RE: relayering groups within groups

2006-02-03 Thread MisterX
Terry, Here's a bit of TAOO (see my sig) for layering groups, which I just added to the GIM library (see url below) this morning. Now for Terry's purpose, and if we are using the relayerGroupedControls=true, we have to consider that to move group B between group A or C we have to look at a delta

bringToFrontWithinOwner (was: relayering groups within groups)

2006-02-03 Thread Dick Kriesel
Here's a handler that brings a control as close to the front as possible without affecting its owner. No control has its owner changed. All controls other than the one that moves keep their original sequence within their owners. No controls are copied or deleted, so no system messages like

Re: bringToFrontWithinOwner (was: relayering groups within groups)

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dick, Great handler that works perfectly :-) Kudos Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet Le 3 févr. 06 à 10:16, Dick Kriesel a écrit : Here's a handler that brings a control as close to the front as possible without affecting its owner. No control has its owner changed. All controls

revInsertXMLNode : Please vote for #1893!

2006-02-03 Thread Joel Guillod
On 2004-07-26 I requested the revInsertXMLNode feature. This enhancement has been assigned to runrev component owner the same day but since 18 months no activity happens! If you work with xml you know that this is a must feature! So please support this feature by voting for «bug» #1893.

Re: how to click at a link in a handler

2006-02-03 Thread André . Bisseret
Le Thursday, 2 Feb 2006, à 21:43 Europe/Paris, Jim Ault a écrit : On 2/2/06 11:39 AM, André.Bisseret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Thursday, 2 Feb 2006, à 19:14 Europe/Paris, Jim Ault a écrit : On 2/2/06 10:03 AM, André.Bisseret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find line 1 of fld FoundCards click

RE: [OT] Shafer eBook on Printing in Rev

2006-02-03 Thread Len Morgan
Dan, I bought this right after I received the initial email but still have no ebook. After payment was sent, I got an error page: softseller.com Web Page Error HTTP ERROR: 405;http://softseller.com/cgi-%20bin/odbic.exe/ss/odb/SSReturn.odb Method not allowed

Re: 1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

2006-02-03 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks everyone for your thoughtful responses. I'm going to follow up on some of the home made libraries, functions, and workarounds that have been offered. I'm also going to take a look at the centuryCutoff property which, I'm embarrassed to say, I overlooked. Gregory

Re: 1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

2006-02-03 Thread Gregory Lypny
Well, I guess I'm wearing out my welcome with random precision as the popular song lyric goes. And unless I'm experiencing a flashback, the centuryCutoff property does not do what it's definition says it will do. It's just plain wrong! From the Revolution dictionary: For example, if the

How to retrieve only useful information in a long list

2006-02-03 Thread alex wu
Hello, I have problem in retrieving wanted information in a list field. For example, the list field has the following content: Runtime Revolution is a great ... . .. FIXED WORDINGS HERE This is

Re: 1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Smith
I get the same result. Rev 2.6.1 Mac OS 10.4.4 PB G4 1.5 Doing this: on mouseUp set useSystemDate to true set the centuryCutoff to 50 repeat with n = 0 to 51 put n into yy if length(yy) 2 then put 0 before yy put 12/4/ yy into tDate put tDate into origDate convert

Re: How to retrieve only useful information in a long list

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Smith
Untested: put offset(FIXED WORDINGS HERE, fld myField) + length(FIXED WORDINGS HERE) into startChar put offset((ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE, fld myField) - 1 into endChar get char startChar to endChar of fld myField Hope that helps, Mark On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:01, alex wu wrote: Hello,

Re: 1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

2006-02-03 Thread Charles Hartman
Is this somehow (??) connected with the Unix Apocalypse that comes around in there somewhere if I recall correctly? Charles On Feb 3, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I get the same result. Rev 2.6.1 Mac OS 10.4.4 PB G4 1.5 Doing this: on mouseUp set useSystemDate to true set the

Re: How to retrieve only useful information in a long list

2006-02-03 Thread alex wu
Mark, Thanks. It works! This is really a good idea. I can use this idea to do a lot of things with RR:) Alex Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Untested: put offset(FIXED WORDINGS HERE, fld myField) + length(FIXED WORDINGS HERE) into startChar put offset((ANOTHER FIXED

Re: relayering groups within groups?

2006-02-03 Thread Jonathan Lynch
I will definitely have to check it out... In Task Mage, the calendar object goes about 8 layers deeps with nested groups. On 2/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan, I don't know the algorithm but, as a three year user, I can tell you about the interface: There is a

Re: Windows app - error on quit

2006-02-03 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Devin, Are you using speech synthesis? If so, you have to: revUnloadSpeech before quitting, otherwise you get that kind of error. The same may apply to other loaded externals - don't know for sure. I'm not using speech synthesis, but I

Re: How to retrieve only useful information in a long list

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Smith
Glad it worked! Offset, ItemOffset, wordOffset and lineOffset are extremely useful functions. Best, Mark On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:58, alex wu wrote: Mark, Thanks. It works! This is really a good idea. I can use this idea to do a lot of things with RR:) Alex Mark Smith [EMAIL

Re: Menus

2006-02-03 Thread Rob Cozens
Morning Bob, What happens if the following handler is in the substack stack script?: on preOpenStack repeat with x = 1 to the number of buttons set the icon of button x to (the icon of button x) end repeat end

Advice needed on how to start a new PIM program

2006-02-03 Thread Dennis Brown
Hi Rev Gurus, After spending 2 days looking for a outliner or database program for OS X that can solve a specific personal PIM need, I have come to the conclusion that I will have to make something in Rev for myself. I looked seriously at Note Taker, Omni Outliner, iList Data, DEVONthink

Re: Offscreen Screencapture?

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ken Ray wrote: I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen content (ie a stack with loc set to -1000,-1000). This works fine on MacOSX but using the same standard import snapshot routine fails on

Re: Offscreen Screencapture?

2006-02-03 Thread Peter T. Evensen
This answers a question I was going to ask... on how to do a print preview window that can be scrolled! At 10:53 AM 2/3/2006, you wrote: Recently, Ken Ray wrote: I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen

Re: Advice needed on how to start a new PIM program

2006-02-03 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/3/06 8:16 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my personal investment ideas PIM The catch is that I need to have it running by MONDAY (yesterday really). This seems like such a generic thing, that I am sure there are hundreds of similar things already done. As always,

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Phil Davis
Godlike is good enough for me! I can make this solution work for me too. Thanks! Phil Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Ken Ray wrote: I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen content (ie a stack with loc set

Re: Advice needed on how to start a new PIM program

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/3/06 10:16 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to be able to cut and paste text from RTF emails or HTML web pages into a big scrolling field, like a blog of info. --limitations? Well, if you copy data from HTML tables into Rev they won't appear properly since Rev can't

Re: How to retrieve only useful information in a long list

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/3/06 8:58 AM, alex wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, You can also use regular expressions to do this: get matchText(tData,(?s)FIXED WORDINGS HERE(.*?)ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE,tVal) and now 'tVal' contains the data between the two sections. If you want to actually start on the next

dreamcard player and memory

2006-02-03 Thread Rand Valentine
Hello, dear Revolution experts. I've been developing a dictionary for my students of Ojibwe (an Algonquian language), using mainly my Mac PowerBook running the latest OS and DreamCard 2.61. Everything works just great for me, whether I run my stacks in DreamCard itself or with the

Re: Web encoded text on email

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/2/06 9:31 PM, Wally Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so sorry, didn't read the question correctly. This is when using RevMail I have not tried using a mailto: url, but I am trying an applescript OSAX (Xmail) that sends mail directly. Have it about 70% done, and it won't depend

Re: dreamcard player and memory

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/3/06 11:39 AM, Rand Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, dear Revolution experts. I've been developing a dictionary for my students of Ojibwe (an Algonquian language), using mainly my Mac PowerBook running the latest OS and DreamCard 2.61. Everything works just great for me,

Re: how to click at a link in a handler

2006-02-03 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/3/06 3:13 AM, André.Bisseret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I placed the handler (a part of it), as a custom command, at the stack level and it works well. Thanks Jim, butŠ it remains that I don't understand why clicking at the foundloc of a link (in a handler) triggers this error message.

Re: Menus

2006-02-03 Thread Robert Presender
Thanks to Rob Cozens, Sara Reichelt and Jim Ault for your suggestions. I finally got it to work. This what I did: 1. Copied an icon from my image stack to the menubar stack. The id changed. 2. Dragged a push btn from tools to the menubar stack. 3. Set the icon id of the btn to the id of 1.

getting the one object of a stack on the web into a local stack running

2006-02-03 Thread boehmisch
Hello, If I would have a stack 12345 on the web: http://animabit.de/T12345.rev with just one object in it (a field with text) then the following works go invisible stack URL http://animabit.de/T12345.rev; in a new window copy control 1 of stack 12345 set the

Re: Web encoded text on email

2006-02-03 Thread Wally Rodriguez
Hello Ken: Thanks for your attention to this issue. Answers inline... On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 2/2/06 9:31 PM, Wally Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so sorry, didn't read the question correctly. This is when using RevMail I have not tried using a mailto: url,

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Phil Davis wrote: I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen content (ie a stack with loc set to -1000,-1000). This works fine on MacOSX but using the same standard import snapshot routine fails

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Phil Davis wrote: I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen content (ie a stack with loc set to -1000,-1000). This works fine on MacOSX but using the same standard import

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, Are you using MC or RR? If MC, then can you try on RR? thx Richard Gaskin wrote: Crashes here with a kernel protection fault: OS X 10.4.4 PowerBook G4 1Ghz ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Richard, Are you using MC or RR? If MC, then can you try on RR? thx Richard Gaskin wrote: Crashes here with a kernel protection fault: OS X 10.4.4 PowerBook G4 1Ghz MC is just an IDE. Same engine, same result: Date/Time: 2006-02-03 13:43:13.127 -0800 OS

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines). I know earlier versions of OSX/Rev were said to cause problems, but it seems to work as expected here on both platforms, thus this tip really *is* godlike. Crashes here with a kernel

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Peter T. Evensen
What exactly are people trying? Could it be a bug in the code? Could someone send the stack that is crashing and I can try it on my 10.4 machine? At 03:46 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines). I

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Wouter
May be this thread can shed some light on the problem: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-January/ 028585.html (follow upstream for history) Greetings, Wouter On 03 Feb 2006, at 22:45, Richard Gaskin wrote: Chipp Walters wrote: Richard, Are you using MC or RR? If MC,

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines). I know earlier versions of OSX/Rev were said to cause problems, but it seems to work as expected here on both platforms, thus this tip really *is* godlike. Crashes here with a kernel protection fault: OS X 10.4.4

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines). I know earlier versions of OSX/Rev were said to cause problems, but it seems to work as expected here on both platforms, thus this tip really *is* godlike. Crashes here with a kernel protection fault:

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: I just tested here with OSX 10.4.4 under MC and the export worked fine. How about I send you my test stack and see if you get a different result. Works great in your version. I double-checked the differences between your code and the code on Ken's site,

Re: Advice needed on how to start a new PIM program

2006-02-03 Thread Dennis Brown
Ken Ray and Jim Ault, Thanks for the hints. They will come in handy. Jonathan Lynch, Thanks for contacting me off line with suggestions about Task Mage. This could become the basis for what I want to do. As usual --and not to be taken for granted -- this list has come through for me.

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/3/06 5:07 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Rossi wrote: Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines). I know earlier versions of OSX/Rev were said to cause problems, but it seems to work as expected here on both platforms, thus this tip

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Wouter
This will still crash in certain cases. Because a stack with its cantmodify set to true and which buffered state is not true, cannot be forced to update its screenbuffer. The effectiveness of a screen buffer update can be seen in the difference between the pixmapID of a stack and the

Shell Function and $PATH?

2006-02-03 Thread David Bovill
How does the $PATH and the shell() function work? That is the path as you get from: put $PATH or put shell(echo $PATH) does not correspond with what you get if you try the same from the shell. This is presumably because these are set by various bash scripts when a terminal starts

handler troubles

2006-02-03 Thread Ben Bock
I am going to make a standalone, that saves to a separate data stack. Right now I have 2 sample stacks to work out the kinks, button sample and data sample. On the button sample stack I have a series of quiz items per card, each with yes or no responses. I used radio buttons, grouped for

Re: revGoURL mailto: bonks on Windows NT 5.1

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Sivakatirswami, RevGoURL uses a shell funcion with some DOS syntax, on Win NT. You should probably make your own function with the correct DOS syntax to make it work on Windows NT 5.1. Sometimes, there are small variants between DOS versions, which Revolution does't take into account.

Re: Offscreen Screencapture? -- issues that affect image rendering

2006-02-03 Thread Chipp Walters
True, but these properties are certainly within the control of the developer, no? IOW, the procedure can still be used in standalones, unless a standalone's stack cantmodify is set tot true. best, Chipp Wouter wrote: This will still crash in certain cases. Because a stack with its

Re: Shell Function and $PATH?

2006-02-03 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/3/06 4:42 PM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the $PATH and the shell() function work? That is the path as you get from: put $PATH or put shell(echo $PATH) does not correspond with what you get if you try the same from the shell. This is presumably because

Re: handler troubles

2006-02-03 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 2/4/06, Ben Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to make a standalone, that saves to a separate data stack. Right now I have 2 sample stacks to work out the kinks, button sample and data sample. On the button sample stack I have a series of quiz items per card, each with yes or no

QT 7.0.4 failing in Rev Players on Windows

2006-02-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
One of my Windows users hit a H.264 file on the web and was prompted to go upgrade Quicktime, which he dutifully did... Now my Revolution players are failing to play .mp3 files on his hard drive: A little sys check from inside Rev returns: Platform: Win32 Machine: x86 System: NT 5.1