The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/28/10 11:21 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. snip And what is the story with siglum? Well; on Mac keyboards the top-left key has a siglum: § on it, rather than a `; that key usually being to the left of the Z key. Whether § should be classified seriously as one of the sigla is a

This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread Vokey, John
All, I use RunRev in my lab: indeed, it does everything in my lab: all of my lab computers have it, except they have it as Metacard, but that shouldn't be an issue (or if it is, then I really have an issue, as it has to be in the Metacard IDE!). I never create standalones (well, I have done

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Thanks guys, food for thought. This would probably do most of it, have him able to write it in something he is comfortable with, but also centralize it so as not to proliferate copies. Should have thought of it. Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: libURLDownloadToFile and LiveCode

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Cragg
On 29 Oct 2010, at 06:58, Ludovic Thébault wrote: Hello, Under Revolution 4, this script work like a charm : on mouseup ... libURLDownloadToFile theUrl, theDestUrl, Downloaded wait 0 milliseconds with messages ShowInfo theUrl end mouseup on ShowInfo pUrl local

Re: This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread Chipp Walters
John, It's easy, but not so straightforward to do this. Put this in your message box and hit enter: go URL (http://www.widgetgadget.com/stuff/testLineDraw.rev;) On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Vokey, John vo...@uleth.ca wrote: So, I designed a simple stack to have the user *in the

Re: Missing mouse clicks

2010-10-29 Thread Chipp Walters
Break it down to a simple stack and try and replicate the error. Chances are you'll isolate the problem. If not, post the simple stack and I or someone else can take a look at it. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Terry Judd t...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: I¹ve got something weird going on where

[OT] My G3 and DVDs

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond
Back to the Future . . . All works superbly except . . . The Lightscribe DVD burner. All DVD burning software gets stuck. - Flash the ROM, Dance naked in the streets, (well, it is also a kind of flashing) Hack things ???

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 29/10/2010 05:40, stephen barncard wrote: Search for Magic Carpet at Chipp's site. I tried Magic Carpet when it was first announced, and it was a good backup/archive/version-control system, but I don't remember anything about auto-update, and there's nothing about auto-update in the web

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-29 Thread Thierry
Le 29 oct. 2010 à 11:59, Alex Tweedly a écrit : . and you're right, lots of good advice, looks like a good system, etc. I was just hoping for some working example to start from. Hi Alex, Out of my cloudy memory, there is on RevOnline a stack called Registration-Update, Registration and

Re: libURLDownloadToFile and LiveCode

2010-10-29 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 29 oct. 2010 à 10:38, Dave Cragg a écrit : I'm not sure, but perhaps this has something to do with the new asynchronous behavior of the hostNameToAddress function. It seems that urlStatus will now return empty for a short period between issuing the load command and the point after it

[OT] Re:The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Jacques Hausser
I looked at siglum, wondering if it has something to do with gollum or glum. Well, Siglum seems to be a generic denomination for special characters (*,#,§,,@...). On Mac's character wiever § is called Section sign, what seems to be the normal name in english. It is highly used in legal writing

Re: [OT] My G3 and DVDs

2010-10-29 Thread Shao Sean
Did you try PatchBurn ? http://www.patchburn.de/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] My G3 and DVDs

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond
On 10/29/2010 03:15 PM, Shao Sean wrote: Did you try PatchBurn ? http://www.patchburn.de/ ___ Thanks; I have already tried that; to no avail. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread DunbarX
Richmond. On Mac keyboards? I have a tilde and a sort of mini backSlash (ASCII 57) Like everyone else. But I see what you meant, your odd char is used to reference or annotate secondary sources in a text. It is a sigla, part of a siglum. How much do you want for that keyboard? Craig

html entities

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Got a small problem and wondering if there's any way around it. When getting the htmlText of a field, is there any way to make Rev/LiveCode return the numeric html entities of special characters? So for example, if I have a word in Spanish, like día (accented i), if I put that into a text

Re: This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread stephen barncard
Chip. That photo is hilarious. Was that some band promo fail or something? Creepy. Perfect for your demo though. On 29 October 2010 01:48, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: go URL (http://www.widgetgadget.com/stuff/testLineDraw.rev;) -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more

Re: Photoshop Applescript fails , why?

2010-10-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
On 10/28/10 5:36 PM, Terry Judd wrote: What happens if you use system events to activate Photoshop first and then tell Photoshop to do its action? tell application System events to tell application Adobe Photoshop CS5 to activate tell application Adobe Photoshop CS5 to do action [action] from

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread DunbarX
I use HTML text not at all, but after looking at the dictionary, it seems there is no direct way to do this. I could be wrong. But it would be simple to take the output and do a little massaging. An ampersand seems always to be inserted as a tag when the function encounters a character with

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread stephen barncard
One could roll a special getprop handler that lives in the script of the field (and / or controlled by a behavior for several fields ) that can change the text (using replace or merge) to anything you want: *instead of * get the htmltext of fld xxx *call your getprop property instead* get the

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond
On 10/29/2010 04:41 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. On Mac keyboards? I have a tilde and a sort of mini backSlash (ASCII 57) Like everyone else. But I see what you meant, your odd char is used to reference or annotate secondary sources in a text. It is a sigla, part of a siglum. How

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread DunbarX
I should have been more clear. Use the ampersand and semicolon to locate the original char in the source text. Convert that char with the charToNum function. If your source text actually contains ampersands and semicolons, it is a bit more involved. The ampersand itself comes over as amp. So

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread DunbarX
Hmmm. Must be a European thing? Craig In a message dated 10/29/10 11:59:15 AM, richmondmathew...@gmail.com writes: Very funny; all the Mac keyboards I have have the siglum key in the top-left corner. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 10:59 AM, Richmond wrote: Very funny; all the Mac keyboards I have have the siglum key in the top-left corner. I've never seen it that way. All my Mac keyboards have a tilde in that position. International differences, maybe? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 11:11 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I should have been more clear. Use the ampersand and semicolon to locate the original char in the source text. Convert that char with the charToNum function. Except that the htmltext doesn't return characters you can convert in these cases, it

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond
On 10/29/2010 07:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/29/10 10:59 AM, Richmond wrote: Very funny; all the Mac keyboards I have have the siglum key in the top-left corner. I've never seen it that way. All my Mac keyboards have a tilde in that position. International differences, maybe?

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Jim Sims
On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I've never seen it that way. All my Mac keyboards have a tilde in that position. International differences, maybe? Yup, my UK English has the siglum and a plus/minus in the upper left corner. There are UK, American, Universal (I think

App store audio blog discussion

2010-10-29 Thread jim sims
http://www.coreint.org/audio/CoreInt_34.mp3 Interesting discussion from well know developers Daniel Jalkut is the founder of Red Sweater Software. Manton Reece is the founder of Riverfold Software. sims ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 1:54 AM, Vokey, John wrote: in the Metacard IDE, as soon as I script-select the line to allow the user to draw the line so my code can get the rect, it switches the IDE to edit mode, which means any subsequent clicks on buttons (to indicate that the line has been drawn, etc.) put

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Brigham MD
See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY The siglum at topleft seems to be found in Scandinavian countries and in Holland, at least in the QWERTY layout. The british version at least in this article, doesn't have any siglum key at all (must be an alt/option-key

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread DunbarX
Jacques. I meant he could search for strings bracketed by an ampersand and a semicolon, with the complications as a bonus, of course. Craig In a message dated 10/29/10 12:34:30 PM, jac...@hyperactivesw.com writes: Except that the htmltext doesn't return characters you can convert in these

[OT] G3 and USB 2

2010-10-29 Thread Richmond
So; having got a generic USB 2.0 PCI card recognised in my Back-to-the-Future G3 Mac I have started having a lot of 'fun' with it: 1. It works very well with my faithful Belkin Nostromo. 2. When I plug 2 external USB 2 hard-drives into it they are not recognised AND nor is the Nostromo.

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Yeah, looks like a lookup table of some kind is my best bet. Thanks for the suggestions. Chris On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:34 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/29/10 11:11 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I should have been more clear. Use the ampersand and semicolon to locate the original char in the

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread Monte Goulding
If you don't want to use a lookup table then pulling out these entities using repeat while matchchunk and in the loop setting the htmltext of a second field and doing chartonum on the text of the field would work. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPad On 30/10/2010, at 1:53 AM, Chris Sheffield

Best practice for creating a custom control

2010-10-29 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Hello everybody, I'm looking for a kind of best practice for creating custom controls. For example, how to access the data of the custom control ? Do we have to use custom properties or a setProp or getProp handlers or both ? Is it preferable to use a prefix for naming a command ? And for

Re: Best practice for creating a custom control

2010-10-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jerome, You might want to have a look at the scripts of the password field, available at http://qurl.tk/jo -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553

Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
I have a need coming up for a data store that can robustly handle at least a million records, ideally up to five million, where each record may be as large as 5k. I don't need relationality, so for me SQLite is an option but only an option; I'm happy to consider other options as well. (Yes,

Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Mark Stuart
on Fri Oct 29 19:17:40 CDT 2010, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. Hi Richard, How many tables and how many columns per table (on average) are you talking about? That can make a big difference to the performance if there are

Re: This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi John, Check the card script of these stacks: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/newPentoolScript_v02.zip http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/CurvedDrawingPen_v01.zip Use these scripts as you like, but notice that instead of using a line created by the user, i would

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: on Fri Oct 29 19:17:40 CDT 2010, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. Hi Richard, How many tables and how many columns per table (on average) are you talking about? Probably just a single table, with about

Re: [OT] G3 and USB 2

2010-10-29 Thread -=JB=-
Have tried shutting down the computer and rebooting with them still plugged in? If not that will probably mount them but it will be the same everytime. -=JB=- On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Richmond wrote: So; having got a generic USB 2.0 PCI card recognised in my Back-to-the-Future G3 Mac I

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
On 10/29/10 3:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It'll vary, and in my own tests that seems to be the only bottleneck with SQLit; queries that return little data are ultra speedy, but once we get into large amounts of return data I see the hit. Just a reminder, which you probably don't need at

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Monte Goulding
32TB db limit according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems#Limits Maybe use limit and offset to page through query results though. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPad On 30/10/2010, at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com

Re: [OT] G3 and USB 2

2010-10-29 Thread -=JB=-
I forgot to mention also have the drive turned on. In other words every time you want to mount the drive have the computer shut down make sure the drives are plugged in and turned on then boot the computer. -=JB=- On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:22 PM, -=JB wrote: Have tried shutting down the computer

Re: [OT] G3 and USB 2

2010-10-29 Thread -=JB=-
Another important thing to remember is some drives like the LeCie drives can be very touchy. Do not use them to run programs or do much work is the best way to prevent crashes so just use it for a back up drive. And to unmount the drive you might be safest shutting down the computer then turning