altThumbViewer control is used to scroll through a folder of images.  This demo stack will prompt you for a folder, then display the first image scaled properly in the folder in the window below. The user can use the scrollbar to scroll through all the images in the folder. There are custom properties for filtering images, accessing the path of the visible image and resizing and repositioning the control. You can cut and paste this group into your stack to use it. Just read the docs.

This control works on Windows, should work on Linux. It will work on Macs ONLY when accessing files with .gif,.png,.jpg,.jpeg file extensions. If someones decides to modify so that it views all Mac image TYPEs, let me know and I'll repost it here. It shouldn't be difficult, I just don't have time to code and test for Mac.

Now you can be automatically notified when this website has new items added. Just go to the Notification form at the bottom of the About page and press submit. We will send you an email* each time the website is updated.

I really like the Toolbar action of RunRev, so I decided to take it apart and recreate it for a couple of my own projects. I ended up creating a 'starter kit' for applications using this Toolbar stack.

Feel free to use it however you like.

(only tested on WinXP)

This is a helpful stack which has a number of pretty cool handlers for manipulating images. Using scripts only, this stack shows how to layer multiple images with different levels of transparencies on top of each other into a single image. The scripts have only been tested on PC, but are designed to work on Mac and Linux. Let me know below if you find any problems.

While playing around with Scott Raney's Convolution Matrix example in his externals tutorial for MetaCard, I decided to create a software only version which can be incorporated into any stack on any platform. While this technique is substantially slower, it does work and demonstrates the power of the imagedata property.

Using this stack you can play around with the following image effects:

-blur
-sharpen
-find edges
-color emboss
-soften
-soften (less)
-and others

Also included in the .zip download is Scott's external.dll (windows only) which demonstrates the same effects, only much faster. Place it in the same folder as MetaCard or the Revolution app. If anyone has compiled the XCMD, please let me know and I'll include it in this download. This stack *should* work correctly on all version of MC and RR, for all platforms. Let me know if you find any problems!

This is a Cursor Library stack inspired by Monte Goulding's libCursor stack. It uses the set the default cursor method rather than the lock cursor method. There are a number of other refinements as well.

Thanks to Jerry Daniels for his help on this stack.

Altuit's XML TreeView List Control can be set using a single command and XML string. Along with customized rendering options, it can also automatically process handlers with parameters based upon which line is clicked. It maintains a 'state' for the last clicked and available item. Custom icons can be set for each item as well. Simple to use:

set the altXML of fld ListXML to {XMLstring}
*NOTE: This control only works with RR greater than 1.1.1 or MC greater than 2.4.1


Features:
The XMLTreeView control lets you:

·Customize the + and - expand/contract buttons. Just replace the images: imgMinus and imgPlus with ones you wish to use.
·Change the Font Name, Size and Style. Just be sure to check the 'Fixed Line Height' checkbox.
·Assign different icons for different list items. Any element can have an icon attribute, which when set to an image, will display for its' respective list item. Use the fixedLineHeight property settings to expand the line to accomodate different sizes of icons
·Assign handler with a custom parameter for a list item. Any element can have an attribute which lists a handler to call when clicked on along with a custom parameter if so desired.
·Support for unlimited(?) nested elements. (Currently only tested to around 5, but it should work as the parser is iterative).
V beta 0.91 - fixed ink mode of hilite graphic on MacOS V beta 0.92 - fixed bug on hiliting when starting up. V beta 0.93 - added the "nolink" attribute so a list item does not necessarily call a handler. See instructions. V beta 0.94 - fixed a bug in the handler parameter code.

The altPostSAFileup command posts files and form data to a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) using the industry standard Sofware Artisans FileUp ActiveX control. It sends the completedMessage when finished. The HTTP response can be accessed from the custom property altSAFileUpResponse which can be checked in the completedMessage handler.

I use this instead of FTP for posting files to the Altuit website. Thanks to Jerry Daniels for letting me view some of his HTTP source code helping me to write this library.

Chris and I have developed the AltSAFileUp Library which should be compatible with file posting to webservers using form based file upload (RFC1867). In otherwords, it should work with Linux and Windows and has the following benefits over FTP.

1) don't have to maintain an FTP server with it's security issues
2) it's synchronous with your webapplication, so you don't have to check to see if a file 'got there'
3) you can process other form data along with the file at the same time. Just like an Asp or PHP page with forms on it, including an <item type=file>.
4) you could easily implement a file upload progress bar. If you're interested how to, let me know.

To implement you need a RFC 1867 compliant uploader like SAfileUp or other
on the server. The client can be any MC stack with the AltSAFileUp library.

This stack will FTP a file for you. You need to set the server settings, the username and the password. Then click Load File and Send Up to ftp the file to the server.

If you build a standalone of this stack, it will also support drag and drop a file onto the icon with automatic uploading of the file to the designated server. Not much error checking going on here, but it's easy to read and see how things work. Drag and drop only supported for Windows. See the Metacard list for info on how to do Macintosh Appleevent drag 'n drop.

altURL command

The altURL command posts form data and gets query data to / from a web server using the POST and GET action of HTTP. It sends the completedMessage when finished. The HTTP response can be accessed from the custom property altURLResponse which can be checked in the completedMessage handler. This is valuable in processing redirects as well as callbacks. There are two ways to call this command. One is by passing separate values for all parameters, the other is by merging all parameters into one URL?QueryString.

altURL ReqType, Host, Page, formList [,completedMessage]
altURLget URL?QueryString [,completedMessage]
altURLpost URL?QueryString [,completedMessage]


example:

altURL "POST","www.altuit.com","test.asp",myList,"myHTTPresponse"
altURL "GET","www.ibm.com","tst.asp","name=jack&pswd=123","dothing"

altURLget "http://www.ibm.com?name=jack&pswd=123","dothing"
altURLpost "http://www.ibm.com?name=jack&pswd=123","dothing"

Parameters:
The Host is a valid URL to a web server.

The Page is an valid Page request (typically an .asp,.jsp or cgi page).

The formList is a list of Form or QueryString Variables and their respective contents. Each line of the list will have a name value pair. If you wish to use spaces or special characters, be sure to URLencode them first.

ex. This list variable sends two name value pairs:

password=fred124
username=johnny


The completedMessage is an optional message sent to the stack upon completion of the command.

The URL?Querystring is a valid URL with appended QueryString. Even though this is typical in 'get' and not 'post' commands, here it generates both. Note the http:// is required.


customProperties of altURL Lib:

altURLHeader - the header text being sent minus the Host and Page and Content Length

altURLTimeOutSecs - the time in seconds for altPostSAFileUp to quit.

altURLresponse - the HTTP response sent from the server or empty if no response. Use with the completedmessage parameter to get the HTTP response.

To install:
Copy the button altURL Lib into your stack. Then insert into the open stack or startup handler of your stack:

insert the script of btn altURL Lib into back

Then you can call the altURL command from anywhere in your stack.

For more info contact Chipp Walters
Portions of this script used with permission of Jerry Daniels. Muchos Gracias Jerry!