Re: setting itemdel

Discussions on Metacard" Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 10:01 AM Thank you guys! I had placed the itemdel 'tab' in quotes, that's why it didn't work. Sigh... Works fine now. And thanks for the great "quirky" suggestion. :)

Re: setting itemdel

Eva, I just realized you posted on the metacard list. You might want to also check out the LiveCode list also. It is the more recent version of the metacard list. Here it is: How to use LiveCode" --- On Sat, 5/7/11, Mark Schonewille wrote: From: Mark Schonewille Subject: Re: setting itemd

Re: setting itemdel

Eva and Mark, Here's a quirk way to group the products: set the itemDel to tab put fld 1 into v  --- list of invoices sort lines of v by item 2 of each put v into fld 2 -- products will be grouped together --- On Sat, 5/7/11, Mark Schonewille wrote: From: Mark Schonewille Subject: Re: setti

Re: cgi globals

These are the variables that I get from my ISP's server. Apache Environment Variable Name is in CAPS DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/mikekann/public_html/eatwhat/ HTTP_ACCEPT application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, *

Re: cgi globals

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html -- these are the most important ones for Apache --- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/20/03 5:00 AM, jbv wrote: > > > > Where can I find a complete list of all globals > > available via a cgi script (such as > $REQUEST_METHOD or > > $CON

Re: CMMS Software

What is a CMMS? --- Sannyasin Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone built a robust CMMS in Revolution or > Metacard? > > TMA is the best, (www.tmasystems.com) and the demo > is fantastic... but > they want $5,000.00 (!) and while the complexity of > the need here is > comparabl

Re: MC front end to PostgreSQL

As usual, Pierre comes through. Merci. The last greater than sign got into the URL by mistake. Try this: ftp://crdp.intereduc.net/MCSQLABOOK/ --- Pierre Sahores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An updated issue of the MCSQL Address Book example > app is available for > download at : > >

Re: Virtual reality lens

Interesting concept. Would it work with a digital camera? --- Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, if you are not interested in photography or > 360° virtual > imagery then please ignore my post. I'm selling a > 360° lens for > standard 35mm cameras which has served me very well > in

Re: Thank you all...

Send us all World Series tickets and we'll call it even. --- Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys really made my evening yesterday, when just > before quitting > for the day, I realized that the inability to edit > scripts would blow > my entire strategy for this program. > > I would ha

Re: Getting Text to Clipboard

copy word 1 to 5 of fld "aFld" will put those 5 words onto the clipboard --- Ray Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could anybody help me with a better way to get text > onto the clipboard? The > way I'm currently doing this is to put the text into > a hidden field, select > it, and then 'doM

Re: More on recursion...

Sjoerd, thank you for the examples. Mike --- Sjoerd Op 't Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Kann wrote/ schreef: > > > > > Recursion is one of those items like the ASCII > chart > > that for some reason must be in all programming > books.

Re: More on recursion...

--- Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, does anyone know how Metacard keeps track of recursion? Specifically? If a handler calls another which calls another which calls the first, is this considered a handler calling itself? --- Mike replies: Shari, I'd recommend that you rewrite your code

Re: Filter help

-- The NOT filter on mouseUp put fld "aFld" into filesList replace ".txt" with "!"&"txt" in filesList filter filesList with "*.*" replace "!" with "." in filesList put filesList into fld "bFld" end mouseUp --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, so one day I'll track down a list of Bourn

Re: Filter help

-- not using Filter, but does the same thing -- on mouseUp put fld "aFld" into filesList repeat for each line kLine in filesList if ".txt" is not in kLine then put return&kLine after kHolder end if end repeat put kHolder into fld "bFld" end mouseUp --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr

Re: Filter help

-- For simulating a logical AND -- on mouseUp put fld "aFld" into filesList replace ".jpg" with ".jpg"&"!" in filesList replace ".gif" with ".gif"&"!" in filesList filter filesList with "*!*" replace "!" with empty in filesList put filesList into fld "bFld" end mouseUp --- [EMAIL PR

Re: OT But Related - Get Source of a URL

Mike asked: Which version of IE Mac are you using? Do you also want it to work on Windows, or just on the Mac? Scott Rossi asked: > > > > In MetaCard we have the ability to put a url into > a container, such as: > > > > put url "http://www.mypage.com/index.html"; into > fld 1 > > > > ...and

Re: total ram

Richard Gaskin asked: Is there a way to query the total RAM installed from within MC? On Win98 you can use on mouseUp set hideconsolewindows to true put shell("mem") into fld 1 -- parse out what you need end mouseUp __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for

Re: worth a read

Thank you andu for bringing articles like these to our attention. --- andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not that it's something new but a good reminder I > found on /. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/mann0702.asp > > Regards, Andu Novac ___

Re: the systemversion

the systemversion = Windows 4.10 on my Win98 --- Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > can someone please supply what "the systemversion" > returns on > Win95 and Win98 systems ? > > Thanks in advance. > > > Klaus Major > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _

Re: off topic: Php

www.zend.com is a good place to start --- Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using PHP for a certain project. Being a PHP > newbie, I'm looking for > resources to help me. Does anyone know of a mailing > list (like this great > MetaCard list) for PHP developers? > > TIA

Re: Launch a URL

http://www.theurl.com?&A=1&B=2&C=3 -- The ampersands worked for me. I did notice that the "&" after the "?" should not be there. "&"s only separate the variables. --- Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, "Klaus Major" wrote: > > >> set the hideConsoleWindows to true > >> put

Re: MySQL form shell()

On Windows98 I'm using the setup: Metacard/Xitami/PHP4/MySQL. If you are interested in a standalone solution (not on a network or over the Internet) an easy way to do it is to put your SQL statements in a file c:/windows/desktop/goodSQL.sql then type \. c:/windows/desktop/goodSQL.sql at the MySQL

Re: database and MC

Is the server going to be a Mac or PC? Do you plan to access the database through a web page or through a MC stack? --- Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a database application that requires > (1) cross platform Win/Mac (that's why I'm using > MC!) > (2) runs o

Re: database and MC

How many megabytes of data and how often will it be accessed? --- Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a database application that requires > (1) cross platform Win/Mac (that's why I'm using > MC!) > (2) runs over a network > > Item 2 causes some issues for a dat

Re: Interarchy for PC?

sure you reset your browser when you finish. Michael Kann, down the road in Victoria. --- Mark Luetzelschwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a user in England for one of my MC products > who is using a > radio lan and a PC to connect to the internet. The > first

Dr. Dobb's Journal

The September 2001 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal contains some commentary about Metacard, mostly in relationship to Runtime Revolution. It's not worth buying the magazine just for those few paragraphs, but if you happen to be in Barnes and Noble check out page 104. _

PERL v. Metacard

This script formats long numbers with commas. 1234567 turns into 1,234,567 on mouseUp repeat while kv is not empty -- kv holds "1234567" put comma&char -3 to -1 of kv before withCommasV delete char -3 to -1 of kv end repeat delete char 1 of withCommasV end mouseUp Now go to http:

Re: New language syntax (Was: New Image Features)

My recommendation: let Scott name a function or property anything he wants; then describe that function or property with a working example. That way we can all see for ourselves what is happening. With that knowledge, we can all translate the terms into our own personal vernacular. __

Re: regexlite...

Dave, you're correct, what we need is a single character item delimiter. He goes, second time around. David Cragg gave us this example: This is example 1. This is example 2. If you want to get the text of the first , I don't think you can use matchText alone --- My new and (and hopefully imp

Re: regexlite...

--- David Cragg gave us this example: This is example 1. This is example 2. If you want to get the text of the first , I don't think you can use matchText alone --- My suggestion: put "" into km -- km is marker variable set itemDelimiter to km replace "" with km in CraggVariable put item 2

Re: Reading raw data

--- Pierre a écrit: remember what Art Tatum can play for us with just one hand to imagine what Scott is building for us with two -- there is an anecdote about Tatum that might apply. He's sitting in a bar when the piano player starts playing one of Tatum's tunes, imitating him. A friend of Tatum

Re: Reading raw data

--- Simon Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well then what's the deal with Revolution? If they leased [the Metacard engine] then how can they sell the same functionality for a lower cost? -- Just curious. What is that lower cost that you mention? Thanks, M

Re: Reading raw data

Richard, if your business analysis is correct why don't you license the engine from Scott as the Revolutionaries are doing, toss in your $10k for the improved GUI, then sell at least a hundred copies of GaskinCard. You could buy that second house instead of Scott. --- Richard's well thought out s

Re: How would you design this ?

Can anybody help? -- Sivakatirswami, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- he the man. --- Rolf Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > I like to make an application which presents the > user with a startup > screen (a la Netscape) and then goes into the > Internet and downloads > the actual

Re: (no subject)

ows/desktop/goodfile.txt" into kv filter kv with "#123*" set itemDelimiter to "@" -- whatever yours is put item 1 of kv into varUno put item 2 of kv into varDos the mac urls I'll let others handle good luck, Michael Kann

Re: Order of precedence conundrum

Where did I go wrong in my steps? -- false AND true evaluates to false -- true AND false evaluates to false --- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I put this in the Message Box: > >put value( true AND false AND true OR NOT true > AND NOT false ) > > I get "false". >

Re: Length of script problem

Just curious, what does a 67k Metatalk script do? Could you break it up a little? --- Andrew Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a limit on script lengths? I originally > used > HyperCard for my programming needs, but did not like > the script length limitations. I rememeber reading >

Re: Raney V 3.0

"Triplets! Oh my. Three congratulations for now, Scott, and when you need sympathy just ask." -- Sorry, just a joke having to do with the long download time. A different Scott, too. (But I better just let this one go.) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Au

Re: Announcement

Congratulations to Scott and his wife. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mai

Re: Announcement

--- Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of us with very slow connections, could > anyone supply the message behind the flash animation? Scott's wife gave birth to triplets, and there is a splendid picture of each one. Congratulations. _

Re: Cookies?

--- Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to simulate browser cookie > behavior/functionality from MC? > > For example, if I script: > > get url "http://www.coolsite.com" > > Is there some way to send what would otherwise be > cookie information along > with this URL? If

DDJarticle

The May 2001 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has some complimentary remarks about Revolution on page 119. Too bad it only mentioned Metacard in passing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.co

Re: XML everything

--- andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked at info on different messaging software the other day and came across "Jobber" -- Do you mean "Jabber" ? I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Andu for all his help on and off this list. __ Do

Re: TCP/IP security considerations

--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> inquired about peer-to-peer security a la Metacard: Any business peer-to-peer program will be compared to Ray Ozzie's Groove, found at www.groove.net, because he has a PR machine that just won't quit. Security is fundamental to their efforts, so it might be

Re: MC 2.4 a1 is out!

Clone Raney Now __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug

EditingQuicktimeOnWindows

Can recommend programs for editing quicktime movies on Windows -- Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http:

Re: Network help needed

--- Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to get the current ip address of the user (on a LAN or on the Internet?) -- For Windows, don't know about Mac -- put hostNameToAddress(hostname()) into fld 1 He also asked: Is there any way to scan a LAN to see if a server stack is runni

Re: HyperCard and the future of MetaCard

--- Carsten Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But we forgot to ask about one important issue: How strong is the MetaCard organisation, how is the financial backing and is there a good and solid group of people behind the development - or is it a pure one man/woman product? --- My reply The Xt

FilterHelpPlease

d, or are there others that aren't listed? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Michael Kann __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text Archives: http://www.mail-

Re: [OT] Scriptics.com? Osterhaut gone?

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html+ousterhout&hl=en The above URL took me there. All one word of course. Ousterhout brought in the money guys and changed the name from Scriptics to Aruba to service the B2B market. Aruba was then sold to a

HowToFindSMTP?

nd an email how would they know the SMTP server of the school. Better, but probably impossible, how would Metacard find it out by itself? Thanks again, Michael Kann __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal

LexiBot

The program Mata Hari has been resurrected as LexiBot. For those working with sockets to access websites and search engines you might be interested in what this program can do. 30-day trial at lexibot.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own doma

Re: A little unrelated

--- digifilm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a cgi that does this: 1. user clicks on weblink to download a file 2. weblink sends a string to cgi on server 3. cgi checks webserver's ip and if authenticated looks up the file related to the string and starts the download - Can

LuetzelschwabForPresident

They obviously sent the wrong man from Austin to be our President. Thanks for the small POST gem. Keep 'em coming. Mark's Gem: Hi All, I saw a couple of postings related to POST and ASP...and never really saw an answer...as far as I can tell, this solution works for A

RE: Making the case for non-browser "Web apps"

Blair, this is a fantastic post which is of interest to many on the list. When you get back can you expand on the "other reasons" you mentioned? Thanks, Michael Kann Blair wrote hastily: There are other reasons but I've gotta run. > > Our users LOVE the web and want eve

Re: Making the case for non-browser "Web apps"

> --- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm looking for two sets of examples: > > 1. Non-browser network apps that work >From the table of contents of a Peer-to-peer book on ora.com -- O'Reilly site Part II. Projects 5. SETI@home David Anderson 6. Jabber: Conversational Tech

Re: Making the case for non-browser "Web apps"

--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for two sets of examples: > 1. Non-browser network apps that work -- groove.net is one that is getting a lot of PR. Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yah

Re: Making the case for non-browser "Web apps"

--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for two sets of examples: > 1. Non-browser network apps that work ora.com has a lot on peer-to-peer right now. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://p

Re: Sockets vs. POST

I've been using HTTPtracer on Windows to monitor HTTP traffic. It is one of the best designed programs I've ever used. When POSTING data to PWS/ASP/Access I noticed that I could POST from Netscape/Microsoft but not from Metacard. With HTTPtracer I discovered that the POST from Netscape/Microsoft a

Re: New development system - Revolution 1.0 public beta

--- Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is the press release Has Metacard now become Revolution, or are they two separate entities? Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you w

ServingGIFS

Does the MCHTTPd server serve up Gifs and JPEGs as well as text? I'd like to be able to do that but it doesn't seem to work here. I'm on Win98. Thanks, Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the thi

RevolutionBeta

I'm looking at the Revolution beta and have a couple of questions. First, is there any new functionality beyond Metacard, or is it a new interface? Second, is there a way to step through the cards in the Transcript Dictionary? Thanks in advance. Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROT

RE: HTTP Headers

en going to a collocated > server...ie, try "put url > >"http://www.royalsoftware.com" into fld "whatever" > > Actually I just tried put url > "http://www.royalsoftware.com" into fld "whatever" > and it works > as

Re: HTTP Headers1

I happened to be fiddling with this stuff last week. He's an exchange between myself and Pierre. I'll read your post carefully and send another reply. michael kann a écrit : > > Thanks for the reply. I've done a little more > investigating, which has been enlighteni

Re: List Netiquette

--- David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in reply to Michael Kann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 2. Length -- put your code on a webpage > > -- refer to it there > > In an ideal world? Just broke this one for instance. > If I had to do this > right now I wouldn

Re: List Netiquette

p it out of email -- Additional comments I would like to see a mention of the platform (Mac, Windows, Unix/Linux) at the beginning of most questions. -- Gratitude is wonderful, but to top off a long quote with "Thanks to everyone" is not. How's my netiquette? Mich

Re: statistics

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to determine the correlation (relationship) between 2 groups ie. lines of data in 2 separate fields. - Can you describe your goal in statistical (or better yet) mathematical terms? Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: getting socket identification numbers

s for the stack that I am connecting to, not the address for the stack with the button. Shouldn't they be different? I'm using two different port numbers -- one to go from the 208.193.15.192 address to the 127.0.0.1 address, and one to go back the other way. But I don't see how tha

Re: Simple Sockets?

Peter Reid asked -- is there any way of finding out the IP address of the current computer a stack is running on without making a socket connection to another machine? -- on Windows98 I've had success with the following: on mouseUp put empty into fld "ipconfigfld" set hideConsoleWindows to

FTPserver

Is there a Metacard FTP server available for download? Thanks for all the contributions, Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Archives: http

Re: Paradigma Software Releases VXCMD, Technology Release 1.8.6

a more general note I'd like to hear from anyone who has an example of a Valentina database with a Metacard frontend. Thanks, Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Product

Re: Interachy

HttpTracer might be of interest. Find it at: http://www.concentric.net/~Sstmail/download.html Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Take a look at Naviscope (found in all the usual download places I believe). You can tell it to keep logs of all mes

Re: Interachy

--- Monte Goulding asked: Hi all, does anyone know of Windows software (98) that does the equivalent of Interachy? logging messages to/from server/browser? Post the website for Interachy and we might be able to find something similar. Thank you, Michael Kann

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n111

I've noticed that we've started replying to the entire digest again. Michael Kann. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.co

Re: Valentina and MC (was: MC to 4D Database)

database, put some records in, and get some records out? How do you write your own interface to access the records? I know about databases and SQL, I just need a jump start to get something working. Thanks, Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo

Re: Opening one stack from another

--- Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like the splash screen (stack X) to appear without a title bar or close box. How can I do that? -- See the entry "decorations" in the index __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores.

Re: Opening one stack from another

--- Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- I'm having trouble opening one stack from another. create a button with the following script: on mouseUp open stack "goodStack" end mouseUp __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores.

Re: FromSocketToField

Thanks Andu, I appreciate it. ---Michael Kann wrote: I have the following script in a btn: read from socket "127.0.0.1:9980" for 1024 with message "dataHasArrived" I click on the btn, then send some data from another stack to the recieving stack. How do I make the data ap

Re: central repository for web related metacard examples

d like to learn how to do anything at all or be pointed to some reference where I could look up the commands. Thanks, Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Kevin Miller promptly replied: What are you trying to do? Perhaps someone on this list can help point you to instructions for whatever it is?

FromSocketToField

>From the reference: The "read from socket" command is used to read data from a socket. Sockets are always opened in binary mode and so any required data conversion must be done in scripts. Could anyone kindly supply one of the "scripts" that the reference mentions? ---

Re: central repository for web related metacard examples

the Use of Metacard as a Browser? Within the tutorial there might be links to working scripts. I agree heartily with Kevin that they are doing a good job of organizing contributions. More explanations for the contributions would be valuable. Michae

Re: central repository for web related metacard examples

er. I have searched on the Internet for commands and syntax that I might use with this external, but haven't had any luck. This one external would sell the whole package if people knew how to use it. Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do Yo

metacard@lists.runrev.com

I'm wondering why when I run a shell command it spins my hard drive for about half a second. I'm on Win98 Dell Inspiron 7000. Thanks in advance. Michael Kann, Victoria, TX. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. M