Advice on deploying 'splash screen' apps

2005-10-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I've done a few little splash screen apps with very limited deployment (eg 1-3 users); and some completely self-contained apps with wider deployment. Now I'd like to make one of my more widely deployed apps into a splash-screen based app, so that it can update itself over the net. Where I've

jabber or other IM protocol

2005-12-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Has anyone written a Jabber client, server, bot, or library in Transcript? (Failing that, any other IM protocol?) Any experience to share, tips, gotchas? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

[OT] exchanging data with browsers in Windows

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
like this on Windows? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

FTP trouble uploading files/renaming folders

2006-03-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
problems; or conversely, attempted similar tasks without encountering such problems? This is all in Rev 2.6.1, btw, with libURL 1.1.4. TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com

Playing mp3 on Windows (XP Embedded)

2006-05-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, is there an equivalent on Windows? b) does Windows Media Player need to be installed in a particular location for Rev to be able to use it? c) are there any other tips, known gotchas, etc? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd

Re: Playing mp3 on Windows (XP Embedded)

2006-05-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thomas McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My gut is telling me that it three things: 1. could be a filepath issue. 2. Is the file extention ok? 3. I'm hungry. Hi Thomas, Thanks for your response, but I don't think any of these three things are it. I'm using a stack with a button to set the

Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
looking. Any suggestions, pointers, tools, warnings, etc gratefully received. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But... have you tried using Chipp Walters' altCleanStack first? I usually end up getting rid of 50% or so of stuff I don't need. That sounds like a great first step (although I suspect there's much of my fat there, as well as Rev's) - I'm off to download

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements

2006-05-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then again, if we could put objects into variables (I'd love that for implementing Undo) we could get the length of the variable to determine the number of bytes the object requires. Then you'd have your reporting, and Jan and I would have a handy

What does Rev hook into when it plays MP3 files on Windows?

2006-06-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm trying to get Rev to play MP3 files on Windows XP Embedded. I'm carrying the stack, the MP3 file, and StackRunner around on a USB drive, so the problem isn't there. I can plug the USB drive into any of several Windows XP machines, launch StackRunner, press the button, hear the sound. On

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-09-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
A very late contribution to this thread. Way back in 2005-07-04 kee nethery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are running Hypercard on the startup volume, it runs fine until you try to edit a script. That does not work. If you are running externals in Hypercard, no clue whether they still

Re: about media...

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
(and then have them read by Media again)? (Albeit obviously in Enterprise the templates wouldn't be available, I imagine.) -- Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

using sudo in shell?

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
in effect pass a password to shell in this situation, or in any other way get round this problem? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: using sudo in shell?

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 26/6/06 10:57, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 6/26/06, Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'shell' command is a very useful extension to Rev's native powers. However, there are some things, at least on OS X, which I want to do that require the shell command to be issued in super-user mode

Re: teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, more time than that has actually elapsed before it does - does the idleRate effect this? Failing that, can you run your own tight loop, polling the milliseconds until it changes? (I'm guessing you don't really need to scroll at faster than 1000 pixels/second.) Ben Rubinstein

Re: Parameters of pending messages

2006-06-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
string. HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: How do I abort a handler in OS X???

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
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Re: Parameters of pending messages -- is 'it' volatile?

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
. :/ 20 years we've had this darn company name, and still the jokes - but not much longer. In a couple of months we're changing it. You won't have our (old) stupid company name to kick around much longer. Nosirree. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: paste into field does not trigger closefield

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, and it never got bugzilla'd it... but perhaps I'll dig out the details and have another go. HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Revolution Media Presentation Viewable on Web?

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Player. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: How do I abort a handler in OS X???

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/6/06 16:27, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: I don't think there's any problem with cmd-period in OS-X; but there is, and always has been, a problem that cmd-period doesn't work if you've got a modal dialog in the way. Very true, but I think there's a problem with Command

Re: How do I abort a handler in OS X???

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/6/06 16:39, Ben Rubinstein wrote: So this is a bug introduced in some version of 2.7 - does this represent a touching confidence by RunRev that their user-programmers are now so sophisticated that they'll never make mistakes anymore, sort of like Steve Jobs removing the reset switch

Re: display correct data mySQL statement

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
in between them. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: How do I abort a handler in OS X???

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/6/06 18:15, J. Landman Gay wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: Minor update: this bug is still present in 2.7.2; it applies even after 'suspend development environment'; but it doesn't apply to standalones built with 2.7.2, ie cmd-period interrupts fine. So it's

Re: paste into field does not trigger closefield

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, the pasteKey message isn't sent. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: [FIX] How do I abort a handler in OS X???

2006-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to false in the current version. Excellent catch, Peter - thank you. I had checked for the cantAbort of the stack, but not the global allowInterrupts. I've added this info to BZ. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600

Re: paste into field does not trigger closefield

2006-06-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/6/06 23:37, kee nethery wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: You may well be on top of this, but just in case: note that 'pasteKey' literally only catches using the keyboard shortcut to paste; if the user uses paste from the standard edit menu, the pasteKey message

Re: Is there any easy way to...

2006-06-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
added the other - but it's been that way for about four years now... Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use

Re: paste function

2006-06-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
of menus, ie including the Edit menu), you also need to trap the menuPick message: on menuPick tWhat if paste is not in tWhat then pass menuPick end menuPick Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

Re: Escape infinite loops

2006-07-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
time to finish, AFAIK there is no way to do this from 'outside' the handler - ie as Jim hints, you'd need to build this into your handler in some way. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com

Re: saving problem

2006-07-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
? If the latter, please add a note to the above bug report to confirm that this error occurs on Windows also. Thank you, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Possible New Book Titles

2006-07-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
those three are probably the most useful, with debugging marginally out in front. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Finding in reverse

2006-07-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
be trivial* to implement it directly in the engine, and that would be very much faster than the transcript version. There's a proposal in bugzilla for this: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=584 Please consider tossing it some votes... *trivial: usual caveats apply Ben

Re: Possible new book titles

2006-07-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a preference which reverses this: it makes the PI use the actual property name for each checkbox (etc), and puts the more verbose label into the tool-tip. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

Re: Auto Baud Rate Detection

2006-07-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
it changes the port. That works fine, I would expect this would work in your case too. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Contextual (right-click) menus

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=594 which was fixed a couple of years ago (all hail Bugzilla). Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: player result codes?

2006-07-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
back to Rev also. If the machine doesn't do sound, you'll get an error when you set the filename of the player. If you didn't get an error at that stage, I think you can be confident that start player will work. HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

result codes (was Re: player result codes?)

2006-07-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
for this request if you think it would be helpful. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Voip via Revolution

2006-07-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
/Docs/ApiDoc/Commands Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: [OT] Of Mac Right Clicks (was Re: There Was a Problem Saving the Standalone Application)

2006-07-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a convention) will eventually pop-up a contextual menu. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use

Re: [OT] Of Mac Right Clicks (was Re: There Was a Problem Saving the Standalone Application)

2006-07-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Imagedata row order

2006-07-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
it with invariant order in the past. If in fact the order is platform-dependant in 2.7that's contrary to the docs, and a bug. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273

Re: restrict number of characters in a field?

2006-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: restrict number of characters in a field?

2006-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
spotted and fixed (I can't see anything about in Bugzilla) - but without addressing this problem. There. Full disclosure! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: RLE

2006-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
that a field's data is stored in, as long as we can get at it by properties. For the record, I'm pretty certain that isn't Utah RLE, but a very very very much simpler format. Take a look at it and see. But I still wish someone would explain to me why so many people seem to care? Ben Rubinstein

Re: Why is the imagedata value different from Win32 to MacOS platforms?

2006-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
operates in a way based on the screen depth). Either way, when you ask for the imageData, you're getting a 5-bits per channel pixmap expanded to 8-bits per channel - hence the slight differences. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone

Re: RLE

2006-07-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, force it to be RLE (set the global paintCompression to rle, set the imagedata of the image to itself, change card) then try put dumpHex(the imageData of image 1, 64) and put dumpHex(the text of image 1, 5) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
like this. ) Tragically - I word I use in purely ironic mood, given the shape of the world - this exchange came just one month before Bugzilla opened for business, so naturally I never entered the suggestion. But if I was on a decent internet connection at the moment, I'd do it now. Ben

Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)

2006-08-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
this question and several others!) TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)

2006-08-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you need to think 'misc' 'dosc' with your own data structure and content. Google the following dosc misc revolution and look at a couple of the archive posts on our list. on appleEvent theClass,theID if theClass is misc and theID is dosc

Re: Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)

2006-08-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But keep in mind that you cannot do this with Revolution 2.7.3 because of a bug that scrambles the apple events. If you use Revolution 2.7.2, you can use apple events, but they come in backwards on Universal Binary builds (i.e. The class is csim and theID is

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
between Rev and Phidgets! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cogapp | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-12-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
the generic I/O of SERVICE USB). -- Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cogapp | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Hideous revdberr,invalid database type returns in standalones

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, who is facing an immovable deadline of their own, and at the last minute this issue has come up. It's arguably both use and improve, since there's clearly a bug, but there may be a workaround!] I am in pain. Any help, or suggestions, gratefully received. Ben Rubinstein | Email

Wanted: statement about database externals and libraries (especially on Windows)

2004-10-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
folder as the app? Can this be configured in any way? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution

Wanted: idiot's guide to using Unicode in Rev

2004-12-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
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Re: CSV spec and the failure that is MSDN

2004-12-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
(and possibly Excel) could you bypass CSV and use ODBC to retrieve the data more directly? This might be more certain, and more convenient for your users. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com

Re: Rotate an image ...

2004-12-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
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Re: Standalone Problems for OSX and OS9 apps

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
of a biter bit situation, since there are a number of bugs in my products that I tell my users I can't do anything about it until my development environment [rev] is fixed. Now I know how they feel! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone

Re: Wanted: idiot's guide to using Unicode in Rev

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Sadly this didn't work! Any help, tips, pointers to documentation, or answers to the specific questions above would be very gratefully received. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com

Re: Standalone Problems for OSX and OS9 apps

2004-12-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
! - inability to use file extensions in OS X, the consequences of which have been noted and complained of by my users; to who I've given exactly the response that Tuviah has had to for #2212. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0

Re: simple applescript?

2004-12-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
quote pPDFpath quote \ to quote PDF quote cr after tScript HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: image in white rectangle

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
for you. Possibly all of the above! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [ANN} libEXIF v0.9

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
data? Cheers, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: parsing comments in scripts

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a lazy way of commenting out a handler (a way which is already no longer safe, as has been observed). Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: [ANN} libEXIF v0.9

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
be really useful. It's something that in the past I've shied away from suggesting, for fear that I'd find myself committed to an unfunded research project to make it work! So I'd be very interested in this. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd

Re: ZIP on OS X

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a file which Stuffit Expander on Windows decompressed happily; but Stuffit Deluxe 8.0.2 on MacOS X claimed was corrupt. So - could this be related to the problem you're having? (If not: do you support the comment field? Because one day I'd like to actually fix this!) Ben Rubinstein

Re: Word keyword

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
non-breaking space. I really don't know what purpose that serves! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: The Programmer As Wordsmith

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UIAIHHO3P0PECQSNDBCSKH0CJ UMEKJVN?articleID=53700319 Good article. I recognised many of the crimes (including some I've committed...). Also makes me salute Jeanne again! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd

Re: mySQL Query... need some help

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to be substituted for the placeholder is passed, rather than the value - unusual in Transcript, and slightly confusing.) Hope this helps, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44

Re: Network - Running A Standalone Application From A Network Server

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
.) Depending on your setup, this could be a stack loaded each time off a file server; a stack loaded each time from a web server; or a stack loaded from a local copy, with some provision to check for updates, and download and replace the local copy. HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL

Re: Applescript error?

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, save before you test XCMDs, you might crash; secondly, test them hard! Good luck, have fun. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Network - Running A Standalone Application From A Network Server

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
the horses (and app developers who might have counted on the previous behaviour). Thanks for clearing that up, Frank. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: moving content of variable

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
a placeholder, and replacing the placeholder directly with literals. But obviously that only works for short values that don't have any inconvenient characters such as returns or quotes. I hope someone can up with a good answer to this. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: moving content of variable

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
the same value. (CRLF, on the other hand, has the value '\n\r'). There is no constant that has the value '\r'. You'll need to do something like replace return with numtochar(13) in x' on the way into AppleScript, and replace numtochar(13) with return in x on the way out.) Ben Rubinstein

Re: parsing comments in scripts

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
if no additional conveniences are provided in the script editor, is find the bottom of their handler to add the close comment there. How about we just request a simpler Script Editor enhancement - jump to end of current handler? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive

Re: SystemWindow equivalent for just one Application?

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
such a thing as the active app, only the frontmost window - but I think the same principle applies, it just might be harder to establish which windows belong to your target app. My 0.02, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273

Re: Missing chunk scripting issue

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
can in any case count from the end of a range using negative numbers, hence put char -4 to -1 of line 1 of field result would also get you what you want, with no need to first ask the length. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
\shell\open\command\, format(\C:\Ba\Ba.exe\ \-E\ \%1\) Even more convenient if you find yourself also making up strings including returns (but remember a Transcript return is \n, not \r). Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
immediately know what it means, then q is good too. Lots of quotes and returns, no backslashes? Format might look attractive. Horses for courses - Transcript gives us lots of choices. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
, the backtick with quote, and the paragraph mark with return. In Rev, I don't bother so much - I either assemble, or I use format. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0

Re: Stacks open without IDE

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
double-clicked a file, it would load the IDE unless you held down the command key during startup. I thought this change was made in Rev 2 - but maybe it was in 2.5. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

Re: Way for browser to talk to Rev?

2004-12-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
link with a 'target' attribute) can change the src of the iframe to the results of a call to Revolution. Either you could just use this to display the result to the user, or javascript could read back the text from the iframe in order to further process it. Ben Rubinstein | Email

Re: Menu woes

2004-12-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
like to know whether other people think it makes sense, and how it could be improved. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic

2004-12-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to confirm or deny whether or not you can expect Rev to match the likes, and to what extent it can improve on the discontents. Cheers, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0

Re: OT: Scripting the UI in Windows

2005-01-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
thing I'm aware of (but it's not really my world, others may know more) is a product called WinBatch. It worked perfectly on the one project I needed it. HTH, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

Revolution and GPS receivers

2005-01-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
that works/doesn't work, etc. TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Rev and Windows XP Embedded

2005-01-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Has anyone used Rev (used IDE, or deployed standalones) on Windows XP Embedded? Does it work? Are there any gotchas, tips or other things I should be aware of? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http

Re: Rev and Windows XP Embedded

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks both Millers! Now just have to see if we get the job... Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use

MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
? Or in fact any external audio file? (Is there another way to play external audio files without using a player object?) Any enlightenment gratefully received, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
be an advantage. Thank you, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
component; is there some equivalent on Windows (XPe) that I can use to figure out what the problem is here? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 From

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
splendidly well. If we make it out of prototype and into deployment, I look forward to giving Rod a case study.) Cheers, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On Wed Feb 9 15:21:29 Thomas McGrath III wrote: It is relevant On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I haven't; but I don't think it's relevant, Thomas, Thanks for taking the time to respond to my query. Could you shed some more light, however? What I wrote was: I haven't

Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows

2005-02-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Player 9 is installed on that machine, and working fine). I'm trying to track down the critical difference. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Re: Subscribe gmane to this list?

2005-02-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
With Kevin and Heather's approval, I've gone ahead and done this. So this list can be viewed, and searched (archives back to November 2001) at: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user I hope others find this useful too. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

OT: Congratulations to Frank Leahy

2005-04-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Excellent review of Web Photos Pro in the latest issue of MacUser UK. Good work! Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866

Simulating 'drawer' behaviour on Windows

2005-04-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
platforms using Transcript (AFAICT - I'd welcome suggestions on other ways to attack this) I've added an enhancement request to bugzilla to support this mode on other platforms: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2797 If you would find this useful, please vote for it. Ben

Re: Simulating 'drawer' behaviour on Windows

2005-04-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
in a similar way.) I would like to add these drawers to main document windows; they need to operate in the normal layer, not disappear when the app is in the background - and definitely not interleave. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone

Re: Simulating 'drawer' behaviour on Windows

2005-04-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
to this I'd be very grateful to hear it. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

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