Re: Valentina and Rev manuals

2003-05-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 03:07 AM, David Phillips wrote: ... Also, is the Valentina and Rev 2 combination production-stable? I haven't bought a Valentina license yet, does anyone have any advice or recommendations regarding its use? My project will need a single-user database for sure so any

RE: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Ivers, Doug E
I had the same bizarre problem and removing the prop set cRevGeneral resolved it. Can someone shed some light on what's going on? Why would this cause so much cpu activity? Will I have to delete cRevGeneral from all my existing stacks? Mac OSX 10.2.5 on powerbook g4 667 dvi -- D > -O

Re: text appearence of RR 2.0 scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Emmanuel Companys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripts in 2.0 show up in pale grey. In 1.1.1 you > coul select any pat > of the scripts an change their style an color. How > can we do that in > 2.0? > > The "Format" item of he menu Script only scrolls > down the text to the > bottom not sho

Re: Drag-And-Drop Image Fun

2003-05-29 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
>However, here's my take on things (UNTESTED) : >- since it wants .PNG formatted image data, you'll >need to convert both its imageData _and_ its >maskData/alphaData into that format >- you might want to look at the 'export' command in >the dictionary ; it allows you to export to a file or >even a

text appearence of RR 2.0 scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Scripts in 2.0 show up in pale grey. In 1.1.1 you coul select any pat of the scripts an change their style an color. How can we do that in 2.0? The "Format" item of he menu Script only scrolls down the text to the bottom not showing any palette. In the menu View: the colorize item lets you get

Re: Freezing at "Looking for license"

2003-05-29 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Jim, not happening here. System: G4 tower AGP-400MHz, Os 9.04, carbon lib 1.6 512MB Ram Have you already tried starting your machine with only standard extensions turned on? Regards, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: Drag-And-Drop Image Fun

2003-05-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have been able to successfully work with > drag-and-drop with text, > >but not with PICTURES. My original posting, in > regards to the 2 > >problems I encountered with drag-and-drop: > > > > > Hi Igor > > I've asked on this list to jan Schenkel

Apology

2003-05-29 Thread David Phillips
My apologies to anyone affected by my sending a previous message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to double-check the address before I post. Sorry. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runr

Re: Going Mad With Unicode

2003-05-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Igor Couto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Jan, > > Thank you for your prompt suggestion! > > [snip] > > In my test, "targetf" was 6 lines long. Much to my > surprise, this > script DID copy the right characters into line 2 of > the target! > However, after line 2, ALL CHARACTERS TURNED

cRevGeneral - revLibraries

2003-05-29 Thread sims
> This is just a guess on my part, but what happens if you remove the cRevGeneral custom property set from the stack (in 1.1.1) and then open it in 2.0? -- > Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ Thanks you, thank you, thank you, you saved me hours. I went into Rev 1.1.1 and deleted it ( odd that it does

Re: text in RR 2.0 scripts

2003-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Manuel, This is a font anti-aliasing issue in OS X (if that's what you're using)...just go to "Preferences" and under "Script Editor" set the font to "Courier" and it will be nice and dark again. Valetia :-) On 29/5/03 5:06 PM, "Emmanuel Companys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripts in 2.0

Valentina and Rev manuals

2003-05-29 Thread David Phillips
Hello, I FINALLY (!!!) convinced the powers that be in my company to let me try Rev for a project instead of C++ and I just uninstalled REALBasic from my personal computer. So, I guess this means I'm going to actually have to learn to use Rev now! ;) A few questions, though: Are the Rev manual

text in RR 2.0 scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Scripts in 2.0 show up in pale grey. In 1.1.1 you coul select any pat of the scripts an change their style an color. How can we do that in 2.0? The "Format" item of he menu Script only scrolls down the text to the bottom not showing any palette. In the menu View: the colorize item lets you get

Re: Sending files to the Trash

2003-05-29 Thread Howard Bornstein
>The Trash is a normal folder, just like any other, so if you can work >out the path to it, then you can just rename your file to that path >instead of using delete. Thank you Sarah (and Ken). I wanted to find a way to write directly to the trash from Transcript. My little utility often has to

Re: first field to get keyboard focus?

2003-05-29 Thread Edwin Gore
If another object overlays the field (like, the lable maybe?) it will not get focaus corrently. Try making sure that no other object overlays your field. - Original Message - From: "Alex Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:44 PM Subject: Re: f

Re: first field to get keyboard focus?

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think it's the lowest-numbered field that gets the automatic cursor insertion. Try relayering your fields and put the desired target as layer 1. Sure enough. Thanks- I don't know why I thought it was front-to-back (higher to low

Re: RevNet certification(?)

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks to the engine's built-in md5 support, crsafting a scheme isn't the hard part. The hard part is deciding who gets a certificate and who doesn't I know that's why I suggested the web-of-trust concept ala PGP. It's a way of

Re: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100%

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave McKee wrote: > Since installing 2.0r2, I have found that under a wide variety of > circumstances ( which means I have not got a clue as to how to isolate this > ), cpu usage shoots to 100% and just stays there seemly forever. It can > happen while editing a script, using the debugger or just

Re: RevNet certification(?)

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: > > On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> In the absence of any objective criteria, I may call the certificate >> program >> "Friends of Fourth World", and limit it to people I know personally >> (literally friends). Since I know most of the folks lik

Re: first field to get keyboard focus?

2003-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 08:34 am, Alex Rice wrote: On a card I have a field with the highest layer number of all the controls. Nonetheless, *another* field is the one that gets the keyboard input cursor when I go to the card. Has anyone seen this and do you know what a workaround is? I th

Freezing at "Looking for license"

2003-05-29 Thread Jim Hurley
Anybody else having this problem? I downloaded the just-released version of 2.0 (MacOS 9-PowerBook G4 ) and it freezes on startup. It get as far as "Looking for license" and then it freezes. I tried moving my license file from 2.0 beta file, but that didn't work either. Jim __

Re: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Dave McKee
On 5/28/03 7:56 PM, "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:38PM -0700 5/28/03, Dave McKee wrote: So the saga continues. I re installed version 1.1.1 and opened the stack with version 1.1.1 and my stack is well behaved as is revolution 1.1.1. Going back to version 2

Re: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:38PM -0700 5/28/03, Dave McKee wrote: >>> So the saga continues. I re installed version 1.1.1 and opened the >>> stack with version 1.1.1 and my stack is well behaved as is revolution >>> 1.1.1. Going back to version 2.0r2, just opening the stack was >>> enough to peg the cpu usage at 100%.

Re: Nine to Five Reports and Rev

2003-05-29 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:30PM -0700 5/28/03, Alan Gayne wrote: >At this time I have just downloaded Runrev 2.0 - and perhap a lot of >this stuff IS in the report generator/manager contained therein, but I >can't find any documentation about the capabilities of this feature set >and a really detailed tutorial on its us

Re: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Dave McKee
On 5/28/03 7:22 PM, "Mark Talluto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 05:47 PM, Dave McKee wrote: > >> So the saga continues. I re installed version 1.1.1 and opened the >> stack >> with version 1.1.1 and my stack is well behaved as is revolution 1.1.1. >> Going back

Re: Reporting tool

2003-05-29 Thread Alan Gayne
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I don't personally need this kind of tool for anything I'm currently working on but if I did, I'd say $100 for use either for myself or a limited non-commercial distribution (like for an in-company application). $1,000 for unlimited co

Re: Nine to Five Reports and Rev

2003-05-29 Thread Alan Gayne
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 06:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: To make sure we keep a useful focus, let's return to the basics for a moment: What do folks need to print? What challenges are they currently facing implementing that? Hi Richard After speaking extensively on the need for a (Nin

Re: Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 05:47 PM, Dave McKee wrote: So the saga continues. I re installed version 1.1.1 and opened the stack with version 1.1.1 and my stack is well behaved as is revolution 1.1.1. Going back to version 2.0r2, just opening the stack was enough to peg the cpu usage at 100%

Re: Using Revolution for LARGE projects

2003-05-29 Thread Sarah
Hi Igor, I have made a few medium sized projects and have just started work on a large project. I agree with the other responses so far, that Revolution IS suited to large projects, however I would also urge you not to consider the project as a single entity. In your list below, you have divid

Re: Sending files to the Trash

2003-05-29 Thread Sarah
The Trash is a normal folder, just like any other, so if you can work out the path to it, then you can just rename your file to that path instead of using delete. I have only done this on Mac OS X, but here is the method I use for finding the path to the Trash: put specialFolderPath("Deskto

Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100% - Part 2

2003-05-29 Thread Dave McKee
So the saga continues. I re installed version 1.1.1 and opened the stack with version 1.1.1 and my stack is well behaved as is revolution 1.1.1. Going back to version 2.0r2, just opening the stack was enough to peg the cpu usage at 100%. Using cmd period to stop this behaviour works and then just

Re: first field to get keyboard focus?

2003-05-29 Thread Sarah
I don't know the reason for this although it might be that Rev stores the focus so that the same field is selected when you go to a new card. The workaround is to have a preOpenCard handler that specifically sets the focus to the correct field. e.g. focus on field 1 Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTE

Release 2.0r2 - Unexplained CPU usage shoots to 100%

2003-05-29 Thread Dave McKee
Since installing 2.0r2, I have found that under a wide variety of circumstances ( which means I have not got a clue as to how to isolate this ), cpu usage shoots to 100% and just stays there seemly forever. It can happen while editing a script, using the debugger or just all on its own without int

first field to get keyboard focus?

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On a card I have a field with the highest layer number of all the controls. Nonetheless, *another* field is the one that gets the keyboard input cursor when I go to the card. Has anyone seen this and do you know what a workaround is? Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consulta

Re: RevNet certification(?)

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the absence of any objective criteria, I may call the certificate program "Friends of Fourth World", and limit it to people I know personally (literally friends). Since I know most of the folks likely to add lots of entries into R

weird behavior in Rev 2.0

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
I'm having a problem with a stack in version 2.0. I was editing some code, and all of a sudden things starting responding very slowly. I would click a button and it would take 3 or 4 seconds before anything happened. I opened the Message Watcher, only to find that Rev was sending some message ca

Re: Trouble downloading OS X version-FTP works

2003-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that didn't work either. The good news, however, is that the hyperlink to the FTP site now works once again, so it was a simple matter to download the .dmg file. Marian On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:43 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Your machine is n

Re: Mime types (was Trouble downloading OS X version)

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Your machine is not set up to properly recognize a .dmg file. You can set that up in Internet explorer. IE thinks it is text and is downloading it as such. In the meantime, control-click on the URL, you will get a contextual

Re: Download RR 2 ???

2003-05-29 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Le mercredi, 28 mai 2003, à 11:04 Europe/Paris, Jan Schenkel a écrit : Hi Manuel, Combined with your other reply, concerning the 'backup stack file' that couldn't be written ;the conclusion must be : file permissions. - Are you logged in as the 'administrator' of the machine ? Yes - Where are you

On mouseover?

2003-05-29 Thread John R. Brauer
I would like to have a text label appear when the mouse passes over a button, but cannot find an "on mouseover" section in the help. Is this possible in RunRev? Sincerely, John R. Brauer, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist ___ use-revolution mailing list [E

Re: Revolution 2.0 released

2003-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides
Kevin I'm having trouble with the OS X download coming acrross as text not DMG. How do I get the OS X version from the FTP site? Thanks Marian Petrides, M.D. On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: Hello, As some of you have already realized, 2.0 is has now shipped. (We w

Trouble downloading OS X version

2003-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides
I am having trouble downloading the OS X release version of 2.0 from the links on the download page--get gibberish text but not a DMG file. I suspect that the download will go OK if I can get it from the FTP site but I can't find it. Can someone tell me how to get 2.0 for OS X? Thanks. Maria

Re: Download RR 2 ???

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 02:04 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Manuel, Combined with your other reply, concerning the 'backup stack file' that couldn't be written ;the conclusion must be : file permissions. - Are you logged in as the 'administrator' of the machine ? - Where are you putting the f

30 day trial for 2.0

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi, We have now erased the 30 day trial information from our server to coincide with the Revolution 2.0 release. Anyone wanting to use the 30 day trial should download the current shipping version of Revolution (2.0r2) and obtain a new trial key from our web site. We won't be resetting the 30 da

Revolution 2.0 released

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin Miller
Hello, As some of you have already realized, 2.0 is has now shipped. (We were waiting to ensure the web site was ready for traffic before sending out all the official announcements.) We'd like to take this opportunity to thank this great community in supporting us through all the trials and trib

RE: Sending files to the Trash

2003-05-29 Thread Ken Ray
Howard, You can use AppleScript for this: tell application "Finder" move file to trash end tell The key is to make sure you create a proper file path that AppleScript will accept (i.e. colon-delimited, not "/" delimited like Rev uses). So for example, my hard disk is named "Stormwinds" and I

Re: Using Revolution for LARGE projects

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 03:47 AM, Igor Couto wrote: Dear Revolution Experts, I am considering using Revolution as a development tool in a large project, but am hesitant because of the apparent lack of complex applications made with Revolution - apart from Revolution itself. Most applic

Re: Reporting tool

2003-05-29 Thread Bill Vlahos
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 11:42 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 08:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: I agree with the analysis that it would be easier to create reports directly in Transcript than to try to mangle an external that would do so. However, if some

Re: Drag-And-Drop Image Fun

2003-05-29 Thread Yves COPPE
I have been able to successfully work with drag-and-drop with text, but not with PICTURES. My original posting, in regards to the 2 problems I encountered with drag-and-drop: Hi Igor I've asked on this list to jan Schenkel to write a nioce code for drag 'n drop for text, from one fld to ano