Re: OT2: The 'realness' of languages

in this situation I would ask to show a portfolio CD or examples of software created by the person - the most important thing being experience and ability to complete a product in whatever language the person feels most comfortable. I guess it would be also fair to say that GUI will be

Re: OT2: The 'realness' of languages

once Revolution collects the critical mass of developers and well known cross platform software products created with it, the transition should happen automagically. In general the situation is such that we have more than 50 other languages standing in front of Revolution if we sort them by

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

h Revolution is like Jehovah Witnesses. Made up of a relatively small albeit stable and friendly community of followers and controlled by a small company Revolution somehow resists the power of mainstream beliefs with large evil corporations behind. Although well known for its

Re: Looking for ugly code comparisons WAS: Slashdotter looking for kids' programming language

Dave Cragg wrote: I'll play Devil's Advocate. There seems to be some assumptions about what is easier for a child. One of these assumptions is that a simple English-like syntax is simpler than other kinds of syntax. I wonder if that is not an adult prejudice. Compare these two ways of

Re: Looking for ugly code comparisons WAS: Slashdotter looking for kids' programming language

Dave Cragg wrote: I'll play Devil's Advocate. There seems to be some assumptions about what is easier for a child. One of these assumptions is that a simple English-like syntax is simpler than other kinds of syntax. I wonder if that is not an adult prejudice. Compare these two ways of

Re: Ugly ID memories

Is there anything what can be done with ID that can't be done with altID ? If not, then simply forgetting about existence of ID and using altID in all cases where we are used to refer to ID should solve the ID problem completely... Viktoras Richard Gaskin wrote: Any problems using the altID

Re: Sqlite remotely

there is one trick to make it working like a multiuser database. The same trick was frequently used in all flat-file based multiuser environments (mostly websites). I did not try it with Revolution yet, but did many times in Perl (CGI) and it works. It is not lightning fast, but multiuser. A

Re: [TT] When they ask, Who (or What) was this written by ?

some say that Shakespeare should share his genius with Sir Francis Bacon, so may be not a standalone genius at all. Who knows... best regards Viktoras Richmond Mathewson wrote: [TT] - Totally Tangential. Speaking as a happily married person (just thinking about how that mucks up marriage

one launcher - many links

hello! just wanted to ask what strategies can be used to solve the following issue 'correctly': there is one launcher (compiled stack) and several modules (ordinary stacks). I would need to add several shortcuts to the Windows start menu/MacOSX applications folder pointing to same loader stack,

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

what about recursive acronym like XIR meaning Xtalk Is Revolution (which is correct in many senses). Language names like Rex, R are already reserved and I do not know any language called XIR which is both Xtalk and Revolution and everyone is happy :-))) Viktoras Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote:

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

sorry it is not recursive, but still acronym anyway... viktoras didziulis wrote: what about recursive acronym like XIR ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

he knew too few about programming,- maybe it is better to avoid people like that, because their expectations sometimes may be unreal. You know, there are many Delphi/Pascal programmers around, the language being ranked 8th place by its spread and usage, tons of stuff's written in that language

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

I say or point to Revolution. If the client's mind is not brainwashed with the only truth is C++ religion he usually accepts this fact without any fear of falling into an heresy :-). And today, when many programmers say single language is never enough because there is no perfect language I

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

One could also look at Revolution as a C++ development framework. Depends on where you are looking from.. I guess you know a story about an elephant and six blind men :-) Richard Gaskin wrote: Making the new Apache module engine available for free will help tremendously in evangelizing the

Re: [meet up] Le Web 2008 in Paris

Hi Jim, I will not be there, but when I went to Paris last time (March, this year), I stayed at Hotel Des Allies (20 Rue Berthollet) for 1 week and it was not too expensive. Well, facilities are not shining (it is one star hotel), but it is extremely well located nearby the Latin quarter,

Revolution finally appears in TIOBE

I guess I was not the only one sending missing language message to TIOBE :-) and finally Revolution is THERE among the next 50 ! http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Frequent crashes of Rev 3.0

Hi Tiemo, crashes on my pc are not reproducible either, sometimes it is just a double-click on an empty text field in IDE - lots of hard drive noise and Rev IDE is gone... Similar situation was with early 2.7, but then it was gradually fixed and I think 2.9 is now the most stable of all 2.7 -

Re: Hi, I'm new and i need help

Hi Leonel! I would consider Studio as the optimal choice to start with. When you need more you can upgrade to Enterprise. Telling the truth, I am still successfully working with Studio on MS Windows and deploying on both MacOSX and Linux. Planning to upgrade to Enterprise with my next

Re: Presumably this is vaguely criminal ?

MetaCard engine is neither free nor open source, because it is Revolution engine. MetaCard IDE is free and open source, but it is just an IDE. One can also freely choose to use Revolution demo... In both cases users need to buy a license to have a full featured IDE, otherwise, I guess,

Re: Overcoming overlapping (obscured) map areas

Hi Adrian, if you use blobs of ink and transparent backgrounds, everything should work in either environment... When I need bloby maps in Revolution, I draw vector drawings and then set the visible of graphic myMapNo to true or false. Works perfectly. You can not do this for webpages in

Re: [OT] Laptops for alcoholics ?

Those usually have plenty of sunlight. They would probably like having something this: http://www.voltaicsystems.com/ Viktoras Richmond Mathewson wrote: This might be just the thing for those who do their programming while the whisky still is bubbling away in the garage. I wonder how well

Re: [Heads Up:] OLED Buttons

Oh, they have finally released this! Some time ago Art. Lebedev studio offered to pre-order their keyboards when the final product was just in a stage of concept. Its good to see they have succeeded. When I saw their Optimus Maximus concept the first thought was that it would be much simpler

scanners and Rev

is there any way to communicate with scanners in Revolution ? I would need my app to be able to invoke a default scanner dialog window and then put the scanned image into an image object. Dictionary says nothing about scanners... Viktoras ___

Re: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

Hi, if the folder is one of the special folders might the specialFolderPath() help? On Windows it can be used in combination with folder ids' as listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494.aspx Best wishes Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, Win XP, Rev 2.9. I

Re: AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

to whatever is in your gPfadDB Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Viktoras, could be, but must not. Thanks for your hint Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von viktoras didziulis Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. August 2008 10

Re: scanners and Rev

Hi Mikey! document scanner, not a barcode scanner. This application is a frontend for the taxonomic database of species including images of plants scanned with scanner. Mikey wrote: Do you mean a barcode scanner, or a document scanner? ___

Re: Rev browser exporting pdf

try these tips: http://pad.olsonnetwork.com/faqs/MakePDF_HOWTO_Images.html paolo mazza wrote: How can I export a web page as PDF using the internal browser of Revolution? I tryed with Quartam PDF Library for Revolution but I could not find a solution. Have you a clue? Thanks Paolo

Re: scanners and Rev

Franz, thank you for the hint! Best regards Viktoras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello we have made an App in revolution interacting with scanservers of Axis. But because these scanservers are expiring it is not the right point to start with. But there are similar techniques on the market. Then

Re: Correct way to import icons?

I am not sure if it is the correct way, but I usually creating a new card (not seen by the end user) and import all icons, backgrounds and other reusable graphics there. V. Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi there, again a beginners question, sometimes I think I have to stick with every new feature

Re: AW: AW: missing a basic with drag

try this alternative (put into your graphic object): #click to select and drag, click again to release on mouseDown set the dragMe of me to NOT the dragMe of me end mouseDown #moving... on mouseMove X,Y if the dragMe of me is TRUE then #will set the limits for the drag space to minY, maxY,

Re: Getting the text content of a HTML page

one more way to do things using regular expressions: put the replaceText(myText,/?[A-Za-z]+,) into myText will simply replace all tags with empty string. Where myText is the text where replacements have to be made. /?[A-Za-z]+ is a regular expression matching most html tags and is empty

Re: Getting the text content of a HTML page

Richard Gaskin wrote: viktoras didziulis wrote: one more way to do things using regular expressions: put the replaceText(myText,/?[A-Za-z]+,) into myText will simply replace all tags with empty string. Where myText is the text where replacements have to be made. /?[A-Za-z]+ is a regular expression

Re: Semi-automatic Index generation?

Hi David, you might wish to discard the 1000 most frequently used words from your list: English: http://web1.d25.k12.id.us/home/curriculum/fuw.pdf German: http://german.about.com/library/blwfreq01.htm Another approach is statistical - take the whole text, sort words by their frequency

Re: icons

http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/ http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/ http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=highpage=0 http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=downloads etc, etc, etc... Viktoras Mikey wrote: Does anybody have any

Re: how to store imagedata in a custom property?

but ctrl+z is a single step undo, isn't it? I haven't done this with imagedata, but for text changes in fields I store the text of field in an array 'undooArray' before each space, enter, return, backspace, delete, dot, comma, colon, paste, copy, cut, insert (or any other action of context

Re: Who is the customer? (RE: rev apps on iPhone?)

adding to the wish list a few of us would very much like: 1) faster image object where image text is not png, rle but uncompressed as in imageData (I already voted for faster image object enhancement in QC last year); 2) openGL 3D or some sort of integration or an ability to talk to some 3-rd

Re: Call too all one-liners !

or a little obfuscated with regexps but without any conditionals: 1. get matchText(myFile,([^.jpg])$, a); put replaceText(myFile,([^.jpg])$,a .jpg) into myFile 2. replaceText(myFile,.jpg,) best wishes :-) Viktoras Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, You guys have always spoofed me

Re: Call too all one-liners !

actually we do not need the second pair of brackets in #1 making it a very little bit shorter: 1. get matchText(myFile,([^.jpg])$, a); put replaceText(myFile,[^.jpg]$,a .jpg) into myFile 2. replaceText(myFile,.jpg,) best wishes :-) Viktoras ___

Re: The Definitive List of RR Projects

.. or at least a simple list [developer, app name, brief description, url] and a form to submit our projects/software to a page on an official RR website. Today I happened to browse Tiobe programming community index at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html which

Re: Manipulating Raw Picture Data

just played around a little with this handler on 600x500 image (MS Windows XP, RR 2.9, Intel Celeron 1500 MHz): on repColor local myData local myTimer local myColor1 local myColor2 put binaryEncode(C3,myRed,myGreen,myBlue) into myColor1 put binaryEncode(C3,myRed2,myGreen2,myBlue2) into

Re: OT: Resurgence of Indian Games

Thank you, Sivakatirswami, for the link! One more exhaustive resource on games is University of Waterloo, Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games at: http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/index.htm featuring virtual game (~700) exhibits:

[OT] desktop.dll and iPod

it is off topic, but maybe someone knows how to fix this issue. I let my antivirus delete desktop.dll from an iPod device. Antivirus complained that it is a troyan TR/Agent.bve.1... But the result is that after the deletion on MS Windows iPod contents are not longer displayed in file explorer.

interception of put

is there a way to intercept put command? For example there is a group myGroup having fields F1 and F2. What I would like to do is to put something1 or something2 into group myGroup and have script that would sort out something1 going into field F1 and something2 into field F2. I could create

Re: How to create invisible a stack?

hi Tiemo, set these properties for the templateStack and then simply create new stacks. They will inherit all properties of the templateStack automatically. B.T.W. check the definition of the templateStack in dictionary. All the best! Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi all, probably an

Re: AW: How to create invisible a stack?

how about delete stack myStack when it is not in use anymore ? Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Sorry for asking, it works like a charm ;) Any idea to issue 2? Thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von

Re: AW: AW: How to create invisible a stack?

Anytime. Sėkmės (good luck ;-))! Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I have to keep it for further use Dekui! Tiemo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: How to select a cell instead of a line in a table

an alternative for a small number of fields (7 in your case) might be using 7 grouped text fields (naming them f1, f2,..., f7, and naming the group myTable) with horizontal gridlines to represent each field in table. Selection, hiliting and editing of a cell in this kind of table is a trivial

Re: Interface question

I would expect user wishing to see the layout before it is printed. So would put detail view and list view as options of View e.g. View -- Detail view List view And Print would simply print the current view. Best wishes! Viktoras J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm wondering how people

OT: tenders

forwarding a tender proposal: - Gold Undercover Search and Delivery Channel Project - Tender RFT 304746 if there are any Revolutionaries from Australia on this list - you may find this and a few more opportunities for your business at:

Re: PNG with No Alpha Channel?

Hi Trevor, if you export image as paint, then it is exported in ppm (portable pixelmap) format (uncompressed RGB without alpha channel). You can load ppm files with Rev too. Viktoras Trevor DeVore wrote: I need to export a PNG image from a Revolution image control that has no alpha channel

ask file with filter/type - how to read the selected type ?

is there any way to know what file type user selects in ask file with filter dialog ? I need to specify different handlers for file Save as, and now am first asking user to select the type of a desired output (i.e. raw binary, ascii text, png image or ppm image) and next opening ask file

Re: ask file with filter/type - how to read the selected type ?

selected in the file type list... All the best! Viktoras J. Landman Gay wrote: viktoras didziulis wrote: is there any way to know what file type user selects in ask file with filter dialog ? I need to specify different handlers for file Save as, and now am first asking user to select the type

Re: Bringing a Window to the Front?

Hi Dave, i just noticed that if I set the Float above everything of stack in inspector then staks window comes to front of windows of any other applications (Rev 2.9, MS Windows XP). But unfortunately I do not know how Float above everything property translates into rev, neither was I able

Re: Bringing a Window to the Front?

OK, it translates to systemWindow. E.g. you can set the systemWindow of stack yourStack to true/false to bring your window to front/back. All the best! Viktoras viktoras didziulis wrote: Hi Dave, i just noticed that if I set the Float above everything of stack in inspector then staks window

Re: ask file with filter/type - how to read the selected type ?

Thanks A LOT! With type it the result works now! All the best! Viktoras J. Landman Gay wrote: viktoras didziulis wrote: Jacqueline, Thanks for the suggestion, still 'the result' after execution is empty. It would probably contain something if path selection failed. The other 'result' (path

Re: Is the revFont external unreliable?

just noticed when using the uniencode/unidecode method (as was described in revdataFromQuery and umlauts etc. thread some time ago) to diplay data loaded from sqlite database in compiled application (Windows, Rev 2.9) some unicode Eastern European fonts turn into black sticks. In development

Re: Is RunRev marketed to developers mainly?

many times I have been wondering, why so many people know of Air, and all these fresh new things about flash, Flex 3, Python, Java, MySQL, SQLite, PHP, even Logo, etc... Those are babies of Adobe, Sun or not so well known companies or even open source projects. And why do they usually know

Re: Is RR too easy? Or too hard? (was) Is RunRev marketed to developers mainly?

Thats why it would be nice to have Revolution name mentioned regularly in the big IT magazines. Once it gets there the snowball effect will start working as local national magazines tend to replicate news printed in the greater ones. These news in turn get replicated by IT columns in local

Re: Is RR too easy? RevCode

my vote too! What about filling in the wish report in the Quality Center :-) Viktoras Mikey wrote: I SO vote for RevCode. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: PAYPAL [was] [ANN] The reason why I was so quiet recently.

check this alternative: http://webstore.amazon.com Any number of web stores for $59 per month + 7% commission. Hmmm... Seems a little too expensive, but maybe their service is great... All the best! Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: RunRev Accessibility

you may already know this, but if not, you can find some general rules on diverse accessibility issues related to web applications here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ It is mostly about websites, but it helped me to figure out in one project how should an 'accessible' application behave... also

[OT] applestore...

sorry, OT'ing again, a silly situation, I seem to be unable to order things via the apple store... Is there something wrong or maybe it is just me. I am trying to purchase a serial key for iWork '08 package - my trial period expired and now I can't live without the Keynote. Registered with the

Re: Getting things the wrong way round . . .

Well, I do not insist anyone looking through all the world languages for possible associations of the new worlds we create to be used in marketing, but by chance it just happened so that the correct pronunciation of Myrie [mirai] at least in Lithuanian (now one of the official languages of the

Re: Table Fields

As far as I know table fields are reliable now. A while ago some nasty bugs were reported (e.g. in compiled apps modifying a cell in a table did not in fact updated the underlying table in some cases) and now they are fixed. However, I already got used to using ordinary text fields with table

[way OT...] emerging 'business' opportunities - legal or not...

This is a way of topic for this list, anyway, this is an excerpt from an advertisement letter (spam) that arrived to my inbox today. However it seems somehow not too far in nature from the question and answers on reuse of copyrighted code. Is this legal or not? What a moral dilemma to solve...

Re: copyright infringement question

b.t.w. some products even won't install if they find reverse engineering (disassembling, etc..) tools present on the machine. But those days as interpreted languages are becoming more and more common, trying to disassemble software seems to be worthless activity, because the code is not

Re: 2.9 Freeze on OSX

I did/do not experience this, but I remember Bill in one of his messages to beta testers asking to help create a reproducible recipe of the freeze on OSX. It was reported to the QC (#6256) but could not be reproduced by the developers and therefore could not be fixed. Its status is still

Re: sort by two paremeters?

one more way to do the same if your table is stored in the database is: SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY 1 asc, 2 asc best wishes Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: MacNN | First Look: Revolution 2.9, cross-platform compiler

But, I guess, this is not quite correct: Both the Media and Studio versions only let you compile programs for a single operating system while the Enterprise edition lets you compile programs for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Viktoras Richard Gaskin wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: except the

[OT] one more Revolution exposure...

just returned back from an international conference on marine data and information systems that took place in Athens (http://hnodc.hcmr.gr/imdis-2008/ or google for imdis 2008). 254 participants, 41 country represented. Lots of talks about metadata standards, formats and profiles (ISO 19115,

OOP in Rev...

I would like to define a class, an object (the both with their properties) and methods that are not a part of graphical user interface or Revolution engine... Let's say I need an object City having properties: minLatitude, maxLatitude, minLongitude, maxLongitude, area, populationSize,

Re: OOP in Rev...

://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 19-mrt-2008, om 13:25 heeft viktoras didziulis het volgende geschreven: I would like to define a class, an object (the both with their properties) and methods

Re: OOP in Rev...

this is the web page from which I started looking into MetaCard and finally came to Revolution website a few years ago. One more interesting thing Scot mentioned there is right before the paragraph about the completion of OO features where he wrote about possibility to output java bytecodes:

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

you might also be interested to read Universal Serial Bus - the easy way (4 pages) and virtual com port drivers described at: http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb-easy-way.pdf Best regards Viktoras Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and staggered back,

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

FTDI drivers (including macosx): http://www.ftdichip.com/ applications to eavesdrop usb communication (windows only): usb snoopy: http://www.wingmanteam.com/usbsnoopy/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

real time monitoring, etc... was Revolution Reading GPS Data,

...trying to figure out more than one (well... two) way of how one can make Revolution read a constant data stream coming via sockets, never ending log files, GPSes or any other real time monitoring system. Application has to display the changing status of these readings and in the same

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

not necessarily all. Majority of them have default values that in many cases mean empty :-). All the best! Viktoras Richmond Mathewson wrote: I wrote (probably in a moment of fairly naive euphoria): it would be perfectly possible to write a description in the text format and write a reader

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

usually GPS devices use NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) protocol. Check this: http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm Best wishes Viktoras Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, I never did that but I think there's a protocol and it's all ascii based. I think you just open the

Re: Team Development using Run Rev

Unfortunately a few functions in Rev require use of ID (or long ID) when referring to objects... RevDictionary says: use the altID property to specify an additional ID for an object. Both the ID and the altID property are checked when you refer to an object by ID. Of course it would be nice

Re: DP 4 for Linux: Aaaarrrggg!

Hi Peter, just tested this on my Linux (ubuntu 6.06 xfce, kernel 2.6.15-29-386) and it looks like it is working. E.g. I open Rev beta dp-4 and it loads in the 2nd desktop, then I opened Rev dictionary and send it to 3 desktop, created new stack and sent it to the 4th workspace. Then searched

Re: DP 4 for Linux: Aaaarrrggg!

Hi Peter, indeed, in KDE and Gnome it collapses to a single desktop... Hmmm, why it works on XFCE and fluxbox and doesn't on KDE and Gnome?.. I have no idea whether it is a bug of Rev or these desktop managers. I'll se what google says... All the best Viktoras Peter Alcibiades wrote:

Re: OT: New threat to our way of life: giant pythons

Hi Mark, invasive alien species are an increasing problem globally. Species that were introduced deliberately or accidentally into new areas now have more chances to adopt and survive also because of the global climate change. Not all species are as bad, some are endangered, but some are

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

i did not receive it too :-( or at least cant't find it in my inbox - the latest message is about dp3... Viktoras Horst wrote: Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? Is there a selection or is it just a mistake? best regards Horst Peter Alcibiades wrote: OK, all good things

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

We can't, dp-3 has already expired... v.- Stephen Barncard wrote: What happens when you use check for update? Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: UI performance and large data set in Table Object

Hi Mark, use scrolling field object with vgrid and hgrid set to true (table to false), so you will get it formatted correctly without all the overheads of the table object. I always use this when I need table and it for me handles a few thousand records without any slowing downs. One more

Re: Anyone interested in learning more about Rev on Rockets?

Me too is interested. Would it be possible to additionally have a documentation of handlers and functions and what they do and how do you use them :-). Or anything like Rev IDE dictionary with documented functions, handlers and properties? All the best! Viktoras Chipp Walters wrote: So, if

Re: 2.9 b4

Just intended to ask the same question... E.g. me is interested in Revolution to be improved as much as possible. So many of us do this by participating in beta program, hunting those nasty bugs, reporting them, etc... And as a reward and motivation participation in the Improve list is limited

Re: RevCGI Hosts?

possibility of the direct access to revolution engine (or any other file in cgi-bin) can be completely eliminated by putting .htaccess file with the following content into the cgi-bin directory: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)(rev|revolution)(.*) http://localhost/cgi-bin/ [nc] Now everyone

Re: upgrade pricing

i just noticed that for those who buy/upgrade Revolution in February the package comes with a free set of icons (http://miryesoftware.ning.com/). Unfortunately I renewed my license just 3 days before February, so no icons for me and I will continue using open source Tango and Crystal icon

Re: UPDATE table and quote in a text

in sqlite ' should be escaped with '' (e.g. ' and ') that's it... Viktoras Horst wrote: Holá Mark, ik wil u danken. I know, the easiest way would be to encode the data with base64encode. But there must also be a way to save a text f.e. like 1234'5'6öä'ioup# in a varchar or text type. With

Re: Cgi and Database (stick to standards)

from my experience mysql is faster than sqlite in joins, unless you manually optimise your sql queries for sqlite ;-), in most cases using subqueries. Plus mysql is multiuser and omnipresent, which matters... To make sqlite multiuser you will have to implement your own database locking

Re: Many Cards vs. Lists vs. XML

working with lists is much much faster. XML is just plain flat text file with more text to process. If you have large and complex dataset with items, children items their relations and properties, then it is more efficient to use relational database for data storage and retrieval... XML suits

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

database and it instantly crashed and the database is in pieces! All the Best Dave On 14 Feb 2008, at 13:30, viktoras didziulis wrote: Hi Dave, in one of my applications I use shell to communicate with sqlite for data .import and revolution's sqlite to query and modify the same database

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

interested. Thanks All the Best Dave On 13 Feb 2008, at 19:08, viktoras didziulis wrote: What about the 2 applications connecting to the same sqlite database - one updates the db, the other checks whether and how it was updated?.. Viktoras Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: I have an application

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

What about the 2 applications connecting to the same sqlite database - one updates the db, the other checks whether and how it was updated?.. Viktoras Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: I have an application that periodically creates or updates an SQLite database (actually there are lots of

Re: Threshold filters (Rev Newsletter #48)

...from my observations put before tends to slow down with larger files. So put after is the fastest of all... V. Björnke von Gierke wrote: A very interesting read, and it fits nicely into your expertise. However, you use put into in the last example (repeat for each). This negates the speed

taskbar applications

i would appreciate a few hints on how do we create taskbar applications in Revolution on Windows. I.e. something like Revolution player, skype or anything like that where user sees an icon of a running application sitting in the taskbar. If he clicks that icon with mouse - context menu

Re: db encryption and multiuser question

Hi Tiemo, try this sqlite database editor (for windows): http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/sqlitespy/index Or you can install an sqlite plugin for Mozilla web browser. Regarding the encryption and a few other issues (like loading tables into the database using sqlite's .import

Re: AW: db encryption and multiuser question

PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von viktoras didziulis Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 12:26 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: db encryption and multiuser question Hi Tiemo, try this sqlite database editor (for windows): http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/sqlitespy/index Or you can

Re: filling a db on CD, what happens?

what about storing data to an external database on a remote server ?.. Or is the data too user specific or privacy sensitive (or how is it called correctly in English?..) and there is no point to save it at all? What about using usb flashdrive instead of CD ? Or simply putting the application

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