Re: how do I turn off the focusColor?

2001-07-12 Thread Scott Raney
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.co

Re: htmlText - what entities, what charset?

2001-06-28 Thread Scott Raney
ame information is presented graphically in the character chooser. Regards, Scott > TIA, > > Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 > http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ***

Re: determine colour of pixel at arbitrary location

2001-06-27 Thread Scott Raney
Education Development Centre, 75 Union Place > University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand > ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362 > http://hedc.otago.ac.nz ~ http://rodney.weblogs.com > Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Mac OS X Internet

2001-06-27 Thread Scott Raney
ver* cause a system hang or corruption like this. That's just the UNIX rule, and Apple will ignore it at their peril. > > Regards, > > LiangTyan Fui > > Andu Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there'

Re: MChttp and stdin buffer size

2001-06-27 Thread Scott Raney
t;PUT" instead of "POST".) Second, parameters come in as environment variables ($1, $2, etc.), not via stdin on UNIX systems. Regards, Scott > Thanks. > > JB Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: determine colour of pixel at arbitrary location

2001-06-26 Thread Scott Raney
n Development Centre, 75 Union Place > University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand > ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362 > http://hedc.otago.ac.nz ~ http://rodney.weblogs.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: Mac OS X Internet

2001-06-23 Thread Scott Raney
Scott > Thanks for your help, > Reed ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: painting...

2001-06-22 Thread Scott Raney
oup!!! > !!! > > That's all, thanks for your interest... :-) This limitation has been removed in 2.4... Regards, Scott > Regards > > Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MetaScape GmbH Scott Raney [EMAIL

Re: blendlevel Mac-only?

2001-06-19 Thread Scott Raney
son we don't support it for other objects on Windows or UNIX either). Regards, Scott > Regards, > > Wilhelm Sanke Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an

Re: FTP downloads

2001-06-18 Thread Scott Raney
x27;ll see this as dropped packets in ping and missing time values when using traceroute). Regards, Scott > -- Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http:

Re: More Decorations..

2001-06-13 Thread Scott Raney
#x27;t just add one to the resource fork, unless maybe you e.g. replace the palette WDEF (which would give you borderless windows but no palette windows), because the engine has to know about it. MetaCard 2.4 has such a WDEF, which means RR will get it in its next release. Regards, Scott

Re: mouse tracking blues

2001-06-09 Thread Scott Raney
olution in cases like > dragging a separator bar. I firmly believe that there *is* no possible such reason, and any appearance to that effect is just a consequence of an inadequately thought-out architecture. If you can provide a counterexample, I'd love to see it. Regards,

Re: Answer dialog: Undocumented feature or risky hack?

2001-05-24 Thread Scott Raney
like this and do a search for appropriate alternatives. No loss of backward compatibility, but the choices the script makes might not be the same ones the developer would make. Any preferences? And if anyone decides to do this, by all means send us the script. It's unlikely we'll get to th

Re: Answer dialog: Undocumented feature or risky hack?

2001-05-23 Thread Scott Raney
arget as the first step in the handler. If it's one you know how to deal with, do your thing. Otherwise "pass rawKeyDown". Regards, Scott -- Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know,

Re: tabStops

2001-05-13 Thread Scott Raney
(though, like MetaCard, they do word wrap when the lines get too long). The only way I can think to prevent this is to set dontWrap to true and add a tabKey hander that doesn't pass it if there are already X tabs on the current line. Regards, Scott -- ***

Re: Reading raw data

2001-05-12 Thread Scott Raney
;t worry. If the next 9 years are anything at all like the last 9 have been, I'll still be retiring very early ;-) Regards, Scott -- Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier wa

Re: appleevent weirdness

2001-05-10 Thread Scott Raney
ssages to your stack. Regards, Scott > Thanks for any help or suggestions... > > Rodney -- **** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: ht

[Fwd: SANS NewsBites] (buffer overflow bugs)

2001-05-09 Thread Scott Raney
e basics. It's time to give them a reason to remember. -- **** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runr

Re: Limits on integer arithmetic

2001-05-01 Thread Scott Raney
John Kiltinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > Since my curiousity was piqued, I came home and wrote some scripts > for calculating the greatest common divisor of two integers and for > determining if an integer has any proper divisors. I was pleased > with how lightening fast MetaCard

Re: MetaCard 2.4A2 & libURL

2001-04-26 Thread Scott Raney
LiangTyan Fui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This maybe off topic a little: > Would it be better to start sharing of the libURL stack by default on 2.4? > This should offer a more transparent upgrade from 2.3 since URL support > available without the need to turn it on. It does this automaticall

Re: Massive Search and Replace in Binary Files

2001-04-19 Thread Scott Raney
Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a "yes it's doable" or "No forget it" query > > I am facing a challenge with some very large QuarkXpress documents that need > to be repurposed for either "simple" text distribution, Web distribution or > MC eBook distribution, where we want

Re: TCP/IP security considerations

2001-04-13 Thread Scott Raney
PS: if you're interested in this kind of stuff (and probably just about everyone using the Internet, client or server, should be), I recommend getting on the SANS mailings lists (http://www.sans.org/). Some of the stuff I've read about on those lists is positively scary! ***

Re: Hilite color bug in 2.4

2001-04-12 Thread Scott Raney
). Oh, and bugs go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to this list ;-) Regards, Scott > Regards > Monte ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archiv

Re: selecting locked text

2001-04-10 Thread Scott Raney
Craig Spooner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has MC changed the way text can be selected since version 2.3.1? A > project I published a year ago now won't allow the following script: > >select line 1 of fld "column labels" >set the textStyle of the selectedText to "plain" > > I was able

Re: Pentium 4 / Millenium w/mc2.32

2001-04-10 Thread Scott Raney
ith driver bugs ;-) Regards, Scott > /H > > Hugh Senior > > The Flexible Learning Company > Consultant Programming & Software Solutions > Fax/Voice: +44 (0)1483.27 87 27 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.flexibleLearning.com *

Re: MC 2.4 a1 is out!

2001-04-09 Thread Scott Raney
David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Support for URL access other than "file:", "binfile", and "resfile" >> have been moved out into a script library named "libURL" that you must >> start using before you can access these types of URLs. This new >> library supports FTP in addition to the

Re: name space in backscripts

2001-04-09 Thread Scott Raney
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's my understanding that MC puts all backscripts effectively into one > "layer" in the script hierarchy. They're actually kept separate, and are executed in the order returned by the backScripts function, which happens to be the reverse of the order

Re: A little clarification please ...

2001-04-07 Thread Scott Raney
"Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Braintree Athletics wrote/ schreef: > > >> So I've written several apps using Metacard 2.3 and feel pretty good about >> all that. Now 2.4 is out - a natural upgrade progression. How does >> "Revolution" fit into all of this. I apologize for

Re: Millenium w/mc2.32

2001-04-06 Thread Scott Raney
Hugh Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The player object is on screen and visible, so it's not that. The sound is > highly distorted rather than truncated as if mc is applying the wrong > driver, but is flawless on 95/98/NT. (I also notice that an diagonal white > line artifact is drawn across

Re: MC 2.4 a1 is out!

2001-04-06 Thread Scott Raney
red to support a couple of new features that haven't been enabled yet. As always, be sure to read the README file for important instructions and warnings. Have fun! Scott **** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.met

Re: Read this?

2001-03-30 Thread Scott Raney
at and jump the sinking ship at your earliest convenience. We saw the warning signs but naively trusted the ISP when they said that everything was under control and that they had a transition plan in place. Turns out they lied. -- Scot

Re: CGI - setting file to executable

2001-03-17 Thread Scott Raney
aybe "a+x" You can set the bits of a file you create with a MetaCard script using the "umask" property. It works just like the "fileType" property on the Mac: it sets the characteristics as the file is created. Regards, Scott > Regards > > M

Re: MacOS menubars

2001-03-06 Thread Scott Raney
menus when any of them is clicked. Argh. Regards, Scott > Best regards > > Monte ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www

Re: MacOS System Help Menu

2001-03-06 Thread Scott Raney
ards, Scott > Regards > > Monte ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com

Re: Grey Printing?

2001-03-01 Thread Scott Raney
t; > Peter Reid > Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK > Tel: +44 (0)1509 268843 Fax: +44 (0)870 052 7576 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.reidit.co.uk

Re: Simple Text Extaraction ?

2001-02-23 Thread Scott Raney
"\*(.*)\*", it) then #"it" has the match in it Lots of ways to skin this particular cat... Scott > TIA > > Gary Rathbone Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier w

xTalk mailing list resurrected

2001-02-22 Thread Scott Raney
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/xTalks ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard

Re: Apache and MetaCard

2001-02-19 Thread Scott Raney
try to work around the politics of shared-hosting services is going to have a very, very, low priority. Regards, Scott PS: on a related note, a new cmc.exe engine has been put on the FTP site. It fixes the problem running MetaTalk scripts that read from stdin (like echo.mt) on Win32 s

Re: Apache and MetaCard

2001-02-18 Thread Scott Raney
thing less useful than just writing a little client/server system and running MetaCard as a separate server, or just using mchttp instead of or in addition to another HTTP server. Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com Meta

Re: Apache and MetaCard

2001-02-17 Thread Scott Raney
be difficult. If you really need something like this, you'll need to start yet another MetaCard process (a server) and have the CGI scripts connect to and communicate with that server. Regards, Scott > Thanks. > LiangTyan Fui

Re: Extended character set problem in a standalone

2001-02-13 Thread Scott Raney
Tel.(906) 228-8035 or (906) 227-1600 > Northern Michigan University Fax (906) 228-4667 or (906) 2272010 > Marquette, MI 49855 USA > Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do t

Re: Key Control Help

2001-02-11 Thread Scott Raney
Tactile Media - Multimedia & Design > Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.tactilemedia.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com

Re: PostScript printers

2001-02-06 Thread Scott Raney
e of notches. It'll still most likely fall below the cutoff for the next release, but maybe for the one after that... Regards, Scott > Regards, > > JB **** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You k

PostScript printers

2001-02-04 Thread Scott Raney
age unless you make some changes at the control panel. Or am I misinformed somehow? Regards, Scott PS: yes, I changed the subject header: The old one seemed to have nothing to do with any of this ;-) Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: MC, PCI & MIDI

2001-02-04 Thread Scott Raney
stupid security holes like buffer overflows continues to be so frequent that it rises to the level of criminal negligence IMHO). Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to

Re: Fwd: [Re: HTML Formatted Mail (Off topic ?)]

2001-02-02 Thread Scott Raney
iven a very high priority. For the vast majority of apps, "answer printer" is a far better way to do things. Regards, Scott > JB Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do th

Telnet client

2001-02-02 Thread Scott Raney
I recall that awhile back someone on this list said that they had done some work on a telnet client using MetaCard sockets. Anyone know who that was, or have any other experience with this? Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL

Re: Misbehaving ask dialog

2001-01-30 Thread Scott Raney
as substacks of one of your main stacks. This most commonly occurs if you used the Resource Mover dialog with a previous release of MetaCard and then upgraded the engine. Note that when you upgrade, you must either delete those old dialogs from your stacks, or move new ones in. The Resource Mover d

RE: Free movable images and players

2001-01-30 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One quick question to Scott about this new feature. Will the current print > field functions also print any embedded images? Yes. Regards, Scott ******

Re: Scrollbar issue?

2001-01-29 Thread Scott Raney
and gamma test releases lest they find themselves in a position similar to yours! Regards, Scott > :) > Richard MacLemale > Instructional Technology Specialist > James W. Mitchell High School Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metaca

Re: Free movable images and players

2001-01-28 Thread Scott Raney
ames? So like this: Images will only work as in-line objects (think of them as just being special characters, because that's how you'll refer to them in scripts). There are no plans for wrapping text around images or frames or anything like that, at least not for the foreseeable future. Re

Re: Free movable images and players

2001-01-26 Thread Scott Raney
ou just do the minimum necessary to get the job done. Regards, Scott ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacar

Re: Announcing MetaCard 2.3.2 for Darwin/Mac OS X

2001-01-24 Thread Scott Raney
run into a performance problem in this area yet, we haven't scheduled building anything like that. Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.

Re: Announcing MetaCard 2.3.2 for Darwin/Mac OS X

2001-01-23 Thread Scott Raney
ndalone with this new engine? You can refer to stacks to get data out of them, but they won't be visible anywhere when you "go" to them. You can't build standalones with .mt scripts. Regards, Scott **** Scott Raney [EM

Re: Darwin on cd

2001-01-23 Thread Scott Raney
the Mac and UNIX worlds without even having to reboot your Mac. Throw in SoftWindows or VPC and you'll be able to develop for all platforms MetaCard supports at the same time on one screen! Regards, Scott > Regards, Andu > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Announcing MetaCard 2.3.2 for Darwin/Mac OS X

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Raney
you download it! ******** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bu

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-19 Thread Scott Raney
poration > Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web > _ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349 Fax: 323-225-0716 *

Re: OS X

2001-01-19 Thread Scott Raney
--- > GINIT Technology GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ruediger zu Dohna phone:+49-721-96681-0 > Emmy-Noether-Str. 11fax: +49-721-96681-11 > D-76131 Karlsruhe http://www.ginit-technology.de > --

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Scott Raney
in the can and I'm sure Win32 and UNIX developers won't be disappointed! Regards, Scott > :) > Richard MacLemale > Instructional Technology Specialist > James W. Mitchell High School Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Players in Windows

2001-01-06 Thread Scott Raney
do work right with QT, though, so requiring that is your best option. Regards, Scott > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 > Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com *

Re: Multi-thread question...

2000-12-31 Thread Scott Raney
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 3:18 PM -0700 12/29/00, Scott Raney wrote: > >No but not because we're even considering adding thread support to the > >language. It's because an event-driven application (e.g., using "read >

Re: Multi-thread question...

2000-12-30 Thread Scott Raney
volume site, in which case you probably wouldn't be using mchttpd anyway. If what you've got is Macs, using those would be the way to go. Regards, Scott > :) > Richard MacLemale > Instructional Technology Specialist > James W. Mitchell High School *

Re: Multi-thread question...

2000-12-29 Thread Scott Raney
e of using "wait with message" to allow MC to > handle multiple socket requests? No need to do this: using the "with message" clause of the read, write, and accept commands will allow you to write a server with maximum efficiency. Regards, Scott > > :) > Ric

Re: Iconic property

2000-12-11 Thread Scott Raney
raded to a working version of Carbon (which will be something later than the current 1.2 release ;-) Regards, Scott > Philip Chumbley Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http:

Re: Popup buttons

2000-11-29 Thread Scott Raney
esky compatibility features for that stack. Regards, Scott > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | 612-724-1596 > Custom hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED

MetaCard 2.3.2 gamma test

2000-11-20 Thread Scott Raney
. Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/met

Re: cannot install metacard in Windows 95

2000-11-16 Thread Scott Raney
he details on the type of system you're using. Regards, Scott > Jim Kelly > -- > ~~ > on the internet no one can hear you scream > ~~~~~~ Scott Raney [EMA

Re: file sharing (was: Misc. array, ...)

2000-11-15 Thread Scott Raney
ful matrix operations to have built in would be very handy for planning purposes. Regards, Scott > Regards, > Greg > > _ > Gregory Lypny > Associate Professor of Finance > Concordia University ******

Re: disk space

2000-11-12 Thread Scott Raney
hypermedia solutions| http://www.hyperactivesw.com **** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info:

Re: HTML Field Height

2000-11-09 Thread Scott Raney
Fax: +44 (0)870 052 7576 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.reidit.co.uk Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Inf

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