Re: 2.2 WARNING - AATCHAAAAAAAA

2004-04-12 Thread Chipp Walters
X, Stay tuned...I'm in beta as we speak for Altuit's new Layout Manager. It should do the trick. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

new altPlugin: Layout Manager

2004-04-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi again all, I've been working with on a few cross-platform jobs, and I've really needed some capabilities I couldn't find easily in RR. In particular, I needed: 1) A reliable Geometry Manager which could auto-generate resizeStack scripts, so I could later edit them if I needed to provide

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-12 Thread Dom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... Not exactly, Yves: You must be wrong, /H, my name is not Yves ;-) put the seconds is a date returns true. Okay -- but the problem was about entering a date: I think nobody tries to enter seconds as today's date ;-) -- Vous parlez français ? faites un tour

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-12 Thread Dom
Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a function to check if a string is a date in European format : DD/MM/ Also: to work around date entering problems, what about using a calendar substack, such as Sarah's? This eliminates all entering problems, and ensures you the date is exactly

Rev. Books

2004-04-12 Thread Beat Cornaz
Hello all, I'm happy with the Rev. program, but I am not so happy with the documention. Are there any good books on revolution.? What about the Dan Shafer books. Are they good (all 4 of them?). Is there a good reference guide available (either book or pdf)? What will you experienced

Re : Editing Line graphic

2004-04-12 Thread Beat Cornaz
Hi all, thanks for the warm welcome to your group and thanks to Martin, Mark Richard for their answers. Sorry about forgetting the Subject. My intention is to be able to click on a line and drag and resize and reposition it. With the tip to use 'the points' of a line (instead of the rectangle

Re: How do I make a large scrolling window?

2004-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to Bj?rnke von Gierke, Jim Lyons, Ken Norris and Steve Messimer for their informative replies. Because of you guys, I think I understand the principle now - I also think it's a dreadful kludge. In effect you have to trick the IDE into helping you, and clearly there are some difficulties

Re: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:10:15 -0700, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] XML is just data given structure by putting it between starting and ending tags. Though an increasing number of applications use it for data storage, its primary benefit is in exchanging data with other apps. So

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 7, Issue 65

2004-04-12 Thread Christian Brossier
I got the bug with diacritical characters in the path : blabla/monDveloppement/toto is wrong but blabla/monDeveloppement/toto get no problem. idem with /Revolution / ; I need /Revolution/ Le 11 avr. 04, 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit : De: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11

Re: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 05:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 04/11/2004 08:34:20 PM, Mark Brownell writes: There are so many uses for XML that if you have a specific need you might want to learn about XML by the topic or area of interest best suited to your needs. --

Re: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:10:15 -0700, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] XML is just data given structure by putting it between starting and ending tags. Though an increasing number of applications use it for data storage, its primary benefit is in exchanging data

LibCGI-based CMS - anyone willing to collaborate?

2004-04-12 Thread de Mare
Hi all, I am planning to create a content management system based on Runtime Revolution and using the LibCGI library. It will be freeware and opensource. There are many good freeware CMSs made in PHP, ASP or Perl, but for us XTalkers, modifying and customising these can be quite complex

RE: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
If XML tags and structures can be made to represent pretty well anything, how does the user community for a particular dialect/ language/ data model expressed in XML communicate? I mean, if a particular set of XML tags and structures is about chemical compounds or the parts of a

Re: re. [ANN] EnhancedQT 0.5.4 - Now OS 9 compatible

2004-04-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 7, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi Trevor, could you please add a make a donatin - paypal button to your site? Even though I only have had a quick look yet I feel I´d like to send you some money for your efforts and support your work as your code will defenetly support mine.

Password Field

2004-04-12 Thread Dan Friedman
Good morning! Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying bullets - but preserving the text? As if it was a password field. I am making a user login window with Username and Password fields. Don't you think the password field should display bullets (or asterisks)? I could

Re: LibCGI-based CMS - anyone willing to collaborate?

2004-04-12 Thread Andre Garzia
On Apr 12, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Terry Vogelaar (de Mare) wrote: Hi all, I am planning to create a content management system based on Runtime Revolution and using the LibCGI library. It will be freeware and opensource. There are many good freeware CMSs made in PHP, ASP or Perl, but for us

locally numbered fields

2004-04-12 Thread Springer, Paul
I have been reading through Volume 1 of Dan's book and I have a question. He talks about using locally numbered fields to easily loop through the fields on a card. He explicitly talks about not using the field's name or ID. I don't understand how this mapping occurs; how do you assign local,

Re: Password Field

2004-04-12 Thread Wouter
On 12 Apr 2004, at 18:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:30:36 -0700 From: Dan Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Password Field To: RunRev Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Good morning! Does

Re: Password Field

2004-04-12 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 12-avr.-04, à 17:30, Dan Friedman a écrit : Good morning! Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying bullets - but preserving the text? As if it was a password field. I am making a user login window with Username and Password fields. Don't you think the password

Re: locally numbered fields

2004-04-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Springer, Paul wrote: He talks about using locally numbered fields to easily loop through the fields on a card. He explicitly talks about not using the field's name or ID. I don't understand how this mapping occurs; how do you assign local, temporary IDs

Re: Rev. Books

2004-04-12 Thread Thomas McGrath III
REV printed docs for - Reference Reading/Browsing REV pdf docs for - Electronic Browsing REV included docs for - Quick lookup for spelling/syntax and See Also feature. REV included Cookbook for - simulated answers Dan Shafer's Book for - How to and Intro etc. Tom On Apr 12, 2004, at 5:09 AM,

Re: rr xml docs, II

2004-04-12 Thread Meitnik
Hi, Ok rrxml gives callbacks while processing xml data, but the examples dont really show me why have them or use them. These are the callbacks: revStartXMLData elementData revStartXMLNode nodeAttributes revStartXMLTree revEndXMLNode revEndXMLTree would someone please

RE: Password Field

2004-04-12 Thread Dan Friedman
Yves, Thanks! That works great. Don't you just love this list?!!! Good morning! Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying bullets - but preserving the text? As if it was a password field. I am making a user login window with Username and Password fields.

Multimedia Project on a school server question

2004-04-12 Thread Mark MacKenzie
Hi. I am porting a multimedia project over to Revolution and tweaking it as I go. The intended market is the local and provincial educational systems. Their preference is for titles which can be served from a remote server in their school to all the desktops in the library or classroom.

Re: Password Field

2004-04-12 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 12-avr.-04, à 21:01, Dan Friedman a écrit : Yves, Thanks! That works great. Don't you just love this list?!!! YE Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

automating a task

2004-04-12 Thread Brian E. Warshawsky
Hey everyone. I just started using Revolution a couple of days ago, and am trying to write a couple useful apps before my trial runs out so I can convince my boss to buy me a full copy. I want to write a simple app to automate the task of retrieving log files from a bunch of different ftp

Interface ground to a halt

2004-04-12 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, I am actually getting somewhere. I managed to create a large bunch of buttons and get them cycling through the random colours. Fortified with my success I decided to script the creation of an array of rectangles, 62x25 of them. This took rather a long time. I have not yet worked out how

Re: automating a task

2004-04-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Brian E. Warshawsky wrote: I want to write a simple app to automate the task of retrieving log files from a bunch of different ftp servers at the same time every night. If libURL uses sockets callbacks, then they cannot run while while your hander is

Re: Interface ground to a halt

2004-04-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 02:34 PM, Norman Winn wrote: PS I seem to remember, in perusing the docs, that there is a way to refer to the object most recently created. If so, could someone remind me of it, please. From the dictionary entry for 'create': The create command places the ID

Re: Interface ground to a halt

2004-04-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 12, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Norman Winn wrote: Hi, I am actually getting somewhere. I managed to create a large bunch of buttons and get them cycling through the random colours. Fortified with my success I decided to script the creation of an array of rectangles, 62x25 of them. This took

Re: automating a task

2004-04-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 1:26 pm -0700 12/4/04, Brian E. Warshawsky wrote: I've tried: repeat forever get the time if the short system time is 12:00 AM then libURLDownloadToFile ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mysite.com/testing.txt, TFlog.txt else end if I've also tried: repeat forever wait 5000 seconds libURLDownloadToFile

Re: How do I make a large scrolling window?

2004-04-12 Thread Michael Robinson
ok Now we have a scrolling window, lets say it scrolls a 8.5 x 11 document both v and h. How then do you print the whole document not just the visible window? On Apr 11, 2004, at 8:08 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Hi Graham, Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:58:13 +0200 From: Graham Samuel [EMAIL

Cryptogram decoder

2004-04-12 Thread Jim Hurley
I confess to an obsession with cryptograms. It is the first thing I go to in the morning paper. Once in a while I get really stuck, so I have built a cheat for myself in RR. It is a cryptogram decoder utility. I suspect someone has surely developed a crossword puzzle utility, but decoding

Re: Close box in Windows XP

2004-04-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Mark, Thanks for replying. I'm just getting back into town after a couple of days away and working my way through a stack of emails that have come in during my absence, so I'm replying directly to this instead of going to the list. Can you possibly open the stack window modally? That gets rid

Re: Telnet with RR

2004-04-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
There's a pop library at http://www.troz.net/Rev/ that would probably serve your needs better than telnet. That Library worked great. I'm trying to make a program that sits on my taskbar and silently logs into a mail server every few minutes to scan my email for SPAM. Then if it finds any it

emulating the keyboard - Application control

2004-04-12 Thread John Rule
Is there a native way to emulate the keyboard in another application? For example, 'launching' another app, and then somehow sending commands to that application? Specifically, I had a customer ask me if they can control their Powerpoint presentation from Rev. I looked through the shell command

Re: Multimedia Project on a school server question

2004-04-12 Thread Mark Talluto
On Apr 12, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Mark MacKenzie wrote: I have not designed or produced for this before. Can a standard Rev project be simply put on their server and used by from 30 to 35 kids at the same time? A standalone can be run off a server by almost any number of client computers. The key