Wednesday, November 7, 2007 5:35:08 AM Hello All! Using Hypercard as 'the front end', I regularly employ AppleScript to perform all kinds of neat tasks....
Dear HyperCard users, DIFfersifier 3.1.4 is now available. DIFfersifier is a simple conversion utility that exports text data from HyperCard, Revolution and...
Hi Deezer, Photoshop has very retarded AppleScript capabilities. You just can't close a file, which means that PS doesn't adhere to Apple's requirements. I...
... Found at http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=22837 tell application "System Events" to tell process "[name of app]" to keystroke "w" using command...
Hi Paul, I bet this solution needs Mac OS X. I'm not sure that Deeverd is running PS 4 under Classic in Mac OS X and I don't know whether GUI scripting works...
... This works for me in Supercard. Maybe you could figure out how to adapt it to Hypercard/Photoshop on whatEver put merge("Tell application `TextEdit.app` to...
Haroldo Mauro Jr.
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Nov 10, 2007 8:14 pm
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Hi Haroldo, You can do that because TextEdit has the required AppleScript suite. Obviously, Apple includes this suit with all its software. PS 4 doesn't have...
... I see. Thank you. BTW, when you open a document (for read) in Hypercard, without using AppleScript, can you specify its screen location? Haroldo...
Haroldo Mauro Jr.
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Nov 10, 2007 11:49 pm
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What kind of document do you mean, Haraldo? Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com ...
Hi This is the second time I've tried DIFfersifier. When you open it and try to open a hypercard stack the hypercard stacks are grey and can't be opened. ...
Spoke to soon, sorry. I found on your website that you have to hold the option key down before you push the open button to allow it to open hypercard stacks....
Hi Bill, Many thanks for the feedback. Of course, one should not need any kind of special trick to open HyperCard stacks. Once I have figured out what is going...
I mean any document made by other applications, as a BBEdit file, for instance. Haroldo...
Haroldo Mauro Jr.
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Nov 11, 2007 4:16 am
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Hi y'all, ... capabilities. Have you tried this : Adobe Photoshop 7 Scripting Plug-in 1.0.2 Adobe Photoshop 7 Scripting Plug-in allows you to automate...
... Are you refering to the "open file" command? Using "open file" doesn't open a document window, so there is no location to set. The "open file" command...
... I want to know if I can set the window location of tFile in the script below, where tFile is the full path to a Simple Text document. .... open file tFile...
Haroldo Mauro Jr.
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Nov 12, 2007 9:58 am
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Haraldo, In your script, tFile doesn't have a windowLocation, location, or even window property. It is a container, not an object. Best regards, Mark...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:12:16 PM Hello All! The first question you might ask is, "Why the topic of AppleScript in a group devoted to HyperCard?" My...
I'm working in OS 9 (not Classic) and need a scriptable method for extracting the full URL from a "Web page location" document (the kind created by dragging a...
Hi, If I remember correctly, you can use an external to read the data from the resource fork. The URL is in the "TEXT" resource or in the "url" resource. Best...
... Good news: You could use Rinaldi's ResText external. I used to use it to read Text Clippings into HC. The script is shown below. You could try modifying it...
firewiredartist, You are right, but SuperCard is the closest thing available. It will take some effort, but it should be possible to reproduce all those ...
Dear firewiredartist, Well, curse if makes you feel better, but of course it's of no practical use whatsoever. That ship has sailed ... Elvis has left the ...
pixelbird
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Nov 16, 2007 12:11 am
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... All you say may well be true, but the acceptance or rejection of 'progress' is ultimately up to each individual. We don't HAVE to have the latest version...
Hi, Has anyone here tried to see how much HyperCard functionality is in "Bento"? This is a new lightweight version of Filemaker. It may be a partial solution...
Sorry; c*ck up there: but try the wayback machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php then type: http://www.metacard.com into the search box! although things...
... I bought FileMaker 9 a few months ago and when I heard about Bento this week  I thought maybe Bento was "FileMaker Light". But after downloading the trial...
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