Hi,
I don't know if this is of interest to anybody, but I found an XFCN that
allows contact with HTTPS servers. It uses OpenSSL to ecncrypt/decrypt,
and even supports receiving/sending cookies (by way of headers).
Would this be of any interest to MetaCard either? I know I've been
wondering abou
Hi,
I'm running MetaCard 2.3.1 under Mac OS X DP4 right now (under Classic
Envionment). It's neat to see how well Classic works, since MetaCard runs
great under it. I know a version has been announced for OS X, but I have a
couple questions:
I'm trying to write a GUI-based installer, which basi
Leston Drake wrote:
>
> > Leston, why do you need to know where the app was installed?
> > Applications should be path-independent: the user should be able to
> > rename not only the disk it is on, but the folders and even the
> > application itself without breaking anything. This isn't Windows y
Herve Chaudet asked:
> Is it desirable to handle each "idiosyncrasy" of
> the diverse OS.
Speaking as a user rather than a developer, I'd say "Yes". At least if
you expect to charge commercial software rates for your software. If you
want to give it away for free, I'm inclined to be more generou
Hugh Senior wrote:
>
> >> The main drawback about using mc as a database is the lack of built-in
> >> simultaneous concurrent users and save-on-idle.
>
> >It's probably no difficult to lock/unlock the needed record, before
> >replacing it with the new datas stored in a time-based temp var/file.
On 6/22/00 11:54 AM, Craig Spooner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Using such a method to establish your own baseline will not only give you
>> more accurate results, but will also save Scott Raney the many anticipated
>> headaches trying to figure out how to obtain consistent processor info
>> ac
>On 6/22/00 7:34 AM, Craig Spooner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?
>>
>> I've used the name of the CPU to as a rough measure of the speed of
>> the machine. If the function returns the slowest of the PowerPC
>> processors -- "601" for e
>> The main drawback about using mc as a database is the lack of built-in
>> simultaneous concurrent users and save-on-idle.
>It's probably no difficult to lock/unlock the needed record, before
>replacing it with the new datas stored in a time-based temp var/file.
Huh? You mean drive the conte
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> On 6/22/00 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I tried your suggestion but it appears that if you click on the backdrop no
> > key presses are processed even by the backscript. As long as you have
> > clicked on some stack/
On 6/22/00 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I tried your suggestion but it appears that if you click on the backdrop no
> key presses are processed even by the backscript. As long as you have
> clicked on some stack/window then the key press is handled by the
> backscript
> > Is it possible to set up a hot-key that is available regardless of which
> > window is active or even if no window is active (all windows hidden)?
My
> > app communicates with another computer via RS-232 and sometimes there is
no
> > active window displayed (only the backdrop showing) during t
On 6/22/00 7:34 AM, Craig Spooner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?
>
> I've used the name of the CPU to as a rough measure of the speed of
> the machine. If the function returns the slowest of the PowerPC
> processors -- "601" for example -
> > The processor() function seems to return "Motorola PowerPC" on all
>> machines of that architecture. So, it would seem to be analagous to
>> the 'sysa' (system architecture) gestalt selector rather than the
>> 'cput' (CPU type) selector. For my purposes, the system architecture
>> is no
>On 22 Jun 2000, at 14:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Leston, why do you need to know where the app was installed?
>> Applications should be path-independent: the user should be able to
>> rename not only the disk it is on, but the folders and even the
>> application itself without breaking anyth
On 6/22/00 8:04 AM, Karl Becker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oh, that gets me wondering... does MetaCard have any way to do
> separate preferences files for multiple users in OS 9 (and then, I'm
> sure, OS X) ? Being able to support multiple users would be quite a
> boon to people with MC appli
>Karl Becker wrote:
>
>> In fact, just storing the preferences in the same directory as the
>> stack itself helps a lot... moving the program from one computer to
>> the next is a lot easier, and you don't have to futz with a separate
>> Registry on Windows and making a text file on Mac... jus
On 22 Jun 2000, at 14:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Leston, why do you need to know where the app was installed?
> Applications should be path-independent: the user should be able to
> rename not only the disk it is on, but the folders and even the
> application itself without breaking anything. T
Hugh Senior wrote:
>
> >On the other hand, if your data will fit in memory, then MetaCard is a
> >great way to store it, database or not. I don't have experience of stacks
> >larger than about 1000 cards, but I have used MetaCard on blocks of data
> >as large as a few megabytes (30,000 lines in a
Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> On 6/19/00 2:14 PM, Pierre Sahores at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > To get a good speed in parsing a MC database of 25 000 records for 6.2
> > Mo of datas, i store the datas in a texte file loaded
> > by the preopenstack script at once, as two vars (datas - 4.2 Mo and
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