Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread xbury . cs
www.sysinternals.com is one place to find many "monitoring" command line tools. The next best place is the NT resource kits (or win98). To find those as well as mcisendstring commands, microsoft is the best place... Google is the easiest way to find them there - forget the MS search crap. Then g

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread xbury . cs
Not to sound like a specialist but I've read quite a bit on randomness theory. 1st, nothing is truely random. Calculating something truely random is of truely infinite complexity. 2nd, celular automata are just like digits in a number (or sequence of #s)  BUT consider each to be individually pi

Re: CD update...

2003-07-10 Thread xbury . cs
Shari, I once made a mac version of a CD for PC in HC. It was hell on wheels too. For the mac version we made a Mac specific session on a multisession cd. Thus the PC didn't see the mac and viceversa... on the PC you can also use an autorun.ini file to launch a beatiful installer - much less mes

RE: Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread Vikram Singh
I remember an unexpected email chat I had with Scott regarding an alphaData issue. This man is obsessed with producing a world beating product- that was (is!) always his priority. His response was typically within 24 hours, often less. For me, discovering every new feature (in an upgrade) was a

RE: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread MisterX
sorry C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared>msinfo32 'msinfo32' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. can't be retrieved from a vanilla mswin2000 but im interested if you find it... it's also an msc so maybe with vbs... but why go that f

Re: Moving the MC IDE forward

2003-07-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
Taking as a given the fact that the MetaCard development environment is much more static than the Revolution development environment, and therefore has had more of the bugs ironed out of it: Out of curiosity, what is it that the MetaCard development environment has that the Revolution environme

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:12 PM, Nelson Zink wrote: But do you have any reason to believe the processor clock and the long seconds clock are not the same? Generally no, but strictly? I suppose I do. My long seconds are being displayed to 20 magnitudes of precision (with proper numberFormat

Re: 2 upgrades are guaranteed

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
RCS wrote: > I don't think this has been discussed enough. As someone > who just paid $300 for : > > "free access to all MetaCard updates that are released or go to > beta within that 1 year period. At least 2 upgrades are guaranteed > to be released within the duration of each subscription." >

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard MacLemale wrote: > Like I said, it's a calculated gamble. RunRev is gambling that MetaCard > users will pay to upgrade MetaCard and then migrate, and they realize that > they're going to lose some folks (like me) at least temporarily, and maybe > forever, but they're willing to take that

2 upgrades are guaranteed

2003-07-10 Thread RCS
I don't think this has been discussed enough. As someone who just paid $300 for : "free access to all MetaCard updates that are released or go to beta within that 1 year period. At least 2 upgrades are guaranteed to be released within the duration of each subscription." i feel like this is bein

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Richard MacLemale
> Let's be realistic. If RunRev own the engine they can afford to wait until > you need a new Rev feature or some new feature of Panther breaks your apps. > > Monte MetaCard 2.5 runs awesome under Panther. :) Heh heh heh... I feel that the odds of me, and some other MC developers, being Rev c

Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Nelson Zink
J/, > If you're looking for a random number generator you should check out "a > new kind of science" by stephen wolfram. Wolfram's Rule 30 thing is great at producing a string of random digits, but what we need is a random seed. What we need is the finger that points out the section of Wolfram's

RE: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
Shari, dear reticents... ;) ...long long wonderful reply... Best of lucks porting your apps across cultures my friends Cheerios Xavier Xavier, Gosh I cannot wait to dig into your reply! I won't be able to do it for this CD, but never fear, as when I return in 10 days I will be doing a mass CD

CD update...

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
Shari: If you simply want to ensure the program is on a CD, a simple test is to try writing a temp file to the same directory as the program . If the result is not empty, then it's locked and thus on CD. If the result is empty, delete the temp file and report that the program will only run fro

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
MisterX wrote: >> Also, if no CD is loaded, it spits up an error dialog, another no no. > > I dont know where you saw this... I wonder, was it the net movie with > Sandra Bullock? ;)) No, XP. If you check for the existence of a file on a removable media drive with no media loaded, XP throws up

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Yennie
In this particular case, I can't argue that either proposition is at all unreasonable, but there is a simple way of looking at this: just imagine that Rev 2.1 (or 2.5, whatever the next major upgrade becomes) is "Metacard 3.0" when it comes out. Seeing as how the Metacard GUI will still be availabl

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> What I was saying was this - If Revolution transferred my MetaCard 2.5 > license, right now, to Revolution 2.0.1, for free, I would switch from > MetaCard development to Revolution development immediately and not look > back. Revolution is the future. > So you get a better IDE and a heap of ext

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Shrink2Fit
Nelson, If you're looking for a random number generator you should check out "a new kind of science" by stephen wolfram. They are using an automata to generate a map that contains extremely (he claimed completely) random sequences. This should not be a computationally intensive process and, ag

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:24 PM, Dar Scott wrote: A headache, from looking at all those digits OK, this has less digits. But this is better. The first call to long seconds or long milliseconds is thrown away on this one. It takes longer for some reason. on mouseUp set the cursor

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello Richard MacLemale and y'all, > Now, like I said... If I were to be able to trade > my 2.5 license right now for a Rev 2.0.1 license, > in an even trade, I would do it and Revolution > would have one more user. Revolution wouldn't > make any money off of me right now, but they're > not going

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: What do you folks get? A headache, from looking at all those digits OK, this has less digits. on mouseUp set the cursor to watch put "Upper bounds on time resolution (maybe 10 to 20 microseconds high):" & LF into field "Report"

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Nelson Zink wrote: My idea is this: the time it takes to run some little bit of code isn't predictable (temperature of the processor and about a zillion other factors) and changes from moment to moment, and is specific to every local machine and circumsta

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, "MisterX" wrote: > try www.sysinternals.com I tried this and got an error page "File or Page Not Found". Do you have any other resources for shell variables MC can access? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://

Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Nelson Zink
Microseconds? Now we're talkin'. OK, here's the deal: A high quality Random Number Generator (RNG) needs two things: a good seed and a clever algorithm to turn the seed into pattern-less numbers. A good seed is one that's unpredictable. And for good security RNGs, the seed often comes from some re

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #699 - 14 msgs

2003-07-10 Thread Robert Presender
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Michael wrote: I'm approaching 60, Shari. When I was in school, IBM didn't exist. You must be older than you think! IBM has been around since about 1890. Though it was incorporated as "International Business Machines" in 1911 http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/h

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, "Dar Scott" wrote: > On my OS X, I get this: > > the long seconds: 1057873624.51924 delta: 0.09 > the ticks: 63472417471 delta: 0 > the milliseconds: 1057873624527 delta: 0 > the long ticks: 63472417471.80954 delta: 0.000778 > the long milliseconds: 1057873624533.140991 delta: 0.01

checking if there's a CD (windows)

2003-07-10 Thread Shao Sean
i think it was shari who was looking for a way to check if the CD is present or not on windows.. get MCISendString("status cdaudio media present") will return TRUE if there's a CD in the drive, FALSE if no CD.. you can also eject and insert the CD tray get MCISendString("set cdaudio door ope

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 02:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try this: put the long ticks into tTicks wait 1 tick put(the long ticks - tTicks) on WINXP pro, the result is in microtick resolution But, put the long seconds into tSecs wait 1 second put(the long seconds - tSecs) gives only millis

RE: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread MisterX
Shari, dear reticents... ;) > The volumes on Windows only give the drive letters, A, B, C, etc. and > do not even tell you which drive is being used for the CD. Also, a > user prompt is a big no no for this, must be done behind the scenes. No user prompt required... dont worry... bonus at the

RE: Customising the Metacard Environment

2003-07-10 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003, Monte Goulding wrote: > > a speaker of > > Australian or Tamil English (the latter spoken around Madras) will > > probably never understand a man from Texas. > > Hello Wilhelm > > I'm Australian and have spoken to a number of Texans and understand them > perfectly well. Con

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #696 - 14 msgs

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Crawford
I'm approaching 60, Shari. When I was in school, IBM didn't exist. You must be older than you think! IBM has been around since about 1890. Though it was incorporated as "International Business Machines" in 1911 http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1890.html Michael ___

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread miscdas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shari writes: [snip] As a workaround in the meantime, have you considered walking through the drive list looking for a specific file? That would at least let you know whether a specific CD is mounted. -- Richard Gaskin Tried it. But XP kills it. Instead of just

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread miscdas
Ken Ray writes: 1057853216369 1057853216.369436 OS X 10.2.6 on MDD G4 dual 1.25 GHz. Nyah-nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Test seem to indicate that I really get microseconds, yes, right down to the microsecond. (Some clever person can find out when we did the tests.) What wimpy OS are you using? ;

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Richard MacLemale
On 7/10/03 11:19 AM, "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > At 7:23 AM -0700 7/9/03, Richard MacLemale wrote: >>> Existing customers will get a free upgrade to Revolution with >>> their next subscription renewal. >> >> Which is essentially a paid cross-grade. It means that the nex

Re: Cross-platform fonts

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:41 PM, Yates, Glen wrote: I expect to use the multi-platform Revolution fonts that come with Revolution 3.0. ;-) This is not a bad idea, if the fonts (and font rendering) were built into the engine then there would be no cross-platform font differences. Wow, tha

RE: Cross-platform fonts

2003-07-10 Thread Yates, Glen
> I expect to use the multi-platform Revolution fonts that come with > Revolution 3.0. ;-) > > Dar Scott This is not a bad idea, if the fonts (and font rendering) were built into the engine then there would be no cross-platform font differences. -Glen __

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
Can you use a "try/catch" structure to snag the error so that it doesn't show up on screen? (I'm not sure if this works with system messages, but it is worth testing.) Tried that, too :-) Lordy I tried a bunch of stuff! The error was not a Metacard error, and it still produced that danged litt

Cross-platform fonts

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I know some slipped thru the cracks, as initially I chose Helvetica as the default, only to discover it was not very consistent on the platforms, so I switched to Arial for most text, and occasionally Verdana. They seem to be pretty c

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/10/03 12:56 PM, Shari wrote: I've gotten the drives, walked thru them, and done [if there is a file "D:/Somefolder/Somefile"] or [if there is a folder "D:/Somefolder/"] Instead of just passing it over if there is not, it spits up an error window. Bad. Can you use a "try/catch" structure t

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Ken Ray wrote: What wimpy OS are you using? ;-) You're right! It's OS-dependent. The "wimpy" OS was Windows XP; I checked it on my Mac (same config as yours) and I get the extra microseconds. Cool! It might not be XP's fault. I have used NT and Win2K syst

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Dan Shafer
> > I'm approaching 60, Shari. When I was in school, IBM didn't exist. >Thats interesting Dan, as IBM has been around since 1924! Yeah, bad choice of words. IBM didn't exist in the broad consciousness of the community. In 1960, when I was in high school, computers were even less evident and

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Yates, Glen
> Shari wrote: > > I envy those of you who are 35 and under, who at least had > computer access as a teenager. I am 40+. > > >And my primary goal is Gypsy King Software. It isn't a > hobby. It is my company. My heart and soul :-) So beware what > criteria you use to define a * serious pro

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ken Ray wrote: > Dar, I think "the long seconds" > returns milliseconds as well, but in a slightly different format: I > opened the message box and typed: > > put the milliseconds && the long seconds > > I got 1057862149009 1057862149.009601 running MOS 9.2

Re: Explosive Demo Stack

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, "Ray G. Miller" wrote: > You have WAY too much free time on your hands... ;-) There's a difference between "free time" and "heavy-eyelid-at-12:30AM-time"... Actually, this was just a specialized use of the ease-in scripts already posted. > Perhaps you SHOULD take charge of managing

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread miscdas
Shari writes: [snip] As a workaround in the meantime, have you considered walking through the drive list looking for a specific file? That would at least let you know whether a specific CD is mounted. -- Richard Gaskin Tried it. But XP kills it. Instead of just passing it over if there is no

Re: Explosive Demo Stack

2003-07-10 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For better or for worse, it is human nature to destroy things... > go stack url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/tmpanel.mc"; > Have fun being destructive... Scott, You have WAY too much free time on your hands... ;-) Perhaps you SHOULD take charge of man

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Shari, Could you look for a volume name and, if not found, prompt the user to load the CD? Regards, Scott Rossi Nope. The volumes on Windows only give the drive letters, A, B, C, etc. and do not even tell you which drive is being used for the CD. Also, a user prompt is a big no no for th

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
As a workaround in the meantime, have you considered walking through the drive list looking for a specific file? That would at least let you know whether a specific CD is mounted. -- Richard Gaskin Tried it. But if there is no media in the drive, it spits out an error on XP, instead of just let

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
Could you look for a volume name and, if not found, prompt the user to load the CD? Regards, Scott Rossi Nope. The volumes on Windows only give the drive letters, A, B, C, etc. and do not even tell you which drive is being used for the CD. Also, a user prompt is a big no no for this, must be d

RE: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Ray
> 1057853216369 1057853216.369436 > > OS X 10.2.6 on MDD G4 dual 1.25 GHz. Nyah-nyah! Nyah! Nyah! > > Test seem to indicate that I really get microseconds, yes, right down > to the microsecond. > > (Some clever person can find out when we did the tests.) > > What wimpy OS are you using? ;-)

Shari's colors

2003-07-10 Thread FlexibleLearning
Shari asked: One anomaly I've found is that sometimes when I'm setting colors for things, all of Metacard suddenly becomes colored, and nothing fixes it but a quit/relaunch.  Anybody else experience this? First port of call is your video driver. Is there a more recent version available? You migh

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
(cc'd: to the "improve" list to serve as a feature request) Shari wrote: >> What information are you after? A lot of system info is available directly >> in MetaTalk >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin > > Nothing that gives me anything I can work with. > > There are a lot of things I'd like acces

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Shari wrote: > At the very least, I need to query that a > specific CD is loaded, and access files on that CD. Could you look for a volume name and, if not found, prompt the user to load the CD? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design Email: [EMAIL P

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Shari wrote: > I wonder if I should bombard Kevin with the anomalies I've had to > find workarounds for... such as random(0) = 1 Under what circumstances would random(0) be expected to provide a useful result? Why not save the clock cycles by using 0 directly? > and that the Mac menubar won't u

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Shari wrote: > I know some slipped thru the cracks, as initially I chose Helvetica > as the default, only to discover it was not very consistent on the > platforms, so I switched to Arial for most text, and occasionally > Verdana. They seem to be pretty consistent from platform to > platform. Th

Re: Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I nominate him for a lifetime acheivement award for Best Customer Service > Ever. Fully. > Maintaining the engine, the IDE, and marketing them may be simpler tasks for > RunRev than matching Scott's level of service. As would building a nuclear reactor with no

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
What information are you after? A lot of system info is available directly in MetaTalk -- Richard Gaskin Nothing that gives me anything I can work with. There are a lot of things I'd like access to, but urgently, the drive letter of the CD ROM and whether media is loaded and either the name

Re: Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/10/03 11:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of whether you think MC's acquisition by Run Rev bodes good or bad, I think we can all agree that Scott has done a fantastic job with MC and his customer service is unsurpassed. I nominate him for a lifetime acheive

Re: Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Regardless of whether you think MC's acquisition by Run Rev bodes good or > bad, I think we can all agree that Scott has done a fantastic job with MC and > his customer service is unsurpassed. I nominate him for a lifetime acheivement award for Best Customer Service Eve

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/9/03 12:36 AM, Alex Shaw wrote: both IDEs run off the same engine. Your code will open right up in the Rev IDE without change. When you compile your programs, they will use Just tried loading my mc home stack into rev2 ... didn't work :) I didn't think I had to specify that you can't swa

Re: Interface on top of IDE

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > It remains to be seen if RR will remove the restriction allowing Rev to be > used to develop other IDEs. How is "IDE" defined? The difference between a "multimedia authoring tool" and a "presentation authoring tool" is one of degrees -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Worl

Re: Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Shari wrote: > On Mac, the following will put the system profile into variable sysProf: > > set the directory to specialFolderPath(Apple) > put "tell application" && quote & "Apple System Profiler" & > quote & return & \ > "get the system profile" & return & \ > "end tell" into getInfo > put "tell

Re: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:57 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Dar, I think "the long seconds" returns milliseconds as well, but in a slightly different format: I opened the message box and typed: put the milliseconds && the long seconds and got this: 1057852538054 1057852538.054 Identical, except

Re: Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Regardless of whether you think MC's acquisition by Run Rev bodes good or > bad, I think we can all agree that Scott has done a fantastic job with MC and his > customer service is unsurpassed. I have been the fortunate recipient of a > number of Scott's "instant" r

RE: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Ray
> the ticks is the smallest unit I think... Actually, ticks are 1/60 of a second, whereas MC/Rev supports milliseconds (1/1000 of a second). Dar, I think "the long seconds" returns milliseconds as well, but in a slightly different format: I opened the message box and typed: put the milliseconds

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Shari a écrit : > > > > Besides, no *serious* programmer has only one tool in his or her > >> kit because no one tool is a panacea. > >> > > > >Yep, that's the *best* insurance! > > For those of you who know the "traditional" languages, the rest of us > can only wish. It took a year to decide

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Shari wrote: > I envy those of you who are 35 and under, who at least had computer access as a > teenager. I am 40+. >And my primary goal is Gypsy King Software. It isn't a hobby. It is my company. My >heart and soul :-) So beware what criteria you use to define a * serious programmer >*.

Scott's legacy

2003-07-10 Thread PEChumbley
Regardless of whether you think MC's acquisition by Run Rev bodes good or bad, I think we can all agree that Scott has done a fantastic job with MC and his customer service is unsurpassed. I have been the fortunate recipient of a number of Scott's "instant" responses (even one at 1:30 AM CST)

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Kevin Miller
On 10/7/03 2:51 pm, Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'll let him catch his breath first :-) Thanks :-) But rest assured, we have a great program of updates and upgrades planned. Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Runtime Revolution Limited: Software at the

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
> Besides, no *serious* programmer has only one tool in his or her kit because no one tool is a panacea. Yep, that's the *best* insurance! For those of you who know the "traditional" languages, the rest of us can only wish. It took a year to decide whether to migrate to MC or take the plunge

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
The only thing I can think of that might be different is that Rev uses different default fonts and sizes. If you have any fields that use text defaults, they may look different (text will be smaller.) Other than that, I can't think of anything that would affect your stack. I know some slipped t

Re: File Permissions

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Gregory Lypny a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > > Is there any way to set a file's permissions (e.g., locked, read only) > on Mac OS X from within MC? > > Regards, > > Greg > > ___ > metacard mailing list

Getting the system profile

2003-07-10 Thread Shari
On Mac, the following will put the system profile into variable sysProf: set the directory to specialFolderPath(Apple) put "tell application" && quote & "Apple System Profiler" & quote & return & \ "get the system profile" & return & \ "end tell" into getInfo p

File Permissions

2003-07-10 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Is there any way to set a file's permissions (e.g., locked, read only) on Mac OS X from within MC? Regards, Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: [ANN] Explosive Demo Stack (Scott Rossi)

2003-07-10 Thread Jose L. Rodriguez Illera
Thank you, Scott. Very good and useful for special effects. I will include it in my folder of 'tactilmedia great stacks'. Best wishes, José L. Rodríguez ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:23 AM -0700 7/9/03, Richard MacLemale wrote: >> Existing customers will get a free upgrade to Revolution with >> their next subscription renewal. > >Which is essentially a paid cross-grade. It means that the next time I get >ready to fork over 300 bucks to MetaCard I give it to Rev instead

On RR acquiring Metacard

2003-07-10 Thread Dr. John R. Vokey
As with some others, I have the disquieting feeling of being ``hoist by my own petard'': on initially moving from hypercard to metacard years ago, my principle complaint (voiced on this list) with metacard was the, then, incomprehensible interface (why or why could it not be more like hypercard

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread xbury . cs
Shari, You should have more faith and trust in OpenSource. To begin with, many many dozens of old HyperCard stacks still run on MC... Then you have the great many _javascript_, java, PHP or C source codes on the net - many more than any commercial company can output in 20 years... I haven't fo

RE: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Alex Shaw
both IDEs run off the same engine. Your code will open right up in the Rev IDE without change. When you compile your programs, they will use Just tried loading my mc home stack into rev2 ... didn't work :) alex ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Ken Ray a écrit: Just went over to the RunRev site and saw this headline: "Runtime Aquires MetaCard Technology" You can read all about it here: http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html How does everyone feel about this? I can see good and not-so-good things (depending on how RunRev acts on thi

Re: Customising the Metacard Environment

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
W. Sanke a écrit: On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:27:24 -0400, "Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the best ways to customise (British 'S' in 'customise') Metacard (and vice versa) is to open its components using Runtime Revolution to edit. However (this will not make me popular) I personally

Re: [ANN] libSMTP v1.5.0

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Shao Sean a écrit: well, i finally got around to getting it finished and released, so here it is.. libSMTP v1.5.0 - plain text messages - html messages (with inline/embedded images) - file attachments - smtp authentication have fun -Sean http://shaosean.tk/

Re: Saving scripts

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Gregory Lypny a écrit: Hello Everyone, Is there a way to save scripts while you're working without having to close, and then reopen, the current script window in Mac OS X? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.c

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Ken Ray a écrit: Just went over to the RunRev site and saw this headline: "Runtime Aquires MetaCard Technology" You can read all about it here: http://www.runrev.com/metacardpr.html How does everyone feel about this? I can see good and not-so-good things (depending on how RunRev acts on thi

Re: [ANN] libSMTP v1.5.0

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Shao Sean a écrit: well, i finally got around to getting it finished and released, so here it is.. libSMTP v1.5.0 - plain text messages - html messages (with inline/embedded images) - file attachments - smtp authentication have fun -Sean http://shaosean.tk/

Re: Customising the Metacard Environment

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
W. Sanke a écrit: On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:27:24 -0400, "Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the best ways to customise (British 'S' in 'customise') Metacard (and vice versa) is to open its components using Runtime Revolution to edit. However (this will not make me popular) I personally

Re: Saving scripts

2003-07-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Gregory Lypny a écrit: Hello Everyone, Is there a way to save scripts while you're working without having to close, and then reopen, the current script window in Mac OS X? Greg ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.c

RE: Smaller than milliseconds?

2003-07-10 Thread MisterX
the ticks is the smallest unit I think... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nelson Zink > Sent: Thursday, 10 July, 2003 04:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Smaller than milliseconds? > > > Is there any way to access a time period/m