Re: Popup menu

2006-01-05 Thread Marty Knapp
Ken Ray wrote: On 1/4/06 10:32 PM, Marty Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mouseDown script in a field that pops up a menu from a hidden button. It works fine on my Mac, but not my PC - any clues? Well, can you post the script so we can see what's going on? That would be

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 1/4/06 11:37 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put the script of stack substack 1 of stack A into back I suppose you meant insert rather than put. Are you implementing polymorphism for functions and commands? Is only one substack appropriate at any point in time? Do you need to

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)--YES!

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Claude
Hi Rob, Very good work. It actually may help people who must switch themes of a stack. For my needs, I cannot close the stack X2, therefore your solution it's not applicable. Thanks however. Paul Claude on 5-01-2006 6:40, Rob Cozens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Chameleon stack

Re: Popup menu

2006-01-05 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hi Marty, I also had this issue. The btn has to be visible, it seems - Set the btn as visible but off screen (bottomRight at -100,-100) - Cover the btn by an opaque graphic or an opaque group HTP /H I have a mouseDown script in a field that pops up a menu from a hidden button. It

Re: Standalone settings

2006-01-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
1) Is this destroyStack property different than the setting in the Stack inspector? In other words, if you've set it with the Stack inspector, should you also do it here or is that redundant? This setting allows you to have the destroyStack property OFF when editing and ON in the standalone

Re: Fractals

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Scott, If you are a (former) HyperCard user, this might be interesting for you: http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/92c.shtml and there is a HyperCard stack that should be a good starting point for making your own fractals stack in Revolution: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~mnaylor/software/ Have

RE: Fractals

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Mark, If you are a (former) HyperCard user, this might be interesting for you: http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/92c.shtml and there is a HyperCard stack that should be a good starting point for making your own fractals stack in Revolution: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~mnaylor/software/ Have a

RE: Meeting at MacWorld SF in January 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I never saw a summary of when we can meet at Macworld. I also suggest Tuesday unless some other night has been selected. Please let us know. It might be a good opportunity to simply join another get together. I spotted this one by a guy who works at Technorati for Mac Small Business people:

Re: Standalone settings

2006-01-05 Thread Marty Knapp
Sarah Reichelt wrote: 1) Is this destroyStack property different than the setting in the Stack inspector? In other words, if you've set it with the Stack inspector, should you also do it here or is that redundant? This setting allows you to have the destroyStack property OFF when

Re: Meeting at MacWorld SF in January 2006

2006-01-05 Thread David Brooks
I will be at MacWorld and would like to attend any RunRev or RunRev- related sessions. Dave Brooks On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: I never saw a summary of when we can meet at Macworld. I also suggest Tuesday unless some other night has been selected. Please let us know.

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)--YES!

2006-01-05 Thread Rob Cozens
Paul, I cannot close the stack X2, therefore your solution it's not applicable. Can your design allow you to separate the images in X2 from the resources that must be opened? (If not, why not?) Keep what needs to be open in X2 and place the images in new stack, X4. (There's no reason X2

Re: MVC (was Text database using custom properties)

2006-01-05 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Dec 2005, at 13:40, Dave LeYanna wrote: Dave Bovill and I have taken somewhat different approaches to a runrev implementation of an MVC architecture. I'm not sure if Dave's made his public yet, but you can see mine on revonline. You may not like it if you're used to a traditional MVC

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)--YES!

2006-01-05 Thread Rob Cozens
Paul, Can your design allow you to separate the images in X2 from the resources that must be opened? A simpler solution?: on switchLibraries stop using stack currentLibrary -- may need to be tweaked? close stack currentLibrary set the itemDelimiter to / get item -1 of

Rev and Unicenter ServicePlus R11

2006-01-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello my fellow listers, Has anyone had any experience using Revolution with the CA Unicenter Software? or Harvard/IITIL Project Managemen software? I have a client that does extensive solutions for these systems and I am planning on doing RAD prototypes for some GUIs for him and since I

Runrev 2.2.1 bugs under linux -- XML doesn't WORK !

2006-01-05 Thread Damien Girard
Hi all, Runtime Revolution = 2.5 doesen't work at all on my linux operating system (Gentoo Linux), so I use revolution 2.2.1 who seem to work fine. -- XML doesn't WORK ! I am writting a very powerful, translation, resizing library who use at 300% XML (everything is in XML). Recently, I wanted

Problem running rev 2.2.1 on Windows XP

2006-01-05 Thread Kurt Kaufman
John, is there any chance that your stack (or standalone) needs to access data (other stacks, substacks, or other media) and expects to find it in a particular location? If so, moving the stack (or standalone) from its original location might prevent it from functioning properly. Kurt

Instructional Video

2006-01-05 Thread Marty Knapp
This is not exactly a Rev question, but I'm wanting to create some instructional videos for my forthcoming KeywordCruncher program and wondered if there's anyone who has done that and could recommend some software for the Mac. Basically I want to do a look-over-my shoulder kind of tutorial

MACWORLD

2006-01-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
Is there going to be any Runrev presence at MACWORLD this year? I remember a while ago it was in the developer's area... sqb -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Instructional Video

2006-01-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: This is not exactly a Rev question, but I'm wanting to create some instructional videos for my forthcoming KeywordCruncher program and wondered if there's anyone who has done that and could recommend some software for the Mac. Basically I

Re: MACWORLD

2006-01-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: Is there going to be any Runrev presence at MACWORLD this year? I remember a while ago it was in the developer's area... I haven't heard anything from them on this, but with any luck they'll be skipping this one. You're in luck then. They're

Re: imageSource Stored in Destination Stack

2006-01-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kathy Jaqua wrote: Thanks Jacqueline, I have a field with about 350 ImageSources. I use the following format: set the clipboardData[image] to image gImage -- (this is the image the user picked) but on a Paste into the new stack I lose the image name. That doesn't matter, because the

Re: A Custom Property Sets 'Database

2006-01-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Scott for creating this demo. I'll be sure and put a link to it on our altSQLite website. best, Chipp Scott Kane wrote: Hi folks, I've added a demo that expands some of the techniques used in using altSQLite as a database. Most importantly the scripts for data entry style stacks.

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Mark, I'm wondering why you're using backScripts instead of library stacks? I can understand using frontScripts, but backScripts are limited in number vs library stacks (outside development), and IMO typically reserved for 1) scripts of objects other than stacks; (see libURL) 2) runtime when

Re: Runrev 2.2.1 bugs under linux -- XML doesn't WORK !

2006-01-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/5/06 12:36 PM, Damien Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Runtime Revolution = 2.5 doesen't work at all on my linux operating system (Gentoo Linux), so I use revolution 2.2.1 who seem to work fine. -- XML doesn't WORK ! Damien, you might be interested in my all-Transcript XML

RE: MACWORLD

2006-01-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Is there going to be any Runrev presence at MACWORLD this year? I remember a while ago it was in the developer's area... Dan Shafer and I talked about getting a BOF room, but MacWorld organizers said the BOF rooms were booked from last summer. That's why I suggested leveraging the Mac Business

Re: Meeting at MacWorld SF in January 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 11:00:19 PM, you wrote: I never saw a summary of when we can meet at Macworld. I also suggest Tuesday unless some other night has been selected. Please let us know. Here's my suggestion: there's a Apple UG Volunteer Teams meeting on Tuesday at 4PM in the

animations on card

2006-01-05 Thread Preston Shea
Is there a way to see the animations on a card besides using the revanimation.rev tool? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Dick- Thursday, January 5, 2006, 1:15:46 AM, you wrote: I suppose you meant insert rather than put. urk. yes. Are you implementing polymorphism for functions and commands? Sheesh! Was I that obvious about it? I was trying not to be... Then when some event requires a change to a different

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)--YES!

2006-01-05 Thread Rob Cozens
if currentLibrary is imagePath2 then stop using stack imagePath2 close stack imagePath2 lock messages -- [?] open stack imagePath1 -- /or start using ? unlock messages -- don't change currentLibrary, so the next call will toggle [may cause problems in line 1

How to download files from a web server

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have an app that I am setting up with a standalone that automatically downloads a stack from a web server (go stack url http://server/path/stack.rev;) and that works great so that all I have to do is put the current stack on the server and everyone gets automatically updated the next

Problem running rev 2.2.1 on Windows XP

2006-01-05 Thread John Miller
Kurt, Thanks for your idea. I originally thought that something like that was the likely cause. However, here is what I discovered as a fix for the problem. I was indeed asking for a file to be retrieved. However, I put that particular script in a handler and placed it in the stack

Re: How to download files from a web server

2006-01-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bill, you can do the same: put C:/test.jpg into tPath put URL (http://www.myserver.com/myBinFile;) into URL (binFile: tPath) -Chipp Bill Vlahos wrote: I have an app that I am setting up with a standalone that automatically downloads a stack from a web server (go stack url

RE: A Custom Property Sets 'Database

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Chipp, Thanks Scott for creating this demo. I'll be sure and put a link to it on our altSQLite website. No worries. I hope it's helpful to someone. I've received a lot of help from this list and am in the process of creating a couple of new app's (one is database based, the other is

Re: MVC (was Text database using custom properties)

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
David- Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 9:07:43 AM, you wrote: What I am thinking would be a good demonstration of how MVC can add to the collaboration possibilities inherent with Revolution is to release this for a tree widget. I'm looking forward to this... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL

[ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

2006-01-05 Thread Marielle Lange
Dear all, as promised, the surprise: http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/ I was not happy with tikiwiki for managing code snippets. So, there is now a new cms to host all the questions and answers about coding issues that appear on this mailing list. Features are: * All posts of the

Re: [ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

2006-01-05 Thread Jerry Muelver
- Original Message - From: Marielle Lange as promised, the surprise: http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/ Well, I was just going to commit the next three years of my life to creating something very, very similar in Revolution. Now it looks like I can pursue a new career

Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Devin Asay
I've spent the better part of two days coding a utility designed to pull log files (plain ascii text) off a web server, then parse the contents for a report. After initially testing the concept with local files, today I realized that when you use the 'get URL http://

Printing in Rev/Dreamcard

2006-01-05 Thread James Z
How accurately can Rev/Dreamcard print? Can I make marks on a data entry form? In HC I was using Postscript code to draw small rectangles (about 1/8 inch long) and precisely position them on some forms. Does Rev/Dreamcard have similar capabilities? I'd probably be printing to an Epson ink jet

Re: Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Jerry Muelver
- Original Message - From: Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've spent the better part of two days coding a utility designed to pull log files (plain ascii text) off a web server, then parse the contents for a report. After initially testing the concept with local files, today I

Re: Printing in Rev/Dreamcard

2006-01-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
James Z wrote: How accurately can Rev/Dreamcard print? Can I make marks on a data entry form? In HC I was using Postscript code to draw small rectangles (about 1/8 inch long) and precisely position them on some forms. Does Rev/Dreamcard have similar capabilities? I'd probably be printing to an

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 1/5/06 12:07 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm looking at for this case is not just polymorphism, but being able to overload functions whose default instance is in my mainstack and whose overloaded instance is in a separate (not sub-) stack. If the handlers in your main

RE: [ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Marielle, This is a nice resource. Thank you! :-) Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/6/06, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent the better part of two days coding a utility designed to pull log files (plain ascii text) off a web server, then parse the contents for a report. After initially testing the concept with local files, today I realized that when you use

Applescript execution error under Rev but not Script Editor

2006-01-05 Thread Joel Guillod
The following Applescript does work successfully when run in the Script Editor but return an execution error when run with «do fld theScript as Applescript»: THE SCRIPT: try tell application Address Book activate set theCard to person id 808C7253-74EA-4619-

Re: Instructional Video

2006-01-05 Thread alex wu
Hello, I think you can use flash to accomplish this. There is a website that has a lot of this kind of instructional videos. You may check if this is what you are looking for. http://AnyDemo.com Best regards Alex --- Marty Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not exactly a Rev question,

Re: Applescript execution error under Rev but not Script Editor

2006-01-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
The following Applescript does work successfully when run in the Script Editor but return an execution error when run with «do fld theScript as Applescript»: THE SCRIPT: try tell application Address Book activate set theCard to person id

Re: Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Devin Asay
Sarah gets the prize. Once I calmed down and looked closer at the file I realized that all of the line endings were cr's (xtalk logical lines, produced on a Mac.) If I take the same files and save them from BBedit as unix or DOS format, the line breaks are preserved. So I just need to make

Re: MACWORLD -- but keep Monterey

2006-01-05 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hope is that RunRev does the same for a while, focusing on enhancing the product instead ... but keep Monterey. Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Yahoo!

Good RR Discussion Forum Running Since 2003

2006-01-05 Thread alex wu
Hello, Do you know the following RR discussion forum? http://esashi.org/yabb/YaBB.pl This RR discussion forum has been running since 2003 after the closing of 'RR Forum for Newbies'. I always get answers whenever I ask any questions about RR. Best regards Alex

Re: MACWORLD -- but keep Monterey

2006-01-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: --- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hope is that RunRev does the same for a while, focusing on enhancing the product instead ... but keep Monterey. And Malta (coming up in early November). Conferences devoted to the product have a much greater value for a

save for web name length

2006-01-05 Thread Kathy Jaqua
Hi all y'alls (or is it alls y'all?:-) Anyone know the limit of a png image Save for Web name length? I am using adobe CS2? Thanks Kathy Graves Jaqua A Wildest Dream Software San Francisco ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Devin, You might also try saving the text file as a binFile and opening it. Just a thought. -Chipp Devin Asay wrote: Sarah gets the prize. Once I calmed down and looked closer at the file I realized that all of the line endings were cr's (xtalk logical lines, produced on a Mac.) If I

Re: save for web name length

2006-01-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Hi Kathy, Presumably the same as for any other file on the web. If you stick to 31 characters or fewer (including the .png extension) you should be OK. Martin Kathy Jaqua wrote: Hi all y'alls (or is it alls y'all?:-) Anyone know the limit of a png image Save for Web name length? I am

Re: How to download files from a web server

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Oh that is so cool. I couldn't image it would be that simple. I should have just tried it. Thanks Chipp. -Bill On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Bill, you can do the same: put C:/test.jpg into tPath put URL (http://www.myserver.com/myBinFile;) into URL (binFile: tPath)

Re: Text files from web servers--Say it ain't so!

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Yep. That's what I do. It works great. Bill On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Sarah gets the prize. Once I calmed down and looked closer at the file I realized that all of the line endings were cr's (xtalk logical lines, produced on a Mac.) If I take the same files and save them

save for web name length

2006-01-05 Thread Kathy Jaqua
Thanks Martin 30... Um... OK I can do that I think. kathy Graves Jaqua ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Instructional Video

2006-01-05 Thread Judy Perry
Marty, Try Ambrosia's Snapz Pro: http://www.ambrosiasw.com//utilities/snapzprox/ Worth its weight in gold, methinks, for this sort of thing... Judy On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Marty Knapp wrote: This is not exactly a Rev question, but I'm wanting to create some instructional videos for my

Re: Vb CommEvent in Rev

2006-01-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/4/06 1:49 PM, Camm29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , Is there an equivalaint to Visual Basic CommEvent in Rev ? Can i tell if characters have arrived and ready to be Read from the Com Port Buffer ? Well, I haven't done much with this myself, but my understanding is that you can open

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Dick- Thursday, January 5, 2006, 4:23:17 PM, you wrote: With this technique, you can overload any handler without repeatedly removing and inserting scripts into front or back. I think. I see you're satisfied with your current approach, but do you see a problem with this technique? For my

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Chipp- Thursday, January 5, 2006, 12:26:55 PM, you wrote: I'm wondering why you're using backScripts instead of library stacks? I can understand using frontScripts, but backScripts are limited in number vs library stacks (outside development), and IMO typically reserved for 1) scripts of

Re: message hierarchy question

2006-01-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Try: start using stack substack 1 of stack A That puts it in the back. My bad. It does work after all. I think I still had the message hierarchy messed up in memory and quitting and relaunching rev seems to have gotten things working. Thanks. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MACWORLD

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Yeah, this one fell through the cracks when I got sick and then stranded in the Sierra Foothills by weather. I'm open on Tuesday the 10th in the evening if someone wants to suggest an informal way for us to get together, but there's only a 50% chance I'll go at all since I've lost all this time.

Re: MACWORLD -- but keep Monterey

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Probably self-evident but I thought I'd jump in and point out that RunRev doesn't run Malta or Monterey and therefore there is no conflict in focusing on the product and being one of several sponsors to the conferences we're staging. On 1/5/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Hansen