Re: Why doesn't this work, please?

2002-11-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
Roger, There is nothing wrong with your script. A bug in the Revolution IDE (Integrated Development Environment) sometimes prevents "choose browse tool" to work. This is fixed in the 2.0 version. The good news is that what you want to do will work fine in any standalone you create. It is just

Why doesn't this work, please?

2002-11-22 Thread Roger Guay
Hi folks, I'm using the following script to clone an invisible button "Video" and renaming the clones. And, despite my attempts to "choose browse tool" the selector tool comes up every time this script is executed: On mouseDown global Vn add 1 to Vn clone button "video" set the name of

Re: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread David Vaughan
On Saturday, Nov 23, 2002, at 12:07 Australia/Sydney, Rob Cozens wrote: Dear miscdas, "Sin in haste, repent at leisure:" snip Don't get too stressed about it Rob. Forgiveness works pretty well, and bounce can be restored. You are not Robinson Crusoe and I for one would look for unrepentant

RE: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread Rob Cozens
Dear miscdas, "Sin in haste, repent at leisure:" I have spent much of this day trying to find the best way to apologize to you, and searching for justification for what I ultimately concluded was totally inexcusable behavior on my part. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, and you dese

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Alex Rice wrote: OK who wants to write an external to wrap libcurl? ( http://curl.sourceforge.net/ ) Or, if you are running OS X, the curl command comes pre-installed and you could definitely run it from the shell. "Curl is a command line tool for t

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 05:02 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: IMHO, the proper way to go about this is to use OpenSSL (www.openssl.org) source and create externals for Mac,PC,Linux which work with LibURL. In this way, the basic syntax can stay consistent, and you don't have to add redundant

RE: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Chipp Walters
I got a question for all of you https users Exactly what do you want it for? Please cite some examples. IOW, would it be better to have an encrypt tool instead? There seem to be lots of workarounds for a *mostly* secure solution using RR/MC. (md5digest with base64encode offset by your birthdate

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Iago
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Chipp Walters wrote: > IMHO, the proper way to go about this is to use OpenSSL > (www.openssl.org) source and create externals for > Mac,PC,Linux which work with LibURL. In this way, the > basic syntax can stay consistent, and you don't have to > add redundant features by crea

RE: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Chipp Walters
IMHO, the proper way to go about this is to use OpenSSL (www.openssl.org) source and create externals for Mac,PC,Linux which work with LibURL. In this way, the basic syntax can stay consistent, and you don't have to add redundant features by creating a whole new URL library. -Chipp __

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 04:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I thought to have found the ideal tool for development in RR and again run into a project which proves me wrong... GRR There is no ideal tool. For each unique project there is an ideal tool(s) but there is no such th

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 04:21 PM, Iago wrote: Personally, I'd prefer an internal implementation, since the URLs in my case are liable to have username/password components, ala https://foo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ I'd rather that not show up in a ps listing because I launched an ex

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I thought to have found the ideal tool for development in RR and again run into a project which proves me wrong... GRR Please, anyone, do us all a favour and build this external... Even as a link to this curl-thing, it's better then nothing... And it will give our Scottish friends a little

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Iago
Personally, I'd prefer an internal implementation, since the URLs in my case are liable to have username/password components, ala https://foo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ I'd rather that not show up in a ps listing because I launched an external command. :) But who am I to speak? I haven't lea

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Iago wrote: It's a known limitation, yes. Once they release 2.0, apparently https/ssl support is "up next" on the list, but I suspect that still means at least several months in coming. A pity, really, because until that happens, I'm not able

RE: Controls of Stack

2002-11-22 Thread Monte Goulding
> I believe the recommended approach to translation is to use the > Profile Manager to preconfigure each control for each language > supported. I personally do not use this approach because I want my > app to be translatable into any (Western) language, not just those it > ships with. My thoughts

Re: Rev 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread erik hansen
--- Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an aside there are two articles in MacLife > Germany: > > > > 11/2002 A full and excellent review of > Revolution 1.1.1 > > 12/2002 A tutorial of 1.1.1 > > we all should give a very big hand to our > german revolutionist > Mr. Malte Brill, who wro

Re: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread erik hansen
--- Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >calmate Rob, where is your sense of irony? > > My apologies, Erik. > > We had not conversed enough for me to know > whether to take your > initial comment as a warning or an order. > Sorry I was in the frame > of mind to assume the worst instead of

Re: Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread Iago
It's a known limitation, yes. Once they release 2.0, apparently https/ssl support is "up next" on the list, but I suspect that still means at least several months in coming. A pity, really, because until that happens, I'm not able to write the apps I want to for my place of work. On Fri,

Re: Strange script error

2002-11-22 Thread Robert Presender
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Will adding the stack name do it: vis, go card "quiz" of stack "whatever" ? Regards Bob I have a handler in an Image object (id 1054) on the second card (id 1051) in my stack: on mouseUp set the currentFrame of me to 1

[OT] report manager in rev 2.0; what to do today?

2002-11-22 Thread Alex Rice
I am looking at the Report Manager scren grab on http://runrev.com/news/revolution20.html . Is the Report Manager just a GUI for already existing programmatic interfaces, or are there new printing features being delivered? In 1.1.1, I want to print a report containing a very large scrolling gr

Http or https

2002-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Http or https I’m building a small application to get some information from a website. When an url starts with “http” everything works fine, but now I need to acces information from a database (I think) and the url starts with “https”. The result remains empty, nothing is returned, while

Re: Schedule for 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, November 22, 2002, at 05:23 Uhr, Troy Rollins wrote: An updated beta sometime soon? Doesn't the feature set need "real world" testing? (Preferably one with an enabled builder.) I dont understand this too... Why not a beta? regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter Learn easy with trainingsma

High precision decimal arithmetic

2002-11-22 Thread Dar Scott
Some months ago some discussion indicated some limitations to the available precision and to use of a binary point in Revolution arithmetic. I'm hoping to get my workload down by mid December so that I can take a couple days to build my first pass at a high precision decimal arithmetic library

re: Strange script error

2002-11-22 Thread Barry Levine
I think I resolved the error. I added "of this stack" to the code, so: go card "quiz" becomes: go card "quiz" of this stack I would've thought that the message hierarchy could handle this as the card of that name resides in the current stack. Guess I have to be more specific. I'm probably spoi

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #870 - 15 msgs

2002-11-22 Thread Kevin Miller
On 22/11/02 4:58 pm, Maitzen, Michael R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked this earlier but I did not get a reply. This may be because you > already answered this earlier but, if so, I missed it. Will there be a printed > addendum to the printed manuals when the update comes out? pdf files mayb

RE: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #870 - 15 msgs

2002-11-22 Thread Maitzen, Michael R.
I asked this earlier but I did not get a reply. This may be because you already answered this earlier but, if so, I missed it. Will there be a printed addendum to the printed manuals when the update comes out? pdf files maybe? Or will it just be in the on-line help. Thanks, MRM > Subject: Sch

Re: Schedule for 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Kevin, Hi, I have a little good, and a little not so good news about 2.0. First, the not so good news. Unfortunately, we are running a little later than expected. We want to ensure that 2.0 is in the best possible shape and the feature set is well tested. As such the release is going to

Re: Can a mouseclick simultaneously send a message as it ends a"repeat until the mouseclick" loop?

2002-11-22 Thread Mark Swindell
on 11/22/02 7:47 AM, Dar Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 02:20 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > >> First of all, let's redo the repeat loop and make it a >> 'send' loop. > > I recommend Jan's approach. > > And would add this. > > If doSlideThing is called from a b

Re: Rev 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, ... As an aside there are two articles in MacLife Germany: 11/2002 A full and excellent review of Revolution 1.1.1 12/2002 A tutorial of 1.1.1 we all should give a very big hand to our german revolutionist Mr. Malte Brill, who wrote these two articles. Thank you Malte ;-) Regards K

Strange script error

2002-11-22 Thread Barry Levine
I have a handler in an Image object (id 1054) on the second card (id 1051) in my stack: on mouseUp set the currentFrame of me to 1 go card "quiz" -- that's the first card in the stack; it's named "quiz" -- -- this is a two-frame gif used as a rollover button -- we reset it to frame 1 be

Re: Schedule for 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Troy Rollins
On 11/22/02 11:13 AM, "Kevin Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, the not so good news. Unfortunately, we are running a little later > than expected. We want to ensure that 2.0 is in the best possible shape and > the feature set is well tested. As such the release is going to be later >

Re: Schedule for 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Marian Petrides
Kevin, Thank you very much for doing the honorable thing! Count me in for a renewal--and YES, I had been holding off until I really needed a new version because I thought I was going to have just missed the deadline yet again. Marian On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:13:07 + Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROT

Re: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread Rob Cozens
calmate Rob, where is your sense of irony? My apologies, Erik. We had not conversed enough for me to know whether to take your initial comment as a warning or an order. Sorry I was in the frame of mind to assume the worst instead of the best. I'm glad your were entertained, and sorry I spoil

Re: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread Rob Cozens
Rob, if I thought you were planning to start posting regularly on politics, artwork and the state of the nation, those words would alarm me. That's fair, Heather, and just what I would expect to keep this from becoming a "General List". If you need any guidance in keeping me in line, perhaps J

Re: Controls of Stack

2002-11-22 Thread Rob Cozens
Does everyone know that repeat with x=1 to the number of controls of stack y only enumerates the controls on the current card? Bit of a bugger..eh? How does one parse all the controls of a stack ensuring that those in a background only get parsed once unless they are fields with the sharedText set

Schedule for 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi, I have a little good, and a little not so good news about 2.0. First, the not so good news. Unfortunately, we are running a little later than expected. We want to ensure that 2.0 is in the best possible shape and the feature set is well tested. As such the release is going to be later than

Re: Getting the name of objects

2002-11-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 07:08 AM, Steve Messimer wrote: set the lockText of fld "fldGrp" of the owner of me to false I have used "of the owner of me" (Rev 1.1.1) in the past and it has worked. Maybe something else is wrong. Maybe the field got renamed somehow? (Uh. This same

Re: Can a mouseclick simultaneously send a message as it ends a "repeat until the mouseclick" loop?

2002-11-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 02:20 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: First of all, let's redo the repeat loop and make it a 'send' loop. I recommend Jan's approach. And would add this. If doSlideThing is called from a button mouseUp, you need a way to keep from starting a second slide show runnin

"Move all images into individual files" build option

2002-11-22 Thread giulio mastrosanti
Hi all, Can't realize how to use "Move all images into individual files" build option. I imagined checking it on the build options form to have a smaller executable, and the imagines I have imported into my card to be on some subfolder of the executable folder. But this don't seem to happen, wha

Special characters with menuitems

2002-11-22 Thread doupsy
Hello, How is it possible to write menuitems that contains special characters without wanting special effect. for example i want this menuitem:Monsieur (j) With XFCN FullHPop (Hypercard) we use \ before special character to put out the effect of this special character. Thanks. Ed

Getting the name of objects

2002-11-22 Thread Steve Messimer
Hi, I need some help with this. I am creating groups in one stack and pasting them in another. The group contains a field and a lock button that when clicked will toggle the lockText property of the field. The problem is that in the process of pasting the grp it is renamed so the lock btn has to

Re: Rev 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread Rod McCall
Dear Yves, We will be discussing the final date shortly. However I would advise against any customers getting sleepless nights over Revolution. While the team are excited about the up and coming release we all try to get a good nights sleep after a hard days work, I would advise all our custome

Re: General Lists vs Special Lists

2002-11-22 Thread Heather Williams
> I trust in Heather to keep this from becoming a General List. > Why, thank you Rob. Actually, it's the good folks on the list who make it what it is. The amount of cheerful, friendly, incredibly erudite advice that gets dispensed round here never ceases to astound me. Personally, I enjoy the occ

How to open a driver on Mac OS 9?

2002-11-22 Thread Chris Pastl
I want to use Revolution´s "open driver" function on Mac OS 9; but I always get the following message when I try to open a driver: "Can´t open that file". Other programs can access the driver; so the problem might be Revolution. I´ve tested many different names and cases, but I get the same result

Re: Valentina and OS-X (Darwin) revisited...

2002-11-22 Thread Greg Saylor
>UNIX 1970s editor for full screen terminals, superseding ed, the line >editor for teletypes and line-interactive terminals. While this is certainly technically correct... I just wanted to point out, after having digesting this (and several long islands), that this simple (although, as I mentione

Rev 2.0

2002-11-22 Thread yves COPPE
Hello, Just to let the pressure going higher : next week should be THE week...!!! I sleep very bad since 2 days...I'm waiting very impatiently... -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Valentina and OS-X (Darwin) revisited...

2002-11-22 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Donnerstag, November 21, 2002, at 08:33 Uhr, David Vaughan wrote: UNIX 1970s editor for full screen terminals, superseding ed, the line editor for teletypes and line-interactive terminals. Uff:) regards David Thanks regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter Learn easy with trainingsmaps© INTERNET

Re: Can a mouseclick simultaneously send a message as it ends a "repeat until the mouseclick" loop?

2002-11-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Mark Swindell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Thanks, Jan. When I checked out the mouseControl > function it appears to > return the type and layer of the control. While I > could send a mouseUp to > the control by testing for it being under the > cursor, what I need it for the > mou