Write To Process

2006-08-11 Thread Bridger Maxwell
Hey, I want to develop an external using C++ to use with Revolution. My plan is to communicate with it using the "write to process" and "read from process" commands. Does anybody know how to intercept the data sent to an external using the write to process, or to send data so it can be read usi

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Like Richard, I really like the way Rev allows you to have separate names & labels, so that labels can be changed to suit customer preferences, languages or what ever you like, while keeping the name the same so all your scripts still work.

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 8/12/06, Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this a programmer-thing? I ask because I have a devil of a time convincing my students to *name* their objects. They end up having problems and it's VERY frustrating... Judy, apart from the ID problem, it's a matter of practicality. If your

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
Is this a programmer-thing? I ask because I have a devil of a time convincing my students to *name* their objects. They end up having problems and it's VERY frustrating... Judy On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Robert Sneidar wrote: > Since the days of Hypercard, I have known that using ID's to > reference

RE: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language than Transcript?

2006-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
Wasn't it OpenScript?? My memory may be bad... Judy On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: > After Director's Lingo, Flash's ActionScript, ToolBook's OpenTalk, ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Character length limit in fields - Part Duex!

2006-08-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 11, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: Thanks Dar for at least trying to figure that one out. I have never had the need for a line of text that's 32,000 or 65,000 or whatever, so maybe setting up my own code to limit lines to say 1024 or 2048 should be fine for me. I'm seei

Re: How to save as a 'Legacy Revolution Stack'

2006-08-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 8/12/06, Joel Guillod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I force to save as a 'Legacy Revolution Stack' with the save command, i.e. without passing by the save dialog? Set the stackFileVersion. It is 2.7 for modern stacks and 2.4 for legacy stacks. And how to know if the saved format is 'L

Re: Character length limit in fields - Part Duex!

2006-08-11 Thread Garrett Hylltun
On Aug 11, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: I am using "Lucida Grande Typewriter" as the font at size "12" I'm trying to make a simple text editor that uses monospaced only fonts, with a character grid/guide so I know at what characte

Re: Err... Revolution 2.7.3 on mac intel crashing with HTTPS?!

2006-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
eheheh I was going to ship a software today, now, I am not... On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:45 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: put url "https://www.blogger.com/atom"; in the message box, crashes everything... Ah, yes, the atom bomb. _

Re: Err... Revolution 2.7.3 on mac intel crashing with HTTPS?!

2006-08-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: put url "https://www.blogger.com/atom"; in the message box, crashes everything... Ah, yes, the atom bomb. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Err... Revolution 2.7.3 on mac intel crashing with HTTPS?!

2006-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, can anyone confirm that Rev 2.7.3 is crashing on intel in every attempt to retrieve a secure URL such as https://www.blogger.com/atom a simple: put url "https://www.blogger.com/atom"; in the message box, crashes everything... :-( Sad Cheers andre ___

Re: Character length limit in fields - Part Duex!

2006-08-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: I am using "Lucida Grande Typewriter" as the font at size "12" I'm trying to make a simple text editor that uses monospaced only fonts, with a character grid/guide so I know at what character position I am at when typing text. I suspec

Character length limit in fields - Part Duex!

2006-08-11 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Rev 2.6.1 / Mac OS X Greetings, Recently I asked about the text width limit in characters of a field. It seems that 65,536 characters is the limit, but there are definitely some issues with stuffing that much on one line of a field. I am using "Lucida Grande Typewriter" as the font at siz

[ANN] Simple De-Zipper Stack

2006-08-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hello everybody I made a test stack with the new zip capabilities, and i found out several things: -It doesn't handle folders by itself, so you have to create folder hierarchies instead of just decompressing them. -It does mangle permissions, namely the execute bit of an executable within a .a

How to save as a 'Legacy Revolution Stack'

2006-08-11 Thread Joel Guillod
How can I force to save as a 'Legacy Revolution Stack' with the save command, i.e. without passing by the save dialog? And how to know if the saved format is 'Legacy Revolution Stack' or 'Revolution Stack'? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolut

Re: RichText Implementation

2006-08-11 Thread Dan Shafer
No apologies needed, Jan. No harm done. I had not for a long while been able to understand -- though I admit to not having spent a huge amount of time investigating either -- why RR or someone doesn't incorporate an external that would give us a fully formattable text object. There are a lot of s

Re: Windows standalone application to foreground upon un-minimizing?

2006-08-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jon, If you search the archives, you will find a visual basic script that does what you need. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Download ErrorLib at http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html and get full

Windows standalone application to foreground upon un-minimizing?

2006-08-11 Thread Jon Seymour
Hello, When I minimize a standalone application for Win32 made with Rev, then click its button in the "task bar" at the bottom of the screen, my application's window is drawn behind other apps that are currently open. I've never observed this behavior before with mainstream Windows apps a

Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language thanTranscript?

2006-08-11 Thread David Bovill
Yes - I prefer Transcript as a term. I am surprised there is not more on this issue - it seems dead on the internet. Plain english programming. I find it one of the main reasons I still use Rev - and since the great work Jerry has done with Constellation - now Galaxy - well it really hits you in

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Naming objects are definitely the way to go. (IMHO) It is odd that the only the group ID's would change. Take a look whether the layers of your groups or their objects had changed! I ran into that sort of difficulty a couple of years ago and found it very annoying to have to reestablish

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Ooops. I didn't read thoroughly. If the other object IDs don't change, it is moot. It is odd that the only the group ID's would change. At 01:47 PM 8/11/2006, you wrote: Do those graphics ID's change with a clone or do they remain the same? If they remain the same then for the sake of this d

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Claudi Cornaz
I did some further testing and it turns out like this: All objects (at least the ones I tested and I did most) don't change id when the stack is cloned. That is all controls that are not part of a grp! The id of all outermost grps don't change but the id's of ALL controls in a grp will change

Re: Strange artifacts everywhere in MacOSX

2006-08-11 Thread Todd Higgins
Hi Stephen, I don't think it has anything to do with Rev. You have VoiceOver enabled on your computer: System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Voiceover Off (or hit Apple +F5) I you listen carefully, your computer is talking to you. Regards, Todd On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Steph

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Robert Sneidar
Do those graphics ID's change with a clone or do they remain the same? If they remain the same then for the sake of this discussion the point is moot. The original discussion was about how group ID's change, but other object ID's do not. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chape

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Sneidar wrote: Since the days of Hypercard, I have known that using ID's to reference objects was sketchy at best. As a matter of good programming practice, you should keep track of all your variables and object names so there is no inadvertent duplication to bite you in the butt l

Strange artifacts everywhere in MacOSX

2006-08-11 Thread Stephen Barncard
I'm not blaming Rev, or Galaxy or anything yet, however after updating everything -- Rev 2.7.3, Galaxy Studio, I started getting strange window and selection artifacts in every application on the Mac... This is a systemwide problem. Note the strange black outlines of different shapes around t

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Peter T. Evensen
But then you get into issues where buttons have graphics referenced by IDs. The only way around this is to reassign the icon IDs at some point. At 01:19 PM 8/11/2006, you wrote: Since the days of Hypercard, I have known that using ID's to reference objects was sketchy at best. As a matter of

Re: Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Robert Sneidar
Since the days of Hypercard, I have known that using ID's to reference objects was sketchy at best. As a matter of good programming practice, you should keep track of all your variables and object names so there is no inadvertent duplication to bite you in the butt later. If nothing else, u

RE: RichText Implementation

2006-08-11 Thread Jan Sælid
Dan- I'm really sorry to let this out. I didn't know that is was under non-disclosure. Well, actually, if I had used my mind, buy I guess the news made me no think and only hope for a solution. At least I know I'm not the only one with this problem. That always help a little. I have wished for this

RE: Revolution 2.7.3 released, support for U3

2006-08-11 Thread Jim Lambert
Heather, Kevin, & the entire Rev Team, Congratulations and thank you for your hard work in publishing this new release. Jim Lambert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and mana

Re: RichText Implementation

2006-08-11 Thread Dan Shafer
Jan... The only official word on future release features at RevCon came from CEO Kevin Miller under non-disclosure. Obviously, we're not at liberty to discuss any of that information here. I can say that there was a lot of scuttlebutt at the show about this very topic and that I will be quite

Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language thanTranscript?

2006-08-11 Thread Bill Marriott
I wouldn't mind so much if they wanted to call it "RevTalk" or something else. But making the scripting language name identical to the whole product is not something I can say is prudent, just out of sake of clarity/precision. Dan Shafer wrote > And, to answer your opening question, Runtime Rev

Re: Export PNG weirdness

2006-08-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Chris Carroll-Davis wrote: All the fields are opaque. If I switch this field to non-opaque... it works fine... or if I export as JPEG it works fine! Can you export to a field as JPEG and then export the field as PNG? Maybe therein lies a workaround. So your

Why do group ID's change when cloning a stack

2006-08-11 Thread Claudi Cornaz
Hi all, By accident I just discovered that group ID's change when you clone a stack. This can be very annoying when you work with tmplt stacks which you clone to use as, lets say a document or a viewer. I just did some testing, but button id's don't seem to change. Neither the id's of fields.

Re: Revolution 2.7.3 released, support for U3

2006-08-11 Thread Dominique Bodin
On the site there are two release to download, wich one actual users do have to download ? (the one with U3 written or the other ?) Thank's Dominique On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:58:00 +0200, Heather Nagey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list folk, I am delighted to announce that Revolution for

Export PNG weirdness

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Hello everyone. Can anybody help with this ... I am exporting PNGs from fields, using this syntax: export snapshot from field fname to file imgPath as PNG This works just fine on about 30 or so fields, but when I come to one particular field it fails with error message: export: can't

Revolution 2.7.3 released, support for U3

2006-08-11 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear list folk, I am delighted to announce that Revolution for U3 is now available and to give you good folks advance notice about a special offer. 2.7.3 now has support for building applications on and for U3, the future looking system for running seamlessly from a flash drive, download

Re: SuperCard Project to Rev

2006-08-11 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, Thanks Mark, I've decided to work thru a simple project, rather than try to convert all my SuperCard code . This way I can take it slow and learn as I go, and then go back and make the changes to my SuoerCard stack. I have created a mainstack with one field and an "Open Palette" bu

Re: SuperCard Project to Rev

2006-08-11 Thread John Baxter
Thanks Mark, I've decided to work thru a simple project, rather than try to convert all my SuperCard code . This way I can take it slow and learn as I go, and then go back and make the changes to my SuoerCard stack. I have created a mainstack with one field and an "Open Palette" button. I have cre

RE: RichText Implementation

2006-08-11 Thread Jan Sælid
Hi again I received a private mail from a user of this list who told me that someone at RevCon said that revolution 2.8 will offer individual paragraph formatting. Anyone heard anything about this? If it takes too long time I have decided to do it the hard way. The best solution I can think o