Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
Alex Tweedly wrote: format(%2d:%02d, tHours, tMins)-- 3:55 or format(%02d:%02d, tHours, tMins) -- 03:05 Ken wrote: I didn't realize you could do this, Alex... that's neat! (Now to go back to some scripts I've done the long way...) Excellent, Alex! Could you write a little

[ANN] Palm Database Project

2005-09-07 Thread rev
Hi All. I have a little palm database reader. It is in its very early stages. I would like assistance in tidying up the code for release as a freeware tool to the list. I would like any experienced runrevers who are interested to reply here or pop me a mail privately. All you would have to do is

Sort numbers, problem.

2005-09-07 Thread Damien Girard
Hi all, I have got a problem with the sort command in Revolution. I have got a list, who contains number, and I need to sort them, but there are a problem with the sort command. Exemple script: global totox put 1,215,3,48,5,16,24 into totox sort items of totox put totox Normally, I will

Re: Sort numbers, problem.

2005-09-07 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Damien, Hi all, I have got a problem with the sort command in Revolution. I have got a list, who contains number, and I need to sort them, but there are a problem with the sort command. Exemple script: global totox put 1,215,3,48,5,16,24 into totox sort items of totox put totox

Re: Sort numbers, problem.

2005-09-07 Thread Damien Girard
Bonjour Klaus, Thanks ! This work very fine now. Regards, Damien. Klaus Major wrote: Bonjour Damien, Hi all, I have got a problem with the sort command in Revolution. I have got a list, who contains number, and I need to sort them, but there are a problem with the sort command.

Grouped Scrolling Fields

2005-09-07 Thread AbilityForms
Hi Everyone, Here's another newbie question. What's the best way to get several fields to scroll together? Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, Alex! Could you write a little tutorial for us all? The 'format' incantation has always baffled me, along with the 'matchText' incantations. (Maybe I just led a sheltered life) I'll have a go. But I'm far from an expert - so consider this the first

Re: Grouped Scrolling Fields

2005-09-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Joe, Hi Everyone, Here's another newbie question. What's the best way to get several fields to scroll together? dunno if this is the BEST way, but you can script the one and only field WITH a scrollbar like this: on scrollbardrag tValue ## tValue contains the amount of scrolling

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Dom
Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ken and Alex. I'm having a hard time with the notation -it's not 'speaking' to me yet. These examples really help, as the docs are skimpy with examples. another example: to make the sum of a field, and to yield a formatted result: on

I need that somebody subscribes a colleague to the list...

2005-09-07 Thread Omega
I need that somebody subscribes a colleague to the list... Listeros, at this time we don't have connection to internet and I need that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are included in the discussion lists it has more than enough TranScript that you know. Thank you!!!

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, Alex! Could you write a little tutorial for us all? The 'format' incantation has always baffled me, along with the 'matchText' incantations. (Maybe I just led a sheltered life) Alex replied: I'll have a go. But I'm far from an expert - so

AlertLoc

2005-09-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
Window placement has caused some discussion recently, so I thought I'd add my own ponderings to the pot... on preOpenStack set the loc of this stack to alertLoc() checkWD end preOpenStack function alertLoc if Win32 is in the platform then if the mode of this stack is in 1,2 then put 30

RE: Grouped Scrolling Fields

2005-09-07 Thread MisterX
Hi Joe, Here's another newbie question. What's the best way to get several fields to scroll together? Here's an atomic function that does that note that some comments were left in case they becase useful agan. here's a slight variation Put this script into your card or stack... on

Q: When is a hand not a hand?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
A: When it is a Hoary Hedgehog standalone. For the uninitiated, Hoary Hedgehog is the codename given to the current release of Ubuntu Linux. Using Ubuntu Linux, if I set the default cursor to hand, it works fine, but if I make a standalone, I don't get a hand, I get an icon which I cannot

RE: detecting for how long a key is being pressed

2005-09-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I tested the following script, and it seems to work pretty well. It is currently set up to test for a lowercase 'k' and put the milliseconds into a field titled feedback and to stop putting updating the milliseconds when the 'k' is released. I put this script in the stack script: on rawkeydown

RE: detecting for how long a key is being pressed

2005-09-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Sorry, I misunderstood the original question. This script accomplishes what is needed: on rawkeydown pKey global gStartTime if pKey = 107 and gStartTime = empty then checkkeysdown end if pass rawkeydown end rawkeydown on checkkeysdown global gStartTime if the keysdown contains

Scrolling Fields Follow-Up question

2005-09-07 Thread AbilityForms
Hi Again Thanks for the information about scripting fields to scroll together. As a follow up I noticed I can use a Table Field I think that will be better than using several fields and scrolling them together. I can't find any documentation about these table fields. Do all the columns have

Re: [ANN] Palm Database Project

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 3:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I have a little palm database reader. It is in its very early stages. I would like assistance in tidying up the code for release as a freeware tool to the list. I would like any experienced runrevers who are interested

Re: Scrolling Fields Follow-Up question

2005-09-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Joe, Hi Again Thanks for the information about scripting fields to scroll together. As a follow up I noticed I can use a Table Field I think that will be better than using several fields and scrolling them together. table fields are just normal fields with some TABS sets, that act

smartAnswer dialogs

2005-09-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
SmartAnswer for Revolution has been updated to automatically adapt to cross-platform considerations including font display, icons, button placement, dimensions and positioning. It returns the button clicked from an answer dialog of an Icon, Title, Body and up to three User Responses.

No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
According to the Help, and also in practice, the volumes for discovering what physical drives or logical partitions a computer has . always returns empty on Unix systems. Perhaps I am a bit dim, but could someone tell me why? ___ use-revolution

Re: Little Diversion - Happy Trails

2005-09-07 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:59:38 -0700 From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Little Diversion - Happy Trails To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I posted a little image experiment I

ANN: Line shaper

2005-09-07 Thread Jim Hurley
I have always wondered about the feasibility of a shaper graphic tool. By shaper tool I mean a circular graphic which may be used to nudge a graphic line to conform locally to the shaper. That is, as the circle moves against the line, the line conforms to the circular shape of the shaper.

Re: ANN: Line shaper

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jim Hurley wrote: I have always wondered about the feasibility of a shaper graphic tool. ... In the message box run the following: go stack url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ShapeLine.rev; Jim this is sweet. Kind of like Photoshop's Liquify filter but for vectors. Now I

RE: Scrolling Fields Follow-Up question (tips included ;)

2005-09-07 Thread MisterX
i dont know if this will answer your questions but it should... Table fields (not revtable objects) are more complicated yet simpler... The one field variable multicolumn is best shown when you set it's tabstops properties to the width of each column as 10, 30,60 set the tabstops of fld x to

Re: ANN: Line shaper

2005-09-07 Thread Malte Brill
Very cool Jim! Fun to play with it. :-) All the best, Malte --- ArcadeEngine - prepare to WOW your audience within minutes http://www.runrev.com/section/revselect/arcadeengine http://www.derbrill.com/arcadeengine/forum ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Q: When is a hand not a hand?

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 8:25 AM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the uninitiated, Hoary Hedgehog is the codename given to the current release of Ubuntu Linux. Using Ubuntu Linux, if I set the default cursor to hand, it works fine, but if I make a standalone, I don't get a hand, I get an icon

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bob Warren wrote: According to the Help, and also in practice, the volumes for discovering what physical drives or logical partitions a computer has . always returns empty on Unix systems. Perhaps I am a bit dim, but could someone tell me why? On Windows, full file names have a distinct

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 11:43 AM, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Warren wrote: According to the Help, and also in practice, the volumes for discovering what physical drives or logical partitions a computer has . always returns empty on Unix systems. Perhaps I am a bit dim, but could

Re: Best way to send lots of email

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 4:52:07 PM, you wrote: What's the best way to handle a private mailing like this? I've recently run into this one myself working with a local nonprofit here. There are a few solutions, all with problems: 1. Just send out all the emails at once. Problem:

Re: ANN: Line shaper

2005-09-07 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks Jim. This is great . . . as usual!! On Sep 7, 2005, at 9:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 15 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:34:34 -0700 From: Jim Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANN: Line shaper To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type:

Re: Best way to send lots of email

2005-09-07 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 9/7/05, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told a friend I would try to help him set up a little database that sends email to a list of opt-in customers. To begin with there will only be a few names, but he is hoping that business will grow and there will be a few thousand eventually.

lockMessages problem

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Earp
I'm finding that lockMessages or lock messages does not work when opening or going to a sub stack as modal. This was also conformed by a friend using MetaCard. BZ does not seem to have a reference to this so before I post a bug can anybody else confirm that they too are expereinceing the

Re: Q: When is a hand not a hand?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
Many thanks Ken! IMNSHO (In my not so humble opinion) we should call a spade a spade, or rather a bug a BUG! Best, Bob On 9/7/05 8:25 AM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the uninitiated, Hoary Hedgehog is the codename given to the current release of Ubuntu Linux. Using Ubuntu Linux,

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
Thanks Alex and Ken! I have just tried the same thing in RB and Rebol. RB also returns empty. Interestingly, Rebol gives a list of the partitions created by Linux - which at least is a bit more useful. e.g. /usr /bin /boot /dev /home etc. Does this really mean that although a computer may have

Re: Best way to send lots of email

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Robert- Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 9:57:21 AM, you wrote: (macjordomo works just for for me :) and they know how to handle such things, including bounces, automatic removal, etc etc. It is I looked into majordomo as an option and couldn't figure out how to configure it as a send-only

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dom wrote: another example: to make the sum of a field, and to yield a formatted result: on closefield put the short name of the target into tfield replace comma with . in fld tfield -- european currency delimiter ;-) put fld tfield into montants replace return with comma in montants

Re: Best way to send lots of email

2005-09-07 Thread Robert Brenstein
Robert- Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 9:57:21 AM, you wrote: (macjordomo works just for for me :) and they know how to handle such things, including bounces, automatic removal, etc etc. It is I looked into majordomo as an option and couldn't figure out how to configure it as a send-only

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Dom
Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The UK rules on currency conversion required that for such midway values you should always round to the even valued adjacent value (e.g. 0.125 - 0.12, 0.135 - 0.14) - which had the advantage of balancing out the rounding amounts over a large enough set

Re: [ANN] StackRunner 1.0

2005-09-07 Thread Dom
Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note to let you all know that I have uploaded a standalone application called StackRunner which is similar to the DreamCard Player in that it will play your MetaCard or Revolution stacks, but it is much simpler and doesn't present any

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bob Warren wrote: Thanks Alex and Ken! I have just tried the same thing in RB and Rebol. RB also returns empty. Interestingly, Rebol gives a list of the partitions created by Linux - which at least is a bit more useful. e.g. /usr /bin /boot /dev /home etc. Are each of those really

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 1:00 PM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this really mean that although a computer may have 2 or 3 physical drives, there is no way that RR can discover this in Linux? If so, I find that rather disappointing, don't you? Bob, I don't have Linux handy, but my web search

Re: [ANN] StackRunner 1.0

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 2:20 PM, Dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note to let you all know that I have uploaded a standalone application called StackRunner which is similar to the DreamCard Player in that it will play your MetaCard or Revolution stacks, but it is

Re: Q: When is a hand not a hand?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
Dear All, Ken's workaround for changing the standalone cursor to hand works a treat, except that in Linux it is cursor #10 and not 8. Best, Bob On 9/7/05 8:25 AM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the uninitiated, Hoary Hedgehog is the codename given to the current release of Ubuntu

Reading an Access file?

2005-09-07 Thread John Ridge
My wife has been sent the address list of a small society in the form of a .mdb file. How do I read this?, she asked, reasonably enough. I managed to find out that it's a Microsoft Access database file, but that gets me nowhere. Is there an easy way, using Revolution, to scan the contents,

[ANN] Image Dropper

2005-09-07 Thread FlexibleLearning
New the xtalk section... www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk IMAGE DROPPER Description: How to drag and drop multiple image files, with image dragging and auto-delete. Type: Rev stack Size: 4k Hope you find it of use. /H FLCo Home of the

Re: ANN: Line shaper

2005-09-07 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Jim, This stack is great! :D Now i'm crossing my fingers, so your curiosity get picked by bezier curve fitting algorithms. ;-) http://www.tinaja.com/cubic01.asp http://cajun.cs.nott.ac.uk/compsci/epo/papers/volume6/issue3/ohno.pdf http://antigrain.com/research/bezier_interpolation/ Keep up your

Google search with unicode or HTMLText?

2005-09-07 Thread Curtis Ford
I'm working on a project with a button to send a word to Google to show additional examples in a browser. The following code works fine with languages using the Latin alphabet; accents, umlauts, etc. don't seem to cause problems: on mouseUp put http://www.google.com/search?q=; into

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Smith
See the entry for 'statRound' in the docs... Mark On 7 Sep 2005, at 19:44, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dom wrote: another example: to make the sum of a field, and to yield a formatted result: on closefield put the short name of the target into tfield replace comma with . in fld tfield --

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
No, you're right Alex, they're probably better termed top-level directories as you suggest. Being a newbie in Linux (after only Windows experience) is still a bit confusing at the moment! As far as I know, the main logical partitions of the HD on my Linux machine are primary and swap.

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Mark Smith wrote: See the entry for 'statRound' in the docs... Yeah - but I wish there was a way to get this form of rounding in the format command. H -an enhancement !! I'll request it BZ 3111 added -- Alex. On 7 Sep 2005, at 19:44, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dom wrote: another

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bob Warren wrote: Since you obviously have much more experience than I regarding this subject, you might be able to give me a tip or two. For example, let's suppose I have 2 HDs on my computer, and for the sake of argument I have separate distros of Linux installed on each of them with a dual

Re: Q: When is a hand not a hand?

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/7/05 2:23 PM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Ken's workaround for changing the standalone cursor to hand works a treat, except that in Linux it is cursor #10 and not 8. So it's something like: if the environment is development then set the cursor to hand else switch

Re: Google search with unicode or HTMLText?

2005-09-07 Thread Kenji Kojima
Curt, I don't know Russian, but it works in Japanese. on mouseUp put http://www.google.com/search?q=; into tWordToSearch put urlEncode(unidecode(fld word field, utf8)) of cd Review Words after tWordToSearch revGoURL tWordToSearch end mouseUp -- Kenji Kojima

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Bob Warren
Many thanks once again to Ken and Alex for giving me some ideas to get my teeth into. Bob ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Best way to send lots of email

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Robert- Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 12:00:13 PM, you wrote: If a list type is announcement only, then only the list owner can post as a rule. Emails from anyone else will bounce (unless they have authorization to post). Thanks. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google search with unicode or HTMLText?

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Curtis- Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 1:29:42 PM, you wrote: I'd like it to work with Russian but can't figure out what I need to change. The code above gives me this in the browser's search bar: http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried using urlEncode(tWordToSearch), setting

Re: AlertLoc

2005-09-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Window placement has caused some discussion recently, so I thought I'd add my own ponderings to the pot... on preOpenStack set the loc of this stack to alertLoc() checkWD end preOpenStack function alertLoc if Win32 is in the

Most Recent Darwin Engine

2005-09-07 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I'm taking another kick at the cat because I haven't found an answer to what is probably a trivial question: where can I get the Darwin Engine for running CGIs? Can't find it or any mention of it on Runtime Revolution's web site. The engine I'm currently playing

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Smith
I'll vote for that - though %8.2f,statRound(aNum) should work, shouldn't it? On 7 Sep 2005, at 22:17, Alex Tweedly wrote: Mark Smith wrote: See the entry for 'statRound' in the docs... Yeah - but I wish there was a way to get this form of rounding in the format command. H -an