Yeah, I need apps that are designed to run around the end line, er,
whatever it's called.
I guess I've got all summer to try to figure it out :-D
As you say, I think I worry about the following:
Traditionally, apps designed for installation on the hard drive may
expect to write a preferences
Just one observation: as far as Linux users are concerned, it has not yet
started. Now, if you're on Mac or Windows, apart from the fairly small
limitation of not being able to compile in 2.7 mode for Linux, you are
basically OK. You might have issues about quality, but you're getting
Stephen Barncard wrote:
Whoa, I didn't see the ODBC part! No, don't use ODBC!!! not needed.
Extensis Portfolio client app is using ODBC.. but the MySQL dbase that
is built by the Extensis Portfolio server is just a standard MySQL dbase
and in theory we should be able to connect over the LAN
Hi Ken,
(I'm going to address this to you, but obviously most of this is just
aimed at a public debate).
Mark Waddingham has personally responded to virtually all the
questions and
bug-related posts on the Improve list
I put it to you that the love-fest to be found in the improve list
[continued]
I'm disappointed that people are focusing on how many people might
have been affected by this particular bug, rather than wondering if
perhaps the bug-squashing process is not going so well for those
people outside of the Improve list.Six months into what is being
Stephen Barncard wrote:
Is it possible that ODBC support is being phased out on the Mac?
No, not at all. There's plenty of ODBC software working on the Mac - it's
just more recent versions of Rev, at least in my experience, have this broken.
This is why I'm unable to move most of my
I'm not going to comment on the rest as I don't have a strong opinion
either way, but:
On 15 May 2007, at 10:21, Bernard Devlin wrote:
version 2.7.5 will be a free update - no, it's version 2.9 that
will be free
From what I remember of the renaming, version 2.9 *IS* what was
previously
Hello,
I would like to have a field with non editable text rotated by 90, so that I
get vertical text.
As far as I've seen yet I can only rotate images. Is there any trick to
rotate a field?
The last workaround would be to create an image with the vertical text :(
Any other solutions out
Hi list,
How do you guys play Flash movies in Rev players on Windows
without QT ?
Thanks,
JB
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altBrowser is probably your best bet.
Ian
On 15 May 2007, at 10:52, jbv wrote:
How do you guys play Flash movies in Rev players on Windows
without QT ?
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On 15 May 2007, at 10:51, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
I would like to have a field with non editable text rotated by 90,
so that I
get vertical text.
The last workaround would be to create an image with the vertical
text :(
Images and graphics only, as far as I know, so a snapshot of the
Ian ,
altBrowser is probably your best bet.
Mmmh... don't think so...
I'm asked to build a front end app that will launch flash movies
but no QT installer and no browser are the main requests...
JB
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Thanks Ian, That's what I thought :(
Tiemo
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An: How to use Revolution
Betreff: Re: Rotating fields?
On 15 May 2007, at 10:51,
On 15 May 2007, at 11:13, jbv wrote:
Ian ,
altBrowser is probably your best bet.
Mmmh... don't think so...
I'm asked to build a front end app that will launch flash movies
but no QT installer and no browser are the main requests...
Given that Rev has no native support for Flash files, QT
Hi,
You know - this kind of thing really gets my goat. I'm going to explain why
presently and I'm going to give examples using other IDE's and compilers to
support why it gets my goat, plus I'm going to ruffle some feathers, but I'm
an Aussy and that's what we do best vbg. From time to time
You could search the archive for some posts by Jiro Harada. He
announced that he wrote an external to play Flash inside a Rev
stack. IIRC, it relied on Java being installed, and he reported it
working on the Mac and Windows.
This is his URL:
http://www.f-ab.net/
Bernard
Well, Scott. Thanks for sharing your experience of development
environments with us. How sad that you think you will be flamed. I
certainly don't want this to be a flame-fest. I want to improve the
way that Rev works.
I too have a wide experience of development tools - I have a degree
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Subject: Re: 'Community Beta' has lost its way [any part]
Well, Scott. Thanks for sharing your experience of development
environments with us. How sad
Bernard,
My previous private communications with Runrev are precisely what has led
me to have so little respect for them and their ability to set
expectations. And in case you haven't been paying attention - bug 3196
had received NO attention until I made this more generalized
Ok folks, lets drop this now.
Bernard, we have heard and noted your feelings on this issue. Scott,
Ken, Richard, Chipp, thanks for the good words. Its nice to get the
odd word of praise when we are working so hard on something. Peter
Alcibiades, yes, indeed, Linux is vital and is coming in
Hi list,
Is it possible to use the XMLHttpRequest object in javascript (and
especially the xmlhttp.open() function) to get data from a Rev cgi
script (that returns XML data built on-the-fly) without facing a
permission denied problem ?
Thanks,
JB
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JBV,
fetch my RevHTTP on http://www.andregarzia.com/RevHTTP.zip it has an
ajax demo that does that. I am using the prototype library which in
the end relies on XMLHttpRequest object, it works just fine
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon
Our lexicon works using that too and
What's the big deal about FLV? In my limited experience, the movies
look like garbage next to Quicktime and they're LARGER. Horrible.
On 15 May 2007, at 11:13, jbv wrote:
Ian ,
altBrowser is probably your best bet.
Mmmh... don't think so...
I'm asked to build a front end app that will
Andre,
Many thanks for the quick response.
. I do think
however that you can't open connection to a different server...
And actually the source of my problem was that a mismatched
between relative URLs was considered as an attempt to connect
to a different server...
Thanks again for all
On May 15, 2007, at 3:51 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
Hello,
I would like to have a field with non editable text rotated by 90,
so that I
get vertical text.
As far as I've seen yet I can only rotate images. Is there any
trick to
rotate a field?
The last workaround would be to create
JB,
just for the future, in case you need to fetch data from another
server, you can make a simple cgi that will just pick a http request
and forward to another server acting like a proxy. This way you'll be
able to build mashups without dealing with cross browser security
issues :-)
When I open the standalone I get this error
Kernel_win32_Release.dll was not found
I also have this in a preopenstack handler
IF the environment is not development THEN
IF Valentina for Revolution is not among the lines of the
externalpackages of stack revExternalLibrary
On 15/5/07 7:22 PM, Robert Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Robert,
When I open the standalone I get this error
Kernel_win32_Release.dll was not found
Have you follow this steps:
http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:documen
As an update, after reinstalling the OpenLink drivers, I now have both
OpenLink and Actual DSNs working with Rev 2.6.1. The Actual one also works in
Rev 2.8.1; the OpenLink one does not.
So the problem is limited to Rev 2.7.2 or later, with the OpenLink driver.
(That's good, because there's
Thank you forgot about this
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On 15/5/07 7:22 PM, Robert Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently, jbv wrote:
altBrowser is probably your best bet.
Mmmh... don't think so...
I'm asked to build a front end app that will launch flash movies
but no QT installer and no browser are the main requests...
How does using altBrowser constitute using a browser when it is part of a
Thanks Devin, it's always amazing how simple good solutions can be!
Tiemo
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An: How to use Revolution
Betreff: Re: Rotating
I looked at the applescript dictionary for my Rev 2.7.4 application
and it had:
do script v : Execute Revolution script
So, I tried telling my application to do the following as a simple
test from the
applescript script editor:
tell application MyApp
activate
do script quit
On 15 May 2007, at 18:26, Jim Sims wrote:
When I run that applescript it complains with a syntax error about
the word script.
Can I write an applescript that will tell a Rev app script to run?
Anyone have an example or a tip for me?
There's an issue with some of the newer versions not
Judy Perry wrote:
But an app can be designed not to need that stuff, to keep everything on
the drive it's running on. Since Rev standalones are self-contained, as
long as they don't go out of their way to modify the system (prefs
files, registry, etc.) they'll run from any removable media.
portableapps.com always felt like a hack for me. It uses NDIS (or
some other acronym) wrapper to hack around the folders tricking the
enclosed executable to think it is writting to one place when it is
actually writting to someplace else like the removable media folder.
This solves
Hi,
The issue mentioned by Ian should have been solved, as you can read
here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/90973
I tried to run Jim's little AppleScript script and it appears that
something is wrong with standalones. Revolution is able to run the
syntax sent
Ben Rubinstein wrote:
Your suggestion inspired me to downlaod and try the current Actual
drivers.
Unfortunately, after installing this, the Actual driver doesn't work at
all
(even just in the ODBC Administrator) - and the installation seems to
have
trashed my OpenLink setup! Aaargh.
But
And there is a BIG difference between USB 1 and 2.. USB 2 can
approach Firewire400 speeds...
Let us go to the important problems (IMHO):
* Removable media is slow. If your app does a lot of file juggling
or is very disk based, you'll see performance penalty, specially if
you're using cheap
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Judy Perry wrote:
But an app can be designed not to need that stuff, to keep everything on
the drive it's running on. Since Rev standalones are self-contained, as
long as they don't go out of their way to modify the system (prefs
files, registry, etc.) they'll run from
For those who have not read it, I would like to recommend once again my
article at:-
http://www.bobsite.org/brazil/
- particularly the early section headed *Alternative Perception and
the examples of simple dialogues where people very easily drive one
another nuts through debate.
The point
Lack of AETE resources or broken .plist inside the standalone bundle
is my guess.
Probably the standalone is missing the .plist that binds the do
script command with the internal routine.
I just checked and the script editor (the applescript editor) can't
open the dictionary for
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Judy Perry wrote:
...does Rev?
That's a good question. I would imagine RunRev has a U3 version,
and if they've done that much work it's far easier to make one
that'll run on any flash drive. I couldn't find either on the
Download page, though
From a private email I sent to Lynn,
While I know that question wasn't directed at me, I thought I'd chime in
with an answer. I actually found the U3 spec, device and organization
difficult to work with. I started a dialog with them which never finished,
even after repeated requests to them.
Bob,
thanks for the essay, it's hard to come by texts that doesn't picture
brazilians being carnival lovers, football dream players, cheaters in
general, heavy coffee drinkers.
You go deep to think a problem that everyone knows and we all pretend
it's not in there. And you live in dream
I went into production with the script below where. The benchmark on this
I thought was impressive, so I thought to share it:
The fld findChunk has the grep string:
(?s)div id=container(.*?)div id=intro
the fileList has a list of paths already chosen for files to be operated on.
in this case
Well, before we are all drowned under a flood of
Blu-Ray discs and so forth:-
I had another of my midnight fantasies where I merrily
programmed (in RunRev) a front end for small children
to access selected bits of a DVD in either a local or
networked DVD drive . . .
So; presumably just now it
Let me be the first to make the obvious pun about
BRAZIL NUTS
and let me also point out that variety of opinions,
shape, size, colour (Hey, my RunRev palettes have been
turned a nifty British Racing-Green!) and so on are
both the spice of life, and good, healthy debate and
SDLCs.
sincerely,
Thanks - if thats the right word Andre.
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Andre Garzia wrote:
And if you're designing your app to be portable from the start, you
don't need U3. You can build your own launcher. You can join the U4
yahoo group and help the efforts.
For those interested in contributing to the development of a universal
flash drive launcher, the U4
Dear List member,
I'm happy to announce the release of Revolution 2.8.1. If you have a
current license you can go and download it here:
http://downloads.runrev.com/
and unlock it with your existing license. It could be beneficial to
do a full install from the downloads page rather than
Andre - you made me think of the little guy versus big guy in law issue... I
have known a number of people with similar stories, and it makes me think
always of what to do in the age of the internet about these issues. And
every time I have this thought - so you have the evidence but not the
You have a field with a contextual menu - so when you control-click on the
field a popup menu apears (called in a mouseDown handler). If you do not use
the control key - but simply click the mouseUp handler does something
else...
So how do you prevent the mouseUp handler? Neither exit to top nor
Richard Gaskin wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Judy Perry wrote:
...does Rev?
That's a good question. I would imagine RunRev has a U3 version,
and if they've done that much work it's far easier to make one
that'll run on any flash drive. I couldn't find either
On May 15, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Heather Nagey wrote:
What are you waiting for? Go and download it now!
IMHO this is the very best release of Rev ever! It is truly a major
leap in reliability over any other released version thus far. I can
only imagine how cool 2.9 is going to be.
Thank
Heather Nagey wrote:
I'm happy to announce the release of Revolution 2.8.1. If you have a
current license you can go and download it here:
http://downloads.runrev.com/
Congratulations to the team! While only an incremental update, it's a
significant step forward for both overall quality
Scott,
Well, I should probably update what I know about altBrowser...
I never really used it, only downloaded a demo a couple of years
ago...
According to your answer, the browser window can be integrated
in a stack and is transparent to the end user... if so, that's probably
what I'm looking
On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:26:59 +0200, Jim Sims wrote:
I looked at the applescript dictionary for my Rev 2.7.4 application
and it had:
do script v : Execute Revolution script
So, I tried telling my application to do the following as a simple
test from the
applescript script editor:
tell
It would be great is someone ended up with a recipe on how to install Rev as
a portableapp. I'd love to have a Mac and PC copy on a Thumbdrive too!
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It doesn't work in 2.8.1 here.
Best,
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Dear David,
on mouseUp
if the controlkey is up then
-- do your stuff
end if
end mouseUp
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I'm using the latest release of Rev 2.8.1
I create a new stack, add a single fld and a single button. In the button
script I add:
on mouseUp
put the long ID of fld 1 into tID
set the disabled of tID to not the disabled of tID
put fred into tID
end mouseUp
When I press it, the field becomes
David,
On second thought, the user probably releases the control key right
after the mousedown. So, you might want to use the mouseDown handler
only.
on mouseDown
if the controlKey is down then
-- do stuff
else
wait 200 with messages
if the mouse is up then
-- run
It looks like Ken's trick of renaming the .rsrc file does the trick:
1. Open the standalone package.
2. Navigate to myappname.app/Contents/Resources/Revolution.rsrc
3. Change it to myappname.app/Contents/Resources/myappname.rsrc
4. Now trigger the Finder into updating it's list of scriptable
Thanks, Richard.
I'll have a look for next term.
Judy
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Richard Gaskin wrote:
For apps that are known to be portable, the directory at
PortableApps.com is a good starting point:
http://portableapps.com/apps
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On May 15, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm using the latest release of Rev 2.8.1
I create a new stack, add a single fld and a single button. In the
button
script I add:
on mouseUp
put the long ID of fld 1 into tID
set the disabled of tID to not the disabled of tID
put fred
Andre,
Of course, what I'm specifically looking to do (or, rather have my
students do) IS a hack -- of IT's iron-fisted grip on what software that
can be used in the classroom.
I did think about the speed issue... but our network's so crappy that
slow isn't going to strike the students as
Thanks Trevor,
duh.
I got it...just a bit confusing is all. I do/have used the 'set the text of'
for this.
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Exactly.
In the section on reliability I wanted them to experience programming
writ small by having them make their own little stack that did something
amusing.
But no way, no how is IT going to let us d/l the demo, and my department's
license is only for OS9 :-( And, even if the students
Sounds like a job for office hours
;-)
But, of course, it's the end of the semester now, so I don't have any of
those.
Judy
On Tue, 15 May 2007, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Does it run from a flash drive, or does it require installation on a
hard drive?
Now *I'm* confused. :): I haven't
On May 15, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm using the latest release of Rev 2.8.1
I create a new stack, add a single fld and a single button. In the
button
script I add:
on mouseUp
put the long ID of fld 1 into tID
set the disabled of tID to not the disabled of tID
put fred
Trevor DeVore wrote:
On May 15, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm using the latest release of Rev 2.8.1
I create a new stack, add a single fld and a single button. In the button
script I add:
on mouseUp
put the long ID of fld 1 into tID
set the disabled of tID to not the disabled
On Tue, 15 May 2007 18:07:27 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote:
Thanks Trevor,
duh.
I got it...just a bit confusing is all. I do/have used the 'set the text of'
for this.
I've done the same. But I started to put this rule into my head that I
can manipulate properties with get/set/put on an
Mark Talluto wrote:
On May 15, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm using the latest release of Rev 2.8.1
I create a new stack, add a single fld and a single button. In the
button script I add:
on mouseUp
put the long ID of fld 1 into tID
set the disabled of tID to not the disabled
Andre:
Thanks for that great complementary story and comments. If ever Brazil
needed a trendy young ambassador, they need look no further. A little
more quebrando o galho and jeitinho is what a lot of people need.
But I'll leave you to explain what they are
Richmond:
As one nutter to
i Scott,
Try http://www/zmzar.com It is a website which transforms from one format to
another at no cost (it also does a host of other conversions).
Hope that helps
Andrew
On 5/15/07, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott,
Well, I should probably update what I know about altBrowser...
I
On May 15, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
If Rev variables were types and tID was typed as an object
reference it might be a bug.
I see the light. Working with it has never slowed me down. There
are many ways as demonstrated to get that job done. Rev is such a
fast
On Wed, 16 May 2007 00:16:20 +0200, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Ken,
It doesn't work in 2.8.1 here.
Whoops! Sorry, I was testing Revolution itself, not a standalone built
with Rev 2.8.1. Ian has the right idea, though...
Ken Ray
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On 5/13/07, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am interested in your idea of combining both. I would also like to be
able
to change the format of the date returned easily. (for example to
mmdd
or sometimes mm/dd/yy
On 5/12/07 4:45 PM, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
using Bjornke's
On May 16, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Ian Wood wrote:
It looks like Ken's trick of renaming the .rsrc file does the trick:
Phew, am I relieved.
Thanks to everyone for looking at this!
Jim Sims
Custom Software Development
www.EZPZapps.com
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On 5/15/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so why not publish the story on the net and let them
sue you - so you get your chance to produce your evidence without the
cost?
And exactly how does 'letting them sue you' save money? Lawyers cost money
no matter which side of a case they
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