Dave Cragg wrote:
On 8 Dec 2005, at 07:20, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
I'm updating a file on the web using a formula like this:
put x into url ftp://name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder/the_file.txt
It's working great. But when I tried it see what would happen if
there was no internet
On 7 Dec 2005, at 15:23, Jon Seymour wrote:
Thanks again to Dave for insisting that I must have had a libURL
call in there somewhere :)
Although we solved Jon's immediate problem (wrong url), I think there
must have been something else going on to produce the results he
originally
On 8 Dec 2005, at 08:29, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dave Cragg wrote:
On 8 Dec 2005, at 07:20, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
I'm updating a file on the web using a formula like this:
put x into url ftp://name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder/the_file.txt
It's working great. But when I tried it see what
Good morning (here in germany :-) Marty,
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
especially for the tabbed button control you can use a special syntax
in the menupick handler:
on menupick old_menuitem, new_menuitem
show grp new_menuitem
hide grp old_menuitem
end menupick
Check the
Hi Scott,
Recently, liamlambert wrote:
I would like to add a VU METER to the project.
OK, I posted an audio meter demo that some of you may recognize from
RevConWest. This stack shows a few ways to track the output from a
player
object and display it visually in 3 different meter
Greetings All,
I am trying to create a player that can be used to play a song chosen
from a from a playlist. The audio files are NOT a part of the stack
but will be kept in a separate folder.
When I create a player, all I see is a transparent frame. If I move
it around in the window, I
Hi John,
To have a player playing a file, you have to set its filename
property to the path of any sound file on your hard disk.
Unfortunately, if you use the property inspector to set it, it only
allows to choose video files :-(
A quick workaround in the message box or by script:
answer
Does anybody know of a stack out there that shows how to reposition
all objects in a stack (window) based on the user changing the size of
a window. I'm pretty sure I know what needs to be done but seeing how
somebody else did it elegantly might save me lots of head beating. I
would love to
Cool.
I find the instructions pages a bit hard to read. Why only Mac?
Steve
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It's not always the best solution, and occasionally can behave
strangely, but have you checked out the built in Geometry Manager?
In the Property Inspector for each object, there is a Geometry tab,
under which you can set how the object is to resize/reposition when
the stack resizes.
More
Hi Steven,
All this is provided within Rev by using the Geometry Manager (a
dedicated pane for each control in the property inspector) or by
scripting.
Chipp Walters provides very well done video tutorials about how to
use the Geometry Manager: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/
Wow... RR never fails to amaze me. I did not even bother look for this
sort of thing since I assumed it must be something I need to script.
Steve
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Well...
If he lacks the ability to perform analysis on the 60-million records on
the server side, then whatever solution he finds is going to be slow.
Perhaps he does not need a list of record IDs, just a range? A starting
and ending value could be enough.
Parallel processing can be
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Well...
If he lacks the ability to perform analysis on the 60-million records on
the server side, then whatever solution he finds is going to be slow.
Perhaps he does not need a list of record IDs, just a range? A starting
and ending value could be enough.
Parallel
Hi,
Most of my apps are using both the preopenstack and openstack
handlers at launch. It seems the Rev 2.6.1 engine is unable to catch
them anymore, under the Mac OS X 10.4.3 platform at least.
All works well again, as expected, in using the Rev 2.6 issue under
the same OS X platform.
Hi Joe,
Can menuitems be addressed by name rather than number? I don't always have
the items in the same position.
Rev Dictionary (disable menu command) does not show menuItem name as
an option; but you could--
get the text of button id 12345 -- or button File, if you must
Salut Eric,
put ( before line lineOffset(Paste, tMenu) of tMenu
Very fast an reliable.
What if the item is already disabled? That's why my logic checks the
char before adding a ( on disable or blindly deleting char 1 to enable.
Rob Cozens, CCW
Serendipity Software Company
Vive R
Hi All:
Is it possible to send e-mail from Rev programmatically, without needing
to interact with the user's default mail client?
TVKIA,
Adam
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Salut Rob,
It's the reason why I told you that I prefer to use a menu template
stored into a custom property *without* any ( , !c, etc.
Then I put the custom property into a variable and don't worry about
the current status of any menu item :-)
None item, using this way, can be *already*
On Dec 8, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Adam wrote:
Hi All:
Is it possible to send e-mail from Rev programmatically, without
needing to interact with the user's default mail client?
TVKIA,
Adam
Adam,
there are a couple libraries for that out in the wild. There's Shao
Sean libSMTP and libMAIL
Is it possible to change the contrast of an image on the fly with a slider?
I know there is an stack on the Users Spaces, BenJam has a basic image
processor, but with that it you have to change the slider value, then click
OK.
Is it possible to do this on the fly with a sliderbar without having
On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
What is a problem for me may be a solution for you.
I have a dictation program for language learners. Some of the
vowels have macrons (long marks) and are in unicode. My program
checks each letter the students have typed (checking for
Hi Jason,
In theory yes. Quite easy.
Referring to Ben's stack slider:
on scrollbardrag pPos
put adjustContrast(pPos) into newdata
end scrollbardrag
Practically, you will see that does not work well *on-the*fly*: too
much calculation :-(
Le 8 déc. 05 à 17:05, Jason (Polydiam) a écrit :
Marty Knapp wrote:
What happens if a Rev standalone runs out of memory (it's all in RAM,
right?) Does it page it out to disk or does it just run into the wall?
(need to know for both OSX and XP)
The engine uses virtual memory when necessary on all platforms. You
should be fine.
--
That is great Thank you Scott. Any time I have posted on this list
people have come up trumps.
Liam.
liamlambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 6 Dec 2005, at 20:09, Wouter wrote:
Hi David,
To base64Encode someArray first combine someArray.
The problem is that this cannot be done in a general way (for
marshalling arrays) - as you never know what characters to combine
the array with (they might be present within the array)?
On 7 Dec 2005, at 02:02, Dan Shafer wrote:
Another thing that would surely help would be to get RunRev on
Linux really
cooking; so many of the young programmers I know and hear about are
Linux-savvy.
My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever succeeded
interesting any truly
Le 8 déc. 05 à 17:29, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
Hi Pierre,
I isolated a line that seems to be always false since you have more
than one window open (the message box for instance used at the
beginning of your preOpenStack handler).
With your code port 9678 will always used.
I don't if that
Not necessarily as a front end...
You can create a standalone rev application to run concurrently. Your
primary application would check the folder in which it resides to see if
the secondary application is there (which would be a .exe file in
windows). If it is there (which it should be), then
On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:09, Heather Nagey wrote:
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
David Bovill wrote:
My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever succeeded
interesting any truly bright under 25 year olds - the main thing that
puts them off is the lack of an open source strategy. They go yeah this
is great - but is it open source? Now it does not need to be
What steps can, and should be, taken within our Rev application to
restrict access to our server, being as the server's address
(including the username and password) are in numerous scripts of our
Rev application?
Thanks.
Richard Miller
Imprinter Technologies
On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:18, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever
succeeded interesting any truly bright under 25 year olds - the
main thing that puts them off is the lack of an open source
strategy. They go yeah this is great - but is it open
Hi Richard,
What steps can, and should be, taken within our Rev application to
restrict access to our server, being as the server's address
(including the username and password) are in numerous scripts of
our Rev application?
you should at least password-protect your stack!
So all the
On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
David Bovill wrote:
My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever
succeeded interesting any truly bright under 25 year olds - the
main thing that puts them off is the lack of an open source
strategy. They go yeah this is
Devin Asay wrote:
On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Okay, I'll bite: what exactly is an open source strategy for an
engine which is, and will likely remain, closed-source?
A recent experience I had illustrates, I think, what David means.
Earlier this year I was writing a
Don't store changing data in the application - even if you could...
Use specialFolderPath(Preferences)
to find the preferences folder on your platform. And store stuff on
a stack or text file here.
This will save the info on the user's machine. Encript to taste.
Custom properties are very
Greg,
On iconic programming, we had a similar discussion on this list or
the education list about a year ago. There is a special forum for
this on the wiki website:
http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-forums.php
It's a bit inactive, but if you post, you will probably get replies.
there are a couple libraries for that out in the wild. There's Shao Sean
libSMTP and libMAIL which are wonderfull resources for dealing
Thank you for the kind words, but don't forget about Sarah Troz's SMTP
library too..
Altuits library is the easiest one around.
Correct me if I'm
On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Devin Asay wrote:
On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Okay, I'll bite: what exactly is an open source strategy for
an engine which is, and will likely remain, closed-source?
A recent experience I had illustrates, I think,
http://inquirer.stanford.edu/2005/jstaffor/woz.html
thanks to http://slashdot.org for that
maybe it's the wrong article to point out, maybe not...
maybe he really could enjoy or hate rev but...
im sure many would not have like to miss the jabs from the master himself ;)
after all,
Devin Asay wrote:
The main point is that Rev has the right hooks that make it easy to
pull together into a nice GUI a lot of open source technologies that,
by themselves, are kind of arcane for people like me. :-) It's one of
the things that makes Rev a powerful tool--it makes it easy to
To contain tab items?? Things like buttons, text, images... etc.
At least, that's how I've used them...
Judy
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Marty Billingsley wrote:
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
especially for the tabbed button control you can use a special syntax
in the menupick handler:
And, my 4-1/2 yr. old twins positively try to climb into my laptop
whenever they hear me working on an ABCs stack for them...
Judy
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Todd Higgins wrote:
I don't know if this counts, but my son is 5 years old, and he has
enjoyed listening to me read from Dan's book : )
And, I'm still having the problem with ChatRev stack...
Which I did not author and which other users of the stack are NOT
experiencing :-(
Judy
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Dave Cragg wrote:
On 7 Dec 2005, at 15:23, Jon Seymour wrote:
Thanks again to Dave for insisting that I must have had a libURL
Yes, you are correct! And thank-you Sean for such a great library.
All our stack does is 'abstract' it to a subset of it's functionality to
be able to send 'only' text messages (no enclosures). It makes it very
easy, but is *less* functional than your original libraries.
best,
Chipp
Sean
Hi Judy,
have you tried another client to chatrev?
All the best,
Malte
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This is probably a really basic transcript questions. I thought I read
that messages traverse the hierarchy and if not trapped were thrown
out. In the process of learning Transcript I have run into several
cases where a message is generated by my scripts but there is no trap
for that message and I
At 4:09 PM -0500 12/5/2005, Mathewson wrote:
I dug out the Revolution Encyclopedia and ported it as a
free-standing stack so that users of later editions of
DC/MC/RR can use it (popped in a couple of nav buttons).
HOWEVER . . . I noticed it is the work of Ms DeVoto . . .
I am perfectly happy
yes you got that right, from the docs:
Unhandled messages:
If a built-in message, a setProp trigger, or a getProp call passes
through the entire message path without finding a handler, it is
ignored by the engine (the last stop in the message path).
If a message corresponding to a custom
Thanks Jan
I guess I was a little mixed up on what the rev command did. I was
thinking of the oracle instant client drivers/libraries. I didn't
realize it was the Rev database drivers.
When we put the oracle instant client (dll's and jar files) in the
default folder (on windows) it works
Björnke von Gierke wrote:
yes you got that right, from the docs:
Unhandled messages:
If a built-in message, a setProp trigger, or a getProp call passes
through the entire message path without finding a handler, it is ignored
by the engine (the last stop in the message path).
If a message
Hi everyone:
I just wanted to say that the members of this list rock!
Put together all your suggestions and advice, and taking the cues to
look further on my own, I would like to report my first working Rev
application. And it actually works!
I got around the problem of trying to work with
Hi all:
I have a series of modal windows that display the progress of current
process. In these modal windows I have a label that lists the current
action being taken.
How can update these labels as new processes take place without closing
the window?
All the modal windows are substacks.
Is it absolutely necessary to have the progress stacks as modal?
In the property inspector, you can choose the 'decorations', and
disable the close box etc
Mark
On 8 Dec 2005, at 22:35, Adam wrote:
Hi all:
I have a series of modal windows that display the progress of
current
Adam wrote:
I just wanted to say that the members of this list rock!
Put together all your suggestions and advice, and taking the cues to
look further on my own, I would like to report my first working Rev
application. And it actually works!
...
Thank you Rev, thank you all!
You rock! ;)
Thanks for the pointers. I was running into this because I am using
Shao Sean's calendar object which generates several messages I don't
need but I guess I need to trap.
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Crossing the Chasm is a good read.
Recommended reading in the entrepreneurship course I currently
follow. Recommended by various visiting speakers in the course.
Didn't have to read it yet though.
Marielle
On Dec 8, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Adam wrote:
Hi all:
I have a series of modal windows that display the progress of
current process. In these modal windows I have a label that lists
the current action being taken.
How can update these labels as new processes take place without
closing the
J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marty Billingsley wrote:
I understand all this from the docs, but they don't explain the
little window that is below the tabs. What is it used for?
Just a border for visual clarity, standard HIG stuff. It provides an
outline for the material that
Hi Bill,
Good to know that you have now reached second stage: acceptance :-).
Revolution is not Konfabulator.
So the question is, WHY aren't there more of them for Rev?
The K. site lists over 1500 widgets that do everything from
display RSS
feeds to displaying the current position of the
Bill and Tom,
You may be interested to know that I have started doing something
vaguely along these lines in revolution. Rather than the konfab
approach, I have taken the mozilla one (konfab is a thing of the
past, the *new* thing is mozilla ;-) ). XUL is an xml specification
to define
Hi Sarah,
Many educators on this list share this view. All kids should be
initiated to revolution.
Me and others have proposed a hand for initiatives that may help
Revolution gain a better visibility and recognition in the education
arena. But we have been facing the same difficulties as
This is another newbie Transcript question. I'm going to try to be
careful with my new user question credits :-)
1. Are Call and Send the same thing with different syntax?
2. In the Dictionary is says this about the send command:
Using the send command is slower than directly executing the
Marielle,
Bill spurred me on with his wish that REV had a more hip UI. I
thought that a template with some buttonGadget style simplicity and
some guidelines for coding in Rev would pave the way for a series of
simple apps (widgets, dashboards, etc.) I have two projects in the
works right
Steven Fernandez wrote:
This is another newbie Transcript question. I'm going to try to be
careful with my new user question credits :-)
1. Are Call and Send the same thing with different syntax?
Call and Send are covered in this article:
Hello Tom,
Thanks for the reply. The problem I have concerns Win XP. When
the user changes the keyboard from English to a language that
requires unicode, Rev doesn't seem to obey immediately. Only
after typing something, deleting it and typing again, Rev starts
entering the correct unicode
Devin,
Not too loud that's an idea I am working on, using revolution to
both rapidly define (scripter side) and rapidly present (user side)
visual interfaces used to define parameters to Unix scripts. A not so
detailed overview at: http://projects.lexicall.org/taskflow/ and
Just a note to the person who is responsible for the documentation...
When you type print in the docs, you will get some information on a
very nice feature: revPrintReport...
But it must be a hidden feature, because all references in this part
of the docs are invisible to me ;-)
Maybe you
Thanks for the pointer. What I found in that article is:
The difference between the send and call commands is that the send
command changes the context so that object references are treated as
relative to the object you send the message to, while the call command
does not change the context and
Steven Fernandez wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. What I found in that article is:
The difference between the send and call commands is that the send
command changes the context so that object references are treated as
relative to the object you send the message to, while the call command
does
Hi All:
I'm loving the fact that my first Rev is now working as it should, but
now comes the cosmetic bits... is there some way to make sure that when
my application is running the program itself is in the centre of the
user's desktop, as well as making sure that any substacks open in the
Hi Adam,
in the stack script of the mainStack
on preOpenStack
set the loc of this stack to the screenloc
end preOpenStack
then make sure and pass the preOpenStack message (if you're trapping it)
from your other stacks.
best,
Chipp
Adam wrote:
Hi All:
I'm loving the fact that my first
On 12/8/05 6:18 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been using xtalk for 20 years and I've not needed call yet. Maybe
I'm missing something.
Well, not really, and I have not put it to use either. Probably could have
several times. Just used globals instead.
A call statement was
Hi All:
Dressing up my application with useful information windows for the user
while the program processes information. I do have a problem though...
I've create the information windows as substacks of the main stack and
when I call the stack with open and then show, the program seems to
Many thanks Marielle,
The schools have just finished for the year down under, but you can be
sure that in January, I will be sending Jack off to school well armed
with this other Rev propaganda :-)
Cheers,
Sarah
On 12/9/05, Marielle Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Sarah,
Many educators
Dressing up my application with useful information windows for the user
while the program processes information. I do have a problem though...
I've create the information windows as substacks of the main stack and
when I call the stack with open and then show, the program seems to halt
what
Hi Malte,
Well, no, because nobody else using ChatRev seems to have the problem.
And, as for well, has it happened in other Rev stacks?, the answer is
again, no, because my class this term is for non-majors and hence we're
not using Rev and hence, *I'M* not using Rev (haven't taught the course
I agree with Marielle..
The product needs to be visible -- very visible -- at such edu biggies as
Edu-CAUSE (is it still there?), NECC, etc./whatever. I'd be happy to do
what I could -- NECC is in my backyard next year (San Diego), but, being
an untenured faculty, I haven't the foggiest idea how
I have this concept and I'm not really sure it can be implemented
in Rev... at least I haven't found a way:
1) Establish a border that is like a picture frame, that is feathered
on the outer edges... and the inside is transparent
2) use this as a windowshape
3) next we want to place
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I have this concept and I'm not really sure it can be implemented
in Rev... at least I haven't found a way:
1) Establish a border that is like a picture frame, that is feathered
on the outer edges... and the inside is transparent
2) use this as a
Marielle, Bill and Tom ;)
I've been studying XUL and while it's a great concept, remember that it's
limited to the mozilla engine. There's been recent discussions on Slashdot
about the disadvantages of Ajax and not the last of them but even MS is
throwing it's copycat cloners into XAML - their
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