metacard and language tools

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

everything is possible!
though you forgot to mention Mac or PC...

Since you mention a .txt, i assume PC...

Use the Open Process (mybatchfilename.bat) (also works for WSH)

and read the result from your batch in an output file (use the  cmd
redirection command >> filetooutputto.txt)
Read the result from MC... This will give you the best multitasking
capabilities... 

Shell(mybatcommands) will block your MC GUI until the shell returns 
its answer...(if it returns - which is just what im battling against right
now!) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sbancher at utm.utoronto.ca [mailto:sbancher at utm.utoronto.ca]
> Sent: 18 April 2002 14:00
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: metacard and language tools
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible with Metacard to open in 
> the background 
> another application, paste in a new document the content of a 
> specific field, 
> do a spellcheck or word count and import the results in metacard.
> 
> To be more specific,  I have created a language testing 
> program which also 
> include a composition. Once the student write the 
> composition, my program will 
> analyze it and report some features of that composition in a 
> .txt files.
> 
> I would like to combine my program with another commercially 
> available software 
> (Errata Corrige, an Italian language tool).  The idea is to 
> have metacard paste 
> the composition in a new document in Errata Corrige and ask 
> it to choose the 
> menu item "statistics". When asked for statistics, Errata 
> Corrige would produce 
> a graph (image), which I would like to import in metacard or 
> directly in 
> the .txt file or .rtf file.
> 
> Is something like this at all possible?  If so, does anyone have any 
> suggestions?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Salvatore
> 
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