Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have finally fired up Rev Media 4.0 on two minimalist Linux distributions as a start on the effort to discover whether the problems are really due to not having all the necessary files installed, and whether they are due to the mulifarious nature of Linux. I began with Slitaz and Tiny Core,

Re: systemVersion, RunRev with WINE, burblings.

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmon, I'm glad that it works for you. As for me, I don't see how I could comfortably work with RunRev in WINE, since the toolbar and tools palette are made of PNG images. Most of my projects contain PNG's too. It would be really cool if the WINE developers fixed this. Forums... fora...

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for the report Peter. It's really useful to get a feel of what is and is not working on these minimalistic Linux distros. On 16 September 2010 08:22, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: I have finally fired up Rev Media 4.0 on two minimalist Linux distributions as a

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Richmond
On 09/16/2010 10:22 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I have finally fired up Rev Media 4.0 on two minimalist Linux distributions as a start on the effort to discover whether the problems are really due to not having all the necessary files installed, and whether they are due to the mulifarious

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Thierry
Le 16 sept. 2010 à 09:22, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : I have finally fired up Rev Media 4.0 on two minimalist Linux distributions as a start on the effort to discover whether the problems are really due to not having all the necessary files installed, and whether they are due to the

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread tekne
* Permissions launching the file causing a problem? No * Is there network activity during launch? No. To test, I remove any script in the startup process. (I don't have any handler in the main stack and in the only cd (splashscreen) of the main stack.) The task manager gives 25% CPU activity

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richmond, I am just trying to find out if there ARE any dependencies of note that will not be included in most any distro. I think the answer is probably no based on this. I do not expect anyone to use these distros in anger, except for embedded systems. I also wanted to know, were any of the

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Richmond
On 09/16/2010 01:21 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, I am just trying to find out if there ARE any dependencies of note that will not be included in most any distro. I think the answer is probably no based on this. I do not expect anyone to use these distros in anger, except for embedded

Re: using datagrid with revmobile

2010-09-16 Thread paolo mazza
Terry, exept the scrolling, all the other feautures of the datagrid library work in the mobile applications? I tryed and seems to work. Thanks a lot, Paolo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

iphoneRotateInterface command in mobile apps

2010-09-16 Thread paolo mazza
Building a mobile applicantion, I place in the openStack handler the command iphoneRotateInterface landscape left in order to rotate the application accordingly. Any time I open the stack from the Revolution IDE, i get an error message because Rev does not accept this command. How can I

Re: iphoneRotateInterface command in mobile apps

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Miller
On 16/09/2010 14:24, paolo mazza mazzapaoloit...@gmail.com wrote: Building a mobile applicantion, I place in the openStack handler the command iphoneRotateInterface landscape left in order to rotate the application accordingly. Any time I open the stack from the Revolution IDE, i get an

Re: [FOSS] On the creation of Rev to Web tools

2010-09-16 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Andre, This all sounds phantastic ! Great idea ! I don't know if I can help, but I will if I can ! Please keep us up to date on this ! Cheers Rolf ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Pass that bottle to me!

2010-09-16 Thread Richmond
Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De Drinkin' Wine Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De Drinkin' Wine Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De Pass that bottle to me! I would be grateful for as much support as possible to get PNG rendering sorted out in WINE so that RunRev for Windows runs 100% under it:

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: As for Ion, I do not think Rev should be made to work with all WMs. I think it should be standards compliant, and if it is, it will work on all. Sounds good in principle, but in practice have you ever try to run Google Earth with Compiz? Sometimes standards take a

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:03 AM, tekne te...@gruppoparentesi.it wrote: * Is there network activity during launch? No. To test, I remove any script in the startup process. (I don't have any handler in the main stack and in the only cd (splashscreen) of the main stack.) Sorry, I wasn't

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/16/10 10:42 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: snip good stuff Jeff, thanks for your help, and thanks to everyone else who posted too. Now that Riccardo is on the list he can respond directly to questions, which is much better than me trying to serve as intermediary. I hope you smart people can

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi Riccardo, welcome to the lists. A couple of things to try: on openstack lock messages end openStack -- you will need to remove this later otherwise the app will not operate. Do things speed up when you include this? Do you have many controls on your card? Especially a couple of

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread tekne
Hi Malte, I follow this list and the improve-revolution list from many years and I am an happy user of your chartsEngine. Hi Jeff and everybody who posted too. I think that Jeff is right! But for me the problem is related to the rev engine and I have no tool to solve it. I removed every script

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
It's a nice work, but I'm not sure it's the best choice for testing standards. No, agreed. Or rather, admitted! But Rev should however work with tiling window managers, as long as everything else does with them. If it did, it would probably do virtual desktops right as well. No, this is not

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread zryip theSlug
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM, tekne te...@gruppoparentesi.it wrote: Riccardo, In my app I have about 130 substacks with an image substack and a lot of stack using datagrid. (rev file is about 45 MB) NO problem in the IDE and with the standalone in Mac, Linux and in WIN pre 7 version (also

Re: [OT] O'Reilly eBook deal of the day (cookbooks for 9 USD)

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Andre, thanks so much for this. I picked up Bash, Python and Web. Now it is only a question of finding the energy to work through them. As the poet said (or rather the parody of him said): As we get older, we do not get any younger... Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: Getting started with databases

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Bob, are you saying, just the tables...? So why not export the tables as csv? Am I missing something to do with relations? Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Getting-started-with-databases-tp2540312p2542837.html Sent from the

Re: Getting started with databases

2010-09-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
To my knowledge, it exports just the tables and indexes. It may also export relationships, I don't know. I just know that after I purchased it, I was a bit disappointed because I thought I could take a fully functional Filemaker Database, complete with forms and everything, and it would create

Server Side Database Advice

2010-09-16 Thread Warren Kuhl
I am developing software that needs to pass information to a centralized MySQL database. My current host started blocking connections as they said the MySQL database was for web applications only and had an issue with updating it with an application. Plus they only allowed a few concurrent

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread Giovanni Cannizzaro
Il 16/09/2010 20.42, zryip theSlug ha scritto: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM, teknete...@gruppoparentesi.it wrote: Riccardo, In my app I have about 130 substacks with an image substack and a lot of stack using datagrid. (rev file is about 45 MB) NO problem in the IDE and with the

Re: Getting started with databases

2010-09-16 Thread stephen barncard
Filemaker tabbed delimited export converts returns to vertical tab characters. You can still retain your returns. On 16 September 2010 13:25, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: To my knowledge, it exports just the tables and indexes. It may also export relationships, I don't know. I just know

Re: Server Side Database Advice

2010-09-16 Thread stephen barncard
Change hosts or use a cgi interface, not a direct connection. On 16 September 2010 13:32, Warren Kuhl warrenk...@gmail.com wrote: I am developing software that needs to pass information to a centralized MySQL database. My current host started blocking connections as they said the MySQL

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread zryip theSlug
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Giovanni Cannizzaro johncanmail-...@yahoo.it wrote:  Il 16/09/2010 20.42, zryip theSlug ha scritto: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM, teknete...@gruppoparentesi.it  wrote: Riccardo, In my app I have about 130 substacks with an image substack and a lot of

Re: Getting started with databases

2010-09-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye, but we were talking about CSV, Comma Separated Values I think is what it stands for. Bob On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:36 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Filemaker tabbed delimited export converts returns to vertical tab characters. You can still retain your returns.

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread zryip theSlug
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:27 PM, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Giovanni Cannizzaro johncanmail-...@yahoo.it wrote:  Il 16/09/2010 20.42, zryip theSlug ha scritto: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM, teknete...@gruppoparentesi.it  wrote:

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/16/10 5:49 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: That seems not logical here if your problem could be solved by a new installation of Seven and not by a code modification. Just to clarify, the tech queue (I work there for a couple hours daily) had one other RR customer who reported the same problem

How to get environment VARS in iRev

2010-09-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
I need to be able to grab the standard web server runtime environment variables in iRev pages. a string like this: input name=SourceURL value=!--#echo var=REQUEST_URI -- type=hidden / is not processed by iRev the apache include module is not active. What are our iRev options? I tried

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread zryip theSlug
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 9/16/10 5:49 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: That seems not logical here if your problem could be solved by a new installation of Seven and not by a code modification. Just to clarify, the tech queue (I work there

Re: How to get environment VARS in iRev

2010-09-16 Thread Monte Goulding
put the globalNames to see what's available -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding Software Development Bespoke application development for vertical markets InstallGadget - How to create an installer in 10 seconds revObjective - Making behavior scripts behave

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread zryip theSlug
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 9/16/10 5:49 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: That seems not logical here if your problem could be solved by a new installation of Seven

Re: How to get environment VARS in iRev

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Sivakatirswami- Thursday, September 16, 2010, 3:59:08 PM, you wrote: What are our iRev options? Try looking at the keys of the $_SERVER array: put SERVER: the keys of $_SERVER br/ You can then pick out individual elements as in: put $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] -- -Mark Wieder

Mac OS X - how to darken screen?

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Davis
I want to darken my Mac screen (not just a stack window) the way a slide presentation would do it at its beginning, and then bring it up again to reveal what has been changed. Does anyone have an AppleScript or a shell() command for this that can be run from Rev? Thanks! -- Phil Davis PDS

Re: Mac OS X - how to darken screen?

2010-09-16 Thread Andre Garzia
You can take a screenshot of the screen and manipulate it to darken it. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: I want to darken my Mac screen (not just a stack window) the way a slide presentation would do it at its beginning, and then bring it up again to

Re: Mac OS X - how to darken screen?

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Thursday, September 16, 2010, 6:41:30 PM, you wrote: You can take a screenshot of the screen and manipulate it to darken it. Oo... sneaky... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Mac OS X - how to darken screen?

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Davis
Outrageous! Very cool. Thanks Andre. Phil On 9/16/10 6:41 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: You can take a screenshot of the screen and manipulate it to darken it. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Phil Davisrev...@pdslabs.net wrote: I want to darken my Mac screen (not just a stack window) the

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-16 Thread William de Smet
I don't know if it is related but Mark Schonewille advised me to 'set dontuseQT to true' on startup on a very slow app on Win7 (core2duo with 2 Gb ram). It worked perfectly! Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 17 sep. 2010 om 01:31 heeft zryip theSlug

XML+MySQL+UTF8 = MISERY

2010-09-16 Thread Tereza Snyder
Hi all, In Rev (version 4.0) on a Mac : 1. Build an xml file starting with a 'shell' : put revCreateXMLTree( encodeUtf8( merge(fld XMLshell)), true,true,false) into tmp 1a. the shell has the header: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? 1b. the encodeUtf8 function: return

Re: XML+MySQL+UTF8 = MISERY

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Tereza- Thursday, September 16, 2010, 10:39:01 PM, you wrote: Does anything stand out to those of you who have used MySQL? and revXML? and utf8? I haven't used that combination, particularly the utf8 part, but off the top of my head, I'd say one problem looks like MySQL is making crlf pairs