At 8:17 AM +0100 1/12/06, Paul Claude wrote:
But there is anyone that have an idea about how to solve the problem
explained in the title of this thread?
Does it have to be javascript?
Can you use applescript? (I am assuming that you are talking about a Mac)
ciao,
sims
European Rev
Hi sims,
Does it have to be javascript?
Can you use applescript? (I am assuming that you are talking about a Mac)
ciao,
sims
If you have read entirly my post, you'll find that the problem is that I
need to read the adressbook.data database WITHOUT opening the Address Book
app.
I would
Recently, Paul Claude wrote:
the problem is that I
need to read the adressbook.data database WITHOUT opening the Address Book
app.
I would like any suggestion (applescript, shell commands, javascript or any
other thing is available through revolution) to do this.
Perhaps something here
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
Thanks for the reply Chipp. The weird thing is that I can USE the
external's commands and functions perfectly. I just can't LIST them or
check them in any way.
Maybe this is a Mac problem. I'll make a test stack and see if it
works.
Raymond Griffith wrote:
Try this:
put Core.pick(*Pick a Boy:*,[*Manny*,*Moe*,*Jack*]) into js
do replacetext(js,*,quote) as javascript
put the result
This is a favorite trick of mine. Having to put in all those quotes and
commas into a do-statement is tedious, and often makes the script
This is a good method, Scott, I knew it before, but the problem is that I
cannot prepare a stack for other users that cannot works without another
external app. My stack should be sufficient to read the addressbook.data
database by itself (like those funny widgets - easy envelope or address book
Hi Paul,
This is a good method, Scott, I knew it before, but the problem is
that I
cannot prepare a stack for other users that cannot works without
another
external app. My stack should be sufficient to read the
addressbook.data
database by itself (like those funny widgets - easy envelope
Hi Klaus,
In Transcript:
- (specialfolderpath(asup) /AddressBook/)
But looks like this is in binary format?
(Binary stuff is still a mistery to me :-)
I have no idea how to extract the entries from whatever file in this
folder,
but i am sure this is possible somehow...
Yes I know. If
- Original Message -
From: Dennis F. Desmarais
...But I really hope I can install the development package on my Linux
distribution. Any thoughts?
I'm running RR 2.6.1 on Ubuntu Breezy Badger as my development platform,
with no problems other than my lack of programming adroitness
Bon jour Paul,
Hi Klaus,
In Transcript:
- (specialfolderpath(asup) /AddressBook/)
But looks like this is in binary format?
(Binary stuff is still a mistery to me :-)
I have no idea how to extract the entries from whatever file in this
folder,
but i am sure this is possible somehow...
Yes
Hi Kresten and all,
Hi,
thanks for advices and ideas.
Klaus Major helped with a formidable little explanatory demo-stack:
Hole in the world,
which I hope he wil make available for future idiots like me.
:-)
Following your advice I just uploaded the little stack to Revonline.
Username:
Dear Jerry, et. al.:
Thanks for the confirmation of RR's compatibility with my linux distro.
I was just investigating before I took the plunge and got stuck with a
development package that did not like my environment.
Thanks again,
Dennis
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Thanks for this Chipp. Can I make a suggestion?
With anything that has to do with groups, I would find helpful to
have a kind of DOM inspector that will color the border of nested
groups with different colors depending of their levels in the
hierarchy. I have asked a bit around. Best way
Update to my last post, Eric.
I've confirmed that revCopyFolder will not work with CGIs. It
probably has to do with permission to execute AppleScripts. Rather
than mess with those, I think it's less risky to use a home-made
handler that will drill down through folders and back
Hi all
I am new to revolution and I am trying to write an application that will
be copied from an http server. I have a data folder associated with the
application. I need to copy this data folder to the client.
How can I do that?
Can I use revCopyFolder for this purpose?
I
Hi Marielle,
Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll leave it in your capable
hands;-)
Too much to do, too little time. I typically create these tools to suite
me as I need 'em. It is a good idea though!
-Chipp
Marielle Lange wrote:
Thanks for this Chipp. Can I make a suggestion?
Do you want the formatted text under the mouse or do you want
the line number of that text? I am sure it is possible. Tell me
what you need, I'll take up the challenge ;-) Are you using a
scrolling field?
Mark
Mark Swindell wrote:
Is it possible to somehow return the _formatted_ mouseline
Hello, I am the one who sent that script to Timothy...
Sarah, if you look in the script for the print button in Task Mage, the
script is in there (the print task section). It is very much oriented
towards printing a task in Task Mage, and as such is not really written
as a general purpose
I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its coordinates
relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an underline or
somesuch) under the text of that formatted line. This has to be
derived from the mouse position relative to the formatted line position
as this graphic
I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its coordinates
relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an underline or
somesuch) under the text of that formatted line. This has to be
derived from the mouse position relative to the formatted line position
as this graphic
I am struggling to learn Rev for an app used on a dissertation project. I am
using the archive search and documentation, just not always finding what I
need. I have 2 current questions that are probably easy for you veterans. If
you can help me, please spell things out, as I am really green
On 12 Jan 2006, at 16:16, Mark Swindell wrote:
I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its
coordinates relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an
underline or somesuch) under the text of that formatted line. This
has to be derived from the mouse position
On 12 Jan 2006, at 18:20, Dave Cragg wrote:
On 12 Jan 2006, at 16:16, Mark Swindell wrote:
I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its
coordinates relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an
underline or somesuch) under the text of that formatted line.
This
On 1/11/06 10:05 PM, Dennis F. Desmarais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All:
A real newbie here.
I have moved away from Windows XP for a lot of my work to Ubuntu Linux
distribution, which is a variant of Debian Linux.
Any sense whether the Revolution development package will install
Mark,
I uploaded a demo to RevOnline. User name Mark, category
General. The name of the stack is Reading Guide Strip.
Best,
Mark
Mark Swindell wrote:
I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its coordinates
relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an underline or
Hi OS X users,
a little off topic, but worth a note :-)
Get it here:
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
and play WMV/ASF/ASV etc... files directly in Quicktime Player or
Safari!
Best from germany
Klaus Major
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.major-k.de
Klaus,
Actually that's great. I can now play the wmv's. Media player always
crashed on my system.
Thanks
Tom
On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi OS X users,
a little off topic, but worth a note :-)
Get it here:
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
and play
Hello folks,
I left the organisation that licensed Rev 2.x for me, so I went back to
developing on my copy 1.1.1.
It wasn't as tough as you might think. I find myself to be a very
understanding boss ;-)
Anyway, I included in my 'new' 1.1.1 stack a button that will take a
snapshot of part
Again OT, but if you try to download Windows Media Player for
Macintosh from Microsoft it actualy redirects you to flip4mac, so,
all in all, Windows Media Player for Mac is now dead.
Andre
On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi OS X users,
a little off topic, but worth a note
Hi Andre,
Again OT, but if you try to download Windows Media Player for
Macintosh from Microsoft it actualy redirects you to flip4mac, so,
all in all, Windows Media Player for Mac is now dead.
Really? I still can download (if i wanted to ;-) WMP Mac here:
Oops,
Page changed since yesterday... check this microsoft URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/mac.aspx
Cheers
andre
On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Andre,
Again OT, but if you try to download Windows Media Player for
Macintosh from Microsoft it
In a message dated 1/12/2006 1:47:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello again everyone! I come to you today in reference to a project I've
been working on lately. I'm trying to make a bible studying program. I have
the
books of the bible in TXT files in a
Hi Andre,
Oops,
Page changed since yesterday... check this microsoft URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/mac.aspx
mp10 sounds like Windows Media Player 10 which never existed for
the Mac! ;-)
I was referring to WMP 9, which is still available.
Cheers
andre
Best
Hi all
I have this script in a button which calls three handlers
the if statement checks the fld for the card number was filled in
if it was not I want to stop calling the fsave and the fTotalSeats
Handlers
on mouseUp
if fld paymenttype = credit card then fcredit
fSave
TotalSeats
end
Well for question 2... if you start the test with a button, the add
to that buttons script:
startTimer
and then in the stack script:
on startTimer
send timesUp to me in 120 seconds
end startTimer
on timesUp
beep
go last cd -- or whatver action needs to be taken
end timesUp
Mark
On 12 Jan
Hi Liam,
Hi all
I have this script in a button which calls three handlers
the if statement checks the fld for the card number was filled in
if it was not I want to stop calling the fsave and the fTotalSeats
Handlers
on mouseUp
if fld paymenttype = credit card then fcredit
fSave
I've put an early version of a grouped control for showing audio
waveforms in rev up on RevOnline.
Stack: AudioWaveform
User: Mark Smith
Mark
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Hi Mark,
I've put an early version of a grouped control for showing audio
waveforms in rev up on RevOnline.
Stack: AudioWaveform
User: Mark Smith
very, very cool!
But where did you define: chooseFile()
I get an error: Error in function handler - choosefile()
Mark
Regards
Klaus Major
From: liamlambert
Hi all
I have this script in a button which calls three handlers
the if statement checks the fld for the card number was filled in
if it was not I want to stop calling the fsave and the fTotalSeats
Handlers
on mouseUp
if fld paymenttype = credit card then fcredit
fSave
Hi Klaus,
Replace chooseFile() by a well known answer file and it will work...
Very fine. Bravo Mark.
Do you think to be able to add a play function with a cursor moving
along the wave form?
Should be great!
Le 12 janv. 06 à 21:59, Klaus Major a écrit :
I've put an early version of a
Hi all
on mouseUp
if fld paymenttype = credit card then fcredit --fcredit
the card number was filled in
fSave
TotalSeats
end mouseUp
on fCredit
if fld credit = then answer NO CREDIT CARD NUMBER if
it answers then I want it to stop
end fCredit
Thank's
Liam
Damn! I knew I had to change that (it's in my own little library of
stuff). Will re-upload.
Glad you like it!
Mark
On 12 Jan 2006, at 20:59, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Mark,
I've put an early version of a grouped control for showing audio
waveforms in rev up on RevOnline.
Stack:
Well done Mark This will get a lot of us thinking.
Liam Lambert
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on mouseUp
if fld paymenttype = credit card then fcredit --fcredit
the card number was filled in
fSave
TotalSeats
end mouseUp
on fCredit
if fld credit = then answer NO CREDIT CARD NUMBER if
it answers then I want it to stop
end fCredit
Try this:
on
Hi Liam,
on fCredit
if fld credit = empty then
answer No credit card number.
EXIT TO TOP
end fCredit
Thinking of ergonomics, you might prefer to come back to a previous
screen modified to allow the user to correct his error instead :-)
on fCredit
if fld credit = empty then
Then along comes the MacFormat CD with 2.2.1 on it. Yippee! So I
tried my 1.1.1 stack in 2.2.1 and the import snapshot script crashes
the IDE and an OS X standalone built containing it. This is the script
almost in its entirety:
get Circres(charts( CChrt_ the system date _ the long
Thank you all
Have it working coming back to screen
Liam Lambert
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Hi Swami,
I noticed no one replied directly to you. I'd guess that revPrintText
has the same underlying problem as revPrintField. Does revPrintText
work right if the printed output is one page or less? If so, that's a
clue.
The other messages on this thread have probably given you some
Hello again everyone! I come to you today in reference to a project I've
been working on lately. I'm trying to make a bible studying program. I have
the
books of the bible in TXT files in a folder (Just managing that was a
task...). I wanted to add the ability to look up verses
Recently, Mark Smith wrote:
I've put an early version of a grouped control for showing audio
waveforms in rev up on RevOnline.
Excellent! Am looking forward to working with this.
Thanks Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia Design
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Hi David,
Sarah replied about the bug in Rev prior to 2.5.
The workaround I used at this time was to specify a globalRect
without specifying the window ID:
local tRect,tTopLeft,tBotRight, tGlobalRect
-
put the rect of stack stack name into tRect
put item 1 of tRect,item 2 of
Hi,
Is it possible to make a graphic object with, say, Illustrator, save
it, and import it into RR? Will RR make necessary conversions? For
example, change a Bezier into something RR can digest?
If so, once imported, can I manipulate the graphic with RR's usual
commands for manipulating
Having done similar things (though not on this scale) in Rev I can
second Sarah's suggestions. In your sample text I noticed that were
several verses in a single paragraph. If that arrangement is not
important, I would recommend you put each verse on a single logical
line (i.e., each verse
David thanks , that's seems to do the trick.
Any ideas how to break out of repeat loops in say 10 seconds as a timeout ?
- Original Message -
From: David Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Serial communication
I guess it all depends on how the text files are set up and changing
them to make it easier to search may be the quickest way in the long
run. I would arrange it so that each book had it's own text file, so
you would have Genesis.txt, John.txt etc.
Yes every book is already separated
On 1/12/06 2:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have thought
about searching for numbers to tell Revolution it's the start of a verse. The
problem with that though is there's a lot of verses that have numbers in
them,
so if I tell Revolution to search for numbers
O my God you guys are geniuses. I forgot completely about containing each
verse on it's own line. Wow will this help me in the long run! I didn't think
of this at first because I was thinking to hard about the way it looked in the
field, but once the relevant search is located it should rap
Recently, Timothy Miller wrote:
Is it possible to make a graphic object with, say, Illustrator, save
it, and import it into RR? Will RR make necessary conversions?
For example, change a Bezier into something RR can digest?
Alejandro Tejada has built some tools for importing Illustrator
Hi,
As I don't have (my bank doesn't support it) a
sample Qif file (Quicken format) I was wondering
if anybody had done Qif a conversion in Rev?
Scott
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I am having trouble modifying a stack that I did not develop. It is a
simple questionnaire program that asks a variety of questions and
records the answers. The program uploads the questions from a .txt
file. I need to add more questions to the stack. To do this I need to
copy some of the
Scott Kane wrote:
Hi,
As I don't have (my bank doesn't support it) a
sample Qif file (Quicken format) I was wondering
if anybody had done Qif a conversion in Rev?
I haven't seen one, but it shouldn't be too hard to write one -- the
spec with an example is available:
Hey everyone,
I'm reviving an calendar stack that I wrote years ago in Hypercard using
WindowScript. I've got it working pretty well, but had a quick question
- it appears that Windows XP is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1970
and that OSX is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1935.
Hi Richard,
I haven't seen one, but it shouldn't be too hard to write one -- the
spec with an example is available:
I didn't think of checking the Quicken site. I
figured they wouldn't make it public. Thanks
for the link I think I can work it out from
there. :-)
Scott
I've been thinking a lot about this lately-- and I'm leaning on the side
of creating next versions of my apps as mostly portable from now on.
Portable apps have the distinguishing feature they are entirely
self-contained in a single folder and can even be stored on USB drives
if the user
[from Marielle Lang who is unable to post at the moment]
Dear Rev users,
Lexicall.org is down. If you try to connect you will get to see a
this account is suspended on the screen. The reason for this is
that my provider discovered an important increase of load on their
server, tracked it down
Hi,
The owner of the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on this list is bouncing emails via a spam
filter. Could the owner either turn this off
or otherwise fix it? It's annoying to post
a message and be asked to confirm that it is
not SPAM.
Scott
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Hi
In march 2005 ( over 4 weeks) the list hosted a long discussion on the
question of font-installation, occasioned by my posting:
I will quote bits and pieces in the following.
Our project is now approaching publication (a freeware standalone for an
electronic diary,
organized to combine text
Chipp Walters wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately-- and I'm leaning on the
side of creating next versions of my apps as mostly portable from now
on. Portable apps have the distinguishing feature they are entirely
self-contained in a single folder and can even be stored on USB
On 1/12/06 6:36 PM, Marty Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm reviving an calendar stack that I wrote years ago in Hypercard using
WindowScript. I've got it working pretty well, but had a quick question
- it appears that Windows XP is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1970
I'm reviving an calendar stack that I wrote years ago in Hypercard using
WindowScript. I've got it working pretty well, but had a quick question
- it appears that Windows XP is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1970
and that OSX is limited to dates on or since Jan 1, 1935. Does that
sound
I am having trouble modifying a stack that I did not develop. It is a
simple questionnaire program that asks a variety of questions and
records the answers. The program uploads the questions from a .txt
file. I need to add more questions to the stack. To do this I need to
copy some of the
From: Chipp Walters
I've been thinking a lot about this lately-- and I'm leaning on the side
of creating next versions of my apps as mostly portable from now on.
. . .
Any thoughts about this before I take the leap?
My apps are completely portable, so far. I run them from a USB jumpdrive,
Thanks, Mark! I just checked your sample out and it works quite
nicely. Your help and time are much appreciated. :)
Also, thanks to the others who responded with suggestions. Such a
great resource this list is.
Mark
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Mark,
I
I am trying to tidy up this code with repeat but haveing trubble
This works fine
get field name1
put ' cleanSQL(it) ' , after tRowData
get field phone
put ' cleanSQL(it) ' , after tRowData
get field child
put ' cleanSQL(it) ' , after tRowData
get field adult
put '
Chipp Walters wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately-- and I'm leaning on the side
of creating next versions of my apps as mostly portable from now on.
Portable apps have the distinguishing feature they are entirely
self-contained in a single folder and can even be stored on USB
Thanks Sara and Ken for the info.
If anyone's interested, you're welcome to my calendar stack. It has
Tooltips for instructions, but it's pretty simple/basic. It would need
to be customized for use in your stack.
In Rev, insert this in the Message box:
go stack url
On 1/12/06 8:34 PM, liamlambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to tidy up this code with repeat but haveing trubble
This works fine
get field name1
put ' cleanSQL(it) ' , after tRowData
get field phone
put ' cleanSQL(it) ' , after tRowData
get field child
put '
Now updated. Fixed the file thing, and have added a player with
moving cursor ... and you can zoom and scroll while playing.
Thanks!
Mark
On 12 Jan 2006, at 21:05, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Klaus,
Replace chooseFile() by a well known answer file and it will work...
Very fine. Bravo Mark.
Do
Thank you Ken that worked
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Alex Tweedly wrote:
I can easily see the easy to install, delete and move - but I'm not
quite so sure about the easy to maintain. It seems like there might be
issues with any new version wishing to retain the existing user
preferences and data.
I'm thinking my apps are all updated over the
Nice one Mark 20 out of 10
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On 13/01/2006, at 9:37, Camm29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David thanks , that's seems to do the trick.
Any ideas how to break out of repeat loops in say 10 seconds as a
timeout ?
Glad it worked for you.
I take it you want a loop to execute but stop after an amount of time
apart from any
Thanks!
Mark
On 13 Jan 2006, at 03:36, liamlambert wrote:
Nice one Mark 20 out of 10
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Scott,
QIF is an old-style data format, it does not use tabs or commas as
delimiters. Instead it allocates aa specific number of characters per
field - and the fields have to be padded if they contain less than the
allocated characters.
About 10 years ago I wrote a QIF import/export routine in
Hi Paul,
QIF is an old-style data format, it does not use tabs or commas as
delimiters. Instead it allocates aa specific number of characters per
field - and the fields have to be padded if they contain less
than the
allocated characters.
About 10 years ago I wrote a QIF import/export
I just created a standalone using a stack that had the externals set
to /Full/Path/to/revspeech.bundle and the externalPackages returned
RevSpeech (answer the externalPackages of this stack). This was
using 2.6.1 on OS X.4. I'm not sure how the speech commands are
working without the
Hi Mark,
Really amazing!
I love the way the moving cursor runs to get the right place :-)
Were did you find all information about sound files structure?
Could you share it?
Each day, we discover that there is almost nothing that can't be done
with Rev :-)
When you have a sharp feeling for
On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I just created a standalone using a stack that had the externals set
to /Full/Path/to/revspeech.bundle and the externalPackages returned
RevSpeech (answer the externalPackages of this stack). This was
using 2.6.1 on OS X.4. I'm not sure how
'FREE' maybe too generous a term: Flip4Mac is a bit like
Quicktime itself as part of it is Free - for capabilities
such as converting WMV files to Mac native ones one has to
pay for a license.
For tight-fisted types like myself there are other, FREE,
solutions to dealing with Windows Media files
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