Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread Marielle Lange
Devin, In theory I approve. However (1) we have been asking for this for more than 3 years and this hasn't happened and (2) Revolution never shows himself keen on a structure where contributions can easily be made. The scripting conference success was to a huge extent thanks to the

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Joe, A few weeks back I broached that very issue. Or, maybe, even more ambitiously, about the total scope of available resources for RunRev. Can you point me to this post... I am afraid, I don't find the time to read each single post on this list. It had become pretty obvious to me

Re: OT Adobe Serial/Ethical Question

2007-03-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On 3/17/07, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? I'll

more info

2007-03-17 Thread Marielle Lange
Bill Marriott wrote: That library should be at runrev.com, and actively maintained. I guess this information is a useful one to give. I had signed a community partner agreement with runrev about two months ago, with the view of helping things *LIKE THIS* to happen. I tried. I asked what

answer file of type ... ?

2007-03-17 Thread kee nethery
I have some iCal export files I want to select with the answer file command. I'd like to limit the answer file selection to just the iCal export files. Two questions: What are the scripts I would use on MacOSX, Windows, and Unix to limit the selection in answer file to be just the iCal

Unicode?

2007-03-17 Thread kee nethery
I have to delve into the world of Unicode. Is there a sample stack or set of sample stacks that people would recommend that I start with? In specific I'll grab unicode from a database via HTTP POST, display it in a field, allow it to be edited, and then save the results back into the

Re: answer file of type ... ?

2007-03-17 Thread kee nethery
I have some iCal export files I want to select with the answer file command. I'd like to limit the answer file selection to just the iCal export files. Two questions: What are the scripts I would use on MacOSX, Windows, and Unix to limit the selection in answer file to be just the iCal

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: Thanks, Jacque for that reminder--I took the chance to revisit some of the scripting conference stacks, and was reminded again how well-done they are. It seems like this series could be easily adapted and extended beyond just the scripting conference. I'd be happy, for

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Marielle, I'm amazed at your fluency with the English language. I should do even half as well. I fully appreciate your dilemma and would love to collaborate with you and some others; but, as mentioned previously, I'm really swamped right now, and don't see things clearing up until the

Re: answer file of type ... ?

2007-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
kee nethery wrote: I found a format that works on Mac OS X. answer file select the .ics file with type iCal file|ics that is iCal file then a pipe | then the file suffix without the dot ics iCal file can be seen as the Kind of file in the Mac OS X finder window with the files in a list.

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Interesting. I thought I was sending this off-list, but it had been a long day at work and I wasn't paying attention. Hope someone finds this useful anyway. I thought the list software didn't handle attachments, but I guess that's not quite true... good to know. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Interesting. I thought I was sending this off-list, but it had been a long day at work and I wasn't paying attention. Hope someone finds this useful anyway. I did, it it helps. I thought the list software didn't handle attachments, but I guess that's not quite true...

Re: Duration of non supported applications

2007-03-17 Thread David Bovill
On 16/03/07, Bill Marriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread John Craig
My current flash drive got washed at 40 degrees when I accidentally left it in my jeans pocket - still seems to work perfectly, but be warned; Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of wash and rinse cycles before failure.

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Craig wrote: My current flash drive got washed at 40 degrees when I accidentally left it in my jeans pocket - still seems to work perfectly, but be warned; Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of wash and rinse cycles before failure. I'll keep

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I've used them from the beginning, and have yet to have one fail. I keep one or two in my pocket at all times. I suspect they're a bit like Plasma screens. A lot of talk about the shelf-life, but when you actually figure out how much you're using it, you see it will last for years and

Re: answer file of type ... ?

2007-03-17 Thread kee nethery
you are truly a goddess! thanks. To the runrev powers that be, in the docs, 1. when the search is answer file, please have answer file with type command appear in the search results 2. in the answer file entry, please include the notation that this format is being depreciated and that

Re: Duration of non supported applications

2007-03-17 Thread Luis
Is it just me or is that as clear as Ribena? Cheers, Luis. On 17 Mar 2007, at 5:40, Bill Marriott wrote: 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

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: But if I encourage customers to run their stuff from the flash drive, I'll want to do so in a way that gives them some lifespan. At a minimum this means turning off any auto-save features, or at least turning down the save interval over what we have in the

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: I've used them from the beginning, and have yet to have one fail. You know those thumb drives from the first RevCon? ALL the data on the drive I received became corrupt at some point, without my using it. Just popped it into a USB port one day, and while I could

Re: Duration of non supported applications

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Luis, Is it just me or is that as clear as Ribena? I'm not sure what's unclear about what I wrote. Maybe you mean, it's unusual to charge for an update when a future one will be free. But that's the way it is. - Revolution 2.8 is free to users who had an active license as of its release on

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Jim Ault
A little poem flashed into my head... Not to be trusted, especially when rusted. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/17/07 3:49 PM, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: I've used them from the beginning, and have yet to have one fail. You know those thumb drives from

Re: Duration of non supported applications

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Strange I agree with most of yours! That's the power of logic for you ;) Could well be. I'd find it hard to think of an application in a University setting that has that sort of requirements stability - which is why I'd stand by going with the people and not the technology - maybe an app

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
That REVCON drive didn't work very well when I got it. I had to reformat right away. Also PC formatted drives on Macs seem to be a bad idea in general if you don't have to. Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: I've used them from the beginning, and have yet to have one fail. You know those

Re: Unusual Problem

2007-03-17 Thread Jim Lambert
Why is the user not returned to the third card where the print button is after printing is completed? Push and Pop could be handy here. Jim Lambert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Marriott
You know, thumb drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. TigerDirect has 512MB models from Kingston and Memorex for $9.95, no rebate required. And a PNY 128MB one for $4.99 after rebate. NewEgg has a 256 MB one for $6.99, free 3-day shipping: http://tinyurl.com/36xkbg Would be easy enough to

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
The 2Gig drives are now $49 at CompUSA - two different companies. It's fast enough to write 44.1k stereo audio in real time. You know, thumb drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. TigerDirect has 512MB models from Kingston and Memorex for $9.95, no rebate required. And a PNY 128MB one for

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
The 2Gig drives are now $49 at CompUSA - two different companies. It's fast enough to write 44.1k stereo audio in real time. You can even get an 8Gig drive for $79 at TigerDirect.com. It comes with excellent backup software for PC. This is not a U3 drive, so you don't have to use the included

Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm having a blank moment here and I can't work out how to solve what should be a simple problem. I have a grid of about 400 buttons and I have a mouseDown handler in the card script to detect which of these buttons is clicked first. Then I want the user to be able to drag the mouse around and

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Jim Ault
how about: Use the within function to determine whether a point is inside the specified object. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/17/07 7:32 PM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a blank moment here and I can't work out how to solve what should be a simple problem. I have a grid of

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Sarah, I don't fully understand what you're trying to do, but something like the following should get you continuous x,y that you should be able to use in some manner or another to determine which button is affected: on mousedown repeat while the mouse is down get the mouseloc

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Thanks Jim Joe, That works OK, using a repeat while the mouse is down loop and then checking the mouseLoc to see whether it is within the rect of any of my 400 buttons each time. I thought this sort of polling was not considered a good idea. It seems fine on my 2GHz Intel Mac, but I'm not sure

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Sarah, Try this script in the card: -- global trackMouse on mouseDown put true into trackMouse end mouseDown on mouseMove if trackMouse = true then put mouseMove the target return after fld 1 pass mouseMove end if end mouseMove on mouseRelease if trackMouse =

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
Jerry figured it out a while ago -- Galaxy always shows the object name and path of the object it is hovering above. I think mousemove may be part of it. from the docs: Sent periodically while the mouse button is being held down. this gets close to what you want I think. ON mouseMove

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Sarah, By and large, I would not put this in the category of polling; since nothing can be done while the mouse is down anyway. That's just the way it is. Now, if this repeat loop was being used in a mouseup handler, then it would be polling because all sorts of things can take place

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Thanks Jim Joe, That works OK, using a repeat while the mouse is down loop and then checking the mouseLoc to see whether it is within the rect of any of my 400 buttons each time. I thought this sort of polling was not considered a good idea. It seems fine on my 2GHz

Revolution and Unicode

2007-03-17 Thread kee nethery
My primary problem is that I need to access a web page that is UTF8, and convert it to unicode so that I can edit it and save it out as a file of unicode. There are a few good examples of how to deal with unicode in revolution but so far no examples of using get URL http:// ... to obtain

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
Sorry Joe, polling is just plain bad practice and could interfere with other messaging code. Rev gives plenty of ways to deal with messages that one should never have to use idle. You still have your hypercard hat on. Untie the chains! sqb Sarah, By and large, I would not put this in the

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Stephen, So you're saying that with Rev, when the Mouse is Down, other messages can still be sent/received unless a repeat loop of the nature I suggested is invoked, so that it IS polling in the sense that it interrupts the normal flow? I guess things have gotten more complicated than I

Re: [OFF] Input/Info Requested

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, March 17, 2007, 10:26:14 AM, you wrote: I thought the list software didn't handle attachments, but I guess that's not quite true... good to know. It doesn't, but your attachment was an inline text file so the listbot apparently thought it was just a text entry. It's

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Jim Ault
On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Sorry Joe, polling is just plain bad practice and could interfere with other messaging code. Rev gives plenty of ways to deal with messages that one should never have to use idle. You still have your hypercard hat on. Untie the chains!

Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Warren
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I want the user to be able to drag the mouse around Mouse messages while down: SQUEAK! (poor thing) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage