Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, now that I´ve set everything up on my machine here I´m eager to play around with the CGI stuff. Would it be possible to keep the values stored in an array over more than one Webpage and manipulate that array on Page 1, Page 2, etc? Do I need to use cookies for that? Best, Malte

The Scripter's Scrapbook

2004-05-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
This is a request for brief feedback. Well over 500 copies of The Scripter's Scrapbook have been downloaded since the program's re-launch in March of this year... 65% for use with MetaCard/Revolution 35% for use as a StandAlone - 17% Mac Classic OS9 - 49% Mac OSX - 34% Windows Your positive

Re: Rev cgi install + potential problem with cgi tutorial

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
Hi again, One could do dumb things like put in a do statement that executes incomming CGI params. But that would be dumb. Moreover, if the Linux admin does his job right the worst that could happens is that you'll hose your own account setup but everything else on the machine would

Re: Plugins, fonts

2004-05-07 Thread Wouter
Oops typo, can must be can't, sorry... Please review the credit for your contributions that I added in B4 and let me know if you feel it's appropriate (Help-Licensing, Version History tab). Also, please consider updating the Read Me to include a descriptions of this new active plugin feature.

RE: Create alias from CDROM to desktop?

2004-05-07 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
At 12:39 06.05.2004 -0500, you wrote: I've got a CD-ROM that has a Revolution app running on it, and I want that Revolution app to create an alias, pointint to itself to the user's desktop. I know that I can use the defaultFolder to find the path to the app, and I know I can use the

Re: Screen Resolution

2004-05-07 Thread Frank Leahy
On May 7, 2004, at 10:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Brent Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen Resolution To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hello. Is there any way that you can change the monitor

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage.

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
Malte, Hi, now that I´ve set everything up on my machine here I´m eager to play around with the CGI stuff. Would it be possible to keep the values stored in an array over more than one Webpage and manipulate that array on Page 1, Page 2, etc? Do I need to use cookies for that? you can

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 7 mai 04, à 15:06, jbv a écrit : Malte, Hi, now that I´ve set everything up on my machine here I´m eager to play around with the CGI stuff. Would it be possible to keep the values stored in an array over more than one Webpage and manipulate that array on Page 1, Page 2, etc? Do I need

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than oneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
Pierre, About using temp files : because a read/write proc is always slower than getting/setting a global var, i avoid, for my own to use temp files. I see your point, but if the end user is not supposed to see the data, temp files are the only solution (because end users can always

Re: Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread Rob Cozens
Judy, I presume you have the image name building issue solved now; but as an afterthought I offer a solution that does not rely on concatenation, handles 0 to n images, and allows for more meaningful image names: Place a list of image names in a field, property, or variable, in the order in

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, now that I´ve set everything up on my machine here I´m eager to play around with the CGI stuff. Would it be possible to keep the values stored in an array over more than one Webpage and manipulate that array on Page 1, Page 2, etc? Do I need

Rev app as wrapper to talking oddcast heads

2004-05-07 Thread RGould8
Now that's an interesting title for an email, eh? Well, my boss has asked me if it's technically possible to create a crossplatform Revolution wrapper around the talking-heads that are generated from the _www.oddcast.com_ (http://www.oddcast.com) servers. Those talking heads are actually

Re: Run Rev hangs while loading plug-ins

2004-05-07 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 13 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:14:17 +1000 From: Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Run Rev hangs while loading plug-ins To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I've had this happen (Mac

Re: Rev app as wrapper to talking oddcast heads

2004-05-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Rob, Now that's an interesting title for an email, eh? Well, my boss has asked me if it's technically possible to create a crossplatform Revolution wrapper around the talking-heads that are generated from the _www.oddcast.com_ (http://www.oddcast.com) servers. Those talking heads are

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than oneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
Jan, At the risk of getting slammed by the anti-cookie lobby : you could always store session variables in cookies. You can serialise your array and encrypt that data as well if you want to, and these cookies can be automatically deleted when the user quits his browser, or you can have

OT: CSS

2004-05-07 Thread Romain Lafourcade
le 07.05.2004 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I build widgets with Revolution that output HTML for different contexts. No better told for that for sure! Forgive me for going way off topic here, but no better pool of minds to draw from than the Rev family ;-) I just

Re: Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread Judy Perry
Rob, I presume you have the image name building issue solved now; --Nope. Fortunately, I saved my amateurish solution of one line of script for each image spelled out by hand... But I haven't had a chance yet to test the most recent suggestion to change controls to images (perhaps the problem

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than oneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: Although I might be one of the most virulent anti-cookie activists (I NEVER used cookies in the numerous websites I've developped), I won't slam you... ;-) Nevertheless, I keep thinking that using cookies is a blatant demonstration of lazyness for a programer (nothing personal of

Way to make app undetectable?

2004-05-07 Thread RGould8
Is there a way to make a Revolution application run from the startup folder on Mac and Windows, and then be undetectable to the user thereafter? (i.e. Not having the icon show up in the taskbar or dock, and not showing the menubar for the app when it's running) I realize that you'd probably

Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread SimPLsol
Judy, Another option, which requires even less code - if it fits your needs, is to put the images into a folder and use a repeat loop to view them, something like this: repeat with i = 1 to the number of items in imageFolder go to item i of imageFolder end repeat This would

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more thanoneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
I'm no fan of cookie abuse, and I looove that Mozilla let's me approve them individually (I always nix the ones from evil ad companies that track you all over the Web). But how else does one maintain state information, esp. between sessions? simply by asking users to identify clearly

Re: Screen Resolution

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Norris
On May 7, 2004, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:28:49 +0100 From: Frank Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen Resolution On May 7, 2004, at 10:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Brent Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen Resolution To: [EMAIL

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Rob and Judy, Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 08:04:51 -0700 From: Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stupid Programming Question Judy, I presume you have the image name building issue solved now; but as an afterthought I offer a solution that does not rely on concatenation, handles 0 to n

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage

2004-05-07 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Fri, 07 May 2004 jbv respond to Pierre: Pierre wrote: About using temp files : because a read/write proc is always slower than getting/setting a global var, i avoid, for my own to use temp files. I see your point, but if the end user is not supposed to see the data, temp files

RE: Create alias from CDROM to desktop?

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Ray
Is there a reason you can't use the create alias command in Rev? Yes, unfortunately there's a bug in Bugzilla (#1059) about the inability to make aliases to apps in OS X because they are folders, and 'create alias' only works with files. I do not know about OS X, but on Windows it

Re: Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/7/04 1:00 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Rob, I presume you have the image name building issue solved now; --Nope. Fortunately, I saved my amateurish solution of one line of script for each image spelled out by hand... But I haven't had a chance yet to test the most recent suggestion to change

Get image ID?

2004-05-07 Thread Kevin
Okay I would like to alter the icon used by a button at runtime. I tried this: put the icon of button Go into currentID put the id of image stop into stopID this generates a error how my I get the reasource id of a image named stop to place into the icon property of a button. Kevin

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more thanoneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: But how else does one maintain state information, esp. between sessions? simply by asking users to identify clearly at the beginning of each session Personally, I would prefer an option. I hate re-entering the same info everytime I visit a site with customized features. The only

Script Debug Mode Off, no openStack, etc. sent.

2004-05-07 Thread Robert Eppich
Hello all, Using Revolution 2.2 with Mac OS X 10.3.3 I have discovered that no openStack, preopenStack, or startup messages are sent when the script debug mode is turned off and you launch Revolution 2.2 by dragging and dropping a stack onto Rev 2.2. This did not happen in Rev 2.1.2. Can

Re: Get image ID?

2004-05-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Kevin, Okay I would like to alter the icon used by a button at runtime. I tried this: put the icon of button Go into currentID put the id of image stop into stopID this generates a error how my I get the reasource id of a image named stop to place into the icon property of a button. do

Re: Get image ID?

2004-05-07 Thread Martin Baxter
Okay I would like to alter the icon used by a button at runtime. I tried this: put the icon of button Go into currentID put the id of image stop into stopID this generates a error how my I get the reasource id of a image named stop to place into the icon property of a button. Kevin Not

Re: Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread Rob Cozens
--Nope. Fortunately, I saved my amateurish solution of one line of script for each image spelled out by hand... But I haven't had a chance yet to test the most recent suggestion to change controls to images (perhaps the problem is that it is looking for a control named c17.jpg?) Judy, I believe

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than oneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
'Evening JB, True in this case even if i prefer, for my own, the hidden tags+encrypted indexes way ;) Best Regards, Pierre Pierre, About using temp files : because a read/write proc is always slower than getting/setting a global var, i avoid, for my own to use temp files. I see your point,

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more thanoneWebpage.

2004-05-07 Thread jbv
Pierre, Yes you're right : passing encrypted data through hidden tags looks like a very elegant trade-off solution... JB 'Evening JB, True in this case even if i prefer, for my own, the hidden tags+encrypted indexes way ;) Best Regards, Pierre Pierre, About using temp files

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage

2004-05-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 7 mai 04, à 21:10, Alejandro Tejada a écrit : on Fri, 07 May 2004 jbv respond to Pierre: Pierre wrote: About using temp files : because a read/write proc is always slower than getting/setting a global var, i avoid, for my own to use temp files. I see your point, but if the end user is not

RE: Way to make app undetectable?

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Ray
Yes, Take a look at the tip at: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_proc003 for Mac OS X... For Windows, I believe you only need to make sure the stack is saved invisibly and then make the standalone and it won't appear in the taskbar. HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder

Re: Another CGI question. Keeping an array over more than one Webpage.

2004-05-07 Thread de Mare
jbv heeft op vrijdag, 7 mei 2004 om 15:06 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: Malte, Hi, now that I´ve set everything up on my machine here I´m eager to play around with the CGI stuff. Would it be possible to keep the values stored in an array over more than one Webpage and manipulate

Re: Screen Resolution

2004-05-07 Thread curry
I've seen this conversation replay for years on different lists. OK, maybe we should have a bot that scans mailing lists and if the term screen resolution comes up, e-mails Aaaahh! No! Life as we know it will cease to exist! Seriously, like most stuff, it depends. Indeed, it could be

Re: Stupid Programming Question

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Norris
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:00:58 -0700 From: Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 8, Issue 10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed OOPS! Sorry, I got in a hurry and failed to replace the subject