Alex-
Thursday, March 17, 2005, 4:31:29 PM, you wrote:
/Break out your party hats. According to =
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed =
reach 11 on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT That's only =
1036372537 seconds from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038
Hi Michael,
I didn't see any difference between wait with messages and a simple
wait.
Using the with messages form allows other messages to pass while
waiting. Otherwise your app. may be blocked while executing the wait.
Cheers,
Malte
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#011 Managing user waiting (specially dedicated to beginners)
Shows the different ways of indicating to the user that he has to wait
a moment: static cursors, animated cursors, animated gifs, progression
bars and how to use them.
On RevOnLine:
User name: So Smart Software
Category:
Hi Michael,
have you tried it outside the IDE? Make a standalone of the stack and
see what happens. Maybe it will also look different in the player. When
I worked on the first version of libRMC I also thought I couldn´t get
smooth animations done (on slower machines). But as soon as I made a
Hi all,
I'm new at this so please go easy...
I'm trying to put a global variable into a url string and I'm not
getting it to work. I think my syntax is messed up. The variable is set
properly. The variable is named user and has a value of 3.
get url http://www.domain.com/view/xml/name/user;
Hi Varen,
Hi all,
I'm new at this so please go easy...
I'm trying to put a global variable into a url string and I'm not
getting it to work. I think my syntax is messed up. The variable is
set properly. The variable is named user and has a value of 3.
get url
Hi List,
inspired by the erratic screen updates (was Slow screen lock/unlock)
Thread I´m starting a new one. :-)
I would like to find as much information on the machine a stack runs on
as possible. I´m especially interested in:
-amount of RAM
-processor type
-video card type
-video card Ram
Malte,
My previous mail awaits approval because of the example output which is
too big (pfff)
On winXP, 2000 or 2003 you can use
get shell(SYSTEMINFO)
cheers
Xavier
On 18.03.2005 12:26:03 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
Hi List,
inspired by the erratic screen updates (was Slow screen
Hi List,
inspired by the erratic screen updates (was
Slow screen lock/unlock) Thread I´m starting a
new one. :-)
I would like to find as much information on the
machine a stack runs on as possible. I´m
especially interested in:
-amount of RAM
-processor type
-video card type
-video card Ram
I'm not sure about Windows or Linux, but you could use the command
system_profiler on OS X and then search for the following pieces of info:
-amount of RAM Memory ( the first returned line will provide total
system memory)
-processor type CPU Type (i.e. PowerPC 750) ; CPU Speed
-video card
Eric,
I just wanted to say how useful I'm finding these how-to articles. And
Backups Picker is a great stack that I'm using all the time.
Thanks very much for making these things available,
Karen
On 18/3/05 12:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar
If you time bomb it, or do a phone home, you'll eliminate potential
customers before they get hooked and they will remove it from their
hard drive before they can pass it to a friend.
Just my two cents.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
That reminds me of Rev itself--I thought the old script limits
systems was
It turns out that apparently the card was off the screen (Thanks
Pat!) Can someone tell me how I could have seen that (no pun
intended)? What parameter would I have had to look at to see this?
On a (now) related issue, in order to upload my test stack, I saved just
the one stack with the ID
That reminds me of Rev itself--I thought the old script limits systems
was an ingenious way to hook people and expand the user community. A
30-day trial without any limits does really have its advantages to be
able to fully try things, but I still bet some form of the old concept
of getting
Hello everyone,
I posted this one a few days ago but didn't get a response, so I'm
taking another kick at the cat. Any comment is welcome, even a few
lines from your favourite Beatles' song. ;)
I'm playing with Revolution as a CGI engine with the scripts in stacks.
I'm wondering if there's a
Greg,
This could easily be achieved by creating a Daemon with Revolution. A
Daemon is nothing more than a program that just sits there, and as you
would want, would execute a script according to a timed interval.
Since you are using Rev for CGI, it would have to be a program that is
loaded
On 3/18/05 7:51 AM, Len Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It turns out that apparently the card was off the screen (Thanks
Pat!) Can someone tell me how I could have seen that (no pun
intended)? What parameter would I have had to look at to see this?
Well, you could look at the Size and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
on preOpenStack
checkTime
end preOpenStack
on checkTime
if (the long date contains Thursday) and (char 1 to 2 of the time
is 10) and (the time contains PM) then doYourStuff
send checkTime to me in 60 sec
end checkTime
on doYourStuff
-- stuff
Hi Xavier!
I think there is a way, though I'm not sure we're on the same page.
First make sure in the basic properties that the focus with keyboard:
and show focus border are unchecked.
Also make sure under icons and border that the border width and
shadow offset are 0. I never figured out
I am trying to get the ID number of the last inserted record in a MySQL
database. Can anyone help me do this?
I tried:
put revConnectionOfQuery(ConnectCrew) into tConnection
-- first escape error
if tConnection is not a number then
put tConnection is: dbCUR into fld Exec result
exit
I tried that command (which is what you use to find the last insert in the
whole database instead of just one table -- the name of the table I'm
dealing with is tripulantes which means crewmembers) and it also didn't
work. The command is behaving very strangely as I can run the query over and
over
First person you should ask is the AltAuthor if it can be fixed ;)
Chipp is a nice and smart guy!
I have one already compiled from MetaCard.
If you have access to the mc 2.5 release, it's well hidden in the example
stacks (a substack or in the examples/demo/help folder of mc). I have the
code
Hi Frank,
Am 18.03.2005 um 15:40 schrieb Frank D. Engel, Jr.:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
on preOpenStack
checkTime
end preOpenStack
on checkTime
if (the long date contains Thursday) and (char 1 to 2 of the time
is 10) and (the time contains PM) then doYourStuff
send
Little help please.
We (Run Rev support and I) are trying to decide whether my problems
with the new 2.5 version of Run Rev are system related or not.
Using 2.5 I cannot access either the rev OnLIne or the
Documentation windows. They are completely intert: Can't close or
move them. Can't a
Xavier,
I accidentally deleted your message before going throught it in depth; so
I'm working from memory.
What is the source of the large numbr of dates you are
processing/validating? If the source is automated, why aren't the dates
validated at input?
Are you really needing to make sure
I highly recommend that you do not time bomb your software if you want
people to use it and pay you for it.
This may be true, but there are also valid reasons to time out
software. When I release beta software to my clients, I don't want
that software running forever. I generally find it's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
You'd run the program constantly in the background; you could start it
using su through an rc script on a UNIX box, for example.
On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Frank,
Am 18.03.2005 um 15:40 schrieb Frank D. Engel, Jr.:
-BEGIN
Hi Frank,
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
You'd run the program constantly in the background; you could start it
using su through an rc script on a UNIX box, for example.
ah, i see, i thought the engine would be loaded everytime when needed
on *nix...
Best
Klaus Major
[EMAIL
Message: 10
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:26:10 +0100
From: Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: erratic screen updates (was Slow screen lock/unlock)
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Hi Michael,
I didn't
On 3/18/05 7:56 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
I'm playing with Revolution as a CGI engine with the scripts in stacks.
I'm wondering if there's a way to have Revolution executive a script at
specified intervals, for example, every Tuesday night at ten o'clock.
Rev CGIs start up and run when they are
Bill,
I'm no MySQL expert, but I have some code that accomplishes this and it
seems to work just fine. From what I'm seeing in the code I have, it's
necessary to issue a Lock Table [my table] Write command, then insert your
record, and then call Last_Insert_ID. After that you have to use Unlock
Hi Jaqueline,
On 3/18/05 7:56 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
I'm playing with Revolution as a CGI engine with the scripts in
stacks. I'm wondering if there's a way to have Revolution executive
a script at specified intervals, for example, every Tuesday night at
ten o'clock.
Rev CGIs start up and run
Thank you so much, Derek, Frank, Jacqueline, Klaus, and Robert.
Excellent advice.
Greg
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Howard Bornstein wrote:
I use an effective method of timing out software that isn't vulnerable
to turning back the system date and doesn't rely on a data file. I
check a system directory that is updated by access to the web (e.g. a
directory that's a repository for internet cookies). In most
OS 10.3.7 Revolution 2.5.1 version released a day or two ago.
RevOnLine and documentation both work fine.
In fact, RevOnLine seems much more responsive than I remember in the past
(though I have not used it much).
Bruce
At 7:32 AM -0800 3/18/05, Jim Hurley wrote:
Using 2.5 I cannot access
Bill,
If you want to get the last ID from a table in MySQL, use the following SELECT
statement, and put the result into a variable - which will be the last ID value
in that table:
SELECT id FROM tripulatnes ORDER BY id DESC limit 1
This selects the column: id from the table: tripulantes, and
Klaus
Thanks for the idea but this doesn't work either. There is something
about this syntax that isn't right. Do you have another idea?
Thanks.
On 18-Mar-05, at 1:57 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Varen,
Hi all,
I'm new at this so please go easy...
I'm trying to put a global variable into a url
Hi Varen,
Klaus
Thanks for the idea but this doesn't work either. There is something
about this syntax that isn't right. Do you have another idea?
Hmmm, maybe we need the url to be a folder?
To get index.html...?
Try:
get url(http://www.domain.com/view/xml/name/; user /)
Thanks.
Regards
Klaus
This sounds pretty complicated when the simple SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()
should work just by itself (and does if you run it from any other program).
I think I'm going to go with:
SELECT id FROM tripulatnes ORDER BY id DESC limit 1
That was suggested by mfstuart (thanks for that different
I just figured out that, while the mousedown handler does not work with
the left button in an unlocked field, one can do much the same thing
using the selectionchanged handler. I think this is very useful.
Like with the following script, which allows for regular left-button
hyperlinking in an
Hi
I'm trying to load a file from a server by constructing an url which
has a variable as part of the string. When I remove the variable code
and use just a straight url everything works fine, the file on the
server is found and loaded:
get url http://www.domain.com/view/xml/name/5; this
Varen,
Hmit works here:
-- Shameless plug for an example follows:
on mouseUp
put alptex16bie into user
get url(http://www.alptex.com/products/emulators/user/;)
put it into msg --the html code looks fine!
end mouseUp
Best Regards,
Tim Ponn
Varen Swaab wrote:
Klaus
Thanks for the idea
Varen,
This also works:
on mouseUp
put 16bie into user
get url(http://www.alptex.com/products/emulators/alptex16bie/user)
put it into msg -- the html of the page titled 16bie.html on our
site is in the msg box
end mouseUp
Best Regards,
Tim Ponn
Varen Swaab wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to load a file
On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
I
check the creation date of the latest file as my check file for the
current date and compare that against the timeout date.
Why is that not vulnerable to turning back the system clock ?
If I set my system clock to a year ago, then each time I
Hi Bill,
Glad to help with the SQL statement.
But I would ask of you (or anyone else) how your ODBC
connection is working. I have installed Dreamcard onto my
work PC, and cannot for the life of me to get a
connection to SQL Server thru the ODBC connection.
I've created the DSN for the
Thanks Todd, Robert and Xavier!
I can´t try the windows version now.
On Os X.2.6 I get the following error:
put shell(system_profiler)
/bin/sh: line 1: 545 Segmentation fault system_profiler
How would I use grep Todd?
Cheers,
Malte___
Dear Rev Programmers,
I have the following line in a on openCard line. it places the version
number on card 1 ok, no problem.
--put item 5 of line 1 of tData into field L1
For card 2 I placed the above line in on openCard but the version does not
come up. I also trues to use different
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm playing with Revolution as a CGI engine with the scripts in stacks.
I'm wondering if there's a way to have Revolution executive a script
at specified intervals, for example, every Tuesday night at ten
o'clock.
Any thoughts?
Sure. The basic idea is pretty simple:
On Mar 18, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
How would I use grep Todd?
Rev implements pattern matching through matchText and matchChunk. Take
a look at those functions.
--
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Blue Mango Multimedia
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Try put field L1 of card 1 into field L1 of card 2
On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Paul Salyers wrote:
put field L1 into field L1
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Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very cool. What I'd like when searching is to return ALL instances of
the search in ALL categories at once... not have to predefine where I
want to search before the fact. Not doing so presupposes knowledge
that doesn't necessarily exist. Also, there
I'm developing an app under the RR IDE and one of the stacks shows a
card with a lot of option buttons (menus) on it, allowing the user to
pick stuff from a set of little lists and to see what has been picked.
This has been working for ages: I read it by looking at the menuHistory
of the
Paul,
You could make tData a global variable instead of a local variable
global gData
on openCard
put item 5 of line 1 of gData into field L1
-- whatever else
end openCard
You will also need to declare the global in the script where you put the
data into it.
If you are going to put from a fld on
Some thoughts (but maybe not answers):
- Is fld L1 of card 2 under (covered by) some other object?
- Is the visible of fld L1 of cd 2 set to true?
(You can check both the above conditions in the 'Application Browser',
available in the Rev 'Tools' menu.)
- If the fields are positioned in the same
Dar Scott wrote:
Perhaps, that would not be vulnerable to _temporarily_ turning back
the system clock. It might be reasonable to check for dates lots of
places and then assume that the current real date is the latest of
those or later. One can't prove that a demo is valid, but it the
At 04:33 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote:
Try put field L1 of card 1 into field L1 of card 2
On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Paul Salyers wrote:
put field L1 into field L1
Dear Rev Programmer
Thanks this worked great.
Paul Salyers
PS1 - Senior Rep.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org
Why is that not vulnerable to turning back the system clock ?
If I set my system clock to a year ago, then each time I access the
web, I'll create my cookie files with dates in 2004.
This method isn't foolproof, just effective. It would generally not
work well for most people in businesses to
I am currently calling an application from within Rev with the tell
application to activate applescript command. But I'd like to know
what application was active when this was called (it won't be Rev,
since this is running in the background) so I can reactivate it after
the script is finished.
Is
Thanks everyone,
I appreciate the help but nothing has worked for me. I agree, the
examples you are giving should work and if I simply put a numerical
value in place of the variable it works just fine, but the variable
just doesn't work. Do you have any idea why it wouldn't work? This is
Hello folks,
Maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction...
I'm finally getting started with my standalone DB app and need some
ideas on how to go about protecting a *bunch* of jpg images that are
used in the database. My preference is to continue hosting them on a
remote server
On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:47 PM, docmann wrote:
Hello folks,
Maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction...
I'm finally getting started with my standalone DB app and need some
ideas on how to go about protecting a *bunch* of jpg images that are
used in the database. My preference is to
On 3/18/05 4:09 PM, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Todd, Robert and Xavier!
I can´t try the windows version now.
On Os X.2.6 I get the following error:
put shell(system_profiler)
/bin/sh: line 1: 545 Segmentation fault system_profiler
How would I use grep Todd?
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:57:18 -0800, Trevor DeVore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this a revolution application that is connected to a Database? If
so couldn't you just store the binary data of the jpg images in the
database and then retrieve the image data as needed and assign the data
to an
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
I
check the creation date of the latest file as my check file for the
current date and compare that against the timeout date.
Why is that not vulnerable to turning back the system clock ?
If I set my system clock to a
What happens if you put value(varName)?
Also, when you put the variable into the message box do you have the 5
returned to you? You could declare it a global and check the contents
to make sure it holds what you want.
Mark
On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Varen Swaab wrote:
Thanks everyone,
I
On 3/18/05 5:23 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
Thanks for the feedback.
I am going to work on that and probably will be able to present a first
improvement by the end of next week.
Oh well, in *that* case, make it so we can put it in our plugins folder
too. Then I can open it easily. ;)
--
Jacqueline
I've just found a workaround for printing with a dialog box in
altBrowser for Windows, and I felt like sharing it. I know that this
works on WinXP Home SP2 with IE 6. I don't know about older versions,
but anyone else who has it should be able to test it.
on doPrint
set cursor to watch
On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:48 AM, ric Chatonet wrote:
Hi everyone,
#011 Managing user waiting (specially dedicated to beginners)
Shows the different ways of indicating to the user that he has to wait
a moment: static cursors, animated cursors, animated gifs, progression
bars and how to use them.
On Mar 18, 2005, at 23:09:07 Malte Brill wrote:
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:09:07 +0100
From: Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Getting as much system info possible.
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain;
On 3/18/05 6:47 PM, docmann wrote:
Hello folks,
Maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction...
I'm finally getting started with my standalone DB app and need some
ideas on how to go about protecting a *bunch* of jpg images that are
used in the database. My preference is to continue
On 3/18/05 6:41 PM, Varen Swaab wrote:
Thanks everyone,
I appreciate the help but nothing has worked for me. I agree, the
examples you are giving should work and if I simply put a numerical
value in place of the variable it works just fine, but the variable just
doesn't work. Do you have any
I finally figured out why the SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() sql statement wasn't
working.
I was using:
revQueryDatabase(tConnection, dbQuery)
Which doesn't give you data from the query but instead results in a useless
number that increments weirdly (useless to me anyway).
Instead all I had to do wos
Hi Derek,
The latest version of altBrowser will print both on Mac and PC. But,
your workaround is pretty cool :-)
best,
Chipp
Derek Bump wrote:
I've just found a workaround for printing with a dialog box in
altBrowser for Windows, and I felt like sharing it. I know that this
works on WinXP
Dear Rev Programmer,
Is it possible to center a stack On OpenStack in the screen?
I'm programming 800 X 600 and I want the stack to open in the center of the
screen for people with larger than 800 X 600 screen.
How is this did?
I search the help with center but got no help on what I wanted.
Paul,
set the loc of this stack to the screenloc
HTH
Pat
- Original Message -
From: Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: center stack
Dear Rev Programmer,
Is it possible to center a stack On OpenStack in the
Hello Paul,
all you need to do is add a script to your main stack... something like this:
on openStack
set the loc of me to the screenLoc
end openStack
HTH,
-Doc-
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:48:06 -0600, Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Rev Programmer,
Is it possible to center a
The latest version of altBrowser will print both on Mac and PC. But,
your workaround is pretty cool :-)
Thank you! I am using the latest version, but it fails to bring up a
dialog box to choose any print options (unless that's a bug). I'm still
working on Print Preview though, so we'll see.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Rob,
Why not make a user stack containing user info per card. Easy to send and
keep track of... A text file XML could also do or a custom prop... Depends
on the end application. Keeping data is what computers are good at! ;)
cheers
Xavier
Very strange. I also just ran into a very weird (and different) oddity
using combo buttons. Suddenly a combo button I've been using on a
stack stopped working. I was operating with a mouseup handler in it.
When it stopped working I checked the message watcher and sure enough,
no mouseup message
I'm almost ready for my weekend marathon of Rev coding, but I need
some help in understanding how to add one more enhancement to my app
before going too much further.
Let's say that after I've extracted and displayed data from my
database (mostly in static labels), I want the user to be able to
Hi Doc,
try this
get productname tab quantity tab price CR
put myline before line 2 of fld table
cheers
Xavier
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 05:49
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:15:50 +0100, MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Doc,
try this
get productname tab quantity tab price CR
put myline before line 2 of fld table
cheers
Xavier
Thank you kind sir!
It seems that the CR on the end of the line is most likely what I
was overlooking...
This is just a shot in the dark, but could there be a problem with
using 'user' as the variable name?
Regards
James
On 18 Mar 2005 16:41:47 -0800, Varen Swaab wrote:
Thanks everyone,
I appreciate the help but nothing has worked for me. I agree, the
examples you are giving should work and if I
On 3/18/05 6:41 PM, Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently calling an application from within Rev with the tell
application to activate applescript command. But I'd like to know
what application was active when this was called (it won't be Rev,
since this is running in the
Just a followup on this strangeness. Soon after posting the last
message, Rev really started wigging out. The debugger wouldn't work
properly and Rev started crashing. I restarted Rev several times with
the same results. I tried editing the option button (it was actually
an option button, not a
Thanks to everyone here I was able to get this figured out. It's a
little complicated (and embarrassing) to describe my mistakes but your
examples and ideas helped a lot.
Have a great weekend.
Var
On 18-Mar-05, at 10:30 PM, James Richards wrote:
This is just a shot in the dark, but could there
Hi Derek:
On my win2k I get err The specified module could not be found.
/H
I've just found a workaround for printing with a dialog box in
altBrowser for Windows, and I felt like sharing it. I know that this
works on WinXP Home SP2 with IE 6. I don't know about older versions,
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