Re: Memory Problem?

2007-02-04 Thread Peter Reid
Thanks David Mark. I think I'll try the buffered binary writing, as suggested by Mark, to see how that works out. I've seen how fast Rev can do this kind of thing before, but not for such large files. These files are Retrospect backup catalogues that I'm copying from the primary back-

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
Thanks a lot for the background and references Marielle. I'll take the tip of working outwards, and read up a bit more on regular expressions - one thing you mention which intrigues me is searching right to left... sounds like a technique to be used in regexp - but how?

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
On 04/02/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Bovill wrote: The hard bit is to be able to match the function call... What is this to be used for? Its for graphing relationships between handlers. An itch I have been wanting to scratch for a very long time now. A problem I have

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
I'll try this approach JIm - I am always surprised by how complicated stuff can be analysed by the simple techniques you suggest! On 03/02/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or perhaps a cleaner implementation would be get line x of fcnListing replace ( with cr ( in it replace ) with )cr

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/4/07 5:34 AM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for the background and references Marielle. I'll take the tip of working outwards, and read up a bit more on regular expressions - one thing you mention which intrigues me is searching right to left... sounds like a

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread Jim Ault
Its for graphing relationships between handlers. An itch I have been wanting to scratch for a very long time now. A problem I have are dead functions - that is the stuff hanging around in libraries that are used rarely or perhaps never. I also want to be able to reliably extract stand-alone

Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, all. I'm finally updating my id3 tag library (it will write as well as read), and I want to handle unicode issues correctly. My question is : when using any library that is going to give you back some text as the result of a function, how is it best to indicate whether it is unicode or

Re: game-based learning

2007-02-04 Thread Marielle Lange
Joe, Thanks very much for sharing this. I am very keen to have your feedback on some work I have done which uh, may drastically cut down your development time ;-). I am just waiting to receive the green light share information on this. I will get back to you before the end of next week.

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
On 04/02/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you tracking valid functions that have the same name yet different locations? If both functions that are named the same are in the path, the first will trap a message (most frequent example is the mouseup). Does this get graphed in your

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
I hope I got your question right - it is more abot an interface style to a library than auto-detecting whether which format the data is in? If so - arrays are a good bet, but in my opinion the most user friendly approach is to create a model which deals with the functions and commands for

Re: Re: [Ann] New game made with Rev. Drops

2007-02-04 Thread Malte Brill
Thanks for all the feedback both on and off list. :-) Really makes the work worthwhile. All the input I reveive makes me think of improved versions, so there might be more to come. All the best, Malte -- http://www.derbrill.de/drops ___

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
David, thanks for the reply - it's actually both questions. I like the style of interface using set/getprops, and will probably do exactly what you suggest. However, the unicode problem is that in an ID3 tag, text information (that the library will extract from the tag) may be encoded as

UPDATE SQL-DB maker Errors

2007-02-04 Thread Horst
Holá Erverybody, I´m Using RR 2.7.4 and MySQL 4.1 I try to update an existing record with put UPDATE post SET Mail_body = Mail_text ' where lfdnr = Mail_Number into SQL_Befehl revexecute DB_ID SQL_Befehl Sometimes it works, sometimes not. So I found out, if the Mail_Text includes one or

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
I am not really sure - can you put it into a field and if it differs from the original text value assume it is unicode, or maybe regEx looking for some chars outside of the ascii range? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
That's the point - I don't want the user to have to guess. The library 'knows', because the encoding information is in the id3 tag it's just read, what I'm wondering about is simplest wasy to let the user of the library know. So if the 'client' app asks the library for the title of a file,

Re: Will Rev Window XP builds run on VISTA?

2007-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Charles- Saturday, February 3, 2007, 10:24:45 AM, you wrote: Does anyone know if Rev Window XP builds will run on VISTA? That's much too generic a question. The short answer is yes, if you build an app in XP it will run in Vista. As long as you don't need to store data

Re: Will Rev Window XP builds run on VISTA?

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, February 4, 2007, 9:28:17 AM, you wrote: Do you know which areas are allowed, or have a pointer to info? Not off the top of my head. Vista's UAC model has changed the playing field as to where user info can be safely stored. Again. I'm still trying to get it all sorted out. --

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, May I suggest that you translate all strings into and deliver all strings as ut8? This would avoid any confusion on the user's side. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
Mark, this seems like a good idea. Would I be right in thinking that to translate a string from UTF16 to UTF8 I would do this: put unidecode(someUTF16String,UTF8) into tUTF8String ? Thanks, Mark On 4 Feb 2007, at 18:23, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Mark, May I suggest that you translate

Re: Unicode Question

2007-02-04 Thread David Bovill
Well inside Rev - I think that most users would like to use the htmlText. From my point of view i would like to be able to do the following: set the text of fld Title to the id3_Title of player 1 set the htmltext of fld Title to the id3_Title [htmlText] of player 1 -- (could have

Re: UPDATE SQL-DB maker Errors

2007-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I´m Using RR 2.7.4 and MySQL 4.1 I try to update an existing record with put UPDATE post SET Mail_body = Mail_text ' where lfdnr = Mail_Number into SQL_Befehl revexecute DB_ID SQL_Befehl Sometimes it works, sometimes not. So I found out, if the Mail_Text includes one or ' the datas will

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Joe, Quick answer: no. Slightly longer answer: you can always make a screenshot of a Mac OS 9 window and use the frame for a window shape of your own. You'd have to emulate all window features by yourself, though. As you probably know, you can use the emulated Mac OS 9 view of

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Mark, Thanks. I had already considered a somewhat similar solution, but I'm looking for a real solution, not just a fix. My current fix is to take my screen shots into MacDraft and draw a frame around the window before I paste it into my articles. I did this for next week's

[ANN] Valentina 2.5.5 Released; Valentina for Ruby on Rails Announced

2007-02-04 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
* Valentina 2.5.5 Released; * Valentina for Ruby on Rails Announced * Valentina's day gifts - SAVE UP TO $900! Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the release of Valentina 2.5.5 for Revolution ­ both for Valentina database tools for software vendors and the business

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Joe, If all you want is a set of screenshots, why don't you create a standalone for Mac OS 9 with Rev 2.6.1 or earlier and make screenshots on an old Mac or in Classic? Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
I have, but I wanted to have the screenshots of the converted to Rev stack side by side for comparison, and I only have Rev for OSX. On Feb 4, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Joe, If all you want is a set of screenshots, why don't you create a standalone for Mac OS 9 with Rev

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
You could try pulling the theme_support bundles out of the OS X standalone bundle. The effect (when the standalone builder was forgetting to include those files) was an OS 9 look and feel on OS X. Best, Mark On 4 Feb 2007, at 22:01, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks. I had

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when I get around to compiling a standalone. On Feb 4, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Mark Smith wrote: You could try pulling the theme_support bundles out of the OS X standalone bundle. The effect (when the standalone builder was forgetting to include those files) was

Re: Window Options

2007-02-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, One would get the same effeect by simply setting the lookAndFeel to Macintosh while your suggestion wouldn't affect the window frame, which Joe wants to change. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz

Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Kevin J
Hello, I am new to revolution and so far love the program. I am having a little problem that I can't seem to figure out with using random. What I am trying to accomplish is to make a random roll and adding the results up. ie: like rolling 3 6 sided dice and add the results together. I can get

Re: Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Kevin, I'm a beginner with Revolution too; but, if I were doing this in HC, I'd do three successive random calls, putting the results into three local var and then adding the three vars to produce the number you're looking for. HTH, Joe Wilkins PS -- why aren't you watching the

Re: Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Kevin, be most welcome!!! to roll 3d6 try something like put random(6) into d1 put random(6) into d2 put random(6) into d3 put d1 + d2 + d3 into TotalValue You can always search the built-in dictionary in the documentation under the help menu for learning more about the commands.

Fwd: Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Kevin J
Ya that I can do. Sorry I should have been a little more clear. I have to input fields and a button, input field 1 in the number of dice field 2 is the dice type. So when a user enters the numbers ie: 3 die 6, 10 die 6. I need to to basically do the same thing but not have to use that many puts

Re: Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Kevin, now it is clear repeat fld number of dices times add random(fld dice type) to TotalValue end repeat explanations a repeat loop will cycle the code it contains. The amount of cycles is the number in field number of dices, the code inside will add a dice to the variable called

Re: [Ann] New game made with Rev. Drops

2007-02-04 Thread Rishi Viner
Aw, no Linux version? Would it be too much to ask? I can't be bothered re-booting into Windoze in my coffee breaks anymore... ;) Cheers, Rishi. On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:41, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, I am very proud to announce that after a while of quietness, I finally

Re: Fwd: Help with random

2007-02-04 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:24 PM -0500 2/4/2007, Kevin J wrote: Ya that I can do. Sorry I should have been a little more clear. I have to input fields and a button, input field 1 in the number of dice field 2 is the dice type. So when a user enters the numbers ie: 3 die 6, 10 die 6. I need to to basically do the same

Re: Re: [Ann] New game made with Rev. Drops

2007-02-04 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Rishi, Aw, no Linux version? Would it be too much to ask? I can't be bothered re-booting into Windoze in my coffee breaks anymore... ;) As soon as we see a 2.7 engine for Linux I will create a standalone. All the best, Malte ___

Re: A hard challenge anyone?

2007-02-04 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/4/07 5:45 AM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try this approach JIm - I am always surprised by how complicated stuff can be analysed by the simple techniques you suggest! On 03/02/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or perhaps a cleaner implementation would be get line x