Re: [OT} (slightly) Anyone knows an affordable HD recovery service?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks for all the head ups, both on and off list! Much appreciated.  
Turns out it is a hardware failure that can not be recovered via  
Software. Will need to bite the sour apple and get the Disk to a  
professional recovery service. *sigh*


All the best,

Malte
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[OT} (slightly) Anyone knows an affordable HD recovery service?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hey all,

well, you will have guessed it from the subject. My HD (internal from  
the macBook) and also my backup sytem got toasted today. If anyone  
knows a recovery service which only charges one arm, not both and a  
leg, I´d appreciate any info I can get. Companies in the EU preferred.


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Re: Re: loading a https page on OS X

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Terry,

> the data is still sent/returned securely, I just don't need to stuff around 
> with certificates?

I think so, but I would like a word from someone who knows better than me.. :-) 

All the best,

Malte

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Re: loading a https page on OS X

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Klaus:

libUrlSetSSLVerification false


hth,

Malte
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Re: MYSQL timeout

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Terry,

had the same problem. I settled to ping the IP first before trying to connect 
to the DB:

  switch
 case "mac" is in the platform
get shell("ping -q -o -c3 -t3"&&tIP)
if the result is not empty then
   put the result into tError
end if
break 
 case "win" is in the platform
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
local tShell
put ("ping -n 1 -w 100 "&tIP) into tShell
get shell(tShell)
if the result is not empty then
   put the result into tError
end if
break
  end switch

  if tError is not empty then
  -- can not connect to server
  end if

Even though you can not be sure, that mySQL is really up and running, you will 
at least know if the server is there. Hope that helps a little.

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Re: OT: general name for...

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi David,

AFAIK in procedural languages this would be a subroutine, in OOP languages a 
method

Now, in which category does liveCode fit? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_%28computer_science%29

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Re: GOOSE BUMPS

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Andrew,

>  Whats new about 4.5 that would make it a worthwhile investment?

what´s new (in order of importance to me. mileage may vary)

- On the majority of my projects the engine is a (measured) blazing 30% faster
- PDF printing
- a heap of annoyances fixed
- much more stable Linux version (I might actually try to build a project for 
Linux now)
- quite some other stuff I am not currently using, but may soon.

Cheers,

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Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Riccardo, welcome to the lists.

A couple of things to try:

on openstack
  lock messages
end openStack

-- you will need to remove this later otherwise the app will not operate. 

Do things speed up when you include this?

Do you have many controls on your card? Especially a couple of Datagrids? 
Do you connect to any Database?

Does it only happen in a standalone or in the IDE too?


All the best,

Malte *inthemoodtohuntcritters*
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Re: [FOSS] On the creation of Rev to Web tools

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Andre, sorry for hijacking this thread a bit...

I would be interested in how many people would really think they would be 
willing to invest some effort into various open source projects. I know David 
is a huge advocate of all things OSS. However, as Richmond pointed out pretty 
well, over the last 8 years I´ve spend in this community I have rarely seen OSS 
projects that took up momentum. I have been wondering why that is for quite a 
while now. My main thought is that it is not exactly easy to collaborate on rev 
Projects. This is partly due to the binary nature of stacks which makes it hard 
to use a version control system on rev projects, partly due to the lack of a 
place where projects like this could be hosted.

Current state: Everyone that tries to release stuff to the community is cooking 
her own soup. Though most people are very generous with sharing code on the 
lists and forums, there is no central repository where people can go to and 
collaborate on projects. We do have many sites spread all over the world with 
too many gems to dig out. 
Additionally we have revOnline. revOnline is a good place for consumers / 
prosumers though, not suitable for starting a collaborative effort to work on 
code. Especially libraries. Most of the stuff on revOnline is there for the 
visual stuff the stack does, or in a state where the lib is basically finished.

So the only things an author that uploads to revOnline can gain is 
- giving examples what can be done 
- help someone solve a problem with a complex stuff (requires a lot of 
coordination and is usually easier done by mail)
- show off what he has done. 

What an author usually can not hope for is to benefit from changes other coders 
have made once a stack is released into the wild. I have no idea how many 
people here would really willing to dedicate time into OSS projects (my last 
try was rather frustrating, though it has been a few years since I last tried.) 
I might be willing to test the waters again in a couple of weeks. More on that 
later.

All the best,

Malte



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Re: Data Grid Column Header Problem

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Len,

> I needed the "S" field in case they get a color blind officer.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this to make apps save to use for color impaired 
people:

http://colororacle.cartography.ch/

Used it all the time when testing how the games would look for them.

Cheers,

Malte

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Re: revCopyFile problems on Mac OS X.6.4

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Klaus!

No, BUT it works with an ABSOLUTE filepath...

adding a note to the docs. *sigh*

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Re: revCopyFile problems on Mac OS X.6.4

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Slight correction.

This appears to work:

put URL ("binfile:"&tNewFilename) into URL 
("binfile:"&pDestinationPath&"/bilder/"&tNewFileName)

However, this is quite suboptimal, as it reads the file into memory. 

Cheers,

malte

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revCopyFile problems on Mac OS X.6.4

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

I am a little stumped on this one. :-(

trying to do:

revCopyFile tNewFilename,(pDestinationPath&"/bilder")
put the result

tNewFilename =  -1_ds_7_2.jpg
(pDestinationPath&"/bilder" )= 
/Users/maltebrill2/Documents/archaeodox/-1/-1_datensicherung/bilder
result = Execution Error

there is a file tNewFilename in the defaultFolder and the folder I want to copy 
to exists. 
I have read and write permissions to both file and folder. The path is 
dynamically created based on specialfolderpath("Documents")

On a win system this works flawlessly. What is going wrong here?

As the result is not very meaningful I tried:

put URL ("binfile:"&tNewFileName) into URL 
("binfile:"&(pDestinationPath&"/bilder")

Which yields "Can´t open file"

Any ideas?

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Re: Geographic Functions, any takers?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Ewan,

I for sure am interested, however I am totally packed until at least the end of 
september. :-)

Cheers,

Malte

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Re: UUID

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hey Monte,

http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/

He has got a very nice lib for UUIDs

Cheers,

Malte
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Re: Learning CGI - Woes

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Bob,

I could not get it to work with the 4.0 engine either. I did fall back to the 
3.5 engine which works as advertised. :-)

Hth,

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Re: Multi-dimensional arrays, tutorial?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Hugh,

as of Rev 4 (if I recall correctly) you can store the whole array in a custom 
property, which you would need to set:

local tArray

put "malte" into tArray[1]["firstname"]
put "pfaff-brill" into tArray[1]["lastname"]
put "linus" into tArray[2]["firstname"]
put "pfaff" into tArray[2]["lastname"]

set the cAddressBook of this stack to tArray
save this stack

---

-- retrieve it

local tArray

put the cAddressBook of this stack into tArray
answer tArray[1]["firstname"]

Hope that helps,

Malte

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Re: Classic CGI on Win

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks for the head ups guys. Will have my coworker try to set things up today.

Mark, you raised my curiosity. What exactly were the problems you encountered 
on IIS? Did it work at all? Or was it just complicated?

All the best,

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Re: Classic CGI on Win

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Merci beaucoup Pierre,

the crux is I have no control over the OS the server is running. :-/

Cheers,
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Classic CGI on Win

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi folks,

as we do not yet have a win version of revServer, I need to set up a CGI on Win 
Server 2003 (if possible)

Requirements are: 

Needs to work with local postGreSQL DB
Needs to work with revXML

Is this possible? If so, which components do I need to install where? Server 
can run Apache.

Cheers,

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Re: Datagrid custom sorting for a column

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks for the headups.

Cheers,

Malte
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Datagrid custom sorting for a column

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Seems I am a bit too dumb for this...

If I wanted to sort the data for a datagrid ascending numeric by word 2 of each 
line of column 2, how would I do this?

I *think* I need the SortDataGridColum message, but what would I need to do 
with it?

All help greatly appreciated.

All the best,

Malte


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Re: tRev and Win Vista

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks everyone for the feedback (especially Jerry).

Martin, that might be a clue. The Vista box it fails on in my place is a 64 Bit 
version. MAybe Rev does not especially "like" those editions in some areas? 
MAybe I am totally wrong on this. I got no test machine with a 32 bit version I 
am afraid. *sigh* 

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tRev and Win Vista

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

has anyone had success using tRev under Win Vista?

I love the editor on a Mac, however I am forced to do some Dev under Vista for 
a while. I am pretty sure it is something in the OS settings that prevents tRev 
from working and would love any pointer I can get. What happens:

installed tRev in the correct location
launch tRev, rev launches
on edit script the editor comes up with the correct script, but it won´t 
compile after changes have been made

I guess something is blocking messages sent back from tRev to Rev. I disabled 
the firewall already to no avail. Anything else I can try?

All the best,

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Big thanks to Mark Smith

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I just had an urgent need for Type 3 UUIDs in rev.

http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/

had just what I needed. You´re the man Mark! Thanks a heap.

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[OT] Computer History: Apple released Macpaint and Quickdraw sources

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

FYI,

http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/

all the best,

Malte

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Re: MD5 digests of very big files

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Al,

I guess the problem you see is that revs MD5s need to be binaryDecoded to have 
the same output like for example PHP. A simple script to see this is:

on mouseUp
   local tCheck,tResult
   put md5Digest("moo") into tCheck
   get binaryDecode("H*",tCheck,tResult)
   put tCheck&cr&tResult
  -- tCheck is revs, tResult is compliant to PHP
end mouseUp

Hope that helps!

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Re: Call to all you one-liners !

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Ken wrote:

> So in my eyes, this is a bug in the "is a color" function. BTW: This is
> along with the already existing bug with the function that returns true if
> you just pass a zero to it. And similarly, you can set the backcolor (or any
> other color property) of an object to 0 and not get an error
Well, I beg to differ on describing this as a bug. Many things are colors in 
rev, not only RGB values. 
Any color name is, HTML Color definitions are and also revs own representations 
(effective backpixel is a single number for example) are. 
Is a color needs to be able to parse all of those.

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Re: Fwd: QR Barcode reader

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks a heap Bob,

and I just saw that there is a library on revOnline that can create 2d codes. 
Interesting times.

All the best,

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Re: [Very OT] Happy and need to share it!

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

No need for apologies. These are those sort of moments that make life 
worthwhile. 
If you decide to be a father, be a proud one! You have all reason to be with 
such a cute girl.
:-)


All the best,

Malte


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Re: Scanning barcodes

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thank you for all the feedback!

This sounds really promising. :-)

All the best,

Malte

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Scanning barcodes

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone has got recommendations for a barcode scanner device that 
works with rev.
Ideally it would read both traditional barcodes and those newer 2d codes and 
work with Win PCs and Macs (Linux a plus).
Is anyone doing this already and can recommend a device and maybe some test 
code to peek at?

All the best,

Malte

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Re: Czech text

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Just for the archives in case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem.

The issue is a matter of display. The output field requires mixed font 
settings. If you set the textfont to a polish variant, it sort of works, 
howwever you end up with some japanese characters for certain character 
combinations (e.g. éá). So you somehow need to mix the fonts. A brute force 
method can be this (assuming you know the output is in an east european 
language):

on mouseUp
   local tArray
   if numToChar(0) is in field "output" or numToChar(1) is in field "output" 
then
 repeat with i=1 to the number of chars of fld "output"
  -- CZ special chars are UNICODE. 2 bytes. Second Byte appears to be 
either 0 or 1 in charToNum
if charTonum(char i+1 of fld "output")<10 and i+1 < the number of chars 
of fld "output" then
   put true into tArray[i]
end if
 end repeat
 repeat for each key theKey in tArray
set the textfont of char theKey to theKey +1 of fld "output" to ",po"
 end repeat
   end if
end mouseUp

Not necessariely pretty, nor really optimal, however, the only solution I found 
until now.

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Re: Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for anupdated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audiocomplementary library!)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I did not get any feedback from the bass guys yet. Maybe somebody else was more 
lucky?

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Re: Czech text

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Mike,

thanks for testing. This is all very very strange.

On my Mac I get what I posted earlier. On one Vista machine, I get what you 
describe. On one XP machine (System Language set to Czech) I get the same 
result as on the Mac. I do not get it...


On the vista box, the HTMLtext returns ý for the character ý. If I use 
this entity on a mac I get an apple sign. Tried setting the text font to no 
avail. Could you do me a favour and tell me what the effective textfont of the 
field you pasted to is, and what the language setting of your XP box is?

Thanks a heap!

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Re: Czech text

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Viktorias,

unicode Text is broken there too. Does not work. :-(

Thanks for the tip though.

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Czech text

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi there,

am a bit puzzled by the following. If I enter Czech text into a field it 
displays the text correctly.

e.g.

escrzýáíéd

However, if I get the text of that field, I get garbage back:

escrz˝áíéd

If I am using htmlText it works correctly:

escrzýáíéd

Is there a way to work with the text property, instead of htmlText?

All the best,

Malte

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Re: [Datagrid] Truncating items

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

You can do that using a column behavior.

Would be easiest with a monospaced font of course, as then you would know 
exactly how many chars you could display. Otherwise, check the formattedwidth 
of the displaying field.

Hope that gets you started,

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Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

> "noodly, noodly, noodly, pip, pip, pip, poop" ?
Sounds like a great start to me. Must try that :-)

If you are using do field "xyz", then indeed you are running into the script 
limits. Write handlers at stack or library level and execute those.

example at stack level

on noodly
  answer "pip"
end noodly

now you can call noodly from any control in your stack. Example for a button:

on mouseUp
  noodly
end mouseUp

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Re: Datagrid for tree view?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I can wholeheartedly recommend the data tree control on revSelect:

http://runrev.com/products/related-software/data-tree/

I like it very much. :-)

Cheers,

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Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for anupdated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audiocomplementary library!)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

>I saw no wrong on the licensing.

Me neither, Just that we can not take it and wrap an external around it (or get 
it done to be more precise) for general release to us revers. Each rever would 
have to have their own license / it must be licensed on a per project base, or 
for a site, so we can not just buy a license and make it publically available 
to everyone here. If they ere going to write a wrapper for rev though, I´d be 
more than happy to give it a shot.
> Did anyone email these folks?
Yes. :-) I asked them if they have any plans on releasing it as a rev external. 
Who knows, maybe they get back. 
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Getting an Audio Plugin Created ( was RE: [audio] Call for anupdated enhanced quicktime audio library ora small audiocomplementary library!)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

BASS has been around quite a while. Started as a mod playing library (the stuff 
you could hear on your amigas and ataris back in the day). It would be a very 
good candidate, however, their licensing model might be in the way:

[quote]
BASS is free for non-commercial use. If you are a non-commercial entity (eg. an 
individual) and you are not charging for your product, and the product has no 
other commercial purpose, then you can use BASS in it for free. Otherwise, you 
will require one of the following licences. 
Shareware licence: €100
The "shareware" licence allows the usage of BASS in an unlimited number of your 
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Re: destroystack wrong behavior...

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thierry,

does your stack have any substacks that are still open? Rev can not destroy it 
in that case. 
Do you reference to it with a filePath? -> Will be reopened each time you 
reference to it then.
Does it carry an external that is still used? -> Rev won´t destroy it then AFAIK

Other than those cases, I have never seen destroystack fail.

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Re: Getting the currently logged in user under Windows

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Roger: *Yikes*

Of course you are right. Sometimes I do not see the tree from the forest :-)
This should work reliably across Windows versions, right?

Thanks again,

malte

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Re: Getting the currently logged in user under Windows

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thank you Mike!

atb,

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Re: Maybe Malte Can Bring Out the word on MacCommunity.de

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Just added my 5 cents (due to inflation)

All the best,

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Getting the currently logged in user under Windows

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

I am using this under Vista to identify the currently logged in user:

function getUserName
  local tUser
  set the hideconsolewindows to true
  put shell("set user") into tUser
  set the itemDel to "="
  repeat for each line theLine in tUser
 if item 1 of theLine="USERNAME" then
return item 2 to -1 of theLine
 end if
  end repeat
  return tUser
end getUserName

Is there a simpler way? Can anyone test if this works under XP and / or WIn 7, 
even when not logged in with admin rights?

All the best,

malte

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Re: Runtime Revolution?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

added my 2 cents:


Hi,

I think it would be wonderful to have a multichannel audio library that worked 
cross platform. Basic features like loading / unloading multiple soundfiles and 
play them back on different sound channels. If there were basic mixing and 
effect capabilities that would be awesome and I for sure would be interested 
(and quite some others too I assume) What would be crucial is, that it would 
NOT rely on Quicktime as a playback engine. And also plays (and maybe exports) 
compressed audio formats.

All the best,

Malte

CEO derbrill Multimedia
http://www.derbrill.de

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Re: sound volume - sound engineering

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hey Stephen,

you are far more an expert than me in this regard. (Just a hobbyist musician 
here.) 
However, as you can not sync two players there will (at least as I understand 
it) a slight delay in start time of the second audio source, which might lead
to at least partial cancellation. Please correct me if I am wrong. Always eager 
to learn more about this stuff. :-)

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Re: sound volume - sound engineering

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Sims,

sound pressure is logarithmic. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel

Also when you use two players playing the same sound, you might possibly well 
experience (at least partial) phase cancellation of the sound. 

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_cancellation

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Re: Rev and the iPad

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

> RevMobile was priced quite expensively,
> presumably under the assumption that it was the golden egg of Rev
> programming products that was finally going to get me that Lamborghini
> Countach. Now it's a brick, and we need to figure out what to do. We are all
> very loyal to Rev and its wonderful staff, but something reasonable will
> have to be done in the face of this disastrous development.
It is not over until the fat lady sings. 
As there are no fat ladies over at RR, I will patiently hold my feet still and 
wait what the mothership has to say on the issue.
Would they had given up, I bet they would have been a lot quicker with their 
response. So I bet there are smoking heads seeing what can / will be done for
revMobile. I wouldn´t want to walk in their shoes at the moment, though that 
there has some amount of time passed raises more hope in me than it destroys.

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Re: Math Help?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Scott,

this has been described as the most cost efficient (clock cycle wise) algo in 
game programming gems (if I recall correctly). I translated this to rev a while 
back:

Theory is, if the point is inside the triangle, then the sum of all partial 
areas equals the area of the whole triangle. 
To avoid rounding errors it does not check for equality, but a instead looks if 
the value is smaller than possible rounding error (I still hope for sub pixel 
position in the future, thus I left it in).

Hope that helps,

Malte

function withinTriangle x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,px,py
   -- x1 / y1 to x3 / y3 define the triangle, pX and pY are the point to check
   local area1,area2
   put area(x1,y1,x2,y2,px,py) + area(x2,y2,x3,y3,px,py) + 
area(x3,y3,x1,y1,px,py) into area1
   put area(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3) into area2
   return abs(area1-area2)<0.0001
end withinTriangle

function area x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3
   return abs(x1*y2+x2*y3+x3*y1-x1*y3-x3*y2-x2*y1)/2
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Re: the externalpackages returns empty, why?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Tiemo,

at least for the IDE the externalPackages are a property of stack home

put the externalpackages of stack "home"

will give you the list. This is done in order to make the exts available to all 
stacks that are open in the IDE.

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Re: [ANN] MS Word Import Mac/Win: WordLib 1.3

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hey Curry,

that is wonderful. A bare faced question. :-)
Do you also have a lib that does it the other way round? Write in a Text field 
and export as an office document of my choice?

All the best,

malte

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Re: [slightly OT] Off for a couple of days

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

And just after I wrote the mail, my wife went into labour.  I must have felt 
it in the office. Anyhow...  Thanks for the kind words everyone!

And please welcome the next revolutionary, Hannes Leander Pfaff. :-)

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[slightly OT] Off for a couple of days

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

for reasons beyond my control, I am forced to take a couple of days off (kid #3 
is due any day now). 
If you have any questions regarding our products and services, please allow for 
a little longer delay before I can respond. 
If you have any urgent queries, please send email to i...@derbrill.de and I 
will try to respond ASAP. 

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Re: Datagrid: How get column data from other column behavior

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Josep,

funny. I had to solve the same thing today. :-)

on FillInData pData
   set the text of field 1 of me to pData
   local tIndex,tControl,tarray
   put the dgControl of me into tControl
   put the dgIndex of me into tIndex
   put the dgDataOfLine[tIndex] of tControl into tarray
   set the textColor of field 1 of me to tArray["Col 4"]
end FillInData

Hope that helps,

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Re: Is onrev down?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

No problems on thor.

Cheers,

Malte
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Wierd stack behaviour- location is off the planet!

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Planix,

is by chance the iconic property of your stack set to true?

Try in messagebox:

set the iconic of stack "yourStack" to false


Hth,

Malte

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Re: [optimization] calendar week ISO 8601 / DIN 1355

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks for pointing me to your lib Sarah. Lots of useful stuff in there. If 
only gems like these were a little easier to find. *sigh*

Cheers,

Malte


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[optimization] calendar week ISO 8601 / DIN 1355

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,
I needed to calculate the calendar week from a given date (as we do it in 
germany and I think also in the rest of europe). 
I quickly hacked together a function implementing some of the info found here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Week_dates
If anyone has any pointers on how to make this better, I´d appreciate input. I 
hope if anyone needs to implement calendar weeks
later this might be a helpful thread.

Cheers,

Malte

/* function calendar week 
@param1 = date in english format
@return = the calendar week in ISO 8601 format
*/

function calendarWeekISO8601 pEnglishdate
   -- Calendar week as described in ISO 8601 / DIN 1355
   local 
tFirstMonday,tDate,tCurrentday,tLastYear,tLastFirstJan,tLastThrityFirstDec
   put pEnglishDate into tDate
   -- convert to date items, to get  year in question
   convert tDate from english date to dateItems
   -- 01/04 is ALWAYS in 1st week in year   
   put "01/04/"&item 1 of tDate into tFirstMonday
   convert tFirstMonday from english date to dateItems
   -- if item -1 = 1, we got a sunday. We need to find first monday
   if item -1 of tFirstMonday = 1 then 
  put 8 into tCurrentday
   else
  put item -1 of tFirstMonday into tCurrentday
   end if
   put tCurrentday - 1 into tCurrentday
   -- get first monday in year
   if tCurrentday>1 then
  subtract (tCurrentday -1) from item 3 of tFirstMonday
   end if
   convert tFirstMonday from dateItems to seconds
   convert pEnglishDate from english date to seconds
   -- if the passed date is smaller than the first calendar weeks monday, the 
date 
   -- is within the last week of the previous year
   if tFirstMonday > pEnglishDate then
  -- check for number of weeks in last year
  put item 1 of tDate -1 into tLastYear
  -- get day of last years 1st January
  put "1/1"&tLastYear into tLastFirstJan
  convert tLastFirstJan to dateItems
  put item -1 of tLastFirstJan into tLastFirstJan
  -- get day of last years 1st January
  put "12/31"&tLastYear into tLastThrityFirstDec
  convert tLastThrityFirstDec to dateItems
  put item -1 of tLastFirstJan into tLastThrityFirstDec
  -- check if it is a leap year first
  if (tLastYear mod 400 = 0) or (tLastYear mod 100 <> 0) and (tLastYear mod 
4 = 0) then
 -- leap year!
 -- if a leap year starts on a wed and ends on a thurs, the year owns 
53 weeks
 if tLastFirstJan=4 and tLastThrityFirstDec=5 then
return tLastYear&"-W53"
 else
return tLastYear&"-W52"
 end if
  else
  -- no leap year!
 -- if a regular year starts and ends on a thurs, the year owns 53 weeks
 if tLastFirstJan=5 and tLastThrityFirstDec=5 then
return tLastYear&"-W53"
 else
return tLastYear&"-W52"
 end if
  end if
   else
  return item 1 of tDate&"-W"&format("%02s",(pEnglishDate-tFirstMonday) div 
604800 + 1)
   end if
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Re: adjusting speed of set arcangle of graphic

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Nicolas,

> Instead of the arcangle increasing, how could I use AE to make it
> decrease? So that the circle disappears.

The good part about the easing functions is that they are agnostic towards 
order of values. They always calculate the correct
value at the given elapsed time. A few minor changes to the original script 
will make the circle disappear.

The most important change:

   put aeEaseIn(0,360,pDuration,tElapsed,1) into tAngle

to

   put aeEaseIn(360,0,pDuration,tElapsed,1) into tAngle

Values will decrease from 360 to 0 instead of increasing from 0 to 360. This 
will in return first draw the full circle and then 
make it disappear

I have revised the script a bit. Gave setArcangle a third parameter (pEffect). 

This will allow you to make the circle appear or vanish as you wish with one 
command call. Hope that helps,

Malte


on mouseUp
   local tDuration
   put 1800 into tDuration
   setArcAngle the milliseconds,tDuration,"vanish"
end mouseUp

on setArcAngle pSecs,pDuration,pEffect
   local tElapsed,tAngle 
   lock screen
   put the millisecs - pSecs into tElapsed
   switch pEffect
  case "vanish"
 put aeEaseIn(360,0,pDuration,tElapsed,1) into tAngle
 break
  case "appear"
 put aeEaseIn(0,360,pDuration,tElapsed,1) into tAngle
 break
  case "bounceVanish"
 put aeBounceEaseOut(360,0,pDuration,tElapsed) into tAngle
 break
  case "bounceAppear"
 put aeBounceEaseOut(0,360,pDuration,tElapsed) into tAngle
 break
   end switch
   set the arcAngle of grc "circle" to round(tAngle)
   unlock screen
   if pDuration>tElapsed then 
  if "setArcAngle" is not in the pendingmessages then
 send "setArcAngle"&&pSecs,pDuration,pEffect to me in 40 millisecs
  end if
   else
  if "vanish" is in pEffect then
 set the arcAngle of grc "circle" to 0
  else
 set the arcAngle of grc "circle" to 360
  end if
   end if
end setArcAngle

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Re: adjusting speed of set arcangle of graphic

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Nicolas,

what you would need to do to make it accurate on all machines is calculate the 
value for the arcangle as it *should* be at the current time stamp. 
that way it might look a bit jerky on slower machines, though I doubt that 
would be noticeable. I am afraid I´ll need to blow my own horn here, so
*toot* *toot* You can do this with a timer using AEs easing functions.

The following script will always last 1800 millisecs (+- 40 millisecs, but 
those are neglectible)

on mouseUp
   local tDuration
   put 1800 into tDuration
   setArcAngle the milliseconds,tDuration
end mouseUp

on setArcAngle pSecs,pDuration
   local tElapsed,tAngle
   lock screen
   put the millisecs - pSecs into tElapsed
   put aeEaseIn(0,360,pDuration,tElapsed,1) into tAngle
   set the arcAngle of grc "circle" to round(tAngle)
   unlock screen
   if tAngle<360 then 
  if "setArcAngle" is not in the pendingmessages then
 send "setArcAngle"&&pSecs,pDuration to me in 40 millisecs
  end if
   else
  set the arcAngle of grc "circle" to 360
   end if
end setArcAngle

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Re: Inserting a photo into a polygon?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Late to the party, sorry. :-) 

If you design your stackcleverly, you can play with blending and to some sort 
fake it.

on a stack with a white background

create a graphic
set opaque to true
set the backcolor to black
import image
group graphic and image
move image on top of graphic
set the ink of image to srcOr

make sure other controls layer on top of the group, otherwise they will bleed 
through.

Obviously this will not work if the card background is colored or if there are 
other controls layered underneath that group, 
so this is either just an unpractical experiment or a design challenge. :-) Not 
very usable, but at least the image can be shifted inside the poly.

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Re: Data Matrix

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Jérôme,

maybe this one helps:


All the best,

Malte

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Re: Application graphics

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Throwing in my 2 cents here:

I benchmarked setting the text of an image versus using the Icon of a button a 
while back and it turned out that setting the icon was a multitude faster.
So I advocate for using png images on a different card and then using a button 
object as a placeholder to display the animation. I think I had a stack on the 
old revonline that demonstrated downsides of using gif and that showed how to 
do it with pngs. I can not currently log on to the new revOnline. Once I can I 
will reupload the stack.

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Re-2: datagrids in revLets on Win (Vista / 7)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

> Malte, wo bist du? ;-)
Hier wo der Finger leuchtet!!!

My problem was, that the DG (on win) tries to query the registry. Thus a) the 
revLets need permissions to query the registry or b) the DGLib needs to be 
patched. Trevor posted the patch if I recall correctly.

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Re: Feb 14th

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Awesome Scott!

Jaque: Please don't think I could explain that math 

JB: Thank you!

Cheers,

Malte
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Feb 14th

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

on mouseUp
   local tX,tY,tOutput
   if there is no grc "output" then 
  create grc "output"
  set the style of it to "curve"
   end if
   repeat with i=-2*pi to 2*pi step 0.01
  put round(item 1 of the loc of this 
cd+sin(PI+i/2)*200*(1-sin(abs(i)/2.0))*sin(abs(i))) into tX
  put round(item 2 of the loc of this 
cd+10*sqrt(20+200*(1-sin(abs(i)/2.0))*cos((i into tY
  put tx,ty&cr after tOutput
   end repeat
   set the points of grc "output" to tOutput
end mouseUp

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Re: Re: Sorting question

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Mark Wieder wrote:

> You might also want to play around with setting the randomseed.
Can not resist to chime in here:

In most cases, this would make the sequence predictable (if you were to set the 
randomseed to a fixed value). 
I have happened to have written a tiny article on predictable random numbers in 
the last newsletter:

http://runrev.com/newsletter/february/issue86/newsletter3.php

This is not about sorting, though the same mechanics apply.

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Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hey Peter,

this is an excellent idea! 
Of course to make this "official" it would require action by the mothership.
But even without that, having a reference distribution where rev works without
major flaws would be very empowering, as one could just point ones clients to 
the reference distro and let *them* figure out, where their setup differs. The 
slicker the distribution, the better. :-)

Obviously, being a life distribution would be a major plus. Have you considered
entering this as a feature request into godzilla?

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Re: To template or to lock?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi,

a bit late to the party, but I think I´ll throw in my observations anyway.

The locking of the screen is a crucial part of the equotation. What takes the 
most time (in a standalone application, getting back to this later) is the 
screen refresh after anything that affects a "visual" property of a control. So 
if you you set properties without the screen locked, this can take 
significantly longer than using the template*youNameTheControl*. If the screen 
is not locked there, it needs to be redrawn for each setting of a property. If 
the screen is locked the screen will be redrawn only once, as soon as an unlock 
screen happens, or the handler ends (for the record, adding unlock screen at 
the end of the handler instead of letting the engine figure it out is slightly 
faster than letting the engine do it). However, this comparison is not really 
fair. It gets fair, as soon as you set the properties of the 
templat*whatEverControl* with a locked screen. If you do that, I could not 
measure any real difference between the two methods. Now getting back to why I 
wrote "in a standalone application" earlier. In the IDE you will get a huge 
speed penaltie for all the IDE messages that are being sent, once a control is 
created. This is even costier than the screen refresh. So for optimal 
performance in the IDE I would lock screen, and if possible also lock messages. 
If you use the template*whatever* then or set properties, is a matter of taste 
if you go for a one object creation. If you need to create more than one 
object, then the template has the advantage of being able to producing a few 
lines less code under some circumstances.

 Just 2 cents,

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Re: Re: SVG, Anti-Grain and Runtime Revolution

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Richmond wrote:

> However it does NOT import SVG images; it draws highly
> complex vector graphics from a code field.

If I am not mistaken, SVG is an XML description of an image, so as far as I 
understand it,
it is drawing highly complex graphics from code. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics

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Re: SVG, Anti-Grain and Runtime Revolution

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Ian Mcphails Stack on revOnline is also very impressive:

http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/112/SVGL

Cheers,

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Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Andre,

thanks for putting this together! I will surely check it out, once the water 
clears a bit over here. (Too packed atm). Peter makes a valid point about 
bandwidth. If this is / becomes an issue, give me a holler. I might still have 
a few MBs to share if a mirror is needed. How large is the distro?

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Re: Linux deployment . . .

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Richmond wrote:
> How many people who favour continued Linux development think it might be 
> sensible
> of RunRev to concentrate their efforts on one 'family' of Linux distros 
> (e.g. Debian derivatives) ?

I certainly would appreciate having a list of distros being known to work 
without major flaws.
If it is branded "Linux" I expect *any* distribution (as far as that may be 
possible) to work.
If it was to say, works on UBUNTU and XYZ, for the rest you´re on your own my 
friend, I certainly could live with that.
I think the major Problem is that there is no such thing as "Linux - the 
operating system". there are many of
those out there. All a little different
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Re: [Ann] Build your own games

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

thanks for all the feedback I have received both on- and off-list!

I have taken the top question into account and re-uploaded the sources. The 
question was: "The nice soundtrack original drops had is not in there, is it?" 
Yes, it is. :-) You just had to make a code change to make it play. Those who 
have asked, have received instructions on how to do that off-list. For the 
others, the current version automatically sets the right path. Setting up all 
player references and preference storing is now as easy as changing the value 
of one constant. I hope this is helpful.

If there are any more questions, please keep them coming. 

To clarify on another top question: 

No, moving out of the games business does not mean the end for our add ons. 
Actually it means quite the opposite thing. The funds we raise from selling 
games sources will buy us more dev time assigned to me, to work more on the 
core libraries of all the software we write. 2 of them being animationEngine 
and chartsEngine. We have a strong userbase for them. And I appreciate all the 
feedback we get there. We will make them better. There will be more stuff from 
us.
It also does not mean we will never write a game again. I love writing games 
too much to give that up. It just consumes too much time to market mini games 
nowadays. Time we better invest into making our code better. We are coders, not 
marketeers. :-) And basically we do not want to be.

All the best,

Malte

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Re: Is a file an image?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Taking a quick glimpse at Wikipedia suggests this should be pretty 
straightforward:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#Magic_numbers_in_files

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Re: Re: [Ann] Build your own games

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

thanks JB! 
Hope you enjoy dissecting the sources. :-)
All the best,
Malte


> Thanks Malte
> 
> Showing every aspect of creating a commercial application in Rev  
> alone is worth the money
> and then to provide the code, artwork & sounds too plus allowing  
> people to use it royalty free
> to make their own version of the game is as good as it gets.
> 
> You got my money!
> 
> -=>JB<=-
> 


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Re: Is a file an image?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I think you could write a XPlat solution by analyzing the first few bytes of 
the file. 
Those should contain some header information. Though I must admit I did not try 
that yet.

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Re: [Ann] Build your own games

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Andre wrote:
> for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that
> you'd have a "special bonus oportunity" but it always happens with the most
> difficult colors and the ones you have less...
Lol. You figured it out. :-)
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[Ann] Build your own games

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi all,

As you know my company has been writing games for quite a while. Using our 
animationEngine, we have been able to create fast, fun, award-winning games 
using Revolution. However, recent changes in our business plan do not leave 
enough time to continue our game efforts. Most revenue comes from health care 
software, so the other guys of derbrill will focus mainly on that.

I will remain your contact person for all things revolution related. In my 
endeavors as a rev consultant I will set up a few new ideas to move things 
forward.

What does this mean? As we move out of games creation, we want to make it easy 
for others to take our place!

http://www.awesomemegamightygames.com/pages/en/games/get-the-source.php

Starting today, we are offering a source-code, heavily commented version of 
drops! We will let you build your own version of our games. Our first release 
is drops!, our bestseller game. You may obtain a license to the sources for an 
introductory price of $59 ($79 as of Feb. 14th).

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[ANN] New Software made with rev. diabasics

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi fellow listas,

some of you might have noticed I wasn´t that active recently on the lists.
Here is the way. My company was working very hard on a new application I am 
proud to announce 
today. :-) Even though it is not directly development related, I might turn the 
development process into
a case study at some point soon, as it has been rather interesting.

What is it?

diabasics is a diabetes management program.

It keeps track of your blood glucose levels, the food you have eaten and, if 
you are insulin dependent
suggests the amount of Insulin for you to inject, based on your diabetic 
profile. It sports a huge food 
database, based on the USDAs nutrition database. If you monitor your blood 
glucose, it can remember 
which finger you pricked last, to help your fingers remain sensible as long as 
possible.

Even if you do not have diabetes, it might be worth a look, as I think we made 
it pretty sexy. :-)

http://www.derbrill.de/diabasics

As usual, I would not have managed this alone, so thanks to all the guys who 
have helped out,
especially Andre for twitter integration and the guy who´s name I am forbidden 
to tell on the list
(don´t ask, I do not get it either). Well, you know how you are. You´re da man.

Now I am putting on the party hat, errr write press releases.

all the best,

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Re: Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Changes its mode I wanted to say.

Sorry for the confusion. Anyway, if I comment out the set the visible line the 
problem disappears.

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Re: Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi T,

you set the visible of the stack to false on preOpenStack. Thus it closes 
immediately.

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Re: Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Tereza,

is your stacks visible false by chance? If you call a modal stack that is 
hidden (visible set to false by any script) it closes immediately.

does a sequence of

 show stack "yesOrNo" 
 modal stack "yesOrNo"

change anything?

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Re: Rev on kde

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

FWIW my observations:

Richard wrote:

> I use Gnome here, and haven't played with KDE in a couple years.  Since 
> Rev adopted GTK support a while back I would have thought that more 
> recent versions would also run under KDE, no?  What issues do you find 
> there?
When testing a rather complex app (50 Stacks, huge amounts of XML data being 
processed)
under Kubuntu on a very decent machine (actually I got a bit jealous of what is 
under the hood 
there):

Performance is rather slow. Especially screen refreshes. Drag and Drop is
not working very well (if at all). Everything that uses inks, slows down 
performance 
terribly. This is with engine 3.x and up

Scrollbars (progress bars) are not rendered correctly. Only tested with 3.5

Everything is a little better when using Ubuntu without a k, however performance
is far from what I am used to under MacOs or Win. 

I am not complaining. I understand it is a tremendous task to support an Os the
end user has as much control about as all the Oses they call "Linux" are. You 
can make
it be a tame penguin, or a 7 headed Hydra (it lost 2 heads, when it tried to 
install its 
graphics card), with lions teeth (one of them carious, but sharp anyways), 
bears claws
and penguin feet.

Just wanted to share what I have seen.

Malte

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Re: Re: Datagrid form - sorting?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks a heap John!

Works like a charm.

All the best,

Malte
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Datagrid form - sorting?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I have a datagrid form that has a timestamp in its dataArray. I would like to 
sort the data in the datagrid using that timestamp. 
For lists this is easy, but is it also possible for forms?

the data might look like this

tData[1]["timestamp"]
tData[1]["otherData"]
tData[2]["timestamp"]
tData[2]["otherData"]

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Re: Re: AnimationEngine Arcade "shooter" strategy?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

ss wrote: 

> there is no notation of "aeStopMove" listed in there..

You are absolutely correct. 
Not documenting essential commands is a strategy to generate traffic on the 
lists. Jokes aside: I´m sorry.
That command sliped through in the documentation.

addendum: 

aeStopMoving "all"

Will stop all controls that are currently moved using aeMoveTo.

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Re: AnimationEngine Arcade "shooter" strategy?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi John,

I guess this is a scenario I should trap for in AE (writing this on to do just 
now). As you figured out exactly, it throws an error, because AE tries to move 
an object, which is no longer existing. What you could do is either what Sean 
suggests: hide on collision, delete on aeMoveDone, or (this should work too) 

aeStopMoving the long ID of the target -- this tells ae to stop the move
delete the target


Hope that helps,

Malte

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Re: AnimationEngine Arcade "shooter" strategy?

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi John,

if you use AE 2.9 or higher, aeMoveTo is your friend.

aeMoveTo is a one line command that moves your object. it automatically sets up 
the needed timer to move the object and moves it from its current location to 
an end point you specify. You can apply an easing effect to the movement, which 
makes it look quite nicely. Also, aeMoveTo sends callback messages, while the 
object is moving.

Here is a starter. Assumes AE is in use and a button "projectile" and a button 
"target" exist. Also an image "cannon" Script is in the card:

on mouseDown
   set the loc of btn "projectile" to the loc of image "cannon"
   shoot
end mouseDown

on shoot
   aeMoveTo the long ID of btn "projectile",the mouseLoc,400,"inOut"
end shoot

on aeEnterFrame
   if intersect(btn "projectile",btn "target") then
  --more sophisticated collision detection goes here
  put "boom"
   end if
end aeEnterFrame

Hope that helps,

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Re: Bill Marriott

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

I am still shocked. And I do not know what to say. I´ve been pondering long if 
I should write to the list at all... Nothing I could say can take the pain from 
the families. It is important you all take your time to do the work of mourning 
(I do not have the correct english term for this. We say "Trauerarbeit" in 
german)

Kevin, first of all my condolences for the loss of your niece. If I could I 
would give Robin, his wife, you and Heather a big hug. I know this wouldn´t 
help. As a parent myself, the loss of a child always leaves me speechless. No 
parent should be forced to bury their child. It is just not fair. Te whole 
Miller family has my deepest sympathy. I´ve been thinking of you folks a lot 
since I learned Robins child has died. Take your time to find your feet. 
Everybody will understand. In tragic times like this, you have all rights to 
let work being work and be there for your loved ones. Also you have an 
outstanding team of co workers who will take care that work gets done anyway. 
Take your time... And lets hope the rest of the year will bring some happy news.

I will keep Bill in my memory as a guy who really moved something. That´s the 
least I must say. He was a guy with a lot of expertise and helped me a lot when 
the whole webinar thing for the revSelect stuff came up. He had very valuable 
tips and really cared to make it an outstanding event. I was so nervous when I 
had to hold mine, but Heather and him gave me lots of support. He surely will 
be missed.

All the best,

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Re: Simple Arrays

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

In addition to what has been said previously, the default columnDelimiter is 
TAB, so in your script there would be no columns to split by, unless you set 
the columnDelimiter to Comma before the split. (Given that split by column is 
what you wanted. I  do mix up rows and cols all the time though. :-) )

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Re: Megabundle Question

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Hi Michael,

the megabundle essentially is the all you can eat of revSelect  + rev 
Enterprise + assurance pack, so IMHO yes, it is a very good deal. :-) As for 24 
vs 32 products: Some of the offerings you see are packs in themselves, as for 
example the iconpeople icon packs or the audio stuff, which are usually sold 
seperately.

Hope that clears up things a bit.

If you are thinking of getting yourself a bundle, AFAIK the offer ends Dec. 
31st. This is definetly the most bang for the buck offering we revSelecters and 
the mothership have cooked up in all the years we have been working together. 
And to all of those who got theirs already: First of all thank you. 2nd, you 
will get the next iteration of both animationEngine and chartsEngine included. 
And please let me know what you use them for either off- or on list. Every 
proud father wants to know what their kids are up to. :-)


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Re: Rev 4.0 Enterprise Splash Stack - xmlerr, can't find element

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi Peter,

I am pretty sure the RSS feed broke, when the forum software was updated to the 
latest version. As Jacque mentioned already, this should go into 
quality.runrev.com

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Re: Re: datagrids in revLets on Win (Vista / 7)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Thanks a heap Trevor!

Will patch the lib I guess. 

Phil: That is also my experience. Auto detection does not seem the most 
reliable thing on the planet.

All the best,

Malte

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Re: put put

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Just for the record: It was a server side problem. The server required 
connection: keep alive in the http headers to fully download the pdf file.

Thanks for the help though.

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datagrids in revLets on Win (Vista / 7)

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Hi there,

was happiely coding away on a web project. Build the revlet, works fine on the 
mac. On Win Vista and 7 it fails with the following error (on setting the 
dgText of the datagrid to empty.:

682,119,17
465,119,1
587,117,1
253,113,1
241,113,1,_Initialize
353,0,0,button id 1005 of bkgnd id 1004 of stack "revDataGridLibrary" of stack 
"webmon"
573,4512,18
253,4512,1
241,4512,1,dgData
353,0,0,button id 1005 of bkgnd id 1004 of stack "revDataGridLibrary" of stack 
"webmon"
90,3205,36
449,3205,5
535,3205,1
241,3205,1,_table.SetText

Anybody got an idea what could cause this?

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Re: put put

[Malte Pfaff-Brill]

Ok,

I don´t get it. It does not seem a general problem, which makes it  
even stranger. At least I know now it does not have to do with the 4.0  
engine. Also happens with a 3.5 standalone.


The scenario is as follows. rev client communicates with a server. It  
fails most of the time on one XP and at least one Win 7 machines. A  
whole bunch of other XP machines and Vista machines are known to work.  
If it fails, it is the download process that does (thanks for the  
suggestion Dave). I get all kinds of fun errors. First: error 10038 on  
socket, which if I understand it correctly means, I am not  
communicating with a socket at all. Next error: No headers sent. Next  
the result is empty, but only half of the data is received (exactly  
the half). This is s weird. The only scenario where I could  
reproduce it, without having to open a teamviewer session is a machine  
that hosts both server and client. Now it gets strange. If I connect  
from a remote machine to said server (while the same IP is used) all  
works fine on the remote machine. If I connect the "broken" machine to  
a remote server, it also works. also there are at least 10 other  
machines (both Macs and PCs) where the same scenario (one machine  
hosts server and client) just works perfectly... I have no idea...  
Just standing here shrugging. I will now try to load URL first and  
then write from the cachedUrls. If that´s no worky I give up  
suspecting that the wee free men got hold of the machine and just left  
some critters in there. Tis not me. I start doubting it is rev, though  
I can access the documents with a webbrowser. Overcaffeinated.  
Clueless... *shrug*


Thanks for your time.

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