Re: Duration of non supported applications

> I can't answer all your Windows question with authority, but let me just > point out that if you have Rev 2.7 already, 2.8 is a free upgrade, as 2.9 > will be. - Revolution 2.8 is free to users who had an active license as of its release on February 19, 2007, per the usual licensing arrange

Re: Implications of limited writes to flash drives

Richard, > How serious do you think this limitation is in practical use? The thing that comes to mind immediately for me is Vista's "ReadyBoost" feature, which could easily reach that number of writes in a short period of time! ___ use-revolution

Re: date and time entry group/stack

Hey Björnke, You're welcome! Glad that you could use my stack. It actually started life as a WindowScript (anybody remember that?) window in Hypercard, way back when. Marty Knapp Hi folks I made a little date and time entry group. It's based on a stack by Marty Knapp from revOnline (thank

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Bill- Here's my VB-to-xtalk cheat sheet. Hope you find something useful in it. The formatting looks all wonky to me today for some reason. I'm not sure why. Everything used to line up nicely, but now it all seems staggered. Let me know if you have trouble with it and I'll try to reformat it again

Re: Implications of limited writes to flash drives

Richard- Friday, March 16, 2007, 10:46:28 AM, you wrote: > Have any of you had a flash drive fail on writes? > How serious do you think this limitation is in practical use? Sheesh. You're worried about "several hundred thousand" write cycles? I don't write to flash drives all that often - read c

date and time entry group/stack

Hi folks I made a little date and time entry group. It's based on a stack by Marty Knapp from revOnline (thanks Marty!). You can find my stack on revOnline (as "Calendar date and time selector by BvG"), or on my Homepage: http://bjoernke.com/runrev/stacks.php Detailed documentation within t

Re: baltic fonts not supported ?..

hi viktoras, how about this: 1) write the text outside (notepad or whatever) 2) paste into the text field 3) get the textFont of the field then see if you can set the textFont to that field permanently and get better results? i use macintosh so have no clever ideas. i also don't know any l

Re: Implications of limited writes to flash drives

Probably just keeps settings on the stick and runs the rest in RAM. Some 'Live' CD distros do the same onto the HD. Cheers, Luis. On 17 Mar 2007, at 0:43, Bob Warren wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: >Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write and

Re: Can REV create Excel files?

Just continuing down the path which Ken helped put me on, I thought I'd share my little routine which uses vbscript to get the Names in an Excel workbook and the ranges to which they refer: function getXLNames put "Dim ObjXL,tRetVal,tName" & cr & \ "Set ObjXL = GetObject(," & q("Excel.A

Re: Implications of limited writes to flash drives

Richard Gaskin wrote: >Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write and erase cycles before failure. Mid-range flash drives under normal conditions will support several hundred thousand cycles, although write operations will gradually slow as the

OT Adobe Serial/Ethical Question

Ethics and logistics question: I just bought a used iMac with GoLive CS installed on it. It didn't come with the install disks, but the program is authorized for the computer. I'm wondering if I technically have the right to use it? If the answer is yes, then do I have the right to move i

Re: Switching screen res on OS X

On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, Several times people have asked how to change screen resolution programmatically. I usually recommended the Terminal command "cscreen" but it is no longer under development and it does not handle all resolutions especially the "stretch

Re: Anyone see this same ?bug?

I get the same error every once in a while, but I just rearrange it, or add parentheses and then it works again. It has only happened two or three times, and has always been fairly easy to solve, but I never am able to see why it is throwing an error. Good to know I am not the only one. TTFN

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bill Marriott wrote: It's my opinion that we (you can consider that "we" the company, or the community, or both) need to develop a ore complete library of self-contained "starter" kits for various tasks that Revolution is well-suited for

Re: Unusual Problem

Charles Szasz wrote: 1. When the printing is completed that has four pages or cards, the user is on the fourth screen that has the optional page that was printed. The print button is located on the third page where the user started the printing. This occurs on both XP and OS X standalones. I a

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: [various comments about the wealth of resources available for Rev newbies] I do appreciate there's a lot of good stuff out there. As a not-so- newbie I still find it bewildering where to look, and the landscape is constantly changing. It s

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

Dave wrote: What suggests this crash is specifically a memory leak? Just a guess really, I have had this kind of problem when my external commands (not being used in this test) had a memory leak and the performance went right down and RunRev acted in a similar way. Not really sure if it

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Bill Marriott wrote: It's my opinion that we (you can consider that "we" the company, or the community, or both) need to develop a ore complete library of self-contained "starter" kits for various tasks that Revolution is well-suited for. A kit being: narrative; code snippets; sample stacks, e

Unusual Problem

I am using Rev. 2.7.4 Studio for the Mac with OS 10.4.8. I set up my printing routine to print three pages that are marked. Based on the user's responses, there is an optional fourth page or card that can be printed if additional scores are entered by the user with the other three pages at

Re: Duration of non supported applications

On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: So far I have used MetaCard and engine 2.6.6. The programs make use of a portal stack (thanks to Sivakatirswami) which downloads/opens the various educational programs. This downloading is done by http. Signe, I'd be interested in hearin

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

> [various comments about the wealth of resources available for Rev newbies] I do appreciate there's a lot of good stuff out there. As a not-so-newbie I still find it bewildering where to look, and the landscape is constantly changing. It seems even a mere directory of these is a daunting challe

Re: Duration of non supported applications

On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Ken. It would not hurt and would probably help to update your materials to the newest version of rev. At a minimum, you should re-build the "portal" standalone with the latest rev engine. In my view that would help legacy stac

Re: Export Snapshot question

Just FYI, PPM is a very simple non-compressed format which can be binary ( filesize about that of TIFF) or ASCII text (file size several times bigger). http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html Best, Mark On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:43, Dave wrote: Thanks Scott, this for TV broadcast equipm

Implications of limited writes to flash drives

Flash memory has an inherent limitation on the number of reliable write operations. Unfortunately, that number is measured not in millions, but in thousands: Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write and erase cycles before failure. Mid-rang

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

On 16 Mar 2007, at 18:13, Jim Ault wrote: On 3/16/07 10:25 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. I also tried this without setting the bac

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Hi Marielle, A few weeks back I broached that very issue. Or, maybe, even more ambitiously, about the total scope of available resources for RunRev. It had become pretty obvious to me that there are just tons and tons of materials, suggestions, approaches, et. out there, but the newbie to

Re: Duration of non supported applications

David, > 1) Redevelop the software using standard web technology for which there > are > many developers available. > 2) Buy a commercial package > 3) Adopt a mixed open source strategy Unfortunately I cannot agree with you on *ANY* of these recommendations. There's no guarantee (and I would ar

Anyone see this same ?bug?

Seems to be a bug, or just an inconsistency. Am I missing something about Rev? Error = if: missing 'then' if "Version Alpha" is among the lines of the cardnames then answer "This has already been linked to a card" exit to top end if This version works by adding parens if

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

On 16 Mar 2007, at 18:02, Ian Wood wrote: On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:25, Dave wrote: Hi All, Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. Oops. What I *hadn't* said about the stack i

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:59, Richard Gaskin wrote: I simplified the script to make it easier to set up here, and since you're using v2.8 I removed the portion for earlier versions: on mouseUp local tNum local twID local tFol local tDest put 500 into tNum put the windowID of this

RE: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

Hi Mark, actually neither of those will do anything... you forgot to put in a command between start and the '>' redirect command... for example: (diruse gets you the size of a folder for example) get shell("diruse /m" && thisshare & "findstr /i sub-total") -- retrieves the size of a share on

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

On 3/16/07 10:25 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation > of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from > Rev Online. > I also tried this without setting the background color and this does > write all 5

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Marielle Lange wrote: Any other material out there we may have the right to re-use if we were to start a few pages on revolution programming there? I'm not sure it's necessary to replicate content, but you're welcome to link to any of the fine articles community members have contributed t

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:25, Dave wrote: Hi All, Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. Oops. What I *hadn't* said about the stack is that it was put together as part of a bug

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

Dave wrote: Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. I have changed in to use .png files instead of JPEG file, changed the counter rectangle graphic object to have an all green ba

Re: Linux-specific technical problems

Don wrote: If he is opening the ps file in a text editor, he might want to check what text encoding the editor is using. He probably needs it to be set to WindowsLatin1 or Western European 8859-1 or Western European 1250. These all seem to work for me, but his system and printer may be differe

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Marielle Lange wrote: Any other material out there we may have the right to re-use if we were to start a few pages on revolution programming there? I'm not sure it's necessary to replicate content, but you're welcome to link to any of the fine articles community members have contributed to r

Re: Export Snapshot question

On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:12, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Dave wrote: I need to export a snapshot in a non-compressed format, from looking at the documentation I can export in the following formats: JPEG GIF PNG PBM PGM PPM JPEG is no good for what I want since it is lossy. GIF is no good beca

image resize syntax in rev 2.8

Hi, Somehow I am not able to find description of image resize function in dictionary of revstudio 2.8. I think it is implemented in rev 2.8 (quite recently have seen it advertised somewhere, just can't remember where..), but can't find any usage instructions... Would be much grateful for any hin

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

One thought bringing another. Various persons have complained about the absence of good resources for newbies... well, all tools are there to create these resources. If on wikibooks, anybody has the opportunity to correct anything at anytime. Joe, any way some of the material you wrote at

Re: Linux questions for Jacque

Phil Davis wrote: I haven't been following this thread very closely, but I've used the htmlText to correctly display Arabic (after reversing the order of the entities). There's more to it than that, but... If you can manage the display of Arabic using the htmlText field property, maybe somethi

Memory Leak on export png????

Hi All, Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be downloaded from Rev Online. I have changed in to use .png files instead of JPEG file, changed the counter rectangle graphic object to have an all green backg

Re: Export Snapshot question

Recently, Dave wrote: > I need to export a snapshot in a non-compressed format, from looking > at the documentation I can export in the following formats: > > JPEG > GIF > PNG > PBM > PGM > PPM > > JPEG is no good for what I want since it is lossy. GIF is no good > because it only supports 8 bit

Re: Linux questions for Jacque

Jacque: I'll try the experiment you suggest, but I think your last suggestion is probably the best one. I'll do it over the weekend if I can. And don't forget that I said I couldn't even TYPE accented characters correctly into a field. That applies not only on my own computer where Ubuntu is

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

Oh, and add to the list, RealBASIC and Director "Bill Marriott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi everyone, > > I'm helping to prepare some data sheets for RunRev on the topics of > FileMaker, SuperCard, and Visual Basic. Basically, trying to understand > how Revo

Export Snapshot question

Hi, I need to export a snapshot in a non-compressed format, from looking at the documentation I can export in the following formats: JPEG GIF PNG PBM PGM PPM JPEG is no good for what I want since it is lossy. GIF is no good because it only supports 8 bit color and I need 24 bit (if not 32

Re: Duration of non supported applications

Signe - while I'd agree with the purely technical advice given, I'd have to be frank and say that I would never advise the University to do this. It would be a waisted effort in my opinion for you or the university to spend any further resources on software that neither has an internal developer a

RE: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

> Xavier wrote: > I just dont use the ampersand and it works like a charm... Which one of the literal examples works for you? get shell("start > C:\blah.html") get shell("start > C:\shellTemp.txt") If the second, then what is in the targeted file? ___

altBrowser: copy and paste does not work on OSX !

Thanks - good to know. And better to know it works on Windows :) On 14/03/07, Terry Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: How to use Revolution > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:43:23 +0100 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: OSX - copy and paste in

Re: Thank for suggest to build website by runrev.

Bill Marriott wrote: Also, just because it can be used as a CGI doesn't mean this is the only way to use Rev to build a website. You can write a desktop-based content management system in Rev that uploads static HTML files via FTP, for example. And many other possibilities. Indeed:

Re: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

Hi Mark, I just dont use the ampersand and it works like a charm... cheers -=- Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/03/2007 13:21:54: > A 2005 thread (from Brian, Xavier, Chipp, et. al) talked about > re-direction to achieve a non-blocking shell call, usi

Bkgnd process that returns immediately

A 2005 thread (from Brian, Xavier, Chipp, et. al) talked about re-direction to achieve a non-blocking shell call, using get shell("mycommand > mylogfile.log &") My brain cannot get this to work. Let's say I want Rev to start "C:\blah.html" using shell(), and then continue executing downstream

Re: Duration of non supported applications

Hello Signe Marie, I agree with Ken. It would not hurt and would probably help to update your materials to the newest version of rev. At a minimum, you should re-build the "portal" standalone with the latest rev engine. In my view that would help legacy stacks survive longer. Devin Devin Asa

Re: Printing and previewing

Hi Martin When you say invisible do you mean you can see the image by using 'show image'? "invisible" means "invisible", since that was in YOUR code: ... create invisible image imgname in group "Pages" of stack "PrintPreview" export snapshot from rect trect of window tWinID to pictvar as

[OFF] Input/Info Requested

Hi everyone, I'm helping to prepare some data sheets for RunRev on the topics of FileMaker, SuperCard, and Visual Basic. Basically, trying to understand how Revolution compares with those products in real-world usage. The result would be some narrative, concrete examples, and a comparison chart