Re: Digest metacard.v003.n381
Scott and his team are making a herculean effort technically, but perhaps they need to hire a promotion and marketing agency urgently. Also, get on the board some veterans from completely different lines of business/software and see what they have to say. Their advice may be priceless. "Alas, poor Allegiant... I knew him well." /H Hugh Senior The Flexible Learning Company Consultant Programming Software Solutions Fax/Voice: +44 (0)1483.27 87 27 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.flexibleLearning.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
QT recording
How many other people need the ability to record card images as frames in QuickTime files? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Metacard replacing Toolbook and Director
Yes! As I understand it, those people will need help. Asymetrix seems to be at least putting ToolBook on the back shelf: it's been two years and all they've come up with is a minor upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. MetaCard is the closest thing they've got. Oh, and what a discovery it would be for them: - Great interpreter - All three operating systems families - Radically lower prices Two ToolBook programmers and three production staff cost a ToolBook shop: TB Instructor: $2495 x 2 = $4,990 TB Librarian:$995 x 3 = $2,985 __ Total Authoring Hit $7,975 Compare with a similarly-staffed MetaCard shop: MetaCard License: $995 x 2 = $1,990 MC Starter Kit: $0 x 2 = $0 __ Total Authoring Hit $1,990 "Save more than 75% -- go MetaCard!" :) The version issue raises a question: Mr. Raney, I know we all deplore companies who jump major version numbers for mere bug fixes (we needn't mention names of course), but tell us: Why are you so conservative with MetaCard's version numbers? 2.3 could well have been called at least 2.5. With it's QT support, new tokens, and much better Mac support, it's anything but a _minor_ upgrade. We appreciate the modesty, but from a marketing perspective have you considered the perceptual value of upping your version numbers to better communicate the strength of what you're delivering? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Get WebSite directories with HTTP
Sivakatirswami wrote:
I would like to make a small spider that would crawl over a section of our
web site, check for the existence of certain files, if true then load and
parse certain other html files and do other "stuff."
so, is it possible to load a directory and not just a file?
i.e. get a line-delimited list as the result of some URL command instead of
a file?
Hinduism Today
Sivakatirswami
Editor's Assistant/Production Manager
www.HinduismToday.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Sivakatirswami,
I'm working on something like that, not realy ended at this time. See if
the script below can help.
on mrl1
global Lurl,Rref,Nref
set the cursor to watch
if fld "Scan" is not empty
then put fld "Scan" into Lurl
else put "http://sam.w-max.com" into Lurl
put empty into Nref
put empty into Rref
put Lurl into Nref
set itemdelimiter to "/"
if "." is not in last item of Nref
then if last char of Nref is not "/"
then put "/" after Nref
put Nref into Lurl
put url Nref into fref
put empty into indexs
put "1" into d
put "META NAME=" quote "KEYWORDS" into i
get offset(i,fref,d)
if it is not "0" then
put it+length(i)-1 into d
get offset ("",fref,d)
if it is not "0" then
put char d to it+d-1 of fref into indexs
put it+d into d
end if
else
put "META NAME=KEYWORDS" into i
get offset (i,fref,d)
if it is not "0" then
put it+length(i)-1 into d
get offset ("",fref,d)
if it is not "0" then
put char d to it+d-1 of fref into indexs
put it+d into d
end if
end if
end if
repeat
get offset("=",indexs)
if it is not "0"
then put empty into char 1 to it of indexs
else exit repeat
end repeat
repeat
get offset(quote,indexs)
if it is not "0"
then put empty into char it of indexs
else exit repeat
end repeat
put fref into sindex
repeat
get offset("td",sindex)
if it is not "0" then
put it into d
put offset ("/td",sindex) into f
if f d then
put offset ("",sindex,d) into v
if v is not "0" then
add v to d
if length(char d to f-1 of sindex) 100
then if "" is not in char d to f-1 of sindex
then put " " char d to f-1 of sindex after indexs
delete char 1 to f of sindex
else exit repeat
else exit repeat
else exit repeat
end repeat
replace numtochar(10) with " " in indexs
replace " " with " -- " in indexs
replace " " with " -- " in indexs
replace " " with " -- " in indexs
open file "RefMerl" for update
read from file "RefMerl" until eof
put it cr "#MTDA#" Lurl "#MTDB#" cr indexs cr "#MTFE#"
cr into majml
write majml to file "RefMerl" at 0
close file "RefMerl"
if "frameset" is in fref then
put offset("frameset",fref) into a
put offset("/frameset",fref) into b
if b is "0"
then put length(fref) into b
put char a to b of fref into fref
repeat for each line l in fref
if l contains "SRC" then
repeat
get offset("SRC",l)
if it is not "0" then
put offset("",l) into fin
if fin is not "0" then
put char it to fin-1 of l cr after Rref
delete char 1 to fin of l
else exit repeat
else exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end repeat
replace "SRC" with "HREF" in Rref
else if fref contains "HREF" then
get offset ("BODY",fref)
if it is not "0"
then delete char 1 to it of fref
repeat for each line l in fref
if l contains "HREF" then
repeat
get offset("HREF",l)
if it is not "0" then
put offset("",l) into fin
if fin is not "0" then
put char it to fin-1 of l cr after Rref
delete char 1 to fin of l
if last line of Rref contains "HREF=#"
then delete last line of Rref
else if last line of Rref contains "HREF=" quote "#"
quote then
delete last line of Rref
end if
else exit repeat
else exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
repeat with c = the number of lines of Rref down to 1
if line c of Rref is empty
then delete line c of Rref
end repeat
if Rref is not empty
then if "404" is not in Rref
then if "Not Found" is not in Rref
then mrl2
if length(Rref) is "0" and "*" is not in fld "HBuffy" then
put quote Nref quote cr cr "Erreur : machine.domaine
introuvable" \
cr "ou données dynamiques inaccessibles" cr "en" quote
"GET" \
quote "..." into fld "Buffy"
else if "404" is in Rref or "Not Found" is in Rref then
if "*" is not in fld "HBuffy" then
put "url absente de l'arborescence du" cr "site (" Nref ")
..." into fld "Buffy"
end if
else
sort lines of Rref
repeat with l = the num of lines in
mini xterm window
Hi I don't know if this is possible, but here is what I'm trying to do. I use metacard on a Solaris box. Imagine a card with one button and two windows a and b. I want to be able to stick an ip address in window a and either click on the button or returnInField and see a traceroute output go into field b. Now I've tried put shell (whatever) into window "b" and it seems that Metacard can do this with simple stuff like ls and date and such but has trouble with telnet and traceroute and nslookup type commandsor more likely I dunno what Ima doin ;-) Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks Jim Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Metacard replacing Toolbook and Director
on 5/27/2000 7:11 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes! As I understand it, those people will need help. Asymetrix seems to be at least putting ToolBook on the back shelf: it's been two years and all they've come up with is a minor upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. MetaCard is the closest thing they've got. Oh, and what a discovery it would be for them: - Great interpreter - All three operating systems families - Radically lower prices Two ToolBook programmers and three production staff cost a ToolBook shop: TB Instructor: $2495 x 2 = $4,990 TB Librarian:$995 x 3 = $2,985 __ Total Authoring Hit $7,975 Compare with a similarly-staffed MetaCard shop: MetaCard License: $995 x 2 = $1,990 MC Starter Kit: $0 x 2 = $0 __ Total Authoring Hit $1,990 "Save more than 75% -- go MetaCard!" :) AMEN, preach it! But there are some other issues. ToolBook is slow and clumsy. Every image imported is stored as a bitmap in a resources file, immensely inflating stack size. Its widgets are hard to manage. While ToolBook does have the advantage of being able to create HTML from its pages, the processes are still rather clumsy, and the output could be a lot better! I'm sure that this export process will make it into one of the future versions of MC. The version issue raises a question: Mr. Raney, I know we all deplore companies who jump major version numbers for mere bug fixes (we needn't mention names of course), but tell us: Why are you so conservative with MetaCard's version numbers? 2.3 could well have been called at least 2.5. With it's QT support, new tokens, and much better Mac support, it's anything but a _minor_ upgrade. We appreciate the modesty, but from a marketing perspective have you considered the perceptual value of upping your version numbers to better communicate the strength of what you're delivering? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web Richard says it well. Scott, you have been giving us a great product. And while others have said something about you retiring early, I sincerely hope you make a ton of money, but stick with MC for a long time. With such support as you have given your product, you are a very rare person in the application world today. Raymond Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
MC HTTP incompatible with VICOM WebCache Server?
We have just installed VICOM's Web Cacher Server here os and "add on" to our VICOM Internet Gateway soft router which handles all http calls from the LAN out through the T1 line. If I put the following into a script: put URL "http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/mystic_mouse/MMouse_ch1_T1-2.GIF" into field test I get the following message: HTMLHEADBODY bgcolor="#fdfeb9"TITLEVicomsoft WebCache Error/TITLECENTERH2Vicomsoft WebCache Error/H2/CENTERPBHost can not be found on the network/BDLDDThe host could not be found on the network/DL/HTML if i put the same URL http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/mystic_mouse/MMouse_ch1_T1-2.GIF into Netscape or Explorer, it loads the image just fine. If i turn off the WebCacher server so that only the Gateway software is working, then put URL "http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/mystic_mouse/MMouse_ch1_T1-2.GIF" into field test returns the image data as it should. Any clues before I start the trouble shooting. There is something unique about MC's http protocol that theWeb Cacher Server "doesn't like" Thanks Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
URL called from a Variablew
Aloha, This is a coloring book that is on line. I have the following GIF's loaded into a button as contents: MMouse_ch1_T1-2.GIF MMouse_ch1_.3-6.GIF MMouse_ch1_7-10.gif MMouse_ch1_11-14.gif MMouse_ch1_15-18.gif MMouse_ch1_19-22.gif MMouse_ch1_23-24.gif MMouse_ch1_Q.gif MysticMouseCover.gif and use the following script on menupick which set the defaultstack to " StudyHall/MysticMouse/mysticms.mc" put URL "http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/mystic_mouse/" into tSiteDirectory put URL tSiteDirectory which into image "a" end menupick It doesn't work I tried also put URL quote tSiteDirectory which quote into image "a" that also doesn't work. I know everything is working because if i just issue the command: put URL "http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/mystic_mouse/MMouse_ch1_7-10.gif" into image "a" the image is loaded almost immediately (very fast in fact) So, there is some problem with the put URL command using a variable to hold the actual URL itself. What am i doing wrong? thanks! Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
