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+ 0 - 0 | § ¶MPI Recent menu

As mentioned in the last entry: The "Recents" and "Favorites" sub menus of the files menu can now be edited from palettes. These palettes may be used as usual MPI modules as an alternative to the menus. The "Recents" sub menu can be sorted by dates.
This is very nice indeed, single clicking on an project lets you remove it from the list, double clicking opens the project. The sort by date is a great improvment imo to the alphabetical menu in the previous version. The sort is reflected in the Recent Menu as well as the palette.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶ModuloPI Version 2.3 Out

ModuloPI Version 2.3 was released today.
MPI now comes with an installer and a help module which is installed into the SuperCard Help folder.

A new "Open ..." item in the file menu which allows opening various
types of SC projects : help and player projects and projects from older
versions of SC, back to 2.x.
The "Recents" and "Favorites" sub menus of the files menu can now be
edited from palettes. These palettes may be used as usual MPI modules
as an alternative to the menus. The "Recents" sub menu can be sorted by
dates.

As anyone reading these pages knows I am a MPI fan and it keeps getting better.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Chilton: Latest MyPic Images

Test iStill's new 64-bit image analysis and enhancement engine! Email camera phone photos to MyPic@mac.com and they'll be automatically added here.
Latest MyPic Images

Chilton is working on new externals for image manipulation, photos emailed to the MyPic@mac.com are automatically enhanced and posted at the above url.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Comments Back on

I've turned the comments back on (not that there have been many).
I am now using to block comment spam, it has worked very well on my school blog Sandaig Otters

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶No fly travel writer

Another non-SuperCard post. I've read and enjoyed Kathleen Jamie's poems and travel writing. She was interviewed in the Guardian - In the nature of things today, a lovely interview especially this:

I was starting to get worried about the ethics of travel. Just jump on a plane and go here for the weekend, never mind about the tonnes of carbon you're dumping. I really, really think we are going to have to address this.

and this

Her conscience will, however, determine how she works. Plans to travel to the Arctic for the BBC "to see what's happening there" are in limbo. "It would be a wonderful, wonderful adventure," she says, "but at the same time you jump on three, four, five planes. You can't justify it."

That sold me her new book Findings I am going to read it on my no-fly holiday in July.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Getting errors in shell()

A recent thread on the SuperCard mail list covered this. I've normally directed errors to a file and checked that, eg:
curl http://www.apple.com --stderr file/path/to/hold/errors
But the list came up with a better way:

shell("blahblah 2>&1")
returns:
sh: line 1: blahblah: command not found
Which redirect stderr to stdout and saves checking a file. Thanks Tomas

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶New Externals

New Externals from http://homepage3.nifty.com/Himesuke/supercard/ including one to set the clipboard to a text string and a couple for converting mac to unix paths and back.
The site is in Japanese, but the projects are in Japanese and English.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Away

I am away with my class this week, hopefully blogged here:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/hol05.php if we can find a computer and a few spare minutes.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶SQLite and clipboards

New Externals from http://www.externals.net/
SQLite: Create, fill in, query and modify local file system-based SQLite databases.

Clipboards: The Clipboards external lets you save the main clipboard to a backup one, and restore it later. This is great when running SuperCard commands that destroy the clipboard. You can simply backup the clipboard before SC messes it up, and restore it afterwards.
Tomas gave a great SuperCard Chat today on using SQLite, it should be avalible from Bruce's iCal for SC iChat soon.

+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Recording MP3s with SuperCard

A wee bit of research in progress.
Record with the QTRecord external to a .mov file
convert to .aif file with MoovTosound external
convert to mp3 using lame from shell lame -h input.aif output.mp3
I got a precompiled lame from RareWares and have have not even installed it anywhere particular.
First try at converting random aif file didn't work, but ones recorded and converted as above seems to (Thanks Ian)