XS Script Editor 1.1.3 Release

Hi all, New release of my Script editor 1.1.3 is released. http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 If you already installed a previous version, make sure you click "delete instead of rename" in the "options" to remove the old version... Next releases will include - a

Re: metacard positioning of objects when window resizes

--On Wednesday, December 04, 2002 17:09:17 +1300 Rodney Tamblyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm coming back to Metacard programming after spending some time recently in Project Builder and Interface Builder on some other projects. In Interface Builder when you create an object (button, field et

metacard positioning of objects when window resizes

I'm coming back to Metacard programming after spending some time recently in Project Builder and Interface Builder on some other projects. In Interface Builder when you create an object (button, field etc) one of the properties you can set controls how the position of that object is dynamical

RE: Metacard beginner question

John, There are some subtle differences between MC and RR. You can of course change the .rev to .mc and some will work...but others won't. There are some custom commands and libraries in RR that don't exist in MC, and I suppose the reverse is true as well. If it doesn't seem to work in MC, contact

Re: Metacard beginner question

On 3 Dec 2002 at 21:42, andu wrote: > > And in case you don't know, this revolution thing where all these > links point you to, is metacard in disguise so the stacks are > compatible. > Hi Andu, Thanks, I figured they were, do I simply change the extension from .REV to .MC to get them to work in

Re: Metacard beginner question

--On Tuesday, December 03, 2002 15:34:25 -0800 Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JDMST wrote: I'm wondering if there are stacks available for download that I can use to examine and to get ideas from... ie.. learn how they all work? Does this make sense? Here are a few repositories:

Re: Metacard beginner question

JDMST wrote: > I'm wondering if there are stacks available for download that I can use to > examine and to > get ideas from... ie.. learn how they all work? Does this make sense? Here are a few repositories:

Metacard beginner question

Hello everyone, I'm wondering if there are stacks available for download that I can use to examine and to get ideas from... ie.. learn how they all work? Does this make sense? Thanks, John ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev

Refreshing text fields

I noticed the following - presumably related - problems with fields - After RTF-text import: If the default text size of the field is smaller than the imported rtf-text, the upper part of the rtf-text in the first line will be hidden underneath the upper border of the field. - If you set the im

Re: Valentina

--On Wednesday, December 04, 2002 09:51:52 +1300 Rodney Tamblyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been considering using Valentina database (http://www.paradigmasoft.com/files/vxcmd.html) for a Metacard project going to start work on shortly. Has anyone on the list had experience using this prod

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Simple. Write the milliseconds into the file. Then, when the app launches, > grab the milliseconds as its "launch date". When it goes to look in the > folder, it will read in the "leftover" file, but because the milliseconds in > the leftover is *earlier* than the launch

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

I was addressing how to deal with crashed files vs. not crashed files using polling for a single application, not for using polling as a communication medium between two apps. So in this case, the "second instance" is really not a second running instance of the same application, but a relaunching o

Re: Valentina

on 12/3/02 10:51 PM, Rodney Tamblyn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been considering using Valentina database > (http://www.paradigmasoft.com/files/vxcmd.html) for a Metacard project > going to start work on shortly. Has anyone on the list had experience > using this product with Metacard? Wo

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

Simple. Write the milliseconds into the file. Then, when the app launches, grab the milliseconds as its "launch date". When it goes to look in the folder, it will read in the "leftover" file, but because the milliseconds in the leftover is *earlier* than the launch date, it is ignored. It will only

Valentina

I've been considering using Valentina database (http://www.paradigmasoft.com/files/vxcmd.html) for a Metacard project going to start work on shortly. Has anyone on the list had experience using this product with Metacard? Would be interested in your comments, either privately or to the list.

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

> I've avoided this technique simply because I've never been able to figure > how to account for a crashed process and a leftover file. If your app > crashes (rare, I know) and your temporary file is still present, how do you > distinguish between "current" file versus a leftover? Simple. Write t

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

Recently, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: >> I think this in general is an under-appreciated and under-explored >> approach. I have seen this used as IPC in a mixed Windows & Linux >> environment using SAMBA. You might want to see if directory polling is >> faster. And watch out for the file being in

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

Dar Scott wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> By directory polling, do you mean checking the existence of a file >> rather >> than its contents? That's the approach I took, much faster than always >> accessing the file. > > Cool! I would guess that

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: By directory polling, do you mean checking the existence of a file rather than its contents? That's the approach I took, much faster than always accessing the file. Cool! I would guess that would avoid locking problems, too. (

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, with MC, polling can be clean and very easy to implement via the > "send" command. At the beginning of your program you "send" a message that > will execute in 1 second. Set up a handler for that message to do the poll > and at the end of that routine issue a

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

Dar Scott wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> I appreciate the feedback, but I wound up polling a file for now. > > I think this in general is an under-appreciated and under-explored > approach. I have seen this used as IPC in a mixed Windows & Linu

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I appreciate the feedback, but I wound up polling a file for now. I think this in general is an under-appreciated and under-explored approach. I have seen this used as IPC in a mixed Windows & Linux environment using SAMBA. Y

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

> One question remains unanswered: Why the stigma against polling? I mean, > of course it's suboptimal compared to event-driven mechanisms like Apple > events, but in the absence of a supported event mechanism is polling really > so very bad? > Polling isn't necessarily so bad. I have to thin

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as communicating between processes I have used Win32 named pipes. > Reading and writing are very similar if not identical to reading/writing a > file. I had to write a DLL that calls the Win32 API routines that open, > close, read and write to the pipe but it wor

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

Richard, See below ...snip... > In the first of my two apps, I have an index of documents which can be opend > by clicking them in an index window. The second app serves a different > purpose, but from time to time needs to launch documents belonging to the > first app. > > In the worst case,

Re: launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I generally like using sockets, but I tend to reserve their use for apps in which I have reason to believe the system is set up for networking. In this case, the app is very consumer-oriented, and may be running on a machine that

Re: To-be-saved changes are not saved - and another bad bug

> I hope this will be fixed in the next release. Weird! In fact, there is a handler which deals with the stackname (doSaveAs): (MC MenuBar) = function MCfixpath shortname local sname put tolower(shortname) & ".mc" into sname repeat with c = 1 to the length of sname if char c of sna

Re: Metacard Apache and Windows 2000

--On Monday, December 02, 2002 11:04:25 -0500 "Peter J. Bower, M.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Andu, I think I have generated every error code possible trying to get the cmc.exe to work on the apache 2.0.43 win 2000 server. By any chance do you have a copy of the config file you used to

Re: To-be-saved changes are not saved - and another bad bug

>> Here is an instance of really bad behavior of MetaCard, and I wonder >> whether anyone knows a solution. >> >> (1) I close a stack script. > > This is your problem, I think, you close the script editor from the close > box in the title bar. You should close the script editor from the OK button

Re: One last quick fix for X's Script Editor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > MetaCard can be customized all over... But you better know what you do if > you mess with the MCTools stack. Best is to rename the original substacks > and create your own copies... > > As far as the changes you ask about, all are true but I'd recomment you > build them