Hi Mike, ... I see. Why text-based? As I'm considering Prefs data at present, it would be much akin to a Control Panel. The dialog will have controls for...
... No reason other than tradition, and the fact that these days developers seem to be encouraged to use text-based docs with XML-style structures and tags for...
I have a project that I'm turning into a SC 3.6 standalone. I want to alter part of the name of the standalone periodically as it quits to reflect a change the...
... Maybe another way to get the mystery button back: MPI... Go to the Overview Module, find your button among the items (that can be handled like in the...
... You don't need AS for doing this. Use the FileCopy Xfcn (In XTend), then delete the original file with the delete file command (which, BTW, is not...
... I use the 'defaults'-command to read and write prefs as XML. There's a proj in the Files area at Yahoo! Groups called "Prefs Manager" that I make a while...
Hi Tomas, Thanks so much for the reply. ... Too bad. I'm not into OSX yet. Neither my old PowerBook 1400, nor any of my other Macs, except this G4 machine,...
... Ah ! you're talking about the standalone itself, I thought that you were talking about a satellite project. But even if you succeed changing the name of...
... Same here. I design the interface as a window of my application project. When the window opens it gets the preference data from the external text file,...
Terence, I've not figured out a way to execute AppleScripts that include subroutines with script(do...) ... i don't think it's possible. You can build an...
Hi Raghu: That's how I remember it. It happens so seldom I can't be sure. I'm a bit startled if it should happen at all. Normally, I think SC lets us know if...
Hi Keith, Thanks for the Re. ... OK, I understand overhead and _standardized_ text, but why XML (standard text is more likely to be around longer than XML)?...
I have a project which has been happily using transitions for moving between cards for the better part of a few months. No problems. I go build the standalone,...
Hi Ken You may indeed be right. Raghu made the same point earlier in this digest. I just am not sure about this at all. Just a recollection. I do know that...
Howdy folks, ... Yes I am. Exactly this. In fact, being able to get and set preferences will likely be the first external that will come of my xml efforts. ...
... Well, XML-like, really. And of course as this is just text it isn't that hard to use the logic of the XML structure idea to store data using your own...
Hi Dan, ... Yes, I see. Makes sense to me. How about a separate Prefs project? One that might have a bot which helps the user decide which preferences work...
Howdy, I'm having problems with my Mac standard keyboard. The keys are too small and too close together. IU keep hjitting tywo or more jkeys at once (slightly...
Hi Keith, ... True but we need to look down the road a ways, too, eh? ... I mean byte data. What is it? Is it raw Mac, ASCII code, what? TIA, Ken N....
OK, next part: In general, where should I read the Prefs data into... Pros/cons of global vars, userprops, others? Speed compromises? I'm using globals now,...
... One reason to do that is that other apps can read but most important add stuff (their own tags) to the XML-file. To me it sounds really frightening but my...
Well after yahoo decided not to work with .mac, I was temporarily booted from the list. I then went through the email verification and that didn't work. So I...
