Using supercards 'open file', 'write' and other file handling commands, it is possible to manipluate files on the local drive. I have found that when I am...
... This works here : on mouseup put "afp://192.168.1.11/CLEM" into volumeName get merge("tell application `Finder` to mount volume ` [[volumeName]]`") get...
... It will work but you might need to hand it username and password as well: put "afp://username:password@.../CLEM" into volumeName Dan -- ... Let's...
... AFAIR, if you don't specify the username and password, the Finder assumes that you wish to be connected as guest. But I confess that I didn't test that. S....
Functions to return all or only afp mounted disks... excluding boot partitions. if param 1 not empty, returns mac paths. function volMounts mac --returns urls...
Hi Randall, ... How about AS or Shell hooks into the software that's opening it? Vince built a project called SUG Search (in our Yahoo! files area), which...
These should handle disk names with spaces but not "(" characters. Both versions that do the exact same thing... one mostly awk, the other mostly perl. (i'm...
Here's a function... function pdfpageCnt mPath --page count play movie mPath at -1000,-1000 with controller if not isNumber(it) then -- an error occured return...
BTW: invert the function and you can turn SC into a PDF viewer. The movie commands provide everything necessary to create page thumbnails and display pages. ...
Hi Ian, Indeed, it does work with MySQL. Even gotten Tcl to load the 'resource' package and read res fork resources. Will take some time to digest, adapt, and...
Hi Dave, Once you know what output you get back from a program, it's fairly easy to modify the script to avoid hangs. Building a terminal for the demo was...
I have noticed that the SC 4.1.2 external "Dir" includes application packages in it's list of returned finder items of type "folders". However, I can not seem...
OK, weird. I am setting up the contents of a standard scrolling list field. Under some conditiions... the displayed text is wrong... when I do a... on...
... Yes. 32k IIRC. It's a limitation of list fields. As you approach the wall, it slows down and seems to get erratic too. ... Same reason. Since *ListMaster...
Howdy, Just FYI, I've requested a formal SuperCard Technical Specification from Solutions, Etc. NOTE: the closest stuff I've seen is at SourceForge and is...
... Thanks to all for the suggestions. I ended up using: mount volume "afp://" & username & ":" & password & "@" & serverIP & "/" & ShareName and replaced the...
Check out the 'local volume' disk property in the System Events dictionary. BTW: Issuing an AS command to mount a disk doesn't throw an error if it is already ...
This is one of the miss-match problems that is frustrating me... even though Packages are technically folders... and even though the Dir external can, dive...
Well, think of the contents of a package the resources in the resource fork of applications. In Os 9 or less it was unthinkable to provide an answer dialog...
Hi Randall, ... This is an example of where a generic term, used in an attempt to simplify, is actually adding complexity. 'Technically' has no place in this...
... My question would be exactly the reverse of that one! I used dir()-- with "folders" as the last parameter -- to get a list of all applications in my...
... Or even better, I'd like an option to filter filesystem items in open dialogs by UTI. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ ...
I know how to get a list of servers from the Network disk tell application "Finder" to return every file of disk "Network" I know how to mount a disk on a...
Hi all. I posted this question on the AS forum but it appears that there is no one there. I am hoping that someone here is also a AS guru and can give me some...
... Are you saying that the external monitor's mirroring is off? IOW, the screen is lit, but there's nothing on it, correct? How good a fisherman are you? I...
