I haven't checked this, but...
(B
(Bon mouseUp
(Bput empty into field "morsetext"
(Bput empty into field "standardtext"
(Bask "What would you like to translate?? Was h$BgU(Bten Sie gern $B!&(Bersetzt ??"
(Bif it is not empty then
(Bset the cursor to watch
(Bput it into field "standardte
Is there a built-in MC command, function, message, or etc. which I can use
(Bwithin a script to:
(B
(B1. know or control the text cursor's location within a text field, e.g.,
(B"put the textCursorLoc (?) between the 18th and 19th characters of line 3 of
(Bfield "fText";
(B
(B2. change the sh
Hello List,
(B
(BSorry for the off-topic'ness -- and vagueness! -- of this bit of
(Bself-indulgence but since this is the best and gentlest group to ask, I'll
(Bfire away anyway.
(B
(BI'm looking to put together a language-learning website that my students --
(Band my students *only* -- can
To add to the confusion :-) On my keyboards here in Japan, shift + 9 = ) ,
while shift + 7 = '. (Of course, letters themselves are positioned the same
as on any other qwerty'ish keyboard.)
Cheers,
Nicolas Cueto
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> Just a short guess: Maybe you set your monitor to 256 colors (8 Bit)?
(B
(BThanks, Klaus, but that's not it.
(B
(BIn fact, the behaviour's gotten even curiouser and curiouser since my post
(Byesterday. Went to bed last night, woke up, started tinkering on a different
(Bgif-handling stack, a
Hello List,
(B
(BAn odd behaviour I'm trying to figure out. When setting the fileName of an
(Bimage object, some GIF images get displayed properly, while others have
(Btheir colors displayed oddly (eg, all in blue).
(B
(BAny ideas why? Different types of GIF? If so, how to identify these and/
Hello,
(B
(BA request for help in finding a scripting solution to the following problem.
(B
(BI want to be able to click on a word within a text field so that that one
(Bword and not any other instances of it in a text-field becomes identified.
(BFor example, given the sentence "To be or not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked about the whats and hows of mc as a cgi
(Bengine...
(B
(BInvaluable resources for myself when I too was just venturing out were:
(B
(B1. the mailing list archives at:
(B
(Bhttp://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.runrev.com/
(B
(B2. Nelson Zink's article at:
(B
(B
(B
(B
(BAndu Novac wrote:
(B> I put the mc engine
(Bin /cgi-bin with the scripts and #!mc does it just > fine. Upload
(Bbinary.
(BI tried that just now and... it worked!
(B
(BThank you, thank you, thank you!!
(B
(BCheers,
(B
(BNicolas Cueto
Andu Novac wrote:
> I put the mc engine
in /cgi-bin with the scripts and #!mc does it just > fine. Upload
binary.
I tried that just now and... it worked!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Cheers,
Nicolas Cueto
(B
(B
(B
(BHello
(B
(BI've been following this "How-To", by
(BSadhunathan Nadesan (for which, many thanks! very useful and clear), that
(Bexplains how to get mc-cgi running on an outside web-server without
(Bactually having that server install mc. (Up to now, I've been running
(Bmc-
(B
(B
(BHello,
(B
(BMost likely I'm being absolutely lazy and naively hopeful here
(Bbut, can Macintosh-Metacard open up as is a stack originally made on Win
(BMetacard? I'm thinking of emailing a Win-stack to my Mac this evening
(Bbut, failing that, I was hoping someone knew of an al
(B
(B
(BHello,
(B
(BSimilar to how "ask file" allows a user to select a file, is
(Bthere a built-in way of allowing users to select a directory? If not, is there a
(Buser-friendly alternative? I was looking at the "file selector" substack, but
(Bthe ".." higher-level symbol is sure to
(B
(B
(BHello,
(B
(BOdd thing. Something seems to get lost/added to my mc-cgi
(Bscripts that are first typed as .txt on Windows and then ftp'ed/emailed to my
(BApache-Linux server (as .txt) , because I'm finding myself having to retype the
(Bwhole thing (with gnu emacs) on the server.
Klaus wrote:
> Konichi-wa Cueto-san,
Actually, since it's 11:13 P.M. here in Nippon, it's
"konban-wa" :-)> Try this:>
> > if "NT" is in the systemVersion
then> set the
shellCommand to "cmd.exe"> ###
put quote & quote into theTitle
???> ### "" ??? Looks like
the
(Bbrowser, it becomes truncated at the first ampersand:
(B
(B--
(B put
(B"http://www.somewhere.com/business=kweto%40ma.nma.ne.jp&item_name=something&;
(Bno_note=1" into tUrl
(B if (the platform) is "Win32" then
(Btry
(B set the hideConsoleWindows to
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
Hello,
Upon a stack opening for the first time, it automatically and
_unwantedly_ selects the top line of a field with listBehavior set to true. How
do I prevent this (i.e., so that the list-field remains unhilited)?
I tried switching the layer of the list-field, as well as this
piece of
> Go here http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/software/libSMTP/index.html
>
> & download Shao Sean's libSMTP
Thank you. Downloaded it, but got some script errors, the first one of which
was at the line "put the internet date". Seems that in MC2.3 the "date"
function only supports [long | short | abbrev
Hello,
Vague kind of question here, about how to add an emailing
capability to a standalone.
What I have in mind is that "Tell a friend" button seen on
some software, which, when clicked, prompts the user for their friend's (or list
of friends') name and email address, after which the so
Mark Talluto suggested:
> My guess is that 8.0 is the problem. Try upgrading to 8.1 as
many OS > bugs were fixed in the update. It is a free
update.
Thanks. I'll follow up on that and see what
happens.
In the mean time, though, that wouldn't solve the problem for
users still on 8.0 -- or
Ken Ray suggested:
> Is the alwaysBuffer on for the images as well?
Thanks, but I tried that, too. Whether alwaysBuffer is set on or off, for
the stack or for individual image-objects, the standalone (not the stack)
crashes -- in fact, crashes also happen sometimes when building the
sta
Hello,
I've a relatively simple stack for creating
illustrated bingo-cards. The problem is that, though it runs fine
under Mac OS8.0 as a stack and also under Windows as both a stack and a
standalone, it continually crashes the system when it runs as a standalone on
Mac OS 8.0. Specificall
Hello,
Will a standalone created via MC2.3 and on a Mac running OS8
nonetheless work on newer Mac OSs? Specifically, OS9.2, tho I'm also
curious about OSX -- or is there a specific OSX-based engine I must download for
MC? If so, I imagine it'll be MC2.4, in which case, can MC2.3 use a MC2.4
Hello,
I'm looking to convert a stack from
Windows to Mac.
Here's the question. The stack I
made works with file extension suffixes (eg, ".jpg", ".gif")) to restrict which
files get displayed. To do this I use a script line something like:
if char -1 to -4 is ".jpg" then
...
Can I as
Sorry, can't advise about sound, but...
> I wish the archive had a search engine...
The archive_s_ do. These are the urls for the two
archives I know of:
(new archive)
http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.runrev.com/
(old archive)
http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.be
Hello,
Thank you for offering your Gradebook on the mc list.
A couple of problems, both relating to the Windows version. The
"Windows" link on the website seems broken. A "Multiple Choices" window
popped up instead, suggesting I downlo
> Doesn't sound like it'll do what I need, which is to display Japanese
> characters and to convert them to HTML.
I know for sure that on the stack itself Japanese characters are
displayable -- assuming, of course, a Japanese-capable OS with Japanese
font(s). But MC itself, for example in the pro
Me too...
Nicolas
> I'd love some more info on this
>
> David
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: inter-process communication
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > FWIW, I'm not sure how cross-platform it is but I've written a DLL for
the
> > Win32 platform that I use to communicate between my
Andu wrote back:
> > on startup
> > if $REQUEST_METHOD is "POST" then
> >put $REMOTE_ADDRESS into userAddress
>
> This should be $REMOTE_ADDR not $REMOTE_ADDRESS, my mistake and Apache's
> inconsistency
Thanks Andu.
The following also works and was inspired by the echo.mt script:
Andu (thankfully!) wrote:
> That's right, you can keep track of the global $REMOTE_ADDRESS such as
>
> on startup
> put $REMOTE_ADDRESS into userAddress
Sorry but this didn't work.
Here's the relevant portion of my script:
-
#!mc
global userAddress
on startup
if $REQUEST_METHOD i
Hi,
I've set up an online .mt-based survey. Now, I want to restrict
(mischievous!) people who may want to revisit the survey in order to vote
again and again. How could I script things so that .mt checks whether a
person/computer has already voted?
I'm guessing the solution has something to do w
Hi,
Just wondering out loud here...
Is there any way of combining MC with handheld computer-devices such as palm
pilot? Assuming that you can't use MC to write programs for portable devices
(right? I know nothing about them), I envision some kind of webbased
delivery (thru mt scripts, which I alr
Hi,
The MC help states it's not possible to build Mac standalones on Windows.
Anyone with a Mac care to volunteer? :-)
My stacks average 13KB, but of course standalones would be over 1MB. If no
one takes me up on this I understand, especially since he/she is opening
themselves up to further reque
Hello,
Perhaps I misunderstand lineOffset and its behaviour when wholeMatches is
set to true... The aim of the word-search algorithm I'm trying to script is
to match words in one list to those in another. Actually, it's the line
number that I'm after, and I want only "whole" matches (i.e., "ma
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