Radio/Frontier tips
Now and again I’m reminded of things that not all Radio/Frontier scripters know that they should know:

Here are two that just came up:

1. You can get the text from a wp-text very easily.

People often write something like this:

edit (@some.text.object)
local (s = wp.getText ())
close (@some.text.object)

Here’s the better way:

local (s = string (some.text.object))

Yes, you can coerce directly to a string. Very clean.

2. You can open sub-tables in their own windows.

Just double-click in the Value column for a table, and that table will open in a new window. Or type cmd-enter (on Macs; I forget what it is on Windows).

Anyway, this has been a public service announcement. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
03:37 pm #

Trailing slash
Here’s one way fairly reliable way to tell the writing of a Windows user from a Mac user: Windows users tend to omit trailing slashes from URLs.

It’s not 100% reliable, but I’ve noticed it’s pretty reliable.

A Windows user will type: http://www.example.com

A Mac user will type: http://www.example.com/

Same with sub-folders...

Windows user: http://www.example.com/some/sub/folder

Macintosh user: http://www.example.com/some/sub/folder/
03:09 pm #

Independence
The Declaration of Independence from OS 9.

Tragically, I still have to run Classic now and again so I can use Word 98. Ugh. It’s not that I want to use Word 98.
01:45 pm #