Re: dumb cgi question

2005-08-19 Thread Dan Shafer
AH, sure. Sorry for my response. I was having some Rev problems and that always makes me cranky. Dan On Aug 18, 2005, at 9:42 PM, jbv wrote: Dan, So I'm not sure what you mean by thanks for answering anyway implying that I'm wrong. Maybe you've uncovered contradictory information?

[Fwd: Re: clipboardData imageSource]

2005-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, Yours won't copy the image to the clipboard for pasting into another (different) program. best, Chipp Brian Yennie wrote: Chipp, Any reason why this: on copyToClip pImage choose select tool drag from topleft of image pImage to botright of image pImage copy choose browse tool

Re: [Fwd: Re: clipboardData imageSource]

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Yennie
Good reason =P! Is there a good reason why using the select command has to be simulated by dragging the select tool in order to make a copy? Wouldn't this fail for anything offscreen, invisible, or layered? - Brian Yep, Yours won't copy the image to the clipboard for pasting into another

Re: clipboardData imageSource

2005-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Kathy, So, you are trying to capture images from within a field? The routine I showed you only captures from a named image. So, if you had an image on your card named fred then: create a button named Copy Image Fred to Clipboard on mouseUp copyToClip fred end mouseUp on copyToClip

Re: Ask does not put empty into it when Cancel is clicked.

2005-08-19 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:38 PM +0200 8/18/2005, Klaus Major wrote: I think this was quickly fixed by build 108. Download a recent version. until Rev has changed the way we have to load every new distribution (the COMPLETE package :-/), it would be nice to have a place where we can download the engines only!

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 3:20 PM -0400 8/18/2005, Jon wrote: I'm sure the answer to this question (how do you continue a line in Rev) is simple. Where could I have found the answer to this simple question in the documentation? I looked for continue: no joy. line: no joy. I looked at the Scripting discussion, and

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 4:16 PM -0700 8/18/2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: As I noted in my previous post, I fully agree with Jon that it would be great for Rev to include an entry for the backslash token in the docs. If someone will kindly drop this into the BZ queue we can expect that to happen, then we'd never need

Re: Ask does not put empty into it when Cancel is clicked.

2005-08-19 Thread Dan Shafer
Jeanne How do you *really* feel? Dan On Aug 18, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 7:38 PM +0200 8/18/2005, Klaus Major wrote: I think this was quickly fixed by build 108. Download a recent version. until Rev has changed the way we have to load every new distribution

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 4:16 PM -0700 8/18/2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: As I noted in my previous post, I fully agree with Jon that it would be great for Rev to include an entry for the backslash token in the docs. If someone will kindly drop this into the BZ queue we can expect that to

Re: [Fwd: Re: clipboardData imageSource]

2005-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
=P! back atcha!!! Yes, I believe it's because you have to be in 'image edit' mode to really copy it, and the only way to do that is with dragging the select tool. best, Chipp Brian Yennie wrote: Good reason =P! Is there a good reason why using the select command has to be simulated by

Re: Ask does not put empty into it when Cancel is clicked.

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 7:38 PM +0200 8/18/2005, Klaus Major wrote: I think this was quickly fixed by build 108. Download a recent version. until Rev has changed the way we have to load every new distribution (the COMPLETE package :-/), it would be nice to have a place where we can

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Jeanne- Friday, August 19, 2005, 12:00:05 AM, you wrote: The entry for \ is also the first item returned when you search the dictionary for continue. OTOH, filtering on continu shows absolutely nothing. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jon, Klaus: I thought that all of you who paid the big bucks for the Enterprise version got a pill with RNA in it, and that you learned it all over night! :) we wished, Jon, we really wished... ;-) Jon Klaus Major wrote: Hi Jon, Jon wrote: ... I envy those of you who use Rev

Re: working a web site from Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Cragg
On 18 Aug 2005, at 20:24, Jon wrote: Dave: Excellent help. Question: how would one indicate that a check box field is checked (or not)? Thanks! Jon I've never done this, but this is what I have read: -- If the checkbox is unchecked, don't send anything. -- If the checkbox is

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/19/05 3:10 AM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeanne- Friday, August 19, 2005, 12:00:05 AM, you wrote: The entry for \ is also the first item returned when you search the dictionary for continue. OTOH, filtering on continu shows absolutely nothing. Of course, because there

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Cragg
On 19 Aug 2005, at 09:10, Mark Wieder wrote: Jeanne- Friday, August 19, 2005, 12:00:05 AM, you wrote: The entry for \ is also the first item returned when you search the dictionary for continue. OTOH, filtering on continu shows absolutely nothing. But searching (not filtering) for

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Rossi
As I noted in my previous post, I fully agree with Jon that it would be great for Rev to include an entry for the backslash token in the docs. FWIW, in the docs here, using 'Search For' on continue or continu lists the backslash character in the 1st found result. Using 'Search For' on break

Re: Ask does not put empty into it when Cancel is clicked.

2005-08-19 Thread David Burgun
At 7:38 PM +0200 8/18/2005, Klaus Major wrote: I think this was quickly fixed by build 108. Download a recent version. until Rev has changed the way we have to load every new distribution (the COMPLETE package :-/), it would be nice to have a place where we can download the engines only!

Re: IBC2005 Amsterdam

2005-08-19 Thread david bovill
I'd be interested in a talk... On 18 Aug 2005, at 15:33, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hello, Are any multimediators going to IBC in Amsterdam? We might have a little meeting under eHUG's flag. If you register for the IBC2005 exhibition no later than 21st August, you can get your badge for

Re: Ask does not put empty into it when Cancel is clicked.

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I have to agree. Slipstreaming is a pain in the neck for everyone, and I don't really understand why Rev thinks it is a good idea, either. Jon Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 7:38 PM +0200 8/18/2005, Klaus Major wrote: I think this was quickly fixed by build 108. Download a recent version.

Re: Drag Drop from one substack to another

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Carwardine
Well, there you are... I never tried the obvious. I thought it needed to be coded specifically and I couldn't get it to work. Thanks, guys... Jim on 8/18/05 1:07 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: On Thu Aug 18 Jim Carwardine JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com wrote: I'm using normal text fields

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Great. You figured out how to make the Help system work successfully. Try Filtering the Dictionary and the Topics withcontinue. I get NOTHING here. Working with Rev should not be a game: it should be easy to locate this information. I'm happy that you were able to find the information. I

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Ken: Of course, because there aren't any keywords that contain that string. But perhaps that's another issue for newbies - understanding the difference between filter and search... Not really. Since Filter is visible, and search is not, Filter is the ONLY facility that anyone would think

Online Scripting Conference on Saturday

2005-08-19 Thread Claire Bradin Siskin
Jacque, why don't you tell us about the Online Scripting Conference to be held on Saturday, August 20? The last one was so good! Thanks, Claire -- Claire Bradin Siskin Director Robert Henderson Language Media Center G 17 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
I think the lesson here is that filtering is only a way of narrowing down the actual keywords and function names in the dictionary, or the topic titles in the topics section. If you don't know and can't guess the keyword or whatever, it's necessary to search, instead. Cheers, Mark On 19

open fileName with application

2005-08-19 Thread Dirk Ferus
Hi, I am just beginning to convert my stacks and myself from Hypercard to Revolution. Hypercard has the command: open fileName with application to open a file say with a TeX-program and then continue working within that program. How do I do this under Revolution? Dirk

How to close URL

2005-08-19 Thread Lisa Westbrook
does anyone know how to close a URL after it is opened with Runtime Revolution application and return to the application? thanks, Lisa ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: open fileName with application

2005-08-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Dirk, Hi, I am just beginning to convert my stacks and myself from Hypercard to Revolution. Hypercard has the command: open fileName with application to open a file say with a TeX-program and then continue working within that program. How do I do this under Revolution? just

RE: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
Revers, Sorry to be so late on this topic. I'm retired. :-)) If you haven't already, get Wilhelm Sanke's excellent Search Docs plugin. Put it in your plugins folder for easy access in Rev. I typed Jon's first search into it (continue) and break \ came up as the first in the list. Get the

Re: How to close URL

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
Do you mean how do you close a web page and return to Rev after using revGoURL? Or are you talking about after having used a file using the URL method? If the former, it's easiest to just quit the browser yourself, though you could use applescript (on mac) or vbscript (on windows) to do it

the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I have been appending lines to a scrolling field to create a log file while running a program. After a bit, I centralized the creation of these lines. All of a sudden the Message Box started popping up. I Filtered the Topics in the Documentation for Message Box, but nothing was there. I

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Aug 19 2005, at 15:51, Jon wrote: ... Any idea why the Message Box is suddenly getting triggered? ... Here is the current code: on DisplayMessage msg put the long time msg Return after field Memo set the vScroll of field Memo to the formattedHeight of field Memo end

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Thanks so much! Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! :) Jon Björnke von Gierke wrote: On Aug 19 2005, at 15:51, Jon wrote: ... Any idea why the Message Box is suddenly getting triggered? ...

Revolution running on Ubuntu?

2005-08-19 Thread rev
Had anyone sucess running Revolution under Ubuntu Linux or Debian? Best Regards Peter --- Werbung --- JETZT: AT-Domains Erst-Registrierung kostenlos! und NUR EUR 16,00/Jahr * http://www.emerion.com

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jon ... Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! yeah, what a mean, mean IDE... :-) Jon Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de

running player makes other things slower

2005-08-19 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hi everyone, Does anyone run into this problem like I have? In my rev application, I have a player (playing song and movie) running just fine but when I scroll up and down the field, the sound is messed up and slows down other things such as selecting a line in the field list, clicking on a

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/19/05 7:14 AM, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, because there aren't any keywords that contain that string. But perhaps that's another issue for newbies - understanding the difference between filter and search... Not really. Since Filter is visible, and search is not, Filter is

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/19/05 8:57 AM, Björnke von Gierke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19 2005, at 15:51, Jon wrote: ... Any idea why the Message Box is suddenly getting triggered? ... Here is the current code: on DisplayMessage msg put the long time msg Return after field Memo set the

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jon, On 8/19/05 7:14 AM, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, because there aren't any keywords that contain that string. But perhaps that's another issue for newbies - understanding the difference between filter and search... Not really. Since Filter is visible, and search is not,

how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I'm writing some software to continually test a web site I created. It Posts some data every hour or so and then inspects the HTML that returns to verify that the web site responded appropriately. Sad to say, I connect to the Internet over a modem, so I'm not on-line all of the time. I would

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Klaus: And I think even a newbie COULD (if not should) know that an option menu might have more than 1 ehm... option :-) Good point. I'll have to inspect the UI much more carefully in the future for hints about other features! Maybe we can have a contest for people who can find some other

RE: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Peter T. Evensen
How is this different from the existing search option? At 08:36 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote: Revers, Sorry to be so late on this topic. I'm retired. :-)) If you haven't already, get Wilhelm Sanke's excellent Search Docs plugin. Put it in your plugins folder for easy access in Rev. I typed

resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I'm trying to schedule something to happen some time in the future. Due to some other complexities, I cannot just do a send mouseUp to me in 1000 seconds Rather, I have to wake up every 10 seconds and figure out whether it is time to do the processing or not. The current code is presented

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: I'm trying to schedule something to happen some time in the future. Due to some other complexities, I cannot just do a send mouseUp to me in 1000 seconds Rather, I have to wake up every 10 seconds and figure out whether it is time to do the processing or not. The current code

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Dennis Brown
If I might just interject a thought about indexes. The way I want to search for information when I don't know what something is called or even if it exists, is narrowing by categories. I would want a list of 10-20 broad categories. And for each broad category, a new list of categories would

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alex Tweedly wrote: local nextFTPTime on mouseUp if the seconds nextFTPTime then do ftp Stuff put the seconds + field TestFreq into nextFTPTime end if send mouseUp to me in 10 seconds end mouseUp You might want to make that send mouseUp to me in min(10, nextFTPTime-the

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 66

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 17 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:13:40 -0400 From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: resolution of Time in Rev To: Revolution List use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I'm trying to schedule something to

dBase or Paradox interface

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Kane
Hi all, It's great to be here posting as an owner of Revolution License, rather than an evaluator. :-) Just a quick question - Rev comes with some cool options for databases. I have some legacy app's using dBase IV and Paradox. I was wondering if there was something available in Rev that

Re: dBase or Paradox interface

2005-08-19 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/19/05 9:26 PM, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's great to be here posting as an owner of Revolution License, rather than an evaluator. :-) Just a quick question - Rev comes with some cool options for databases. I have some legacy app's using dBase IV and Paradox.

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Hurley
Jon, I should have pointed out in my previous response that the way to find these problems in the future is to use the RR debugger. If you set a break point at the line: if currTime mostRecentFTPTime then... and if you open the Variable watcher you would see that the variable

Re: Revolution running on Ubuntu?

2005-08-19 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Peter, Here is a quote from what I said a few days back on the List: As you know, Linux grows daily, not least of all here in Brazil. However, until last week I had never found a Linux that worked 100%, so I stuck with Windows. But the great revelation of last week was the discovery of the

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! Hm. I thought the IDE had a Preference for colorizing one's scripts, for just this sort of reason?

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Could well be. I use whatever the color defaults are. That is, my scripts are indeed in colors. Just no quite as many as I would like grin Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 66

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Alex, Jim: The information in the variable mostRecentFTPTime is lost after mouseUp is run You both are, of course, correct. The code I posted is not the code I actually used: the real code is MUCH more complex. In my attempt to make the published code focus on the problem at hand, I

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Jim: I do, in fact, use the debugger. I also write lots of debugging information out to the log I'm creating. The code I stripped out of the example was exactly all of that debugging code. :) Jon Jim Hurley wrote: Jon, I should have pointed out in my previous response that the way to

Re: dBase or Paradox interface

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
If you can find an old machine to run dBase IV and Paradox or if they will run in Classic just export the databases to CSV or tab delimited and you can use anythingincluding MYSQL and sqlLITE, etc. Hi all, It's great to be here posting as an owner of Revolution License, rather than an

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Alex Tweedly wrote: snip 2. Unless you need to for some reason I don't see here, don't mess around with date time. What I'm trying to do is find a way to express more than 60 minutes after the most recent time/date stamp in such a way that it will not fail across noon/midnight

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-19 Thread Todd Higgins
I would love to see the smooth effect, but it also flickers like mad under Rev 2.5.1, any chance of saving it as stack that I could get to from the Dreamcard 2.6.1 player? Thanks Todd On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:18 PM, MisterX wrote: actually, it's more like most european flags, flogged down

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 66

2005-08-19 Thread Cubist
In a message dated 8/19/05 10:15:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:13:40 -0400 From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: resolution of Time in Rev To: Revolution List use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

time anomaly

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Any idea why this code produces 19:00:54 instead of 54? I do have twelveHourTime set to false, but... on mouseUp local t put 54 into t convert t to long time answer t end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

RE: dBase or Paradox interface

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Kane
If you will decide to use Valentina as database for your app, Then you can convert any db that have ODBC driver into Valentina using Valentina Studio application. Thanks Ruslen! :-) Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: dBase or Paradox interface

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Kane
If you can find an old machine to run dBase IV and Paradox or if they will run in Classic just export the databases to CSV or tab delimited and you can use anythingincluding MYSQL and sqlLITE, etc. They are on a Intel box - but no matter your suggestion would work fine anyway. Can't

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Jon wrote: Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! Too bad the IDE can't just write your program for you. Geez Jon, you really don't attempt to read anything, do you? For crying out loud, all you have

Continuation Lines (was: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?)

2005-08-19 Thread FlexibleLearning
The corollary of \ is ; (a semi-colon) ... on sillyTest what if what then get 2; add 2 to it; put A after it; put it; exit to top end if [.../...] end sillyTest Useful for very short lines! /H FLCo Home of the Scripter's Scrapbook ___

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Todd Higgins wrote: I would love to see the smooth effect, but it also flickers like mad under Rev 2.5.1, any chance of saving it as stack that I could get to from the Dreamcard 2.6.1 player? The flag stack is just that -- a stack. And it relies on the latest version of Rev to

Re: time anomaly

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Yennie
This is a guess, but I believe it would be because: The seconds function returns the total number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT Assuming your timezone is at GMT-5 hours, you are seeing 54 seconds past January 1, 1970 GMT, otherwise known as December 31, 1969 @ 19:00:54

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-19 Thread Todd Higgins
Thanks Scott, I was able to get it play smoothly in the 2.6 Revolution Dreamcard Player. It is a beautiful effect, but it was sucking up 25% of my G4's processor (867 PB). Is that typical? Does anyone know how that would compare to a similar animation in Flash? Todd On Aug 19, 2005,

revChangeWindowSize UP

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Morrow
I'm trying to animate a window growing up, similar to the revChangeWindowSize handler (it only goes right and down) My trouble is with keeping the objects in the window from scrolling up with the top of the window and then redrawing at the correct position at the end of the handler. If I

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
If it helps, 'the seconds' (like 'the time', 'the date', 'the files') is really a function, and can be used like: put seconds() into tNow. Incidentally, looking this up reveals that the dictionary also lists 'seconds' (plural) as a keyword to denote the second member of a set, when obviously

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-19 Thread Malte Brill
Excellent work scott! And twice as funny if you set the systemWindow of the stack to true. :-) I was able to get it play smoothly in the 2.6 Revolution Dreamcard Player. It is a beautiful effect, but it was sucking up 25% of my G4's processor (867 PB). Is that typical? Does anyone know how

back/forward confined to one stack

2005-08-19 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm positively childishly pleased to report that my simple implementation of a history-list for a single stack or substack works. It confines itself to that stack alone (unlike the Rev- internal commands relevant to recent -- but thanks to Jacque for her suggestions that made me learn more

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Todd Higgins wrote: I was able to get it play smoothly in the 2.6 Revolution Dreamcard Player. It is a beautiful effect, but it was sucking up 25% of my G4's processor (867 PB). Is that typical? This is true for almost any animation/messages that run in intervals less than 1

Re: back/forward confined to one stack

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Excellent work, Charles. I've quoted your full post here because your script makes good learning material for others who may have the same need, well worth a second read. As much as I appreciate the convenience of go back, like you I've found that I often need more control of what's included

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Smith wrote: If it helps, 'the seconds' (like 'the time', 'the date', 'the files') is really a function, and can be used like: put seconds() into tNow. If you're prone to curmudgeonly habits you might find the function form very useful when skimming code to help differentiate from

RE: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-19 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
Peter, On August 19, 2005 11:33:48 AM CDT you wrote: How is this different from the existing search option? Well it is somewhat different and seems to be faster than the documentation search on my machine. It also hilites the search string in red in the found topics. Check it out by running

ISAM

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Kane
Hi, Somone told be a while back aout a Revolution tool that was an ISAM style table system. I've mamanged to lose the link... Apart from saving cards (which is on my list) are there any other options for single user acces. MYAQL etc are to much for my users to deal with. Valentino looks good

Re: ISAM

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Kane wrote: Hi, Somone told be a while back aout a Revolution tool that was an ISAM style table system. I've mamanged to lose the link... Apart from saving cards (which is on my list) are there any other options for single user acces. MYAQL etc are to much for my users to deal with.

Re: Revolution running on Ubuntu?

2005-08-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Peter I use Revolution with Ubuntu, no problem. I you have any questions feel free to contact me. --gordon On Aug 19, 2005, at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had anyone sucess running Revolution under Ubuntu Linux or Debian? Best Regards Peter --- Werbung

OT: Super-computer studies aerodynamics of the potato chip

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Hurley
This from todays NYT: Once the exclusive territory of nuclear weapons designers and code breaker, ultrafast computers are increasingly being used in every day product design. Procter Gamble used a supercomputer to study the airflow over its Pringles potato chips to help stop them from

Re: time anomaly

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Jon- Friday, August 19, 2005, 12:21:16 PM, you wrote: Any idea why this code produces 19:00:54 instead of 54? I do have twelveHourTime set to false, but... on mouseUp local t put 54 into t convert t to long time answer t end mouseUp Well, I can see why you might think that

RE: ISAM

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Richard, Depending on your indexing needs, if your data set is small enough to be used in RAM you might consider storing your data in custom properties. They are pretty light actually.Just a lot of tables. Random access of properties through array notation is lightning fast, and

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
Bug 3066 entered On 19 Aug 2005, at 21:25, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Smith wrote: If it helps, 'the seconds' (like 'the time', 'the date', 'the files') is really a function, and can be used like: put seconds() into tNow. If you're prone to curmudgeonly habits you might find the

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: Alex Tweedly wrote: snip 2. Unless you need to for some reason I don't see here, don't mess around with date time. What I'm trying to do is find a way to express more than 60 minutes after the most recent time/date stamp in such a way that it will not fail across

Re: ISAM

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Kane wrote: Random access of properties through array notation is lightning fast, and sequential access is suitable. Surprisingly, sequential access of a simple line-delimited list is about 15-20% faster, and may also provide a reasonable solution for tables. Cany chance of some

Re: OT: Super-computer studies aerodynamics of the potato chip

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Friday, August 19, 2005, 2:05:07 PM, you wrote: product design. Procter Gamble used a supercomputer to study the airflow over its Pringles potato chips to help stop them from fluttering off the company's assembly lines. ...does that make them computer chips? ducking -- -Mark Wieder

Re: how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jon wrote: I'm writing some software to continually test a web site I created. It Posts some data every hour or so and then inspects the HTML that returns to verify that the web site responded appropriately. Sad to say, I connect to the Internet over a modem, so I'm not on-line all of the

Re: Sends getting lost

2005-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jon wrote: I'm writing a program that uses send mouseup to me in 10 seconds. From time to time, the program stops working, as if the Send is getting lost. I would guess that this happens whenever I go into the IDE and switch from run mode to edit mode (the two icons at the top of Tools).

[ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-19 Thread FlexibleLearning
The 'chasing arrows' is no longer OSX-HIG conformant (Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2005-8-11, page 138) and the asynchronous progress indicator is recommended. Trouble is, it's not readily accessible so we have made one for Rev... www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk/OSXspinnerANI.zip It's a

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Björnke von Gierke wrote: msg is a reserved word indicating... the message box :) try to use a different name for your var and all should be fine. Given that, in this particular situation, the IDE is going to ignore my use of msg as a parameter variable name, would it make any sense for

Re: how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I actually started doing just as you suggested (getting Google) when no one else chimed in. Works fine, although I wonder how fond the folks at Google are at us hammering away at them all of the time grin Thanks! Jon J. Landman Gay wrote: Jon wrote: I'm writing some software to

Re: Sends getting lost

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Thanks for the tip! J. Landman Gay wrote: Jon wrote: I'm writing a program that uses send mouseup to me in 10 seconds. From time to time, the program stops working, as if the Send is getting lost. I would guess that this happens whenever I go into the IDE and switch from run mode to

Re: Online Scripting Conference on Saturday

2005-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Claire Bradin Siskin wrote: Jacque, why don't you tell us about the Online Scripting Conference to be held on Saturday, August 20? The last one was so good! Good idea, and glad you liked the last one. These are always a lot of fun. Our next conference, which takes place tomorrow, will be

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! Hm. I thought the IDE had a Preference for colorizing one's scripts, for just this sort of

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: Björnke von Gierke wrote: msg is a reserved word indicating... the message box :) try to use a different name for your var and all should be fine. Given that, in this particular situation, the IDE is going to ignore my use of msg as a parameter variable name, would it make any

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Too bad the IDE didn't highlight the reserved word in some special color: I might have been able to guess if that were the case! Hm. I thought the IDE had a Preference for

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: BZ 3069. I screwed up and did not assign it to the proper part of Rev, using, instead, the default of About Screen. I tried to figure out how I could edit it to correct it, but was unable to do so. Any hints? I've never actually done that, but it looks as though simply

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
Alex: Done! Thanks! :) Jon Alex Tweedly wrote: Jon wrote: BZ 3069. I screwed up and did not assign it to the proper part of Rev, using, instead, the default of About Screen. I tried to figure out how I could edit it to correct it, but was unable to do so. Any hints? I've never

Re: time anomaly

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Ault
I get the current hour on my computer, 00 minutes, and 54 seconds. with twelvehourtime true = 4:00:54, and false = 16:00:54 using 4 = 16:00:04 using 124 = 16:02:04 (124 seconds past the current hour) using 3600 = 17:00:00 (3600 seconds, or 60 min past the current hour) thus if using only

Re: ISAM

2005-08-19 Thread Dan Shafer
In a single-user application where Valentina is out of price range, you should check out altSQLite from Altuit Software: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altSQLiteCover/default.htm Fast, easy to use, well documented and affordable. On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Scott Kane wrote: Hi,

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/19/05 6:28 PM, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BZ 3069. I screwed up and did not assign it to the proper part of Rev, using, instead, the default of About Screen. I tried to figure out how I could edit it to correct it, but was unable to do so. Any hints? Yes, you might want to use

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