standalone builder so that it works with

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: As soon as I tried to save home stack I got can't open stack backup file error, same error that I'm getting from time to time in my MC IDE. The second attempt to save is always successful which probably excludes Permissions. Still It seems related to my computer

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jan Schenkel wrote: Since I don't have any previous Metacard license (though I do have a Revolution Enterprise license), what exacly should I do to create a Metacard 2.8.1? As Klaus mentioned, a MC license isn't required any more for engines after version 2.7. So you should be able to use

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Hi Jaqueline, ... Works like a charm, but I got an error Installation failed: Could not rename Revolution engine. can't rename file when I selected Use the currently running Revolution. No problem when selecting Rev manually. Sorry, my fault, I was executing this from

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: 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? Sure, I'll do that. In my igorance, which could possibly (but I'm sure unlikely) be

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Brenstein wrote: If the Finder window is closed during the installation there's no problem. If anyone knows how to fix that, I'll implement it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Isn't it

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Is this the thing I was supposed to tackle but you've done it far beyond what I would have done? Don't think so, but I can't remember what it was that you were going to do. There was something or other you mentioned about the IDE -- and of course, as soon as one mentions

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Klaus Major wrote: Will this also run with engines 2.7? Not that I'd need it ;-) Forgot to answer this. It should work okay with earlier engines since the process is the same. The dictionary import should also be okay, it recognizes all documentation formats back to Rev 2.0. I wouldn't

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: WOW, awesome !! Great work Jacque. Thanks. :) Some notes: 1. May be on Mac OS it makes sense to open Tools palette by default on startup as well ? This would be something the group should vote on to add to the home stack. I generally prefer not to have the

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Suppose we change the Home stack so that it looks in the Plugins folder for a specially-named plugin when it first opens. If it finds a plugin with the right name, it opens the stack automatically. Oh, never mind. I just remembered you can set up the Plugins Manager

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