Background process

2005-03-25 Thread Simon Lord
It's been a while since I fired up MetaCard but I would like to do the following if possible... Can I run a metacard exe (mac/pc - linux if possible) as a *background* process which takes screenshots every xNum of minutes? How would I do that? Sincerely, Simon

Re: Background process

2005-03-25 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Simon, It's been a while since I fired up MetaCard but I would like to do the following if possible... Can I run a metacard exe (mac/pc - linux if possible) as a *background* process which takes screenshots every xNum of minutes? How would I do that? Hmm, at least for the mac this would work

Re: Background process

2005-03-25 Thread Simon Lord
Thanks Klaus. That works great. Now for the left-hook... I need to save these files to a server. So I'm guessing I need to ftp them there. If there a way to send them over via some xmlsocket style connection where the *line* stays open? I can see the ftp requests slowing things down having t

Re: Background process

2005-03-25 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Simon, Thanks Klaus. That works great. Cool :-) Now for the left-hook... I need to save these files to a server. So I'm guessing I need to ftp them there. If there a way to send them over via some xmlsocket style connection where the *line* stays open? I can see the ftp requests slowing t

Re: Background process

2005-03-25 Thread Simon Lord
I think I found it. The rev docs talk about opening ftp sockets so I'll poke with that this weekend. Thanks again! On Mar 25, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Simon, Thanks Klaus. That works great. Cool :-) Now for the left-hook... I need to save these files to a server. So I'm guessin

MouseLoc

2005-03-25 Thread Simon Lord
How can I get this to work: put the screenmouseLoc into fld "curpos" ... if the mc app is minimized, IE it's *not* the currently focused app? Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/

Rinaldi

2005-03-25 Thread Simon Lord
Does anyone know if Rinaldi has made any xcmd's for metacard/rev that can detect a mouseclick even though the mc/rev app is *not* focused? Sorry for the shotgun posts. Trying to get a bearing on what's possible. Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing

Re: MouseLoc

2005-03-25 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/25/05 1:54 PM, "Simon Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get this to work: > > put the screenmouseLoc into fld "curpos" > > ... if the mc app is minimized, IE it's *not* the currently focused app? Here you go - I made a stack with a button and a field. The script of the button is

RE: Background process

2005-03-25 Thread MisterX
Hi Simon, On a pc you can run a compiled stack as a service* or use runas and have it either do the snapshot as an invisible systemwindow (?) or prefered, call a command line tool. snagit might have something like that. You can find a tool like that for sure at http://shellcity.net there's parame