CGI question: http PUT and DELETE

2007-06-27 Thread David Bovill
I want to create a Rev based CGI - and I know how it works with an http POST or GET - but is there a way to do http DELETE and PUT (not http) - and if so how do you write the cgi to handler these http requests? ___ use-revolution mailing list

OT: Unit Tests

2007-06-27 Thread David Bovill
Ignore this if your not into this sort of thing - it's overkill for most things - I'm just adding it as polish. I have just started working on adding Unit Tests to the open source handler library. I am just going to hack it right now by taking the basic framework I had in my old offline library

Re: CGI question: http PUT and DELETE

2007-06-27 Thread David Bovill
On 27/06/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's fairly easy. If you're serving using apache just check the $REQUEST_METHOD environment variable, it will contain the method used to access your cgi. Like: switch $REQUEST_METHOD case POST -- do post stuff break case PUT -- do put stuff

Secrets of the filter command?

2007-06-26 Thread David Bovill
I've always been curious about the filter command - and I am pretty sure from examples I have seen that there is a lot more to it than is shown in the docs. Take this example from Jerry Daniels beautiful Galaxy: filter someScript with [-ofsgOFSG][-nueNUE][ ntNT]* What is the leading - doing

clipboarddata: a mind bending bug tracking excersize....

2007-06-25 Thread David Bovill
I cant for the life of me track this one down - i am trying to copy text onto the clipboard so it can be pasted into a browser. The last lines of the script are: set the clipboarddata [text] to someHandler put the clipboarddata [text] Tow basic points: 1. The script works fine as is and

Re: clipboarddata: a mind bending bug tracking excersize....

2007-06-25 Thread David Bovill
I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone :) I've got round the problem, if anyone else had had the same problem I'd look into it more deeply. There were no similar bugs reported in Bugzilla - so let sleeping dragons lie. On 25/06/07, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Could you

Fastest memory based search technique (was: Adding 1 to an array)

2007-06-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Ken. On 24/06/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on mouseUp put 1 into tA[1] put 2 into tA[2] put 3 into tA[3] put tA + 1 into tA put tA[1],tA[2],tA[3] end mouseUp On 24/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the list of tags change or is it static? Its a

Re: Documentation - Wiki

2007-06-24 Thread David Bovill
OK - I have not been following this thread too closely - but WikiPedia is not the place for this - I am pretty sure they won't allow it (its not free wiki space). Also MediaWiki does not yet have a good enough API to allow for the wiki to be properly embedded into the RevIde. If you want to do

Re: Fastest memory based search technique (was: Adding 1 to an array)

2007-06-24 Thread David Bovill
On 24/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend that you try to institute a controlled word dictionary, rather than let the user create key words since this will defeat the description of 'instant'. Even with very fast databases, the SQL join operation (which sounds like your

Adding 1 to an array

2007-06-23 Thread David Bovill
Why does this function not work: function index_CreateArray someIndex, someNumber split someIndex by CR and tab add someNumber to someIndex combine someIndex by CR and tab return someIndex end index_CreateArray But I get an error with: put index_CreateArray(Hello,1)

Re: Adding 1 to an array

2007-06-23 Thread David Bovill
On 23/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There must be more to the story, but why not use two lines and forget the function call? get hello,1 split it using cr and comma Yes - the story is I was looking for the fastest way I could think of combining hit counts for tags. That is if I

Re: Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread David Bovill
No unfortunately. The way I do this is to: set the view_Rect of someControl to someRect You can then place these scripts in the front script: setprop view_Rect someRect put the long id of the target into targetObject put the rect of targetObject into someRect trigger_FrontScriptResize

Quick way to sort arrays?

2007-06-19 Thread David Bovill
Is there a quick way to sort array? Or do I have to get the elements of each and sort them? I want to sort an array in which each element is a numeric value, and I want the keys sorted accordinlgly. The best i can come up with is this: function array_GetSortByNumber someArray combine

Json library - some fragments

2007-06-19 Thread David Bovill
I've put a few handlers together to parse JSON data - http://www.json.org/ It is not exactly a library, but my aim is to put together some useful and fast handlers to dig out the data people most need from JSON feeds. My approach at the moment is to construct tables that can easily be converted

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
Woke up this morning and like everyone here kind enough to comment - I don't really believe what happened. It is definitely not physical access though. The machine is locked in my flat and sad as it may seem - I've not had a vistitor in a week :) My favourite theory this morning is coincidence

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/06/07, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing with hackers, in my own experience with them (and curse the media for disassociating the name Hacker from those it belonged to originally - programmers, the former should be called crackers or in most cases script kiddies) is so many of

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/06/07, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's where the moderator of comp.software.shareware.* should step in ;-) Your true identity revealed! Second. If running on Windows is the exe signed? I'm researching into code signing at the moment, including Sun Java code signing,

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/06/07, Peter Alcibiades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, do you have wifi? Its surely the only plausible way of getting root access through a firewall to OSX in the absence of physical access? Yes - i agree Peter. Wifi was on at the time and the password was well a little easy. I also

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/06/07, Ian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of sounding condescending, this is almost infinitely more likely. ;-) If not from a hidden movie then from a Flash ad with audio - I've come across these a couple of times and they are a right pain! I kind of assumed that you'd quit

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/06/07, Brent Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General security practice on the Mac - Make sure your firewall is on, unless you are using a port keep it closed. UDP Blocking/Firewall Logging/Stealth Mode should be on too. The most important thing is that you don't visit anything

Re: Image Tile Cutter

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
Tanks Wihelm. On 14/06/07, Wilhelm Sanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed Jun ,2007, David Bovill david at openpartnership.net wrote: Thanks Wilhelm always a pleasure to read your German scripts :) Its a great puzzle but I don't think there are scripts to create tiles from an image - I

Script Editor: loses selection when trying to copy....

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
An annoying little pseudo-bug - Id like to see if others can confirm? I've noticed this for a long while, put it down to a fundamental engine thing, as it happened in MC IDE, Rev IDE and Galaxy - I think it happens on Linux as well as OSX - but I've been using OSX for the last 3 years so I can't

Re: share text behavior of a pop-Up menu included in a background

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
Yes - there is but you have to include a very simple script in the popup menu to dynamically create the menu. Mac people call them context menus: on mouseDown put the text of fld 1 into menuText# I prefer to use custom properties of the card set the text of me to menuText pass mouseDown

Re: Fun With Animated Masks

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
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Re: Fun With Animated Masks

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
Yes - this seems to happen with drags in general - not sure why - I think because one of the events that should refresh things never gets sent? Resetting on mouseEnter seems to fix it though. On 14/06/07, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Scott, Really cool and refreshing :-)

Re: Image Tile Cutter

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
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Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
Hey - if your listening can you play some of that movie again ??? Or am I just being paranoid? Well to tell the truth this is extremely annoying, and will cause me to be offline for a few days till I fix it. I was hoping to get the code repository ready by the weekend, and now I don't dare type

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
No - definitely not Moosetalk, and no shared environment! No - this is someone showing off, and they are good. On 15/06/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear David, But you don't think someone slipped MooseTalk or something similiar onto your Mac while you were out of the office

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
And Joe - don't worry too much. New machine, new firewall...and i never open attachments or very rarely spam email. That is unless you start hearing voices. On 15/06/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which could mean we're all compromised to some extent? (Shudder!)

Re: Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

2007-06-14 Thread David Bovill
No - FireFox, Revolution, Terminal and now Activity Monitor :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Voted - for - when I eventually found that tiny little voting link. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Asynchronous upload via post?

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Yes - thanks Dave! NB - I'd still like to be able to manually add something to the url cache? Scenario is that my app mainly used load after which things are go from the cache, but sometimes for priority reasons I just fetch a url without load. If afterwards I could set the cache to include this

Where's Luis?

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Hey Luis where abouts in real space would anachreon be? If its near London, it would be good to meet over Guinness in London. Any other London based people out there? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Image Tile Cutter

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Has anyone made an image tile cutter - ie a program that chops a big image into several regular tiles? If not how would you go about such a thing - I guess it would be using the image data if you were to do it properly? ___ use-revolution mailing list

revMessageBoxRedirect

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
This is a currently unsupported feature which looks quite useful: the revMessageBoxRedirect ~ This global property allows you to configure what happens when the value of the 'msg' pseudo-variable changes. When set to empty, the old behaviour will be used. When set to

Export Snapshot (was Re: Image Tile Cutter)

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
My experience of export snapshot is that the results are a little dependent on something to do with the users machine - I am not sure if I am just thinking here - but the tests I did seemed to indicate that there were subtle changes in colour or rather the contrast of the image - can anyone

Re: Image Tile Cutter

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Wilhelm always a pleasure to read your German scripts :) Its a great puzzle but I don't think there are scripts to create tiles from an image - I guess you made them by hand? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Image Tile Cutter

2007-06-13 Thread David Bovill
Great Scotts! You've done it again :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
Very nice Scott! Along these lines - I'm doing some image experiments. First is zoom - which is OK but not perfect - as the image magnifies a lot I need to crop it so that it does not get too huge in memory. One of the aims is to do a Ken Burns type effect i a slide show. The problem is getting

Re: Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
Hi Ian can you clarify - I've not read too deep on this: On 12/06/07, Ian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Core Image Fun House lets you use *Core Image* filters - nothing to do with QuickTime, and strictly OS X 10.4 and above. Core Image transitions are already available in Rev (again,

Easy, readable and fast text based format for Rev?

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
Based on the simple but fast philosophy of JSON - I'm looking at defining a text based format which is readable, non binary and as fast as possible for Rev to parse. I want like JSON to throw away all those pesky XML tags. Now I can't remember the details but JSON and YAML I think use a simple

Re: Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
OK - so my question is can Trevors existing external apply Core Image Units to QuickTime files so that QuickTime can take advantage of them using Core video? If not how hard would it be to add, because then we could take advantage of the hardware accelerated effect on still images via the Player

Re: Easy, readable and fast text based format for Rev?

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
On 12/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Rev filter command is very fast and I would recommend considering it. The one caution is to replace null with empty, if this is a possible character. That would only be in binary data? Databases? When would you get null values - certainly

Asynchronous upload via post?

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
You can load a url and you can do asynch ftp upload - but how about if you want to send a large amount of data to a remote location without using ftp? Can you do an asynch post? I guess you could do an asynch ftp upload and then a quick sychronous post on completion - any thoughts?

Re: Easy, readable and fast text based format for Rev?

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
, this should give you a nice idea of how to make your own objetcs. ;-) The JSON object format is quite nice too, did someone created a parser/generator for that in Rev yet? Andre On 6/12/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the simple but fast philosophy of JSON - I'm looking at defining

Re: Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
True - still I think for some applications a very slow, or slowish, subtle movement will work fine to add attention to an image - it just must be very smooth? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Asynchronous upload via post?

2007-06-12 Thread David Bovill
Yes - that was my question :) On 12/06/07, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre, have you found a way to shell() on OS X without blocking? The only way i can think of doing this is a separate application in its own process and IAC - can be done in Rev but still

Menu problem / question on Macs

2007-06-11 Thread David Bovill
I want to find out the name of the button clicked on when the user selected a menu... and am having a problem with using the short name of the target If used the menu builder to create my menu (Say its called Problem Menu), and rather than adding a handler to the button of each menu item I put

Re: Menu problem / question on Macs

2007-06-11 Thread David Bovill
Afraid not - the actual examples I have are for one word menus. I'm stuck. On 11/06/07, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Could this be related to a simple thing: The name of any menu should be one word only? Le 11 juin 07 à 15:47, David Bovill a écrit : I want to find out

Built in externals for Linux distro?

2007-06-11 Thread David Bovill
I downloaded and took a peak at the linux disto on the Runrev servers - it seems to be missing some external libraries? I can't see any libraries for XML or XMLRPC support - or am I wrong? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Menu problem / question on Macs

2007-06-11 Thread David Bovill
OK - thanks i guess that should be a feature request: vote for http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5142 ! On 11/06/07, Michael Binder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, you wrote: so is there any way to find out the real target? I don't think so. I posted this question on

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-10 Thread David Bovill
Chipp - would it not be the best for stability to have the existing release cyle as stable, and those wishing to live on the bleeding edge (and get faster bug fixes and to participate in experimental features) to opt in for the sort of release cycle that others are requesting? This is what I

Re: Ground Control to Revolution

2007-06-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10/06/07, Peter Alcibiades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This attitude worries me more than anything that has come out of the Rev community since I started with Rev. People really do not seem to understand what the nature of the open source competition is. Its baffling, this degree of

Database - quickest way to do this?

2007-06-10 Thread David Bovill
That should get Ruslan to reply :) Keywords are in a simple database link table and i want to do a search for handlers based on 10 or so keywords selected by the user or automatically selected by the software. Now i want to return a list of hits in descending ranking depending on how many

Re: Database - quickest way to do this?

2007-06-10 Thread David Bovill
Valentina Valentina Valentina Valentina Valentina On 10/06/07, Ruslan Zasukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use MS Entourage for MAC, and have setup for each list a rule, So if letter contains e.g. word Valentina it play sounds Ah - so what sounds do you hear - maybe it would sound nicer if

Re: Database - quickest way to do this?

2007-06-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10/06/07, Ruslan Zasukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess I do an or SQL search for all these keywords, and then loop through them checking hits. Or do I do AND searches, and iterate replacing the AND with OR to widen the search? 1) Actually it is not clear: your result should

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
? On 09/06/07, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A subset of the list. No offence intended, David. But why is it that when people get really passionate about their favourite wheel barrow that they are pushing that they so often seem to assume that the silent majority agree with them

Image control - painting question?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
If you use the paint tools on a card without an image a new image control is created. When you start to paint in an image, a new image is not created and you can paint inside the image (sort of). The problem I have is that if that image is inside a group it does not work - a new image is created

Re: Image control - painting question?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
Well that looks harder than it ought to be :) Thanks for the detailed post! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
Ken - I talked to Hugh about doing this work before going off to the states. I am back now, and quite happy to mirror Scripter's Scrapbook to the web backend I've got up - if Hugh is still up for that. On 09/06/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there is an online code repository

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
OK - I'll make a start tonight. With regard to SourceForge it is not possible to link their repositories directly into the Script Editor but now that they have SVN - I can mirror code to SourceForge easily. Does anyone have a preference for an initial library - something to start with. My vote

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
On 09/06/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could I convince you to take your current energy and apply it to something like this? No problem! But I am not going to do this manually - cut and paste style - so it needs to be integrated into the IDE - with a Rev based plugin - so that

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Downloaded - and wow - thats a blast from the past - pretty cute :) On 08/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you -- or any of the other open source advocates here -- would be interested in exploring new ground in an open source IDE which runs under the Rev engine, here's the URL

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
On 08/06/07, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What this requires is that the development and public releases are branched in the sense of CVS. That is the missing ingredient for Rev which blocks separating bugfix releases from development of next version. And a no-brainer for them.

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Wow! Thaks for the post Chipp - always good to have some hard facts. 2000 out of *150,114* projects - really is that all? That makes 2/150 - or less that 1% of projects! I would have guessed it as more like 20% How many non-open source software projects end up in the scrap heap - more of less

Re: Simple database question: tags

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Thanks all - its a pity there are no existing sources for classic schema you can copy and modify? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
On 08/06/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good OSS is here to solve a problem. Usually a problem that is not being solved by the mainstream players. The good ones are also managed like a enterprise, so again, what is the problem that an OSS RunRev would solve? I see nothing wrong right

Re: Simple database question: tags

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Hey thanks! Its a reasonable start - though something standard like SQL create stuff or dumps would be better - no? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-08 Thread David Bovill
On 08/06/07, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/8/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2002, I built an website titled RROpenSource which had the ability for users to contribute Open Source RR projects online. Ready to launch, I disclosed it only to a few, I believe you

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
It puts the user directly in contact with the development process. In terms of open source software the user is (or has been) the developer - so you you get stability, quick bug fixes and security (if you are dealing with paranoid sys admins), or chaos, multiple forks and experiments (if you are

Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
How would the world of software languages that we know of now be different? Perhaps: 1. Visual Basic would not have had the success that it did as companies re-hacked HyperTalk to fit their business needs 2. We'd have got colour and video and object orientation well ahead of the

Re: OT: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
And if you are looking at restrictions on freedom - equally scary is future where hardware will not run software that is not copyright approved by a built in DRM chipp - pun intended :) Now if you were a company with a large library of software or digital content - that would be something worth

Re: Convert from Absolute to Relative Paths

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
function file_GetRelativePath someFileOrFolder, baseFolder, @commonPath put the itemdelimiter into originalDelim set the itemdelimiter to / put empty into commonPath put someFileOrFolder into relativePath put 0 into itemNum repeat with itemNum = 1 to the number of items of

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 07/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I think you may have answered the How do we pay the piper? question here: I think it's along the right lines - I think there are opportunities regarding the Linux version etc. The folks at Base Camp have visibility, but do revenues

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 07/06/07, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see between 37 Signals and Runtime, but a whole lot of differences too. That doesn't mean those moves are going to be equally successful for any other company. Agreed - it doesn't. The devil is in the detail. In an email I can only

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
A little hard Joe? On 07/06/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, Bob, We appreciate your efforts, but what you suggest just won't ever happen But it is just more convenient for all of us to get a single new package, rather than a number of different ones of

Fixed stack IDs?

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
Do I remember reading that there is a recent feature / supported / unsupported for permanent stack ids (I know that the ids change as objects are added)? Can't find it anywhere - I'm looking to use a permanent id that will survive stack modifications and (file) name changes.

Re: Convert from Absolute to Relative Paths

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
Being redundantly lazy - I often copy scripts around - resetting the itemdelim ensures it woks when pasted into another handler. On 07/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick programming note: put the itemdelimiter into originalDelim ... set the itemdelimiter to originalDelim

Re: OT: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 07/06/07, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ttp://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php http://creativecommons.org/ I thought of using Creative Commons licenses for software a while back - some people do. But it is not recommended by the lawyers :)

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 07/06/07, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adobe did not open source Flex Builder, Flex Data Services or Flash itself - just the Flex framework. At least that is what I've read in articles discussing the topic. Not sure - but whats missing from this: Adobe plans to release all of

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 08/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And since the engine remains free for CGI use, the differences for most folks are pretty minor. Beg to differ :) If the cgi engine had been open - several years back I would have a crack at creating an Apache module. I had quite some

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
On 08/06/07, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:34 PM, David Bovill wrote: Not sure - but whats missing from this: Adobe plans to release all of the components of the Flex SDK needed to create Flex applications, including the Java source code for the ActionScript

Simple database question: tags

2007-06-07 Thread David Bovill
Going to have a go at knocking up a database for RevCode handlers - and I want to create a database schema for it. I know I want del.icio.us style tagging, and I'll be indexing them with the language terms used as well as keywords such as html, array, outline or view etc I'm thinking I need a

Re: Don't you just wish Rev would do this?

2007-06-06 Thread David Bovill
On 05/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these young minds concerned about cost, or do they need to modify the C++ source? Cost makes little difference to the students I know - if they need a piece of software in their studies they know how to get it :) Access to the source

Re: Don't you just wish Rev would do this?

2007-06-06 Thread David Bovill
On 05/06/07, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adobe owns all of the best selling commercial tools for producing/supporting content for the Flex platform. And how did they get there - not by selling software but giving away an easy to install and useful piece of software? By open

Re: Don't you just wish Rev would do this?

2007-06-06 Thread David Bovill
On 06/06/07, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter T. Evensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft seems to be doing very well without open-sourcing its development tools. Google seems to be doing better with a business strategy based around open source software. On 05/06/07, Randy Will

Re: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

2007-06-06 Thread David Bovill
On 06/06/07, Randy Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I see as an optimal model for RR isn't far at all from what we have now. I believe that the engine should stay closed as the core team seems pretty well able to handle that. I think the plugin structure and SDK needs to be developed into

Re: OT: Quicktime Bundling

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
No - QTVR, but it does play everything, and it does play most of the QuickTime files I have tried better than QuickTime Player which I still find hard to believe. IMO it would be better to use a VLC based external than QuickTime for the majority of projects. On 02/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL

Re: List archives crippled?

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
You can try this group - best for searches for anything less than a couple of years old and it has RSS feeds plus the unique ability to bookmark an individual email message:

External editors: using the Eclipse IDE

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
Has anyone used the Eclipse IDE for RunRev projects - I am about to start a project with mixed JavaScript, RevCode, and quite possible some Ruby... so I am thinking of useing Eclipse to integrate the development - good idea? ___ use-revolution mailing

Don't you just wish Rev would do this?

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
Adobe open sources Flex and continues to support and sell the commercial product: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source:FAQ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: External editors: using the Eclipse IDE

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
was not my idea of fun... I haven't looked into optimising it either. Got a pointer to Easy Eclipse: www.easyeclipse.org in case anyone else's interested. Cheers, Luis. On 5 Jun 2007, at 13:42, David Bovill wrote: Has anyone used the Eclipse IDE for RunRev projects - I am about to start a project

Re: External editors: using the Eclipse IDE

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
This seems to work for me: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm Thanks Ken! On 05/06/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis - I guess you mean the IDE is slow - there is Java for you :) Did you set it as your default Script Editor in RunRev

Re: Don't you just wish Rev would do this?

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
On 05/06/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't think open source is likely in the foreseeable future. RunRev Ltd. and their backers have a lot invested in Rev, and any path to the future would need to provide a healthy return on that investment. Why would you say Adobe are

OT: QuickTime in web pages

2007-06-05 Thread David Bovill
I am trying to find references and examples of QuickTime movies calling URL's as they play - the aim is for the movie to act as a guide to take the user through a number of HTML pages - in an iFrame? So far I cannot find the documentation - and no examples online - but from memory it seems like

Re: altID

2007-05-28 Thread David Bovill
On 28/05/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're referring to sub-components within a group which is acting as a custom control, do you really want users to be able to rename those? If there's a need, would it make more sense to do so as a property setting of the containing group,

Re: altID

2007-05-27 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm Ill have to do another test - when I tried it last week it failed? On 26/05/07, Dick Kriesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put the id of it into tGroupID2 Will get back. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: altID

2007-05-27 Thread David Bovill
I agree Richard On 26/05/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But while it could be easier, I haven't seen anything yet which makes such gadgets prohibitively difficult in Rev today. As one example I have a table object I use in a number of apps, and a couple other developers have

Re: altID

2007-05-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26/05/07, Dick Kriesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Watch out also for the upper limit on altIDs, which is 65535. Didn't know that - will do! Does that work for you? I don't think it does. I like the idea of being able to copy a template into a stack and still refer to the object by its

Re: altID

2007-05-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26/05/07, Dick Kriesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then each template knows its copies, each copy knows its template, and each target knows which copies of which templates it contains. Your code can refer to a control in any of the copies using an of group id clause to disambiguate the altIDs.

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