When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I made a jolly little stack (on a Mac computer), Family.rev, to test my kids' knowledge of word such as aunt, uncle, cousin and so on. It is available on RevOnline: Family Words So, took it downstairs and popped it on my Linux boxes and . . . dull thud! an important part of the functionality

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Marriott
FWIW, it seems to work as intended on Windows. Now, what exactly happens on Linux? And which flavor of Linux? I looked at the script of your stack... you really like the brute force approach to programming, it seems! I can't quite figure out what it all does or how... maybe you could run the

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Marriott
Followup: Are you running this on Linux as a standalone? I bet you are, because the stack doesn't work on Windows or Mac as a standalone, either. You're running into the 10-statement runtime limitation with that do field 'fSum' business. Easy way to fix that: put 0 into fld SSS repeat with i

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread John Craig
Works fine on Suse Linux 10 and Rev 2.6.1 - after I reread your mail and actually played it properly and clicked the check marks! You're a lot younger than I imagined you - that picture IS up to date, isn't it?? JC Richmond Mathewson wrote: I made a jolly little stack (on a Mac computer),

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread John Craig
OK - so I had to read your email one more time - ignore picture remark! John Craig wrote: Works fine on Suse Linux 10 and Rev 2.6.1 - after I reread your mail and actually played it properly and clicked the check marks! You're a lot younger than I imagined you - that picture IS up to date,

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread John Craig
Didn't work as standalone on Suse either. Bill Marriott wrote: Followup: Are you running this on Linux as a standalone? I bet you are, because the stack doesn't work on Windows or Mac as a standalone, either. You're running into the 10-statement runtime limitation with that do field 'fSum'

libURLSetStatusCallback

2006-11-09 Thread jhonken
Dave, Thanks that works great. I'm still not understanding how the libUrlSetStatusCallback works. I've been reading the docs and I keep getting an error with the following test code: libURLSetStatusCallback myProgress,the long ID of me go stack URL http://www.x12help.com/mystack.rev; in a

cscreen shell command

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Adams
Hi, Would somebody be kind enough to send me a copy of cscreen. Apparently, the authors site is down for an indefinite period of time. Thanks in advance, Jon -- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: libURLSetStatusCallback

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Cragg
On 9 Nov 2006, at 14:55, jhonken wrote: Dave, Thanks that works great. I'm still not understanding how the libUrlSetStatusCallback works. I've been reading the docs and I keep getting an error with the following test code: libURLSetStatusCallback myProgress,the long ID of me go stack URL

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay, Isn't there a simpler recipe...like open up BBEdit, select text, copy, then paste into fld text? Frankly, I'm not sure I even understand where the bug lies, the failure to copy the text by Rev, or the failure of Automator to put the text on the clipboard in a timely matter? If I were you,

Rev CGI, Linux, MySQL, invalid database type

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi I'm getting the often mentioned invalid database type when connecting to a MySQL server from a Rev CGI on Linux. I've done this successfully before, but not on this server. So I'm wondering what I've forgotten or overlooked. The CGI setup is fine. Non-database CGIs work. The Rev

Re: cscreen shell command

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: Rev CGI, Linux, MySQL, invalid database type

2006-11-09 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Hi Dave, try executing in mySQL admin before connecting to the database: SET PASSWORD FOR 'user'@'host'=OLD_PASSWORD('password'); hint source: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/data004.htm Viktoras ---Original Message--- From: Dave Cragg Date: 11/09/06

Re: Rev CGI, Linux, MySQL, invalid database type

2006-11-09 Thread chris bohnert
Hi Dave, You might try: chmod 774 dbmysql.so and failing that chown apache:apache dbmysql.so (assuming your cgis run as apache) and then tweak back to the appropriate level of security for your instance. -- cb On 11/9/06, Viktoras Didziulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, try

RE: libURLSetStatusCallback

2006-11-09 Thread jhonken
Dave, Again that worked great. I'm going to try to feed it into a progress bar next. Jeff -Original Message- From: Dave Cragg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:53 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: libURLSetStatusCallback On 9 Nov 2006, at

Re: Newbie information and list attitude

2006-11-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
Welcome, Francis! Old hand newbies, newbie old hands, old hand old hands and newbie newbies are all welcome with their contributions that enrich everyone's experience. No one knows everything, we all have our own areas of uncertainty, and every question, every answer, every comment is a

Thanks to all the non-native English speakers

2006-11-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
It occured to me that credit should be given to all those whose mother tongue is not English for writing here. It is hard enough to write in a foreign language, but all you guys and gals have to do it in a 'technical' way as well. The time needed to transfer your thoughts into English

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-11-09 Thread Dave
On 7 Nov 2006, at 18:39, Marielle Lange wrote: Luis wrote in response to Jacque: And, when elaborating a point for which you have no control is an especially telling consequence of an inability to be forthcoming with the facts. Just a thought. The above is a weak and wordy way of calling

When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank all of you for the help. Although, I have to say that my favourite bit was the picture comment :) That photograph was a random kiddo I pulled off the net - most of my pupils are aged between 6 and 10 years old and don't want a photo of the 44 year-old goat spoiling their learning

re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Am I to take it that standalones - however they are built (!!!) - have constraints placed upon them that are not placed, for example, on stacks running with a stack runner variant? You can test it for yourself by just having a standalone/player execute this: answer the scriptLimits

Re: Thanks to all the non-native English speakers

2006-11-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
If one looks at the frappr map, it looks like about half of the users might be non-native English speakers (I know the map is only the tip of the ice-berg - I'm not even on it myself): http://www.frappr.com/runtimerevolution (to get the map to display in Firefox I find I have to go and

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Jim Ault
On 11/8/06 11:47 PM, Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The occasional failure of the IDE to paste the contents of the clipboard. This has been discussed before on this list, probably about a year ago. Don't know if there is a Bugzilla or not. Yes, the clipboardData is not 100% reliable. I did

Re: Rev CGI, Linux, MySQL, invalid database type

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Cragg
Thanks Viktoras, Chris It seems I had the wrong Linux engine and driver combination. I re- uploaded the CGI engine for Rev 2.5 and the driver from the Rev 2.5 regular package and it runs now. On 9 Nov 2006, at 16:24, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: try executing in mySQL admin before connecting

Re: When my relatives moved to Linux

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
Am I to take it that standalones - however they are built (!!!) - have constraints placed upon them that are not placed, for example, on stacks running with a stack runner variant? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Yes, any standalone including running under player or stackrunner.

Group margin

2006-11-09 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Is there a way to adjust the group? I have some grouped controls and I made the width of the group smaller than the width of the items and added a horizontal scroll bar. The problem is that there is a several pixels margin on the left and right, so that the scroll bar is wider than it needs

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/9/06, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a simpler recipe...like open up BBEdit, select text, copy, then paste into fld text? Yes, that works perfectly well, and I've long since discovered my own workarounds, but I guess I failed to express my point clearly. Not the first

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/9/06, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a simpler recipe...like open up BBEdit, select text, copy, then paste into fld text? Sorry, I didn't even make that clear:-( As a recipe for showing the bug, no, what you propose does not do it. Or doesn't do it frequently. I do

Unselect

2006-11-09 Thread Hershel Fisch
Hi all, How do I unselect a hilitedLine in a list fld (lock text = true focusable= false) ? TIA Hershel ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Unselect

2006-11-09 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 11/10/06, Hershel Fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How do I unselect a hilitedLine in a list fld (lock text = true focusable= false) ? set the hilitedLines of fld Whatever to empty HTH, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: On 11/9/06, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a simpler recipe...like open up BBEdit, select text, copy, then paste into fld text? Sorry, I didn't even make that clear:-( As a recipe for showing the bug, no, what you propose does not do it. Or doesn't do

Re: Group margin

2006-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter T. Evensen wrote: Is there a way to adjust the group? I have some grouped controls and I made the width of the group smaller than the width of the items and added a horizontal scroll bar. The problem is that there is a several pixels margin on the left and right, so that the scroll bar

Re: Group margin

2006-11-09 Thread Martin Blackman
I was under the impression that groups had a 4 pixel 'moat' and there was little one could do about it..but use of the margins property, now thats an idea ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay, Can you paste via the menu? If so, then I imagine there is a problem with the key shortcut, which would be an IDE bug and you could create a frontscript plugin to override (if you really had to have this functionality now). If you cannot paste via the menu, then perhaps you can put in the

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chipp Walters wrote: If you cannot paste via the menu, then perhaps you can put in the msg box: put the clipboarddata[text] (I think that's the correct syntax) and see if the data is even on the clipboard at all. Speaking of clipboards, I'm having some trouble in Windows. I found that if I

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Jim Ault
On 11/9/06 9:32 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay, Can you paste via the menu? If so, then I imagine there is a problem with the key shortcut, which would be an IDE bug and you could create a frontscript plugin to override (if you really had to have this functionality now). If

RE: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread MisterX
on windows, you just cannot rely on menu shortcuts, anywhere... On Metacard they work though! Though the clipboard has it's issues too in MC (like text between backslashed being stripped out! MC v2.5.1) Launching new apps to paste into them certainly works (however, you will loose your rev

[REM] Scripter's Scrapbook half price offer

2006-11-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
To give yourself a weekend of evaluation time, a reminder that the special half price offer to Revolution users will expire on Monday. This was the announcement in case you missed it... -- The Scripter's Scrapbook - Half Price

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/9/06, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of clipboards, I'm having some trouble in Windows. I found that if I have something on the clipboard and then I do some other action in the OS -- like launching an application -- the clipboard gets emptied. For example, I had some