Re: OT -- Mac OSX or Classic?

2005-01-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
Not off topic at all. I'd say aim most of your work towards OSX - Apple dropped support for 9 over a year ago. Rev's handling of the UI between the two is sweet however and often doesn't need much tweaking. More tweak would be needed for the windoze side. Having said that - there's a large

thanks

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
By the way, it's really great to see your presence here on the list, Kevin - I've been on a lot of 'geek-lists' and this is by far the greatest bunch of guys I've hung out with online - very intelligent, helpful and giving. We stay (mostly) on topic and potential flame wars are drowned out

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

2005-01-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
Why not just use a SQL database to store the data and use Rev to gather and display your data? This will give you the best performance and flexibility. sqb Thanks Frank, That sounds most practical. For my purpose, I could have it save a separate stack for every month's worth of articles. I

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
I think the answer would be 'whatever people use computers for - really. There are Rev users that range from hobbyists to the enterprise and 'shrink wrap' application developers. Rev is nothing less than a very organized toolkit into the inner mojo of all the major operating systems, a

Re: Records Delimited by Blank Line

2005-01-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
Wouldn't the recordDelimiter be return return ??? Hello everyone, I'm processing a large text file where each record consists of several hundred lines of information and is separated from the next record by a single blank line. I'd normally use a handler like the one below, where the

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
I think the answer would be 'whatever people use computers for - really. There are Rev users that range from hobbyists to the enterprise and 'shrink wrap' application developers. Rev is nothing less than a very organized toolkit into the inner mojo of all the major operating systems, a

Re: Databasing with Rev... design considerations

2005-01-31 Thread Stephen Barncard
Doc, why not just point your mySQL login to Valentina? You shouldn't have to change much at all. They have a trial version -- it's an external for Rev... http://www.paradigmasoft.com/index.html http://www.paradigmasoft.com/index.htmlParadigmsoft Now that the mySQL version of my first Rev app

Re: New Externals...

2005-02-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hey, Chipp - A MP3 or OORG VORBIS external for playback. Streaming send and receive would be a great bonus. Many players support OORG VORBIS. Isn't the core code for the latter format Open Source? sqb If you have any other ideas, please let us know, either on this list or off. Thanks again!

Re: Download problem

2005-02-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
https:// indicates a secure site... perhaps altBrowser could make this work. I am having a problem with downloading from a particular type of URL using Rev. It is a PDF document from the European Patent Office. One example of this type of URL is the following:

Re: Ultra Beginner Question/Request

2005-02-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
there are few things you can't do in Rev. The wave of clever and useful apps now appearing that were done in Rev are now showing up. stephen barncard Hello All, I consider myself a pretty good programmer and have been told I'm fairly bright in general. I've had Revolution for a couple of weeks

Re: [OT] QT Editing Tool (was Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property)

2005-02-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dan, if you have a copy of Golive 5,6,7 around, that might do the trick. There's quite an extensive QT editor in there. sqb Trevor Thanks. I need to look into this in greater detail. Do you have a recommended tool for QT editing? I just use QTPro. At one point I used MovieWorks but my

Re: Images

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
I would say plan for it in advance by the design you do right now. Create some common place to put your data or stacks online, create some central place for your data exchange, use MYSQL for data, etc. Also using a version control system such as Magic Carpet would be useful for collaborative

BBEdit Transcript Language Module

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hi Trevor - I have version 104 of your BBEdit Transcript Language Module - and am having trouble getting BBEDIT to recognized it. I put it into the Language Module folder (OSX 3.8-- Has there been a big change lately in versions that might break it? I currently have BBEdit 803. I'd love to use

Re: BBEdit Transcript Language Module

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
you put it in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules? BBEdit 8 changed the support folder from BBEdit Support to just BBEdit. Could that be the problem? Trevor Keep us posted... I need this too... tks Sivakatirswami On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Hi

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hi, Does anyone know if its possible to rotate a QT movie using Rev. We recently had to take some video using a camera sideways orientation - so I either have to rotate the video 90 degrees or turn the monitor over! I am sure I have read somewhere that QT Pro can do this, but I don't really

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ro Nagey -- Heizer Software--- Royal...his name is on many stacks, and obviously writes code...and has been on this list in earlier times. I bought a lot of Heizer tools, and probably talked to him on the phone sometime in the early 90's. Could someone add more info about him? I know there's

Re: Rev in CGI

2005-02-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
Jackie - this is incredible. Thanks for the great tutorial. I get it now. Very useful stuff! I bounce between web and app design all the time and this brings it all together. sqb Op 19-feb-05 om 6:25 heeft Paul Salyers het volgende geschreven: What is needed to tun a Rev program in a CGI folder

Re: Printing in landscape -- can't be done on mac OS X

2005-02-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
back in the Roaring 80's I used to use John A. Nairn's Printreport that was a wonderful tool to get access to all the printer stuff. There was no way to get or set just one parameter such as orientation directly but he did provide a way to save all printing parameters by using the data record

Re: OT: Help with motivation

2005-02-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Tom, I get motivation sometimes just exploring the rich RunRev feature set. This stuff is DEEP and every entry into the Docs (thanks, Heather) leads me to say wow, I didn't know you could do THAT. Next thing you know I'm building something, or part of something I've always wanted to do, but

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
What is different? The fields work exactly the same way - the LAYOUT design is no different... and HC never had 'forms'. sqb OK, got it. It's quite a bit different than forms design in other environments, including HC. - ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Here's the confusion, and it's definitions. There is NO static text tool in Hypercard. There IS a Paint Text tool in HC, so I assume that is what you mean. There is a full set of paint tools in Rev, too, except for Paint Text (click the disclosure triangle at the bottom of the pallette).

Re: Learning Revolution

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
at the speed of thought could be also documents updated at the speed of thought .. Yes I know Rev is not open source...but.. -- --- Stephen Barncard record production and surround mixing unusual

Re: Learning Revolution

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
Not compelling? Hey I know what you mean - years ago (1990?) I attempted to hook up hypercard with ODBC and a Butler server...all on macs. It was slow and horrible and was utterly unreliable. Certainly I would expect problems if you use ODBC; That was then. But NOW I've found that rev SCREAMS

Re: StripeList - was Alternating NO2 in fields

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
and we assume Mr. X is referring to his nitrous in a PERFORMANCE CAR setting and not the Grateful Dead sense. sqb ciao! Xav -- Nitrous for breakfast anyone? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Is this a bug or is it just me?

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
put quotes around true or false ...perhaps Ok I tried this two diffrent ways for the don't wrap property. From what I read the don't wrap property is be default set to false. When I try it out in my multiline field it does not do wrap it just keeps going on the same line. I also tried this but

Re: using Rev for web searches?

2005-03-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
There's a book out there about how to 'hack' and use google searches from your applications with the new API. 101 Google hacks or something like that. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/ I'd like to be able to search the web for the smallest page that includes all of a given set of

Re: Saving and entire card?

2005-03-13 Thread Stephen Barncard
I've found that when saving bulk fields in this way - that a good technique to save and be able to recover all of this data is to first convert all returns in each field to some otherwise normally unused character. I use VT - vertical tab (ascii 11 decimal) as a return replacement, following

RE: var chk'r ?? Hold the phone

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Mister X! Tell us more about the Var Chk'r - is this something you wrote? Can't find it in the IDE... thanks stephen i like to work without variable checking at first. Before release, I launch the Var Chk'r... Somehow, it makes Rev scripts more solid due to checks written for level 2 errors...

RE: var chk'r ?? Hold the phone

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hi, X Do you mean the Variable *Watcher* that's part of the debug system? I can't find anything called Variable *Checker* anywhere in the IDE. sqb not at all. Although I've written a couple tools to help that. I was refering to the built-in explicit var[iable] checker... ;) It's a great feature to

Re: # POSSIBLY SPAM #::RE: var chk'r ?? Hold the phone

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
AHA! This solves something that's been driving me crazy for weeks. I would do a quick script for something and find that I'd always get errors if I didn't declare all variables, including locals!!! The docs say you don't *have* to declare locals That 'variable checking' thing was enabled

Re: Catching errors

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
Mr. X, although I'm fascinated by your research and coding I find your naming of your framework XOS somewhat misleading and strange, since you have clearly described it as a framework and not an Operating System. I know how naming things go. I've called a project something else for ages and

Re: How can I detect scrolling in a field?

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
-- --- Stephen Barncard record production and surround mixing unusual techno inventions WEB http://www.barncard.com/ --- ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: [noob again]objects and properties and messages

2005-03-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
Uh oh, Noobs's at the 'frustration phase' with a taste of righteous indignation just preceding the 'aha' phase. Don't give up. It's not that hard, really. Remember what Dan said when he talked bout the DEPTH of this platform -- 10x the features of hypercard. There are a lot of properties to

Re: [noob again]objects and properties and messages

2005-03-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
Omnis?? Geesh that thing was a monster. Thousands of pages of boring and hard to read documentation, and thousands of little files. My experience with it was that it was a nightmare, hard to learn, hard to get off the ground. I couldn't make any sense of it - it just didn't speak to me...I

Re: Mac compatible DB's

2005-04-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
Oak, have you considered using an ISP-based version of MySQL? Many providers today offer MySQL, shell access, FTP, huge email account limits, php, perl, python, linux and an easy to configure control panel. I've set up and maintained servers and the idea sounds neat - hosting your on machine,

Re: RevCon West Tourist Activities

2005-04-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
And correct me if I'm wrong, Richard, but isn't your office fairly near the old LA Train station near Chinatown? Pretty damn convenient. ALMOST like Europe... (I wish...) sqb The one thing to remember about travelling on the Coast Starlight is that it's notoriously late. Passengers are

Re: Revolution and animation builder

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Barncard
Actually, I found it the other day in my Rev Folder---components---assistants folder - it's called RevAnimation.rev... And now they don't even have that (the Animation Builder, that is)... Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Revolution and .swf

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Barncard
If the thing your are building is web-enabled, you might consider Chipp's ALTBROWSER... which imbeds a web browser in you stack... and I'm sure it must run Flash... sqb Hello: I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had had experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would

Re: Revolution and .swf

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Barncard
And GOLIVE too... it was actually gone a while ago Among other things I suppose this is a death knell for SVG -- Richard Gaskin ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
Trevor, thanks again for your DB library. It is very useful and motivational.. and example of great coding... Will the new library be backwards compatible? Should all I have to do would be to change the lib name in the code? sqb incorporation it into libDatabse so it will be easy to add

Re: Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dumps! Fantastic!.. I could actually clone my CocoaMySQL client!... sqb Most of the other changes will be transparent to you. I now use binding so that libdb supports binary data with the *b prefix before a field name in an array. I've added a setting that will run macToISO and isoToMac

CSS

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen Barncard
Well I do a lot of web work too, and I assure you that CSS is the future and the way large and consistent sites can be reasonably done. What's frustrating is that if a page is constructed in CSS that it is not easily possible to see what the commands do as you don't see the results until it's

Re: HC sort container.

2005-04-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Because it was added in v2.0 or so...late in the game... sqb If HC had a sort command then why were there so many sort externals floating around? -- Richard Gaskin ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

To MySQL or Not SQL

2005-04-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
I've been up and down with this 'to SQL or not SQL' thing for a while, fearing long monotonous nights debugging arcane commands and crashing, etc. which has been my experience with client server databases used with x-talks in years past. Remember Butler? Holy smoke, what a crashfest. Not

Re: To MySQL or Not SQL

2005-04-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
I'd get a copy of the SQL Pocket Guide, via Oreilly press. They might even list out the differences at the www.oreilly.com site. However, to answer the question, I feel MySQL is very adequate, even robust, for most of the Rev applications I see discussed here. And with the aforementioned

click-words

2005-04-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
. So, is there a character, visible or invisible, that will stand in place of a space for word-click so I get the whole phrase? Otherwise I have to start over with the data capture, and rename hard coded names. thanks stephen barncard ___ use-revolution

Re: click-words

2005-04-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
That would be a 'non-breaking' space, right? Excellent. Thanks. At 9:53 PM +0200 4/26/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Stephen, You could use numToChar(202) (option space with Mac OS) which is the indivisible space (I don't know if it is the right word :-) Le 26 avr. 05, à 21:29, Stephen Barncard

Re: Making Revolution faster with really big arrays

2005-04-26 Thread Stephen Barncard
MySQL can do math on columns like you want. Very Fast. No loops in transcript. Check out the GROUP BY (Aggregate) Functions. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/group-by-functions.html At 8:06 PM -0400 4/26/05, Dennis Brown wrote: Can anyone think of another way to do this that would be faster

Re: OT: text editors? (was Re: click-words)

2005-04-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
I tried linked text Eric and it worked, but it was ugly visually, - and I don't like the look of underline links that are not on a web page either. It takes a bit of scripting to turn off linkcolor and hilitecolor, and manage the hilites and it didn't seem as elegant. And when one is using

RE: MySQL Database Query Builder Question

2005-04-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dreamhost. $10/month for all goodies. Great dedicated deals too. I host 15 sites there. Even the 'shared' hosting rocks... Can anyone recommend a good ISP with 'proper' database hosting (MySQL PHP etc...) Regards Martin McCarrick ___ use-revolution

Re: MySQL connection accepted

2005-04-29 Thread Stephen Barncard
Why would you want to access MySQL through the shell, when it's available in Rev? sqb At 2:47 PM -0500 4/29/05, Paul Salyers wrote: Dear Rev Programmers I need a simple small stack that will try and connect to a MySQL db on a server shell. If it connects ok I want a message that says Connected

Re: Sorting Multiple Fields

2005-04-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
Is there a certain reason you have to use synchronized fields at all? Won't tabbed fields work better for you, or are you doing a lot of stuff with column math? sqb At 4:02 PM -0700 4/30/05, Roger Guay wrote: I have 6 list fields side-by-side each with the same number of lines, with

Re: OT: SQL Expert Needed

2005-05-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
The employer might get a better deal and more offers if the programmer doesn't have to travel to Worchester, Wooster, wherever. At 11:19 AM -0400 5/1/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hello Rever's, OT: A friend of mine is looking for an MS SQL 'expert' that is willing to travel to Wooster, Ohio

answer dialogs clicking through

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
I'm having a problem with a list field with autohilite getting click-selected BEHIND a standard answer dialog. It seems to be happening within the auto-select mechanism and I haven't found the message that is sent. Anyone else seen this - and is there a way to fix this outside of making my

Stacks getting 'disconnected'

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
In the process of trying to make an answer dialog (plan b), I ran across another problem. When opening a new window/sub-stack, does this automatically 'stop using' other stacks? When I closed this new sub-stack, somehow the connection to a library was stopped. Do I have to always define the

rev standalone for Windows

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
I have just built my first standalone for Windows. I've previously only tried to develop for Macs, but I thought I would give it a try. My standalone utilizes Trevor's libdatabase and revDB. I have a Wintel machine to test with but I'm not sure what to do with the dll files... I was hoping

Re: rev standalone for Windows

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
the externals property of the stack; try placing them (for example) in an externals folder in the same folder as the app, and if that doesn't work, try placing them in the same folder as the app itself. On May 3, 2005, at 4:02 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I have just built my first standalone for Windows

Re:File associations in OS 9

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Actually there was always a procedure...'Rebuild the Desktop' that fixed file associations. There is a four finger salutation of some kind done when a volume was mounted that got the Rebuild the Desktop? dialog. Also the original TechTool would delete the desktop file (forcing a rebuild) and

Re: To Rev or not to Rev

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
amen! I used to take Tom Pittman's advice for Compilit and use his notation for integers - % and they screamed with speed... and the old Hyperbasic XCMD generator had great array capabilities. I don't mind typing variables optionally if it speeds up things. sqb At 7:30 PM -0400 5/4/05, Dennis

Re: The Manual...

2005-05-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
It's DAN Shafer, not DON. And he wrote a great Hypercard Book series, too back 'in the day'. At 9:47 PM +0100 5/5/05, John Ridge wrote: Don Shafer's book is not a manual. OK - I'm talking only about Vol 1, but even when the other two are available it still won't be a Handbook as Danny Goodman's

Re: Broken link to gadgetplugins?

2005-05-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
Nothing to fix, except old habits. Rev files don't usually launch Rev from a browser - stock configured web servers think they're text. put go URL and that URL into the message box inside REV - and it loads the stack off the net into memory. You can then run, save, or clear from memory. This

RE disk image formerly Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
CHECK OUT Dragon Burn for Mac (they also make NTI CD DVD - Maker 7 for PC...-I never used it). From their site: Supports virtually all popular image file formats: .bin, .cue, .cdr, .dmg, .iso, and .ncd.. As I remember, the .iso image I created by DB in Mac was viewable on a pc. Good software.

Re: Larger Ask Dialog

2005-05-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
Great out of the box solution. Excellent! This is exactly the Rev method - there's a lot of ways to get the job done At 9:55 AM -0700 5/8/05, Roger Guay wrote: Sorry for the confusion, I did want a wider user's reply text field. I am asking the user to edit text entries that have as many

Re: Table Field Docs?

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
Peter, I agree with you about the weirdness of the table fields. There seems to be 'data behind data' and it's frustrating to work with. One can set one cell at a time, but how do we load all the cells at once? Putting a tab/return delimited text string in there goes into another dimension.

Re: Table Field Docs?

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
I obviously posted too soon without reading the most recent posts.. Eric: It's starting to look like the mysterious table fields work like 'visible arrays'. Am I getting warm? If so, this could be very cool. At 7:32 PM +0200 5/10/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Peter, You are right and, for

Re: Table Field Docs?

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
I think I'll lean to the future. I like this table-array thing. Obviously there are MANY undocumented properties regarding table fields and others, and we don't have a scorecard... yet. Thanks, Eric, for checking into this. At 2:02 PM -0400 5/10/05, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: You can also create a

Re: Table Field Docs?

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
I don't know if would be correct to call it flaky as much as undocumented. It might work incredibly well. It might work perfectly if we knew how to do it right. So I'll wait for Eric's demo stack. At 9:12 PM +0100 5/10/05, Peter Reid wrote: Hi All Thanks for all the responses to this. Looking

cRev calls; was Re: Table Field Docs?

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
... and furthermore, I've never poked around in the IDE and support stacks. I would imagine all those cRevtable calls are there for the spelunkingand the curious. I see those messages in the watcher. sqb At 10:29 PM +0200 5/10/05, jbv wrote: I do agree with Stephen. Table fields can be used

Re: Scripting 101 stack available

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Barncard
I just checked out the latest pre-conference stack. Excellent. This is a really good thing! Bit by bit, the DETAILED tutorial about Rev and Transcript and its use is evolving through this series of scripting conferences. I've been x-scripting since 1987 but I still find a few tips and syntax

Re: bad word checker

2005-05-11 Thread Stephen Barncard
At 10:42 AM -0500 5/11/05, J. Landman Gay wrote: Some time later, I received a rejection notice, saying that AOL could not release my language-checking utility because it violated the Terms of Service. My file had bad words in it. Probably because they ran the file through your file-checker! The

Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-13 Thread Stephen Barncard
One thing you should know is that Stuffit and most data compression will not save you any size with audio. There are special lossless compression techniques for audio, but they are proprietary and time-consuming, and the best you could do would be 2:1 with those. Lemper-Ziv/ RLE encoding of

Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-13 Thread Stephen Barncard
Frank, I rarely disagree with you , but MP3 and AAC are NOT and will never be Better than a raw WAV file, audio wise. Uncompressed Broadcast WAV files are the standard of the audio industry, supported by every DAW and platform, and supports all bitrates up to 192k. The others, as far as good

Re: Getting started with Rev Databases

2005-05-13 Thread Stephen Barncard
I can't answer that, Richard, but Sarah's Demo Stack, Trevor DeVore's library and demo stack spoke volumes to me At 6:44 PM -0700 5/13/05, Richard Gaskin wrote: Where's the overview introducing basic concepts of using databases with Rev? ___

good enough was Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
Good Enough.. ... sigh... sqb - a 40 year professional audio veteran. -- the latest Mix magazine is just about that... Who cares about quality?..and used those very words... good enough.. At 8:24 AM -0400 5/14/05, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: So it depends on the intended usage of the files once

Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
Mark, I ftp WAV files all the time no stuffing needed. The key is 'no resource forks'. If you're on a Mac, the fastest FTP client is Interarchy, the most convenient with the best features is Transit. sqb At 3:11 PM +0100 5/14/05, Mark Smith wrote: These lossy formats aren't appropriate in

Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
Broadcast WAV has been the Digidesign recommended and default format for Pro Tools for over 4 years. There's even a checkbox for 'force cross-platform Wave'. They support sd2, but only for backward compatibility. If the files are used in video post production, WAV is a requirement. sd2 was a

Re: Collecting Sound Files in a stack

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Barncard
yep... and more 'billable time' if that's the case! Not a bad thing. At 5:23 PM +0100 5/14/05, Mark Smith wrote: requirementsHe's paying the bills, so I have to go with it:( ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Be Cautious About MySQL Licensing (was Re: Database suggestions?)

2005-05-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
AGAIN, gentlemen, I say, why bother with running (and worrying about) your own server and licensing when there are good ISP's out there that INCLUDE MYSQL along with one's account, like PHP, python, perl, shell, etc. I can have just about as many MYSQL databases as I'd ever want with my

Re: Be Cautious About MySQL Licensing

2005-05-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ruslan, Understood. That is a perfect use for Valentina or Chipp's product - as an imbedded database. I wasn't questioning that. But many others like myself are making custom front ends that use a database to share information among users on a network, or just a great way to deal with data,

Re: Be Cautious About MySQL Licensing (was Re: Database suggestions?)

2005-05-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
(ducking for cover) boom. Socko. WHam!! Zap! (cymbal crash) Let the battle of the DBs begin!! What a great time we live in. Viva la list. sqb At 1:36 AM +0300 5/16/05, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: B) size of DVD is 4.7 GB, so I want to see how cool SQL Lite will be on db of such size :-)) -- Best

Re: [OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk languages and smalltalk?

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
and there there was ... localTalk, the wiring protocol over special cables, then telephone wire. And wasn't the first Apple network protocol called AppleTalk? Or am I getting fuzzy here? I was really confused at first when I read about Wildcard and Hypertalk. [lol] sqb At 2:23 PM -0700

popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
I know there's some kind of trick here to do this; I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few options to select from to do something to the text, like uppercase, lowercase, etc. This changing works with a

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread Stephen Barncard
Mister X, Eric, thanks for your help - Eric is right, your code won't work on MacOS. There are forces at work here fighting me with some 'automatic' behavior in regard to the selection in a field. One thing it's trying to do is to select a single word, then it hangs on to that selection. My

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks, Jan. I forgot that often some checkboxes for properties are left out of the IDE... and the button's traversalOn was one of them. At 2:42 AM -0700 5/21/05, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Stephen, The following trick works on both Win and Mac: set the traversalOn of the popup menu button to

Re: Revcon Wifi

2005-05-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
I'll take it!! I'll bring a long cat 5 cable and a hub for my friends. ha ha My guess is the T1 is for the whole convention center, shared. By the time it gets to the likes of us, we'll probably need the extra bandwidth. A 'T1' can mean a lot of different things - you can have part of a T1

Re: words in Transcript

2005-05-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
Good LORD! This Transcript thing is truly DEEP. Lots of nooks and crannies. I never heard that one! Cool. At 8:55 PM +0200 5/21/05, Klaus Major wrote: called is among the TOKENS of make sure the closeField is called, as follows: = TRUE ___

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
I would look for the word frameset in a tag inside a page, then get all the valid URLS inside the frame. Then I would check each URL for size, and pick the largest file, or the number of lines. That will be where the main content is. At 2:10 PM +0200 5/24/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: You are

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
but... EVERY platform has limits...eventually - memory, speed. How can any tool be 'infinite'?? Better, bigger, faster, perhaps, but ... infinite? Aren't you instead trying to craft tools that are... scaleable? We're getting into theoretical physics, cosmology here whoa... Doesn't the

Re: Mp3 Recording success

2005-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Tom, That post you mention didn't seem to make it to this 'How To' list. sqb At 10:15 AM -0400 5/27/05, Thomas McCarthy wrote: It's late and I have to get my beauty rest, but I'll try to post a sample project tomorrow. If you can't wait, just look at the post I made yesterday about ogg

[INFO] Javascript Colors list

2005-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
I have been looking for a list of standardized RGB color names to use in REV for a while. Today I stumbled on a Javascript FAQ site and came across a nice list of names. So I tried a few of these in REV (Mac OSX). http://www.javascripter.net/faq/colornam.htm#top Wow.. all the ones I tried

Re: [INFO] Javascript Colors list

2005-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Right, I didn't know about that whole menu area... nice... but I was looking for a simple text list with the hex codes, or a property that returned a list..and the color table displays names one by one... thanks though.. sqb At 1:15 PM -0400 5/27/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Stephen, If

Re: Rev difficulty

2005-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ben, it doesn't get better than this product and this group. Fix yourself a beer, and hang out here awhile, learn a few things and you'll be creating great apps in no time... Firing in the dark? No, I don't think so, nobody can know everything.. we use Rev because we can accomplish what we

Re: [INFO] Javascript Colors list

2005-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
thanks Thomas!! sqb At 10:08 PM -0400 5/27/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I opened the color stack and got a list of the color names. I am sure the RGB script and hex script is in the stack script of the color names stack. FWIW here is the list of names: AliceBlue AntiqueWhite

Re: Colors conversion (was [INFO] Javascript Colors list)

2005-05-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
OK! I understand now... At 9:48 AM +0200 5/28/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: The uColors property returns a list of the color names followed by the rgb values. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [INFO] Javascript Colors list

2005-05-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
Yes, Eric I know and use your plugin (brilliant), but it didn't seem to offer what I was looking for, namely a simple text list of their names with the #HEX codes... and anyway, all I was noting for the list is that it was standardized. At 9:01 AM +0200 5/28/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: Dear

BYU teaches Rev

2005-05-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
These folks at CHUM at BYU came up with some very nice documentation for rev. Seems to be very up to date! Has anyone else seen this? They even made up a special domain for their Rev stuff. I see a lotta love here. I'm bookmarking this. yet another resource... they also have a link to Chipp's

Re: Coding challenge?

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hey if a device runs Windows, then it runs windows... If the pocketPC doesn't run normal windows standards, what good is it? sqb At 5:55 PM -0400 5/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my opinion try something along those lines...for a pocketPC running windows Ben

Re: Coding challenge?

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Barncard
Please ignore this... I was on the wrong train of thought... At 12:05 AM -0700 5/31/05, Stephen Barncard wrote: Hey if a device runs Windows, then it runs windows... If the pocketPC doesn't run normal windows standards, what good is it? sqb ___ use

[FYI] PHP at Dreamhost

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Barncard
My favorite webspace provider, Dreamhost, has just started to offer PHP 5 and mySQL 4.1 with all their accounts. Thought you'd like to know. sqb ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook version 5

2005-06-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
This software install did a nasty thing. the version of the Scripter's scrapbook I had was offered for FREE, as are most of the programming aids mentioned on the list. This 'upgrade' is actually a 'Trial VERSION', and I unknowingly overwrote the version 4 with this install. This was never

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