Re: EOF?

2000-09-18 Thread LiangTyan Fui
eading and writing to files is (except in a few special cases) >>> generally easiest done with the URL commands. E.g.: >>> >>> put url ("binfile:"&tSourceFile) into tVariable >> >> Let me give this a try and see what happens. > > This is

Re: Reading and writing Mac 'STR ' resources

2000-09-08 Thread LiangTyan Fui
o that. You may try XCMD/XFCN on: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frederic.rinaldi/ Regards, LiangTyan Fui > tereza > > > . . ... . ACT AGAINST ENTROPY! . ... . . > > > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/

Re: key events

2000-08-18 Thread LiangTyan Fui
y use "keyup", but "pass keyup" should be the last line in your case: on keyUp checkThisField -- the checking handler pass keyUp -- so that the field is updated # nothing here will be executed? end keyUp Hope this helps. Regards, LiangTyan Fui > I would like to perform so

open and seek

2000-08-17 Thread LiangTyan Fui
- or just my illusion? I know the unix/linux users enjoy the shell command with this, but... Regards, LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread LiangTyan Fui
e pestering me away" (pardon my language) - but I soon realised I don't need the user interface at all! Until today, I don't deal with MC user interface much - and I still haven't figured out how to do a pull-down menu ;-) MC has been excellence on inheriting my HyperCard CGI pro

Re: the Time on Macs

2000-07-23 Thread LiangTyan Fui
On 23/7/00 2:05 PM, martin reed wrote: > I have a question relating to "the time" on a Mac: > > Recently, I found, using MetaCard 2.3.1, if you launch MetaCard and type > "answer the time", it displays the time properly. However, if, while > MetaCard is running, you put the computer to sleep for

Re: IBM to Mac question

2000-07-18 Thread LiangTyan Fui
; in Extension - select MetaCard application from the application list - set file type to "MSTK" - close the window and try to re-transfer your file from PC to Mac again. Hope this helps. Regards, LiangTyan Fui > Jim Wall Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/

Re: Emailing an attachment

2000-07-16 Thread LiangTyan Fui
;theAttachment" is not empty then >>> put fld "theAttachment" into theAttachmentName >> >> Try >> put url "binfile:" & theAttachmentName into theattachment >> put crlf & "Content-Type: application/base64; name=" &

MetaCard call AppleScript

2000-07-08 Thread LiangTyan Fui
sible? Regards, LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: opening PDF file on Mac

2000-05-10 Thread LiangTyan Fui
ersonal favourite: launch "thedoc.pdf" with "theapp" (look into the help stack for more info) Regards, LiangTyan Fui > Kevin posted this code to launch the web browser and open a doc: > send "http://www.whatever.com/" to program "Finder" with "GURL

Re: phrasing a repeat conditional

2000-04-23 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> Hello. > > Appended to the end of a global variable there'll be 1 or more blank, > cr-delimited lines. I want to remove those blank lines, and thought phrasing > a repeat-loop thus would work but am worried about actually testing it out > in case I get an infinite loop: > > repeat until (the

Re: Error handling

2000-04-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
oo late, that would be a few hundreds handler to mangle with - and that is the last thing I want to do now. > Regards, > > Kevin -- LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: Error handling

2000-04-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
reading?) I though I was trying to find some answers ;-) I don't think "send" without "in time" will be queued, since the execution will only continue after completion of "send" command. But I may be wrong. Regards, LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archi

Re: Error handling

2000-04-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
>> Here is the question in short: how do I disable the Execution Error dialog >> entirely? >> ... >> >> The script is for illustration purpose, the send command actually sending >> "doSomething" to other object in the same stack. >> >

Error handling

2000-04-13 Thread LiangTyan Fui
omething" to other object in the same stack. Clue anyone? Regards, LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: Opening MC files without creator type

2000-04-04 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> Aloha, > > I downloaded all kinds of stacks from contributors, to "tear apart" and > study. . . mcmail.mc and many others. . .they arrived on my MAC with no icon > and I cannot open them in MC. . .what do we need to do? Open in RESEDIT and > assign a type? but then this is not "an easier way. .

Re: Help! 2.3 on MacOS

2000-04-04 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> For all you Mac experts: > > I'm trying to install Metacard 2.3 onto my Mac. Here's what I did: > 1. Unstuffed the MacOS.sit file on my PC You shouldn't un-stuff the file in PC. The Mac specific resources will be lost. Un-stuff it in Mac. > 2. Copied the files onto my Zip disk > 3. Put the Zi

Re: Practical example of POST cmd wanted

2000-03-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
to send anything to web server (not encoded), and WebSTAR web server from Mac is capable to receive anything from POST. Most browser - however, encode the form to the above format before send. Hope this helps. Regards, LiangTyan Fui Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Inf

Re: Sending E-mail from MC?

2000-03-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> 95/98/NT (2000?) system, do I need to know the details of actual > e-mail/browser packages or can I send a general mail protocol message > that ill use whatever e-mail system is supported? Try this stack: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/mcmail.mc Drop me a line if you have problem usi

Re: MetaCard 2.3 beta 3

1999-12-15 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> The third and final scheduled beta-test release of MetaCard 2.3 is now > available in the directory ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.3/ > This is primarily a bug fix release over beta 2, but a few new > features have been added. See the README for details. Hmm... the FTP server seems down.

Re: MetaCard as a Mac CGI

1999-11-03 Thread LiangTyan Fui
pleEvent class, eventID, sender --v1.1 98/08/02 # handle only WebSTAR events if class & eventID <> "WWW‡sdoc" then pass appleEvent put 0 into errnum try # call other functions here reply "got it!" catch errnum reply "error on performing request: "& errnum end try end appleEvent -- LiangTyan Fui

Re: POP Server and MetaCard

1999-10-20 Thread LiangTyan Fui
>> I need to process incoming email with my own scripts: ideally with >> Metacard. Does anyone have any information on preferably free POP mail >> servers for Mac/UNIX which I could extend using MetaCard CGI's? >> >> Or is anyone planning on writing/getting involved in writing a basic POP >> ser

Re: ODBC Integration

1999-10-18 Thread LiangTyan Fui
>> I'd like to use Metacard as as Front-End and Analysis Tool for ODBC > compliant databases. >> >> Has anyone else any experience of this ? > > Experience with this among MetaCard users is pretty scarce as far as I > know. The same comment went to our VB + ODBC development. I read somewhere in

metacard list search site

1999-09-14 Thread LiangTyan Fui
i have just completed a searchable metacard/hypercard mail archives. http://xipworld.com/ all are invited to test it out. thanks.

Re: sending email with MC

1999-09-12 Thread LiangTyan Fui
>>Does anyone know what the syntax is for sending text (e.g., the contents >>of a field, or a text file) via email using MC? >> >>TIA >> >> >>-- >>Leston Drake >>LetterPress Software, Inc. >>http://www.lpsoftware.com >>-- > > I posted a sampl

Re: Squirming Specimen

1999-08-15 Thread LiangTyan Fui
> But I personally really dislike both SuperEdit and PE because > there's just way too long of a lag between when I make a change and > when I can test it. agreed. if you edit script or choosing other tools on hypercard, the application suspended. it has already annoyed me for the last few years.