Re: Splash Screen Strategy

On May 22, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Hi Dan, If you want more unprofessional off the cuff video like last year, I would be more than happy to do it again. It worked fine for me... this isn't the oscars! Sivakatirswami Maybe Chris and I can do it together. If you are going

Re: Read file with accented characters ?

Thanks Devin for your solution. I have to say I don't know how to check the line endings in a safe way :( For exemple, I could write -- if (numToChar(13) numToChar(10)) is in it then put win into fileFormat else if numToChar(10) is in it then put nix into fileFormat

[NEW] very fast REINDEX -- 100+ times faster!

Hi All! we are happy inform you that we have got success with implementation of a new REINDEX algorithms for Valentina. They work in 100+ times faster than the old. For example, 5 millions records old algorithm did reindex in 10+ minutes New in 6-9 seconds (I think still possible improve

[NEW] very fast REINDEX -- 100+ times faster!

Hi All! we are happy inform you that we have got success with implementation of a new REINDEX algorithms for Valentina. They work in 100+ times faster than the old. For example, 5 millions records old algorithm did reindex in 10+ minutes New in 6-9 seconds (I think still possible improve

Re: Read file with accented characters ?

In a message dated 5/23/06 1:29:03 AM, Zax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Devin for your solution. I have to say I don't know how to check the line endings in a safe way :( For exemple, I could write -- if (numToChar(13) numToChar(10)) is in it then put win into fileFormat

Re: Creating externals for Revolution

Hi, Everyone who contacted me, many thanks. It now appears that Panther is the problem. XCode for Panther is a little different. We will probably update the machine used for creating externals, but if someone has a simple external that is known to compile correctly with XCode on Panther,

Re: slow command key

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com wrote: In Rev 2 (all versions that I've tested), pasting text is very slow, in some manner proportional to the length of the text in the clipboard. This is something that came in with Rev 2, near as I can tell: paste 90K of unstyled text into an empty

incomprehensible bug!? (from an idea of: passing parameters in a send call)

Who can understand why the test1() function will return TRUE and test2 () FALSE with the script below? The only difference is in looping each line of the string pPackedData : - either with : repeat with i=1 to the num of lines in pPackedData -- in imedArray_unpack_1() - or with : repeat for

How Do I Preposition A Modal Stack

Hi All, I spent more time than I should have trying to get a modal stack to open in different positions depending on the selected line in a list field. It's very annoying (not to mention puzzling) to see set the top of stack Number Keypad to (the top of stack Example)+linePosition

Checkmarks In Fields

All, I could copy the App Browser stack and hack it to find the answer; but I've lost so much time experimenting with modal stack positioning that I hope someone will save me the time. Are there Windows fonts that include the check mark? If not, I presume RR is using a checkmark image; but

Re: Implementation of a database

Ian, We have card-style databases with over 70,000 records. These are primarily archives - which don't need to be accessed frequently. At about 5,000 records you'll notice a speed hit, particularly when opening and closing the larger stacks. There are advantages to each method but, for your use,

Re: Checkmarks In Fields

You draw a checkmark and set the imagesource of a character in a field to the id of your checkmark image. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Salery is the easiest way to get your own web store on-line: http://

video at the conference?

I'd rather see reasonable lighting and a microphone at least on the podium before worrying about obfuscating bad video with clever editing. A full time camera operator that is not a participant is essential. Amateurs usually don't bother with production values such as these, but it's silly

Re: Checkmarks In Fields

Hi Mark, You draw a checkmark and set the imagesource of a character in a field to the id of your checkmark image. Thanks. My preference is to use the checkmark character already in and used by the Rev IDE, if possible. Rob ___ use-revolution

Re: How Do I Preposition A Modal Stack

Rob, You have to set the top and the left of the stack or use the topleft instead. set the topleft of stack Number Keypad to ¬ (the top of stack Example + linePosition),(the left of stack Example) modal stack Number Keypad Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software

Re: How Do I Preposition A Modal Stack

Sorry, reading my own mail reveals a mistake, it should be: set the topleft of stack Number Keypad to ¬ (the left of stack Example),(the top of stack Example + linePosition) modal stack Number Keypad Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering

Re: incomprehensible bug!? (from an idea of: passing parameters in a send call)

your use of stripping the returns from base64Encode is clever. I thought of that but wasn't sure how much one could mess with the format once encoded. However URLEncoding is great for one-line-packing HTML snippets in scripts, which otherwise would require extra steps with base64Encode. In

Art-tools?

Digging around in my directories I found FreeGUI, and not having looked at it for about 2 years, I had a look! Have produced a port of a stack originally called easel.mc - it is a bit clunky (the original stack - all my port does is make sure that under RR it will load as a palette) - never

Re: video at the conference?

Well, of course it would be better to do it right than to do it wrong. I just don't see anybody stepping up to the plate to do it right. Judy On Tue, 23 May 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: I'd rather see reasonable lighting and a microphone at least on the podium before worrying about

Re: video at the conference?

That's my point - it shouldn't be an afterthought that requires any participant of the conference to be stepping up to the plate as a volunteer. Running a camera is a full time activity that should be done by someone who does it a lot. I'm quite talented with audio and video and could do this

Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

Has anybody developed a tool - and to what extent is this possible - for viewing the size of objects in Rev stacks? It would be dandy if the application browser could reveal this information in a column. Do any of the alternative IDE or browsers (MetaCard, Constellation, ...) give access to

Re: 2.7.1 annoying window thing

Le 23 mai 06, à 09:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Has anyone noticed this? I have a window, not a pallet, but it's decoration is set to minimize and close box. Now in 2.7.1, other stacks open up _behind_ this window-- even the answer dialogue! I was able to overcome regular stacks opening

Re: How Do I Preposition A Modal Stack

On 5/23/06 10:37 AM, Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What must I do to open a modal stack at a specific (non-centered) position? Yes, modal windows automatically center themselves over the topmost non-modal window. Here's what I do: set the style of stack MyModal to toplevel set the

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

Ben- Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 10:33:57 AM, you wrote: it transparent or cryptic? Is there a published description anywhere? (Also, does anyone know what RunRev's attitude is to poking around - are they relaxed, or likely to reach for the DCMA?) See the new 2.7 license agreement. My reading

Recreating Deleted Field Crashes Rev v2.7.1 on WinXP

All, This has happened twice in a row; so as I wait for my TPC to reboot I'm inquiring whether anyone can duplicate it: 1. Open a stack 2. Select and delete a field 3. Save stack without closing 4. Create a new field 5. In the field's basic properties, set the name to the name of the deleted

S-L-O-W text entry

Hi group, Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a crawl. I remedy this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid it? I'm on Mac osx. Joe Orlando

Re: Implementation of a database

Hi Paul Thanks for the information. My project is still very much in the planning stage as yet so I can still afford to implement either method. Best wishes Ian McKnight On 23/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian, We have card-style databases with over 70,000 records. These

Re: Recreating Deleted Field Crashes Rev v2.7.1 on WinXP

Moi: 5. In the field's basic properties, set the name to the name of the deleted field...Rev hangs up for me here. Did it again...I'm trying to see/set tabstops in Table Properties. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a

Re: How Do I Preposition A Modal Stack

Hi Ken, Yes, modal windows automatically center themselves over the topmost non-modal window. Here's what I do: That's one for my Saved Tips list. But my problem turned out to be a blessing in disguise: modeless lets the user close the dialog without entering anything if they opened it by

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements

Ben Rubinstein wrote: Has anybody developed a tool - and to what extent is this possible - for viewing the size of objects in Rev stacks? I have some tools in the works which provide a wide range of project metrics, but they focus mostly on code (number of lines, calls in/out, complexity

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

On May 23, 2006, at 18:33:57 +0100, Ben Rubinstein wrote: The kind of thing I'd like in an ideal world is something that would be able to tell me the number of bytes in an (uncompressed, unencrypted) stack file taken up by an object and then make it possible to drill down. So a stack

Re: incomprehensible bug!? (from an idea of: passing parameters in a send call)

On May 23, 2006, at 9:28 AM, iMed Edition (AF) wrote: Who can understand why the test1() function will return TRUE and test2() FALSE with the script below? Yup. Looks like a bug and a serious one. Unless I'm not seeing something. I checked this out on OS X 10.4.6 with 2.7.1 within

revGoURL and Firefox and Windows

Has anyone had problems with this combination? I have an app that calls revGoURL to open a local html file on the user's hard drive. I have checked to make sure the path to the file is correct, but Firefox does not open the file. Firefox does not open at all. If I change my default browser

Re: video at the conference?

On May 23, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I'd rather see reasonable lighting and a microphone at least on the podium before worrying about obfuscating bad video with clever editing. A full time camera operator that is not a participant is essential. Amateurs usually don't

userspace

Hi all, I have a stack, some kind of outliner, which I would like to donate to this community. Of course my userspace would seem logical, but I would like to know how many people download it (if there is a lot of interest it might stimulate me to document the code more and to prune the code.

Re: userspace

Hi Claudi, I would upload a demo stack to RevOnline, with a button that gives easy access to your web site. From there, people could download whatever they like and you can keep track of download statistics. That way, people might get interested in your other work as well. Best, Mark

Re: S-L-O-W text entry

Hi group, Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a crawl. I remedy this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid it? I'm on Mac osx. Joe Orlando I get that too.

Re: S-L-O-W text entry

Timothy Miller wrote: Hi group, Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a crawl. I remedy this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid it? I'm on Mac osx. Joe

Re: S-L-O-W text entry

One cause for typing to slow down is an infinite loop that is sending more and more and more messages to the pending msgs queue. CPU gets eaten alive. This may not be your problem, but good to check: pendingMessages() in the msg box... if you re getting back 100's of lines... watch out.

Re: xslt transform

Confirmed, this works wonders. On May 22, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Todd, if you're on MacOS X then you can use the shell. MacOS X comes with xsltproc which is a command line tool to do xslt transformations! ___ use-revolution

Re: S-L-O-W text entry

I have a Mac single processor 867mhz G4 and pasting text into anything is really slow - be it into a field or the script editor. Marty Knapp One cause for typing to slow down is an infinite loop that is sending more and more and more messages to the pending msgs queue. CPU gets eaten alive.

Re: date anomalies when converting to seconds

On 5/23/06, Chris Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I owe you an apology. You were correct. This problem is tied to daylight savings. I realized that after taking your advice and looking at the list archives. Fortunately, with some suggestions and code from Sarah Reichelt, I was able to

Re: S-L-O-W text entry

On 5/24/06, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I just happened to think, maybe it has something to do with text antialiasing. Has anyone experimented with that system preference? Does changing it make a difference? I don't see it either* although my machine is twice as fast as

libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll

Rev 2.6.1 Studio / OS X Greetings, Working on the same program here for months now, but tonight all of a sudden when I compile a Windows exe from OS X, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll are now showing up in the output folder. I didn't add any new code, just moved a couple of lines of code down

Re: date anomalies when converting to seconds

On 5/24/06, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it seems unlikely that I will get what I want, I am gradually starting to use my own numeric dateTime format and conversion routines: MMDD, HHMMSS or the 2 combined. As well as being totally numeric which is great for sorting, they

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

On 5/23/06 10:33 AM, Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions, pointers, tools, warnings, etc gratefully received. When I want to find out how big an object is, I copy it, create a new stack, save it, paste into the new stack, save as some other name, and compare the file sizes.