Re: New Portal Key

2000-08-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
Blair wrote: > Thanks to Sivakatirswami for posting the first example that I have seen of a > web-based MetaCard interface. Downloading the "portal" app took less than a > nanonsecond...and downloading content was very fast. Way cool! I can't take any credit. The model exists (ed?) right in the

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Reynolds
michael, I would have done the same if i had not just dived in and tried to make my own application first. i have had very bad luck with tutorials for the very reasons you outlined with metacard. stick with mc, if you need to create powerful apps, you can with mc. you can do anything and more

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread andu
> >Dear list > >Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a >competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of >Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and >offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard experience I would quickly w

Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread Michael J. Lew
Dear list Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard experience I would quickly write off M

Re: HowToPost?

2000-08-06 Thread andu
> >I would like to post several fields of data from metacard to a web >server other than mhttpd (I'm using Xitami on Win98 for testing, but I >assume Apache would be the same.) The docs say -- post *expression* to >url *url* I need help filling in the exact syntax for *expression* for >multiple

HowToPost?

2000-08-06 Thread mikekann
I would like to post several fields of data from metacard to a web server other than mhttpd (I'm using Xitami on Win98 for testing, but I assume Apache would be the same.) The docs say -- post *expression* to url *url* I need help filling in the exact syntax for *expression* for multiple fields o

Re: Help with handler "stripAllTags"...

2000-08-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
I haven't tried this in MetaCard, but you might try put "<[^>]*>" into someReg That translates to a <, any number of anything but >, and a > gc Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <

Help with handler "stripAllTags"...

2000-08-06 Thread David Bovill
Apology if I posted this mesage already (I think I lost it): function stripAllTags taggedText put "<.*>" into someReg put replaceText(taggedText, someReg, "") into straightText put "(<.*>)" into someReg local foundSomething if matchText(someHTML, someReg, foundSomething) is true then