Re: OT: Page generation Do it locally or put the burden on the Web

2001-08-15 Thread Nelson Zink
Sivakatirswami , > I can move the source text and templates to the web server and convert my > local metacard button script to a .mt script and then let the web server > build the page each time someone hits on it. I did much the same thing at http://www.navaching.com to serve up new daily Haiku

Serial number generator

2001-08-15 Thread debdoot das
Howdy, Is there a simple example of serial number generation algorithm someplace. Something that can be used for serial number registration purposes. Thanks, Debdoot Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please s

Re: Digest metacard.v004.n423

2001-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > >> With multi-column fields, am I the only one who'd like to have a > gridColor >> property so the grid lines can be drawn in a color other than the >> hiliteColor? > > > No, I'd like to have that as well. It doesn't make sense to attach the > grid l

RE: Digest metacard.v004.n423

2001-08-15 Thread Ken Ray
Richard Gaskin wrote: > With multi-column fields, am I the only one who'd like to have a gridColor > property so the grid lines can be drawn in a color other than the > hiliteColor? No, I'd like to have that as well. It doesn't make sense to attach the grid lines to the hiliteColor.

Link Colors - resettable?

2001-08-15 Thread Ken Ray
Scott Raney wrote: > Not sure what your reservations about group text (now called "link" > style) are, but it really is the better way to do this kind of thing > because you don't have to change the text and you have your choice of > having a visual indicator (an underline) or not. In 2.4 y

Running stacks on a web server

2001-08-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
Intrigued by the possibility, dropped casually in an earlier thread, that a .mt script could "invoke handlers" on a stack that resided in the same cgi-bin... wondering if this is really as simple as it sounds ( I could just test this, but for newbie lurkers it could be useful to see the dialogue):

Edited Group Styled Text Woes

2001-08-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, I am trying to change my personal information stack over to MC and since the clicktext default word delimiter function will not return a dash-connected-string I am trying to see if I can work with the group style property...but as mentioned earlier, there are caveats in editing the text. e.g

OT: Page generation Do it locally

2001-08-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
on 8/14/01 11:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott said: use a crontab to build the lesson once a day, for that day (wish I could, but have no access to that level of the server and sysadmin help is not part of the hosting package) or use wait or send in...sounds doable, (

Invoke Unix functions from Inside .mt scripts? How?

2001-08-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
I am wondering how to invoke some of Unix's shorter functions from inside .mt script that we would run on a web server.. e.g. to insert the date into a web page one can put this Server Side Include in the html text: but there will instances where I would rather now have such comments in the c

Re: double mouseDown messages

2001-08-15 Thread Leston Drake
At 12:06 AM 8/15/2001, you wrote: >Leston Drake wrote/ schreef: > > > Does anyone know how to turn this off (without setting ListBehavior to > false)? > > Or ideas for trapping the second one? >flushEvents() ? Good idea, Sjoerd. I tried flushEvents() without success. Here's what I ended up wit

Re: OT: Page generation Do it locally

2001-08-15 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
| --- MESSAGE metacard.v004.n426.3 --- | | From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: Re: OT: Page generation Do it locally or ... | Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:16:51 -0600 (MDT) | | OR | | 3) have the server generate it, but only once per day. There are |severa

Re: Interconnecting Metacard apps via sockets...

2001-08-15 Thread David Bovill
> From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Interconnecting Metacard apps via sockets... > > At 10:04 PM +0100 8/14/01, David Bovill wrote: I am looking for a way to interconnect apps running on the same machine (on any platform), and thinking of using sockets. I will be p

Re: Interconnecting Metacard apps via sockets...

2001-08-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 10:04 PM +0100 8/14/01, David Bovill wrote: >>> I am looking for a way to interconnect apps running on the same machine (on >>> any platform), and thinking of using sockets. I will be programming the >>> basic modules in MC, but want to leave the door open for modules to be coded >>> in other l

print question..

2001-08-15 Thread Alex Shaw
hi, slight print problem.. Is it better to use the print command within the printed stack? I had a stack print a card page from itself ok but when I needed to layout a page on another stack & print it from the first, the whole computer system freezes or crashes. The application has been test

print question.. pt.2

2001-08-15 Thread Alex Shaw
hi, it addition... using MC2.4b4, havent tested with older version because I use the QT visual effects for other parts. thanks again alex Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL P

Talking to your self via sockets...

2001-08-15 Thread David Bovill
Second go at this one -:( Given that a user is online - anyone know if it is possible/the pitfalls of using sockets for Inter Application Communication (IAC) or just plain inter stack communication? Hope I'm not talking to myself here! Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runre