List of possible abbreviations (was: Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts)

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, I followed this thread and I'll not tell you which abbreviations I use ;-) But some of you might find useful to know them since there is no summary in the docs: abbreviated: abbrev background: bkgnd, bg - backgrounds: bkgnds, bgs backgroundColor: backColor (and also backPattern,

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/15/06 8:58 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think that newbies should be exposed to all forms of Revolution programming so that they can make their own decisions on how they want to code. I am of two minds about this (beyond the passive should be and the notion

revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Hi all, Can I use RunRev to create an audio file of a text, using the system's speech synthesiser? Terry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Substitute Message Boxes

2006-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded version -- MessengerANDerrors.rev.zip --- that pushes errors into a field http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondsrrr/files/ sincerely, Richmond Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity

shortcut problems

2006-10-16 Thread Henk van der Velden
Good day all, One of our apps is installed on a school's local network. The sys admin has created shortcuts to the program on the desktops of all the computers. Double clicking the shortcut will start the program, but the program can't find other stacks it should open. The program

revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Terry, Poking around on my Mac I found the follwoing Apple-Script command: say this_string using default_voice saving to target_file so, presumably what you want shoud be possible (at least on a Mac) - but whether revSpeak connects with this I don't know. sincerely Richmond Mathewson

Re: shortcut problems

2006-10-16 Thread Klaus Major
Dag Henk, Good day all, One of our apps is installed on a school's local network. The sys admin has created shortcuts to the program on the desktops of all the computers. Double clicking the shortcut will start the program, but the program can't find other stacks it should open. The

Re: shortcut problems

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Beste Henk, You can force the standalone to look into its own folder: on mouseUp set the itemDel to slash set the defaultfolder to (item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack) go stack Your Stack end mouseUp On Mac OS X you might need to set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -5

Re: shortcut problems

2006-10-16 Thread Dave Cragg
On 16 Oct 2006, at 10:47, Henk van der Velden wrote: We did some testing. It turns out that the program sometimes thinks the defaultURL is the URL of the desktop where the shortcut is located (C:/Documents and Settings/carels/Bureaublad) instead of the folder where the program is located

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, Hi friends, does anybody had success with the revVideoGrabber in 2.7.4? QuickTime 7.1.3 on Mac and PC. Tried with the demo stack Video Captur.rev in Sample projects on my Mac and PC and almost nothing worked... :-/ ... # PC: Using

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Richmond, thanks for that little applescript... Cheers andre On Oct 16, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Terry, Poking around on my Mac I found the follwoing Apple-Script command: say this_string using default_voice saving to target_file so, presumably what you want shoud be

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Dom
Terry Vogelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use RunRev to create an audio file of a text, using the system's speech synthesiser? see my other message: you can easily encapsulate a Terminal command into a button ;-) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Dom
Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poking around on my Mac I found the follwoing Apple-Script command: and I found this one, to write down in the Terminal.app: $ say -o mail.aiff You got Mail\! I am not exactly a Terminal Geek, but I am using... Revolution to exert some tedious

revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Some sound capture programs for Mac manage to pick up the sound sent to the internal speakers - e.g. the program I use for saving non-downloadable media streams (cough, cough, cough) - if one looks up 'recordInput' in the documentation the one source that is signally lacking is that one . . .

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dar wrote: (One time Richard and Ken gave a talk on style and I threw food at them, telling them to keep their morals out of my code. In reality, they were not forcing anything and I was feeling guilty of neglecting a clear style, and was irate because of that guilt. So, I just threw candy,

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Ian Wood
If you are using that AppleScript to record text to an audio file then revSpeak isn't involved at all, and neither are the different audio sources - it's a 'pure' AppleScript action with nothing else involved. Ian On 16 Oct 2006, at 10:53, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Terry, Poking around

Re: RevDB and 2.7.4 on on OS 10.2.8?

2006-10-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 15, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Trevor I've been discussing it with Chris from Altuit because I thought it was altSqlite only but it seems this is not the case. I sure hope it gets fixed fast. I tried connecting to a SQLite database using the demo stack as well as

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Klaus Major wrote: C'mon! Noone ever tried the Video Grabber on a PC??? I haven't but I have looked into it a bit. Be aware that using video capture with QuickTime on Windows is not fun. Very few (if any?) cameras will work with QuickTime on Windows. One

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Trevor, On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Klaus Major wrote: C'mon! Noone ever tried the Video Grabber on a PC??? I haven't but I have looked into it a bit. Be aware that using video capture with QuickTime on Windows is not fun. Ha, the understatement of the year :-D Actually it

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Fortunately I am on a Mac, so this fits the need perfectly and I don't really need revSpeak in this case. I'd like to thank all of you who responded. Terry On 16 Oct 2006, at 10:53, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Terry, Poking around on my Mac I found the follwoing Apple-Script command: say

turning text into sound files on a Mac

2006-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
These are free: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/textreader/ http://books2burn.sourceforge.net/ and they work! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Miller
Klaus, We have no problem using VideoGrabber under Windows XP. It's a basic component of our program. All aspects of it work perfectly. Quicktime works fine. Vdig is not necessary. Files need to be saved as .avi's... NOT .mov's on a PC. We use Unibrain firewire cameras

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Sunday, October 15, 2006, 2:18:33 PM, you wrote: Oh, and here is one Andre might understand, cd looks like cdr to me, an abbreviation for first. It gets typed cud or fcd or cdar when I'm typing fast. (I suspect there is a lot of sloshing from one neuron to another in my brain or

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Sunday, October 15, 2006, 2:18:33 PM, you wrote: Both! My birth certificate says Darwin and I use that in formal signatures. I have friends in the wonderful town of Darwin in the Pannamint mountains above Death Valley. One of 'em went into Bakersfield to the hospital to get a checkup.

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/16/06 11:09 AM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many times when I wish I could define funciton as an alias for function... Yeah, and windwo as an alias for window... ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Klaus, We have no problem using VideoGrabber under Windows XP. It's a basic component of our program. All aspects of it work perfectly. aha, good to know. Quicktime works fine. Hm, as I said, REV crahes every time when I try to get the revvideograbdialog dialog with QT on

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Coincidentally (or maybe not), this morning I noticed that the Ig Nobel Prize awards were announced last week and one of the winners is Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly...

Re: RevDB and 2.7.4 on on OS 10.2.8?

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Monday, October 16, 2006, 7:34:51 AM, you wrote: I tried connecting to a SQLite database using the demo stack as well as a local MySQL database using the Query Builder. Neither one worked on 10.2.8. When I tried the same MySQL connection settings on 10.4 in the Query Builder it

Re: RevDB and 2.7.4 on on OS 10.2.8?

2006-10-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: It's documented: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altSQLiteSub/KnownIssues.htm I wonder if that reason is still valid. I was actually testing this out after discussing the issue with Chris at Altuit who had expected it to work. There

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-16 Thread David Bovill
Isn't this thread ending up at the solution I posted earlier - ie there are now robust cross platform AJAX libraries for this sort of thing - they look great and they work: Take a look at lightbox: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ ___

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 16, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Richard Miller wrote: We have no problem using VideoGrabber under Windows XP. It's a basic component of our program. All aspects of it work perfectly. Quicktime works fine. Vdig is not necessary. Files need to be saved as .avi's... NOT .mov's on a PC. We use

Re: Porter-Duff demo stack

2006-10-16 Thread David Bovill
Stack may have porter-duffed? Could you put it back up somewhere? On 12/10/06, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Did I say that this stack does not have the workaround for the ink clipping? No I dont think you did. You mean there is a bug in the RunRev implementation of the new ink

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Miller
Trevor, Agreed. It would be problematic to expect that Rev's videograbber function will work with most video cameras. I would find it important to test any possible camera first. And yes about VDIG. I simply meant that, at least with the Unibrain cameras, it's not necessary to install

Re: storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-16 Thread Shao Sean
Let's start with your code from the first example: put '*bURL (binfile:it)' into tRowData You're putting extra single quotes around your data, you probably shouldn't.. What ends up happening is you move the *b code from char 1-2 to char 2-3 and the RevDB code won't see it.. put *b

Re: Resizestack: sending and passing problem

2006-10-16 Thread David Bovill
Appologies to everyone and thanks for your replies - I cannot duplicate the errors i was getting last week. I have utterly no idea why i was getting these errors back then! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: How about an E-Sellerate plug-in?

2006-10-16 Thread David Bovill
No - but certainly thiking about it :) I'll work on it with you if you have the inclination? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

turning text into sound with MS Windows

2006-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.shareup.com/Visual_Text_To_Speech_MP3-download-5575.html 30 day trial and then about $25 http://www.naturalreaders.com/ Free version sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to

Re: RevDB and 2.7.4 on on OS 10.2.8?

2006-10-16 Thread chris bohnert
Mark, The issue is a more general error getting revdb to work in 10.2.8. Trevor had trouble with querybuilder settings for mysql that worked in 10.4 not working in 10.2.8. I've had other mixed reports of mysql and altsqlite not working in 10.2.8..but at this point its getting fairly difficult

enable flash

2006-10-16 Thread Henk van der Velden
Good day, From QuickTime 7.1.3 on Flash playback is an option, and it's default is off. Is there any way to change this to 'on' programmatically? Kind regards, Henk -- Henk v.d. Velden iGlow Media Magda Janssenslaan 36 3584 GR UTRECHT Netherlands 0031 (0)6 16 024

Re: revSpeak to audio file?

2006-10-16 Thread Stephen Barncard
An app called Audio Hijack pro ($ mac only) comes with an extension called Soundflower that can make available other audio sources in the main source selector of other apps (untested with Rev but should work). http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/ It replaces the free but unsupported DETOUR,

Re: storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-16 Thread Christian Langers
Sorry to bother you again, but .. it does not do the job... same reactions --SQLite throws error message : syntax or unrecognized token It's perhaps a bug ? Christian Le 16 oct. 06 à 19:46, Shao Sean a écrit : Let's start with your code from the first example: put '*bURL

IDE gone unstable with stack menu change

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have been happily developing a stack with menus. To make life simpler with the IDE I didn't have them Set as menubar on Mac OS in the Menu Builder dialog box. This put the stack menus on the screen but left the IDE menus available for me to use and has worked great up to now. I'm about

Re: storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-16 Thread chris bohnert
Christian, The revdb documentation is not very clear on this, but when trying to activate the blob encoding your code should look like the following: put *b URL(binfile: it) into tRowData put INSERT INTO Fotos(FotoID,FotoData) VALUES(null,:1) into tSQL put revdb_execute(gConID,tSQL,

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Jerry Daniels
So, you use an abbreviation for you own name. cd -- it's just a script away (Jagger Richards). Best, Jerry Daniels Makers of Galaxy http://www.daniels-mara.com Voice: 512.879.6286 Skype: jerry.daniels On Oct 15, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Jerry

Re: IDE gone unstable with stack menu change

2006-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Vlahos wrote: I'm about finished with the stack so I checked the box then all hell broke loose. 1. Everything shifted up when the menus were removed. I sort of expected this and thought that I could simply move everything down appropriately and get on with life. (BTW it would be nice

Re: IDE gone unstable with stack menu change

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Sheffield
Bill, One trick I've learned that keeps the other controls from shifting up is to hide your menu group first, and then set as menubar on Mac OS. Of course, if this app has to run on Windows as well, you'll have to show the menu group via your code if the platform is Win32. Otherwise, no

Re: enable flash

2006-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/16/06 2:13 PM, Henk van der Velden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day, From QuickTime 7.1.3 on Flash playback is an option, and it's default is off. Is there any way to change this to 'on' programmatically? Well, there *is*, but I haven't taken the time to look at it... the setting

RE: msql insert new record

2006-10-16 Thread Robert Mann
To use the following INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2,...) VALUES (value1, value2,) what would be the proper why to write this? get fcomp get it ,record_id get it ,tunerlogin_id get it ,freb put it into colnames getfld fcomp get it ,fld newrecord_id

Re: IDE gone unstable with stack menu change

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thanks to Jacqueline and Chris. They both gave me clues. What I did to fix it was simply delete the menu group entirely. When you do that Rev asks if you want to move everything back up and delete the objects. I said no and it didn't move anything but it did delete the menus. I don't know

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:16 AM -0500 10/16/2006, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/16/06 11:09 AM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many times when I wish I could define funciton as an alias for function... Yeah, and windwo as an alias for window... ...and let us not forget the ever-popular teh... ;-) --

Re: MS SQL Connectivity ?

2006-10-16 Thread Cat Kutay
Dave not sure htis helps, but the steps i use for mysql are: 1.Put the sql file my.ini in c:\windows directory so that is the system default for sql access parameters For instance if mysql is running on port 3306 this needs to be set in this file 2.In sql configuration, set root to remote

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Smith
And this also demonstrates one of the reasons I use the abbreviations that I do : my pet typo was always 'crad', whereas even I find it hard to misspell 'cd' ! Best, Mark On 17 Oct 2006, at 03:35, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 11:16 AM -0500 10/16/2006, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/16/06 11:09

CGI - OS X problem

2006-10-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I'm just getting started with CGI under OS X. Many thanks to Jacque for the wonderful tutorial which has got me a long way. Now I have a problem because my cgi script has to access a folder in the Documents folder of the computer running the script. When testing the Rev stack, I had no

Re: CGI - OS X problem

2006-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/17/06 12:18 AM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm just getting started with CGI under OS X. Many thanks to Jacque for the wonderful tutorial which has got me a long way. Now I have a problem because my cgi script has to access a folder in the Documents folder of

Re: CGI - OS X problem

2006-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Sarah, CGIs will run as a special user, not the logged user, usualy they will run as nobody/nobody. This is a secure measure. You can try to trap for the shell command known as who with get shell(who) this will echo que current logged users. The current user in the GUI session will be

Re: Porter-Duff demo stack

2006-10-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:38 AM, David Bovill wrote: Stack may have porter-duffed? Could you put it back up somewhere? Right now you have to 'go url...' as described earlier and then save the file if it looks interesting. The stack should still be there and I hope unmolested. The demo