Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem

2000-09-09 Thread Ernst Michael Reicher
Hi, if I understood the problem of this discussion it´s how to make it possible to open a stack as a user or as the developer... in hyperCard there are userLevels on the highest userLevel was the developer so if it was no standalone the developer could easy type "set userLevel to" - was it 6? I c

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-08 Thread David Bovill
> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:36:04 -0600 (MDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem. > >> >> How about a property for the stack, which would allow y

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-08 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote/ schreef: > Um, Scott...when you double-click an AppleScript it does open it. ;-) As you say here yourself, that depends on how you saved it ;;-) > Since you bring up AppleScript, why not use its solution? AppleScript files > are either editable or executable: if executa

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Dave Cragg
At 10:36 AM -0600 9/7/00, Scott Raney wrote: >> > How about adding a preference setting to MC, allowing the user to set >> > whether the development environment launches or not? >> >> How about a property for the stack, which would allow you the developer to >> determine how the stack behaved, re

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/7/00 9:36 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How about a property for the stack, which would allow you the developer to >> determine how the stack behaved, regardless of the machine it was opened on? > > Sounds good to me. Anyone else? What's the default? How about a preferen

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote: > on 9/6/00 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > OK, for you Mac users, how about each time you try to run an > > AppleScript it instead brings up the Script Editor? Wouldn't be very > > convenient, would it? > > But this is exactly the

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/6/00 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, for you Mac users, how about each time you try to run an > AppleScript it instead brings up the Script Editor? Wouldn't be very > convenient, would it? But this is exactly the way it works. You can save an AppleScript in two ways,

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote/ schreef: > Um, Scott...when you double-click an AppleScript it does open it. ;-) As you say here yourself, that depends on how you saved it ;;-) > Since you bring up AppleScript, why not use its solution? AppleScript files > are either editable or executable: if executa

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread David Bovill
This seems exactly right - it's not an either or issue. There are times when each strategy achieves the result that the author intended. > > Since you bring up AppleScript, why not use its solution? AppleScript files > are either editable or executable: if executable, opening one launches it, >

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-07 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:52 PM -0700 9/6/2000, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, for you Mac users, how about each time you try to run an >AppleScript it instead brings up the Script Editor? Wouldn't be very >convenient, would it? Um, Scott...when you double-click an AppleScript it does open it. ;-) Sinc

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, andu wrote: > >Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > > > >> This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > >> applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > >> over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > >> appli

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread andu
>Are you going to sit at your WWW server console 24x7 so that every >time a CGI program runs it won't start up the development >environment?) That's a good idea - it will shrink the unemployment to -10;-) > Regards, >Scott > Regards, Andu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ar

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread andu
> >Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > >> This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or >> applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places >> over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them >> applications, whereas people with a less techn

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote: > Lot's of philosophy here, which seems to go with everyone's previous user > experience and background... > > But cutting through this there is a practical problem. If (as I do) you are > interested in distributing information, to people in a number of se

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
Lot's of philosophy here, which seems to go with everyone's previous user experience and background... But cutting through this there is a practical problem. If (as I do) you are interested in distributing information, to people in a number of separate stacks you want them to be able to open any

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > > > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > > appl

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > Scott Raney wrote: > > > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > > app

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
Scott Raney wrote: > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > applications, whereas people with a less technical background tend

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Raney wrote: > This really gets back to the issue of "are stacks documents or > applications?" debate that has come up several times in various places > over the years. My UNIX and CS background causes me to consider them > applications, whereas people with a less technical backg

Re: Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote: > I want to be able to launch a stack directly from the file system, but with > all the usual features of the development environment. I've filled in the > Menubar field in the Stack Properties" dialog and copied the following > script from the home stack:

Avoiding home... script limit problem.

2000-09-06 Thread David Bovill
I want to be able to launch a stack directly from the file system, but with all the usual features of the development environment. I've filled in the Menubar field in the Stack Properties" dialog and copied the following script from the home stack: send "preOpenStack" to card 1 of stack "Me