Re: xml and test

2004-06-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bob, You can search this list here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com and it appears Klaus beat me to the punch on the XML tutorial by Sarah. It is indeed a fine piece of work :-) Though you may wish to consider using Ken Ray's excellent XML parser written

Re: xml and test

2004-06-25 Thread Bob Hartley
At 12:12 25/06/2004, you wrote: Hi Bob, You can search this list here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com Excellent Chip Thanks for that and it appears Klaus beat me to the punch on the XML tutorial by Sarah. It is indeed a fine piece of work :-) Though you may wish

Alignment Problems

2004-06-25 Thread Marty Knapp
Since version 2.2, I haven't been able to get the Align selected controls (in the Objects menu) feature to work. If I open my stacks in 2.1 it works fine. I just tried the new 2.2.1 version and it doesn't work either. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution

Re: Alignment Problems

2004-06-25 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Jun 25, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Marty Knapp wrote: Since version 2.2, I haven't been able to get the Align selected controls (in the Objects menu) feature to work. If I open my stacks in 2.1 it works fine. I just tried the new 2.2.1 version and it doesn't work either. Hi Marty, I just confirmed

Buffered videoGrabber?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
Is it possible to get the videoGrabber's display into a buffered state? I could accept the performance hit... -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regex (MatchText) speed

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:43 AM, Ken Ray wrote: For a whole bunch of ways to increase performance, check out Wil Dijkstra's awesome research into increasing script performance: There is some good stuff there... I just went through and removed all of my put i + 1 into i routines. ;-) -- Troy

Panther question

2004-06-25 Thread FlexibleLearning
As I do not have Panther, can someone let me know why this apparently throws an error on OSX 10.3.2 but works on Jaguar? # Given folder path pPath, open desktop folder: on OpenFolder pPath set the itemdel to . if item 1 of the systemVersion = 10 then get shell(openpPath) else

Re: xml and test

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Hartley wrote: Indeed is there an archive that is searchable? The archive is here: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/ You can search it using Google with this URL: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com If you have as much trouble keep track of URLs as I

Whadaya need? A magnet?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
How exactly do you get metal to stick? I have a stack defined as having a metal background, when it opens in the IDE it doesn't honor it until I set the metal to false, then back to true. So, I did it in script in the first openCard event. It doesn't work. Same results in my standalone. The

Re: Panther question

2004-06-25 Thread James . Cass
Hugh - Your code worked for me, and opened any folder I pointed, including my Desktop folder. My default shell is /bin/tcsh, and I'm running Panther 10.3.4. This may not be your problem, but keep in mind on a Panther Mac, newly created users will have /bin/bash as the default shell.

Delete URL... and the result

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
When I use delete URL, the documentation says that the result will be empty if it works, and populated with an error message if not. In my case, the result is not empty. It contains something like error 200 Okay. But the delete works. The odd part is, if I test the result, like - if the

Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Dan Shafer
I've been using Rev on OS X for a long time. I haven't yet upgraded to 2.2.1 but I've been running 2.2 since its release. For the most part, my experience has been fairly trouble-free. But in the past two weeks as I work on a more complex project than my previous ones, I'm finding that Rev

Re: Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Needless to say, this has me pausing and wondering about the overall stability of the environment under moderate stress. I know I've read other messages here from time to time on the subject. What is your recent experience? Is this an anomaly I

Re: Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Dan Shafer
On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Needless to say, this has me pausing and wondering about the overall stability of the environment under moderate stress. I know I've read other messages here from time to time on the subject. What is

Upgrades Should Be More Transparent

2004-06-25 Thread Dan Shafer
I hope that in the near future -- as in before the release of 2.3 -- RunRev will figure out how to make an installation of an upgrade smoother. I have to download the new version (in its entirety), copy over all the non-duplicated stuff in my current Rev folder, launch, and provide my license

Newsletter - STOP!

2004-06-25 Thread HEMCOM Software
Please you take me out of your Newsleter. No more enamels REQUEST. Thanks. M. Ulusoy ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 9, Issue 65

2004-06-25 Thread Wouter
On 25 Jun 2004, at 18:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 8 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:42:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: popup - pulldown command To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: Upgrades Should Be More Transparent

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: I hope that in the near future -- as in before the release of 2.3 -- RunRev will figure out how to make an installation of an upgrade smoother. I have to download the new version (in its entirety), copy over all the non-duplicated stuff in my current Rev folder, launch, and

Re: Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Now, in this app, I elected to do NO menu stuff. None. Why? Every time I tried messing with menus, Rev would crash. ;-) ALL of my menus are contained within the app, in the form of option buttons, etc. It isn't ideal, but this particular app can

Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor?

2004-06-25 Thread yoy
The new update is really screwed up. It seems to have made matters worse. My substack Prefs no longer launches from the Edit menu. It appears that both the main and substack have the same stack ID. Hmm... Also when I close the .rev stack, 2.2.1 quits with an error everytime. It also is raising

Re: Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 6:40 PM, yoy wrote: It also is raising a script alert on some of my scripts which worked fine on lesser versions. Am I alone (W2k) here? Not sure. I've been using it for 2 days, and haven't had any (new) problems. OSX though. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net

Re: Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Troy writes; Okee dokee, well then, I wonder what else is so different. As far as plug ins, I have the defaults there, which I don't think I ever use, and I have Chipp's altPlugin bar, with about a half dozen of his plugs active. Troy, The altplugin toolbar by itself uses no

Re: Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor?

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
yoy wrote: The new update is really screwed up. It seems to have made matters worse. The scope of the update is very limited, and aside from a handful of scripting changes in the IDE there's been (to the best of my knowledge) only one change to the engine, to report exec errors more reliably.

Re: Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: The altplugin toolbar by itself uses no frontscripts and will Check for updates on launch if that option is checked in the Prefs . Some of the plugins do use a frontscripts but these will be closed as soon as the plugin is closed. I recommend

Re: ANN: NT CLI GUI

2004-06-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Xavier Bury wrote: Oye... ts ts ts... Un coco loco script dominicanrepubliclocal coconut,rhum,straw,ice get coconut if tool = screwdriver then create big hole on it else subtract top of it end if add rhum to it if not ice then Chillout it

Re: Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor?

2004-06-25 Thread yoy
- Original Message - From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor? yoy wrote: The new update is really screwed up. It seems to have made

What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
I've just spent a long time puzzling over a stupid bug of mine. I had written something like put (numToChar( charToNum('a') + something) not knowing that 'a' is different from a But even now that I know it, I can't find anything in the documents to explain what 'a' does mean. Any clues for me,

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Brian Yennie
Alex, A few things that might help a little: If you set explicitVars to TRUE, you'll get compile errors anytime you try to quote something with a single quote, because it will look like an undeclared variable. Caveats: you'll have to declare all of you variables, and problems have been

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:03 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: If you make a habit of repeating string literals as little as possible (i.e. declaring constants or storing the values into variables early on) you'll probably find that you don't type them that often in a context that doesn't cause an error.

RE: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Ken Ray
Alex, It's the ASCII value for the single quote ('). You see Rev will assume an unquoted value as a string unless it is a variable, so: put numToChar(b) is the same as put numToChar(b) so long as b has not been assigned a value (thus making it a variable). In your case, what apparently

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Ken Ray wrote: You see Rev will assume an unquoted value as a string unless it is a variable S. It's statements like that which send traditional language programmers running. I know I have to keep a leg strapped to my chair. I don't expect that to change, but

RE: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Ken Ray
You see Rev will assume an unquoted value as a string unless it is a variable S. It's statements like that which send traditional language programmers running. I know I have to keep a leg strapped to my chair. :-) I don't expect that to change, but I'm guessing this is what

16 bit numbers?

2004-06-25 Thread John Rule
I've played around with converting a 16 bit integer to binary (and back) using the combination of numToChar() and binaryEncode(), and I have come to the conclusion that I cannot 'directly' do this with numToChar()...which is limited to 8 bits (binaryEncode seems to NOT have this limitation). Has

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 26, 2004, at 12:02 AM, Ken Ray wrote: I know, perhaps we need another global property like the explicitStrings which if true would require strings to be quoted? ;-) Oh man, that would be great... I thought maybe too much to ask. I'd turn them both on if it wouldn't wreck havoc. I'm not a

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Troy Rollins wrote: On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Ken Ray wrote: You see Rev will assume an unquoted value as a string unless it is a variable It's statements like that which send traditional language programmers running. I guess it depends on the programmer. If one is in the

Re: Revolution 2.2.1... more trouble than it's predecessor?

2004-06-25 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:32 PM, yoy wrote: Richard, I have to go back to my original .rev file and then duplicate it and then copy the scripts (re-modify them) and paste into the 2.2.1 version of the stack. I've just been running 2.2.1 for a day. But boy-o-boy, did things blow-up on me. I'll

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 26, 2004, at 12:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Oh man, that would be great... I thought maybe too much to ask. Working with explicitVars on should catch those circumstances, as unquoted strings will be assumed to be vars and if not declared will throw a compilation error. To be honest, I

Re: What is the difference between a ' and a ?

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Troy Rollins wrote: To be honest, I don't prefer to declare my variables unless there scope is something more than handler level, that is too much like RealBasic. I just want all unquoted strings to be variables, or throw an error. It is the unquoted string literals that kill me. I see.