Just a cursory scan through your handler, without an exhaustive
parsing of the logic...
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Emmett Gray wrote:
Sorry for the long post. I've now got the last of my currently-in-
use HC stacks running in Rev, so I'm finally retiring HC/
Sheepshaver. This last stack was huge, a labor of love for 20 years.
It's an address book whose feature set has not been matched by a
commercial application.
Anyway, there's one feature: the first card is an index of all the
cards in the stack. In HC, all you need to do is start typing and as
you add letters, the selected line changes to reflect what you've
typed. When you get to what you want, you hit return and that takes
you to the respective card.
Anyway, it's not working in Rev. What happens is, it selects the
first line with the first letter you type, but stalls there. Then,
if you hit return, it does nothing, just sits there. And if you wait
and start over, it doesn't respond. to that either, the original
selection remains. You have to clear that selection to get it to
start over.
I don' have any idea what to do.
The relevant field properties in Rev are shared text, lock text,
vertical scroll bar, list behavior.
Here's the HC script:
... snip ...
if the visible of the message is false then -- so it's
available when needed
... snip ...
if you mean the message box, the syntax you are using doesn't work in
Rev, generates an error
Thanks for reading this far. And since you did, I can't resist
mentioning some of the features of this stack:
1) Smart synchronization: if the copy at the office gets a new email
address and the same person at home gets a new cell phone number,
both are kept and the card is flagged and put in a list. You can
deal with it later, like when you next go to that card which shows
the dates of both new entries, or go through the list if you want
2) Parsing of clipboard data, from v-cards, email signatures and the
like, when making new entries.
3) A "Business" checkbox which then alphabetizes business names
phone-book style, ignoring and initial "The" etc.
4) Auto-capitalization; you don't have to hit the shift key when
entering names. It's smart, knows about "de" and "von" etc.
5) One-click or keystroke phone dialing, via a modem, Skype out, or
Skype-to-Skype (if there's a Skype name in the Notes field).
6) Envelope printing of 4 different custom styles (size, return
address)
7) Sifting to create subsets (Christmas card lists, European
contacts, email addresses, etc.) for export in CSV or tab-delimited
format
8) Smart printing of Filofax-style pages (no entry broken over a
page; print one side, turn the stack over and print again, all comes
out in proper order)
9) Ability to change the spelling or capitalization of a name, then
automatically moved to where it belongs as needed, and have the
corresponding Yellow or White pages version auto-updated.
10) Hidden "Filed as" field to override the default alphabetization,
useful for names like "van Beethoven" - filed under v or b?
11) URL launching (grabs the first or selected email or web address)
and file/app launching such as Word templates, with the appropriate
info (name and address) in the clipboard
12) Unlimited delete and restore of cards (until you quit).
13) Name conflict resolution: If you have a John Smith entry, and
make a new John Smith card, you get an alert that he's there
already. You can delete the new one, the old one, or keep both
14) A database of national and international area codes so if you
have an unknown phone number you can see where it's probably located
15) And of course it relies on HC/Rev's brilliant "Find" so you can
for example type a first name and a state abbreviation or city name
to find someone whose last name you don't remember, but you know
where they live
16) Customizable abbreviations expanded on address data entry: ny
expands to New York, NY and de expands to Germany, but only if
followed by a space (or nothing) and must be the first characters of
the last line in the address field.
17) Phone numbers corrected to be in a standard form (dots &
parentheses replaced by dashes). US numbers get 1- in front, other
countries get their country code - you can use the abbreviations
used in the Address field such as de for Germany to enter the proper
country code so you don't have to remember it.
There's more but I'll stop now...
Sounds like a handy tool...
BTW, how do you do the skype dialing? I'm interested in that.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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