rev and credit cards (also young coder!)

2005-12-07 Thread sam kusnetz
i'm 25 years old too... that makes me a young rev coder, i suppose. how exciting. anyone know of a rev external which handles charging to credit cards? i'm working on a point of sale idea and want to get it all in one program. thanks sam -- there can be hours between the so and the

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Richard, Even for so-called HIG-compliant applications, Rev is behind the times. Look at the menus in Microsoft Office 2003. That is the current state of the art. Look how Visual Basic Express creates menus that look exactly like those. Rev does not. Rev cannot directly support even icons in

Re: Accessing protected folders on a web server

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thomas McCarthy wrote: I update a file on my server using a script like this: put x cr after URL ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/secretroom/somefile.txt I also retrieve info by getting the URL. Some of this info is of a sensitive nature (my daily body-mass-index). So I would like to

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Kurt Kaufman wrote: I don't remember who to thank for this one, which I modified only slightly: on testForConnection put 255.255.255.255:43222 into testSocket open datagram socket to testSocket put hostAddress(testSocket) into theIPAddress close socket testSocket if

How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Heather Nagey
Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them there, and I wonder how many of them have the dedication to wade through and participate in

Re: Accessing protected folders on a web server

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McCarthy
Yes, that works. I guess having the root adminstration name and password will get you into any folder on the site. Now, how could I go to a stack in a protected folder? i.e.: go stack URL http://www.mysite.com/safebox/sensitive.rev; thanks Tom McCarthy

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Scott, Great post. When I was a journalist for the French edition of MacWorld, I talked during seven years about HyperCard and then got many posts from users: they were of all ages from nine to more than eighty with a level average of twenty-five :-) Old times... As for me, I feel very

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
I don't have a Macintosh so I can't say -- do you get gel buttons? Are tabbed controls presented the way they are on built-for-OS X apps? I looked up the video tutorials for Rev on a Mac screen, and I'm happy to see these *are* implemented the Mac OS X way. Excellent. Bill

Re: Need to search the web (was: An unsolicited message on my Rev address)

2005-12-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On 12/6/05, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kay, The Answer dialog is a modal window: this means that you can't do anything else than validate an option. In your case, you have to build the window by yourself in order to present options and choices in the *same* window :-) Not

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am currently teaching my Friends Son Alex (11) the wonders of RunRev! All the Best Dave Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see

Re: How to Disable the Preference and About Box Items

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi Dave, Le 6 déc. 05 à 20:23, David Burgun a écrit : That way 96% of computer users wouldn't be affected, except that they could code without having to test for MacOS X. At the moment, you cannot disable the Edit or Help Menu's as a whole unless you test for MacOS X first In my experience

Re: How to Disable the Preference and About Box Items

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, I agree with you. But I have to confess that I am always impressed when I build a stack on MacOS X (I prefer, I'm more used to) and then transfer it to my PC and see that 100% of my code works :-) Kudos to Runrev! Most of annoyances come from other things: charsets, fonts spacing

Stack Context/Scope Question

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am slightly confused as to the use of this and me when used for a Stack, for instance, if I have two stacks: GlobalStack, contains global functions in the Stack Script, as so: function GetStackFileName local myFileName put the filename of this stack into myFileName return myFileName

REQUEST FOR SAMPLE SCRIPTS

2005-12-07 Thread Nicholas Nginya
Hi! I humbly request for all your help as am very new to revolution and am very exited about it, however i have made some blunders along the way but i believe REVOLUTION is really programing at the speed of thought! I am looking for sample scripts that clearly deal with creation,

Re: Stack Context/Scope Question

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, 1. Me refers to the object in the script of which the handler runs; Then in a stack script, me refers to the stack the script of which owns the running handler. 2. This refers generally to to a card or a stack and refers to the card or the stack that initiated the process. Then if

Re: Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-07 Thread Roger Guay
Heck, the decimal system no longer works for me . . . I'm still old at a hexadecimal 42, by cracky!! Cheers, Roger On Dec 7, 2005, at 1:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 13 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:52:14 -0600 From: Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What Rev Needs --

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread Malte Brill
she was intrigued with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled the window (I was testing Arcade Engine at the time). I would love to see that stack! :-) Speaking for germany, I know that quite a few of the folks that hang around at revolutionboard.de are far younger

Re: rawkeydown

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Fred, I tried that here with a G4 and a wireless Gyration Keyboard and it shows me four numbers for F10,Enter,k,9 etc. SO I assume it is working. I did not lookup the numbers to see if they were correct. I don't know if you looked at the Keyboard Shortcuts Tab in the Keyboard Mouse Pane

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Bill, I use OSX all of the time and also see the look and feel correctly. I just bought a Sony Laptop and hooked up a 20 monitor side by side with my 23 Apple cinema display. I am using XP pro and Office 2003. I am noticing just how far windows has come in look and feel. I am just

Re: How to Disable the Preference and About Box Items

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
David, Unless it's the Bird Flu I guess ;-) Tom On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:21 AM, David Burgun wrote: It would also have the added benefit of fixing a bug in Rev! Two birds with one stone! Can't be Bad! ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
she was intrigued with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled the window (I was testing Arcade Engine at the time). I would love to see that stack! :-) Speaking for germany, I know that quite a few of the folks that hang around at revolutionboard.de are far younger

Re: Changing input keyboard

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Devin and everyone else, Was the problem in the quoted message ever solved? Best, Mark Devin Asay wrote: This question was raised a while back, and I never saw a satisfactory solution. If I want to change the input keyboard when the insertion point goes to a field with non-Latin text,

Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Adam
Hi all: Being a Revolution newbie and I all, I really appreciate this list and everyone on it. I'd like to thank Trevor DeVore for responding to my first post. Trevor you've made it look easy, thanks. ;) I have put to work Trevor's suggestions in a function. That function resides in the

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-07 Thread Jim Hurley
Scott Rossi wrote; As a matter of fact, since the accusations are hurling, flames are flying, and there's generally a lot of smoke and debris around, I'd like to take this opportunity throw some fuel on a different fire. I'll try and put this as non-ageist as I can: Rev developers are

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Adam, You use a handler by writing: hander name param1,param2 etc. It's exactly like a built-in command: show field 1 You use a function by writing something like: put function name(param1,param2 etc.) into tVar Then the value returned will be stored in to the tVar variable get function

QuickTime

2005-12-07 Thread Preston Shea
Do I have to use QuickTime to create sound files for RR? Do I have to buy QuickTime Pro for this? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: QuickTime

2005-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Preston, Do I have to use QuickTime to create sound files for RR? No, any sound-editor will do, as long as the output formats are supported by Rev/QT. Do I have to buy QuickTime Pro for this? No, but that might come in very handy from time to time :-) I use Audacity and QT Pro.

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Smith
Adam, a handler will be in the form: on myHandler param1,param2,etc doStuff end myHandler a function will be: function myFunction param1,param2,etc. do stuff return something end myFunction the calling of these will be someting like myHandler param1,param2 or: put

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 7, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Adam wrote: I am then trying to call that function from the script of a button on the card in the following way: on mouseUp put field fldItemsToFind into lItemsToFind put field fldNumItemsAllowed into lNumItemsAllowed

Re: Rev performance: help! (solved)

2005-12-07 Thread Jon Seymour
Hi, I'd like to say thanks to Dave Cragg for helping me solve this issue...and perhaps others might run into this too. My problem was actually caused by having a button's filename property set to a URL which was no longer available. Unfortunately there was no obvious error message that

tabbed windows

2005-12-07 Thread Marty Billingsley
Hi all -- I'm trying to understand tabbed windows (which are a type of button). I understand how to set the tabs and to handle when a user clicks on a tab, but am confused about the window below the tabs. How can you put content into that? Or can't you? It looks kind of like a field, but

Is there a way to determine and control screen resolution in RR?

2005-12-07 Thread Stgoldberg
Back again, with thanks, to tap the brains of the RR experts once more: I have created a Revolution application (on Macintosh) that calls for a screen size close to 1024x768. Since some users (Mac or Windows) may have their monitors set to less than that, I am concerned that the stacks may

Re: Works on Mac OS X, Why Not on Win XP?

2005-12-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Eric, The problem is with a hide or show command that falsifies the right pair between lock and unlock screen. Merci! In this case my workaround is to hide runtime.gif on preOpenCard card and show my credits first. If Revolution ever handles this correctly on Windows, then their credits

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 1:12 AM, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Personally, I think the root cause of the problem is the inflexible syntax for non-built-in commands and functions. What I'd like to see is the ability to separate parameters

Re: Is there a way to determine and control screen resolution in RR?

2005-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Steven, Back again, with thanks, to tap the brains of the RR experts once more: I have created a Revolution application (on Macintosh) that calls for a screen size close to 1024x768. Since some users (Mac or Windows) may have their monitors set to less than that, I am concerned that

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-07 Thread Jim Hurley
On further thought, I probably overstated RR's position on TG. I can't say that they have committed themselves to implementing same; I think their position was that they are interested and recognized the importance and significance of TG in education. Jim

Re: tabbed windows

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Marty, The How to Manage Tabbed Buttons tutorial might help you: How to manage tabbed buttons with 2 methods: Multiple cards method (each tab is a card) and Groups method (show/hide groups based on tab selection). And scripted examples of how to set the tabs names, how to select a tab,

Re: rawkeydown

2005-12-07 Thread FMoyer
In a message dated 12/7/05 8:46:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried that here with a G4 and a wireless Gyration Keyboard and it  shows me four numbers for F10,Enter,k,9 etc. SO I assume it is  working. I did not lookup the numbers to see if they were correct. Actually, there should

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Adam
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Dec 7, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Adam wrote: I am then trying to call that function from the script of a button on the card in the following way: on mouseUp put field fldItemsToFind into lItemsToFind put field fldNumItemsAllowed into lNumItemsAllowed

Audio won't play in Revolution 2.6.1

2005-12-07 Thread Edgar Spees
Can anyone help me? I've been a Revolution user for 3 years using version 1.1.1. I have a new G5 Mac with system 10.4.2 and just downloaded Revolution 2.6.1. I can't get any audio files to play. I have a huge library of sound files I've been gathering for the last couple of years. They were almost

Confirmation

2005-12-07 Thread Edgar Spees
Here is the confirmation code number is received. Please add me to the mailing list. 3c5a454ee87119eddc3654d972dc849f0ca716af Edgar Spees ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: REQUEST FOR SAMPLE SCRIPTS

2005-12-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Hello Nicholas, However would still greatly appreciate any sample scripts from the group. Serendipity Library and accompanying stacks are open source. The Library stack script alone contains almost 6.000 lines of sample code. Even if you're not interested in the functionality, the

Re: Works on Mac OS X, Why Not on Win XP?

2005-12-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Tom, Did you try the dontusequicktime etc approach? Thanks for the suggestion. I tried setting dontUseQTEffects to true on preopenStack; but I still can't hide or show the image betweeen lock screen and unlock screen with visual... commands on Windws. Rob Cozens, CCW Serendipity

Re: Audio won't play in Revolution 2.6.1

2005-12-07 Thread Devin Asay
Edgar, Did you compress the audio files when you converted them? The play command won't play compressed AIF and WAV files. If you want to play compressed sounds you'd be better off leaving the files external to the stack and using a player object to reference and play them. Devin On Dec

Re: Revolution Noob - Databases

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
Adam, You will find databases a lot easier to use if you employ Trevor's wonderful libraries... works for me... the early version is online with an brief explanation... http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/libDatabase_article.html but his beta version 2.0 is much better.

Re: Is there a virus in one of Rev's file?

2005-12-07 Thread Kevin Miller
On 4/12/05 7:51 pm, Éric Miclo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just reinstalled Rev and Intego VirusBarrier tels me that the revspeechsapi4.dll contains a virus called w32.NetSky.Q. Is somebody aware of that? We tested the distribution before shipping it. We also checked it again today against

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: Richard, Even for so-called HIG-compliant applications, Rev is behind the times. If you mean that Rev should implement some of your suggested HIG enhancements automatically, then yes, I think you are probably right. However, almost everything you mention can already be

Re: Confirmation

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
?? WHAT'S THIS? looks like a serial number... Here is the confirmation code number is received. Please add me to the mailing list. 3c5a454ee87119eddc3654d972dc849f0ca716af Edgar Spees -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Custom Handler

2005-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Adam, Hi again all: The functions I have converted from my PHP scripts, don't return any values. How do I define these functions as handlers that return no value? Functions: function xyz ##do this and that ##return thisthat end xyz Handler: on xyz ##do this and that end xyz

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Adam, How do I define a handler? on handlerName parameter1, @parameter2, ..., paramenterN handler logic ... ... end handlerName Don't know if this is meaningful to you, but prefixing any parameter with @ causes that parameter to be passed by address instead of by value. In the

Re: REQUEST FOR SAMPLE SCRIPTS

2005-12-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicholas Nginya wrote: I am looking for sample scripts that clearly deal with creation, updating, saving and sending of binfiles. Take a look at the scripting conference, written by Ken Ray, on working with files. It is here: http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ Scroll down to

REQUEST FOR SAMPLE SCRIPTS

2005-12-07 Thread Mathewson
ALL are extremely welcome to download all of my stuff via the button on the files page of my website - as well as all the 'guff' from my Master's thesis. For anyone interested in faking an Agent this is some sort of an attempt. Should you use any of my stuff, would be awfully grateful for an

Re: REQUEST FOR SAMPLE SCRIPTS

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Nicholas- Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 4:47:44 AM, you wrote: I am looking for sample scripts that clearly deal with creation, updating, saving and sending of binfiles. Check out the stacks from the online scripting conferences at http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ and in

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Ah, yes, well that is the Windows Theme Manager for you :) I think Rev emulates the look of XP, and doesn't actually pull from the actual OS... this is why it doesn't respond to changes made in the Windows appearance manager. In other words, if you customize the look and feel of Windows with

VU meter

2005-12-07 Thread liamlambert
Thanks Scott it would be great if you could I always take the opportunity to learn something new with rev. liam lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Jacqueline, You wrote, Rev cannot directly support even icons in menus, which has been around many years. Rev does support this. What you need to use are stack menus, rather than the simple button menus which are the default. I tried looking up stack menu in the docs. I found: You

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Thomas, Fortunately for you and the list, Bill is incorrect in his assessment. I've tested 3 seperate themes on Win XP and they all dsplay correctly in Rev, so it does actually pull from the actual OS. I seem to remember testing this for Tuviah when he was implementing theme support for WinXP

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Well Bill, sometimes you just need to dig a bit. While natively, RR doesn't support many of the features, there are tools which do, and most of them are free. Hope the following helps (see below).. Bill Marriott wrote: Hi Jacqueline, You wrote, Rev cannot directly support even icons in

Re: Stack Context/Scope Question

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 6:56 AM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. This refers generally to to a card or a stack and refers to the card or the stack that initiated the process. Then if the current running handler was called from the current stack, this will refer to it but when called from

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Chipp, In other words, if you customize the look and feel of Windows with a utility like WindowsBlinds, it doesn't necessarily translate to every UI component in Rev. Many effects work. It does pull in the title bar style, and I think the progress bar style. It does not pull in window

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 2:36 AM, Bill Marriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, I think your final sentences really summed up your thoughts on this: Modern look-and-feel is undeniably one of Revolution's weaknesses. Improving this is one component of several things Rev should do to be successful and

Re: Is there a way to determine and control screen resolution in RR?

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 9:37 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steven, Back again, with thanks, to tap the brains of the RR experts once more: I have created a Revolution application (on Macintosh) that calls for a screen size close to 1024x768. Since some users (Mac or Windows) may

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, It gets the theme parts right from where I sit. The large fonts isn't part of a theme, it's another setting and even Microsoft itself doesn't support Large fonts fully. Try setting Large Fonts to 'Extra Large' and then close and open the Display properties window and you see it doesn't

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, It gets the theme parts right from where I sit. The large fonts isn't part of a theme, it's another setting and even Microsoft itself doesn't support Large fonts fully. Try setting Large Fonts to 'Extra Large' and then close and open the Display properties window and you see it doesn't

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Chipp, I know you didn't mention button styles specifically as being taken directly from the OS, but once you see the following difference it will be one of those details that pop out at you all the time: http://wjm.org/linked/buttons.htm Again, *very* minor, probably not obvious to the vast

RE: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Bill, You can make a menu have any look you want, using a stack as a menu - not just icons, but all sorts of complex layouts. But yes, just use icon-sized images in the substack serving as the source for your menu, and you will get icons in your menu. Every system has predesigned elements that

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, A picture is indeed worth a thousand words! I prefer the VB placement of text. My best guess is that we're both *sorta* correct ;-) I believe Revolution 'builds' the buttons using the correct theme 'bits', but probably doesn't use the direct API call to do so. 'Course I could be

Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi All, Working on Win XP; RunRev 2.6.1, if the platform is MacOS then enable menuItem 11 of menu 1 enable menuItem 13 of menu 1 else disable menuItem 11 of menu 1 disable menuItem 13 of menu 1 end if does not disable menuItems 11 13 until the stack is opened a second

Re: Confirmation

2005-12-07 Thread Heather Nagey
Don't panic. It's just a list subscribe confirmation number. Not of any value and certainly won't unlock anything. Mr. Spees obviously got a little confused with the confirm address. But... if it was a serial number it might not have been a good idea to quote it again ... cheers Heather

just a test, please ignore

2005-12-07 Thread Ton Kuypers
as the subject says: just a test, please ignore ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: tabbed windows

2005-12-07 Thread Ton Kuypers
Marty, When I started using Revolution, this was quite a mystery to me as well, but it works so easy... Create a tabbed button with for instance 3 tabs in it: My First Tab, Tab Number Two and The Last Tab The script of this button (or at least, the way I do it): ON menuPick vNew

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 12:52 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Web browser control. You can launch a web browser with a URL. Not sure what other control you mean. Ken Ray just offered up a great script for this in the MetaCard forum. Perhaps he'll share it here? Also revGoURL will launch a

Re: Handlers and Scope

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
Within my application the fuctions I have written don't return values in that case, if I understand correctly; they should be handlers. How do I define a handler? Although Rob gave you the full answer, the simple answer is change 'function' to 'on' and you're done. :-) That is, a function

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Ken, Thanks a lot for this post! I hope your excellent summary will help settle the debate on this. I didn't imagine my recommendations would spur a major row, but I am kind of glad they did. We ended up really getting into some nitty gritty stuff and I hope this was useful to the RunRev staff

Re: Stack Context/Scope Question

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ken, As usual, you are right. I forgot to mention the defaultStack feature that is so convenient sometimes... (to not have to write something like set the hilite of btn I dont know which... of stack which stack? I don't remember! to the uHilite of etc. :-) Thanks for this needed

Re: tabbed windows

2005-12-07 Thread Jim Ault
On minor comment, Tom. Declaring variables in Transcript can lead to unexpected results as in this case, you chose a. This is technically a reserved 'word', as in 'there is a file', etc. Most of the time you will have no problem, but there will be occasions when Transcript will get confused.

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi rob, I don't know exactly your problem :-) But I have a way to do that sort of things that might interest you: I am used to have a menu template in a custom property without ( , !c' and so on. Each time the menu is called, I use this ever clean template and add what I need... I detail

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Chipp- Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 11:57:29 AM, you wrote: My best guess is that we're both *sorta* correct ;-) I believe Revolution 'builds' the buttons using the correct theme 'bits', but probably doesn't use the direct API call to do so. 'Course I could be I believe you're right, since

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Dave LeYanna
Just to let Rev. know... So do I, so will I dave Bill Marriott wrote: clip... I simply love xTalk, and Rev is keeping this great language very much alive. It really is an impressive tool overall; I'll be buying upgrades for as long as they are offered. Bill -- Dave LeYanna

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Bill, Chipp, I know you didn't mention button styles specifically as being taken directly from the OS, but once you see the following difference it will be one of those details that pop out at you all the time: http://wjm.org/linked/buttons.htm Again, *very* minor, probably not

Explicit variables (was: Re: tabbed windows)

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, I take the opportunity of Jim comment to point out a thing I do not consider as correct with Rev: I always work with explicit variables (a question of habits with other languages and to ensure security :-) Then, all variables used in a repeat control structure header that are not

Re: tabbed windows

2005-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ton, Marty, When I started using Revolution, this was quite a mystery to me as well, but it works so easy... Create a tabbed button with for instance 3 tabs in it: My First Tab, Tab Number Two and The Last Tab The script of this button (or at least, the way I do it): ON menuPick

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Yeah, VB lets you put a 16x16 icon to the left of button text, it lets you create buttons that have the little drop-down arrow to the right for menus or palettes, it has properties for whether the button appears in a menu strip, whether the cursor assumes a special shape when over it... it is

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/7/05 2:18 PM, Bill Marriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are also correct that Rev *does* face unique challenges when designing a cross-platform development tool. It's very difficult to exactly support every little detail of an OS while still enabling you to easily write once, deploy

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
SUCH A TEASE On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I also know that the company is well aware of some of the things you ask for, and they aren't ignoring that. Stay tuned. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Marriott
Chipp, Your high-quality plugins (among others) are exactly what needs to be incorporated into the core Rev functionality. I hope Rev considers licensing them and writes you a handsome check :) Bill Chipp Walters wrote Well Bill, sometimes you just need to dig a bit. While natively, RR

XML Database synchronization

2005-12-07 Thread Joel Guillod
I would like to hear about advices how to address this problem in Revolution: Postulates: - data of my system is based on a number of sets of xml documents; - a set is a repository of xml documents; - there is a registry of the sets which references the address of each set; - to avoid

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-07 Thread LunchnMeets
This is an interesting thread. As long as we're talking about this... Can menuitems be addressed by name rather than number? I don't always have the items in the same position. Joe, Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: XML Database synchronization

2005-12-07 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 12/7/05 11:16 PM, Joel Guillod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to hear about advices how to address this problem in Revolution: Postulates: - data of my system is based on a number of sets of xml documents; - a set is a repository of xml documents; - there is a registry of the

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Bill, Chipp, That is definitely a different font and x height. HHMMM.. Glad to know this although it is a minor thing. All the same. Tom On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Chipp, I know you didn't mention button styles specifically as being taken directly from the

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Joe, You can use line lineOffset(menuItem name, tMenu) of tMenu where tMenu is your menu put into a variable: put ( before line lineOffset(Paste, tMenu) of tMenu Very fast an reliable. To be not kindly corrected by Ken :-) I would add that, sometimes you will use: put lineOffset(tab

Re: just a test, please ignore

2005-12-07 Thread Thomas McGrath III
IGNORED On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Ton Kuypers wrote: as the subject says: just a test, please ignore ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Large Recordsets - An unbuffered approach?

2005-12-07 Thread Adam
Hi All: My project works. Sort of. ;) Thanks again to those who have been helping me out. I have done in two days what took me weeks to formulate elsewhere. Best of all it has a GUI. :D Like I said it sort of works... I can connect to the database, I can retrieve records, but this is the

Re: Changing input keyboard

2005-12-07 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Devin and everyone else, Was the problem in the quoted message ever solved? I never saw any responses. Anybody out there care to stop talking about Rev's image and chime in. ;-) Devin Devin Asay wrote: This question was raised a

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 12:44:09 PM, you wrote: Comments on the properties list: I prefer the way that Rev separates out the properties (instead of one long list like this), but I'd rather they used tabs instead of a drop-down menu for the various categories. Note that the Yes,

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 12:18:41 PM, you wrote: p.s.: One little nit is that all of the items I mentioned in earlier posts (specifically calendar popups, notification tray support) are definitely included with the current version of VBExpress. IMO the only real downside to VB is

RE: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
It is easy to determine the position, even if you do not know what it is: For example, if line 5 of myList is Hello, you do either of these: Line 5 of myList or Line (lineoffset(Hello,myList)) of myList Bear in mind that when you disable a menu item, the content of that line actually

Re: Large Recordsets - An unbuffered approach?

2005-12-07 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 12/7/05 11:34 PM, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My project works. Sort of. ;) Thanks again to those who have been helping me out. I have done in two days what took me weeks to formulate elsewhere. Best of all it has a GUI. :D Like I said it sort of works... I can connect to

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-07 Thread capellan (sent by Nabble.com)
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I am rebuilding my homepage and there'll be a section on my Application Framework or Paradigm called Alfred that is the stack controlling everything I said on top. Alfred.. Like the Batman's Majordomo, Alfred Pennyworth? :-)) -- Sent from

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-07 Thread capellan (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi Kurt, I don't remember who to thank for this one, which I modified only slightly: Dar Scott published this code in march 2002: local testSock on mouseUp put 255.255.255.255:43222 into testSock open datagram socket to testSock -- opens immediately on Win2K put

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