Re: which item contains the foundText?

2004-09-20 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Rich Lague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m making an application that keeps it’s data in a text file and I’m trying build in a find field. So, I set up a script for the field: on returnInField global tVar -- contains the text file global itemNum -- a handler in the stack

Re: what/where is this Newbie List?

2004-09-20 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Erik and all, if you like you can look at http://www.esashi.org/yabb/YaBB.pl which is actually no list, but a bulletin board. I prefer the form of a bulletin board as it is hard for me to keep up with the traffic on a mailing list. We used to have a really good going bulletin board hosted by

slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread kweto
Hello, (B (BActually, my animated gif's looping is not "natural", i.e., I don't rely on (B"set repeatCount to -1". Instead, I use a "repeat" control strutcture to (Bprogress the gif frame by frame, plus a two-part "if" statement to set the (BcurrentFrame number of the gif back to 1 after its

Re: Rép : Rev cgi, PostgreSQL and standalones

2004-09-20 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Pierre Sahores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello There, First part available (example app)... To get it, just type http://acacia93.dyndns.org/rev_web_app.zip from within your prefered Web browser. Have fun, Best, Pierre Merci beacoup, Pierre -- I've just downloaded it and will

Re: Rép : Rev cgi, PostgreSQL and standalones

2004-09-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello Jan, I'm just on the way to improve the html's part production in using the FreeWayExpress wisiwig html editor (MacOS only). Golive and Dreamweaver are probably good at this point too. Let me know how this goes for you :) Best, Pierre Le 20 sept. 04, à 12:52, Jan Schenkel a écrit : ---

Re: mp3/wma in Rev?

2004-09-20 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Carl, Excellent! Thanks Klaus (and Ludovic). You're welcome! I have to admit that I am struggling with the Rev documentation - the content appears inaccurate - it says to look for a list of Player messages and properties using the Show menu in the Documentation window. As far as I can tell

Re: Rev crash w/ DB Query Builder

2004-09-20 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working under Mac OS X, Rev Studio. Both 2.2.1 and the 2.5 demo give me this behavior: If I have the database query builder open and click one of the wand buttons in a properties window (such as to select a window shape in a stack

Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton)
Folks: Here (according to our Director developer) is the rundown on where Director is apparently falling short when it comes to developing the product we need. Can anyone tell me if Rev can solve these problems or if we're overlooking something in Director? -- Dynamic population of drop down

sql-dmo or similar

2004-09-20 Thread Mark D. Clark
Hope this isn't an FAQ, but here goes. I am looking for a means to pause a MS SQL server (or particular db files within) in order to accomplish a snapshot. I need to know that the file is actually paused on the server end, then send commands to snap, then resume the database. Anyone doing such

Re: sql-dmo or similar

2004-09-20 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Won't a transaction with appropriate serialization give you the same result, but without interrupting other users' ability to access the database during the snapshot process? On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:50 AM, Mark D. Clark wrote: I suppose this can be done simply enough from within VB, but I'd

Re: EACCESS and ESTATE

2004-09-20 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I just checked the XCode docs, then did a recursive grep on /usr/include; these constants do not seem to be present in the Mac OS X header files. On Sep 18, 2004, at 12:18 AM, K wrote: Hello, folks I have been very quite over here for the last few weeks. I have been working on a

Re: Getting a remote file in OS X

2004-09-20 Thread rgould8
I had a similar issue where my Revolution app would FTP data up to a server successfully from my home machine, via cable-modem, and then I'd go into the office, and the FTP uploads would only work maybe 50% of the time. What was happening was the corporate firewall was somehow slowing down the

Rev and Named pipes/Win

2004-09-20 Thread thierry
Hi Windows' developper. Does someone knows anything possible with named pipe and Revolution ? didn't find anything on this topic Regards, thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton)
JB: Before answering your question, I guess a few more details are needed. Especially, I don't really understand why you need to embed a browser within a Director window ... Considering the amount of formatting required for the text and the length of the text documents (scrolling will

Re: slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread Jim MacConnell
I'm surprised it makes a noticeable difference but... resetting your frame to the start is using an added IF statement. Maybe try using MOD instead. This means the same number of statements are executed every time through the loop so the timing should be better. Also note I added a tNumFrames

Re: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Stephen, It sounds like the Rev/altBrowser combo should do the trick with a couple of caveats. As you probably know, altBrowser is an embedded browser for Revolution. It uses IE in Win2000/XP and Safari in Mac OSX 10.3+ If you're using an earlier version of the MacOS, then it won't work.

Re: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread jbv
Stephen, Thanks, I have a better understanding of the requirements of your project. Opinions may vary, but I for one would suggest to keep that project within a single development environment as much as possible. I know it is tempting to try to catch the best of various tools and integrate them

Re: 'Blessed' plugins

2004-09-20 Thread FlexibleLearning
Not so far as I can determine, Geoff. A Puzzler. But as Richard pointed out, the 15 year tradition is that only toplevel stacks should be modifiable, and it would assist plugins if this were honoured by RevTools. /H The cantmodify of (rev)Navigator is false, and I still don't have

Re: mp3/wma in Rev?

2004-09-20 Thread william griffin
I was wondering if there is any way to play mp3 or wma files from within Rev (ideally without instantiating an external player.) Try http://www.igame3d.com/rev/FMODforRev112.zip Contains a playlist example and Mp3 definately works. COPY the .dll (on windows) or external package (on mac) to your

RE: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton)
JB: Thanks for the detailed reply. ...but I for one would suggest to keep that project within a single development environment as much as possible. I know it is tempting to try to catch the best of various tools and integrate them into one single entity, but I also know that complex projects can

RE: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton)
Chipp: Thanks for the detailed write-up. It uses IE in Win2000/XP and Safari in Mac OSX 10.3+ This might be a stumbling block. I'm sure some customers are using older versions of Windows. Any way to make it Win 95/98 compatible? If you're using an earlier version of the MacOS, then it won't

Re: what/where is this Newbie List?

2004-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/19/04 7:35 PM, j wrote: we all have to start somewhere and nobody can know everything. Except for Jacque. :D I wish. :) Er... rather... I mean... yes, absolutely. I know everything there is to know. All of it. Everything. That is, everything except for how to make lutefisk, which is a

[OT] ASP survey results posted

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
The Association of Shareware Professionals has posted the results of their September 2004 survey: http://www.asp-shareware.org/polls/sept04poll.asp Don't let the term shareware throw you. Very few members of the ASP turn out true shareware, in the sense of fully-featured apps that rely solely

revCopyFile different in 2.5?

2004-09-20 Thread Christian Langers
Hello all ! I do have the same problem. My script which worked without a problem in 2.2.1, does not copy anything ... ask question Name des Schülers ? as sheet if the result is not cancel then put it into tFoldName create folder (Dossiers/ tFoldName) create folder

[OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
The PAD format is a popular XML-based format for describing downloadable software packages used at a rapidly-growing number of download sites. Using PAD files allows developers to just use the URL to their PAD file rather than fill in a complex form for every download site. But like most

sql server redux

2004-09-20 Thread Mark D. Clark
Won't a transaction with appropriate serialization give you the same result, but without interrupting other users' ability to access the database during the snapshot process? Okay, this is where my nearly perfect ignorance comes to play--I don't really understand how a transaction with

XQuery in Rev?

2004-09-20 Thread Arthur Urban
I just glossed over the nice XML tutorial that most folks point to, and I didn't really see any mechanism to use Xquery to get data from an XML file. Did I miss anything in this regard? I'm much more used to issuing XQL commands to get data. ~~~ Arthur Never interrupt your enemy while he is

RE: sql server redux

2004-09-20 Thread Jay Madren
Mark, I haven't investigated SQL Server snapshot backups before, but a quick look through the docs and their web site seems to indicate that there's probably some API or DMO call used to freeze the database at the time of the snapshot. The MSDN site refers to some VC++ examples, but I couldn't

Urgent: QT quality too low

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
I have a movie sized 1024 x 736 which is in a player, and while it looks reasonably sharp in Apple's QT Player it is noticeably fuzzier in the Rev player. I've double-checked the size of the movie and turned off the border, still fuzzier. As far as I can discern, I see two potential causes:

Re: Urgent: QT quality too low

2004-09-20 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sep 20, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have a movie sized 1024 x 736 which is in a player, and while it looks reasonably sharp in Apple's QT Player it is noticeably fuzzier in the Rev player. I've double-checked the size of the movie and turned off the border, still fuzzier. As

Re: Urgent: QT quality too low

2004-09-20 Thread david
Richard Gaskin wrote: I have a movie sized 1024 x 736 which is in a player, and while it looks reasonably sharp in Apple's QT Player it is noticeably fuzzier in the Rev player. Probably not much help - but I had a similar issue a while back. You should look at the codec being used? I found

Re: Getting a remote file in OS X

2004-09-20 Thread Gregory Lypny
Eurika! It works. And darn fast too. The file host is set to passive ftp as required, and I followed Dave Cragg's suggestion of setting libUrlSetFTPMode to active. Many thanks to Dave Cragg, Frank Leahy, Mark Talluto, and Rob Gould for your time and thoughtful responses. This list has

accessing the learning center

2004-09-20 Thread olivier vasseur
anyone now how to accesse the learning center in revolution on line? When I click on it it says : Bad Channel the channel url you have entered does not point to a valid channel stack the url in the revOnlive Viewer is: http://revonline.runrev.com/channels/learning_center.rvc.gz thanks

Re: Urgent: QT quality too low - solved!

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Gaskin wrote: I have a movie sized 1024 x 736 which is in a player, and while it looks reasonably sharp in Apple's QT Player it is noticeably fuzzier in the Rev player. I've double-checked the size of the movie and turned off the border, still fuzzier. As far as I can discern, I see

Re: sql server redux

2004-09-20 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I just found this article, which you might find interesting with regard to this topic: http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/21570 If my understanding of this is correct, then the new isolation level for SQL Server 2005 will be closer to the normal one used by PostgreSQL:

Waaaaaaaay OT: Lutefisk

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- ...Do not make lutefisk in the warm season. http://englishlab.univ-bpclermont.fr/OLP98-99/Heidi/lutefisk.htm Many people have different opinions with regard to how lutefisk should be cooked. http://www.sverdrup.no/english/lutefisk.htm ...if you make some, don't bother saving any for

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 12, Issue 69

2004-09-20 Thread Mark D. Clark
Hi Jay, I work for a SAN company and our product has snapshot capability (unlimited snaps per volume, actually). We do support VSS but MS doesn't just yet for SQL server. Once it does, no worries, but there might still be times when pausing sql and doing something different (as might be

Re: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Terry Judd
On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 01:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:24:22 PM Australia/Melbourne To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution? Reply-To: How

Re: slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread kweto
Thank you to Jim MacConnell for the interesting "use MOD" suggestion. I (Bdidn't know "MOD" existed. (B (BUnfortunately, "MOD" is not the solution. The documentation explains that: (B (B"If number can be divided evenly into divisor, the expression number mod (Bdivisor is zero." (B (BWhich

Re: slight delay in animated gif loop

2004-09-20 Thread Jim MacConnell
Kweto, Glad the delay is gone and you are right.. MOD gives zero when you hit the divisor. You could use something like: (TCurrentFreime MOD 36) + 1 But.. If it isn't broken now.. Obviously don't fix it. Jim Unfortunately, MOD is not the solution. The documentation explains that: If

POSTing a file to a web server

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Davey
Hi all, I am new to Revolution, having been playing with it for a few days now. I am interested to know what the easiest way might be to POST a file to a web server? (not an FTP upload). I have managed to post variables to a server, but not a file yet. If it is possible, is there a way of having

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

2004-09-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, I am using MacPAD since Ricardo emailed me a year ago, we could coin a stack to write PAD files in no time... MacPAD files are plist files, PC PAD files are XML based too but with a different spec. Both are easy. Cheers andre On Sep 20, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The PAD

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I am using MacPAD since Ricardo emailed me a year ago, we could coin a stack to write PAD files in no time... MacPAD files are plist files, PC PAD files are XML based too but with a different spec. Both are easy. But exactly half as easy as supporting both. :) And neither

Re: Waaaaaaaay OT: Lutefisk

2004-09-20 Thread j
after reading jacque's response, i had to look up lutefisk. my stomach started cramping just thinking about it... j. On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- ...Do not make lutefisk in the warm season. http://englishlab.univ-bpclermont.fr/OLP98-99/Heidi/lutefisk.htm Many people

RE: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

2004-09-20 Thread Monte Goulding
One interesting possibility would be to add PAD file generation to the standalone builder. It could generate the correct format for he platform it's building for. Perhaps it's worth atting to bugzilla as an enhancement?? Cheers -- Monte Goulding - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sweat Technologies

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: One interesting possibility would be to add PAD file generation to the standalone builder. It could generate the correct format for he platform it's building for. Perhaps it's worth atting to bugzilla as an enhancement?? I'd vote for it, once the PAD standard is enhanced to

Re: Director shortcomings; Rev/altBrowser the solution?

2004-09-20 Thread Tony Bray
On 21 Sep 2004, Van Esch, Stephen (Bolton) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here (according to our Director developer) is the rundown on where Director is apparently falling short when it comes to developing the product we need. Can anyone tell me if Rev can solve these problems or if we're overlooking

table cell contents

2004-09-20 Thread Alister Pillow
Hi I've been looking everywhere (docs, lists etc) for an example of how to set the contents of a table field which has cell editing turned on. If I put some text into the Contents panel of the (table field) Property Inspector, the text appears correctly in the table - until the table is

Re: 'Blessed' plugins

2004-09-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
Did toplevel exist before MetaCard? Does it exist outside of Revolution? In any case, what's wrong with the cantModify property, which would seem to be tailor-made for this? Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like your original proposal of a custom property for this. CantModify

Re: POSTing a file to a web server

2004-09-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Richard, It's possible to do, but not necessarily trivial as you need to use a php or asp script on the server side. Check out in the documentation: libUrlMultipartFormData and you might want to take a look at the RFC1867 spec (Google) I had an old library that did what you want, but it's

Re: 'Blessed' plugins

2004-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: Did toplevel exist before MetaCard? Does it exist outside of Revolution? In any case, what's wrong with the cantModify property, which would seem to be tailor-made for this? Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like your original proposal of a custom property for