Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (nothing to do with it really)

2005-01-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ken and Jeff, On 1/18/05 4:32 PM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ehmm, well my name is not Fabio and my hair is DEFINITIVELY shorter, but i don't understand this one either :-( Could you give me a hint, please? :-) Klaus, do a Google search for fabio and you'll see what he means... Oh,

Re: Windows externals and the imagePixmapID

2005-01-19 Thread Thierry Arbellot
imagePixmapID is an HBITMAP Thierry. On 2005, Jan 18, , at 19:44, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know what form the imagePixmapID takes under the Windows engine for Rev? Is it an HBITMAP or an HDC, or something else entirely? Thank you! - -

Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . hausmann
Ich werde ab 19.01.2005 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 20.01.2005. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus.

2005-01-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi folks, just in case someone is interested to know what Mr. Hausmann has to tell: Ich werde ab 19.01.2005 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 20.01.2005. I will not be be in my office on 1/19/2005. I will be back on 1/20/2005. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. I

Re: Characters not displaying in a field?

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/1/05 6:13 am, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: normally more anemic than the Rev docs. But this is what it took me to find them in Rev: 1. Open Documentation 2. Typed Li 3. Dismissed a dialog telling me that Li could not be found. 4. Managed to type an m before - 5.

Re: Characters not displaying in a field?

2005-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Kevin Miller wrote: On 19/1/05 6:13 am, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: normally more anemic than the Rev docs. But this is what it took me to find them in Rev: 1. Open Documentation 2. Typed Li 3. Dismissed a dialog telling me that Li could not be found. 4. Managed to type an m before

Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . hausmann
Ich werde ab 19.01.2005 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 20.01.2005. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Characters not displaying in a field?

2005-01-19 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/1/05 11:57 am, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Kevin, that's good to know. I'm curious if you have any comment on the mis-behaviour of the Filter function. It must surely be a bug to say that there are no matches for Lim or Limi and then find the match for Limits.

RE: Characters not displaying in a field?

2005-01-19 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I bet you could write the data to a text file, and have the file open in whatever app you use to view text files. That way, it would still be immediately viewable, even if not in Rev. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kee nethery Sent:

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone application

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd imagine you can fix this on a Mac by intercepting the apple event which is sent to the stack. Under Windows, you would need to check the $1 variable when starting the standalone, or check the openStacks or some such, and if a stack is

Re: Windows externals and the imagePixmapID

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you! On Jan 19, 2005, at 4:47 AM, Thierry Arbellot wrote: imagePixmapID is an HBITMAP Thierry. On 2005, Jan 18, , at 19:44, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know what form the imagePixmapID

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: On another app, though I *had* to use the hide/show groups method because only part of a window (card) changes in response to the users selections. Note that the multi-card solution for tabs can still be used even if only a part of the window

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone application

2005-01-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/19/05 8:30 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd imagine you can fix this on a Mac by intercepting the apple event which is sent to the stack. You're right about that... and you can intercept the event *before* the stack

Re: revMail fails on some Macs

2005-01-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/18/05 10:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that there is an email client automatically will be invoked by revMail? I can't find any preference in OS X for default mail app that requires setting. No more internet config and apple has this bizarre

Re: revMail fails on some Macs

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can also use the More Internet preference pane; see: http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/ On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/18/05 10:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that there

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone

2005-01-19 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Alejandro Tejada wrote: I have read this useful Programming tip in your website, and TRY to use it in an standalone player to OPEN ONLY the custom documents of that application. But when i drag and drop a Rev or MC stack to a standalone i had created, IT OPENS... :-( Ken Ray answer:

Re: revMail fails on some Macs

2005-01-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/19/05 11:28 AM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/05 10:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that there is an email client automatically will be invoked by revMail? I can't find any preference in OS X for default mail app that requires

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 57

2005-01-19 Thread Ken Norris
Hi David, Sivakatirswami, et al. Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:56:02 -0700 From: David Squance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: revMail fails on some Macs On Jan 18, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that there is an email client automatically will be

Re: revMail fails on some Macs

2005-01-19 Thread Ken Norris
OOPS! Sorry, forgot to change-out the RE header, Hi David, Sivakatirswami, et al. Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:56:02 -0700 From: David Squance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: revMail fails on some Macs On Jan 18, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: What exactly does the Mac need to ensure that

Re: Characters not displaying in a field?

2005-01-19 Thread kee nethery
Wow, one of the first things I did was to search for limit with the assumption that it would find limits. Thank you for letting me know that the search is broken and that I will need to try all permutations of a word to see if it is in the documentation. Kee On Jan 18, 2005, at 10:13 PM,

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Alejandro Tejada wrote: I have read this useful Programming tip in your website, and TRY to use it in an standalone player to OPEN ONLY the custom documents of that application. But when i drag and drop a Rev or MC stack to a standalone i had created, IT OPENS... :-( Ken

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Shafer
Geoff Good point. I have a mixture of the two types of needs, but when I can, I now use the card method as it is much more flexible and easier to code. Dan On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: On another app, though I *had* to use

Re: revMail fails on some Macs

2005-01-19 Thread Sivakatirswami
Thanks to everyone for pointing out the not-so-obvious -- I would never have thought to look in mail.apps prefs. But, I decided to transcend the local configuration as the prospect of mentoring 20-30 team players through getting their system set up correctly was way too scary. Many still

Re: Windows externals and the imagePixmapID

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm, anyone know how I can use the Win32 API to obtain a HDC for that HBITMAP? I'm looking for a way to render the bitmap into another device context (specifically, a printer device context). Using the imagePixmapID seemed to me the easiest way to

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Chipp Walters
It's really just a matter of style, for instance, I *never* use the card method for this. I only use multiple card stacks in a couple places: 1) Wizards 2) I many times use the 2nd card in a stack to store all the icons for the first card. This goes along with the concept of keeping the data

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Note that the multi-card solution for tabs can still be used even if only a part of the window needs to change, as long as there is only one. You can group everything else (perhaps along with the tab panel itself) and include

Re: Windows externals and the imagePixmapID

2005-01-19 Thread Thierry Arbellot
I use the following code to create a screen HDC and attach the imagePixmapID to it. longimagePixmapId; HBITMAP screenImageBM; HDC theHdc; theHdc = CreateCompatibleDC(NULL); // screen DC

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Shafer
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What got me started using groups instead of cards was referencing objects in scripts: While designing WebMerge 2.0 I kept moving controls from one tab to another until I got myself clear on what the program's flow should be. During those

Icons 4 Rev.

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Salyers
I need Icon help! I have a program IconCool Editor 4.0 but the icons are not compatible with Rev programs. What icon Editor do I need? This is my last step of making my first Rev program. Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org

Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Glen Bojsza
I was wondering if anyone has experience in moving files between two systems that are connected via serial ports. I have used Sarah's serial test stack (which works perfectly!) in communicating between the two machines but now I want to be able to upload a file from one machine to the other.

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Salyers
At 05:37 PM 1/19/2005, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone has experience in moving files between two systems that are connected via serial ports. I have used Sarah's serial test stack (which works perfectly!) in communicating between the two machines but now I want to be able to upload a file

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can't use USB to network two computers without additional adapters, etc. You *can* do that with FireWire (IEEE 1394, or whatever the spec is -- DVLink, etc.), however. Is at least one of the computers running a UNIX-type system? If so, you

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Glen Bojsza
The machine that has the file I want to upload is on windows XP and the machine I want to receive the file is a solaris box. Currently the serial stack works for reading and writing commands to the solaris box. I have asked before but without success... is there a way to send a ctrl-d through

Re: Windows externals and the imagePixmapID

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aha! Turns out I was asking the wrong question, but that code certainly helped me to find a way to do it. I ended up using a GDI DIB Section object as an intermediary between the screen-level DDB and the printer DC; it went something like this

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Control-D would be numToChar(4). 1 = Ctrl-A, 2 = Ctrl-B, etc. On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: The machine that has the file I want to upload is on windows XP and the machine I want to receive the file is a solaris box. Currently the

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Glen Bojsza wrote: The machine that has the file I want to upload is on windows XP and the machine I want to receive the file is a solaris box. Currently the serial stack works for reading and writing commands to the solaris box. I have asked before but without success... is there a way to send a

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What got me started using groups instead of cards was referencing objects in scripts: While designing WebMerge 2.0 I kept moving controls from one tab to another until I got myself clear on what the program's flow should be.

Re: Uploading a file via serial port?

2005-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alex Tweedly wrote: Run a program on the solaris box which exits the file copy when it sees a suitable pattern. If you don't have Rev (or Perl, or Python, or ) it would be easy to write an awk script to do this. It has been too long since I used Unix you don't need awk or Perl for

export RTF as file?

2005-01-19 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm having problems with my RTF export. Can someone please try this and tell me if they get any results? create a new stack create a fld and type some text into it: hello world create a button with the script: on mouseUp ask file Save As: with Untitled.rtf if it is empty then exit to top

Re: export RTF as file?

2005-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Chipp Walters wrote: Now, try and open the RTF file you just created. I'm getting nothing in WordPad on XP. I don't have Word on this machine (hate M$). Script exactly as cut/paste from your mail (except for field and file names), I get the hello world line in Wordpad (WinXP, Rev 2.5) -- Alex.

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thomas Gutzmann wrote: And with the recent 4000-fold increase in speed for same-size chunk replacements, I wonder if the kind of graphics processing you're doing could now be done in Rev. What does that entail? This speed increase is impressing, but having tried quite some alternatives, I'm

Re: export RTF as file?

2005-01-19 Thread Glen Bojsza
In Notepad it works {\rtf\ansi hello baby} In Word it works hello baby Glen On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:47:44 -0800, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with my RTF export. Can someone please try this and tell me if they get any results? create a new stack create a

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-19 Thread Chipp Walters
I did write some compositing and blur/sharpen filters in transcript some time ago, but I don't know the details of the 'same-size chunk' replacements. Where can I find more info? Richard Gaskin wrote: I've been pondering this new speed enhancement to same-size chunk replacements, specifically

Icons 4 Rev.

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Salyers
I need help with Icons. I have IconCool Editor but I can't get an Icon to work. The icon file {path removed} does not include 8 required image formats: 16 color 16 x 16 pixels 256 color 16 x 16 pixels 16 color 32 x 32 pixels 256 color 32 x 32 pixels 16 color 48 x 48 pixels 256 color 48 x 48

Re: export RTF as file?

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Shafer
Just for the sake of completeness, this works fine on OS X with Word, TextEdit, and BBEdit. Dan On Jan 19, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I'm having problems with my RTF export. Can someone please try this and tell me if they get any results? create a new stack create a fld and type some

Icon help

2005-01-19 Thread Ben Fisher
I need Icon help! I have a program IconCool Editor 4.0 but the icons are not compatible with Rev programs. What icon Editor do I need? This is my last step of making my first Rev program. Paul, I've come across this problem in making windows icons too. In earlier versions of Rev, only

icon help

2005-01-19 Thread Ben Fisher
Finally have found a good icon editor for win xp. Frontbase Image to Icon. http://www.make-icon.com/http://www.make-icon.com/ It will support and automatically create these formats. 16 Color 16x16 16 color 32x32 16 color 48x48 256 color 16x16 256 color 32x32 256 color 48x48 Windows XP (32-bit

Re: icon help

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Salyers
At 10:46 PM 1/19/2005, you wrote: Finally have found a good icon editor for win xp. Frontbase Image to Icon. http://www.make-icon.com/http://www.make-icon.com/ It will support and automatically create these formats. 16 Color 16x16 16 color 32x32 16 color 48x48 256 color 16x16 256 color 32x32 256

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone application

2005-01-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/05 11:55 AM, Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read this useful Programming tip in your website, and TRY to use it in an standalone player to OPEN ONLY the custom documents of that application. But when i drag and drop a

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I've been pondering this new speed enhancement to same-size chunk replacements, specifically in regard to image processing. Since much of what image processing involves is replacing a specific number of bytes, I wonder if any of the folks here have

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Gaskin wrote: Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I've been pondering this new speed enhancement to same-size chunk replacements, specifically in regard to image processing. Since much of what image processing involves is replacing a specific number of bytes, I wonder if