Control windows application - API

2005-01-28 Thread paolo
Hi revs. Yesterday I went through a great voice over IP software called Skype (www.skype.com) and I though it would be nice to set a button on a rev stack to connect to this software and make a call. Skype is a multi platform but unfortunately documentation for developers is available

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-28 Thread Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Lynch wrote: Are most of you using it for educational software, or to help with projects at a large company, or for independent programming for small businesses? Just curious, Hi Jonathan, I mainly use Rev for personal/professional, day-to-day use, including: - Internet banking -

Mirror Maker

2005-01-28 Thread Cristofe Chabot
Hi, I used to use Mirror Maker a lot! But stopped using it when I switched to XP as I don't believe it was ever ported. Has it been by any chance? I found an old copy of version 5.1 and am using VirtualPC to run a Win98 installation, but for the life of me I cannot find my regcode. Please HELP!!

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Leahy
Dan, Unless this stack is going to be used by 100s or 1000s of people, and used to send 1000s of emails, why not hard code the settings to your own smtp server? -- Frank Web Photos Pro: Software for Photo Bloggers and Other Photo Power Users See us on the web at http://www.webphotospro.com/ On

RE: Of standalones, bundles and files

2005-01-28 Thread Joel Guillod
Dave, Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:27:32 -0700 From: David Squance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Of standalones, bundles and files I'm using RR2.1.2 on OSX, and would like to avoid using the standalone builder, as it takes 30 to 40 minutes doing something with a particular substack. Is there a reason

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-28 Thread Derek Bump
Unless this stack is going to be used by 100s or 1000s of people, and used to send 1000s of emails, why not hard code the settings to your own smtp server? This could work, but you need to make sure your mail server doesn't has security against doing this. Most do, as open mail servers

Re: Of standalones, bundles and files

2005-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
I'm using RR2.1.2 on OSX, and would like to avoid using the standalone builder, as it takes 30 to 40 minutes doing something with a particular substack. If you've turned off the property-checking options in the App Builder and this persists I'd call it a bug. The actual mechanics of merging the

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Derek Bump wrote: Unless this stack is going to be used by 100s or 1000s of people, and used to send 1000s of emails, why not hard code the settings to your own smtp server? This could work, but you need to make sure your mail server doesn't has security against doing this. Most do, as open

Re: externals kit

2005-01-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Ben Fisher wrote: Thanks for the response, everyone. I'll get started with the externals kit as soon as possible. Unfortunately, as far as porting existing dlls into rev use is a little beyond me at the moment. I learned C++ on a mac system don't really know how to reference a dll. I'm not

Socket timeout not working with libUrl

2005-01-28 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, My product pings the Web Photos Pro website to look for new versions. This works great when the computer the product's running on is connected to the internet, but it hangs for 60 seconds when there's no net connection. My code looks like this: set the socketTimeoutInterval to 5000

Re: Socket timeout not working with libUrl

2005-01-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Frank Leahy wrote: Hi, My product pings the Web Photos Pro website to look for new versions. This works great when the computer the product's running on is connected to the internet, but it hangs for 60 seconds when there's no net connection. My code looks like this: set the

Re: Of standalones, bundles and files

2005-01-28 Thread David Squance
And if I do this, is there a way to get the file inside the OS X bundle? Yes, right-click (control-click) on the application and choose Show Package Contents from the popup menu. Thanks for the replies. I knew I'd seen something like that. I tried both option and command, but only think of

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread James Hurley
Message: 11 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:14:02 + From: Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel) To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Then I tried a

Re: really OT.... who is living Ireland?

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew Meit
Anyone on list who lives in or near Galway, Ireland? If so, please contact me off-list. Thanks. Andrew -{Choose Life, Create hope, Nurture Love...}- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could also try setting up your own SMTP server and direct the mail to that, if you have a public IP address or could somehow get one. Or, you could try to embed one in your app somehow... There's a new one: there are embedded database engines,

RE: Control windows application - API

2005-01-28 Thread MisterX
a windows .net or vb com or dll interface for RR would be a cool bugzilla request... I thought about it a lot 3 years ago - but found there's a bunch of exe's you can call via shell calls that do it much easier... A way to directly interface dll's calls would be nice too. User32.dll for one...

Re: externals kit

2005-01-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Cocoa/Objective-C++.html On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Ben Fisher, I would very much like to see a guide like that but I would be most pleased if it showed way to mix Objective-C/Cocoa calls

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread FlexibleLearning
FWIW, an alternative Rev spell checker is available at _www.flexibleLearning.com/xtalk.htm_ (http://www.flexibleLearning.com/xtalk.htm) . /H ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-28 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Dwane, I am using the following code to generate a field of 6 random numbers. repeat 5 times --generate list of 5 random numbers between 1-10 put random(10) , after tRnum end repeat delete last char of tRnum --delete last comma put tRnum into fld numbers this works fine but some

OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread RGould8
I've been using Revolution's Applescript calls to force-launch IE using creator code MSIE. Can anyone tell me what Safari's 4-character creator code is? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Random #s

2005-01-28 Thread Michael D Mays
If you are asking the random of a big number then that will be true. I think I remember that to generate a list of random numbers what you should be doing is asking questions like random(N) random(N-1) . . . 1 If you wanted to generate a random list with the numbers 1 thru 10 random(10) - 3 Now

Re: OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looks like sfri, if I'm reading this correctly. On Jan 28, 2005, at 12:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Revolution's Applescript calls to force-launch IE using creator code MSIE. Can anyone tell me what Safari's 4-character creator

HEX TO DEC CONVERSION

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Salyers
I know the below code will convert a hex number to dec. put baseConvert(tmpVar,16,10) into tmyNumber like wise will put baseConvert(tmpVar,10,16) into tmyNumber convert a dec to hex? Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-28 Thread Michael D Mays
What does it mean to sort 1,2,3,4,5 by 12? Maybe it should be sort items of x numeric by random(1) ? Michael On Jan 27, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:31 AM, D.Rothe wrote: How can I include only unique numbers? Here is an interesting variation: on mouseUp put

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Jan 28, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Michael D Mays wrote: What does it mean to sort 1,2,3,4,5 by 12? Maybe it should be sort items of x numeric by random(1) Yes! Sorry about that. I think sort by 12 effectively means to associate 12 with each item and then sort by the associated value. The

Re: OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
I checked pkgInfo inside Safari.app here and it showed Type: APPL Creator: sfri which stands to reason, but shouldn't all apple applications have a creator code with at least one uppercase letter? Cheers andre On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
James Hurley wrote: Coming from FORTRAN, I have never really appreciated the more flexible use of arrays in Runtime Revolution. Your solution to the spell check problem is a Runtime revelation. I know what you mean about the difference from Fortran to recent languages. I kind of wish they'd

Re: OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread kee nethery
from what I recall, apple reserves the right for all completely lower case creator codes. Everyone else gets a creator code with at least one upper case letter in it. Kee On Jan 28, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: I checked pkgInfo inside Safari.app here and it showed Type: APPL

Re: OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I checked pkgInfo inside Safari.app here and it showed Type: APPL Creator: sfri which stands to reason, but shouldn't all apple applications have a creator code with at least one uppercase letter? On the contrary, Apple reserves for itself all fully-lower-case constants

Re: OT: Creator-code for Safari?

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: On the contrary, Apple reserves for itself all fully-lower-case constants throughout all aspects of the system. Only third parties are required to have at least one upper-case character. Thanks Kee and Richard, I mixed the cases Cheers

Re: HEX TO DEC CONVERSION

2005-01-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Jan 28, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Paul Salyers wrote: I know the below code will convert a hex number to dec. put baseConvert(tmpVar,16,10) into tmyNumber like wise will put baseConvert(tmpVar,10,16) into tmyNumber convert a dec to hex? Try it! You can tinker with this using the message box.

Re: Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

2005-01-28 Thread WillAdams
In a message dated 1/26/05 11:15:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to remember back to 1.1.1 :-) Check the Get Info window for the built app. It may have the Open in the Classic environment checkbox ticked. Unfortunately, it doesn't have such a checkbox (I've built two apps to

mainstack to substack

2005-01-28 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have a main stack bobs and has a substack bits. To test some things I made another master stack bits that I'm quite happy with. So i want to copy it as a substack into the bobs main stack. I deleted substack bits from mainstack bobs and then opened the master stack bits. (in the

Printing Again

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Smith
I'm baffledcan anyone help? Mac OS 10.3.4 RunRev 2.5 Studio To see if I can't get hold of this printing malarkey, I created a new mainstack. I placed 1 field on the 1st card and set its 'showBorder' to false. I pasted some text from texEdit into the field. I set the font to monaco, and the

Re: Printing Again

2005-01-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The gray background of the field is due to the fact that the default background color is being inherited from the card, which in turn inherits its default color from the stack, which in turn inherits its default color from the engine. For whatever

email url link.

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Salyers
Email link on mouseUp put field vAddress into tAddress revMail tAddress end mouseUp URL link on mouseUp put field vWeb into tWeb revGoURL tWeb end mouseUp I have this in my card, on my windows it works ok, but a friend used it

Re: really OT.... who is living Ireland?

2005-01-28 Thread James Cass
I wish I lived in Ireland! -James On Jan 28, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Andrew Meit wrote: Anyone on list who lives in or near Galway, Ireland? If so, please contact me off-list. Thanks. Andrew -{Choose Life, Create hope, Nurture Love...}- ___ use-revolution

Re: Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

2005-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/28/05 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/05 11:15:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to remember back to 1.1.1 :-) Check the Get Info window for the built app. It may have the Open in the Classic environment checkbox ticked. Unfortunately, it doesn't have such a

Text box entery

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Salyers
To everyone that has help me on my Rev question, THANK YOU, with out your help I would have gave up on Rev long ago. However now I need to learn how to input characters in a text box, this text box will always 6 characters alpha-numerals then after the 6th characters is typed in I want it to

Re: Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

2005-01-28 Thread WillAdams
In a message dated 1/28/05 9:33:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Get Info on the Rev app itself and see if it calls itself a Classic application. It sounds to me like you are running the Classic version. Looking at the copies I have here, Rev 1.1.1 for Mac was released as two separate

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-28 Thread Dwayne Rothe
Hey Guys after analysing the multitude of responses I finally went with the shortest code! It works perfect fast, thats all I needed repeat until the number of items in tRnum = 5 set randomSeed to random(1) put random(10) into tRand if tRand is not among the items of tRnum then put

Re: Revolution Hypercard cellophane color

2005-01-28 Thread FMoyer
Thanks, Mark. Maybe I don't know how to use it, but when I set the ink of the graphic to blend, the colors underneath blend with the color of the graphic. That's not what happens in Hypercard. In Hypercard, the color of the top object trumps everything underneath unless what is underneath is

Problem building standalone message

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have a simple stack (2 cards) which no longer allows me to build a standalone. It just gives me a cryptic message saying that it encountered an error. I'm guessing that there is some sort of problem with something on the stack or on a card. I built a standalone when it was only one card

Re: Text box entery

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
Paul, SImple. Trap on keydown and build the contents of the field. After the 6th character simple pass the enter key. Bill Vlahos On Jan 28, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Paul Salyers wrote: To everyone that has help me on my Rev question, THANK YOU, with out your help I would have gave up on Rev long

Re: Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
This was a problem with 1.1.1 that was never fixed. It IS a native app (CARBON vs. Cocoa) but is misidentified as a classic app. Panther seems to be more strict at taking the application at its word. There was some discussion about this before and someone gave the fix which correctly