Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Pierre Sahores wrote: > > > So ! MC as far so fast than Pascal ! Is'nt it great ? And, thanks again > > to Scott, for that too ! > > It's enough to make a Java programmer cry. ;) Java ? Help me to remember... Are you speaking, Richard, in about this dead marketed toy t

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Shari wrote: > I even ran tests using the various lookAndFeel options, which are > supposed to emulate the other platforms, are they not? In appearance only, and there's no way to see OS X-native appearances on other platforms (nor, I suspect, wil there be one for XP-native appearances should MC

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pierre Sahores wrote: > So ! MC as far so fast than Pascal ! Is'nt it great ? And, thanks again > to Scott, for that too ! It's enough to make a Java programmer cry. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any database on any site

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: > > Om Sadhunathan: > > Excellent! i had been thinking that we should probably save access logs from our >servers in honolulu, but then parsing those was a blind spot. This will help >immensely. > > Now, do i read this to say that there were 17,338 attempts to l

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Om Sadhunathan: Excellent! i had been thinking that we should probably save access logs from our servers in honolulu, but then parsing those was a blind spot. This will help immensely. Now, do i read this to say that there were 17,338 attempts to look at Mystic Mouse PDF's ? and if so, over what

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
1. If you can't or don't want to test/troubleshoot your work on a platform why bother to publish possibly broken apps for that platform. They are tested on the other platforms before release. That's how I found out about the Metacard menu in the first place, though she did not tell me in time

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/9/02 8:45 PM, Shari wrote: Does OSX match Windows now, in needing filename extensions? I'm guessing not, as my beta testers had no trouble accessing the program and associated files. But I wonder... is it moving in that direction? It isn't moving, it is a done deal. Extensions are requ

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Ken Ray
Actually, Shari, the answer for right now is "sort of". OS X hides the ".app" extension for applications, and can optionally hide the extensions of other files. It basically straddles the fence by using "old" type and creator codes to map docs to apps,in addition to the ability to map extensions to

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
Ken, Thank you for the detailed answer. That was very very helpful. Shari -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
Calling AppPath on my standalone returns: /Users/kenray/Desktop/Test.app/ I notice that you used ".app" Does OSX match Windows now, in needing filename extensions? I'm guessing not, as my beta testers had no trouble accessing the program and associated files. But I wonder... is it moving i

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: > So that is 1:53 for bash, 2:04 for pascal, and 2:19 for MC. darn good! But golly, I thought an "interpreted" language like MetaTalk was supposed to be slow, certainly much slower than compiled Pascal. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Develope

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
Wow, Just logged on to work and saw all the great responses. Thanks all, what fun. Anyway I will respond to each later and try your code too. I have to run right now, appointment. I did however have some code from Andu via Swami that I modifed somewhat and got enormous speed improvement. Her

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread andu
--On Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:12:20 -0500 Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hate changing computers, and OS's. Change breaks things. One of my favorite games broke with the last change. I still miss that game. Civilization from Microprose. I have Civ II, but it just ain't as fun. I

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Ken Ray
Shari, Under OS X in a standalone, if you ask for "the filename of this stack", you will get a path that points all the way into the Contents folder of the bundle to the MetaCard engine. For example, if I have a standalone called "Test" that is on my desktop, asking for the fileName returns: /U

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
And since you've waited this long to jump on the X bandwagon (smart move, IMHO), you can draw on the experience of those who've already worked through these issues here on this list. I'm usually the last hold out :-) I hate changing computers, and OS's. Change breaks things. One of my favorit

Re: Windows icons

2002-11-09 Thread Ray Horsley
on 11/8/02 1:47 PM, Shari at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend a Mac program to create icons that Metacard will > recognize for Windows? > > Some have said use GraphicConvertor, others have said it doesn't work. > > What programs have you used successfully for this? Get a program

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
In my experience, it is unfortunately necessary to thoroughly test your program in the three environments (native MacOs8 or 9, Classic under OsX and Osx). Differences exists in : - menus (specially the first one, as you experiment) - program icons - information in the finder "Informatio

Re: Metacard menu?

2002-11-09 Thread Shari
I haven't tried it, but it seems to me that an OS X application bundle should just look like a regular folder in OS 9. If that's true, then it seems like you could just open the appropriate subfolder and edit the plist in SimpleText. Can anybody point me to the name of the subfolder, the name o

Re: re, Giant files

2002-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sadhunathan Nadesan a écrit : > > | Try something alike : > | > | > on mouseup > | > put "1" into startread > | > open file thefile for read > | > read from file thefile until eof > | > put the num of lines of it in endtoread > | > close file thefile > | > repeat while startread < endtoread > | >

Re: the large file challenge

2002-11-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sadhunathan Nadesan a écrit : > > | Try something alike : > | > | > on mouseup > | > put "1" into startread > | > open file thefile for read > | > read from file thefile until eof > | > put the num of lines of it in endtoread > | > close file thefile > | > repeat while startread < endtoread > | >