Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Here's a tough one: Your script works great in MC (I've had to modify it to use it there, and changed some color assignments while I was at it -- see below), but it doesn't set the color of function names when the function is used in the

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 27 Apr 2006, at 12:31, Geoff Canyon wrote: Attempting to take back the beer (I don't drink, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering...) And I don't colorize my scripts. How pathetic are we? Make sure Richard buys you a

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:46 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: I've been silently following this thread, and one more out-of-the- box idea comes to mind. What about just colorizing the lines of the script currently visible in the editor, and updating when the user scrolls? If that limited the whole job

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 26 Apr 2006, at 20:06, J. Landman Gay wrote: I played with this for about an hour last night. I was using the same technique, converting the script to htmltext using the replace command. I had it mostly working but got stuck on exactly t

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 26 Apr 2006, at 20:06, J. Landman Gay wrote: I played with this for about an hour last night. I was using the same technique, converting the script to htmltext using the replace command. I had it mostly working but got stuck on exactly t

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 26, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: In a bid to steal Geoff's beer, I took a look at using the htmlText to do this. It's certainly much faster. (A first attempt below.) Well, I'll see your colorization and raise you a justification. I've sent it off to Richard. The justification

Re: ColorizeScript challenge

On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Anyone have ideas on how to speed up MC's script colorizing? Funny you should ask. I did this once as a thought experiment, with an eye to never storing the colorized version of the script but generating it on the fly. I changed the scr

Re: Not only in Houston . . .

grc is short for graphic, which is different than an image. Create a rectangle or a polygon in stack "test1" On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:19 AM, Mathewson wrote: Now this is where I feel I am missing something; can find no reference to 'grc' anywhere in the documentation.

Re: Houston, We Have A Problem

That's a puzzler. This works in either environment: on mouseUp go stack test1 import snapshot from rect (rect of grc 1) of window (windowID of stack test1) go stack test2 create img -- here's the change: set the rect of the last img of stack "test2" to the rect of the last img o

Re: 1000 objects

Two suggestions: Could you group the chips and then move the group? Might be easier/ faster, especially if you have several moves to do over the course of time and can leave the chips grouped. Note that you can move chips into/out of the group by setting their layer. If all you're talking

Re: 1000 objects

I'm assuming you're drawing something like face-down playing cards. If the appearance is always the same, another way to handle something like this would be to have one graphic instead of many, calculate where the click occurred and then do what is appropriate based on that. As far as reall

Re: 1000 objects

You will probably find Navigator to be much faster, while offering many (most? all? more?) features. You can limit the number of controls Navigator will attempt to display. You can turn off auto- hiliting, so it doesn't update each time you select an object. Generally it's _much_ faster. It

Re: is prime

On Dec 8, 2004, at 10:39 AM, MisterX wrote: put (x div 2) into xfactors I haven't read through the rest carefully, but shouldn't this be trunc(sqrt(x))? You don't need to check for factors beyond the square root. regards, Geoff Canyon [

Re: Can MC drag and drop with a list field?

dragMove is key. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 5, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: David, Sure would be nice. I'd like to have a simple way to do this, too. But if nobody responds with an easy solution you might find it not that much harder to create a graphic to highlight

Re: hand cursor

On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 9/17/04 11:14 AM, "Geoff Canyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Revolution or MetaCard, the default browse tool is the native arrow. This is regardless of the defaultCursor. Setting the defaultCursor to hand would cause the hand c

Re: hand cursor

ay the hand. Setting the cursor to 8 should display the hand. If that breaks functionality, how? Apart from the fact that they seem to have used 28 when they should have used an unused ID, have they followed that spec? regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: hand cursor

mptied it, expecting to get back to the arrow. It also would have required inserting code into the developer's project at build time, which is something I wanted to avoid completely. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: 10000 fields and crash

TED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MC IDE

going forward. That pretty much means abandoning the MC docs and adopting yours, which is another nut to crack. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MC IDE

cting before they'd run standalone in MC. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MC IDE

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Geoff Canyon wrote: May be a wacky question, but it just occurred to me so I thought I'd shake up some dust: how do you (anyone) plan on handling documentation? Er, by typing? ;) Since all of us MC users are granted Rev lic

Re: MC IDE

hout any issues. May be a wacky question, but it just occurred to me so I thought I'd shake up some dust: how do you (anyone) plan on handling documentation? You say you don't have any problems with just dropping in the latest engine -- but that doesn't update the documentation.

Re: open source (Richard Gaskin)

DE is their bug reporting database, which IIRC is now open to all comers. Go to www.runrev.com, click "Developers", scroll down to "Feedback". They use bugzilla - it's hairy but basically great. Warning - doesn't seem to play well with Safari - try iCab or IE if y

Re: open source (Richard Gaskin)

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Geoff Canyon wrote: Both IDEs are more or less open source, inasmuch as the source is largely exposed in each, available for modification if you wish. How does one submit bug fixes in the Rev IDE? There is (as yet) no defined policy

Re: open source (Richard Gaskin)

larger difference is that the RR IDE will continue to be maintained by Runtime, while the MC IDE will be left to a set of developers to be named later. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Moving the MC IDE forward

maintaining compatibility with new engines, then that's a minimal task and I don't see any reason not to. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Moving the MC IDE forward

o prefers MC) seems bothered by the palettes in Revolution. Wouldn't it be possible to simply not open/use those palettes? regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Moving the MC IDE forward

ting MetaCard's development environment when the Revolution environment is also customizable? regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Rev/MC dinner at WWDC

tool. We don't have a date or location yet. If you're interested in attending, please respond to me directly with the days you're available, and any suggestions for locations. I'll tally up and get something set up by Friday. regards, Geof

Re: MC Documentation in wiki format...

stinfo/metacard I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. regards, Geoff Canyon Revolution Support -- Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited: Software at the Speed of Thought Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165

Re: indexing slow-down (i.e., speeding up programs)

/,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' University of Lethbridge '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com

Re: MC 2.5B6 Bug in Cloning

d I'm on when the command is issued, but it no longer does this in 2.5B6. I hate to ruin whatever the user may have on the clipboard by using the obvious work around of selecting it and then doing a doMenu Copy. Any comments or insight on this anybody? regards,

[Announce] Rev Navigator 2.5: Drag and Drop

anscript can be used within the Navigator plugin. This is a beta release. Navigator should work on all platforms, with Revolution 1.1.1 and 2.0. If you have any problems, let me know. <http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator> regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: listBehavior problem

field "fImageList" to "0,0"   set the hilitedLines of field "fImageList2" to "0,0" end openCard   Thank you.   Nicolas Cueto   P.S. Thanks to Klaus Major for the answer printer fix. I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. regar

Re: Quintessential XCMDs

r with almost all of them, having used most of them myself. Scanning the list, I found only seven that MetaCard could not do natively, and one of those seven I left in the list because I wasn't sure exactly what its purpose was. regards,

Re: Web-Dedicated Metacard

to put up some others, I'll link it to you. (From humble beginnings...) regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Publishing an article on xTalk and JavaScript?

page for it from the main page, then click the button to create the page and paste in your content. If you don't want it changed, you can lock the page(s) with a password. -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Book Wiki

I've put up a possible book outline on the wiki. It's Revolution-centric, but don't let that stop you -- edit it to your taste! As usual, everyone is free to edit/contribute right now, no logins required. regards, Geoff _

Re: MC Book-other ideas

At 10:52 AM 10/4/2002 -0700, you wrote: >One possibility (maybe more easily doable, probably less fraught with >ownership issues, and certainly more current, than a book) would be to >create a MC documentation site similar to the one for MySQL (see >http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html ). In

Re: MC Book-other ideas

At 03:38 PM 10/4/2002 -0500, you wrote: >1. Wouldn't this be a good use of a Wiki? Karl B., are you able to set up >a Wiki rather than a website? There is already a Wiki available. Currently it contains the entirety of the Revolution documentation, as well as some other material that has been

The Revolution Wiki has moved

rmation on Revolution. The best part is that anyone with knowledge to contribute can add to an existing page ,or add a whole new page, just by going to the wiki web site and clicking an edit button on the page. No prior authorization or setup is required. -- regards, Geoff Ca

Re: hide/show menu buttons

be messed up on Macintosh even though it looks fine on windows. <http://macitworks.com:8080/revdocs/aboutMenus> Both those links are quoted from the documentation for Revolution, but the concepts are the same. -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: htmlText

he user editing the field while it is rendered. If you need that, it's a different kettle of fish. -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MetaCard is 10

>Hi Everyone, > >A big round of applause for Scott Raney and his team, as, for those of you >who don't know, MetaCard turned ten this weekend. > >Cheers! > >Kevin > Scott, you rock the world. -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synchronous FTP upload?

At 10:36 PM -0700 6/25/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: >Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> At 11:35 PM -0700 6/24/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>> I have a fairly complex setup in which I nee to avid race conditions, and >>> using "put" seems to allow processing of othe

Re: MetaCard 2.4.3 alpha 1 release

m (i.e. OS 9 or 8.6), correct? -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: script limits

m betting it wouldn't be pretty. Then if it did, think about trying to scroll through perhaps twenty million lines of code! Or deal with, oh, half a million handlers. It reminds me of the classic Tick comic, "Night of a Million Billion Ninjas" --

Re: script limits

ust be on 32-bit systems. > Regards, >Scott Nice to know you're thinking ahead, Scott -- I can hardly wait to get started writing systems with multiple gigabyte-plus scripts! ;-) -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metaca

Re: script limits

ht fit in less than 10 years. I hope Scott is ready by then ;-) -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Displaying long lines in 'Don't Wrap' fields

000, tending to indicate that it is stored as an unsigned two-byte value. Maybe that's leading to your issue as well? -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: calling handlers with keys

At 2:50 PM +0100 3/15/02, Uwe Friese wrote: >The problem with the keyDown messages is that I need the rest of the script inside >the repeat loop to be executed constantly (to present a stream of objects on the >screen). Like this: > >repeat >presentSomeObjects -- this has to be performed con

Re: Feature request: open stack visuals

At 10:21 AM -0500 3/13/02, Shari wrote: >It's tough because there are still XCMD's I'd love to use, one specifically that >queries Internet Config for the user name, or ones that get the specific machine id >(I've followed that thread and tried out the final piece of code that was cross >platfo

Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 1

At 4:53 PM + 2/14/02, David Bovill wrote: >> Holding down the control key (command key on MacOS) while >> double-clicking on a stack now will start up MetaCard with the full >> development environment if the engine can find it. > >Aww go-on - let us have it the other way around - maybe just an

Re: Programs on CD

At 10:39 AM -0500 2/14/02, Shari wrote: >As CD's cannot write to themselves, and all of my programs write to themselves, >saving user info in fields etc., I am assuming the only way to put a program on CD is >to have it write all data to an external file on the user's hard disk. So if a user >

Re: MC2.4.2 beta 1 truncated text

At 12:10 PM +0100 2/14/02, eugen helbling wrote: >> > When the a field has a vertical grid, text is now truncated within a >> > "cell" rather than being pushed off to the next tab stop location. > >just tried to setup a textfield to check this new behavior but do not see >any changes to the last v

Re: MetaCard 2.4.2 beta 1

At 12:38 PM -0700 2/13/02, Scott Raney wrote: >new regex library >From the readme: >This release uses a new Perl-compatible regular expression library. >This library includes new support for Perl pattern characters and >non-greedy matches. Any Perl regular expression reference can be used >for d

Re: Exemplar: Analogue Clock

At 12:31 PM -0800 2/4/02, Phil Davis wrote: >Another way you can open the "clock" stack is: >- copy the link > (http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk/AnalogueClock.mc) >- open MC >- open the message box >- type in msg box (but don't hit enter when done!): > go url " >- paste the link after th

Re: Texcolor and wordOffset

At 9:18 AM +0900 2/2/02, Steven Tripp wrote: >How do you reset the textcolor of an entire field after you have changed the >color of a few characters or words? set the textColor of char 1 to -1 of fld "someField" to empty > >Does wordOffset work OK for you? On my Mac it is not finding whole wo

Re: Launching a URL in OSX is Cake?

At 4:18 PM -0600 1/24/02, J. Landman Gay wrote: >Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> It _is_ slightly more difficult, since you need to watch out for the "/" character >in the legitimate path, which will have been translated to a ":" >> >> You could either

Re: Launching a URL in OSX is Cake?

At 11:40 AM -0800 1/24/02, Scott Rossi wrote: >On a related note, I come from a print background where we created page layouts by >having type set for us on photo paper and pasting it down onto boards with rubber >cement. Making corrections to anything required cutting the paper with an Exacto(

Re: Launching a URL in OSX is Cake?

At 10:31 AM -0800 1/24/02, Scott Rossi wrote: >Am I missing something or is the launching URLs and mail links extremely easy in OSX? > >Using the following seems to launch IE or Mail perfectly: > > ### tURL is the HTTP or mail address to be launched > put "open location" && quote & tURL & quot

February Programmer's Challenge is open to us

This month's programmer's challenge in MacTech magazine is open to us, and actually offers some advantage to users of high-level tools: up to a 25% bonus is offered for good presentation of the results and other niceties. I've given a bit of thought to what algorithm might work to solve the pro

Re: power tools

At 7:14 PM -0800 1/14/02, erik hansen wrote: >this will get fun when button animation is introduced... Button animation? You should be able to do something like this already -- create an image and reference an animated gif. gc ___ metacard mailing lis

Re: power tools

At 6:12 PM -0800 1/14/02, erik hansen wrote: >in the tutorial i got all my objects grouped, but >none of them appeared on my next card. i'll just >have to do it again a couple of times and it sold >be clear. set the backgroundBehavior of the group to true and then this will work the way you expe

RE: why metacard?

At 6:02 PM +0900 1/9/02, cowhead wrote: >?I think I'm stupid. Check that. I know I'm stupid, but I think I've >displayed blatantly once again. I just bought Rev. Why? Because I've >been a long time hyper/super/meta card user and they had such a good >cross-grade deal. I saved 800 bucks. Also

Re: ss (searchScript)

At 3:17 PM -0800 1/8/02, erik hansen wrote: >i am trying not to use the list or support until >completing the tutorials and at least skimming >everything on the Help palette. > >however... i can't find anything like the HC ss >(searchScript) handler to help find expressions >like "keyboard focus"

Re: save

At 4:36 PM -0500 1/8/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >New data placed in my MC standalone is not saved despite placing "on >closestack save this stack end closestack" placed in the stack script >Any ideas? >mike Only the Mac allows saving changes to a running application. (and I'm not sure about O

Re: why MetaCard?

At 5:13 PM -0800 1/7/02, erik hansen wrote: >one of the key questions for me was the >restrictions RunRev puts on Rapid Application >Development (whatever that is (and as i hear 2nd >hand)). this issue does NOT seem to have struck a >nerve . The restrictions are much the same, but not quite. Rapi

Re: why MetaCard?

I chose Revolution, but one reason to choose MetaCard would be if your development machine isn't recent. Revolution (on a Mac) isn't happy on pretty much anything short of a 128MB machine. The standalones you build will have the same memory appetite as MetaCard standalones, but to develop, you

Re: Stackfile Handler in OS X

At 10:10 PM -0500 1/4/02, Gregory Lypny wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I noticed that calls to substacks (e.g. go to stack "X") based on the stackfile >handler below, that I use in all my older stacks, does not work in OS X unless each >of the substacks is opened individually first. Any thoughts on th

Anyone going to MacWorld?

I'm going to be at MacWorld on Thursday and Friday of next week. How many other Revolutionaries or MetaCardians going? I'd like to propose getting together for drinks/dinner some night. As to the night, my vote goes for Thursday, since I won't be there Tuesday or Wednesday :-) Friday would als

Re: Two handlers sharing time

At 3:19 PM -0500 12/18/01, Shari wrote: >Is it possible to have handlers share time? So that when it is idle, the second >handler runs? > >I have a very lengthy handler, that does certain things, calls other handlers, and >they in turn call other handlers. This sets up the data for the user. >

Re: More problem when moving files

At 5:19 PM +0100 12/11/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >put URL "\\boldini\e$\apps-prod\Cre-Pro\iml\CRE-TEST-DAT.mdb" into URL >"\\boldini\e$\apps-prod\Cre-Pro\emr\history\test\backup.mdb" >Of course I tried, >put URL "e:\test.txt" into URL "h:\test.txt" with the same successful result >but no files

Re: Talk about major speed killer!

At 9:24 AM -0500 12/7/01, Shari wrote: >This script is rather detailed and split into a million pieces. The gist of it is >that I locked the screen, moved things around, and then unlocked the screen. In this >case it's okay to let the user see the moves. > >In another part of the script, lock

Re: More re: visual effects

At 8:32 PM -0500 12/6/01, Shari wrote: >several examples, and the lockScreen is set to false for all of them (i put an >"answer lockScreen" to test just before the effect, and took it out again) Note that this should be "answer the lockScreen" MetaCard is more particular about "the" than HyperC

Re: Talk about major speed killer!

At 11:30 AM -0500 12/6/01, Shari wrote: >I've written the code five different ways looking to increase the speed, as it just >crawled. > >And each time it just got slower. > >I found the culprit, and I do not understand it... > >lock screen Can you post the script in question? regards, Geoff

Re: [Metacard] Good ol' MC

At 9:30 PM +0100 11/27/01, Eva Isotalo wrote: >I have been developing my new game with another, which I thought more "game friendly" >program _Now_ my curiosity is piqued -- what more "game friendly" program did you try? regards, geoff ___ metacard

[Metacard] Re: CGI under OS X via Darwin Success...

At 4:24 PM -0500 11/24/01, Richard MacLemale wrote: >This unlocks the candy store for me. One thought goes through my mind, >though... Suppose an individual were to download the darwin engine, and the >home and tools stacks... And suppose they install them and write some neato >mt scripts for the

Re: Printing Field Text

At 9:33 PM +0100 11/20/01, Vinciane BAUDOUX wrote: >I saw that this is the documentation package for Revolution, not for >Metacard. Are they interchangeable ? Arrgh. RTFer won't work in MetaCard. It will open, but the stacks it looks for won't be there. The documentation concerns many of the sam

Re: Printing Field Text

At 10:29 AM +0100 11/20/01, Vinciane BAUDOUX wrote: >Yes, this is really a problem. I tried to print an exerpt of the MetaTalk >Reference stack because reading the documentation on the screen is a strain >to the eyes and you cannot underline important words or, for that matter, go >to the cafetari

Re: Printing Field Text

At 5:48 PM -0800 11/19/01, Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: >Hi Geoff, > >I saw your post, looked at the scripts in the 'print field' stack. Wow, >it seems so complicated. From what I could glean, it seems you cannot >just print a field, you have to put the stuff into a card, and print >the card. > >

Re: Printing Field Text

At 5:48 PM -0800 11/19/01, Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: >Hi Geoff, > >I saw your post, looked at the scripts in the 'print field' stack. Wow, >it seems so complicated. From what I could glean, it seems you cannot >just print a field, you have to put the stuff into a card, and print >the card. > >

Fwd: Q&A#1 for December Conferences Challenge

Further info on the challenge -- gc >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:42:33 -0500 >To: "CHALLENGE-A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Bob Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Q&A#1 for December Conferences Challenge >Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe:

Re: Fwd: December 2001 Programmer's Challenge Problem Statement

At 6:35 PM -0500 11/17/01, andu wrote: >> Test code is not needed for this Challenge, as you will provide a complete >application. Test data will be available shortly. >> >> Note that we are allowing solutions built using alternative development >environments (e.g., REALbasic, MetaCard, Revolu

Fwd: December 2001 Programmer's Challenge Problem Statement

In case anyone is interested in entering: X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:14:41 -0500 To: "CHALLENGE-A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Bob Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: December 2001 Programmer's Challenge Problem Statement Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe:

Re: Programming language

At 8:36 PM -0800 11/13/01, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Thanks for the input Richard but the problem I have had with MetaCard (which I >> love!) is that I cannot import or export vector graphics. > >If you don't need gradients or other such features, and the problem is >limited to import/export, writi

Re: Array Puzzler

At 8:02 PM -0500 11/8/01, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: >> To get the results back in numeric order, after the combine try: >> >> sort lines of B numeric >> >This won't work. Suppose that that array A is [[ -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 >3 ]] and that the operation is "put A*A into B" Ah -- sorry, I

Re: Array Puzzler

At 3:52 PM -0500 11/8/01, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: >I am trying to work with the new array notation. Here is a >simple script. > >on mouseUp > put fld "A" into A > split A by return > put A + 1 into B > combine B using return > put B into fld "B" >end mouseUp > >In fld "A" I have the number

Re: About Mac-text

At 2:12 PM +0100 11/1/01, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: >In order to solve my original question I have tried (still on Mac): >put fld myField into temp >repeat with i = 1 to number of lines of temp >put line i of temp & numtochar(13) into line i of nytemp >end repeat >put nytemp into url path... Not c

Re: Arrays! We have arrays?!?

key, rather than just numbers. You can use numbers, but you don't need to predefine the valid range of numbers, nor do you have to use them consecutively. Again, _anything_ is a valid key. phoneNumbers["Geoff Canyon"] is perfectly valid, and could store my phone number. This fact

Re: wait for moves

At 7:08 PM +0100 10/31/01, Klaus Major wrote: >Hi Michael, > >> I have a script with a repeat loop that causes objects to move around the >> screen. Depending >> on user choices, sometimes there are simultaneous moving objects ( because >> "without waiting" >> was used for the objects move). >>

Re: Mac-text

At 9:54 AM -0600 10/31/01, Ken Ray wrote: >This has to do with the fact that the Mac uses a carriage return/line-feed >combination (CRLF) at the end of each line, and Windows generally uses just >LFs (or is just CRs? I can't remember right now). CRs are ASCII 13, LFs are >ASCII 10, BTW. In any eve

Re: RFC: Optimizing stripDup()

Maybe something like: function stripDup theList,theitemDel # verify param if theList= "" then return "" if theitemDel = "" then put cr into theitemDel # set the itemDelimiter to char 1 of theitemDel put empty into tResultList repeat for each item tItem in theList if tItemLis

Re: Wrong Path?

At 10:23 PM +0200 10/24/01, JJB wrote: >I've got a problem, probably basic, but annoying for me. >I build stacks with images and sounds 16 bit. To prevent my stacks to need >too muchm memory, I don't import the sounds. They stay in a folder called >"Data". My players for the sounds have a path lik

Re: OS Native Look and Feel

At 12:39 PM +0200 10/20/01, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: >- Really wonderful aqua buttons in blue and light gray - standard >buttons - when running Metacard 2.4 with Mac OS X. > Is there any way to have other colors for standard buttons?- I believe these are native widgets, so the only other option righ

Re: Mod function

>Hi Everyone, > > Just confirming that MC does not have a mod function. Right? So, I would use >something like > > 5/2 - trunc(5/2) = 0.5 > > Greg > >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ >Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm

Re: Performance: .mt scripts accessing data outside script

At 7:39 PM -1000 10/12/01, Sivakatirswami wrote: >2) In terms of speed: We have three options for "containers" I can use to >store the needed data for the different responses and email text that have >to be sent out... which of these three will be fastest? I am trying to save >some dozen hours of

Re: Scrolling two fields simultaneously

At 2:06 PM -0700 10/11/01, Kevin Wilson wrote: >I am new to meatard, and am hoping that I can get some advise on what I am sure is a >simple question. I have two text fields that a side by side and hold related data. I >would like to be able to lock them together so that when I scroll in one fie

Re: Go to card by its name?

At 8:42 PM +0200 10/9/01, Domi wrote: >I noticed that the "index" is not refreshed if its window stays opened... > >A change in the title field or a new card is not immediately acknowledged (I resort >to "opencard" ;-)) You can move the index-building code into another handler, buildIndex for e

Re: regExp to verify email address

At 5:19 PM -1000 10/3/01, Sivakatirswami wrote: >It appears obvious that at least I have to "unspecialize" PERL special >characters by removing the forward slashes for: >@,[ and then the second If I remember correctly, the regEx engine used in MetaCard has a doesn't properly escape square brack

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