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Terry's Place

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:12:00 -0000

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.

testing

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:14:00 -0000

pig
Originally uploaded by troutcolor

testing with a space

testing

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:53:00 -0000

pig
Originally uploaded by troutcolor

testing

ScriptLib update

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:36:00 -0000

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.

Simple_guides.sc45

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:44:00 -0000

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.

Image File Import Palette

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:58:00 -0000

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

ScriptLib 1 beta 13

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:29:00 -0000

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

Rommy Robot 3.0 Beta 7

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:39:00 -0000

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.

SuperCard 4.6.2 Released

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:26:00 -0000

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.

MPI 2.7 Out

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:18:00 -0000

ModuloPI 2.9 is available at this address :
ModuloPI
St�phane 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.

More new Universal Externals

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:45:00 -0000

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.

New Externals on Externals.net

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:38:00 -0000

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).

SuperCard 4.6

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:34:00 -0000

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.

Pivot 1.30

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:28:00 -0000

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

repository of experimental projects

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:34:00 -0000

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!

FinderPop for OS X

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:33:00 -0000

http://www.finderpop.com/ Great Classic utility now in OS X. via Daring Fireball

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:49:00 -0000

http://www.pocketmod.com/

Xmail Hard Drive.com :::::::: turn gmail into a portable hard drive for FREE

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:49:00 -0000

http://www.xmailharddrive.com/beta/ I've used gMail to keep may Supercard List mails, but you can now use it as general storage.

The Salmon Farm Monitor

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:26:00 -0000

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.

Crazy Rabbit

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:14:00 -0000

Crazy Rabbit

Earth From Above

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:28:00 -0000

Earth From Above via One-Trick CyberPony

Hidden Glasgow

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:26:00 -0000

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.

Map of Creativity

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:15:00 -0000

Map of Creativity
Interesting way to provide links to EDU projects around the world!

cows with guns

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:17:00 -0000

cows with guns daughter Christine sent me this, it made me laugh.

Heavy Users

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:50:00 -0000

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.