I'm using SC4.6.2 on a MacBook and OSX 10.4.11 and running a project I have used for years. In the last month, a script that updates stock data overnight has...
Paul. What I would do is add a script to the project, so when it opens a card, it writes out to a file the card ID it just opened. Then as long as you know the...
Hi, I have seen a visual speed increase of execution of my SC projects since updating to 4.6.3... anyone else notice this? Any explanations? Just...
David Flanders
DFlan@...
Jun 4, 2008 9:41 pm
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Remember when... you use to think supercard projects were almost as large as yesterday's text editors? but not now. YeeHaa. &^) David David Flanders ... ...
Hi Lowell, In the days of system 7.1, pre - OSX and supercard 2.x. David Flanders ... DFlan@... ... Environment: MacBook Pro Intel, Core 2 Duo 2.33...
David Flanders
DFlan@...
Jun 6, 2008 6:11 am
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This really puzzles me, David. Do you mean that text editors were as small as a SuperCard stack? SimpleText was 74K, while a simple SuperCard project is/was as...
Boy you could hear a pin drop! Either everyone is heading out on vacations, or maybe they are so pleased with SC 4.6.3 that they are all busy developing the...
Howdy, OK, let me try this again -- here's the script: on mouseUp switch case not(isNumber(bg fld "recHRS")) answer "Record Hours must be a number in nearest...
Hi Mark, Yuppers that's right. course 4K would mean no script or graphics. mine I usually had at least 125 K and some were half a meg! even with a simple...
David Flanders
DFlan@...
Jun 7, 2008 6:03 am
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Hi Guys, ... put screenRect( n ) into my_N_monitor. n being the only param. Gives the bounding rect of n screen. ... Hey we are in the multiple monitor age and...
David Flanders
DFlan@...
Jun 7, 2008 6:50 am
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Hi. I need some help here. Would like to use shell() to compress and expand files and folders with OSX's bevy of accessories but I don't know how to do this...
David Flanders
DFlan@...
Jun 7, 2008 8:32 am
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Hi Dave, I can't remember any helpful hint but there are a few scripts in scriptLib that might help: <http://www.scriptlib.net/search.php?st=zip> cheers john...
Hi Ken, I can confirm this behavior, and the line in question is returning "false" yet still running the underlying case statements. I don't see any reason for...
... Quoting the LG : The exit switch statement is used to terminate the execution of statementList for the corresponding case statement. If no exit switch ...
... PS : As I understand it, when there is no exit switch, the interpreter performs a boolean or (i.e. inclusive) of the cases, IOW, the following statements...
hi david In Terminal, look at the man pages for zip. bzip2 makes more compact archives, but it is only available in certain OS versions, and I'm not sure if it...
David, There may be a somewhat easier way to do this also... Tomas Franzen has a demo on how to use BOM and Archive utility to make archives. You can download...
Hi Stéphane, ... Well, you're right, but it also says this: If expression being tested evaluates to “false”, the next case statement will be evaluated,...
Hi again, ... Too many cases. I just restructured it to to include the 'exit switch' for all cases and throw the dialog if the not(isNumber) = true, then ran...
... Yes but this is if there is "exit switch" for each case. This example from the LG on RespondToUser put field "Salutation" into tSal switch tSal case "Mr." ...
Well, for those of you who have .Mac accounts, there will be some minor changes (or major, if you have old computers with 10.3). One feature which is...
Many thanks for the suggestions Stéphane. The solutions take care of a few things in the function that look like they would help, but, of course, the project...
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