... Thanks André The root cause of the problem is that overnight the way Frontier (on the Mac at least) converts text strings of the form dd/mm/yy into dates...
4063
André Radke
andre_radke
Jan 1, 2011 12:09 pm
... How do you know that date arithmetic is involved? The error message itself relates to coercing a double value to a long value. Do you know which line of...
4062
bayswaterfarm
Jan 1, 2011 11:27 am
A Frontier/Manila-based web app of mine has started throwing date arithmetic errors this morning, eg "Error: Can't coerce "2869862400.0" to a long because it...
4061
u074036
Dec 6, 2010 4:19 pm
... In my case, I've determined that 100% of my "search crashes Frontier" cases are caused by the search routine finding the match string inside a wpTextType...
4060
dwiner
Nov 22, 2010 7:25 am
Imho you might as well report the problems. I have no ability to fix kernel-level issues, haven't worked at that level since the THINK C days (early 90s), but...
4059
af2412ripe
Nov 21, 2010 7:11 pm
Yes of course, File:Save or Ctrl+S (the Frontier Win 10.1a11 non-functionality of which was the origin of this thread). .ftop files File:Open without...
4058
dwiner
Nov 21, 2010 2:15 pm
Okay -- I guess you figured out that the File menu is where you want to create, open and save outlines. Yes? :-) And you're right, it doesn't save the font and...
4057
af2412ripe
Nov 20, 2010 6:24 pm
But unlike .ftop, saving in .opml does not save the global font and size, set from the edit menu....
4056
af2412ripe
Nov 20, 2010 6:24 pm
Sorry... I did not realize that I needed to change from .ftop to .opml file format. All is well. Thank you very much for an excellent solution!...
4055
af2412ripe
Nov 20, 2010 6:23 pm
Hi Dave, WOW! I am totally honored to hear from you. I was a TT128 user in 1986. For many years, I have struggled running More on the somewhat buggy Basilisk...
4054
dwiner
Nov 19, 2010 1:55 pm
I don't know which version of Frontier you're using, so I don't even know if I can help. I use the OPML Editor, which is a Frontier distribution configured to...
4053
af2412ripe
Nov 18, 2010 7:31 pm
Any clue how to save my outline without Frontier (Windows) automatically quitting? Note: I am a non-programmer, who desperately needs the outline capability of...
4052
dwiner
Oct 25, 2010 1:50 am
A bunch of bug reports followed by fixes and a major conceptual problem in the naming of the entry-points. ...
4051
Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Oct 23, 2010 8:49 pm
Clouds are like anything else new. New stuff usually ends up being faster, until it's not. The upside to most cloud setups is the ease with which the Virtual...
4050
Seth
yahoo.seth@...
Oct 23, 2010 5:24 pm
... Quick followup... I'm not using Amazon or Rackspace, but I am running on a "cloud" hosting system. I'm surprised to find it's faster than what I was using...
4049
dwiner
Oct 23, 2010 1:53 pm
We now have a full-blown JSON parser running in the OPML Editor. http://frontiernews.org/2010/10/23/json-parser-for-the-opml-editor/ It works exactly as...
4048
dwiner
Oct 9, 2010 4:22 pm
Well I couldn't wait. There was something too juicy to hold back on. I wrote a routine at builtins.xml.tableToJson. ...
4047
Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
Oct 8, 2010 10:06 pm
I'd actually (quietly, to-myself) started working on this a couple weeks ago, because I also need it for my software. My plan was to do it in C so I could put...
4046
dwiner
Oct 8, 2010 7:14 pm
Just posted this on FrontierNews. http://frontiernews.org/2010/10/08/we-need-json-code/ We need a builtins.json to go alongside builtins.xml. This is one of...
4045
dwiner
Oct 7, 2010 12:06 am
There's also glue for S3 and SimpleDB in opml.root in system.verbs.apps.s3. I'm going to do a fresh AMI for running OPML Editor-based apps, the one I have now...
4044
Seth
yahoo.seth@...
Oct 6, 2010 3:20 pm
... I haven't been paying close enough attention. I knew you were keeping a lot of data on Amazon's EC2, but I didn't realize you were running Frontier on...
4043
dwiner
Oct 6, 2010 9:00 am
All my servers run "in the cloud" -- on Amazon EC2 and on Rackspace's new Windows cloud. Works exactly as you'd expect, without any problems. If you want to...
4042
macrobyteresources
macrobyteres...
Oct 5, 2010 8:21 pm
Anybody tried it? I''ve just virtualized one of my servers, and the new cloud-based hosting service is about to activate it. (It's a VMWare-based system.) ...
4041
dwiner
Oct 2, 2010 11:47 am
A "feed hose" is like Twitter's firehose but for RSS and Atom feeds. I wrote up the protocol on Scripting News, with links to an implementation I have running...
4040
dwiner
Sep 24, 2010 8:38 am
Instant Outlining is now a part of the core release of the OPML Editor. This means that every copy of the OPML Editor can be an Instant Outline client or...
4039
Bill Kearney
wkearney99
Sep 8, 2010 3:19 pm
... And also consider that some ISPs will not let you send SMTP mail to other hosts, requiring that you go through their SMTP servers first. Mainly as a spam...
4038
bayswaterfarm
Sep 8, 2010 6:48 am
... I doubt the tcp code has changed: its in system:verbs.builtins.tcp. There's a version number there: mine is 1.03b and its working fine. Did you put your...
4037
russellgum
Sep 8, 2010 4:20 am
I had a database corruption that required installing a new copy of Frontier. The save a copy and replace roots did not solve the problem. Everything is working...
4036
Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
Aug 12, 2010 6:28 pm
I'll look into these, but not till September (I have some major deadlines between now and then). -Brent...
4035
dwiner
Aug 12, 2010 11:00 am
Over the last few years, as web apps come on-line, I've been writing glue script tables for them that are more or less analogous to those for scriptable Mac...
