Re: Does SharedText work?

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Shafer
Graham asked: I have just such a field in a group and I suppose I've set its SharedText to true by checking the 'share text' box in the Property Inspector for the field (while editing the group); but I find that if I alter that field's text on one card (again while editing the group) only the

Re: Sheet woes...

2003-09-29 Thread Dom
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a nice sunday... I posted by error this msg under my news name, not under my mc name ;-) It seems it has been approved some days later... No harm: you could therefore take a glance at my digital photo web site :-) I will try your tip about openstack

imageSource Completed?

2003-09-29 Thread Scott Rossi
When setting the imageSource of a field character, is there any way to determine when the image data has finished downloading, or some way to monitor the download? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W:

RE: Keep track of object type

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Young
Your suggestion worked. Thank you. Michael You don't want to use me, you want to use the target. And you don't really even need to use abbr name; you can just say: on mouseUp put first word of the target into fld Field 1 end mouseUp HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software

Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-29 Thread Dean Snyder
I've been enjoying using Unicode in Revolution 2.1 for the most part. The only problem I've encountered so far is that chunk evaluation doesn't seem to work correctly with Unicode characters. For example, if any byte of a double byte Unicode character is 09 that will increment the item count in

RE: imageSource Completed?

2003-09-29 Thread Chipp Walters
Sure, Download the file first, then set the filename of the img to it. You can monitor the progress of the download. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:50 AM To: Revolution List Subject:

opaque fields scrolling problem

2003-09-29 Thread rand valentine
I am using mac os x.2.6, and have a problem with opaque fields when i scroll them. if i scroll a field back to the top, there are seeming fine horizontal white lines in the field's contents that render the contents unreadable until i click in the field or otherwise manipulate it. if i turn the

Re: Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:59 AM, Dean Snyder wrote: I've been enjoying using Unicode in Revolution 2.1 for the most part. The only problem I've encountered so far is that chunk evaluation doesn't seem to work correctly with Unicode characters. For example, if any byte of a double

Re: opaque fields scrolling problem

2003-09-29 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Rand, I am using mac os x.2.6, and have a problem with opaque fields when i scroll them. if i scroll a field back to the top, there are seeming fine horizontal white lines in the field's contents that render the contents unreadable until i click in the field or otherwise manipulate it. if i

QT Licensing Info

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Following the discussion here about licensing QuickTime installers for inclusion on your CD-ROMs, I posted the questions raised here to Apple's QT discussion list. I got a personal reply from an Apple rep which clarifies things, and she's given me permission to post it here:

Problem with copy paste anyone?

2003-09-29 Thread MisterX
Hi everyone, Is it me or NT that doesn't copy everything through? In NT4 and NT5 (W2K), from c code copy-pasted directly from IExplorer to a field in MC or RR, all the semicolumns and brackets are gone. Sometimes the clipboard seems stuck on your last copy job in MC/RR... Naturally any other

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: I would like to see a stack protection feature that does encryption- through and through. In order to open, run, read, edit, *do anything* no matter if via engine or via IDE, first one would first have to authenticate. It could be password authentication or public key

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Brownell wrote: On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What terms is it available under? Is the final version not being posted to the Revolution_IPC group at Yahoo? It's available there under basic CUA principles. I don't want to explain it here. I'm

Re: transparent graphic with border visible, windows

2003-09-29 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Sonntag, Sep 28, 2003, at 17:20 Europe/Vienna, Howard Bornstein wrote: On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote: Can anyone tell me how to make a transparent graphic with visible border on Windows (It's easy on Mac). The graphic needs to be opaque so it will

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Rob Cozens
For speed it would seem optimal to have it implemented in an external, or in the engine itself. Richard, Mark, et al: No eternals, please! libIPC is 100% Transcript, revBlowfish is 100% Transcript. Let's keep it that way or embed it in the engine. Rob Cozens Co Moderator, revolution_ipc group.

Re: Linux application metadata

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: AFAIK there is no standard UNIX way of binding files to applications- this would be handled at the level of the Window Manager, and there are literally dozens of competing Window Managers for UNIX. The most popular Linux and BSD ones being KDE and Gnome. KDE does it

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Cozens wrote: For speed it would seem optimal to have it implemented in an external, or in the engine itself. Richard, Mark, et al: No eternals, please! libIPC is 100% Transcript, revBlowfish is 100% Transcript. Let's keep it that way or embed it in the engine. What if

RE: opaque fields scrolling problem

2003-09-29 Thread Ken Ray
I am using mac os x.2.6, and have a problem with opaque fields when i scroll them. if i scroll a field back to the top, there are seeming fine horizontal white lines in the field's contents that render the contents unreadable until i click in the field or otherwise manipulate

Re: Unicode problem with Simplified Chinese - InDesign unhappy with binfile

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 08:39 AM, Callum Brines wrote: Thanks Dar. I tried binfile but unfortunately InDesign will not import the resulting file with error There is no filter for the requested operation. I'm guessing that it did not like the line-end. Two ideas based on my assumption

Re: Linux application metadata

2003-09-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Worse, it appears each of the window managers has a different scheme for doing this, and I've seen no indication that it's occured to any of them to standardize. :( But the freedesktop.org site indicates there is some effort to

Re: Problem with copy paste anyone?

2003-09-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:14 AM, MisterX wrote: Secondary question, how do you know if your bug in bugzilla is Aknowledged? I didn't see a thing about it... You will get an email when a comment is added to the bug, or the bug's status is changed, or assigned to an engineer. Usually

Re: Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
Welcome, Dean! On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:59 AM, Dean Snyder wrote: I've been enjoying using Unicode in Revolution 2.1 for the most part. The only problem I've encountered so far is that chunk evaluation doesn't seem to work correctly with Unicode characters. For example, if any byte

Re: Linux application metadata

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: For what Window manager though? You have to pick one window manager, e.g. KDE - K Desktop Environment, and figure out how to do it for that window manager. There is not, and probably never will be, one way for all Linux machines. Because who knows what Window Manager the user

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Alex Rice wrote: I would like to see a stack protection feature that does encryption- through and through. In order to open, run, read, edit, *do anything* no matter if via engine or via IDE, first one would first have to

Executable not behaving correctly when launched using shell on Windows

2003-09-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
I have a program that consists of a splash screen and the program file. The splash screen is the executable which shows the splash graphic for 2 seconds, sets its location off the screen and opens the program stack in a new window. This works fine on Mac and windows when double clicking on

Re: Executable not behaving correctly when launched using shell on Windows

2003-09-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Has anyone encountered something similar and know of a solution? Try InnoSetup- it's free and it rocks http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Sorry I don't know about that particular problem though. Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Executable not behaving correctly when launched using shell on Windows

2003-09-29 Thread Scott Rossi
On 9/29/03 10:48 AM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created an installer which launches the executable after installing the program. In the installer code when the user clicks on the Launch Program button the installer launches the program using applescript on mac and shell on

[Little OT] About The Green Edge Magazine/BlogWorkz/iBlog/RunRev Stacks (... or Why I Hate Tropical Storms)

2003-09-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, As some of you know, I am building a new apple newton magazine called the Green Edge magazine (www.thegreenedge.net). We're going pretty far, couple articles and interviews are already done and we we're planning to launch this week. With web, newtonbook, pdf and real paper versions.

Cursor: inverted colors

2003-09-29 Thread talbrech
I am just getting into Rev programming and have a question about creating your own cursor. I have created a cursor (grabbing hand) by modifying a metacard icon with the drawing tools within Revolution. The icon looks great, but when I go to use it (command-click within a map field) it shows

re: Problem with copy paste anyone?

2003-09-29 Thread Tuviah Snyder
Secondary question, how do you know if your bug in bugzilla is Aknowledged? I didn't see a thing about it... I'll usually mark it as assigned usually if I'm working on it or have verified it and it is on my to-do list. Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Alex Rice wrote: #723 improved stack encryption capability The entry #577, put stack into variable, might be generalized to allow 'save', 'open', and 'start using' to refer to variables. Perhaps with that encrypted stacks could then be saved in custom

Re: flashing window when changing stack window properties

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 02:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The flash happens whenever you set the decorations, which forces a window redraw. Not sure if there is a good workaround, since the OS is responsible for the drawing. I get three or four flashes. I need to see if setting the

Re: flashing window when changing stack window properties

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Have you tried it without setting the style of the stack? I'll test that. Doesn't the decorations have to come after the style? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

RE: name of .exe Rev app that sublaunches .rev file

2003-09-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
When your “stub” launcher has done its job, do you leave it in memory? If so, you could set a custom property in the main .exe and have your second stack “get” that once it’s downloaded. Just one idea off the top of my head. It’s no different from accessing properties for objects in different

Re: name of .exe Rev app that sublaunches .rev file

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Gould wrote: I've got a Revolution app that is launched by an .exe file that I created in Revolution as a stub launcher. This stub launch has just 1 line of code in it that tell it to run another .rev file from a web-site. Is there a way, within that .rev file on the web-site to

Re: flashing window when changing stack window properties

2003-09-29 Thread Tuviah Snyder
I saw workaround advice from Sarah back in April that suggested the changes can be made while the stack is invisible. I will try this. Yet, because of the flashing I suspect I might be doing something wrong. What is happening? How do I get around this? The flash happens because Revolution

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 08:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Brownell wrote: There are export restriction laws in place by different countries that need to be followed when implementing it. This becomes the responsibility and liability of the developer using it in their apps.

Re: Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 08:04 PM, Dean Snyder wrote: Trevor DeVore wrote at 8:12 AM on Monday, September 29, 2003: Chunk expressions don't work correctly with unicode text right now though I believe it is being worked on. You have to write your own chunk handlers for use with

snapshot on XP makes icons wink out

2003-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
I'm not sure whether this is an XP problem or a Revolution bug or something silly that I'm doing. On Windows XP, import snapshot or export snapshot causes the icons on the primary monitor to wink out. This flicker also shows up on other icons and buttons and the start menu. I've looked

RE: Linux application metadata

2003-09-29 Thread Monte Goulding
I had a feeling it has something to do with MIME types. Ouch... just found this: http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.2/mimetypes-9.html But wait! ... http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info-spec/ looks better. Now where do these .desktop files go? Now I see why

[OT^2] The Revolution will not be televised

2003-09-29 Thread Alex Rice
[Off Topic] . . . [Wy... Off Topic] . . . [Gill Scott Heron please forgive my caucasian @ss for co-opting your song] . . . onEvangelizeRev pWhatItISBrother You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself