On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Bob,
Linux has something very big to offer, freedom and source code. Never
underestimate the power of that combination.
Why not? Hasn't gone anywhere yet.
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On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I myself, have a large number of computers rotting in my attic in Scotland
(about 5 Performa 52xx
Macs) which are perfectly serviceable, except for the fact that it would be
JOLLY NICE to leverage
features implemented in RunRevs 3.5
No it didn't.
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
Well, of course it's a triangle, but describing it as a V helped explain
which angle was wanted.
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On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
On Dec 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
How would you do the following in Java/C/etc?
get last item of line 2 of url
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L;
but rather,
How would you get and display the latest
This is nowhere near as clearcut as you claim.
If you hire somebody as a direct employee, your answer is correct.
If you pay an outside developer to develop the software, even though it may be
to your design spec, the software IP is the property of the developer unless
explicitly declared
On Nov 29, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Marty Knapp wrote:
Personally, I felt no compulsion to defend Rev because they let us know there
was a debate going on at slash dot. Neither was I offended by that. When I'm
getting ready to make a purchase (software or otherwise) I very much want to
read what
Applescript list signup:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I better move this over to the Applescript list (can you send me the
URL?) because it's turning into a bigger issue: some network
protocols changed or
It is best practice to eliminate tell statements where they are not
required.
Finder is not necessary for this command.
choose folder
set f to result
On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
assume: AFP mount volume Varuna (server across the LAN)
on desktop...
this used to work
what it belongs to. By itself, a marginal error.
But it is like trying to tell some property of a stack to do something
that it doesn't do.
Bruce Robertson wrote:
It is best practice to eliminate tell statements where they are not
required.
Finder is not necessary for this command.
choose
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists
helper application as one of the possible values the function can return:
If the environment function returns helper application,
Revolution is running as a helper
That's a pity, works fine for me.
They say it will be available shortly for download.
Any news on this?
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Oh, yes indeed ! old people of any age ! from 7 to 77, like Tintin...
(if you're old enough to remember Tintin and Snowy)
Wasn't that Rin's last name?
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More, more, excavated from the depths of my Hard disks:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMimages/?yguid=254544547
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
I see MESSAGES about images.
I see no actual images or links to download.
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on the
list put together a Rev spiel (or at least a bullet point list of
things to cover) suitable for MUGs anywhere? Maybe Bruce and I could use it.
Thanks -
Phil Davis
Bruce Robertson wrote:
Anybody in the northwest care to try to set up a Revolution demo for dBug,
Seattle's Mac user
Depends on what is needed to run a successful demo. I'm wiling to try, and I
have used Runrev some, and I've been a dBug speaker before. Given good
supporting material and examples I might be able to do OK but certainly a
more experienced user would be better.
On Apr 9, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Bruce
Anybody in the northwest care to try to set up a Revolution demo for dBug,
Seattle's Mac user group?
http://www.dbug.org
Main meetings are the second Wednesday of the month and I'd like to see
Runrev at one of these meetings.
Bruce Robertson
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 8:57:43 PM, you wrote:
Variables were introduced in several different ways beginning with FileMaker
7 over 2 years ago.
Can you display a variable on a layout? I seem to remember trying this
and not being able to do it without creating a new
Hiya,
Anyone tried OpenBase (http://www.openbase.com/) as an alternative?
I'll admit I haven't used it much, but found performance much better
that FMP.
I have seen a very impressive POS made with it, can't recall the name.
Nice thing I noticed was that some functions are available as
Richard-
Don't get me wrong about this - I'm not dismissing FMP out of hand by any
means. We run our accounting system on FileMaker using a system I first
cobbled together some ten years ago. But the lack of variables hurts, as
does the fact that programming in FileMaker is limited to
Hi Rob,
Dear All,
I'm writing a small program that will read a text file and generate a
corresponding SVG graphic. Ideally, the input text file would be
readily parsed, and I'm wondering about using XML style construction.
I'd appreciate pointers to any resources that would help me use
Got any idea how many Revolution users there might be in the Seattle area?
Or good sources for demonstrations?
At Seattle's Mac user group dBug http://www.dbug.org we are giving some
thought to demonstrating Rev at a meeting. I'm trying to find good resources
to support such an activity.
I would think that there would be several users on campus downtown.
Adam Engst, publisher of TidBits Newsletter (tidbits.com) might have local
contacts. He as been a Mac activist (I think, in Seattle) back in the
earliest days.
Adam as you probably know is no longer in Seattle, but maybe
Also in ideal these tools must be able handle queries to XML document.
This can be Xpath, Xquery, or SQL/XML.
..and I'd advise staying away from XPath as well. It's gotten
splintered into too many proprietary spinoffs.
XQuery is much easier to read (IMO) and is pretty standardized these
On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can use revcreatexmltree, and just tell it to not build the dom
tree/or keep the document in memory, and handle the messages.
revCreateXMLTree(field XML Data,true,false,true)
But won't that still choke on something as big as
Hello Everyone.
I have some very large XML files ( 100mb or more) that I would to
parse. And this thing has to be fast. I mean FAST. Since I have done
almost no work with rev and XML, I am looking for advice on how to
proceed
I've been asking the same questions of Emmanuel over at
no offense. no boasting...
I did the relational lookup in FMP, and it took minutes!
So I opted for a double-linked-list of records (this was a hierarchical
database - the relations were previously based on a parent id but searching
this was horribly slow...
So I made the search
Rodney.
I have to say this is one of the most reasoned and intelligent
responses I've seen to the implied question, Why doesn't everyone
use Revolution? It serves as a good reminder of a couple of great
Truths of Programming. First, no one tool is suited for everything.
Second, busy
Er, what's not true - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its
stuff when using AppleScript or that you need activate at the
start of each script? I'm happy to believe the latter isn't
required, but I don't think it helps since if this is left out I
still see FM Pro screens flashing away.
I use AppleScript to send hide yourself to FM Pro whenever
possible, but this doesn't help when I'm trying to access the
database since I have to start my AppleScripts with 'activate'.
Bruce Robertson:
Not true.
Er, what's not true - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its stuff
when
I don't have FMkr, so cannot test, but will the database respond and run if
it is 'minimized' on the dock? hidden dock?
-layouts will still function, even if the window is 10x10 pixels
-not sure about hidden databases running FMkr scripts
-paste and image that looks like the desktop, so when
You could use the built-in web interfaces. I believe FileMaker can
supply HTML or XML. This has the advantage of being silent as you
say, and cross-platform.
On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Peter Reid wrote:
I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database
under OS X
I'm using AppleScript to access a local FileMaker Pro 7 database
under OS X 10.3/10.4 from my Rev stack. This works fine except
there's an awful lot of screen flashing going on - i.e. every time
I use some AppleScript to access the FM Pro database, FM Pro becomes
visible and is the front
# Test 1 code
repeat with K1 = 1 to the number of lines in DerData
put item 3 of line K1 of DerData into line K1 of DerData
end repeat
# Time: 18 seconds
# Test 2 code
put into Rezult
repeat (the number of lines in DerData)
put (item 3 of line 1 of DerData) return before Rezult
Jonathan,
Maybe for Rev 3.0 they will work out such a thing
If they don't, I have--if you're ready to go client/serer.
Well, that sounds like the right approach. Brief summary?
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I'm sure others can think of other neat scenarios for this tiny (2 in X
6.5 in X 6.5 in) box.
Sitting here, surrounded by five Macs and a PC of varying ages and
capabilities, I can't think of a single reason why I'd need one of
those. But I *still* want one anyway. Please, somebody help me.
The easiest way to set up all of the searching, etc. for a large
database would be to store all of the data in an SQL database and let
the database server worry about indexing, searching, and sorting
results; however, this would require there to be an SQL database server
running on the
PHP remains a web thing alas... And RunRev lacks the threaded execution...
Nope. It's accessible from the command line.
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On 9/7/04 8:25 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
Rev Support seem to be a bit behind, I asked a few days ago and still have
heard no reply.
We don't work over the weekend generally, but I answered you yesterday.
Sorry, I don't see anything from you.
Check your spam box.
My what
On 9/7/04 8:25 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
Rev Support seem to be a bit behind, I asked a few days ago and still have
heard no reply.
We don't work over the weekend generally, but I answered you yesterday.
OK, I see the message. It started with a case number and then a quote from
my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a *crit :
You are probably best advised to address your needs and pricing request to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes I know, but I like to ask publicly first, just in case
someone throws in some good independent advice...
Rev Support seem to be a bit behind, I asked a few days
Hi Tom. You are well into an area I would like to go one day. I have
been looking at controlling a panorama head for photo work. I am very
interested in what you are doing with telescopes as well.
My short research so far leads me to want to investigate using the
printer port, feeding
It's j-va...
did you try?
Yess, that would the reason I made the statement wouldn't it?
I don't know what you're talking about. It's a standard Classic application
creation date 7/16/2002. Nothing Jova about it. Here's what the docs say:
This set of documents provides you minimum
I have a project which requires serious high-level programming, way
beyond my abilities.
I need to build a 3D perspective rendering engine to demonstrate a
system I recently developed.
Consider Smile and SmileLab from Satimage.
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/index.html
Install Smile
I used to believe java was a snail, until I saw anfi's java
applets at http://anfyteam.com about 4 years ago...
Looks like it hasn't changed since; it wants to start Classic.
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Hi folks,
After being in hospital for a while due to an evil mosquito bite, I am
back coding. First it's an annoucement of a new version of CGI-Tool
stack. This is a simple Helper stack made by Me, Andre Alves Garzia
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), to help people setup MC Engine and LibCGI with
I build a lot of DMGs, but Apple's Disk Utility isn't scriptable so I
have no way to automate that end of my build process.
Any of you know of a scriptable alternative to Disk Utility for making DMGs?
From MacScripter
http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?t=8186highlight=disk+image
Use
I was very impressd with the information on your site about Revolution. I
would like to know the state of XML support, Sound and USB on different
platforms.
I can't answer your questions. But I'm always curious about real world XML
applications, what is it that you do/hope to do with XML?
In a way, Rev could be said to be far closer to 4D than to FMP, as 4D
provides a rich programming language and event-driven UIs. But even
then, IMNSHO comparisons favor Rev's simpler language and greater
variety of supported platforms, not to mention the strength of relying
on MySQL for
3. Are there functions, plug-ins, tool-sets to handle complex
relationships, entity diagrams, data validation?
Can't help on that for I do not understand what you're meaning... =/
Those are all very basic database terms. The fact that they are unfamiliar
and do not appear much in Rev
Any of you have an algorithm or external for generating wave form images
from MP3 or other audio files?
I suggest you look at the very powerful scientific analysis tools available
with Smile, the French applescript editor. Smile is actually a very powerful
and very comprehensive system used for
FileMaker doesn't seem to understand the concept of record locking when
multiple users on the internet are trying to access the same record
at the exact same time.
And you do? MySQL does? I don't think so.
The internet is stateless. If you want to build a custom record locking
solution for
On Mar 23, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
And you do? MySQL does? I don't think so.
The internet is stateless. If you want to build a custom record locking
solution for web transactions, you can do it and you will face the same
issues in any system. It only takes a very simple
And you do?
I don't think you have to be insulting if you want to disagree, or you
have anything positive to add. Why do you think people are starting
to not ask their important questions on this list? Its a bad trend.
Is it a better trend to not understand a product or technology and yet
What I want to know is Lego Mindstorms controllable via
Revolution?
I think it is in the serial realm...
I know there is a Mac version out there last time I searched. I think
it was an educational version.
And there is something wrong with that?
The educational version is
And thanks for the info about Robolab--I wasn't aware of it. Do you
know where it is available and whether it runs in OS X?
AFAIK the exclusive distributor is Pitsco, www.pitsco.com
You will find the Robolab software under the Mindstorms links.
Hi Revolutionaries,
In case anyone is interested in the first look at this, here is a link
to download site where I will try to sell it later:
http://www.gizmotron.org/intuition/download.html
Interesting name coincidence. At Macworld, I was looking over the CAD
application Design Intuition
Frank-
One thing that would help is if people adhered to the RFC-standard
signature trimmer of -- (That's dash-dash-space) on a line by itself.
Most modern email clients will trim everything after that
automatically when replying.
--
I thought that destroyed digest readers ability to
revHTTPd is an embedable (hell my english is horrible sometimes)
server, it's a frontscript (a button), you put it on a stack, and then
it is able to serve itself and it's substacs like they were web apps.
You can try my home revHTTPd server and learn more about it at
The iBook has a hinge problem that is quickly becoming an epidemic on
machines approaching (or past) their warranty expiration. If you go for
an iBook, -please- also get the AppleCare extended warranty as this
hinge repair $$ is more than the cost of AppleCare.
The ribbon cable that passes
When you are in less of a hurry you can give me a clue as to how to do
that on OS X.
Dar Scott
Autorun off CD on Macs is a Quicktime setting.
Since autorun is a source of virus propagation, it has been recommended to
turn this preference off since about Sytem 7. It is off by default, and
Yep,
but how to get two buttons (and a scroll wheel) on my new i-Book?
Cash, check or charge all seem to work.
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I don't have FileMaker so I can't test this, but what do you get if you
say:
get every record as string
in the AppleScript?
AppleScript has decided to give you a list and that may end up easiest
to process, but try coercing it to a string and see what happens.
Cheers,
Sarah
[EMAIL
Yes, I am bound to use FMP. All the volunteers at the campaign
headquarters use FMP to do data entry and construct walking lists,
etc.
I am still surprised that AppleScript doesn't do the normal thing and
just return a comma/return (or tab/return) delimited text file
instead of the curly
My educated guess would be that if you are supposed to be replacing a
file, than the replacement should have the same name (and be in the
same location) as the file it is replacing...
Just an educated guess,,,
So your educated guess, upon receiving explicit instructions in the Rev
Unzip it, rename it, and replace your existing license.rev file with
it, to be found in the Revolution folder, on the top level directory.
Sounds like instructions to me... ;-)
So I should rename the files I was specifically talking about in my
question, distribution builder and revlibrary.
I have fixed my MySQL test stack so that it can correctly handle Rev
2.0.2 and it's little database problem. The text of my web page has not
yet changed to reflect the new version, but the download link will get
you the new one. If you have been using my stack and have got Rev
2.0.2, download
MySQL tests is one of my stacks - I guess I forget to claim any
credit for that one :-)
Since those of us with current licenses are apparently not allowed to
get 2.0.2 :-(
I can't give you any advice. I have only ever tried test databases with
at most about 10 records. Were you able to get
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Derek Huby wrote:
Hi folks,
When I try to 'Build Distribution' with Rev 2.0 rc1 (Licensed - SBE),
absolutely nothing happens.(OS X.2.4).
Is it me...?
And for me, it comes up with a 2/3 height window. Only a sliver of the
bottom buttons is
I just hooked up with an 8 year-old through the Big Brother, Big
Sister program who is interested in robots.
Anyone had any experience with interfacing RunRev with a robot? Maybe
through the serial port?
Look into the Lego stuff. The Lego Mindstorms software is Windows only; but
RoboLab is
The recent discussion on interfacing FileMaker and Rev has aroused my
curiosity.
I have occasion, especially at election time, to work with FileMaker.
Since I have never been able to decipher the arcane scripting
language in FileMaker, my alternative has been to export the
FileMaker file
There's loads of stuff about FileMaker and Rev in the searchable archives at
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com
I prefer the web companion method, which briefly...
Quote
You can use FileMaker Pro web companion to exchange data between FMP
and Rev either on
Hi Bruce,
Rev 1.1.1 is known to have a few issues with the
Appearance Manager that shipped with MacOS X 10.2
Jaguar. Have you tried changing the 'Look and feel' to
'MacOS Emulated' in the menu 'View' ?
Hope this helped,
OK, that sorta fixes the problem. But the text selection is kind of
I purchased Revolution at MacWorld SF 2001 last January. I am finally trying
to go through the tutorial.
However, the tutorial says you can use the option key to copy text from the
tutorial window. This does not work.
Once you have depressed the option key, Revolution never thinks you have let
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