Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
>Our thanks for your continued patience during this process, and for >the curious, I'll post a note with the complete dump on what happened >and why as soon as the transfer to the new service is complete. > >See you on the other side ;-) > Regards, > Scott May your transition be smooth, Scott! I recently had a glitch with my internet provider, and THANK MY STARS big time that my websites were not hosted with them, but elsewhere. Internet providers and web hosts can surely bring a software business to its knees. As I've had happen several times already. You release a program, it sells like hotcakes, you go over the bandwidth limit, and they shut you down without even an email. You don't know til days later when you go surfing your own site for some reason or check your traffic logs and they are suddenly ZERO. They have so many reason for shutting you down without warning... my last webhost had an overall bandwidth problem, so they shut down all the free sites temporarily. I moved to Pair.com after that (about 3 weeks ago) and hopefully this will be a good move. I've heard good things about them from many shareware authors. I had one internet provider go belly up without warning, packed their boxes and took off with everybody's money. Been a rough ride. May this one be the one for you, Scott :-) -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
At 9:08 PM -0800 3/16/2002, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> This release uses a new Perl-compatible regular expression library. >> This library includes new support for Perl pattern characters and >> non-greedy matches. > >What's this do? How would we use Perl in our scripts? Can anyone give an >example of when this feature would be handy? "Perl-compatible" just means the regular expressions now work the same way as regular expressions work in Perl (so you can e.g. check out typical Perl examples and they should match the same things), not that you can use Perl itself in scripts. What is means basically is that - regular expressions are now more powerful with more options - you'll be able to use regular expression patterns from other languages with more confidence that they'll work the same way - the list will never again have to scratch its head for weeks over how to devise a regular expression that matches "all the text between '<' and '>'" without grabbing all the text from the first '<' in the string to the last '>' instead ;-) -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
"J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > >From the new Read Me file: > > > This release uses a new Perl-compatible regular expression library. > > This library includes new support for Perl pattern characters and > > non-greedy matches. > > What's this do? How would we use Perl in our scripts? Can anyone give an > example of when this feature would be handy? I'm pretty sure this refers to improvements in handling pattern matches in matchText() kind of functions which is great. Examples are a must nevertheless. A while ago I had an exchange with Scott on a slightly related matter and was wondering what others think: Andu wrote: > > the mouseText is smart enough to not count quotes, [, (, etc. > > between words but if I say "repeat for each word i in tText", "i" includes "any" >chunk > > without a space in it including comma. > > Is this fixed in 2.4.2? ... and Scott answered: > > No, because it's not a bug. It's just the way "word" chunks have > always worked. I guess the only thing this points up is that "the > mouseWord" would have to work the same way as word chunks, if there > was such a function... ... to which Andu replied: Why isn't mouseText() using the same definition of "word", then? "the mouseText is among the words of X" can give the right or wrong answer depending on which definition you consider, the one given for what the mouseText() should return or the one given to the "word" chunk. Since both forms have their uses I suggest some cross breeding like "effective word(s)" for what the mouseText returns and as you suggested, mouseWord() for tab/space separated chunks. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > ___ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
>From the new Read Me file: > This release uses a new Perl-compatible regular expression library. > This library includes new support for Perl pattern characters and > non-greedy matches. What's this do? How would we use Perl in our scripts? Can anyone give an example of when this feature would be handy? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
Scott Rossi wrote: > Excuse me while I do cartwheels down the hallway. You don't have to. Now that we've got "angle" you can have images do cartwheels down the hallway instead. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3 is now available in the directory > ftp://209.120.179.218/MetaCard/2.4.2/ > > See the file ftp://209.120.179.218/MetaCard/2.4.2/README.2.4.2 for the > list of new features. Excuse me while I do cartwheels down the hallway. Thanks MC guys. You rule... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3
MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 3 is now available in the directory ftp://209.120.179.218/MetaCard/2.4.2/ See the file ftp://209.120.179.218/MetaCard/2.4.2/README.2.4.2 for the list of new features. This release only includes engines and tools stacks. You must have a previous release installed on your system, then just back up those two files from your existing installation and replace them with the corresponding files from this one. That IP address will become ftp.metacard.com (and www.metacard.com) as soon as the DNS records get updated and the old ones expire. This process will be complete for most people within a few days, but it may take up to 2 weeks for all the vestiges of the old DNS records to get purged from all the various caches. In the mean time, if email to metacard.com bounces or you're not sure has been delivered, wait a few days and resend, or send it directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our thanks for your continued patience during this process, and for the curious, I'll post a note with the complete dump on what happened and why as soon as the transfer to the new service is complete. See you on the other side ;-) Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
