total ram
Is there a way to query the total RAM installed from within MC? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Feature idea: auto-complete typing in scripts
Hi Karl, first I love MetaCard but the scriptingEditor is really a little outdated obviously is Scott working hard to keep pace with other featurewishes and gave the fancy UI-part to revolution I tried to familiarize with revolution several times - but its too funky - to overloaded there are a lot of good features but.:-((( and they have something like you are looking for! probably you are thinking of something like in VB?? what about things like - - oups what OS are you working on??? - typeIt4Me or quicKeys on Mac shortHand on Windows?? but somebody has to write the library Regards, Ernst - Original Message - Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:19:39 -0500 Subject: Feature idea: auto-complete typing in scripts From: Karl Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if this is possible to write a script that would do this (it's definitely not possible very easily, I don't think), but wouldn't it be great if, while editing an object's script, you could simply type in the first couple characters of a variable name and the entire word would be automatically filled out for you, just as URLs are auto-completed in web browsers now? If a script could somehow keep track of the unrecognized words in a script (those that aren't reserved by MetaCard) and then figure out when you've typed in the first letter or two of a variable name, then autocomplete the rest of the word (while keeping it highlighted so you could easily change the auto-completed part, just like in a web browser)... boy, would that be useful! Has anyone ever done anything like this? Ever attempted to? I'd imagine a script could simply be put in the script editor stack somehow... but I'm a bit chicken to attempt this all by myself :-) -- Karl Becker, KB Productions http://www.karlbecker.com --__--__-- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard End of metacard Digest ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Numeric sort with negative numbers
Hi there! It sounds like you might have forgotten to add the tag numeric to your sort command. Good Luck I had numeric, but I need to check to see if I had descending, as Richard Gaskin's handler demonstrated. -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Practical Maximum number of fields on a card
On 7/28/02 12:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: 2000? It's hard to imagine a UI that needs that many editable text regions. What are you making? The downsides to high object counts are RAM and hit testing. And of course depending on what's in those fields it may take a while to redraw. Can't say I've ever put 2000 fields on a card, so I can't say for sure how gracefully MC would handle it. It seems easy enough to test with a repeat loop creating new fields in a test stack. Please let us know how that comes out. Offhand my first hunch would be to think of a solution which would allow a lower object count if possible I'm making a gradebook. Figure it this way - with a maximum of 50 students in a class, and a maximum number of 50 assignments per quarter, that's 2,500 possible individual grades. My idea is to have those fields grouped and then add scrollbars to scroll the group. I've done a prototype and this approach works fine - even with a grade entered in all 2,500 fields, and with 2,500 fields on each of 50 cards! Scroll speed is good and it seems stable. This is under OS X. Essentially what I'm doing is an imitation spreadsheet with each cell being a field. I agree that this is an extreme number of fields for a card, which is why I wanted to see if there were some magical number of fields per card that should not be exceeded. I looked at other approaches to this and I haven't thought of anything better. You can simulate a spreadsheet with a locked field with the lines showing, but I wanted users to be able to easily and instantly click on any cell and edit the info there. That feature is mandatory. Another approach would be to only show 5 or 10 columns of the spreadsheet, and have the user view the assignments that way, using the page metaphor (this page has 10 columns, turn the page, the next page has 10 columns, etc.) The data could then be stored on separate cards, or in a separate stack, or in a text file, or even right there in the fields, but then the user has to page through their gradebook. I really wanted to stick to the idea of being able to see and scroll through a whole quarter in one scrollable field. Other gradebooks can do it and it is expected. Like I said, the prototype is working fine under OS X. I have launched it under Classic, and it runs fine there, too, but I can't tell how much RAM it's using until I try it out on an actual OS 9 Mac. If MetaCard had a spreadsheet object, I'd just use that. But using a field to pretend it's a spreadsheet is not the same because you can't interact with it in the exact same way. This prototype is working fine, but I wanted to know if there were theoretical maximums I was ignoring... -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Open or ask file, or other?
I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the file browser on their default OS. In this case I'm talking about the Mac OSX OS. I'd like a dialog box to open which allows them to click a file and select ok etc. Problem is I can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they pick a name and location to save a file. I briefly thought of the Open command but you need to know the path for that. I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file on their own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing off this otherwise great weekend. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Open or ask file, or other?
Simon Lord wrote: I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the file browser on their default OS. In this case I'm talking about the Mac OSX OS. I'd like a dialog box to open which allows them to click a file and select ok etc. Problem is I can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they pick a name and location to save a file. I briefly thought of the Open command but you need to know the path for that. I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file on their own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing off this otherwise great weekend. answer file Select a file: -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Open or ask file, or other?
Hehe, yeah that's the one. Simon On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Lord wrote: I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the file browser on their default OS. In this case I'm talking about the Mac OSX OS. I'd like a dialog box to open which allows them to click a file and select ok etc. Problem is I can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they pick a name and location to save a file. I briefly thought of the Open command but you need to know the path for that. I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file on their own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing off this otherwise great weekend. answer file Select a file: -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any Database on Any Site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
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 SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
