Re: removing stuff between '<' and '>' ?

Quoting Voytek Eymont <[email protected]>:
> John,
>
> ahem, dumb operator's dumb error....
>
> I can't recall (or figure out...) where/how to put the script, save/name
> it, and invoke it...
>
> I'm going over the old notes you sent me last time, but haven't found it yet.

I've modified a tutorial I did a long time ago for your project.  Read  
and do the whole thing below and you'll be up and running.

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pScripting tutorial:

    Since I am frequently helping others use pScripting for Palm OS,  
I've written this intro tutorial to avoid repetition of effort.  I  
have no commercial connection whatever with the pToolSet and pedit  
family of apps, but rather am myself a long-time happy user of them  
(and a beta tester), grateful to their developer, Paul Nevai, for  
their power, utility, and high quality.

    pToolSet is a suite of 29 .prc's, a few of which will appear as  
apps in your launcher, but most of which run invisibly as background  
extensions until called upon.  These have a multitude of utility  
functions such as full-featured text editing of any Palm text field,  
making entries into calendar, memo, and task DBs while still in other  
apps, and text searches, and much more.  In addition pToolSet enables  
the use of macro scripts, called pScripts, which will automate nearly  
any sequence of actions normally performed manually with keystrokes,  
button presses, and stylus.  Full use can be made of all the utility  
functions of pToolSet without ever using pScripts.  pScripting can be  
used to automate and facilitate use of the Palm device without using  
any of the other pToolSet modules.  pToolSet and the pScripting  
computer language were written by Paul Nevai, a professor of  
mathematics at Ohio State University.

   To evaluate pToolSet  go to

       http://home.columbus.rr.com/nevai/palm/

and click in the left column on the pToolSet link under the pToolSet  
heading, and also download the html manual listed under ptoolSet  
documentation.  To make full use of pScripting, also download the html  
manual under pedit documentation, and the pScriptRunner link under the  
pToolSet heading.

    There are 29 .prc's in the pToolSet folder.  Install them all, as  
they are interactive and needed for full function.  Do not install the  
contents of the 00pToolButtons subfolder.  Once installed pToolSet  
should automatically be on and running, but to be sure, look in your  
launcher and tap/select the "pToolOn" app.  The functions of all the  
pToolSet modules are fully described in the pToolSet manual.  The  
reason for downloading the pedit manual is that it contains the full  
manual for the pScripting language, which was initially written by  
Paul Nevai for the pedit text editor apps, but which has been extended  
to operate via pToolSet globally, without the need to have one of the  
pedit test editor family e.g. peditPro.

    The master control, in essence a launcher, for pToolSet is  
pMasterTool.  When launched it appears as a single column list of all  
the pToolSet modules and a number of actions.  It can be launched in a  
variety of ways detailed in the manual, including screen taps, button  
press-and-holds, and key presses.  However, to start, the easiest way  
is to open the command bar (stylus forward upward slash stroke) and  
tap the P-house icon which will be present if pToolSet is on.  If you  
have a Treo the command bar can be displayed using a feature of Butler  
or 2LaunchMe.  If you have a Treo but no way to display the command  
bar, proceed as in the next paragraph, taken from the manual.   
Otherwise skip to the paragraph after next.

    You can activate pMasterTool as an Operating System Extension,  
which is the launcher for pToolSet modules and special actions, using  
a screen tap, a hard button press and hold, or the ESC key mechanism,  
as follows. Launch the pToolPrefs application which will have appeared  
in your launcher after installing pToolSet. Check on the "buttons" and  
"taps" check boxes. Select the "Taps" button. Select the long box  
under "pick tap pattern:" and select "BOTTOM border of DisplayScreen".  
Select the box next to "LAST FOURTH" and select "current pMasterT".  
Select OK and OK. Now a screen tap in the right fourth of the screen  
bottom edge will launch pMasterTool as the extension. Another  
practical choice is the "LAST FOURTH" of the "RIGHT border of  
DisplayScreen". ?Similarly, using the "Buttons" button in pToolPrefs  
you can designate a press-and-hold of one of the hard buttons to  
activate pMasterTool. Or, to use the ESC key mechanism, launch  
pToolPrefs and check on the "use ESC key" box. Put an infrequently  
used lower case letter such as "z", or one of the opt button  
characters such as "+" in the highlighted space. When you press the  
letter key once, or press opt plus key simultaneously, pMasterTool  
will launch. To type the character press the letter key a second time,  
or press opt and character in sequence rather than simultaneously.

    You can have more than one method to display the pMasterTool list  
(henceforth "PMT") set up.  You can also configure the PMT list in  
different orders, and can configure it to use lower-case key presses  
to activate the modules for Treo friendliness (see the manual or ask  
me or the pedit forum).  If your interest is in using the pToolSet  
modules, the tutorial is done.  Just open PMT and activate a module  
and experiment, read the manual(carefully, it is very  
information-dense), visit the forum.  Explore the PMT dropdown menus  
obtained by tap/press on menu, or tap on the header bar, while the PMT  
list is open.  If you want to do pScripting, read on.

    Usually if you are reading this far it is because I'm helping you  
with a specific pScripting project goal such as automating a sequence  
for use in some app such as DateBk.  The following will take you up to  
the point where we will do the specific pScript you need.
1)  Open PMT.   Select pScriptPad.  This will open a memo-pad-like  
text field with the header scriptPad-#1.  This pad, and only this one,  
is recognized by the pScripting engines of pToolSet to contain the  
code which constitutes pScripts.
2)  First we'll set it up so you can use pScriptButtons, and several  
other methods, to launch pScripts.  2 or 3 lines down from the top of  
pScriptPad write

custBtnPageTotal=1

Everything you write in pScriptPad must be exact, as it is computer  
code and taken literally.  For example, there are no spaces in  
"custBtnPageTotal=1".

2 or 3 lines below custBtnPageTotal=1 write

custBtn.001.1
pScript_01

Now Voytek, put the {remove < >::  pScript here, so your pScript pad  
should now look like

custBtnPageTotal=1

custBtn.001.1
pScript_01
{remove < >::
/&ifAbort@[$^==0]
/&script$[@@rem< >2@@]}
{rem< >2::
/&specAct[8] <
/xEpst  I
/xEpst  S
/xEpst  W
/xEpst f
/xEpst d
/0x1C
/&script$[@@rem< >3@@]}
{rem< >3::
/!/$c/&varSet@[$4,$$]
/&script$[@@rem< >4@@]}
{rem< >4::
/&specAct[8] >
/xEpst f
/xEpst d
/0x1D
/&script$[@@rem< >5@@]}
{rem< >5::
/!/$c
/&varSet@[$5,$$]
/&varAdd@[$5,-$4]
/&varSubStr@[$B,$^,$4,$5]
/&clipAdd i[$B]
/&script$[@@rem< >6@@]}
{rem< >6::
/&specAct[8]
/&script$[@@rem< >7@@]}
{rem< >7::
/ep
/xEpst f
/xEpst d
/0x08
/&mess[@@DONE@@,,150]}


Tap OK to leave pScriptPad

Open a text field that has a test text to try out the remove< > script  
on, something like

xxxxxxxxx  <abcdabcd > zzzzzzzz, with the cursor flashing anywhere in  
the field.

Open the pMasterTool list as you learned to do above and select  
pScriptButtons  (Buttons, not Pad).

Tap the button that says "remove < >".

Voila.
   ~ John






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