Re: Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Blackman
I just tried it in Rev Studio. Changed 'N' to 50 under mouseup, it took a shade over 30 seconds to diagonalise, I'm using a 4 year old AMD 64 3200+. I'll leave the optimising to others for now.. 2009/8/27 Piero Ugliengo piero.uglie...@gmail.com: I am completely new to Revolution. I have

Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread Piero Ugliengo
I am completely new to Revolution. I have downloaded the RevMedia alpha version and played a bit with it. I was impressed by how fast I was able to port a little VB6 code to RevMedia. This code diagonalizes a symmetric matrix using the Jacobi algorithm. I checked against the VB6 code and I got

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Baxter
I have a beige G3 - now only used for printing to an ancient but still usable inkjet that won't run with X, and for reminding myself what computers were like when buying one meant that you actually owned it, yourself, and the need to protect yourself against constant snoopers and diallers-home was

Re: How to reliably crash Rev 3.5 and 4.0-dp3 with four script lines

2009-08-27 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Wed Aug 26, 2009, Björnke von Gierke bvg at mac.com wrote: On 26 Aug 2009, at 22:45, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: snipped out a novel here maybe sending this to the runrev guys/gals via bugzilla err quality center would be more advantageous in regards to getting the crashes fixed?

Re: How to reliably crash Rev 3.5 and 4.0-dp3 with four script lines

2009-08-27 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for taking the time to post this Wilhelm - a wealth of useful information there that would have taken ages to drill down through bugzilla reports. 2009/8/26 Wilhelm Sanke sa...@hrz.uni-kassel.de Actually you can choose between two four-liners, depending on the specific conditions.

Re: Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Smith
I saw this over on the forum (the diagonalisation takes about twenty seconds on my MacBookPro with rev enterprise), and two things occur to me. 'Arrays' in revolution are actually hash tables, so are very nice for random access to elements, but will not be as efficient for sequential

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Dom
George C Brackett gbrack...@luceatlux.com wrote: Correct. But the URL I provided gives you a complete installation, including PPC ROM. You just install the package, run the app, and voila: OS 9 boots into a window. as another people said to you, maybe there is a copyright trouble ;-)

Re: Datagrid SelectionChanged issues

2009-08-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:25 PM, David Bovill wrote: From the docs on selectionChanged pHilitedIndex, pPrevHilitedIndex put the dgDataOfIndex [ pHilitedIndex ] of me into theSelDataA uiViewRecordOfID theSelDataA[id] end selectionChanged .. And I am having problems with old / new values

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Bill Marriott
I wouldn't try to run Win98 on bare-metal new hardware, as there are likely to be new devices (including motherboard/chipset drivers) which Win98 doesn't know about. But within Virtual PC 2007 and at least VMWare it runs perfectly. I haven't tried to run it under Parallels. Also, be sure you

Order of operators

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I need to calculate 1*2+3-4/5^6 as 1*2)+3)-4)/5)^6 rather than (1*2)+3-(4/(5^6)) without using brackets. This should increase speed performance. Any ideas? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download

Re: Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread Piero Ugliengo
Dear Mark, thanks a lot for the advise. Things like 1.0 istead of 1 were just my ignorance of the language.On the other hand I thought that the syntax a[i][j] instead of the more readable a[i,j] was imposed by the language. Cheers Piero 2009/8/27 Mark Smith li...@futilism.com I saw this over on

RE: Order of operators

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Bufalini
Mark Schonewille wrote: I need to calculate 1*2+3-4/5^6 as 1*2)+3)-4)/5)^6 rather than (1*2)+3-(4/(5^6)) without using brackets. This should increase speed performance. Any ideas? Not sure about no brackets without multiple puts into vars (which should add time), but

Re: Order of operators

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jim, This is about a calculation with potentially hundreds of parameters. I don't think that parsing the formula to reduce the number of brackets will be fast enough to make the exercise worthwhile. I'm building up the formula in a repeat loop, one operator at a time: 1 1*2 1*2+3 etc.

Re: Datagrid SelectionChanged issues

2009-08-27 Thread David Bovill
2009/8/27 Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com dgHilite isn't a data grid property. It is a property of a row control. Template Custom Properties Messages: http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/manuals/datagrid/lessons/3462-Template-Custom-Properties-Messages If

Re: Can't hide field border

2009-08-27 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: It is true but it doesn't matter if it is true or false. I still see it. Bill Vlahos On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:10 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bill Vlahos wrote: I have a stack that has field that appears to have a border that I can't get rid

Edinburgh sweets

2009-08-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi To people who have tasted some of the Swiss sweets last year in Vegas, and are also coming to Edinburgh next week: If there is a special need for a specific kind of tasty goodness, i can take _small_ amounts of orders for your favourite ones. Please contact me off list! Bjoernke

RE: Order of operators

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hey Mark, Your question peaked my curiosity because I use brackets for everything (never hundreds of pairs) ;-) and why I threw out an answer. Anyway, I just ran 10,000 iterations of the following three calculations. The first two arrive at the same answer and the third one doesn't, of course,

Re: Datagrid SelectionChanged issues

2009-08-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:26 AM, David Bovill wrote: dispatch FindLine to dgView with title, viewName put the result into vLineNum set the dgHilitedLine of dgView to vLineNum What i am finding is that when I issue this from the card script a selectionChanged message is sent - but with

Web Disk Account at On-Rev

2009-08-27 Thread Gregory Lypny
Probably a silly question but does a web disk account permit access to my computer? Is it a security risk? Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Edinburgh sweets

2009-08-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey BvG, Looking forward to see you here! I remember those ovaltine bars very fondly! lol! :D Cheers andre 2009/8/27 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com Hi To people who have tasted some of the Swiss sweets last year in Vegas, and are also coming to Edinburgh next week: If there is a special

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
We use G5's for various tasks, like audio post production, graphics and publications, and most interestingly I think, our internet gateway is software produced by a company called Vicomsoft. The gateway is called Intergate, and features a number of modules that do content filtering,

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi George. I tried Sheepshaver too, but the problem I had was with the networking. Seems they do some kind of bridge, which interferes with mounting shares properly, so it was useless to me as I needed to get into my old Foxpro 2.6 development environment back when I was thinking about

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Look no further. Parallels 4 can run Snow Leopard Server, and version 5 is supposed to be able to run Snow Leopard. Bob On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Specific cases of trouble aside, it *does* work generally, and it's really great to have the ability to have multiple

Re: Rev compatibility for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well... aren't they? Bob On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Wow . . . I really feel an urge to use 'derivative upgrade' as my phrase of the week; the only thing that prevents me is the fear that my 2 sons will start claiming that they are derivative upgrades of me . .

Re: [ANN] tRev's new 'decoder' now showing...video is up!

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Jerry, your a freakin' genius man! Heading to the Rev store right now to give you yet more money. Makes me excited about programming again. Bob On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Here's the link to the video showing how tRev's decoder works to help you debug your code.

Re: [OT] Who still uses a Mac PPC?

2009-08-27 Thread George C Brackett
I guess sometimes a barrier is a blessing, no? My older software knew not of networks, thank goodness. George On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi George. I tried Sheepshaver too, but the problem I had was with the networking. Seems they do some kind of bridge, which

Snow Leopard

2009-08-27 Thread Marian Petrides
I've got Snow Leopard on order for delivery tomorrow. Is there any word on Rev's compatiblity with Snow Leopard? Any known problems with either Rev itself or with On-Rev? TIA. And the waiting begins :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Safe Place to Put Files at On-Rev

2009-08-27 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Starting to tinker with my On-Rev account, and I'm hoping someone can tell me where I should place data files so that they are not public but they can be read and written to in the processing of forms and accessed by Rev scripts. Regards, Gregory

Re: [ANN] tRev's new 'decoder' now showing...video is up!

2009-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Jerry. I'm curious if GLX2 will run in conjunction with tRev? There are times that stepping through my code is preferable, because I need to see how I GOT to my breakpoint in the first place. I have had times when I had called a function twice from different places without even

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-27 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: I've got Snow Leopard on order for delivery tomorrow. Is there any word on Rev's compatiblity with Snow Leopard? Any known problems with either Rev itself or with On-Rev? TIA. I've not seen any on limited, informal testing on a

Re: [ANN] tRev's new 'decoder' now showing...video is up!

2009-08-27 Thread Jerry Daniels
Bob, Thank you for your kind words, and, of course, your hard-earned cash! GLX2 and tRev _can_ run together, but I don't recommend it. The whole idea of tRev is to get out of the IDE as much as possible. GLX2 is in the IDE deep. After using tRev's decoder, you may want to re-think getting

on-rev nomenclature

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
The new server engine driving on-rev.com accounts lets us use put statements without specifying a container yet without returning the result until the script is finished. This is useful, simpler than coding CGIs using the older method of putting into a variable since any unassigned put pushed

Re: on-rev nomenclature

2009-08-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: The new server engine driving on-rev.com accounts lets us use put statements without specifying a container yet without returning the result until the script is finished. This is useful, simpler than coding CGIs using the older method of putting into a variable since any

Re: on-rev nomenclature

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Ault
So what would be a good way to express this via on-rev? in PHP scripting ECHOor PRINTdo the immediate send of a string to a browser when that line is executed... unless you turn on Output Buffering ob_start()-- Turn on output buffering then later $stringToSend =

Re: Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread viktoras d.
Hi Piero, declaring local/global variables in functions and handlers should slightly add to speed. Populating arrays in advance with zeros so that array size won't change inside loops might also be of some value. However, please correct me if I am wrong, VB6 is compiled while Revolution is

Re: on-rev nomenclature

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Yennie
Seems like the xTalk spirit would say something like: set the isbuffering to true set the isbuffering to false put the length of the outputbuffer replace me with you in the outputbuffer send outputbuffer There would be some interesting possibilities if you could just address the buffer as a

Database connection fails with MS SQL 2008

2009-08-27 Thread mfstuart
Hi all, Anyone know if RunRev 3.5 can successfully connect to MS SQL 2008? So far I haven't been able to. Platform: WINXP Regards, Mark Stuart -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Database-connection-fails-with-MS-SQL-2008-tp25179419p25179419.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: Datagrid SelectionChanged issues

2009-08-27 Thread David Bovill
2009/8/27 Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:26 AM, David Bovill wrote: Shows that when using set the dgHilitedLine both params to selectionChanged are empty, and the dgHilitedLine is set inconsistently? David, Setting the dgHilitedLine doesn't send

popUpmenu btn in a datagrid

2009-08-27 Thread Yves COPPE
Hello list, I have a datagrid form In the row template, I have placed a popUp menu btn but, the menuPick handler of this btn is not send if I use the btn in the row template of the datagird, it runs perfectly but if I choose an item of thi bnt in the datagrid, nothing happens ... How

Re: popUpmenu btn in a datagrid

2009-08-27 Thread David Bovill
Should work fine - there is nothing magic happening in the datagrid - it's just a regular group containing copies of your row template - the menupick handler will work the same way as any group containing a menu button - so just check your script and make sure you are editing the right one :)

Building an On-Rev Guest Book

2009-08-27 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Well, I've made some progress with this whole On-Rev thing. I'm trying to reproduce Kevin Miller's video example of guest book form that echoes the entry and save it to a file except that I want to do it using an HTML snippet object in an iWeb page that I've got served

Re: Database connection fails with MS SQL 2008

2009-08-27 Thread mfstuart
Ahhh, found the problem. When defining the ODBC connection, you must check the Change the default database to: box when selecting the database. then select the database. Unchecked, it will return an error. Mark Stuart mfstuart wrote: Hi all, Anyone know if RunRev 3.5 can successfully

Re: Building an On-Rev Guest Book

2009-08-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Instead of posting the form data to a separate file, post it back to the file containing the form itself and have it read the post data, save it and then display it all in the one file. So put the script you have in form.irev into an HTML snippet on the original page. Then change the form

Re: uploading a test revlet on safari to a web site

2009-08-27 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 juil. 09 à 04:13, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, revinfo1...@aol.com wrote: I've successfully created a web application with webmedia. it runs good although I'll have to clean up a few things. The question is, how do I upload the web application from the

[ANN] Script Colour Editor 1.0.0

2009-08-27 Thread Shao Sean
There was a post on the user list about changing the script editor colours so I thought I would whip up a little plugin to allow you to quickly and easily change the colour scheme of the script editor. Revolution allows you to choose from three pre-built schemes default, Revolution Classic

[ANN] tRev's new 'Raptor' feature to be shown in webinar

2009-08-27 Thread Jerry Daniels
Fellow lovers of code editors and Revolution, We're hosting a free webinar tomorrow where I'll be demonstrating a brand new feature of tRev which is code-named Raptor. As far as I know, no one has ever attempted this particular feature in a code editor. Since it is rare--if not unique, my

Re: Revlet alternatives for launch, shell, externals, applescript, etc.

2009-08-27 Thread Ian Wood
Hi Richard, I've got shell access to work by checking the Shell tickbox (pretty obvious, really), but what do you need to tick for AppleScript? My 'hello world' with all checkboxes ticked still won't run any applescripts even though they work in the IDE. :-( Ian On 27 Jul 2009, at

Re: [ANN] Script Colour Editor 1.0.0

2009-08-27 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Sean, Thank you for offering Script Colour Editor. I downloaded and tried out SCE, but am still unclear as to what SCE is meant to do. Does SCE simply colorize a script that's copy-pasted into the SCE script field (above the button Colorize? Or does SCE modify one of Rev's three pre-built

Re: Performance of RevMedia on matrix diagonalization

2009-08-27 Thread Bernard Devlin
Viktoras, Maybe the wording in the IDE (and maybe the docs) is misleading. After all, the button in the script editor says 'compile', not just 'save' or 'check syntax'. It might very well be that it is compiled into some form of p-code that doesn't mean that it needs to be re-compiled each time