Re: Ressource unavailable (CGI capabilities)

2003-08-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- erik hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My backlog has reached monumental proportions, and however hard I try, I simply cannot answer 1000 emails in one day. === when should one write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? hopefully helpful, Erik

Re: Ressource unavailable (CGI capabilities)

2003-08-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:36 AM -0700 8/1/03, Andre Rombauts wrote: Download and decompress the engine you need for the platform that your ISP or web server uses from: http://www.runrev.com/revolution/engines11 This link leads to nothing... :-( Look

Re: Menu Building Prefs

2003-08-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Igor Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: But for my multi-lingual apps, I do have a system which takes care of the translation (and resizing of the menu buttons under non-MacOS systems). WOW! How about a tutorial on THAT?

Re: Menu Building Prefs

2003-08-02 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:40PM -0700 8/1/03, Igor Couto wrote: I have also refrained from using sub-menus, because the documentation kind of discourages you, by mentioning caveats here and there. Just to clarify, there's no problem including submenus in pulldown menus. They are only problematic in option menus and

First CGI test... :-(

2003-08-02 Thread Andre Rombauts
I put the Revolution CGI engine on my server, in the 'scripts' dir where my ISP told me to put and where other .cgi files are located. The server is running W2K. I put in the same dir a Rev .cgi file: #!/***/***/scripts/revolutionon startUp put "Hello, World!" into tResponse put

Re: A call for calm and a tip of the hat to the Rev team..thanks!

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 06:11, Stephen Quinn Barncard wrote: I'd like to come to Rev's defense here and remind some of our more impatient new users that this is still the 'early days' of the Revolution company. There are only a handful of very overworked folks doing a very wonderful thing-

Re: Question on .rev file format

2003-08-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Steve Gehlbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who replied, your comments are very useful. I guess I am not completely convinced that the pluses outweigh the minuses regarding the Revolution binary format, but I will try to keep an open mind. Some other reasons for text

Re: Menu Building Prefs

2003-08-02 Thread Igor Couto
Thank you for the pep talk, Jeanne! On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Just to clarify, there's no problem including submenus in pulldown menus. They are only problematic in option menus and combo boxes. But put them in the menu bar with confidence. ;-) I

Re: Menu Building Prefs

2003-08-02 Thread Igor Couto
Dear Jan, Your replies, as usual, not just informative, but inspirational: On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Admittedly, the access to the Revolution code itself may seem daunting, but you can learn a LOT from their code I did just that a little while ago. I wanted

Re: Corrupted stack

2003-08-02 Thread miscdas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I tryed to open a Revolution Stack with BBEdit Lite. Then, when I want to open this stack with Revolution, I have the message : this is a corrupted stack file. Is there a possibility to repair corrupted stack file ? Thank you. Edouard ==

Re: A call for calm and a tip of the hat to the Rev team..thanks!

2003-08-02 Thread miscdas
Stephen Quinn Barncard writes: [snip] I'd like to come to Rev's defense here and remind some of our more impatient new users that this is still the 'early days' of the Revolution company. There are only a handful of very overworked folks doing a very wonderful thing- giving us a tool that is

Re - text-to-speech on WindowsXP

2003-08-02 Thread Stephen King
Hi Barry, I had the same problem with Rev 2.0 and Mailed Rev about it and got the following reply from Tuviah. --- snip Does anyone know if Text to speech works in windows? I have tried Win XP and Win 98 (using a button for both) and each time I get the error message 'Can't initialise speech

Re: [OT] UML Tools for developing Revolution projects

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Samstag, Aug 2, 2003, at 01:00 Europe/Vienna, Richard Gaskin wrote: Omnigraffle rocks. I don't use UML for RR projects. I've tried to use the UML palette for SQL projects. Although it has a UML palette, you are right about getting out-of-whack: and it's a real pain to always have to add a

Re: Fix to distribution builder available

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Aug 1, 2003, at 06:29 Europe/Vienna, Chipp Walters wrote: Great Video. Not being a Mac person, something like this really helps if/when I decide to port to Mac. Someone mentioned a Shell script which did all of this? Couldn't someone build a RR stack which allowed you to fill in

distribution builder engine file

2003-08-02 Thread John Tenny
I'm actually getting my first stack to work (thanks, sims) and wanted to try the distribution builder. I downloaded Richmond's Expanded Distribution builder and replaced the one in the Tools folder (glad to be able to see the buttons). I replaced the distribution builder cause I couldn't see

Database newbie questions

2003-08-02 Thread John R. Brauer
Hello all, I am a newbie. I am working on a project which will require that I store data in a database (a separate record for each client, and about six hundred fields per record). Each time it is used, it will need to generate a new record for that client (it is a program that will administer

[OT] UML Tools for developing Revolution projects

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Aug 1, 2003, at 17:29 Europe/Vienna, Trevor DeVore wrote: On 8/1/03 Igor Couto wrote Also - what UML tools do you use? Most of the tools seem to be directed at generating object-oriented code, rather than diagramming. They all seem to be cluttered with programming features, and have

Re: Database newbie questions

2003-08-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
John R. Brauer wrote: Hello all, I am a newbie. I am working on a project which will require that I store data in a database (a separate record for each client, and about six hundred fields per record). Each time it is used, it will need to generate a new record for that client (it is a

Re: A call for calm and a tip of the hat to the Rev team..thanks!

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Samstag, Aug 2, 2003, at 12:15 Europe/Vienna, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As often happens in the real world, the engineer expects the user to be able to do what is needed without instructions, because, it's obvious. unfortunately a daily experience... regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter Learn easy

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1708 - 11 msgs

2003-08-02 Thread Dan Shafer
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 09:01 AM, miscdas wrote: Doesn't Java do a satisfactory job of it? I have spent as lot of time with Java and I can guarantee you of a couple of things, at least from the perspective of developers like myself: 1. The Java learning curve is steep and long. 2.

Casting fate

2003-08-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: It is not for nothing or without serious thought that I have cast a good bit of my fate with this product and this team. I, too. With eyes wide open. As Milton Friedman told his children, sunk costs are sunk costs; I need to be

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1708 - 11 msgs

2003-08-02 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Dan Shafer wrote: 1. The Java learning curve is steep and long. 2. Java syntax is ugly and difficult to read in many cases 3. Java apps do *not* run cross-platform with anything near the ease of Revolution apps. Java's promise of write once, run everywnere, long since abandoned by Sun itself,

Scripts in Independent Study Tutorial - A Mini-Course

2003-08-02 Thread Dan Shafer
I've been using Revolution for a bit more than a year now. I've gone through the Independent Study (employee database) tutorial a couple of times to refresh my memory on how things sort of work. But until today I hadn't sat and read all of the scripts in that application. Geoff Canyon (who

Subject: please use me

2003-08-02 Thread erik hansen
Subject: please use me = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Ressource unavailable (CGI capabilities)

2003-08-02 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there for your general problems, and my guess is that one person goes through these mails as they come in, and forwards them to the appropriate person. That is where installer problems and the 10-incidents package calls go to.

Re: Problems setting large width of group

2003-08-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I have a Timeline that is a group made up of fields and buttons which is generated from a databse. I just ran into a situation where the group size is set to 1 when the trying to set the width to a large number (60,000 pixels in

Re: Subject: please use me

2003-08-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:20 PM, erik hansen wrote: Subject: please use me I just looked at your web site and it is not clear to me how we on the use-revolution list might exploit you. Or was this sent in error? Dar ___ use-revolution

Re: Menu Building Prefs

2003-08-02 Thread erik hansen
--- Igor Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Jan, I followed instructions you had posted previously and opened the scripts... is there a good search expression for finding this topic in the archives? Erik = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org

Re: Subject: please use me

2003-08-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:20 PM, erik hansen wrote: Subject: please use me I'm dense. Ignore my other mail. I can see now that you are encouraging those who respond to the digest or respond to such mail to set the subject appropriately. Sorry to add to the confusion. dar

Re: Subject: please use me

2003-08-02 Thread erik hansen
--- Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:20 PM, erik hansen wrote: Subject: please use me I just looked at your web site and it is not clear to me how we on the use-revolution list might exploit you. Or was this sent in error? no, i just got too

Re: Subject: please use me

2003-08-02 Thread erik hansen
--- Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: please use me I'm dense. Ignore my other mail. I can see now that you are encouraging those who respond to the digest or respond to such mail to set the subject appropriately. Sorry to add to the confusion. are you kidding? you said

Re: Question on .rev file format

2003-08-02 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Thanks for the careful reply. I am not sure about XML, some reports on the net indicate is has bloat tendencies, but I have no personal experience. It it already done, so that is a plus. The comments on version control were over my head, but as I continue to learn RR maybe the fog will

Re: Problems setting large width of group

2003-08-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
On 8/2/03 Dar Scott wrote On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I have a Timeline that is a group made up of fields and buttons which is generated from a databse. I just ran into a situation where the group size is set to 1 when the trying to set the width to a

Re: Update available for license.rev

2003-08-02 Thread Bruce Robertson
Unzip it, rename it, and replace your existing license.rev file with it, to be found in the Revolution folder, on the top level directory. Sounds like instructions to me... ;-) So I should rename the files I was specifically talking about in my question, distribution builder and revlibrary.

Re: [OT] UML Tools for developing Revolution projects

2003-08-02 Thread Igor Couto
Dear Wolfgang, I v worked more than ten years with Inspiration and now also with Omnigraffle but Im not so familar with it like with Inspiration dooing Diagramms. for me it seems not a problem to connect lines... Thank you for the tip! I've just downloaded the Demo version of Inspiration, and

Re: Update available for license.rev

2003-08-02 Thread Igor Couto
Dear Bruce, On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote: Unzip it, rename it, and replace your existing license.rev file with it, to be found in the Revolution folder, on the top level directory. Sounds like instructions to me... ;-) So I should rename the files I was

Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread yoy
I have the following loop statement: repeat for each line gameLine in fld gamelist I need to obtain the line number for the current iteration. I'm error checking for the number of items in gameLine and if it isn't equal to 5, I want to raise an answer dialog and stop the script, then hilight

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread yoy
Igor, Thanks for the quick reply! I will add your code and see how it behaves. I'm a little clueless but appreciate your help!!! All the best, Andy - Original Message - From: Igor Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Repeat

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, yoy wrote: repeat for each line gameLine in fld gamelist I need to obtain the line number for the current iteration. I'm error checking for the number of items in gameLine and if it isn't equal to 5, I want to raise an answer dialog and stop the script, then hilight that line in

Copying a group

2003-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Before I bugzilla this, I want to know if others think it really is a bug, or if it should be considered normal behavior. I can't decide. I have a group that consists of several fields. The group has backgroundBehavior set to true. Each card has different text in the fields of the group. The

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread yoy
Whoa! Scott, here I thought everybody was in bed but me. Many thanks! Andy - Original Message - From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:55 AM Subject: Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please. Recently, yoy wrote: repeat for

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please. Additional URL.

2003-08-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, yoy wrote: The current state of my revolution program is available for inspection at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/foxcat/OmniLotto.rev Before anyone starts complaining that they're just seeing the stack code in their Web browser, the stack can be accessed directly via the Rev

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread Edwin Gore
Scott's method (adding a counter) is absolutely the right way to go. Others on the list have benchmarked this, and it's MUCH faster than doing the for x = etc. etc. etc. method. - Original Message - From: yoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 11:08

Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

2003-08-02 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Andy, What can I query to get the iteration number of this loop? There is no syntax to retrieve the iteration number in a repeat for each loop; so one must initialize and increment a counter variable: put 0 into lineCount repeat for each line gameLine in fld gamelist add 1 to

Re: Database newbie questions

2003-08-02 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Dr. Brauer, a) which database would you suggest (I guess that Oracle, MySQL and Valentina are my options)? Developer Release 1 of SDB (Serendipity Database--Binary) is currently being tested by the Revolution IPC group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolution_ipc. I expect to release DR-2