+ 0 - 0 | § ¶SuperCard shell essentials wiki
supercard shell essentials wiki.Set up by Dave Saunders, the SC list's DCS.
Looks like it is going to be an essential SC resource.
+ 2 - 0 | § ¶Rommy Robot 3.0 Beta 6 out
Roomy Robot Version 3 Beta 6 out.A few bug fixes and a couple of new features.
Both bugs and feature were in response to some user feedback so i was really encouraged to work on Rommy, but...
Due to work commitments Rommy's development is not going as fast as I would like. I hoped to do a great deal of work over our spring break, but I got some work that pays; creating some training material for teachers on blogging and podcasting. I am afraid I could not afford to miss the opportunity to earn.
Anyway the new beta will not timeout for a year.
Rommy Robot Details and Downloads.
And I hope to do a lot more work on Rommy over the summer holidays.
+ 0 - 0 | § ¶Creating icons in SuperCard a Partial Solution
SuperCard can display icns resources stored in the resource fork in a Bevel Button.SuperCard can display icns resources stored in the data fork in a rectangular button.
Yesterday I found some AppleScript code for making icns from tiff files at Shullian Productions AppleScript, while googling for a solution to get the urls from muliple Safari tabs.
This AppleScript uses a couple of unix utilities: tiffutil and tiff2icns.
tiffutil lets you manipulate TIFF files.
tiff2icns can be used to convert TIFF images to 'icns' files.
So here is how we can make some icons for SuperCard without leaving SuperCard.
Create some artwork, it needs to end up at 128 by 128 pixels.
Export that to a tiff file
scale the art to 48 x 48 export that to another file. repeat until you have 4 files one each; 128, 48, 32, 16 pixels square.
Use the tiffutil in the shell function to combine your tiffs:
tiffutil -cat infile1 [infile2 ...] [-out outfile]Use the tiff2icns to convert your tiff to an icns
tiff2icns [-noLarge] infile [outfile]Read the icns file into a varable use the StarTest external to create a new icns data fork resource with the data.
get startest("add star", long name of your project here, "icns", icon name, data from icns)you can now set the icon of a rect button to the id you get back.
To use the icon in a bevel button move it to the resource fork with copyResource from Xtend set the contentType of the button to typeIconFamily and the icon to the id of the new resfork resource.
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+ 0 - 0 | § ¶ModuloPi version 2.6.1
ModuloPi version 2.6.1 - updated on 4/2/06.New in Version 2.6
A polygon smoother:
And an addition to the customPointerDown module: Grids:
When checked if you drag an object with the pointer tool it will remain aligned on the invisible grid. The grid size ajusted with the popups on the module.