Re: Printing question

2007-01-22 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 12:57 PM -0500 1/21/2007, Charles Szasz wrote: I have been using Dan Shafer's excellent book on printing has help me a great deal iwith my project. But I have a question. I have three cards that I want to print. Each card has a button that has to be hidden and one card has a group three

mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread rev
Hi All. I've not been around recently, see you all soon, howeverI Need your help. THis is not a rev question but a mac question. One of the Prof's here is giving a statistics tutorial. He uses a program called SuperANOVA. He is the registered user, but has it on an old blueberry iMac running

Re: [OT] mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bob, Is the PowerBook running Mac OS X or Mac OS 9? What does it won't run mean exactly, does it do anything at all, like starting up and quitting immediately? You should be able to copy the entire hard disk, but it won't help if you don't run it on exactly the same machine, because

Re: [OT] mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread rev
Quoting Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Bob, Hi Mark Is the PowerBook running Mac OS X or Mac OS 9? What does it won't run mean exactly, does it do anything at all, like starting up and quitting immediately? You should be able to copy the entire hard disk, but it won't help if

Re: [OT] mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bob, You could install VNC on both computers. With VNC, you can display the screen of the iMac on the PowerBook and control it remotely, or work on the iMac and just show the action on the PowerBook. This is rather slow, however. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and

FormatForPrinting

2007-01-22 Thread Graham Samuel
I am reluctantly using FormatForPrinting to gain control over exact layout in Windows printouts. It seems to me an amazingly awkward beast, requiring one to remove a stack from memory before setting this property; not being editable once the property is set (meaning you have to save the

Re: [OT] mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread Marian Petrides
You might be able to run the iMac's HD in Firewire target mode from the Powerbook, if you can connect the two via firewire. If this works, then the iMac will appear just like any other an external HD on the Powerbook. For exact instructions, check Apple's support pages and search for

A Standalone Win Build Problem

2007-01-22 Thread Charles Szasz
Bill, I made the changes you suggested but that did not work. My question now is if changed the appearance of the card to have a gray background how do I maintain a white background for printing purposes so I don't get a gray background? Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rev Crashing..

2007-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
When using Rev 2.7.4 build 291, the latest 'official' release. I've narrowed down a bug which I think is happening when trying to select text and drag/drop itself in the same single line field with the htmlText having a font attribute of 'bgColor'. IOW, I've successfully crashed Rev when I'm

Re: FormatForPrinting

2007-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Graham, Yeah, I use it on Windows for printing, and you do have to jump through some hoops. As I recall, if you don't use it, your font metrics may be off and you may not get what you think you're printing. I've also found setting the text field's margins to something really large (20)

Re: A Standalone Win Build Problem

2007-01-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 01/22/2007 at 09:06 AM Charles Szasz wrote: Bill, I made the changes you suggested but that did not work. My question now is if changed the appearance of the card to have a gray background how do I maintain a white background for printing purposes so I don't get a gray background?

Re: FormatForPrinting

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Swindell
Are these printing issues among those being fixed in the next bug- free release? i.e. Are they top priority at this point in Revs evolution? Mark On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Graham, Yeah, I use it on Windows for printing, and you do have to jump through some

Re: Rev Printing Problem

2007-01-22 Thread Devin Asay
Charles, Can you just include the hiding/showing in the same button script? on mouseUp hideStuff ## print command here showStuff end mouseUp on hideStuff ## hide controls here end hideStuff on showStuff ## show controls here end showStuff Am I missing something? Is the problem that

Re: FormatForPrinting

2007-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
I seem to remember one of the reasons for the complete graphics overhaul of the engine in 2.7+ was to better support printing. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: last char

2007-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's something which may be interesting regarding last char: I typically do this sort of thing: repeat for each line L in tList put item 1 of L cr after tList2 end repeat delete last char of tList2 This works fine, even if tList2 is empty. IOW, I don't have to check to see if tList2 has cr

displaying imported images from within htmltext

2007-01-22 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
how do we display an image imported into the stack's or substack's image library within a field using htmltext img src= ? Is this possible ? I tried various combinations without any success, and it is likely that the only way to display an image in htmltext of the field is to have it as a file on

Re: Load and stacks...

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
On 21/01/07, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use libUrlDownloadToFile to do an asynchronous load directly to a file instead of the cache. Or in the callback message for load, save the url to a local file. For example: load url myUrl with message loaded on loaded pUrl, pStatus

Re: displaying imported images from within htmltext

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Viktoras, Use the imageSource property. Examples from the docs: set the imageSource of char 1 of line 2 of field This to 2533 set the imageSource of char thisChar of field 1 to Arrow set the imageSource of last char of me to binfile:My Image Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and

How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Powell
Can't find this anywhere in docs or archives. How can I determine what object is occupying the top layer of a card at a given moment? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: mac help needed

2007-01-22 Thread John Vokey
Bob, SuperAnova runs fine under Classic---at least I have never had any problems, and is not locked in anyway, so it should work following a simple copy. I suspect the Classic system files on the OS X machine are not complete. SuperAnova even runs fine under Sheepshaver (system 8.6),

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, put the layer of the last control Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 22-jan-2007, om 18:11

RE: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Powell
Hi Mark, Thanks, but that tells me the layer number, right? What I need to know is what *object* occupies the layer. For example, a pseudo function like put whatObjectOnTop() might return image id 2834 Mark P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, On second thought, maybe this is what you want: function topControl repeat with x = 1 to number of controls if the layer of control x is the number of layers then return the id of control x end repeat end topControl It would be nice to do this without repeat loop, though.

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Why not this?: get the long id of the last control -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Load and stacks...

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cragg
On 22 Jan 2007, at 16:39, David Bovill wrote: On 21/01/07, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use libUrlDownloadToFile to do an asynchronous load directly to a file instead of the cache. Or in the callback message for load, save the url to a local file. For example: load url

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Because this returns the number and not the layer. Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 22-jan-2007, om 18:34

Re: FormatForPrinting

2007-01-22 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Chipp - and Mark, I have no idea if better printing is coming along but it certainly should: I do not think RunRev's support for printing is adequate for a modern RAD tool: one very old issue is that one can't get at the settings made by the user in the Page Setup dialog, but others

Re: displaying imported images from within htmltext

2007-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Or, Just set the htmlText of a given line of a field..like this: set the htmlText of line 3 of fld hello to \ pimg src=downArrowClick Here To EXPAND/p Assumes there is an image named downArrow on the card. Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Smith
Not tested but should work: get the name of control (the number of controls of this cd) of this cd Best, Mark On 22 Jan 2007, at 17:11, Mark Powell wrote: Can't find this anywhere in docs or archives. How can I determine what object is occupying the top layer of a card at a given moment?

Re: [OT] mac help needed PROBLEM SOLVED

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Hartley
You wrote: Hi All I feel really stupid now. I assumed he ws up on file extensions etc. He was using a PC form,atted USB pen to transfer the files. It was so simple I never even thought of asking him. :-) Anyway all have a quiet chuckle on me.:-) Using a MAC formatted stick it now works.

Re: Load and stacks...

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
Ah... well I guess the docs need changeing :) Summary: Downloads a file from an Internet server asynchronously via FTP. On 22/01/07, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Jan 2007, at 16:39, David Bovill wrote: On 21/01/07, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use

Re: displaying imported images from within htmltext

2007-01-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Viktoras, Mark told you about using the imageSource property. As for me I don't like too much to use it: even if it works, it sounds like a workaround: You display an image but it is referenced by a char. When building lists, for instance, you have to plan fake chars then set their

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
That won't work because number and layer is not the same. It would be exactly equal to put the name of the last control Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web

help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, I am here experimenting with a new approach to building revolution based servers. We've been asking for threads or forks for a while but until the day of such implementation comes, we need to use what we can. One other language I always liked (to the point that we created a

Re: Load and stacks...

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cragg
On 22 Jan 2007, at 18:44, David Bovill wrote: Ah... well I guess the docs need changeing :) So they do. I've just QCized it. :-) Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
To get the topmost object: get the long id of last control To get its name: get the short name of the last control To get its layer: get the layer of the last control To get its type-specific number: get the number of the last control What else is needed? -- Richard Gaskin

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cragg
On 22 Jan 2007, at 19:25, Andre Garzia wrote: Suppose the scheduler is running 8080 and each server instance in the pool is running from 8081 onwards. When the client connects to 8080, the scheduler sends back a redirection response so that the client refreshes to a different port (of a

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Mark, your example also demonstrates the power of same named instances of object. I guess it all boils down to each of us trying our best to create reusable grouped components, each with the same codebase. A most difficult task. In the absence of parentScripts (a shared

Emergency - (sort of) a stack name with the same name...

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
I have done this so many times - but wandering if someone can tell me how to get out of it... Rev is stuck in an infinite loop... it keeps infinitely saving two files and has the error dialogue stuck in the back. Command period and nothing I can think of exits the loop. I have almost never got

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Andre, I hope I understood you correctly: did you try the old base href= tag? If you use in the header of the first html file: head base href=http://server2.com:; !-- ... ... -- /head all will be loaded from the server2 at port . A declaration like img src=/src/logo.gif will

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Franz, I own you a beer! :-) You just saved my life... I'll experiment with this and post the result on this list! :D Cheers andre On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andre, I hope I understood you correctly: did you try the old base href= tag? If you use in the

RE: How do I query 'What object is on top?'

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Powell
Richard, This does do what I was asking about, thanks! Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:02 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: How do I query 'What object is on top?' To get

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Dave, I didn't want to add that burden to the scheduler because I am afraid of denial of service, my whole quest in the field of revolution based servers is trying to avoid such situations. I need to check if I can redirect POST requests... If I can't then I'll need to implement a

Oh well.. force quit I guess?

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
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Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
Not sure if this text give you some arguments :) http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/medusa.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cragg
On 22 Jan 2007, at 20:54, Andre Garzia wrote: I need to check if I can redirect POST requests... If I can't then I'll need to implement a solution like you outlined here at least for POST calls. Andre, I just looked up the rfc to see if this was the case. This is the intro to the

What is causing this bug?

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
OK - so I've had to force quit. Now the start-up routing loads some libraries. One of them is the the original one I Saved as... - remember folks at home never do this. On starting up I get that dreaded dialogue again... Now what could be wrong with this script? repeat for each line

Some clues...

2007-01-22 Thread David Bovill
Well the actual stack name of original libOPN_Menus stack somehow also got changed and saved as libOPN_MenuExtras. So I have two stack named libOPN_MenuExtras - fine. But why when I do this - (no stacks in memory): put exists(stack libOPN_Menus) The result is true, and the original stack

Rev Graphics Gurus

2007-01-22 Thread John Vokey
Dar, An old thread, and I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly. I asked a while back about presenting the average of two images, and you suggested that I a) group them, b) set the ink property of each, including the group, to blendSrcOver, and c) then set the opacity 0% and

Re: Some clues...

2007-01-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: Well the actual stack name of original libOPN_Menus stack somehow also got changed and saved as libOPN_MenuExtras. So I have two stack named libOPN_MenuExtras - fine. But why when I do this - (no stacks in memory): put exists(stack libOPN_Menus) The result is true, and

Re: Rev Crashing..

2007-01-22 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/23/07, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using Rev 2.7.4 build 291, the latest 'official' release. I've narrowed down a bug which I think is happening when trying to select text and drag/drop itself in the same single line field with the htmlText having a font attribute of

Stop Repeating Keys

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Greenberg
I have an application where the user types in numbers, but I don't want the keys to automatically repeat. For instance, if the user holds down the 5 key too long, I don't want to appear. I am already capturing the keystroke with an ON KeyDown handler and manipulating the user's

Crash of Windows standalone made on Intel iMac

2007-01-22 Thread Bruce A. Pokras
This was the first time I had built a Windows standalone on my new Intel iMac. I am using Rev Studio 2.7.4, Build 291. The standalone contains two cards. The first card shows up fine, and everything operates normally. The fun starts when I either try to go to the second card or click the Close

Re: Stop Repeating Keys

2007-01-22 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/23/07, Mark Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an application where the user types in numbers, but I don't want the keys to automatically repeat. For instance, if the user holds down the 5 key too long, I don't want to appear. I am already capturing the keystroke with an ON

Re: Emergency - (sort of) a stack name with the same name...

2007-01-22 Thread Bridger Maxwell
Hey, I have had a few experiences with an answer box popping up, but then making itself inaccessible, either by hiding itself or by simply lacking an OK button. Revolution will not let you do anything until you have responded, and you are unable to respond. I have been able to fix this by