Player Bug?

2004-11-05 Thread Scott Rossi
Howdy List: I'm running into an odd player behavior where setting a player to a filename that contains an open parenthesis "(" prevents Rev 2.5 from opening/playing the file. Interestingly, a close parenthesis ")" in the filename does not cause a problem. Can anyone else verify this as a bug? T

Re: Displaying images from MySQL

2004-11-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Paul Kruckewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rote: > Hi all, > I am new to Revolution and attempting to read jpeg > images from a MySQL 4.1 database. I have > successfully used Jan Schenkel's excellent example > using the query builder and I am able to step > sequentially though the images. I need to

Re: How works revCurrentRecordIsLast/revCurrentRecordIsFirst

2004-11-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jérôme Rosat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour tout le monde, > > In Dreamcard documentation, for the > revCurrentRecordIsLast function, > it's written that "Returns whether the current > record is the last > record in a record set (database cursor)." > > In my recordset with 3 records,

Re: Standalone with Externals crashing

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Bump
Alright, I downloaded and installed Revolution 2.2.1 and I am experiencing the same crashes when I try to execute the EnhancedQT and setDesktop external from within the standalone. It works fine in the IDE. One thing that has changed is that when I include the Error Reporting module in my stan

Re: Standalone with Externals crashing

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Bump
> Try using one external at a time and see which one causes the crash. I launch the program and execute a handler that runs the EnhancedQT external. Crash. I re-launch the program and execute the a handler that runs the setDesktop external. Crash again. I am going to download 2.2 and see if t

How works revCurrentRecordIsLast/revCurrentRecordIsFirst

2004-11-05 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Bonjour tout le monde, In Dreamcard documentation, for the revCurrentRecordIsLast function, it's written that "Returns whether the current record is the last record in a record set (database cursor)." In my recordset with 3 records, when the cursor is on the first record, revCurrentRecordIsLast

Re: How to create a list of images stored in a MySQL database in a text field

2004-11-05 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Bonjour Jan, Thank you for your answer. Yes, it helps me a lot. Meilleures salutations. Jérôme Le 5 nov. 04, à 15:56, Jan Schenkel a écrit : --- Jérôme Rosat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I would like to create a list field containing in each row an image, its number and its name. The image si

Re: Displaying vertical text

2004-11-05 Thread Rob Cozens
I need to display a text verticaly, this text cannot be an image as it comes from a variable. Is there any way to rotate a field, label, ? Hi Aurélien, From Serendipity Library: function verticalText theText put empty into returnText repeat for each char theCharacter in theText put theChara

Re: Displaying vertical text

2004-11-05 Thread Frank Engel
You *can* rotate an Image, correct? So why not take a snapshot of the horizontal field, place the snapshot in an image, and rotate that? On Nov 5, 2004, at 14:48, MisterX wrote: You can also make a singe column field with a letter per line L I K E T H I S Va Ri At Io Ns Are also possible but cost

Re: OT Yet another installer question

2004-11-05 Thread Frank Engel
You'll need Windoze to build this one, too, but there is also a (very powerful) free Windows installer utility called Inno Setup available somewhere on the web... hold on a second while I find the URL... http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Note that if you want to try this I strongly recommend

RE: Displaying vertical text

2004-11-05 Thread MisterX
You can also make a singe column field with a letter per line L I K E T H I S Va Ri At Io Ns Are also possible but cost more... ;) You can even parse multicolumns like these using the tabstops to title thin columns in a table... Playing with the textsize prop can also give you better look. D

Re: OT Yet another installer question

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Talluto
On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:22 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: I have a stand-alone built with RR on a Mac to run in Windows. It is called "MergeEmailLists.exe." and when I double click it, it runs just fine in Windows. It does not appear in the Window's list of applications however. While that doesn't bother m

Re: graphics with transparencies and OS 9

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Talluto
On Nov 4, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: In this case there is no path involved. The image is embedded within my app. And I actually still see the image when the window opens, but the window is not taking its shape. Chris, I have never used the window shaping feature before. Maybe so

Re: Displaying vertical text

2004-11-05 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to display a text verticaly, this text cannot be an image as it comes > from a variable. Is > > there any way to rotate a field, label, ? No. Your only option might be to render the text as a bitmap and then rotate it. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative

Displaying vertical text

2004-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everybody, I need to display a text verticaly, this text cannot be an image as it comes from a variable. Is there any way to rotate a field, label, ? Thanx Regards Aurélien ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev

Re: Standalone with Externals crashing

2004-11-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Derek Bump wrote: How did you set the paths to the externals in the standalone? Even though I had the externals in the Revolution folder, I also placed a copy of them in my stack's folder as well. I added them to the stack's External References so they show as "Enhanc

Re: Standalone with Externals crashing

2004-11-05 Thread Derek Bump
> Does it crash on startup? The program is not crashing at startup. The only time it crashes is when I execute one of the external's functions. I am however getting the following error at start when I include the Script Error Reporter in the Standalone. Executing at 2:58:29 PM Type

RE: OT Yet another installer question

2004-11-05 Thread MisterX
Check out the modes of stacks. Palettes do not show up in the task bar. Is that mentioned in the documentation though? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jim Hurley > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 18:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: compress/decompress on OS X

2004-11-05 Thread Rob Cozens
My solution (from Serendipity Library & called by SDB Utilities and SDB Tools) is below; In minimizing the Libray handlers for my second post, I found these errors in the original logic: on SDBCompressFile -- 3 Mar 04:RCC [snip] put compressedData into URL compressedFile set the fileType

OT Yet another installer question

2004-11-05 Thread Jim Hurley
I have a stand-alone built with RR on a Mac to run in Windows. It is called "MergeEmailLists.exe." and when I double click it, it runs just fine in Windows. It does not appear in the Window's list of applications however. While that doesn't bother me, I have a friend who would like to see it t

Re: Standalone with Externals crashing

2004-11-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 4, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Derek Bump wrote: I have a standalone that makes use of the EnhancedQT and setDesktop externals. Works fine in development, but does nothing more than crash when in a standalone. Is there something up with Rev 2.5, standalones and externals? This is on WinXP Home S

Displaying images from MySQL

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Kruckewitt
Hi all, I am new to Revolution and attempting to read jpeg images from a MySQL 4.1 database. I have successfully used Jan Schenkel's excellent example using the query builder and I am able to step sequentially though the images. I need to access the records in a non-sequential fashion. No prob

Re: sdb

2004-11-05 Thread Rob Cozens
where can I get the SDB ? Hi Hershel, Thanks to Andre Garzia, Serendipity Library (including SDB) is now available for download at . Enjoy!...and please let me know if you have any questions or problems. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Sof

Re: How to create a list of images stored in a MySQL database in a text field

2004-11-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jérôme Rosat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to create a list field containing in > each row an image, > its number and its name. > The image size should make 16 X 16 pixels. > > I imagine I should first: > - open a connection to my DB > - execute a SQL query to select

Re: Any way to get a "..." into a cell of table?

2004-11-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Timothy Bleiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When text exceeds the width of a cell in a table it > would be nice to > indicate that there is additional text that can't be > seen by placing a > "..." into the last char. I haven't been able to > figure out any way to > do this. Anyone out ther

Re: problems running Rev standalones under Panther with limited user accounts

2004-11-05 Thread Frank Engel
You could try using the Finder's Get Info window to set the permissions so that anyone can write, but I have found this unreliable and prefer to use the Terminal. Open the Terminal, cd to the folder containing your app and then use the following command: chmod -R 777 YourAppName.app/ This will

tablefield and standalone app issues

2004-11-05 Thread Revinfo1155
Thanks to all who gave info on table fields. The design came out well but I'm still experiencing trouble with the function of the tablefield stack. When I build a standalone to run my tablefield stack, I chose the table option to add that feature to the standalone. Was that the thing to do?

Re: Wacky Submenu Problem under OS X

2004-11-05 Thread Frank Engel
Yep, that works! I hadn't even thought to try that. The problem with the mnemonics seems to be with Menu Builder BTW, and I have already bugzilla'd that. I suspect it is a separate issue. I have also bugzilla'd the menu issue, so I will tack this info onto the report; also, the mnemonics only

Re[2]: geometry manager

2004-11-05 Thread thierry
Hi, Helps a lot , thanks ! works again. will think of upgrading to 2.5 after the release of Version 2 of my product xccc> 2.1 has a few GM bugs... xccc> Not that 2.5 isnt bug free but it is (ahem) better behaved. xccc> My guess is that an old position got stuck or didn't get updated xc

RE: geometry manager

2004-11-05 Thread xbury . cs
2.1 has a few GM bugs... Not that 2.5 isnt bug free but it is (ahem) better behaved. My guess is that an old position got stuck or didn't get updated because some event blocked the update. This can happen when you have a pending error, self-resizing stack or a resizestack handler that doesn't pas

select a line in the script editor...

2004-11-05 Thread thierry
Hi, having no chance with one of my last question, try again differently... in a script, during development time, i have a function EditScriptAndGoToLine( theObject, theLineNumber ) with theObject which contains some reference to any object ( ie: stack "" ), i do : edit script of theOb

geometry manager

2004-11-05 Thread thierry
Hi all, have some problems with the geometry manager... works fine for few days, but this morning, few objects where out of the window, and now when i'm changing the size of the window ( drag bottom-right ), one field systematicaly move few pixels too much