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+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Chilton's iDisk

Chilton's iDisk has of course a great bunch of externals. An OS X version of Camera appeared there a while back. Camera is a brilliant Xcfn (used to be a XCMD) for getting screenshots into SuperCard, much faster that calling shell(screenshot) and it works in OS 9 unlike shell. When picking up Camera I also notice an improved keyIsDown Xcfn too(v2), report on all the keys that are down when called.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Darwinian Poetry: Home

Ok, here's the idea: starting with a whole bunch (specifically 1,000) randomly generated groups of words (our "poems"), we are going to subject them to a form of natural selection, killing off the "bad" ones and breeding the "good" ones with each other. If enough generations go by, and if the gene pool is rich enough, we should eventually start to see interesting poems emerge.

Darwinian Poetry: Home
just in case anyone came here looking for poetry, this looks interesting.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Label_Snapshot.proj

I've uploaded this project. It produces a screenshot of the current card with name or id lables on each object. I find it handy when trying to remember the names of objects when writing scripts. details, screenshots and download.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶globalLoc()

Spent a stupid hour wondering why this would not work (in SuperCard), yesterday. ofcourse it does, I was calling it from a palette window, translating the loc of an object on the main card. SetWindow topwindow() fixed that. But it took me so long, I though I was going mad.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶iTunes

I don't really listen to a lot of music, but I've used an appleScript  iTunes to iChat & HTML AppleScript which makes a list of songs in an iTune folder and ftps them to a web site. I used it to add a list to this page, but I'll probalby forget to run the script.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶OS X User Name in SC

added to Script Lib
A way to get the user via appleScript, by me, a way using Shell by Tomas Franzén.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶ModuloPI 1.2

ModuloPI Version 1.2 is out. MPI is an alternative RTE for SuperCard, my review of the last version is here.
New in this version is a great overview module

screenshot popup..

This is a brilliant piece of scripting (more)

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Getting Errors from Shell() in SuperCard

A lot of shell() scripts in SC not to return an error.
lorenz tschudi pointed out to the SC list that adding --stderr and a unix style fylepath to a shell command get any error written to a file, so you can use a script to check for errors in the file after using shell. I have already used this to improve the Simple Curl proj that shipped in the samples folder with SuperCard, I'll put it up for download soon. (more)

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶SourceRect and Scrollbars

I have be playing with these SuperCard features and added project to the Simple_Guide.proj set up.
You can see a screenshot

here...

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶A bit busy

I have spent the first week of holiday doing some flash stuff, so have no SuperCard things to talk about. Hopefully that will change next week.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶filepaths characters in shell

I announced the lens proj on the SC list, unfortunatly I uploaded to the Simple_Guide.proj folder to be downloaded by Simple_Guide.proj. This puts it in the "Simple Guide " folder, shell doesen't like in file paths, this stops the lens proj working as it relays on a shell script refering to the folder it is in.
Workaround rename the folder 'Simple Guides' and change the card script in the Simple_Guide.proj.
Mike Yenko told me that there are quite a few chars like this, and you need to change them to the unix equivalents before passing them to shell().