>OK now that we are learning to write preferences files. . . how to test for
>their existence?
>
>exists url "file://mcPrefs/proxyPrefs.txt"
Try
put the directory & "/mcPrefs/proxyPrefs.txt" into tPrefsPath
put there is a file tPrefsPath
>
>returns an error message even though the file is ther
OK now that we are learning to write preferences files. . . how to test for
their existence?
exists url "file://mcPrefs/proxyPrefs.txt"
returns an error message even though the file is there.
Of course one can try to simply get the data (prefs saved in an engine level
folder)
on mouseUp
put
on 7/24/00 2:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a Mac, you should be writing preference files to the "Preferences"
> folder in the system folder. You may need to use an external command to
> have a bullet-proof method of getting the name of the system folder,
> because hard
>Peter Reid at wrote:
>
>> He clearly believes that MetaCard is a powerful tool somewhat let
>> down by its current user interface in two respects - a) the interface
>> presented to the developer, and b) its lack of complete adherence to
>> Mac U-I guidelines.
The interface presented to the dev
Peter Reid at wrote:
> He clearly believes that MetaCard is a powerful tool somewhat let
> down by its current user interface in two respects - a) the interface
> presented to the developer, and b) its lack of complete adherence to
> Mac U-I guidelines.
A $10k facelift to MC would save more than
on 7/23/00 8:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't understand how the above can work: don't you need a "/" before the
> "proxyPrefs.txt"?
Yes you are right. . ."/proxyPrefs.txt" is needed.
>> on mouseUp
>> put the directory & "/data/proxyPrefs.txt" into tPath
>> put tPath
On 25/7/00 12:31 am, Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (BTW, I did briefly mention Revolution, after checking public
>> disclosure dates with Kevin from CrossWorlds, in a sidebar in a
>> recent authoring tool review. The times they are a-changin'!)
>
>
> I now stand back and await the re
Sivakatirswami wrote:
> on mouseUp
> put the directory & "proxyPrefs.txt" into tPath
> put tPath into msg
> put "204.148.111.2" & ":"& "8080" into url ("file:"&tPath)
> end mouseUp
>
> The above works
It shouldn't. The url should be ("file://" & tPath) - note the double
slashes.
But even
>Just thought that list members (and maybe Kevin Miller, particularly) might
>like to know that in a marginal note within a review of Katabounga, under
>"Authoring alternatives", MacUser (do you get that in the US?) said:
>
>"(Director blah blah, Supercard blah blah, RealBASIC blah...Alternatively
>Just thought that list members (and maybe Kevin Miller, particularly) might
>like to know that in a marginal note within a review of Katabounga, under
>"Authoring alternatives", MacUser (do you get that in the US?) said:
>"(Director blah blah, Supercard blah blah, RealBASIC blah...Alternati
Just thought that list members (and maybe Kevin Miller, particularly) might
like to know that in a marginal note within a review of Katabounga, under
"Authoring alternatives", MacUser (do you get that in the US?) said:
"(Director blah blah, Supercard blah blah, RealBASIC blah...Alternatively,
David Bovill wrote:
>
> Thanks Jacqueline, I missed this in the docs...
Don't feel bad -- I had to search for a long time just to find the quote
in order to post it. It is buried in the Concepts stack. I knew I'd seen
it somewhere, but couldn't recall where. It took me a while to finally
locate
Thanks Jacqueline, I missed this in the docs... So it seems the position of
the card script in the hierarchy depends on how the card script is called. I
guess this is how it needs to be, if not conceptually a little confusing.
I'll check it out.
> From: Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What is the trick to working with binary data in MetaCard?
It's easy enough to open a binary file and read in the data and then open
another binary file for write to write out the data but how do you
manipulate the data once you've read it in?
Let's say I want to bitAnd every byte with 254 or
Wow...this is news to me. Couldn't this kind of information be included in
the help file? I poked around with MC as a helper app some time ago but gave
up as I couldn't get it configured properly. Could someone (Kevin or Scott)
please provide a response to Nicolas's question below.
I hate to so
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