Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, Has anyone else seen this bug? I've got a scrolling list of album names, and next to each album is a cover photo. When I scroll the list in 2.1.2, no problems. But when I scroll the list in 2.2, a white line appears every 5-10 pixels. If you click the scroll down arrow, the white line

Julian dates

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Thursday, April 15, 2004, 1:33:56 PM, you wrote: DS Uh, I mean URLs that give me confidence that there really is such thing DS as Julian day. I guess I can look those up myself; I have some info on DS Julian day as astronomers use it. Like this? From the Time FAQ for sci.astro: What's a

Re: The seconds problem - summarized?

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 09:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dar, your gmt is different from my gmt. I believe that, by definition, gmt does NOT accommodate time zones and daylight saving time. If the GMT is 10:29 in Greenwich, then the GMT time at that instant is 10:29 in Wapello,

Re: Julian dates

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 02:07 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Like this? From the Time FAQ for sci.astro: What's a Julian date? It's the number of days since noon 4713 BC January 1. This is often called Julian Day to avoid confusion with the two below. Note that this has nothing to do with the

Re: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Monte, Hi all, looks like there are some new engines on the RR ftp-server... The Mac OS X version is called: Revolution.app.dir.gz Can anyone give me a small hint on how to decompress it correctly and usable? I end up with a document called Revolution.app.dir... (When using Stuffit...) If i

RE: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Monte Goulding
This is very interesting and yes, i would like to see it in the revCommon button... BUT, it still does not work when i revDecompress that file, simply won't launch!!! Couple o'minutes later: The actual engine in that new revdecompressed app /Contents/MacOS/Revolution does NOT have an

Re: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Monte, ... The actual engine in that new revdecompressed app /Contents/MacOS/Revolution does NOT have an icon, is just a document Yes the actual engine usually doesn't have an icon on OS X. Does the .app have an icon? Yes, but when doubleclicked (in the correct folder, of course!! ;-):

Re: The seconds problem

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Smith
Sarah, thanks for that. Isn't it a bit strange that the useSystemDate is a temporary local (to each handler) property? Surely, most of the time, people will want to use whatever date format they've set their computer to use...and would want their apps to use whatever their customers have set

Re: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 16 avr. 04, à 10:45, Klaus Major a écrit : Hi Monte, Hi all, looks like there are some new engines on the RR ftp-server... The Mac OS X version is called: Revolution.app.dir.gz Can anyone give me a small hint on how to decompress it correctly and usable? I end up with a document called

Re: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
At 11:21 16.04.2004 +0200, you wrote: snip I have not been able to follow your discussion since I do not use MacOSX. However, did you try: put decompress (url(binfile:..gz)) into ? This decompresses .gzip-files as far as I know. Regards Signe Marie Sanne 1. amanuensis Signe Marie

shifted field on group copy

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
In the copy of a model group from one stack to another in Transcript, one field of the group gets shifted down. This might be a bug, but more likely I'm doing something silly. What could be doing this? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, ... And while we are at it, why do we always have to enter our serial-number again each time a new version comes out (WHILE our license is still valid)? HA ;-) Of course, i mean why is the license.rev not portable between versions??? Cheers Monte Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[More Info] Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Frank Leahy
I just noticed the same problem in the script editor, so it's not related to pictures in the scrolling list as I thought. Open a script editor window and show the list of handlers. If the handler list scrolls (only happens when you scroll down) drag the scrolling thumb down and you will see

Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2 [more info]

2004-04-16 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, Has anyone else seen this bug? I've got a scrolling list of album names, and next to each album is a cover photo. When I scroll the list in 2.1.2, no problems. But when I scroll the list in 2.2, a white line appears every 5-10 pixels. If you click the scroll down arrow, the white

Re: Julian dates

2004-04-16 Thread Joël Guillod
For interested parties, here are the 3 base handler/functions I use for Julian daycount. I have a more elaborated library and could publish it if anyone is interested (e.g. converting from/to short system date or MySQL date formats,...). /** date.julian return the julian count, i.e. days since

Re: shifted field on group copy

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 04:10 AM, Dar Scott wrote: In the copy of a model group from one stack to another in Transcript, one field of the group gets shifted down. This might be a bug, but more likely I'm doing something silly. What could be doing this? When I saved the stack, the field

RR Front-end for FileMaker

2004-04-16 Thread Javier Miranda V .
Hey amigos!, could you share some light about implementing front ends in RR to access data storesd in FIleMaker? Saludos, Javier ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

re:studio license for sale

2004-04-16 Thread Bob Hartley
my studio license (about 1 month old, no update rigth lost) is for sale. If anyone is interested in buying it from me I would be happy to receive a (private) email. Richard wrote: Is the license transferrable? That would be very rare for a software license. It depends on where you are. If you

bug with player object in Rev 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Sheffield
I found what I think is a bug with the player object in Revolution version 2.2 on Windows. It seems to only happen with Win 2000 and Win XP Pro. Why only these two, I'm not sure. But we've done tests on Win 98 and Win XP Home and not had any problems. Anyway, I'm wondering if someone can just

answer file vs. building a path manually

2004-04-16 Thread Tim Bobo
I am working in OS X. I have a revolution stack that is set up to play all the movies in a given folder. Everything works fine until I hit a movie with a long file name. When I set the players filename to be the full file path, it chokes. When I use answer file to get the same exact file,

Revolution questions

2004-04-16 Thread Sharriff Aina
Dear ladies and gentelmen, I was very impressd with the information on your site about Revolution. I would like to know the state of XML support, Sound and USB on different platforms. Thank you very much in advance. Sharriff Aina

Re: bug with player object in Rev 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Chris, I found what I think is a bug with the player object in Revolution version 2.2 on Windows. It seems to only happen with Win 2000 and Win XP Pro. Why only these two, I'm not sure. But we've done tests on Win 98 and Win XP Home and not had any problems. Anyway, I'm wondering if

Re: RR Front-end for FileMaker

2004-04-16 Thread Pierre Sahores
At least doable in sending sockets-drived events to the web-companion component or in using appleevents.. Le 6 avr. 04, à 22:11, Javier Miranda V. a écrit : Hey amigos!, could you share some light about implementing front ends in RR to access data storesd in FIleMaker? Saludos, Javier

Re: RR Front-end for FileMaker

2004-04-16 Thread xbury . cs
ola Javi It's not too hard really... Open FM AS dictionary will show you the objects... tell app fmp to activate open db x go to record y grab field z... Or execute an export/import script... (alas it's filemaker)... and grab it from RR into your stack... I have a stack somewhere with

Re: time library

2004-04-16 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/16/2004 08:05:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For interested parties, here are the 3 base handler/functions I use for Julian daycount. I have a more elaborated library and could publish it if anyone is interested (e.g. converting from/to short system date or MySQL

Using a card for printing reports

2004-04-16 Thread Bill Humphrey
If these are typical form elements, though - boxes, lines, and so on - I'd suggest trying them as graphics instead. You can draw graphics directly onto a card using the tools, and they will print at full resolution. -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com

Re: Julian dates

2004-04-16 Thread FlexibleLearning
Very much interested, Joel. Do please post. Interesting that 25 Dec, was a Monday. Always wondered. And by passing negative numbers, dates prior to 24,11,-4713 are handled, so early neolithic festivals no longer require Stonehenge. This will please the building contractors, as they gave

Re: shifted field on group copy

2004-04-16 Thread Martin Baxter
On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 04:10 AM, Dar Scott wrote: In the copy of a model group from one stack to another in Transcript, one field of the group gets shifted down. This might be a bug, but more likely I'm doing something silly. What could be doing this? When I saved the stack, the

Re: SC, Rev,and RB speed test

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 08:22 PM, David Vaughan wrote: I think Richard Gaskin's query is pertinent. The question is very close to find the intersection of two large sets. Is that the crux of the real life problem? Are there any other considerations? With more information about the real

RE: [More Info] Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Ken Ray
Frank, I don't see this in OS 10.3.3, Rev 2.2. This was a bug that was identified in an earlier version of Rev that was fixed for 2.1.2 so I'm surprised it's come back in 2.2. Can you check 2.1.2 and see if you get the same effect? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: shifted field on group copy

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 06:04 AM, Dar Scott wrote: In the copy of a model group from one stack to another in Transcript, one field of the group gets shifted down. This might be a bug, but more likely I'm doing something silly. What could be doing this? When I saved the stack, the field

RE: answer file vs. building a path manually

2004-04-16 Thread Ken Ray
Tim, This is the long file name bug that was in 2.2 in its first release. Tuviah Snyder (the primary engineer at RunRev) has theoretically posted a fix for this as a new 2.2. If you download the latest version, it *should* fix it. Please let the list know if it doesn't. Thanks, Ken Ray Sons of

Re: shifted field on group copy

2004-04-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 08:13 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: Is it a scrolling group? - how much is the field shifted by ? It is not a scrolling group. On closer examination I see that the field is in the right place, but the text is shifted down about 12 pixels plus or minus, I'm no judge. It

Re: SC, Rev,and RB speed test

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Yavelow
Mark Brownell wrote: I once asked for a high speed pull-parser that could get a single element set and get a single element set after point X. This high speed pull parser could also split by single element, start tags only, but better by element tag sets. It is possible to do all this with offset

Re: scroll droppings

2004-04-16 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/16/2004 12:02:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank, I don't see this in OS 10.3.3, Rev 2.2. This was a bug that was identified in an earlier version of Rev that was fixed for 2.1.2 so I'm surprised it's come back in 2.2. -- It happens in my RR2.2, osx 10.2.8 too!

Re: [More Info] Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/16/04 9:53 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Frank, I don't see this in OS 10.3.3, Rev 2.2. This was a bug that was identified in an earlier version of Rev that was fixed for 2.1.2 so I'm surprised it's come back in 2.2. Can you check 2.1.2 and see if you get the same effect? Yeah, unfortunately it's back.

Re: Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2

2004-04-16 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Frank, Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:14:35 +0100 From: Frank Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug in Scrolling List with pictures in 2.2 Hi, Has anyone else seen this bug? I've got a scrolling list of album names, and next to each album is a cover photo. When I scroll the list in

[OT] GPL

2004-04-16 Thread Jim Witte
To hook onto a *very* old thread: I don't believe he [Stallman] is contradictory. His position is quite subtle. Section 2.b of the GPL sez: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, snip The widely held interpretation of this is that you can indeed sell your program for any

Re: Setting screen resolution in Revolution

2004-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 15 Apr 2004, at 1:53 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have an acquaintance who's porting a game to Windows using Rev. It's a rather nice game with a string of good reviews behind it so I'm hoping we can help him find an answer: Is there a way to set the screen resolution

Re: SC, Rev,and RB speed test

2004-04-16 Thread Brian Yennie
Chris, Here's one more shot, which uses a pretty simple trick: it first crumples everything down into the first two characters of a word and does a rough comparison on that. If that passes, then and only then does it look for an exact match. It also only considers the first 3 words of the

Interest in processing FSCommands in player object?

2004-04-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
Hello list, I came across a neat feature in the QT API that allows you to process FSCommands from a .swf movie. Would the ability to program FSCommands into your Flash movies and process receive messages when they were clicked be of interest to people? Note that this would require that QT

Two distribution questions

2004-04-16 Thread Marian Petrides
I am just about at the point where I am preparing an application for distribution and have two questions: 1) I remember that when I first got Revolution (back in v 1.0) there was information some place about what I need to include in my app to give credit to Run Rev. Unfortunately, I can not

A menu question

2004-04-16 Thread Marian Petrides
I am trying to do as requested and include a Run Rev log in the About this app menu item. I have no need for anything beyond the default menu but I can not figure out how to: 1) get the default menu to display the name of the stack not Revolution and 2) how to tell the menu to go to card

Distribution builder question and comment on dox

2004-04-16 Thread Marian Petrides
This is intended to be a CONSTRUCTIVE comment on how to improve the Run Rev dox. Please take it that way. I have been playing around with Distribution Builder. In v 2.1.2 when I am on the OS X tab on the last screen (the optional settings screen), the top left box is entitled NAME: I am

Re: Setting screen resolution in Revolution

2004-04-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 15 Apr 2004, at 1:53 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have an acquaintance who's porting a game to Windows using Rev. It's a rather nice game with a string of good reviews behind it so I'm hoping we can help him find an

RE: New engine...

2004-04-16 Thread Monte Goulding
Aha, but that does not help me in the moment ;-) Oh.. you are trying to use this to install a new engine. I imagine the new engine has been posted some other way (at least I hope it has). And while we are at it, why do we always have to enter our serial-number again each time a new version

Rev app for AS5200

2004-04-16 Thread Glen Bojsza
I was wondering if anyone has done an application with Revolution for AS5200. This needs to be dial up. Or if anyone has pointers on if Revolution is used for such an application I would appreciate any guidance. thanks, Glen ___ use-revolution

XML to XHTML via XSLT

2004-04-16 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Is there a Revolution library that does XSLT that we can run as a faceless process or invoke on a per GET request basis (in case we are not able to allow a running process on a given server)? I'm just getting started with XML and it looks like something very useful. In particular it is so

Re:prefs and XML and re-entering prefs again and again....

2004-04-16 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/17/2004 12:26:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's all the preferences and first use status etc. -- ditto. After many revs of runrev having to dance again and again my prefs is getting very old, um, somthing called xml and plist might be want rr team needs to ponder