It just can only get better!

2003-01-29 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Xavier Bury wrote: >I've seen HyperTalk in French (or was it >applescripts) and it really sucked and made >everything >much more confusing and hard to maintain. Latin >languages are not as nice for programming I guess. So even in Europe it's true: English and Computers. Maybe that's the real e

Re: The Case of the Vanishing Cursor

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Kiltinen wrote: > Has anyone experienced a problem of the cursor disappearing while MetaCard > is running? > > I have a MetaCard stack that does some ridculously long computations. It > takes a field of text with tens of thousands of lines, each consisting of > about 30 characters, and gene

The Case of the Vanishing Cursor

2003-01-29 Thread John Kiltinen
Has anyone experienced a problem of the cursor disappearing while MetaCard is running? I have a MetaCard stack that does some ridculously long computations. It takes a field of text with tens of thousands of lines, each consisting of about 30 characters, and generates from each line several new l

Re: That find command

2003-01-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/29/03 1:37 PM, John Vokey wrote: All, I'm baffled. I know other commands, such as offset, are faster and more useful, but I was trying to use the metacard (2.4.3, Mac OS X 10.2.3) find command and discovered that for some reason it doesn't work, or at least I can't get it to work. I f

That find command

2003-01-29 Thread John Vokey
All, I'm baffled. I know other commands, such as offset, are faster and more useful, but I was trying to use the metacard (2.4.3, Mac OS X 10.2.3) find command and discovered that for some reason it doesn't work, or at least I can't get it to work. I finally stripped it down to a simple st

Re: repeated find commands

2003-01-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/29/03 11:14 AM, Scott Allen wrote: if I search for "bravo" first, it will be able to find "charlie" on the next iteration of the loop but not "alpha". It is like it is doing a "find again" rather than a "find" in the way that many word-processors work but without wrapping around to the b

Re: cgi scripting and MetaCard

2003-01-29 Thread andu
--On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:18:34 -0800 RCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I just thought I would post this in the hopes that someone has already worked this out: I need to respond to a device that has a simple server (a network appliance). The server needs to be 'fed' cgi respon

cgi scripting and MetaCard

2003-01-29 Thread RCS
Hello, I just thought I would post this in the hopes that someone has already worked this out: I need to respond to a device that has a simple server (a network appliance). The server needs to be 'fed' cgi responses (i.e. GET or POST), and I have 'analyzed' the device that I am trying to emulat

Re: Older Metacard Versions

2003-01-29 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Alejandro Tejada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > A ftp link works better for me. > > Thanks a lot! > > Alejandro > Hi Alejandro, The ftp-address to get the stuffed Starter-Kit version of Metacard 2.2 "Meta22.sit" is "ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub/uni-kassel/Zentraler.Medie

repeated find commands

2003-01-29 Thread Scott Allen
Hi all, I'm trying to use the "find" command within a loop to repeatedly find pieces of text in a card field. The problem I'm having is that the second and subsequent times the find command is implemented, it will only find the text it is seeking if the text occurs _after_ the text it found la

call up browser or email

2003-01-29 Thread kweto
Hello,   Is the ability to call up the user's default browser or email client a built-in function in MC2.3? The help pages mention "get url..." but that didn't do the trick.   What I'd like is to allow users to simply click a button (or on a text-based link) in order to visit the support-web

Re: dontWrap

2003-01-29 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
| | | | Just set the dontWrap of the field to "true". | | | Actually as it turns out, that works, but I did have to set it to false. Not sure what I did wrong before, possibly not saving the stack before testing. ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: newbie question, wrapping text

2003-01-29 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
Hi Jose, Ok, many thanks. Sadhu | Hi Sadhu, | | I understand you want to pad the text to a fixed lenght (in fld 1 or in a | variable) to a fld 2. Try this: | | local thetext, counterr, tam | on mouseup | put 0 into counterr | put 80 into tam | | repeat for each char x in fld 1 | ad

couldn't create cards, fixed

2003-01-29 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
| | Resource mover adds some stacks to your main stack and depending of what | resources you move (libURL) a little script. My impression is that when you | can create a new cd successfully you use the correct defaultStack(), | otherwise not. If the stack is locked then you get an error. | Copy

RE: It just can only get better!

2003-01-29 Thread xbury . cs
> -Original Message- > From: Alejandro Tejada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 29 January 2003 10:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: It just can only get better! > > > Xavier Bury wrote: > > >Been there, done that! I used to ask for beer! > >But never met > >that kind soul th

Re: It just can only get better!

2003-01-29 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Xavier Bury wrote: >Been there, done that! I used to ask for beer! >But never met >that kind soul that could refresh my palate! I'm not sure if Mail services accept to carry flammable liquids... ;) >> In the future, maybe we can make a tutorial about >> customizing this editor, klaus tool and t