Bad Poet ||| mostly SuperCard ||| 'bad poets borrow, good poets steal' 2008-01-31T05:41:10-00:00 John http://www.littlefishsw.co.uk/log/index.php john@littlefishsw.co.uk tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet Pivot Copyright (c) 2008, Authors of Bad Poet Terry's Place 2007-09-09T09:12:00-00:00 2007-09-09T09:12:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.397 Terry’s Place: SuperCard Externals is a site listing for download SuperCard externals from Terry Heaford. Some very useful SC tools including at the moment: datePicker, ExifRead, image, mergeImages, imageText, rotateText, contactSheet, posixPathTools, keyisdownX2.2, iconFamily and imageFile. Pop over to SC Externals for more information.


Terry’s Place: SuperCard Externals is a site listing for download SuperCard externals from Terry Heaford. Some very useful SC tools including at the moment:
datePicker, ExifRead, image, mergeImages, imageText, rotateText, contactSheet, posixPathTools, keyisdownX2.2, iconFamily and imageFile.
Pop over to SC Externals for more information. ]]> Admin testing 2007-07-16T17:14:00-00:00 2007-07-16T17:14:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.396 pig Originally uploaded by troutcolor testing with a space
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]]> Admin ScriptLib update 2007-07-08T15:36:00-00:00 2007-07-08T15:36:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.394 I've updated Scriptlib on the server side to replace non-break-space chars (often copied from mail) to spaces and to allow the website to show ≠ characters properly. These showed up in Stéphane's multisort function. If you are using the ScriptLib SuperCard project there is no need to update that. Scriptlib on the server side to replace non-break-space chars (often copied from mail) to spaces and to allow the website to show ≠ characters properly.
These showed up in Stéphane's multisort function. If you are using the ScriptLib SuperCard project there is no need to update that. ]]> Admin Simple_guides.sc45 2007-06-24T16:44:00-00:00 2007-06-24T16:44:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.393 Simple_Guides.proj is a SuperCard project that lists and downloads other SuperCard projects from a server. The projects are an assortment of simple examples and SuperCard guides. Simple_Guides.proj hopes to fulfill two functions.As a simple example of a way SuperCard can download and open projects from the internet.To provide simple guides to some aspects of SuperCard. Read more: Simple Guides Download Simple_Guides_03.sc45.zip version 0.3 Updated for Intel and to the SuperCard 4.5 file format. Simple_Guides.proj is a SuperCard project that lists and downloads other SuperCard projects from a server.
The projects are an assortment of simple examples and SuperCard guides.
Simple_Guides.proj hopes to fulfill two functions.
  • As a simple example of a way SuperCard can download and open projects from the internet.
  • To provide simple guides to some aspects of SuperCard.

Read more: Simple Guides
Download Simple_Guides_03.sc45.zip version 0.3 Updated for Intel and to the SuperCard 4.5 file format. ]]> Admin Image File Import Palette 2007-06-24T11:58:00-00:00 2007-06-24T11:58:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.392 This wee project will display thumbnails of a folder of images, optionally show you some information about them and allow you to drag the fullsized image onto your SuperCard windows to create pictureData graphics. Screenshot The project uses Terry Heaford's contactSheet external to display the images and his ExifRead external to show information, when there is no Exif data in the image it uses the commandline utility sips to get some information. Download image file import.sc45
This wee project will display thumbnails of a folder of images, optionally show you some information about them and allow you to drag the fullsized image onto your SuperCard windows to create pictureData graphics.
Screenshot
The project uses Terry Heaford's contactSheet external to display the images and his ExifRead external to show information, when there is no Exif data in the image it uses the commandline utility sips to get some information.
Download image file import.sc45 ]]> Admin ScriptLib 1 beta 13 2007-06-13T17:29:00-00:00 2007-06-13T17:29:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.391 Scriptlib is a project that can download SC scripts from http://www.scriptlib.net It also lets you search for scripts and add your own to the site. now updated for intel. ScriptLib Project page Scriptlib is a project that can download SC scripts from http://www.scriptlib.net
It also lets you search for scripts and add your own to the site.
now updated for intel.
ScriptLib Project page

]]> Admin Rommy Robot 3.0 Beta 7 2007-04-15T09:39:00-00:00 2007-04-15T09:39:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.390 I've reased another version of Rommy Robot today. I've not really had a lot of time to work on Rommy over the last year as my educational computing has gone in another direction. This Beta will not time out, is universal and is no longer shareware, rommy is now free (donations accepted), no registration required. Rommy Robot is a child friendly screen programmable robot. Rommy Robot is useful for teaching Shape, Position and Movement in primary mathematics and is a way of introducing young children to control technology. I've reased another version of Rommy Robot today.
I've not really had a lot of time to work on Rommy over the last year as my educational computing has gone in another direction. This Beta will not time out, is universal and is no longer shareware, rommy is now free (donations accepted), no registration required.

Rommy Robot is a child friendly screen programmable robot.
Rommy Robot is useful for teaching Shape, Position and Movement in primary mathematics and is a way of introducing young children to control technology. ]]> Admin SuperCard 4.6.2 Released 2007-02-20T20:26:00-00:00 2007-02-20T20:26:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.389 Solutions Etcetera today announced that SuperCard 4.6.2, a maintenance update to its Universal Binary version of SuperCard is now shipping. The update is available, free of charge, to all registered SuperCard 4.6 users via download from the SuperCard website (http://www.supercard.us/).New in 4.6.2 It has been a long time since I blogged here, as I am busy at school but I've missed a few releases of ModuloPI which is now at version 3.1b1 - updated on 02/11/07 works perfectly with SC 4.6.2 and still the essential editor for me.
Solutions Etcetera today announced that SuperCard 4.6.2, a maintenance update to its Universal Binary version of SuperCard is now shipping. The update is available, free of charge, to all registered SuperCard 4.6 users via download from the SuperCard website (http://www.supercard.us/).
New in 4.6.2

It has been a long time since I blogged here, as I am busy at school but I've missed a few releases of ModuloPI which is now at version 3.1b1 - updated on 02/11/07 works perfectly with SC 4.6.2 and still the essential editor for me. ]]> Admin MPI 2.7 Out 2006-10-25T18:18:00-00:00 2006-10-25T18:18:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.388 ModuloPI 2.9 is available at this address : ModuloPI Stéphane has added a lot of new features. Undo of objects deletion, font, size etc settable from contextual menu, A "bigger" and "smaller" feature has been added to increase or reduce the font size. and a lot of other great idea. If you use SuperCard and have not tried MPI I would get it now, the price is right and the feature list unbeaten. Here is the announcement on the SuperCard mail list in my RSS reader Vienna I made a request that the list would be made available as RSS and it happened straight away. ModuloPI
Stéphane has added a lot of new features. Undo of objects deletion, font, size etc settable from contextual menu, A "bigger" and "smaller" feature has been added to increase or reduce the font size. and a lot of other great idea.
If you use SuperCard and have not tried MPI I would get it now, the price is right and the feature list unbeaten.
Here is the announcement on the SuperCard mail list in my RSS reader Vienna I made a request that the list would be made available as RSS and it happened straight away.

]]> Admin More new Universal Externals 2006-10-15T15:45:00-00:00 2006-10-15T15:45:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.387 Alec Hole has added Repeating Date: This finds a repeating date. You give it an event start date, and how often the event repeats, e.g. once weekly or every eight days, and a test date. It can then find the nearest repeat to the test date, either before or after the test date. to Externals.net. and Terry Heaford has put two useful image externals onto the SuperCard Yahoo Files area: Images can manipulate the source image contained in a SuperCard variable, crop, pad, scale rotation etc. and mergeImages (beta) which implements the composite operations contained within Cocoa by merging two images. Repeating Date:

This finds a repeating date. You give it an event start date, and how often the event repeats, e.g. once weekly or every eight days, and a test date. It can then find the nearest repeat to the test date, either before or after the test date.

to Externals.net.
and Terry Heaford has put two useful image externals onto the SuperCard Yahoo Files area:
Images can manipulate the source image contained in a SuperCard variable, crop, pad, scale rotation etc.
and
mergeImages (beta) which implements the composite operations contained within Cocoa by merging two images. ]]> Admin New Externals on Externals.net 2006-09-10T07:38:00-00:00 2006-09-10T07:38:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.386 Tomas Franzén has released a couple of 4.6 universal externals SimpleTimer and ConvertEncoding. I think these are the first 3rd party externals in the New SuperCard 4.6 format and run on Intel hardware (I wish I could test that). SimpleTimer and ConvertEncoding.
I think these are the first 3rd party externals in the New SuperCard 4.6 format and run on Intel hardware (I wish I could test that). ]]> Admin SuperCard 4.6 2006-08-26T11:34:00-00:00 2006-08-26T11:34:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.385 SuperCard 4.6 was released. Main new feature is Universal Binary Architecture: SuperCard and SuperCard authored applications now run natively with enhanced performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macintoshes. which will be handy sometime in my future. SuperCard externals can now be built with xcode. And several new features including:Metal Window support (see the image above)Functions to convert HFS and POSIX file paths which will save a trip to appleScriptApplication function which returns the file path to the currently running copy of SuperCard or SuperCard Player.repeat for each volumeMount and volumeUnMount messages letting SC know when a volume is mounted or put away( pass the name of the volume) and several features to do with external development. SuperCard 4.6


SuperCard 4.6 was released.
Main new feature is Universal Binary Architecture:
SuperCard and SuperCard authored applications now run natively with enhanced performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macintoshes. which will be handy sometime in my future.
SuperCard externals can now be built with xcode.
And several new features including:
  • Metal Window support (see the image above)
  • Functions to convert HFS and POSIX file paths which will save a trip to appleScript
  • Application function which returns the file path to the currently running copy of SuperCard or SuperCard Player.
  • repeat for each
  • volumeMount and volumeUnMount messages letting SC know when a volume is mounted or put away( pass the name of the volume)
and several features to do with external development. ]]> Admin Pivot 1.30 2006-07-18T21:28:00-00:00 2006-07-18T21:28:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.383 I've just updated pivot to version 1.30, it looks good at the moment, although I'll need to swap to firefox to see the new wysiwyg editor. The most interesting thing looks like the improved spam tools: Everything else seems to be working ok, I'll wait a few days them upgrade my other blog The most interesting thing looks like the improved spam tools:


Everything else seems to be working ok, I'll wait a few days them upgrade my other blog ]]> Admin repository of experimental projects 2006-07-18T07:34:00-00:00 2006-07-18T07:34:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.382 DSC posted this to the SC list: repository of experimental projects.Some may require readily available externals be installed and/or bundle externals in the same folder as the project (WebKit bundle for instance). Some are outdated, incomplete, or incomprehensible. In short, the good, the bad, and the ugly Html built & served by a SC standalone cgi app too. looks like quite a collection over 60 projects! repository of experimental projects.
Some may require readily available externals be installed and/or bundle externals in the
same folder as the project (WebKit bundle for instance).

Some are outdated, incomplete, or incomprehensible.
In short, the good, the bad, and the ugly ;-)

Html built & served by a SC standalone cgi app too.

looks like quite a collection over 60 projects! ]]> Admin FinderPop for OS X 2005-10-29T09:33:00-00:00 2005-10-29T09:33:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.344 http://www.finderpop.com/ Great Classic utility now in OS X. via Daring Fireball http://www.finderpop.com/ Great Classic utility now in OS X. via Daring Fireball ]]> Admin PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer 2005-09-09T05:49:00-00:00 2005-09-09T05:49:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.336 http://www.pocketmod.com/ http://www.pocketmod.com/ ]]> Admin Xmail Hard Drive.com :::::::: turn gmail into a portable hard drive for FREE 2005-07-22T20:49:00-00:00 2005-07-22T20:49:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.324 http://www.xmailharddrive.com/beta/ I've used gMail to keep may Supercard List mails, but you can now use it as general storage. http://www.xmailharddrive.com/beta/ I've used gMail to keep may Supercard List mails, but you can now use it as general storage. ]]> Admin The Salmon Farm Monitor 2005-07-10T12:26:00-00:00 2005-07-10T12:26:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.322 The Salmon Farm Monitor Good Reasons for not eating Farmed Salmon! Lots of interesting pages and links including one to CBC Marketplace: Farm Raised Salmon which explains why SuperMarket Salmon are pink. The Salmon Farm Monitor Good Reasons for not eating Farmed Salmon!
Lots of interesting pages and links including one to CBC Marketplace: Farm Raised Salmon which explains why SuperMarket Salmon are pink.

]]> Admin Crazy Rabbit 2004-12-12T23:14:00-00:00 2004-12-12T23:14:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.274 Crazy Rabbit Crazy Rabbit ]]> Admin Earth From Above 2004-08-11T21:28:00-00:00 2004-08-11T21:28:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.252 Earth From Above via One-Trick CyberPony Earth From Above via One-Trick CyberPony ]]> Admin Hidden Glasgow 2004-08-10T10:26:00-00:00 2004-08-10T10:26:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.251 Hidden Glasgow great site about bits of Glasgow we don't often see. I grew up near Cardross Seminary and often fished in the burn beside the Seminary. Hidden Glasgow great site about bits of Glasgow we don't often see. I grew up near Cardross Seminary and often fished in the burn beside the Seminary. ]]> Admin Map of Creativity 2004-08-05T11:15:00-00:00 2004-08-05T11:15:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.249 Map of Creativity Interesting way to provide links to EDU projects around the world! Map of Creativity
Interesting way to provide links to EDU projects around the world! ]]> Admin cows with guns 2004-07-09T16:17:00-00:00 2004-07-09T16:17:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.241 cows with guns daughter Christine sent me this, it made me laugh. cows with guns daughter Christine sent me this, it made me laugh. ]]> Admin Heavy Users 2004-06-06T13:50:00-00:00 2004-06-06T13:50:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.234 McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users" I don't know how I missed ((((( SUPER SIZE ME ))))), but it will not open in the UK until late summer. McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users"
I don't know how I missed ((((( SUPER SIZE ME ))))), but it will not open in the UK until late summer. ]]> Admin tin foil! 2004-06-05T00:17:00-00:00 2004-06-05T00:17:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.231 tin foil prank tin foil prank ]]> Admin howies 2004-05-03T07:53:00-00:00 2004-05-03T07:53:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.221 howies® ethical clothing in a lovely flash via birdhouse.org howies® ethical clothing in a lovely flash via birdhouse.org ]]> Admin Quicksilver 2004-03-27T09:55:00-00:00 2004-03-27T09:55:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.211 Quicksliver Great looking Mac OS X file launcher/ clipboard utility and more. Good Tutorial Quicksliver Great looking Mac OS X file launcher/ clipboard utility and more. Good Tutorial ]]> Admin planet diary 2004-03-20T11:46:00-00:00 2004-03-20T11:46:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.209 planet diary planet diary ]]> Admin birdhouse.org: Tastes Like (Mutant) Chicken 2004-01-30T18:35:00-00:00 2004-01-30T18:35:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.200 birdhouse.org: Tastes Like (Mutant) Chicken birdhouse.org: Tastes Like (Mutant) Chicken ]]> admin Paper Toys - Paper Cut-Outs - Custom Paper Models at PaperToys.com 2004-01-26T19:16:00-00:00 2004-01-26T19:16:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.198 Paper Toys Paper Toys ]]> admin The Devil's Dictionary X 2004-01-10T15:32:00-00:00 2004-01-10T15:32:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.191 The Devil's Dictionary X The Devil's Dictionary (2.0) from Simon Willison's Weblog The Devil's Dictionary X
The Devil's Dictionary (2.0)
from Simon Willison's Weblog ]]> admin PedagoNet's Good News Hunting 2003-12-31T16:16:00-00:00 2003-12-31T16:16:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.188 For Teachers: PedagoNet's Good News Hunting: Survivor PedagoNet's Good News Hunting: Survivor ]]> admin Disturbing Auctions 2003-12-24T07:08:00-00:00 2003-12-24T07:08:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.184 Disturbing Auctions Disturbing Auctions ]]> admin Notes on a pillow 2003-12-20T15:28:00-00:00 2003-12-20T15:28:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.182 Notes on a pillow a new 'translation' of a book I like: Sei Shonagon's "Pillow Book", via More Like This WebLog Notes on a pillow a new 'translation' of a book I like: Sei Shonagon's "Pillow Book",
via More Like This WebLog ]]> admin TOUNGE OF FROG! 2003-12-19T17:19:00-00:00 2003-12-19T17:19:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.180 TOUNGE OF FROG! what can I say. TOUNGE OF FROG! what can I say. ]]> admin The Wondering Minstrels 2003-12-15T17:13:00-00:00 2003-12-15T17:13:00-00:00 tag:pivotpowered,2008:badpoet.177 The Wondering Minstrels The Wondering Minstrels ]]> admin