Re: linux question THANK YOU
Damien (and Mark), THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! This is exactly the kind of clear step by step I needed. The HighPoint card is up and running and the machine is, as I type this, formatting the RAID6. Man, I have wasted untold hours trying to get this to work. HighPoint should hire you as their documentation writer!!! Extremely grateful in Tokyo, Tim Selander On 11/3/10 8:14 AM, Damien Girard wrote: Hi, I have took a look at the highpoint-tech.com website, and the driver that they provide does not seems old, they claim that they support linux kernel up to 2.6.31. But making it working it seems to be an harder things :) By the way, on Debian before everything you will need to install the meta-package build-essential and the package linux-kernel-headers. (apt-get install ...) Then go to the subfolder (of the archive): $ cd rr268x-linux-src-v1.xx/product/rr2680/linux/ $ make And as root # make install And to load the driver (as root): # modprobe rr2680 To launch the driver at boot time, on Debian append the following line to the file /etc/modules: rr2680 I hope that I gave you some clues about solving the problem ^^ Kind Regards, Damien Girard NativeSoft, France. -Message d'origine- De : use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] De la part de Tim Selander Envoyé : mardi 2 novembre 2010 03:38 À : How to use Revolution Objet : OT: linux question A question to the Linux users here I'm trying to set up a 16 drive Debian NAS to hold our production company's footage archive. Bought a HighPoint 2680 SATA card because they claimed Debian compatibility. But their stock drivers are so old, I can't even find the distribution they match. They also have the source code so you can compile a new kernel to support the card. I tried, but being a Linux newbie, failed in all attempts. Can't even get the 'tree' downloaded, whatever that is! If, say, I could pay one of you to compile the kernel/driver for me, is there a way you can do that and then send it to me for an easy install here? No idea if kernel files can just be swapped out... I would make space on my ftp server for you to upload the finished file(s) too. Any chance this would work? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
OT: linux question
A question to the Linux users here I'm trying to set up a 16 drive Debian NAS to hold our production company's footage archive. Bought a HighPoint 2680 SATA card because they claimed Debian compatibility. But their stock drivers are so old, I can't even find the distribution they match. They also have the source code so you can compile a new kernel to support the card. I tried, but being a Linux newbie, failed in all attempts. Can't even get the 'tree' downloaded, whatever that is! If, say, I could pay one of you to compile the kernel/driver for me, is there a way you can do that and then send it to me for an easy install here? No idea if kernel files can just be swapped out... I would make space on my ftp server for you to upload the finished file(s) too. Any chance this would work? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT} (slightly) Anyone knows an affordable HD recovery service?
I've had good luck with Prosoft's 'Data Rescue' program, on disks that even Disk Warrior could not fix. Data Rescue does not attempt to fix the drive, just scans it and copies off anything it can salvage to another drive. Takes hours, but recovered a lot of stuff for me. http://www.prosofteng.com/ Good luck! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 10/6/10 6:00 AM, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: 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. All the best, Malte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Getting started with databases
Hello I am a long time user of Rev but have always developed databases with FMPro advanced. Time to try to make the move to Rev. With big amounts of data and lots of tables joining etc, it all looks pretty arcane to me. Can anyone recommend any aids memoire or templates or anything to help a database slow-coach along? TIA Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT-Rodeo] Last minute call to get onboard New Question
Sorry to hijack this thread... sent a question via the rodeoapps web site, but no answer yet. Hoping for an answer in time to decide whether to sign up or not at the reduced price... Will Rodeo handle UTF-8? Other text encodings? I need to know for both the pages/interface, as well as any local/remote data storage that you are planning. Thanks so much, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On Jul 21, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Since this seems to be the day for questions, one more I haven't seen asked: If I spring for Rodeo (and I'm very close to doing it) am I forever tied to dependency on the Rodeo server? What about those of us who have invested in our own on-rev account or in revServer? Can we produce code on the Rodeo server, then copy it to our own revved servers? Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Go to a web page automatically
Jim, Very detailed response, over my head but the links you included have lead to much more study on my part. This has gotten late, but I would be remiss if I didn't thank you for the time you spent on this educational post! Tim Selander On 7/11/10 11:03 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Tim Selander selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp wrote: Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not being clear. By 'open' I mean I just want to take the user to another page, as if they had clicked a link. I'm trying to write a simple form to get user input (based on Sarah's revForm.irev script) and want to take them to a 'Thank you' page automatically after they submit the info. I found that the easiest way was to show or hide info on the same page, depending on user input. But if you want to take them to a different page, you can redirect. Check out the script http://www.troz.net/onrev/samples/showscript.irev?showscript=desktop.irev Note that the redirect headers have to be put BEFORE anything else is written to the page. Sarah For web content serving, there are actually 3 different things being specified in this thread. UPDATING THE SAME PAGE, REDIRECT, LOCATION I think the bottom of this post has the answer you probably want to use. UPDATING THE SAME PAGE - sending HTML tags and content to be displayed in the current browser window If the user does 'reload' or 'refresh', the original content will be re-displayed since the browser still thinks it is focused on the original url. The new content does not change the browser history since there has been no real navigation as far as the browser is concerned. ?rev get url http://www.runrev.com; put it ? REDIRECT - tells the browser to keep the current url in history, but now focus on a new url This is commonly used to keep old links stored out on the internet working, but 'bounce' to new web pages or url. This gets a little complicated when you break down the different meanings of a url. http://someDomain.com/ or http://www.someDomain.com/ or http://someDomain.com/index.html -- will simply show the default page for the domain http://someDomain.com/aboutus.html or http://someDomain.com/aboutus.php or http://someDomain.com/aboutus.cgi or http://someDomain.com/aboutus.irev -- will simply show the page for that location http://someDomain.com/aboutus.html#drivingMapSection http://someDomain.com/aboutus.php#drivingMapSection http://someDomain.com/aboutus.cgii#drivingMapSection http://someDomain.com/aboutus.irev#drivingMapSection -- will show the page and scroll to the anchor named http://someDomain.com/aboutus.html?loc=homeOffice xx no http://someDomain.com/aboutus.php?loc=homeOffice http://someDomain.com/aboutus.cgi?loc=homeOffice http://someDomain.com/aboutus.irev?loc=homeOffice -- will show the page with info that a script provides by using the variable 'loc' with the value homeOffice The exact data sent back to the browser depends on the script programming NOTE: PHP and irev and cgi cause scripts to run on the server, but HTML does not, so sending variables. The reason scripts are run is that Apache has been told when it started that those 3 strings mean that Apache should follow its directives and run the correct script engine. At this time, the only server that knows about irev is the On-Rev system, thus irev scripts cannot be run on other systems. The On-Rev server knows how to run scripts using PHP, cgi, as well as irev. LOCATION - This is probably what you were looking for - change the Browser's memory variable that causes the browser to focus on the new url, keeping the original url in history, and reloading the new url. What you probably want to accomplish is sending a raw HTTP header to the browser. More details here [ http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Possible headers to send to a browser Their are two kinds, Request (from browser) to instruct the Apache server Accept-Language: da Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ== Response (from server) to instruct the browser Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Location: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html Refresh: 5; url=http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html (refresh the same url after 5 seconds) Set-Cookie: UserID=JohnDoe; Max-Age=3600; Version=1 (store data on the user's hard drive) (but it expires in 3600 seconds, 60 minutes) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers and specifically HTTP_location discussed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_location so in irev you would --*** ?rev put HTTP/1.1 302 Found into sendResponse put cr Location: http://www.www.runrev.com; after sendResponse put sendResponse -- back to browser that started the dialog ? --*** Just to let you know, REDIRECTION issues are much more complex This is a good overview... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection Bottom line for your specific task, use the scripting just below the * Hope this helps
HTMLtext doesn't play well with CSS
Hello all! I'm trying to use the HTMLtext of the contents of a field to modify a CSS web page, and it butchers font sizes and style. Is there something other than HTMLtext that I should be using? Thanks! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: HTMLtext doesn't play well with CSS
OK...let me explain more fully... Problem: There are web geeks (myself included) who create and/or maintain web sites. www.historicalengine.com and www.grandvalleytractor.com are two of mine. The creation is quite easy with all the drag and drop tools available out there. I usually tweak (sometimes heavily, sometimes not so) the graphics or the resulting page code. When it's finished, I turn the keys to the site over to whoever owns it. Unfortunately, 99.9% of the time they are clueless to web geekery. By the time you get to the t in ftp, their eyes have glazed over and they're drooling...much the same as I look when an accountant utters more than 2 syllables to my engineeringness. ;=) So, when it comes time to update the site, they return to my doorstep. Not a big deal if it's once or twice a year...but when it's a club site...or the site for a bowling league...or the like...I can get requests every day! And the changes are, in these cases, dirt simple...Could you put these latest scores on the site? or Here's this months newsletter! The solution I'm cobbling together: In a sentence...Let them do it themselves. When I create the site, I insert a comment (or many, if required..maybe one per bowling team...whatever) like !--whevIn--!--whevOut-- someplace on a page. My simple rev app contains a field and a button. There's significant password protection, blahblah, going on that I don't need to get into here. There's additional stuff going on also...win/loss percentages...rankings...blahblah. But, the bottom line is...ANYBODY who can enter text and click a btn can update a page, or a range of pages or a portion of a page. My app gets the url...inserts the text field at the markers I've left...then ftp's it back up to the site. Simple. Right now, it's just text, but I may add graphics later..jpegs, gifs, whatever. Now, to clarify my original question: I want the user to be able to change font sizes, make bold, italic, whatever. I also want them to have the freedom to turn some of the text into links, etc. When I try to use HTMLtext in rev, the results are not so good. How do I improve it? I mean, if I have to roll up my sleeves and just write it all...fine...but is there a wheel that somebody has created already out there? I doubt it matters, but...17 MacBook Pro/Snow Leopard 10.6.4/Rev Enterprise 4.5.0-dp-3 Thanks! On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Tim Ponn wrote: Hello all! I'm trying to use the HTMLtext of the contents of a field to modify a CSS web page, and it butchers font sizes and style. Is there something other than HTMLtext that I should be using? Thanks! HTMLtext is a subset of HTML tags that Rev uses to do formatting in fields. It is not meant to be compliant with browsers, especially the modern day versions. When you render the web pages, do you then run compliance checking? Very like you have quite a few conflicts, especially if the DOCTYPE is beyond 1.0 The CSS javascript will silently at the first error and none of the other CSS will get applied. Your description of your process is quite vague, so it is difficult to be more helpful. Do go to one of the many compliance checking sites, enter the url, and follow the bouncing error messages, if any. Also visit http://quirksmode.org to study the interpretation variations that each browser.version uses. The most variant is IE in its many versions. Hope this helps. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Free eBook about JQuery for a limited time
I had run across this in another news site, signed up for the freebie and got my confirmation email with the download link... But the link in the email shows up 404 Not Found! Oh well Tim Selander On 7/12/10 3:57 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Dear all, for a limited time Sitepoint is giving away a very good eBook (normal price 29,95USD) about jQuery for free. Regards, Matthias___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Go to a web page automatically
Hi, Using the on-rev.com server scripting, is there a ?rev command that will open a specified web page? 'launch' URL didn't seem to do it for me. Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Go to a web page automatically
Good morning! Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not being clear. By 'open' I mean I just want to take the user to another page, as if they had clicked a link. I'm trying to write a simple form to get user input (based on Sarah's revForm.irev script) and want to take them to a 'Thank you' page automatically after they submit the info. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 7/11/10 1:36 AM, Michael Kann wrote: Tim, Not quite sure what you mean by open? Mike --- On Sat, 7/10/10, Tim Selanderselan...@tkf.att.ne.jp wrote: From: Tim Selanderselan...@tkf.att.ne.jp Subject: Go to a web page automatically To: How to use Revolutionuse-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 11:23 AM Hi, Using the on-rev.com server scripting, is there a ?rev command that will open a specified web page? 'launch' URL didn't seem to do it for me. Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Go to a web page automatically
Hi again, Mike That code works for me! Thanks. The page I want to call up is in the same directory, so all the graphics, etc., come in fine too. Thank you! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 7/11/10 2:10 AM, Michael Kann wrote: Greetings Pierre, The following works: ?rev get url http://www.runrev.com; put it ? But the script loses some images and formatting along the way. If we just want the html source then it works fine. Mike --- On Sat, 7/10/10, Pierre Sahorespsaho...@free.fr wrote: From: Pierre Sahorespsaho...@free.fr Subject: Re: Go to a web page automatically To: How to use Revolutionuse-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 11:45 AM Try : get url http://yoururl ; put it Best, P. Le 10 juil. 2010 à 18:23, Tim Selander a écrit : Hi, Using the on-rev.com server scripting, is there a ?rev command that will open a specified web page? 'launch' URL didn't seem to do it for me. Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Pierre Sahores mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 www.wrds.com www.sahores-conseil.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Sudden Motion Sensor
Hello all! It's been hundreds of years since my last post, but I've been lurking! Does anyone here have a clue as to how to access the SMS output on a MacBook Pro? Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
OT'ish: Logs on on-rev.com
Hi, I've got an account on on-rev.com and am trying to wrap my head around access logs. What's showing up in the raw logs does not seem to match what the statistic programs are showing. The cpanel documents aren't too helpful as they (typical in this industry) assume more knowledge than a newbie has... Can anyone point me to an online primer about access logs, exp. if it relates to the same system on-rev.com uses? Many thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [On-Rev] sending email thru sendmail?! -- Heather, Please Read
I had the same frustration with sendmail with my on-rev account and wrote support. Heather promptly wrote back, explaining that because of security problems (I think it was) with sendmail, they have disabled it on on-rev. I pointed out (a little bruskly I'm afraid) that I wasted hours and hours trying to make the thing work because it was listed in the cPanel, that if they are going to disable it then they should TAKE IT OUT OF the cPanel. Since you also were lead astray by that, I really hope they read this and either activate sendmail or at least take it off the cPanel!!! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Andre Garzia wrote: Just tried the mail + shell commands and it doesn't work as well... no error is triggered but the email also never arrives. It would be useful is On-Rev Team would add the sendmail/mail log to the cPanel thing. :-/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Parallels or VMWare Fusion?
There was a recent review on the web of Parallels, Fusion and the freebie one - forget the name. Parallels was judged the quickest. I have Fusion on one Mac, using the Bootcamp (Apple's scheme for running Windows) partition. Parallels on another machine (same speed CPU) using its own install of WinXP, not Bootcamp. I don't notice much of a difference in speed when running apps, but Parallels is much, much faster at start up and shut down. Not sure if that is the result of using/not using the Bootcamp partition, but because of that I like Parallels a lot better. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Thanks for all your comments. So the best is i have to look at both programs. Maybe there are trial versions available. Now i have to wait about 14 days for my mac to arrive. There seems to be delivery problems with the iMac. But i can treat with that. What are 14 days compared to the time i am waiting for the conference dvds. ;-) Matthias ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac
I work in broadcast production; dabble in xTalk... Colin's method of playing h.264 files via flash is the way to go for cross compatibility if you want to roll your own. If you Google it, you can find all kinds of step by step instructions, if needed. However, I have found that the YouTube/Vimeo/etc. servers are so FAST, that I have moved to using them, embedding the videos on my site. Yes, I hate having their logo on my work, but I decided my users would have a better impression of us if the video started almost immediately than to wait for it to buffer as it streams off our web host's server Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Colin Holgate wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote: Thanks, Colin... Yes, I do use the player code but I have not seen your simple way explained anywhere on the web... Thanks... Jim For full disclosure, the playback would need to be for Flash Player 9.0.115 or later (that was released about 2 or 3 years ago, so most people are way beyond that). In other words, an ancient AS2 based player won't be able to play those files. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting user's time from web revlet?
Mark Wieder wrote: the user's info. But if you're using a revlet (and that *is* in the subject, after all) then you should be able to convert the server's internet time to the user's local time (assuming the local time on their computer is correct). Hi Mark - yep, that is exactly what I want to do, but haven't figured out how yet. I have learned how to get the user's local time via javascript, but don't know how to pass it to the revlet (actually, it seems I have my terms wrong, typical for a newbie... I'm trying to script this all in an .irev file on my on-rev account.) Someone mentioned cookies, which seems like a logical method -- now to learn how to make and read cookies! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting user's time from web revlet?
I was the original poster and this has been a very interesting thread, though a fair bit of it has been over my head as I don't know javascript, nor html, very well. I'm working on a simple web based To Do list for some family members to share. Pops up items based on date. But I'm in Tokyo, other users are in China and the US--it's Monday here while still Sunday for you in the US. Want to pop up the items based on the date of the user, whether in Asia, US or Europe. I found some javascript solutions on the net, and now Sarah has posted a very easy to understand javascript (Sarah, you're amazing). Now I have to figure out how to get the javascript result into an irev variable... looks like I'll be exploring cookies... Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Mark Wieder wrote: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6:26:53 PM, Jim Ault wrote: The original issue is that the browser does not send its system date and time to the server so that a sever-side script can use it. I think by now I've lost track of the why of this. By the time the post information reaches the server wouldn't the server's date and time be the important data points? Is there some reason the server would need to know the browser's perspective? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Getting user's time from web revlet?
Thanks for clearing up the .irev/revlet confusion in my head. I've read through the thread a couple times... and it seems you CANNOT get the user/browser's date and time through RevServer scripts. Correct? Anyone have a javascript snippet they like to use to get the user's date and time? thanks. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Andre Garzia wrote: Tim, .irev files are not revlets. revlets are the plugin based files to be run in a browser thru the plugin, they have the .revlet sufix. irev files are text file scripts to be run by the RevServer engine. This is just so that you don't mix them two when you search the archives or documentation, for it would yield bad search results As for getting the clients time using RevServer files check out the variable $_SERVER[Date], it will contain a timestamp from the browser perspective. Hope this helps. Cheers andre 2010/1/18 Tim Selander selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp Hi, I've found some ways using javascript, but does anyone know if on-rev revlets (.irev files) have a way of getting the user's date and time from their browser/PC? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.0b
Hi Ralf, I'm new to revolution and so also new to revigniter. I have an on-rev account (pba.on-rev.com) and put revigniter in the root directory and altered the system/application/config.irev file to: put http://pba.on-rev.com/; into gConfig[baseUrl] And created the blog.irev as per the documentation in pba.on-rev.com/system/application/controllers - but when I try to run/load it, I get 500 internal server error. Any pointers for this newbie? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Ralf Bitter wrote: revIgniter v1.0 Beta has been released ready for download. revIgniter is no longer in Alpha state. It is now stable enough, that anybody who is interested is encouraged to give it a try. What's new? This version (1.0b) includes a new library, which helps in manipulating images. The image library lets you perform image resizing, thumbnail creation, image cropping, image rotating and image watermarking, for display purposes even without writing images to disk. Info and download at: http://www.revigniter.com/ Have fun! Ralf ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.0b
thanks, Ralf. I'll give that a try. Tim Selander Ralf Bitter wrote: Hi Tim, sorry, there is a typo in the index.irev file. I will provide a revised version shortly. In the meantime you can change the last script line of index.irev to: include gBASEPATH revigniter/RevIgniter gEXT Ralf On 18.01.2010, at 09:42, Tim Selander wrote: Hi Ralf, I'm new to revolution and so also new to revigniter. I have an on-rev account (pba.on-rev.com) and put revigniter in the root directory and altered the system/application/config.irev file to: put http://pba.on-rev.com/; into gConfig[baseUrl] And created the blog.irev as per the documentation in pba.on-rev.com/system/application/controllers - but when I try to run/load it, I get 500 internal server error. Any pointers for this newbie? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Getting user's time from web revlet?
Hi, I've found some ways using javascript, but does anyone know if on-rev revlets (.irev files) have a way of getting the user's date and time from their browser/PC? Thanks, Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Debugger for On-rev
Okay, it was by adding the command breakpoint to the script. That was a new one for me, coming from Hypercard. Toggling a breakpoint with command slash wasn't working Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Howard Bornstein wrote: 2010/1/14 Tim Selander selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp Never mind, found it through google. sorry for the noise. It's always a good idea to answer your own question with specific information in posts like this when you've found the answer yourself. That way, people who search this list with the same question can benefit from your research. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: answer command in .irev file
Thanks, Sarah. I found that on your website too -- which I have
been spelunking for hints and tips. Great resource, thanks for
putting it up!
Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan
Sarah Reichelt wrote:
2010/1/15 Tim Selander selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp:
More playing with scripting .irev/html files.
Is there any way to put up an answer dialog? I have a variety of
small text files I'd like to pop up over the main page to give
the user extra information
Here is an On-Rev command that I use to create a JavaScript dialog,
similar to an answer dialog:
command doAlert tData
put script type= quote text/javascript quote into tJScommand
put alert(' tData ')/script after tJScommand
put tJScommand
end doAlert
Use it like this:
doAlert This is just like an answer dialog.
But don't forget that you can put anything on to your web page,
including the contents of a text file.
Cheers,
Sarah
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Debugger for On-rev
How do you set a break point for the debugger in the on-rev.app for OSX? Trying to learn how to script web pages Thanks. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Debugger for On-rev
Never mind, found it through google. sorry for the noise. Tim Selander wrote: How do you set a break point for the debugger in the on-rev.app for OSX? Trying to learn how to script web pages Thanks. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
answer command in .irev file
More playing with scripting .irev/html files. Is there any way to put up an answer dialog? I have a variety of small text files I'd like to pop up over the main page to give the user extra information the answer command doesn't trigger an error, but nothing seems to happen. Thanks. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Cursors
I made a test stack, changing the cursor to a hand when over buttons to click. Saved as a web application, put up on the web and it works fine. (Kinda fun!) BUT the cursor doesn't change. It stays an arrow. Since web users expect the cursor to change when hovering over something clickable, I am disappointed. Can cursors not be set on web revlets? Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Pointers to Quicktime videos in Revlets
Many thanks to all who replied. AlwaysBuffer false and actually putting the full URL now works from my server. I appreciate everone's quick help Tim : Hi Could anyone point me to a 'How-to' to get QT vids to play from an uploaded revlet? The vids are in the same folder as the uploaded Revlet, but nowr happens. That's how I do it. The videos are in the same folder with the revlet, then the script references them like this: set the filename of player 1 to http://www.domain.com/folder/movie.mov; I don't use the file:// syntax, because a revlet is like a local stack, and a fully qualified URL is fine as a reference. The file:// designation is only for files you want to retrieve from the user's local hard drive, not for those on your server. Unless it got fixed without my noticing, players in revlets only work reliably if the alway___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Pointers to Quicktime videos in Revlets
Hi Could anyone point me to a 'How-to' to get QT vids to play from an uploaded revlet? The vids are in the same folder as the uploaded Revlet, but nowr happens. TIA. Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Smoothly moving a jpeg
Thanks to all who replied to my question on interrupting a loop with keyboard input, that was an interesting thread. The next thing I'm trying to do is take a jpeg of vertical, right to left Japanese text and move it smoothly across the window at reading speed for a teleprompter app. I'm using the move image command. The result is a little to jerky and stuttery. Does Rev have a smoother way to animate/move images on the screen? Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Smoothly moving a jpeg
Scott, Thanks - shortening the changes in distance helped a lot. So it appears Rev doesn't visibly move an image, it jumps it to the next location. If I move the image a pixel at a time, but tighten the loop to 2 or 3 milliseconds, things get pretty smooth. Now to test the reading speed with the on camera talent! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Scott Rossi wrote: snip well moving large images. That said, I would try to repeatedly set the position of the image with short changes in distance in a tight send... loop. Here's a simple example: on mouseUp moveImage end mouseUp on moveImage if right of img 1 10 then exit moveImage set left of img 1 to (left of img 1 - 2) send moveImage to me in 5 millisecs end moveImage This makes for substantial processor use, but also makes for smoother move effects. Another option I would try is to move the physical position of the stack in which the image appears across the desktop, instead of moving the image snip ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
interrupting a repeat loop
Is there any way in RR to check for user input during a repeat loop? I'd like a loop to continue until the user types a certain key -- at which point the script would exit the handler. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: interrupting a repeat loop
Works great; that's just the thing I was looking for! Thank you. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Jacques Hausser wrote: Hi Tim it depends of the kind of loop you are using. Several possibilities For example in a card script: local stoploop command runTheLoop repeat forever if stoploop = S then exit repeat -- do what you want wait 10 milliseconds with message end repeat end runTheLoop on keyDown thekey put thekey into stoploop end keydown The wait x milliseconds with message is the important trick here. Jacques Le 15 déc. 2009 à 15:37, Tim Selander a écrit : ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Newbie question
Hi all, Thanks for the various tips. The searching from the RevMedia help menu did not work. It said something about building indexes, failed and now it will search nothing. However I did find the Nabble forum, and will now give Richard Gaskin's program a try... Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 12/12/2009 20:50, Mark Swindell wrote: Speaking of Nable is that typo ever going to be corrected in the Help pane? On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: Hi Tim, Any searchable archives of this mailing list? Would like to check there first before bothering everyone with basic questions. On your Revolution menu, go to Help - Revolution Search Engine and on the second tab over from the left you can select Gmane, Mail Archive or Nable and perform your searches right from the Search Engine. There are also many other resources available from the Search Engine. Oddly enough the database update in RevStudio 4 (Mac) didn't work, leaving me with an unusable Search Engine. Same poo with Ubuntu (both RevStudio and RevMedia) Didn't have that problem with RevMedia 4 (Mac). Too fried and crispy after that to bother firing up the XP box to see what gives over there. My personal experience is that Richard Gaskin's 4W_RevListSearch.rev is the best bet! It is here: http://tc.versiontracker.com/product/redir/lid/365918/4W_RevListSearch.rev Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Newbie question
Any searchable archives of this mailing list? Would like to check there first before bothering everyone with basic questions. TIA Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Rev with video on Windoze
Hello I have built a delivery app for medical students that has a video exported from ScreenFlow at 640*360 and a selection panel to choose topics and subtopics. There are about 100 minutes and the movs are cut into 5-9 minute chunks. The codecs are either H264 at high quality or the web-export H264 variety (from QTpro). This seems to work on MAc from a black Macbook core duo 2 (2 Gb) right through to my development machine (octamac at 3 GHz, 16Gb RAM). LAtest version of QT installed. Now the problem. I 'know' that QT is not tweaked to perform on Windoze but using the same app (with various bits of 'if the platform is Win32; , the video playback and general robustness of the app is useless. I am a bit of a freak for maintaining the crisp quality of text and graphics in the original QT vids. So what are others doing for producing video playlists in windoze that have at least same quality? I know I can turn off using QT in windows but then I can't find a codec that plays well. Thanks in advance...help much appreciated Lumpo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Corrupted Stack!
Hi, I've used Rev/Metacard for years and I've never had this happen before. I've got a corrupted stack. When I try to open the stack I get the following message Unable to open stack: stack is corrupted, check for ~backup file. I do have a backup but I've been through that once and the stack becomes corrupted again after a couple of saves. I work with several stacks and I'm not having problems with any of the others. Anyone have any suggestions on causes or solutions? Thanks, Tim Bleiler University at Buffalo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Corrupted Stack!
Thanks Jacqueline, I don't have any imported images in the stack. I do have some image controls on a few cards but their file name is set at runtime and never saved with the stack. All of the controls in the stack have customProperties and I've started saving arrays into some of them. Maybe a bug somewhere using this very new feature? Tim Bleiler University at Buffalo On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Tim Bleiler wrote: Hi, I've used Rev/Metacard for years and I've never had this happen before. I've got a corrupted stack. When I try to open the stack I get the following message Unable to open stack: stack is corrupted, check for ~backup file. I do have a backup but I've been through that once and the stack becomes corrupted again after a couple of saves. I work with several stacks and I'm not having problems with any of the others. Anyone have any suggestions on causes or solutions? The main thing I've seen so far that can cause this is an imported image in a non-standard format. Not all image apps create images the same way. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Where's the file?
Hello all... This strikes me as odd. I frequently use text files as containers of data (prefs, and the like) in my stacks. On openStack, I put the path of the folder containing the stack into a global so I can use it later. Not a problem when I'm running as a stack...text files are created and modified as expected during use (I use get/put URL). put Whatever into url (file:appFolderPathHereIAm.txt) get url (file:appFolderPathHereIAm.txt) When I open the text file later with a text editor, I see what I expect to see. However, when I make a standalone app of the stack, I no longer see the text files in the folder. Are these text files being set as invisible in the finder? I'm running Enterprise 2.8.1 in OSX 10.5.6. Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Where's the file?
Hi Klaus, No, but your files can be found INSIDE of the application bundle :-) the path of the folder containing the stack is this one in a standalone on OS X: ../Name_of_your_standalone.app/Contents/MacOS/ Your text files can be found in this folder! Right-Click on your standalone and select Show contents to check it out Well, I guess you can now tell that I am a relative newbie at OSX...only a couple years into it. Having lived thru apple's change in system 7 years ago, I am VERY cautious about OS change. So much of my perspective on OS X is still pre-OS X. Thanks for the education! You will have to take this into account when initializing your global variable: ... put the filename of stack Mainstack a.k.a. the standalone into tFilename set itemdel to / if the platform = MacOS then delete item -4 to -1 of tFilename else delete item -1 of tFilename end if global appFolderPath put tFilename / into appFolderPath You get the picture :-) YesI do something like... global appFolderPath on openStack set the itemDelimiter to / put (item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack)/ into appFolderPath get url (file:appFolderPathAllUserData.txt) if it is empty then answer Sorry, I can't find a user data file! with Oops! restoreUserData get url (file:appFolderPathAllUserData.txt) end if ... ... ... end openStack Eventually, I'll add in the other platforms Thanks again! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
USB barcode scanner?
Hello! Can anybody recommend a usb barcode scanner that I can get to work with rev? I using rev 2.81 and a Mac. I've got my POS app working nicely now and it's time for the next step...adding a scanner. Thanks! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Tablet PC And Rev
Hi, Anyone try using Rev with a Tablet PC lately. I don't have one of these machines but I have a client who is thinking of getting one. There hasn't been any discussion on the list about these devices recently but in some older posts there were issues with stylus input into Rev fields. Is that still an issue? Are there other issues related to the touch screen? Is it possible to accommodate the screen twisting and changing orientation at runtime? Any comments on Tablet PC and Rev from someone with experience is greatly appreciated. Thanks Tim Bleiler Instructional Designer University at Buffalo Phone: 716-829-3867 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Tablet PC And Rev
Marian, Thanks for your reply. It sounds like most simple stacks should run fine. Most of my text input would be pretty simple. I wonder if when the screen is rotated the working ScreenRect returns values consistent with the new screen orientation. Tim Bleiler Instructional Designer, HSIT University at Buffalo Phone: 716-829-3867 On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Marian Petrides, MD wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Tim Bleiler wrote: Hi, Anyone try using Rev with a Tablet PC lately. I don't have one of these machines but I have a client who is thinking of getting one. There hasn't been any discussion on the list about these devices recently but in some older posts there were issues with stylus input into Rev fields. Is that still an issue? Tim, I have a tablet but do most of my development on a Mac and then port over to Windows. So I don't have experience actually CREATING stacks on a tablet but I do have a little experience running ported stacks on it (see my reply to your second question below. If you are talking about entering text into an input field using the stylus, I haven't tried that, but I'll see if I can get around to creating a little stack to test it. If you could give a specific example, I'll try to implement that. Are there other issues related to the touch screen? Is it possible to accommodate the screen twisting and changing orientation at runtime? I have a stack that was initially designed to be 800X400 (to allow it to play even in Win 95). It uses graphic buttons, radio buttons and check boxes and works fine on my HP 2710p tablet running Vista. The only issue is that when I rotate the screen, the stack is a bit too wide to display completely in portrait view. The fit is pretty close, so I didn't even notice it until you asked, but I suspect a stack that is much wider than 800 pixels won't work very well. HTH. Marian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Tablet PC And Rev
Marian, Thanks. Your experience with text input is consistent with older comments I found in the archives of this list. Has this problem been reported as a bug or is it more appropriately entered as a feature request? Sometimes my searches miss things. --Tim On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Marian Petrides, MD wrote: Tim I just created a stack with a single button and a single field named MyField containing the following script: On MouseUp Ask What is your name? Get it put it into field MyField End mouseUp It runs fine in both orientations, but the sticky wicket is that it does not allow input from the stylus--not even if you try to use the Tablet PC Input Panel (the insert button is dimmed out on the Input Panel). So the only way to enter text is by the keyboard. And THAT is problematic when the tablet is in portrait orientation because the keyboard is hidden behind the tablet screen. It IS possible but it is very kludgy. And, more importantly, you can NOT enter handwritten text. Or maybe you can and I just don't know how to capture such input. Sorry. M On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Tim Bleiler wrote: Marian, Thanks for your reply. It sounds like most simple stacks should run fine. Most of my text input would be pretty simple. I wonder if when the screen is rotated the working ScreenRect returns values consistent with the new screen orientation. Tim Bleiler Instructional Designer, HSIT University at Buffalo Phone: 716-829-3867 On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Marian Petrides, MD wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Tim Bleiler wrote: Hi, Anyone try using Rev with a Tablet PC lately. I don't have one of these machines but I have a client who is thinking of getting one. There hasn't been any discussion on the list about these devices recently but in some older posts there were issues with stylus input into Rev fields. Is that still an issue? Tim, I have a tablet but do most of my development on a Mac and then port over to Windows. So I don't have experience actually CREATING stacks on a tablet but I do have a little experience running ported stacks on it (see my reply to your second question below. If you are talking about entering text into an input field using the stylus, I haven't tried that, but I'll see if I can get around to creating a little stack to test it. If you could give a specific example, I'll try to implement that. Are there other issues related to the touch screen? Is it possible to accommodate the screen twisting and changing orientation at runtime? I have a stack that was initially designed to be 800X400 (to allow it to play even in Win 95). It uses graphic buttons, radio buttons and check boxes and works fine on my HP 2710p tablet running Vista. The only issue is that when I rotate the screen, the stack is a bit too wide to display completely in portrait view. The fit is pretty close, so I didn't even notice it until you asked, but I suspect a stack that is much wider than 800 pixels won't work very well. HTH. Marian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Moving a rev stack to the foreground
Hello! I'm using rev 2.8.1 Enterprise edition to write an app. Part of this app's function is to accept a drag/drop from another app. The dragData is always text. Here's a description of the interaction between the other app (FireFox) and mine: FireFox is in the foreground I select text on a web page I drag it to my app (still in the background) My app receives the drag/drop with no problems...but here's where it gets sticky... My app then asks for a quantity. The problem is, my app is still in the background, so the user has to click twice...once to bring my app to the front (make active) and another to click the OK button in the ask dialog box. Is there a way to automatically bring a rev app to the foreground? Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Anyone playing audio successfully under Linux?
Hi Malte, You need to have eSound installed to play audio clips --- I am not sure if it comes pre installed with Ubuntu. As of course you must have mPlayer installed to do anything with the player object in Linux. Regards, Tim On 21 May, 14:42, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, for the fun of it I compiled drops! for Linux. Performance is pretty good under UBUNTU in a virtual machine. But for the life of me I can not get audioclips to play neither does a player with a path to an .mp3 set. Did anyone succeed playing audio under Linux? If so, which distro did you use? Any special libs that must be installed? All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
FrontScripts speed
Hi, Anyone have any ideas why a script inserted into the front would run MUCH slower than the same script run from a stack script placed in the message path with Start using? Thanks, Tim Bleiler University at Buffalo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: FrontScripts speed
Thanks for the help Richard. That's what I was thinking also. I think I solved the problem since I posted the request but if anyone is interested this is what I did. The inserted front script contains a preOpenCard handler that rearranges controls. I went this route because I was having problems with controls jumping around after doing a lock screen, go to card, rearrange controls, unlock card strategy (don't know what the problem is with that either). I thought by having the rearrangement occur in the PreOpenCard handler I could avoid the problem. I didn't want the PreOpenCard handler hanging around so I was inserting it into the front, doing the work, then removing it. When I first tried it I didn't think I would need any lock screens because the rearrangement was in the preOpenCard handler. It turns out that's wrong. When I added a lock screen to the preOpenCard handler the performance returned to acceptable levels. Thanks for the comments, Tim Bleiler University at Buffalo On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Tim Bleiler wrote: Anyone have any ideas why a script inserted into the front would run MUCH slower than the same script run from a stack script placed in the message path with Start using? Execution speed is pretty much unaffected by the location of the handler in the message path, with the only exception being a very minor (barely measurable) increase in performance the closer a handler is to the front of the queue. This means, however, that a frontScript would be a tiny bit faster than a library or backscript. So whatever's causing the perceived slowdown must be related to the interaction of the script with others in the message path. What does the script do? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cgi and Database (stick to standards)
Hi Hershel, What platform are you running on? Also, which version of revolution? There was some DB/CGI related problems with the earlier 2.9 Beta - although I think we've fixed them in the latest Beta. Regards, Tim. On 7 Feb, 16:13, Hershel Fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/08 10:00 AM, Richard Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hershel, Hi, and thanks, I'm not sure if this is the answer to your question, but I have found problems with using http-based url's from inside the cgi folder. You might try removing the http://localhost/cgi-bin; portion, since it appears the database is already inside the cgi-bin directory. For the cgi, I don't use the http because I got to understand (after a lot of struggle) that that¹s only for the apache server other then that I use the regular path, e.g. In the same folder I just put filex.x for the document folder I use /filex.x. Also I tried everything I could think of. As you could see below in the examples. Another option is to use a conventional flat file database (i.e. text file). I've been using that with Rev cgi with no problem. I don¹t think that it will work with a million record plus, db. Richard But what I do see that no way to invest in a non standard item or project unless you know it in and out other wise you might end up in trouble. I put in a lot of time and effort in a web site doing the front end and it is very nice and works good but what does it matter the face if the brain is dead. (despite the advise not to because its not standard and might end up in hot water in case I will need help and to use PHP) Thanks, Hershel On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi all I'm in the works of creating a web site rev CGI which the interface is almost done, And now I'm stuck when it comes to the database part. Have no idea how to work this out tried various different way's and E.g. #!revolution on startup put 1 getTip1() into theData # write minimal set of HTTP headers to stdout put Content-Type: text/html cr put Content-Length: the length of theData cr cr put theData end startup function getTip1 get revGetDatabaseDriverPath() return it end getTip1 function getTip2 get revOpenDatabase(sqlite,http://localhost/cgi-bin/ testdb.db, , , , ) return it end getTip2 function getTip3 get revOpenDatabase(sqlite,testdb.db, , , , ) return it end getTip3 ERROR 500 Any help would be appreciated. Hershel Fisch ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: has anybody heard a release date of 2.9?
Hi there, Whilst I can't say _exactly_ when 2.9 is going to ship, I can tell you that the last beta of 2.9 will stop working in a couple of months - so I am afraid you can't build/release your application with the Beta. What sort of timescale are you looking at for the release of your product? If you are thinking about releasing in a month or so, then I would suggest hanging on for the 2.9 release. * nuff said * Regards, Tim. On 31 Jan, 11:02, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I am just before the finalization of a new app. Has anybody heard about a planned release date of 2.9, where I could wait for, or should I still go with 2.8? BTW. Is there any reason I should not release an app build with a Beta (beside of my own risk). I mean, do the Betas have anything build in, which lets them stop working after a certain period or sth. Like this? I am asking because the current Beta has solved a problem, which I had In 2.8 with copying images over the clipboard. Thanks Tiemo ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: has anybody heard a release date of 2.9?
Interesting --- I've just tried it and Mark is right - Standalone's don't seem to expire (well, on my Linux installation anyway!) , even when the Beta IDE does... oh well, you live and learn! Regards, Tim On 31 Jan, 11:55, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm 1:1 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 12:53 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: has anybody heard a release date of 2.9? Hi, As far as I know, standalones built with the beta won't expire. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 31-jan-2008, om 12:41 heeft Tim Shields het volgende geschreven: Hi there, Whilst I can't say _exactly_ when 2.9 is going to ship, I can tell you that the last beta of 2.9 will stop working in a couple of months - so I am afraid you can't build/release your application with the Beta. What sort of timescale are you looking at for the release of your product? If you are thinking about releasing in a month or so, then I would suggest hanging on for the 2.9 release. * nuff said * Regards, Tim. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Where is the Printer Library
There appears to be some rev calls to a printer library (revprintField, and similar) but I can't find how to activate this library. The revPrint commands do nothing in the IDE. The 'documents', once one blows the patina off the clay fascia, does not mention a printer library either. Any suggestions on where to go gratefully received Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev on OLPC Sugar OS?
Hi there, We have tested Rev on XO in the office, and I can report that standalone applications work without any (known) problems - as long as you keep in mind the limitations of the XO Sugar Windowing system. XO uses the Matchbox window manager. This window manager ALWAYS has all windows fullscreen, with the exception of Modal windows. As a result of this multi-window application will not appear correctly - each window (or stack) will appear fullscreen and you have to flip between them. You can develop apps for the OLPC using Rev very effectively though if you just use a single stack that is designed to the resolution of the OLPC screen ( 1200x900 I believe). On a similar note : Rev also works on the Asus Eee straight out of the box :-) Best regards, Tim. On 10 Jan, 17:29, viktoras didziulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try LiveCD:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd. I tried running Revolution and apps compiled with it on Puppy Linux. It worked there... There is probably no reason why it shouldn't run on this XO Sugar thing :-) Best wishes Viktoras John Patten wrote: Hi All! Just curious... How possible would it be, now that Rev is also fairly Linux capable, would it be to get a version of Rev to work on the OLPC XO Sugar driven laptop? Thank You! John Patten ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Video on Linux
Hi Mark, The Linux version requires that the latest version of mplayer is installed on your system to enable playing of video's (in the same way as the Windows and OSX versions require quicktime player to be installed.) If you try and play a video without mplayer installed, there is a bug in the current DP which does not delete the child window (that it prepares for the video to play in) - hence the apparent non-redrawing. It should only be the docs stack that does not redraw - the other stacks (without video sub-windows) should be unaffected. This bug will be fixed in DP-4. Regards, Tim. On 14 Jan, 15:46, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Linux users, I have noticed that the on-line tutorial videos don't play out of the box (accessible trough the documentation window). Also, if a tutorial video is loaded but can't be displayed, Rev's windows locks up. I can still select menus and click in windows to activate them, but windows are no longer redrawn. I am using the latest Ubuntu with GNOME and 2.9 beta 10. Who is able to play the video tutorials under Linux, using Rev's latest beta version? Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineeringhttp://economy-x-talk.comhttp://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev on OLPC Sugar OS?
Hi there We have run Rev standalones under XO Sugar in the office without any (known) problems. However there are a few issues that should be noted. XO Sugar uses Matchbox as its windowing manager. Unfortunately (for us) Matchbox makes all windows fullscreen (with the exception of Modal windows). As such each stack in your application will run fullscreen and you have to switch between them. Short of having our users install a different window manager (which can be done :-) ) this is a limitation that we cannot get round. This also means that although the IDE technically runs, its pretty much unusable. However, you can still successfully develop applications for the OLPC if you only use a single stack and design it to the OLPC's screen resolution ( which I think is 1200x900 ). On a similar note : Rev works fine straight out-of-the-box on the Asus Eee too :-) Regards, Tim Senior Developer Runtime Revolution. On 10 Jan, 17:29, viktoras didziulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try LiveCD:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd. I tried running Revolution and apps compiled with it on Puppy Linux. It worked there... There is probably no reason why it shouldn't run on this XO Sugar thing :-) Best wishes Viktoras John Patten wrote: Hi All! Just curious... How possible would it be, now that Rev is also fairly Linux capable, would it be to get a version of Rev to work on the OLPC XO Sugar driven laptop? Thank You! John Patten ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How to embed fonts using 2.8.2-gm3
I've done a search but I can't see how this is done - ie the 'docs' are for v2.7. I am developing on Mac for a principal target of windoze XP. On the windoze platform all the fonts I used in the Mac convert to piddly little arial type fonts of one size. If anyone knows of a tutorial I would be most grateful. TIA Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Using iTunes Video in Rev
Hi, I'm working on an application for a handicapped child that presents a simple interface, custom made to the child's needs. We'd like to be able to access and play purchased video from the iTunes store within this application. However, the purchased files are .m4v and only seem to play in the Quicktime player and iTunes, not Rev. Is this related to the copy protection? Is there a workaround OTHER than launching Quicktime Player or iTunes? Or is it a bug? Thanks, Tim Bleiler ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Vector illustrations in Revolution
On May 24, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Anybody up for a a DXF-to-Rev object translator? The good news...I've got a project going that I call chatCAD. Scenario: two engineers chatting on aim, yahoo, whatever...exchanging design ideas via a whiteboard of sorts. However, the results from a typical whiteboard app is freehand/bitmap and not very usable in any CAD program when the skill-pooping session is done. Besides, freehanding something drives most engineers nuts...we'd rather define endpoints of lines, etc., to achieve usable accuracy. So, chatCAD will use a stripped down dxf-like document to exchange graphic ideas during the session and then be fully importable to a CAD program afterwards. I will also (this is the hopefully part), make it 3D wireframe with help from Derbrill's AnimationEngine. The bad news...this is a spare-time project, so it's not likely to be complete anytime soon. I can offer this...I've written many DXF utilities that we use in house to communicate between CAD and our home grown CNC micro- driller. As a result, I've had to read, manipulate and write DXF files many times. DXF file interpretation can get very ugly. It's not as universal as you would think. Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Reading OSX mail attachments
Hello, Thanks for your help, but I'm still having problems displaying the image correctly. This snippet from the .eml file says it's base 64: --FTG_BOUNDRY Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=Pool Table.jpg Content-disposition: attachment Content-transfer-encoding: base64 But, when I open the file within rev...strip out all the text ahead of the attachment...strip out all the junk past the end of the attachment...then set the image data of an image to base64Decode (theattachment)...I get mostly a black image with a sliver of hash on the left side. I have got to be missing something basic here! On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Brent Anderson wrote: Hello. I've done something similar with audio clips and those were in base 64 format. A quick base64decode function call should do the trick. Thanks, Brent Anderson Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:55:32 -0500, Tim Ponn wrote: Hello all, I have a situation where customer orders come to me via email with a photo attachment. It occurred to me that I could use rev to create a db front end that could be pointed at the appropriate mailbox folder and then have it extract each message. Then, each message becomes a record in my db. Extracting the data is a piece o cake. Then I come to the attachment. Apple apparently uses a compression technique to store the image (jpg, bmp, whatever) within each individual message. Has anybody fiddled with reading and displaying these attachments? Any thoughts? Ideas? Laughs? ;=) Well, as a last resort you could leave it in Mail, and then use AppleScript to get at the message and its attachments. Barring that, I haven't had to read embedded mail attachments directly, but I'd assume they are either BinHexed or AppleDouble encoded... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Reading OSX mail attachments
Ken, Yes, I do have the image in my rev stack set to the same as the original jpeg image..in this case 350 x 232. For what it's worth, once I isolate (theAttachment), I also put base64Decode(theAttachment) into a field. I then opened the original Pool Table.jpg with a text editor. They look identical and they are the same length...well...the jpg file has 3 extra bytes, but I would attribute this to eof. Because the slice of hash is about 1/16 the width of the image that I end up with (the balance being black), is it possible that base64Decode is actually hex, and not binary? Maybe coincidence? On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:15:59 -0400, Tim Ponn wrote: Hello, Thanks for your help, but I'm still having problems displaying the image correctly. This snippet from the .eml file says it's base 64: --FTG_BOUNDRY Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=Pool Table.jpg Content-disposition: attachment Content-transfer-encoding: base64 But, when I open the file within rev...strip out all the text ahead of the attachment...strip out all the junk past the end of the attachment...then set the image data of an image to base64Decode(theattachment)...I get mostly a black image with a sliver of hash on the left side. I have got to be missing something basic here! Do you know ahead of time the size of the image? Because before you set the imageData of an image, you need to have the rect of the image be correct otherwise you'll get garbage. I would suggest pumping the base64Decode(theattachment) to a binary file called Pool Table.jpg and then importing that image from disk (or set the filename of an empty image to the file path). Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Reading OSX mail attachments
Dave, Thanks, but that didn't work either. What I get now is a completely white image, and when I look at it's imageData it's zero length. On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: put base64Decode(theattachment) into image myImage Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Menu Font on Windows
Hi, I'd like my application to respect the user settings for fonts etc. in the windows menu bar that I create. I've queried the registry for the user font information but I can't figure out where the font size and font color information is stored. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Tim Bleiler Instructional Designer, University at Buffalo ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Reading OSX mail attachments
Hello all, I have a situation where customer orders come to me via email with a photo attachment. It occurred to me that I could use rev to create a db front end that could be pointed at the appropriate mailbox folder and then have it extract each message. Then, each message becomes a record in my db. Extracting the data is a piece o cake. Then I come to the attachment. Apple apparently uses a compression technique to store the image (jpg, bmp, whatever) within each individual message. Has anybody fiddled with reading and displaying these attachments? Any thoughts? Ideas? Laughs? ;=) Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How to use XFCNs XCMDs in Rev?
How do you install and use XFCNs and XCMDs in Rev? - Tim MacKenzie ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Physical Screen Size
Hello! I'm working on a project and I would like to get the physical screen size of the system. Is there a way to do this? I see how to get many of the screen attributes...but as to physical siza...nadda. A cheesy way to do this, I suppose, would be to display an object when the app is started up and ask the user to measure it and enter the measurement. Based on that I could calculate the size of the screen. Has anyone discovered how to do this? Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ALPTEX, Inc. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Physical Screen Size
Mark, I understand why folks set their screen res the way they do...I know someone who always sets it at the highest possible...never mind that it's nearly impossible to see the icons on their desktop without magnification! ;=) Here's my application and why it's important to me... We designed and built an extremely accurate 3 axis cnc micro-driller about 7 years ago which is controlled by a HyperCard stack. We use it in production to drill holes as small as .010 dia. through a variety of plastics with a guaranteed accuracy of .00025. The work area is small, just 4 square...but it has served our needs perfectly. In my stack, I represent the work area on screen in exactly the same size...WYSIWYG-in-extreme, if you will. When the file is loaded, the pattern is displayed. As each hole is drilled, the appropriate circle is filled in on the screen. I've used Rev for about 5 years now, and am converting this stack into a rev app. If we were only using it in house, no biggie, I would just tweak the display like I did last time. But now we're thinking of building and selling these machines (with perhaps a 12 square work area and higher RPM drill head to allow for smaller drills) to others. Now...it just occurred to me as I was writing this...a good work around may be to tweak it on my monitor until it's the same scale, then use my set resolution to recalculate and change size based on the resolution of the user. In fact, I'm certain that will work. Thanks for your poking, you got me to think! Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn ALPTEX, Inc. On Jan 19, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Tim, Normally, people set the screen resolution to a higher number because they want more to fit on their screen. They would be surprised to see that your application doesn't show more on screen despite a higher resolution, if you manage to do this. I don't think that the actual screen size is of any importance. Sometimes, it could be useful to adjust an application to the screen resolution, e.g. if you are making a full-screen interface. The physical screen size has nothing to do with this. So, why would you want to do this? Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
Marty, I LOVE using steppers in machinery and fixtures around my company. You can use Rev very nicely to control them. Here's the approach I've taken... I prefer to use an existing controller. I have a lot of experience with a particular brand called SimpleStep (www.simplestep.com). They are expensive, but I simply don't care. One machine we designed and built years ago cost us about $15,000...$400 of which went for 2 boards from this company. This single machine has resulted in close to $250K of sales over the years. I wouldn't care if the boards cost me 10x what they did. They're solid...never skip a beat...are simple to use and have a very rich set of features. Now, if you want a less costly controller (plus oodles more widget stuff)...there is a new player that I've gotten some early release info from...you can find them at www.copelandelectronics.com. If you prefer to write your own low level stuff and create your own controller...you're a better man (or...person) that I! ;=) On motors, I prefer Sanyo-Denki. Dunno why...but I've never had the tiniest of problems with them. You can find steppers at places like Jameco electronics...also a good source for cheap controllers and kits. Just remember...as usual...you'll probably get what you pay for! Now the fun starts...I've used Rev to control these boards via serial. But, I prefer using sockets...so I get one of those Ethernet to Serial convertors (specifically SitePlayer Telnet from NetMedia) and use the Rev socket commands. This allows me to control a few machines from a single app. It's all personal taste from here...it really depends on the machine and the environment. That's my 2 cents! Hope it helps. Best Regards, Timothy R. Ponn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: I was talking with a guy yesterday who said that using Basic you could use the printer port on Windows to talk to a stepper motor. I know pretty much nothing about robotics (or communicating through ports for that matter). Does anyone know if this is possible with Rev? I read through the docs and could see that one can read from and write data to com ports and LPT ports, but wouldn't a stepper motor just need electrical pulses sent to it? I realize I'm revealing my ignorance to the world here, but any help would be appreciated. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
copying a variable to the clipboard
Is there any way to put the contents of a variable onto the clipboard. I can say copy line 1 to 3 of field abc But Rev will not accept put line 1 to 3 of field abc into var1 copy var1 I want it on the clipboard so I can paste it in another application such as TextEdit. - Tim MacKenzie University of Tennessee, Knoxvile ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Using libSMTP to send an e-mail
Hi All, I'm trying to get to grips with using Shao Sean's libSMTP to send an e-mail. I've so far had limited success, in that I can send a message, but all of the TO,FROM,SUBJECT information is empty. Furthermore, the e-mails I have been sending must look dodgy because my ISP keeps blocking my account after I use libSMTP to send something! I've been reading that there's another library by Shao Sean to format the mail (libMail?), but I can't find it to download anywhere. So, I guess I'm wondering... 1. Can I get the libMail library? If so, where? And if not 2. How do I format the data I send using libSMTP so that e-mail clients will understand it? Many thanks, Tim. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Rev Toolbar Group button - How does it work?!
Hi All, I am trying to get the same effect as the Rev team have done with the Group button on the top toobar. When you click on an object with the pointer tool, the Group button on the toolbar immediately becomes available. Likewise, when you deselect the object, the Group button becomes disabled. How can I do this in my own stack? I can't work out what message to trap, as it seems that much fewer messages are sent when the pointer tool is selected, as compared to the browse tool. Many thanks, Timothy Due http://www.leaf25.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Keyboard Layout mis-matched under Japanese Windows
Hi all, After talking to support, I have submitted this to Bugzilla. It's at http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi\?id=2874 If you can help confirm this bug and vote for it, that would be a great help! Regards, Tim Due ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Keyboard Layout under Windows 98
Hi everyone, This is my first post here. I bought Rev Studio a few weeks ago and I have really enjoyed working with it, and reading about how to from this list, which has helped me a great deal! I have a question, though, that I haven't been able to find an answer for yet. I am using Windows 98 Japanese OS. When I open Rev, the text input mode automatically switches to a US English keyboard layout. Even if I go into the keyboards control panel and delete this layout, when I open Rev, it just comes back, almost as if Rev is creating it. This means that the punctuation characters do not display as typed. For example, on my keyboard is shift-6, but I have to type shift-7 to get it in Rev. Almost all the other punctuation characters on the right of the keyboard have the same problem. What I need to work out is why Rev isn't using the default keyboard layout and input method editor. I have other English software on this machine, and all of it honors the keyboard layout setting provided by the OS. (in fact, I am typing this now in an English version of Firefox, and there are no problems.) Although I personally can live with this problem, I want to distribute my software to people using Japanese systems - and then it becomes a much bigger issue for me. They will expect that when they type a bracket, or apostrophe, or ampersand, then that's what they get! Any fix / workaround gratefully appreciated! Regards, Timothy Due ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Rinaldi's fullFind equivalent for Revolution?
I am a long-time Hypercard user and use Rinaldi's fullFind XFCN extensively. I am new to Revolution and would like to know if there is any equivalent function or command for Revolution? Thanks for any help. - Tim MacKenzie University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
answer file vs. building a path manually
I am working in OS X. I have a revolution stack that is set up to play all the movies in a given folder. Everything works fine until I hit a movie with a long file name. When I set the players filename to be the full file path, it chokes. When I use answer file to get the same exact file, it puts a truncated file path into the player as the filename, and it works. The problem is I cannot use answer file, because I am trying to play a whole folder of clips. Is there any way to get the truncated name of a file without using answer file for each individual file? Thanks in advance for any help. Tim Bobo Left Brain Media, Corp. http://www.leftbrainmedia.com 972-410-1933 office 972-899-1933 fax 972-345-3989 mobile ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Tim Farmer/CRYNOTES
I will be out of the office starting 11/24/2003 and will not return until 12/01/2003. Thanks! Tim Farmer ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Tim Farmer/CRYNOTES
I will be out of the office starting 11/24/2003 and will not return until 12/01/2003. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Tim Farmer ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Externals
Thanks Dar, that is exactly the start I needed. I will be creating an external for OS X, Linux, and Windows. When finished, I plan to submit it as a user contribution for all to use. Tim Malloroy --__--__-- Message: 14 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:58:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Externals From: Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Tim Malloroy wrote: I can't seem to find any information on writing externals. I want to adapt SQLite for use in Revolution 2.1. Can anyone give me pointers or hints on where to start? Windows or Linux? Or are you adapting SQLite for OS X? Some place I have notes on struggling through my first one on Windows using Visual C/C++, but from memory... Start with the externals folder that came with the earlier versions. I think it can be downloaded. That should include some source files, a DLL definition file, a readme and a stack. I don't remember if it had a make file. Wrap your project around that and try it. Copy the DLL to the same folder as the Revolution executable. Open the stack. If you change the DLL, close purge the stack and reopen it. If you make your own external, remember to set the externals in the stack and reopen it. Then comes the hard part. Look at the examples for callback testing and variable access. Look at what they call. Look at the basic setup for adding commands and functions. Try that. You might want to add comments and make some notes. Much of this you can infer from the code; the rest may need testing or conservative usage. Dar Scott --__--__-- ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution End of use-revolution Digest ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Supercard vs. Rev
So now that Supercard 4 is out. What are your opinions? I was reading in MacWorld and they kind of made a stab at Rev for waiting so long to release 2. I have to say it is funny. I mean what is the hold up. I don't mean to be a jerk but I don't see how they could possibly miss their original announcement by 4 months of just bug fixing. What is going on? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
standardize window locations
Is there a way to keep windows in a certain place when switching from stack to a substack. I am closing the stack when going to a substack. I want to windows to show up in the same place. Any ideas? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Stopping a buttons actions
Hello everyone, I have a button which starts a script that takes about two minutes to get through. I am scrolling through pictures with it. My problem is stopping in the middle. How can I stop or pause once the button is hit so I don't have to wait 2 minutes. Thanks a ton. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Stopping a buttons actions
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ctrl-. (Win) or Cmd-. (Mac). Thanks. Now how do I do that with a button labeled reset so the user can do it to. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Another question today.
Sorry to keep asking question but I just can't figure it out. I have a stack that has a button with the following script in it. The user presses it and then this happens. It puts images into image 1.jpg. I would like to use some of the visual effects, but they don't seem to work when you set the filename. Anyone have any ideas or is it impossible? Thanks a lot in advance. on mouseup set filename of image 1.jpg to pics/sue/1.jpg put My daddy left home when I was three into field text wait 5 seconds put And he didn't leave much to Ma and me... into field text wait 5 seconds set filename of image 1.jpg to pics/sue/2.jpg ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Getting images from folder
I want to keep my pictures seperate from the app itself. I want to be able to call the pictures when i want them. I just can't seem to get the scripting right. I am trying: put image whatever into image 1 or put URL file:whatever/ehatever.jpg into image 1 please help ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Getting images from folder
I want to keep my pictures seperate from the app itself. I want to be able to call the pictures when i want them. I just can't seem to get the scripting right. I am trying: put image whatever into image 1 or put URL file:whatever/ehatever.jpg into image 1 please help ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Playing Mp3s and keeping them going
Hello all, Hope 2.0 comes out soon. Just wondering if anyone can tell me how to keep a sound file playing when I go from card to card. I have set a player and set it to play on preopencard. I want it to keep playing when I go to the next card. Any help? Thanks. tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Charting with Revolution
Is there any way of doing a variety of charts in Rev? With a plugin whatever? Thanks ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Flow charts
Hi, Does anyone know of any stacks, tutorials for creating dynamic flow charts in Hyper, Super, Meta-Card or Rev? Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: TextFont
On 5/20/02 11:40 AM, Björnke von Gierke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, Mai 20, 2002, at 05:01 , Tim wrote: Hi, I have a twofold question: 1. How can I specify a different default font for the message box, both upper and lower pane, and Well I guess you would want to get access to the revmessagebox.rev stack. You have to set Rev to show the Stacks from the RunRev UI (Its the first checkbox in the General Preference). Now just search for the revmessagebox.rev stack, and choose go editable make any change you wish... HOWEVER: RunRev inc. does not grant any guaranty or support if you mess up while doing this, and you may have to re-install the Rev-environment. 2. The Option Menu button seems to be the only button style that does NOT retain the text formatting (read: user set textFont) inside as it's menu items. Can anyone help with either question? Im not sure, but I think I don't understand this question :) so here some general infos about buttons: I found out that no button does keep any style information (eg. underline) however they can change their size/font . Also I think that no button stores any formating/visualizing infos in the menu items. Hope this Helps Björnke Thanks Björnke, I should have made myself clearer with the second question. Here it is re-worded: If I set the textfont of any button to a non-English (non-Latin) font, then that change is reflected, which is what you'd expect. But when you do that to the Option Button, it does not work. -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: TextFont
On 5/20/02 3:03 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:01 AM -0700 5/20/2002, Tim wrote: 2. The Option Menu button seems to be the only button style that does NOT retain the text formatting (read: user set textFont) inside as it's menu items. Can anyone help with either question? (I'm assuming you're on a Mac) Popup and option menus are drawn by the OS, so it sets the font used by menu items. You can either: - set the lookAndFeel to Macintosh instead of Appearance Manager to have the engine draw the menus itself, in which case it uses the button font instead of the systemwide menus font; or - use a stack menu instead of a button menu. A stack menu is an actual stack window that you display as a menu and which behaves like a menu. Creating one is a little more complicated than just entering menu items into the button contents and letting the engine create the menu, but it gives you more flexibility in layout. -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runtime Revolution Limited - The Solution for Software Development http://www.runrev.com/ It seems that setting the lookAndFeel to Macintosh will give you OS 9 look even though you're on OS X. So I suppose I'll opt for the latter approach. Thank you, -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
TextFont
Hi, I have a twofold question: 1. How can I specify a different default font for the message box, both upper and lower pane, and 2. The Option Menu button seems to be the only button style that does NOT retain the text formatting (read: user set textFont) inside as it's menu items. Can anyone help with either question? TIA, -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Ftp woes
On 4/22/02 4:50 PM, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:10 pm -0400 22/4/02, Tim wrote: Hi, I¹m having difficulties compressing and uploading a stack to my FTP server. Here¹s the code: on mouseUp save stack TestStack put PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/TestStack.rev into \ tLocalFile --TestStack is a Revolution Stack containing 3 other substacks put compress(tLocalFile) into URL ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/www/TestSt ack close stack TestStack end mouseUp Two problems: 1. with the file data (need to use url syntax) 2. with the user name (need to urlEncode because of the @ character) put /PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/TestStack.rev into tLocalFile put [EMAIL PROTECTED] into tName put ftp://; urlEncode(tName) :mypassword @ into tUrl put ftp.business.earthlink.net/www/TestStack after tUrl put url (binfile: tLocalFile) into tData put compress(tData) into url tUrl if the result is not empty then answer the result ##error check end if If the password contains any funny characters, you should urlEncode that too. (but not the : separating the name and password) Cheers Dave Cragg That did it. Thanks a bunch! Is there a way to reverse engineer this so that a shell stack could open this TestStack from the ftp server? Thanks again, -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Problem with modification dates
Hi, I have two identical stacks on two machines, a Mac OS X and a Win2K. I want to have a third stack be able to look up the modification date of both stacks and open the most recently modified stack. The problem is that when I open the stack which resides on a Mac with PC Revolution and modify it and save it, the modification date does not change on a Mac. This is very weird stuff indeed. Does anyone have a solution? TIA, Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: arrow keys in fields
On 3/8/02 1:30 PM, Rand Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a hard time getting arrow keys to work as I want in a text field. I want pressing the arrow keys to move me within the text of the field, not jump to another field. The textArrows property is presumably designed to handle this, but it doesn't seem to work properly with a grouped field-- pressing an arrow key causes a jump to another field (or a jump _somewhere_), but does move the cursor within the field. What am I doing wrong? rand valentine ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Try putting the following in your startup handler: set the navigationArrows to false set the textArrows to true -- Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
QT vs Animation Manager
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the additional advice. I'm on a steep learning curve at the moment. I'm working on the cards now in AppleWorks Paint, saving them as JPEGs, then feeding them into QT. I'll try the PNG. When it's all done I'll import the movies to Revolution and link it to the website from there. Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Quicktime versus Animation Manager (No subject)
Troy Thanks for your quick response. In answer to your question. I have some small animations for an english teaching program. A few GIFS of manipulated clip art and words broken into syllables with sound as they display on the screen. I'm a hobbyist working with an average household budget, so low cost solutions are imperative. Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Quicktime vs Animation
Troy Thanks again, you're way beyond my competence at this point. I'm totally new to Revolution, animation and programming. Hypercard I can do, and if I could import the color stacks I'd do it all in Hypercard and transfer it to Revolution. Will keep experimenting with getting the images the way I want them then I'll get back to you. It occurs to me that I could do the imagery and sound in Hypercard, make the Quicktime movies from there then import the movies to Revolution. But with the images being in PICT format, I wonder what they would look like on the Net. Tim ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
(no subject)
Does anyone know what to do after importing the control for a Quicktime movie? I have know idea what to do in the properties box or how to script it. Would it be easier to do animations in the Animation Manager? Tried that too, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'm running an iMac with OSX 1.2.3. Tim Chambers ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
CGI Creation
Can anyone point me in the direction of any documentation about how to use Revolution for CGI creation? -- Tim Bobo http://www.leftbrainmedia.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
