Try this if you will:
put shell("man" && "sh") -- or whatever unix command you desireWhats the secret of the hideous mmmaaannn formatting?
I found a GUI man page viewer or two, but they open and bring themselves to front,
not the solution I was looking for.
Well maybe I could figure out the formatting structure and parse it from this
put shell("cd" && "/usr/share/man/man1/"& return & "more" && "sh.1" )
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Also Thanks for the drag and drop info, I finally found those mails buried in my inbox,
and tried Klaus' plug in for a quick check oh how it works. Looking forward to digging in deeper
Reposted below for anyone who slept through class. :-)
Message: 24 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:45 -0500 From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Drag & Drop
On 9/11/04 12:59 PM, "william griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While we are on the subject, how does one manage to add drag to from desktop application functionality to rev based application icons and stacks? What are you trying to drag from "outside" into Revolution? Text, images, ... ? Text and Images would be a start, 3D models would an eventuality.
OK. Here we go:
TEXT
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First of all, you should be able to drag raw text from another application
to a Rev field automatically with no special setup or intervention
whatsoever.
However, if you want to drag text files into a field and have the contents
of the text file be put into the field, you can do this:
(script of field) on dragEnter set the acceptDrop to true pass dragEnter end dragEnter
on dragDrop
put the dragData["files"] into tFileList
if tFileList <> "" then
put url("file:" & (line 1 of tFileList)) into me
else
beep
end if
end dragDropNow the script above makes a number of assumptions: (1) that if the user
were dragging multiple files, that you only care about the first one, and
(2) that the file being dropped is actually a text file.
Let's deal with these one at a time:
(1) The dragData["files"] contains a return-delimited list of full paths to
files that are being dragged into Revolution. You could certainly do a
repeat loop through the files to find what you want, or alert the user if
there was more than one (the number of lines of the dragData["files"] >1),
etc.
(2) This is where Rev kind of breaks down. There's no quick way to determine
what the type of file being dropped *is*, although there is a laborious way
(which I'll detail below after we talk about images). However you could do
something simple, like assume the text file needs to have a .txt extension,
and do a "filter" on the dragData["files"] on ".txt", as in:
put the dragData["files"] into tFiles filter tFiles with "*.txt"
IMAGES
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Suppose you wanted to drag a graphic from disk into an image object. This is
very similar to the text example above.
on dragEnter set the acceptDrop to true pass dragEnter end dragEnter
on dragDrop
put the dragData["files"] into tFileList
if tFileList <> "" then
set the fileName of me to (line 1 of tFileList)
else
beep
end if
end dragDropThis assumes (1) that you have an image object already created into which
you want to drag the image file from disk, and (2) that if the user were
dragging multiple files, that you only care about the first one, and (3)
that the file being dropped is actually an image file.
Assumption Comments:
(1) You might have an empty image (perhaps through "create image") or a
pre-existing one. If you set the lockLocation of the image to TRUE, the
incoming image would be scaled up/down to fit the rect of the image object.
If the lockLocation of the image is FALSE, the image object would be scaled
to fit the rect of the incoming image. I would recommend turning on the
border and turning off the 3D if you want to have an image "drop region".
Now perhaps you don't want to have a pre-existing image object, but just
want to import the image when it is dropped on "the card". You can do it
this by having only a single object (it doesn't have to be an image) that is
the size of the card and is transparent (like a button) that has this code:
on dragEnter set the acceptDrop to true pass dragEnter end dragEnter
on dragDrop
put the dragData["files"] into tFileList
if tFileList <> "" then
create image
set the fileName of it to (line 1 of tFileList)
else
beep
end if
end dragDropSame basic assumptions apply as the earlier code, and of course you might
want to size the image object and lock it first, like:
create image set the rect of it to 200,200,400,400 set the lockLocation of it to true set the fileName of it to (line 1 of tFileList)
You get the idea.
Now we get to the fun part - the way to determine if the file(s) being
dropped are OK for the field/image/etc. Here's an example of how to bring in
text files ONLY for a field, which BTW concatenates the text from all files
dropped on the field (watch the line wraps):
on dragEnter
if hasTextFiles(the dragData["files"]) then
set the acceptDrop to true
focus me
end if
end dragEnterfunction hasTextFiles pFileList
-- assumes all files are from the same folder, looks for
-- any file that is a text file
-- If found, sets a custom prop to be used during the drop
-- looks for both file extension and type of file
put the directory into tOldDir
set the itemDel to "/"
put "" into tTextFiles
repeat for each line tFile in pFileList
if tTextFiles = "" then
put tFile into tDir
delete item -1 of tDir
if tDir = "" then put "/" into tDir -- happens at root
set the directory to tDir
put the detailed files into tFiles
replace "," with "/" in tFiles
end if
put lineOffset(cr& urlEncode(item -1 of tFile)&"/",cr&tFiles) into tLine
if tLine <> 0 then -- which should always be the case
if the number of items of (line tLine of tFiles) = 10 then
-- no type/creator
put "" into tTypeCreator
else
put item -1 of line tLine of tFiles into tTypeCreator
end if
if (char -4 to -1 of tTypeCreator = "TEXT") or \
(char -4 to -1 of tFile = ".txt") then put tFile & \
cr after tTextFiles
end if
end repeat
set the directory to tOldDir
delete last char of tTextFiles
set the uTextFiles of me to tTextFiles
return (tTextFiles <> "")
end hasTextFiles
on dragDrop
put the uTextFiles of me into tFiles
repeat for each line tFile in tFiles
put me & url ("file:" & tFile) & cr into me
end repeat
end dragDropYou can extend this model for checking for images, etc. Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drag & Drop
Another solution is to download my famous :-) "2lz2" palette, check the prefs!,
create a new stack with that palette and check its script :-)
I provide a generic D'n'D script there :-)
Get it here http://www.major-k.de/revstart.html:
Best from germany
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ________________________________________________
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