Re: Dumb sort question
This might be a dumb response, but if you are generating the data, can you generate it in a transposed form? a,b,c,d 1,2,3,4 a,1 b,2 c,3 d,4 -ml On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 04:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dumb sort question But how can I sort a variable featuring 4 lines with several hundreds of items in each, so that (for instance) items of line 4 are sorted numeric ascending, and (that's important) items of other lines being moved according to the new position of each item of line 4 ? Mark Luetzelschwab (512) 232 9477 (v) Database Coordinator (512) 232 2322 (f) Texas Ctr for Reading and Language Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Testing on multiple platforms
Dang, Glen, you beat me to it - One Mac OS X box with Connectix Virtual PC can give you: OS X OS 9.2.2 Win 95,98,ME,2000, and I think XP, if you are brave. I have 95 98SE, and 2000 on mine and all run well. I've found the virtual machines to be somewhat sluggish, but capable and comparable to owning hardware for testing purposes. That being said - we keep a few old macs around for other OS - partitioned to boot into various flavors of OS 8. Plus its really cool to give a demo to anti-mac people of your software and to be able to push a button to show them the windows side of things... -ml From: Yates, Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Testing on multiple platforms Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:56:23 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It does not matter which OS I have. My testing will always be on that one specifically. Unless you have 5 or 10 computers, you CANNOT test on all OS's. A Window's developer would need at least 4 to test on the various flavours of Windows. Minimum. Or one copy of Connectix's Virtual PC. :-) -Glen Yates --__--__-- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard End of metacard Digest -- Mark Luetzelschwab(512) 232 9477 (v) Database Coordinator(512) 232 2322 (f) Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #377 - 9 msgs
Hi Guys, Im porting a rather large neural network (NN) program written in C++ to Metacard to do some stats... Im looking for tips regarding porting variable redirection (pointers and pointers to pointers) and c-style struct variables. The key to porting these is speed as NN require speed and ease of scripting as MC is all about that! Why not write an external? You'll be much happier with the speed - and you already have the hard part done. NN code is going to be pokey in MC compared to C++ - you can still do the hard part (the GUI) the easy way in MC. -ml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Menubar revisited
Shari - this is a common problem for people who skip the auto-configure when setting up a mac. I have one last thing to try. And quite a few bugs to squish that aren't going to be easy ones. Apparently the script to go to an URL fails on some. Printing too. Error: Did not work to go to website---had to force quit, then it asked me if I was set up for internet access. Was connected via DSL. Check for the existence of a file something like Internet Addn Prefs (look in the prefs folder - double check the name, I'm working from memory). If its there, all is fine. If its not, the finder brings up a dialog in the background *but does not notify you or switch to the finder*. This is the hanging that you are experiencing. So.. 1. Check for the file 2. If its not there on 9.x, then a. Warn the user (They MUST click ok, or all fails) b. Activate the Finder (using appleevents) c. Hope that they click ok. It might not be necessary - try using the open location instead - it should work on 9 - and may bypass this. Good luck -ml -- She's testing on system 9.x. Another fella with 9.x succeeded with no troubles. on goURL global tURL if tUrl is empty then exit goURL end if if tURL contains @ then put mailto:; before tURL if (the platform) is MacOS then get the systemversion set the itemdel to . if item 1 of it = 10 then # OS X put open location quote tURL quote into s do s as AppleScript else # MacOS send tUrl to program Finder with GURLGURL end if else if (the platform) is Win32 then set the hideConsoleWindows to true put empty into theTitle if NT is in the systemVersion then set the shellCommand to cmd.exe put quote quote into theTitle end if get shell(start theTitle tURL) # local intApp # local EXE_off # put queryRegistry(hkey_local_machine\software\classes\http\shell\open\command\) into intApp # if char 1 of intApp is quote then clear char 1 of intApp # strip leading quote # put offset(EXE,intApp) into EXE_off # put char 1 to (EXE_off+2) of intApp into intApp # launch tURL with intApp end if put empty into tUrl set the itemDel to comma end goURL -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.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: Fun With ImageData, MaskData and AlphaData
Title: Re: Fun With ImageData, MaskData and AlphaData Ken, Thanks for sharing these functions about imageData, etcthey were always in the arena of when I might have some time...but now they are quite within my grasp! Two items: 1. The order that you had in your example for making the 50% transparent blue image: repeat with i = 1 to 400 put binaryEncode(,255,0,0,0) after iData put binaryEncode(C,128) after aData end repeat did not work for me on my Mac, using 2.3.2 I had to switch the order: repeat with i = 1 to 400 put binaryEncode(,0,0,0,255) after iData put binaryEncode(C,128) after aData end repeat 2. Just for fun - I added a red-to-blue gradient..you can add to your page if you so desire! (this is for a 16 x 16 image - will require some more calculations for other images) repeat with i = 1 to 256 put binaryEncode(,0,min(i,255),0,max(255,255-i)) after iData put binaryEncode(C,128) after aData end repeat Thanks again - your work is most appreciated! -ml -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for (v) (512) 232 9477 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org
Applescript and MacOS 8.1
Anyone know if send tAddress to program Finder with GURLGURL OR put tell application quote Finderquote to open file quotefilePath quote into tScript send tScript to program Finder with sysodsct will work with Mac OS 8.1? I have a user that can't do either of these, though Applescript is enabled. Both were supported in Applescript v1, so is this probably just a bum installation of applescript? Thanks. -ml -- Mark Luetzelschwab Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Interarchy for PC?
Thanks Andu, Chipp, Michael, I'm really not sure what a radio lan is..I asked for more clarification on that point to see if it was the actual company or just a wireless ethernet. Chipp, I'd be interested in chasing down that satellite issue - we can talk off list about it. I'm going to try a standard wireless ethernet connection some point next week to make sure that those work (can't really see why not). Andu - I'm still looking...www.atomiclog.com looks promising..does this ring a bell? Thanks again..I'll post if I find anything. -ml Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:50:24 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mark Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interarchy for PC? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 call of the MC program is to download a web page into memory. This call fails, but the user can view the same page using a web browser. Is there a tool like Interarchy for the PC that I could have this person use to monitor the difference between the browser's request and MC's request? Or, does anyone know how a radio lan might be affecting this? Thanks. -ml -- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Interarchy for PC?
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 call of the MC program is to download a web page into memory. This call fails, but the user can view the same page using a web browser. Is there a tool like Interarchy for the PC that I could have this person use to monitor the difference between the browser's request and MC's request? Or, does anyone know how a radio lan might be affecting this? Thanks. -ml -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 9477 *new* Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Launching Acrobat twice
Hi Ken, (and others) This is the end result - it seems to work quite well on 2000 and 98. Quite a bit simpler than using query registry, etc. Works for any kind of file *that is properly associated with an application*. I still have to add the error handling in case I get an error from the shell script. Both mac and PC code are here - the mac uses AppleScript function system_OpenFile filePath if there is a file filePath then switch the platform case Win32 # hide the console window so you don't get the flashing black box set the hideConsoleWindows to true # important - strip the quotes, or the shell wont deal with it replace quote with empty in filePath # make the path a DOS path (ah, the wonders of windows) # then make a start filename shell script # funny thing is, shell doesn't seem to mind the / instead of the \ put startshortFilePath(filePath) into sCommand put shell(sCommand) into sError break case MacOS # convert the MC file path to a mac path replace / with : in filePath if char 1 of filePath is : then delete char 1 of filePath # tell the finder to open it. put tell application quote Finderquote to open file quotefilePath quote into tScript send tScript to program Finder with sysodsct put the result into sError break end switch else put error_file_not_found into sError end if return sError end system_OpenFile Mark, How are you launching Acrobat? You mentioned the registry, but can you post the code? Thanks, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 9477 *new* Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Launching Acrobat twice
Hi Everyone, I have a need to launch multiple files in Acrobat 5 in Windows - at the user's request. Launching the first one works great. (using the registry, etc. to get the proper path etc.) Launching the second one either does nothing (XP) or crashes Acrobat (98). How is this supposed to be done? In other applications that I have done in MC, I just killed off Acrobat (or word, or whatever) and relaunched it. This is not an option in this project. Any ideas? Thanks. -ml -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 9477 *new* Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: metacard for CGI
Andu wrote: -the main disadvantage you see in using metatalk/rev for CGI scripting *besides some difficulty with debugging* As someone who took a look at MC and decided to go with ASP..here are some things that I would really miss if I went back to MC (in the order of importance). Everything that I mention can (is) be done using cmc.exe - but its a pain. 1. Request.Form / Request.QueryString These allow me to grab the form data by name and any items in the query string. No parsing necessary. Possible Syntax: http://www.metacard.com?userid=10101 Request_QueryString(user_id) would return 10101 Similarly, if you posted the data instead of putting it in the URL.. Request_Form(user_id) would return 10101 If these got separated far, far away from the read from stdin, you could write a debugger far, far easier by simply simulating the input and output. 2. Server Variables Is it a POST, GET, who from.. Possible Syntax: Request_ServerVariables(REQUEST_METHOD) 3. Session Variables Not really necessary if MC is acting as a server to other MC clients, but very necessary for any kind of web applications that have more than one page -- using hidden form elements is the other option, but a pain. Session variables stay alive between pages - but are only available to the person who started the session. Possible Syntax: Session_Set(variable_name,10101) put Session_Get(variable_name) would return 10101 4. ODBC Sure, MC can be a decent database - but its really nice to be able to do the database connections. All I really need is a connection, a way to execute queries, and a table of the outputs. Simple enough ;) 4. XML support, though I'm still whacking away at an xml_lib, so that might be a non-issue. Hope this helps. -ml -- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: tabbed button question
Turn on the sharedHilite property of the tabbed button. You can set the menuHistory to an integer to select the tab set the menuHistory of button my_tab to 2 selects the second tab (and will go to that card). If you want to dress up the tabs, you can get the same behavior with radio buttons in a group, with the added advantage that you can set the icon/hilitedIcon of the radio buttons to some images..it hides the OS radio button and just displays the image. -ml From: Rodney Tamblyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tabbed button question Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:02:16 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you get the tab hilight to be shared when a tabbed button is placed in a stack background on multiple cards? Experiment: Make a tabbed button with three tabs Add a script: on menuPick what go card what end menuPick Put into a stack background and place on three cards named the same as the tabs. When you click on the tabs you will jump to the named cards. The hilighed tab of the button will show whatever tab was last hilighted on this card (rather than the name of the card being displayed) ie the hilighted/selected tab is not shared... Is there a syntax to select a tab of a tabbed button programmatically? Something along the lines of: select tab/line whatever of button button ? Rodney -- -- Rodney Tamblyn Educational Media group Higher Education Development Centre, 75 Union Place University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362 http://hedc.otago.ac.nz ~ http://rodney.weblogs.com --- END metacard.v004.n473 --- -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
FTP uploads
tried out the FTP uploads...had some trouble.. on mouseUp put url file:///Macintosh HD/Desktop Folder/Movie Browser/web/index.html \ into url ftp://myuser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/d.txt; put the result end mouseUp it tried to STOR it as /d.txt..permission was denied STOR /d.t Using Fetch, it called: STOR d.txt and it was ok. Is there any way around this? This same problem did NOT appear on another ftp server (the second one spit back a long path /Library/Web Server/ etc...) and I was able to use MC to ftp to it. However, upload a large quicktime movie, then download using Fetch, the movie was corrupted. (the movie is flattened, etc, so binary transfer should have been ok). Any ideas? Also, how do you check the status of an ftp upload? Urlstatus does not return expected results. Thanks! -ml -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: More Quicktime problems
I've run into a very similar thing when I switched to 2.4 and was messing with it over the weekend. I have found a workaround which seems to work ok, but I will still report this as a bug. The problem, I think, comes when the player checks its own size...and it returns the size - the controller height...so when it sets the rect of the new movie (I am assuming that you are swapping movies into one player)...it sets it to the smaller size. Repeated calls shrinks it by 16 or so pixels each time until you have a lot of very short, fat people in your movie :) So, a couple of things to try: 1. Do not call show player if the player is visible. It will cause the player to walk down the screen. If lockLocation is on, this will also shrink it. If this doesnt work, try.. 2. Set locklocation to false, and set the fileName of the movie to empty when you are done with it...and before you set the fileName to something else. This seems to alleviate most size reporting bugs. BUT, it can cause flashing. -ml Ken Ray a Ècrit: Did you set the lockLocationi of the player object to true? I tried both options (true false), among many other things (like setting the filename of the player, as well as its height width every time I want to start it), but problem remains... BTW I forgot to mention that problem occurs not only with .mov files, but also with .swf... Thanks. JB -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 6034 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Stepping through a Quicktime Movie
Am I missing something obvious? How can you step through a quicktime movie, frame by frame (NextInterestingTime-no audio) IF THE FRAME RATE is NOT Constant. Is there a step command that I am missing? All I really want is the total number of frames in a movie. Thanks! -ml -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Urgent MC QUestions
QUESTION 1 : At the some point, the app will need to launch the default browser to open an HTML file located on one of the local volumes (CD-ROM or HD). -- Make the url file:// instead of http:// to open a local file. This will actually launch plug-ins and helper apps, too. Not sure about the other two. Good luck. -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 6034 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Update Events?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Update Events? Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:44:28 EDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, the real problem is that the mac lib wants to crash whenever I give it a GWorld instead of an ordinary window. Maybe I'm missing something... Anyhow, I actually got a pointer to the window in a more round-about way: I used the pixMapID of the stack and looped through the window list, looking for it's owner. Not sure how I missed the windowID property, but now I know it! Did you try making an ordinary window and moving it offscreen (set the globalrect to -500,0,0,500) or using an invisible window? The first one should work better... -ml -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 6034 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: libURL-use in other stack/security
From: Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 3) How does one go about implementing progress bars and feedback from the libURL handlers? Do we need to go in and add code ourselves? Seems like that kind of tampering by a novice could be dangerous, ...so, does libURL send messages that we can trap for? and if so, what are they? Basically all I want is something really simple...OK, your FTP upload worked. Done. or Sorry, problem, your FTP upload didn't work Downloads are transparent...either you see the data/file you tried to fetch or not... but uploads are mysterious without feedback. I do this with load url by repeatedly (every 0.2 seconds or so) sending a message to my stack to check the urlStatus and then converting the loading x,y to a number, which then sets the scroll of a progressbar. I am not sure if there is a parallel for urlStatus() for FTP, but I'm going to have to find out for myself pretty soon. -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Center for(v) (512) 232 6034 Reading and Language Arts (f) (512) 232 2322 http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: sockets
From: Rodney Tamblyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sockets Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:08:59 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have been having fun working with sockets in Metacard, and in general everything seems to work fine. Some socket questions: When using sockets to read and write I have been using the following approach: write the length of the packet on a line followed by the data, at receiving end read for one line, then read for the supplied number of characters. What approaches do others use? You can also read without specifying a for condition, a specified handler will be called when data arrives. Are there any advantages/disadvantages of one approach over the other? read from socket s with message newData is probably the best way...it threads the socket reading, so your program doesn't come to a halt. You just need to handle the newData message (or whatever you want to call it) which has the data and the socket. You should wrap your communications in something (i use reply/reply so you know when you have all of your data (i.e. if its a bunch of data, you might get a couple of messages with only part of the info). As far as leaving them open, I tried leaving them open for short bursts...something like Computer 1 Computer 2 Request Process Request Send OK or more data if OK, close socket if data, process and send back ok or data and continue until one says OK. Unless you are doing something high-speed like online gaming, I think that its smarter to close sockets...but I could be wrong at that.. Hope this helps! -ml In general, if you have two stacks that are going to have an ongoing series of communications going backwards and forwards, is it better to leave the socket open, or always close the socket after each communication. I've assumed the latter. Presumably there is a limit on the number of sockets MC can have open? When MC has an open socket, does it periodically attempt to verify whether the remote party is still present? Any other comments or tips from people who are experienced using sockets in Metacard would be appreciated. Rodney -- -- Rodney Tamblyn Educational Media group Higher Education Development Centre, 75 Union Place University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362 http://hedc.otago.ac.nz ~ http://rodney.weblogs.com -- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Family Behaviour for A Group of Buttons
Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Everyone, I've created a group of three rectangular buttons that I would like to have behave like a family of grouped radio buttons, that is, only one can be hilighted at a time. How can I do that? The three buttons will be used in a navigator panel with each button taking the user to a different card. When the target card opens, I want the button (named after the card) hilighted as a location reminder. If you are using regular buttons, use the scripts others have sent, if you are using custom icons, you can group a bunch of radio buttons, set the icons (hilite/not), and be sure to set the sharedHilite of each radio button to true (not doing this creates some really interesting behavior!). When you do this, the radio button itself will not be shown, but the icons will. This is how I have a custom navigation panel on my stackworks quite well. script is something to the effect of (in the group) on mouseUp go card (the short name of the target) end mouseUp -ml Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: XML everything
The reasons that I am planning on adding better XML formattings for my applications are (these may or not be directly applicable to your situation, but it may help to see other's reasoning) 1. Everything I work on will be integrated with the internet at some level. Knowing that most server platforms have some support for XML parsing, I know that if I have to communicate with something other than an MC server, the parsing code should be relatively simple on the other platform. My goal is to have all communications between mc client and mc server stacks to be in XML so I can jump servers quickly if necessary. 2. Backup files are easy to create, easy to parse, and...sometimes more important..easy to read (human reading :). I.E. I have a database of references...these are all stored in XML...XML files can be read by Internet Explorer 5 as a hierarchical tree...makes it easy to poke through a backup file. 3. Data sets that have varied (loose) formats and embedded structure are easier to deal with.. i.e. things like main_idea There are three points:listliPoint 1/liliPoint 2/liliPoint 3/li/list/main_idea Something like that is difficult to deal with with simple key structures Like others who have posted, the processing is done in other formats (i.e. arrays,etc) that are native to MC...but, this is really the case for all systems (i.e. try multiplying two XML elements together without first converting them to numbers). In your specific case, your structure is quite similar to XML, and if it doesn't need to be shared with other apps, then you really have no reason to change over (and there is quite a bit of code that makes reading key structures easy). Well..other than you could impress fellow party-goers that you are using XML ;) -ml Using XML for the lesson content probably makes good sense. But the program also has to output various student data such as test results, lesson progress, etc. Currently, this is done in typical key/value style. E.g.: [GENERAL] userid=123 lastname=Cragg firstname=Dave [TEST_RESULTS] recenttestdate=2001,4,1 recenttestscore=0 etc. Should I change this to use XML? Right now, I can't see any good reason to, so I probably won't. But I think I'm likely to face the question, "Why aren't you using XML for this?" My answer right now is a shrug of the shoulders. So what do you think? Should I change it to XML or not? Cheers Dave Cragg Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Urgent Request: Selecting Tabs
Hi All, (v 2.3.2, Mac Windows) How do you select tabs on a tabbed button from somewhere else? set the effective label of button "card_tabs" to "whatever" set the label of ...etc. does not work. I have to have this working by tomorrow...I can send a click to the appropriate location (this works) but this is a hack. Thanks! Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
XML functions
Hi All, Before I take a crack at writing XML-like functions in MC, what has everyone else been doing? Does anyone have a library to share? -ml Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Ultimate MetaCard Server Platform?
If you could pick any server for MetaCard-based server application, what would you pick and why? (I am putting together a budget proposal) 1. For CGI handling (i.e. processing of simple forms) 2. For handling MetaCard client requests (not http, some 'custom' protocol) Other requirements: 1. Run Apache 2. Easy to set up and maintain (I know enough Unix to be dangerous, but not enough to fix that which I screw up) 3. More or less, out of the box solution. 4. 80,000 requests per minute Right now I use a MacOSX server for non-metacard stuff...but am unsure of the future of mc on OSX server. I assume that it will come out once the OSX (desktop) and the new OSX server interface are out (May?), but am hesitant to gamble on vaporware (OSX) Thanks! -ml Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
POST and ASP and others...
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 ASP and
some other web servers (HTML/OS) that accept a POST command.
This example works for ASP..by modifying the httpHeaders just ever so
slightly. The addition is:
set the httpHeaders to "Content-type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded"return
make a field with the name "Earl" and put the url into it (i.e.
http://localhost/default.asp)
make a field with the name "data" and put some text in there (i.e. hi )
make a button and put the following script.
on mouseUp
set the httpHeaders to "Content-type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded"return
# The trailing return is the key...without it, this spits back all
sorts of errors.
put field "Earl" into mURL
put "myText="field data into tText
post tText to URL mURL
put it
end mouseUp
The ASP file (i.e. http://localhost/default.asp)
should have:
% Language=VBScript %
html
head/head
body
%
Response.Write Request.Form("myText")
%
/body
/html
The html, head and body tags arent really necessary.
It should just spit back what you put in the data field.
-ml
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Re: Digest metacard.v004.n225
From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuff deleted For CBT developers this would be great as it allows for total control over the text and other elements in a stack (just like a browser there is only 1 repository). If you shipped a CD ROM and decided to change a graphic then you'd be toasted. If you change an element on the server then all stacks running around the globe get the update the moment the stack calls it. Not necessarily *toasted* with the CD implementation..you just need to keep track of it. In my case, I have to reach teachers in *all* parts of Texas (i.e. where a phone line is a luxury :), I am putting all of the media on a CD, *but*..the system logs in to a server and gets *updates*. The updates are either stored locally (user choice, downloaded in the background) or I just store a link. Then, each time that I am about to load a resource, I check to see if the image/stack/movie/external object has been updated, and if the update is local or remote. If it is remote, then I grab it from the server. Of course, if we update *everything*, then I'm doing what you are doing, only slower :) I'm telling you, MetaCard will really make it easy for us to deploy anywhere and still control our content. You can do this now but you really need to build a finely tuned script to keep track of all the resources being copied to the disk (you may want the user to cache or actually store a copy as they run through your stack - depends on the content, such as large movies (why download more than once in a session)). Tracking is kind of a pain, but not technically difficult. Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Digest metacard.v004.n226
From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: image url one-liner? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 23:09:24 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know we can put text into a field from a remote URL in one line: put url "http://www.fourthworld.com/index.html" into fld 1 but is there a one-liner for setting the source file for an image object? Try: put url "http://www.lsw.com/videopoint/splash4.jpg" into image 1 Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Grey Printing?
Though this would qualify as a hack, it might solve the problem. Try putting an all white graphic or image in the background My guess is that the print GWorld is erased before the background color is set, or pulls the background color from some other stack. If you put an all white image on the card, it will draw that AFTER the erase (using a foreground color) and should blank it out fine. No promises...its just a guess. -ml --- MESSAGE metacard.v004.n215.4 --- From: Peter Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grey Printing? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:06:23 + MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I have a sub-stack which I'm using for printing purposes. If I display a card on the screen everything looks fine, with a white background. However, if I then use Print Card, I get a mid-grey background behind the card contents when printed?! --- Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: Group Owner
ThanksI looked and this computer was running b4. Works great, now! -ml I had this problem, and there have been a few emails back and forth about this about 2 months back. As far as I remember Scott fixed/altered this in 2.3.2 so that the owner returns the long id rather than the name. I think this is the case now... What version are you using? Otherwise there are some workarounds like defining your own function "myowner" and getting the function to return the long id of the target and then calling this function from your groups... From: Mark Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:09:07 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Group Owner Hi Everyone, Quick Question: I have two groups (custom scrollbars) that have the same name as each other on one card Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Group Owner
Hi Everyone, Quick Question: I have two groups (custom scrollbars) that have the same name as each other on one card Each group has a graphic which needs to access customProperties of the parent (owner) group. If I get the OWNER of the graphic, I get the name...any operations on that affect only the first group with that name. Can I get the OWNER ID (and no, "put the id of the owner of me" does not work..it returns the same value for both groups). The workaround is to remove the NAME of the group...and the owner returns the correct id. But I have to reference the group by name at some point, so its only a temporary solution. Thanks. -ml Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Sockets Made Easy .. sort of
Since I have been mucking around with sockets (as others on this list have), I decided to make a simple stack that acted as both a client and a server and could send any data between the two. My current plan is to make it a stack that can act as a library so I can use it at either end and make updates to it without messing with the rest of my stacks. In its current form, it lets you send data up to the stack acting as a server, send a simple command to request data from the server, and to send a file to the server. (remember, its the same stack, just running on two machines...and you hit "start server" on one). The conversation between the two continues until the client or server says "OK"...so the server can send error messages or whatever back to the client. Feel free to use it, take it apart, make it better (lots of room).it should be a pretty good intro for someone who is just learning sockets, but also useful for someone who doesnt want to learn too much about them (and just wants to move small blocks of data between stacks). I'll post the library stack once I figure it out for my purposes. Detailed instructions are on the page...but in summary...open it on two computers, click on start server on one, type the IP of the server into the client, then send some data! Download from: http://www.tenet.edu/teks/language_arts/testsite/downloads/mc/mc.html Let me know what you think. Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Research Assistant (v) (512) 232 6034 Instructional Technology(f) (512) 232 2322 Reading and Language Arts: http://www.texasreading.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
