Re: MetaCard Spreadsheet/Gradebook
Hello, Thank you for offering your Gradebook on the mc list. A couple of problems, both relating to the Windows version. The "Windows" link on the website seems broken. A "Multiple Choices" window popped up instead, suggesting I download http://www.linkitonline.com/LinkIt!%204.0.exe Downloaded that version, but could not get it to open. Seems to be a self-extracting archive, but WinZip couldn't open it. And apologies for posting this on-list, but couldn't see the original posters email address. Cheers. --- Nicolas Cueto | - Kinjo Gakuin University | ".. You may know KungFu, - Nagoya Keizai University | but I know sendmail! .." Takakura Jr/Sr High | - ETJ-Aichi, Sys Admin | http://kweto.com --- ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002N0306ú 01:25:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MetaCard Spreadsheet/Gradebook Dear Fellow Scripters,I've just finished a Beta release of the Gradebook section of LinkIt!Software. I mentioned this project a few weeks ago when there was muchaccolade welcoming MetaCard 2.4.2's improvements in using fields as grids tosimulate a table. I had over a dozen responses from my note, veryencouraging, thank you, so I thought I'd announce; you can download it atLinkItOnline.Com for either Mac or Windows.It's the first real spreadsheet-like interface I've seen in a MetaCardproject, and it works quite well. Current features include:Column and row selectionVertical and horizontal scrolling (first column locked)Column and row selectionContiguous and non-contiguous cell selectionStore comments behind cells and column headingsCut, copy and pasting cells (includes text styles and comments)Set text style, and color for individual cellsSet color for grid lines and bordersSet text, font, size and line height for overall tableAdd/delete/insert columns and rowsNo practical limit on number of rows and columns per gradebookNo practical limit on number of grading terms per fileColumns, gradebooks, and terms are easily renamedAdjust column width by dragging double arrow cursorSelect all button in top left cornerSaving gradebook is a tiny compressed file of user data onlySave user data to or fetch it from a web siteSorting by any columnMove columns and rows manually with arrow keysPassword protectionPrinting of main spread sheet (gradebook) and student reportsHide/Show columnsUser data is automatically savedPlease don't hesitate to give me any feedback on this project if you'reinterested.Thanks!Ray HorsleyDeveloper, LinkIt! Software___metacard mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard. IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: Strategies for two-byte char systems
> Doesn't sound like it'll do what I need, which is to display Japanese > characters and to convert them to HTML. I know for sure that on the stack itself Japanese characters are displayable -- assuming, of course, a Japanese-capable OS with Japanese font(s). But MC itself, for example in the property windows for font-selection or a text-field, will display characters as "goobledegook". And editing Japanese text thru a stack is possible but a mess ... hence mine and some others' past request that MC support two-byte chars, but which unfortunately is not at the top of the feature request list... :-( About converting to HTML, I guess it would work, but I don't really know. BTW, this topic's been raised before, and IMO was covered well by Dave Cragg. Search the archives for his name -- or perhaps he'll answer you himself any moment now :-) Hope that helps. Cheers. Nicolas R Cueto Nagoya, Japan ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: inter-process communication
Me too... Nicolas > I'd love some more info on this > > David > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: inter-process communication > > > > Richard, > > > > FWIW, I'm not sure how cross-platform it is but I've written a DLL for the > > Win32 platform that I use to communicate between my MC app and other Win32 > > non-MC apps via "named pipes". It seems to work really well for us. I > > think there might be a similar mechanism on Unix/Linux. > > > > Larry Huisingh --- Nicolas Cueto| - Kinjo Gakuin University | ".. You may know KungFu, - Nagoya Keizai University |but I know sendmail! .." Takakura Jr/Sr High | - ETJ-Aichi, Sys Admin |http://kweto.com --- --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2002/02/10 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit
Andu wrote back: > > on startup > > if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then > >put $REMOTE_ADDRESS into userAddress > > This should be $REMOTE_ADDR not $REMOTE_ADDRESS, my mistake and Apache's > inconsistency Thanks Andu. The following also works and was inspired by the echo.mt script: -- repeat for each item i in the globals if i = "$REMOTE_ADDR" or i = "$REMOTE_ADDRESS" then put value(i) into userAddress end if end repeat - As all can see, yes, the actual name is $REMOTE_ADDR and, yes, I'm on Apache. Hope this may be of use to someone else in future. Cheers. --- Nicolas Cueto| - Kinjo Gakuin University | ".. You may know KungFu, - Nagoya Keizai University |but I know sendmail! .." Takakura Jr/Sr High | - ETJ-Aichi, Sys Admin |http://kweto.com --- --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 2002/01/11 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit
Andu (thankfully!) wrote: > That's right, you can keep track of the global $REMOTE_ADDRESS such as > > on startup > put $REMOTE_ADDRESS into userAddress Sorry but this didn't work. Here's the relevant portion of my script: - #!mc global userAddress on startup if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then put $REMOTE_ADDRESS into userAddress read from stdin until empty put it after buffer end if put buffer & cr & userAddres into tData put tData into url "file:results.txt" -- etc etc end startUp -- I tried re-positioning the $REMOTE_ADDRESS elsewhere in the script, but always only "buffer" gets writ onto the file (plus a cr). Any idea where I've gone amiss? Cheers. --- Nicolas Cueto| - Kinjo Gakuin University | ".. You may know KungFu, - Nagoya Keizai University |but I know sendmail! .." Takakura Jr/Sr High | - ETJ-Aichi, Sys Admin |http://kweto.com --- --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 2002/01/11 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
mc & cgi: limiting users to one visit
Hi, I've set up an online .mt-based survey. Now, I want to restrict (mischievous!) people who may want to revisit the survey in order to vote again and again. How could I script things so that .mt checks whether a person/computer has already voted? I'm guessing the solution has something to do with user url info sent in the http headers via a form during a "$REQUEST_METHOD = POST"... In the meantime, back to the MC archives... Thank you. Cheers. --- Nicolas Cueto| - Kinjo Gakuin University | ".. You may know KungFu, - Nagoya Keizai University |but I know sendmail! .." Takakura Jr/Sr High | - ETJ-Aichi, Sys Admin |http://kweto.com --- --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 2002/01/11 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
palm pilot and such
Hi, Just wondering out loud here... Is there any way of combining MC with handheld computer-devices such as palm pilot? Assuming that you can't use MC to write programs for portable devices (right? I know nothing about them), I envision some kind of webbased delivery (thru mt scripts, which I already can do). The reason I ask is that over the holidays I scripted a standalone for my brother-in-law's laptop to allow him to access and maintain a database of his customers and their purchases. I'd now like to take that a step further and allow him mobile access to the database (he's a contractor, so is at different worksites thruout the day). Thans for listening. +++ Nicolas R Cueto http://myefl.kweto.com/ http://skripts.kweto.com/ http://etjaichi.kweto.com/ EFL - Takakura Jr & Sr High (Nagoya, Japan) SysAdmin - ETJ-Aichi --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 2001/12/11 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Mac volunteers / promoting MC
Hi, The MC help states it's not possible to build Mac standalones on Windows. Anyone with a Mac care to volunteer? :-) My stacks average 13KB, but of course standalones would be over 1MB. If no one takes me up on this I understand, especially since he/she is opening themselves up to further requests from me in future ;-) BTW, the stacks are non-commercial, EFL related. In the meantime and as an alternative, I've thought of putting up a link for downloading Metacard itself. Any visually attractive ways to do this, i.e., rather than a simple text link some kind of logo, icon, etc.? I'd be more than happy to promote MC in whatever way I can, but I'm conjecturing that many people will baulk at downloading a 4MB file, let alone having to figure out installation instructions (or could installation be made painless somehow?). Thanks for listening. Nicolas R Cueto Takakura Jr & Sr High (Nagoya, Japan) http://skripts.kweto.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
