Re: How to determine bug severity level?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: The problem is that there is a discontiguous selection at all. The original recipe was with multipleHilites set to true, but nonContiguousHilites left in its original state (which is false), which should mean that you can only make a *contiguous* selection. Thanks for

Re: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread paolo mazza
Hi Liam, I can not find any specific tutorial for SQLite. In the video tutorial section of revolution site if found Thumbnail Kiosk - Simple MySQL Front End. which is about MySQL. Is there anything else? Thanks Paolo How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: There is a

Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, on various sites - and again in this best practice thread - it is recommended not to use globals, or at least so less as possible, because they can be changed from everywhere and that's hard to debug and no nice style. I really don't see any difference between using globals or properties

Re: RunRev updates [was RunRev 2.8.1.470]

2007-06-22 Thread Heather Nagey
Just FYI, gm-2 is not on general release yet. Its still in testing. Once it is ready for release, the links on the main download pages will be changed, and your check for updates menu in Rev will be able to see it. Regards, Heather On 21 Jun 2007, at 22:55, Shao Sean wrote: All you need

AW: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
There has been a very nice altSQLite3 Demo stack from altuit, which was created for altSQLite, before they took it into 2.8.1 and had a very nice step by step demo. I just don't know where to find it, perhaps you'll find it somewhere. The only difference is it was called altSQLite3 and now SQLite

Re: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread Luis
Hiya, Revolution Studio/2.8.1-gm-2/Resources/Examples/SQLite Sampler.rev Substitute '2.8.1-gm-2' for your Rev version. Cheers, Luis. On 22 Jun 2007, at 09:16, paolo mazza wrote: Hi Liam, I can not find any specific tutorial for SQLite. In the video tutorial section of revolution site if

Re: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Hi Paolo, I think Liam meant for you to look in your revolution application folder on your hard drive. You should find a folder called examples in the folder called resources. In the examples folder is a stack called SQLite Sampler.rev Martin Baxter paolo mazza wrote: Hi Liam, I can not

Re: RunRev updates [was RunRev 2.8.1.470]

2007-06-22 Thread Luis
Eh? I got it via the Rev Updates Menu a few days ago. Cheers, Luis. On 22 Jun 2007, at 09:51, Heather Nagey wrote: Just FYI, gm-2 is not on general release yet. Its still in testing. Once it is ready for release, the links on the main download pages will be changed, and your check for

Re: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - From: paolo mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can not find any specific tutorial for SQLite. There's one in RevOnline that I did a few years ago. It assumes some basic knowledge so I'm not sure if it will help you or not... Scott Kane

Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Rossi
Hello List: I have a frontscript with a resizeControl handler that does stuff when a control is resized with the mouse. Can I trigger this handler when changing the dimensions of a control via script, for example: set the width of btn 1 to 200 When I run this from the message box, the

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Kane
From: Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] on various sites - and again in this best practice thread - it is recommended not to use globals, or at least so less as possible, because they can be changed from everywhere and that's hard to debug and no nice style. I really don't see any difference

Re: Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Scott, Assuming that this is done with the pointer tool: just set the cRevLoadInfo[revResizeControl] of your stack to true. I's a trick normally reserved for plugins but it works with any stack. Then the engine will send a revResizeControl to you. Just change the name of your resizeControl

Re: SQLite

2007-06-22 Thread paolo mazza
Thank you all. It is very helpfull. Revolution Studio/2.8.1-gm-2/Resources/Examples/SQLite Sampler.rev ** Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Società partecipata da Università di Padova via N. Tommaseo 84 35131 - Padova (Italy) Tel 049- 2050147 - Fax 049-7964386

AW: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello Scott, Ok, what I can follow is the better reference and with that the better documentation to whom an information belongs with properties instead of globals, as far there is a connection between them (not to store the number of legs of the cat independ of the cat in a global). So I see an

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - From: Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, what I can follow is the better reference and with that the better documentation to whom an information belongs with properties instead of globals, as far there is a connection between them (not to store the number of

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Sarah Reichelt
on various sites - and again in this best practice thread - it is recommended not to use globals, or at least so less as possible, because they can be changed from everywhere and that's hard to debug and no nice style. I really don't see any difference between using globals or properties yet.

AW: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Sarah, yes, whereever it is possible I try it with parametrized function calls, but I meant overall needed status informations, where there is no need for persistency. I think there it is more a matter of style not to use globals. Perhaps I'll switch in these cases to custom properties of

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Dave Cragg
On 22 Jun 2007, at 09:50, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I really don't see any difference between using globals or properties yet. Scott pointed out some of the problems of using globals. One particular problem in Rev is that we can easily share stacks with each other. If you use someone

AW: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Dave, this really is a hard fact assuming I will never have same object names as others, what is less risky, living in germany :) Thanks for reminding Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dave Cragg Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Juni

Hierachical listfield

2007-06-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Very nice. Have only played with the demo, not used it in anger, but it looks great: does one small thing, and does it perfectly. Well, maybe not perfectly, but very well. Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Phil Jimmieson
On 22 Jun 2007, at 12:49, Dave wrote: Hi, I really can't get this to work, I've tried it under 3 different versions of RunRev and they all crash the IDE when setting the alwaysBuffer flag to true. This is a repeatable, crashing bug with the stacks and system I have here, I can't

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:07, Phil Jimmieson wrote: If its important to you that it get fixed, or you get a workaround, then you may need to invest in some proper support. The thing is, if I invested in some proper support (as apposed to im-proper support!) I'd have paid god knows how much by

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, Le 22 juin 07 à 14:39, Dave a écrit : Af far as I can tell I'm doing everything that should be done and the IDE crashes out. How many among us have ended by finding their own mistakes? ;-) Actually, if you don't find anything related to your problem in BZ, it might signify that

Surprising result

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Smith
Following a thread (some time ago) about getting the size of a file, I've finally got around to doing a little test. One of the contentions was that it seemed inefficient to have to navigate to the folder containing the file, then get 'the detailed files', and parse the result just to find

Re: Stack Trace Function

2007-06-22 Thread xavier . bury
Hi Len, There's the classical and there the global way to debug... Im sure some people in the best practices thread might not like what i say but it is a suggestion and nothing prevents you from using a custom prop either to do the same thing. I love globals. But what i can propose as a

Stack Trace Function

2007-06-22 Thread Len Morgan
In trying to debug a rather complex application, I'm wondering if there is some sort of stack trace fuction (like there is in Tcl/Tk) so that when a message is sent, I can see the calling sequence that got me there? What's happening is that I have a message that clears a group when the group

Re: Stack Trace Function

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Len, Le 22 juin 07 à 15:25, Len Morgan a écrit : In trying to debug a rather complex application, I'm wondering if there is some sort of stack trace fuction (like there is in Tcl/ Tk) so that when a message is sent, I can see the calling sequence that got me there? Probably you can

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:54, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Dave, Le 22 juin 07 à 14:39, Dave a écrit : Af far as I can tell I'm doing everything that should be done and the IDE crashes out. How many among us have ended by finding their own mistakes? ;-) Actually, if you don't find anything

AW: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I would say looking into the source code without having explicit details what to look for wouldn't give more insight as looking into your source code. You only can track it down step by step, excluding one question, what has any relation to the player, after the other. Just my two cents Tiemo

Re: AW: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Jun 2007, at 15:06, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I would say looking into the source code without having explicit details Well you are wrong then! That's how bugs gets fixed. I have had a similar problems in the past where someone has looked at the source code and been able to find a

Re: AW: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread chris bohnert
Hi Dave, Deep breathing...it helps;-) Tiemo was saying that your case is pretty clearly an issue of the unintended consequences of different parts of code interacting. Asking for someone to look at the code most likely won't reveal the bug because they have no context for the other

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Luis
I use girlfriends names, but after the first one I need to use numbers... Cheers, Luis. On 22 Jun 2007, at 15:44, Shari wrote: Differentiating local and global variables: One way I differentiate is that all of my local variables are related to *it*. I always name a local variable some

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
Differentiating local and global variables: One way I differentiate is that all of my local variables are related to *it*. I always name a local variable some variation of it, for example: tit, wit, skit, pit, grit, twit, spit... If I get confused and can't remember in a long handler if

Unexpected quit problem solved

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
Bug 5165 Unexpected Quits update: The unexpected quit problem was definitely related to a graphic, but I don't think a bad image was the culprit. I created a whole new graphic in Photoshop from scratch and saved it as a PNG instead of GIF as the original had been, but that did not stop the

Re: AW: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
It's not that complex at all. One stacks calls another, there about 4 levels of call nested, that's about it. All works fine until I set alwaysBuffer to true on the Player, then it crashes! Here is a stack dump just before I set it true: field id 1167 of group id 1173 of card id 1002 of

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - From: -= JB =- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to show the clipboard from a Revolution script? Yes. From the Rev doc's. if the clipboard is text then paste if the clipboard is empty then answer Nothing to paste! Scott Kane

Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread -= JB =-
Is there a way to show the clipboard from a Revolution script? thanks, -=JB=- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Eric Chatonet wrote: Assuming that this is done with the pointer tool: just set the cRevLoadInfo[revResizeControl] of your stack to true. I's a trick normally reserved for plugins but it works with any stack. Then the engine will send a revResizeControl to you. Just change the name of your

Re: Unexpected quit problem solved

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Marriott
Shari, What the handler did was copy a graphic from one stack to another, and perform a lot of manipulations on the newly pasted graphic. It would resize and rotate the graphic frequently. This handler used to work without issue. But for some reason now it chokes the engine and makes it

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread Ian Wood
On 22 Jun 2007, at 09:45, -= JB =- wrote: Thanks for the reply but I don't think you understood the question. When I am in the finder I can select the clipboard from the edit menu and show it. I am really not interested in pasting because I can do it. And I would rather not paste to see what

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo wrote: on various sites - and again in this best practice thread - it is recommended not to use globals, or at least so less as possible, because they can be changed from everywhere and that's hard to debug and no nice style. I really don't see any difference between using globals or

Re: Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread David Bovill
No unfortunately. The way I do this is to: set the view_Rect of someControl to someRect You can then place these scripts in the front script: setprop view_Rect someRect put the long id of the target into targetObject put the rect of targetObject into someRect trigger_FrontScriptResize

Windows menubar line

2007-06-22 Thread Devin Asay
I've looked for this but can't find it. Is there a simple way to create a Windows-style 3-D-ish line that separates the menu from the rest of the window? (I.e., the line under the menubar, not the separators within individual menus.) Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Dave wrote: I really can't get this to work, I've tried it under 3 different versions of RunRev and they all crash the IDE when setting the alwaysBuffer flag to true. This is a repeatable, crashing bug with the stacks and system I have here, I can't reproduce it in a simpler form

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread -= JB =-
On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Scott Kane wrote: - Original Message - From: -= JB =- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to show the clipboard from a Revolution script? Yes. From the Rev doc's. if the clipboard is text then paste if the clipboard is empty then answer Nothing to

Re: Trigger resizeControl?

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richard, I love your precision sense ;-) And you are right: I did not answered the question Scott asked. Nevertheless knowing all these messages that can be automatically sent to any stack by just setting a custom property appropriately stays unknown and valuable for stacks running in the

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dave wrote: On 22 Jun 2007, at 13:07, Phil Jimmieson wrote: If its important to you that it get fixed, or you get a workaround, then you may need to invest in some proper support. The thing is, if I invested in some proper support (as apposed to im-proper support!) I'd have paid god knows

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Speaking of persistence, has anyone been using the Variable preservation by default feature in Preferences--Script Editor-- that showed up a few version ago? How would this be used, and does anybody actually turn this on? the tooltip says Preserve script-local variables are declared and

Re: Windows menubar line

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: I've looked for this but can't find it. Is there a simple way to create a Windows-style 3-D-ish line that separates the menu from the rest of the window? (I.e., the line under the menubar, not the separators within individual menus.) Here's a script from the MC IDE which

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread -= JB =-
On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Ian Wood wrote: On 22 Jun 2007, at 09:45, -= JB =- wrote: Thanks for the reply but I don't think you understood the question. When I am in the finder I can select the clipboard from the edit menu and show it. I am really not interested in pasting because I

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: Speaking of persistence, has anyone been using the Variable preservation by default feature in Preferences--Script Editor-- that showed up a few version ago? How would this be used, and does anybody actually turn this on? the tooltip says Preserve script-local

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
-= JB =- wrote: So you want to show the clipboard text in a window? In that case you are going to need a new substack, and put the text into a field in that substack. Then use something like: put the clipboardData[text] into fld clip of stack show clip go stack show clip ... Okay, thanks.

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Stephen Barncard wrote: Speaking of persistence, has anyone been using the Variable preservation by default feature in Preferences--Script Editor-- that showed up a few version ago? How would this be used, and does anybody actually turn this on? It was turned on by default when it first

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Just so the list knows, tech support is working with Dave without a support contract. This is pretty much normal procedure for crashing bugs. To actually go in and examine his code in detail though, he would have to purchase a support incident. For those of us who may

Re: Unexpected quit problem solved

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
The issue is very likely rotate. There are some issues with the rotate command. You can cause a crash in rev simply by loading an image and rotating it repeatedly. It hasn't been an easy problem to resolve, but it is slated for 2.9... Thanks for sending in the crash logs and reporting the bug.

Re: Back to my standalone 10.2.x bug....

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
OSX Universal standalone on 10.2.8 update: The weird issue where it didn't decompress a file stored in a property and copy it to the hard drive seems to have disappeared. I recompiled a new verson today and tried it on the 10.2.8 and it worked perfectly. I did have trouble logging into the

Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Has anyone been using rev 2.6.1 stanalons on mac osX 10.2 and earlier? We are having a devil of a time getting a 10.2 test machine. we are buying a 10.2 set of discs and setting up an old imac, but i thought i would make double sure that folks were not having any 10.2 or earlier troubles

Re: Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeff Reynolds wrote: Has anyone been using rev 2.6.1 stanalons on mac osX 10.2 and earlier? We are having a devil of a time getting a 10.2 test machine. we are buying a 10.2 set of discs and setting up an old imac, but i thought i would make double sure that folks were not having any 10.2

Re: Again - Player/Image Object always buffer Problems

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: For those of us who may need a support contract from time to time, it might be helpful is you or someone from RunRev could describe what's covered by such a contract and what isn't. It's on the web site in pretty good detail:

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ah... then that would explain why I had to restart some things after editing some libraries when I hadn't before... thanks In that context persistence only applies to the current session; unlike custom props, which are physically stored in the object record, the values of script-local

Re: Windows menubar line

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: I've looked for this but can't find it. Is there a simple way to create a Windows-style 3-D-ish line that separates the menu from the rest of the window? (I.e., the line under the menubar, not the separators within individual menus.) I usually just set the showborder and

Re: Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
Doesn't the v2.8.1GM2 build address OS X 10.2? I can verify that I've built a 10.2.x compatible standalone with 2.8.1-gm-2 (build 471) Didn't the Rev team just tell us that this release is not official, though? In spite of so many of us having it :-) My question is: Where some places

reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread runrev260805
Hi, i have to read a textfile, which is comma separated and contains as text identifier. The item delimiter is , My problem is, i do not know, how can i read the file and detect each item of a line, as the items are sepearated by comma and the textfield/items could contain comma, too. How can

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
In cases like this I usually open the csv with my OpenOffice and save it with record delimiter set to tab and no text delimiter (e.g. ordinary tab delimited file). Then I go to my Revolution studio :-). Otherwise it is a real headache to process the correct csv files as some clever programs also

Re: Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Morrow
Jeffrey, One of my stand-alones makes use of drawers (drawers aren't usable in rev versions after 2.6.1 when run under OSX prior to 10.4) so still I build with rev 2.6.1 and test on OSX 10.2.8 and 10.3.9 machines regularly. Scott Morrow Elementary Software On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:13 PM,

Re: Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Tiemo- BTW does anybody know if there is a performance difference if you declare local variables or not? (beside the style question) Questions of style aside, there shouldn't be any performance hit at runtime - it all compiles down to the same code. At compile time there might be a miniscule

Re: Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jeff- I can verify that 2.6.1 and OSX 10.2.8 cooperate fully. It's been a little while since I've used a rev version that old, but I used that combination before 2.7 got stable and still have it installed as a backup. For the record, 2.7.4 and 10.2.8 also play well together. -- Mark Wieder

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Ault
My problem is, i do not know, how can i read the file and detect each item of a line, as the items are sepearated by comma and the textfield/items could contain comma, too. How can i tell Revolution to ignore the comma in the tesxtarea of an item Short answer is to ask for a tab delim file

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
runrev260805 wrote: i have to read a textfile, which is comma separated and contains as text identifier. The item delimiter is , My problem is, i do not know, how can i read the file and detect each item of a line, as the items are sepearated by comma and the textfield/items could contain

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Ault
Whoops, forgot one line for sure... Job 2 is to scan for quotes where readingString = true and convert it to numtochar (4) false into readingString put empty into prevCH repeat for each char CH in textBlock if (CH is ,) and prevCH is q then put false into readingString put

Re: Windows menubar line

2007-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:41:46 -0700, Richard Gaskin wrote: Devin Asay wrote: I've looked for this but can't find it. Is there a simple way to create a Windows-style 3-D-ish line that separates the menu from the rest of the window? (I.e., the line under the menubar, not the separators

Re: Surprising result

2007-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:58 +0100, Mark Smith wrote: Currently, I have a library handler: function getFileInfo pFileName (snip) Great minds think alike! There's a similar one on the Rev Standard Library at RevInterop: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop stdFileInfo

Re: Rev 2.6.1 and OS X 10.2 and earlier

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shari wrote: Where some places call a build gm-2 and some call it 471, how do you know which gm = which build number? Couple of places. On OS X, it's in the version in the Get Info box. Or you can query Rev's message box with put the buildnumber. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Detangling Rev versions

2007-06-22 Thread Shari
Where some places call a build gm-2 and some call it 471, how do you know which gm = which build number? Couple of places. On OS X, it's in the version in the Get Info box. Or you can query Rev's message box with put the buildnumber. I guess my question should have been worded differently...

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:36:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have to read a textfile, which is comma separated and contains as text identifier. The item delimiter is , My problem is, i do not know, how can i read the file and detect each item of a line, as the items are sepearated

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ahh parsing fun... this is easy... Rev considers text between quotes as a word when wholematches is true. Each data within the data is on a separate line. set the wholematches to true put line 1 of fld output2 into tLine repeat for each word tWord in tLine put tWord return after tOut end

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread -= JB =-
On Jun 22, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's basically what the Mac Finder does. You can obtain the type of data on the clipboard with the clipboard() function, then use the clipboardData global array to obtain its contents for display. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor,

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Barncard
That won't work; there's commas within the quotes. See my previous post. Hi, Not sure what you are asking? Do you want to know how to get rid off the quote characters? If so, just do this on the line that is read in: replace quote with empty in myCSVLine Then just break off all the fields

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Dave
Hi, Not sure what you are asking? Do you want to know how to get rid off the quote characters? If so, just do this on the line that is read in: replace quote with empty in myCSVLine Then just break off all the fields using , as the delimiter as in: put item 1 of myCSVLine into

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
-= JB =- wrote: How do you set the clipboard to empty. You did it fine. set the clipboardData to empty. Don't ask why because I really have no reason except I am curious if it can be done. Ours is not to question why. :) If I use the script below it will empty the clipboard from

Re: reading CSV text file

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Ault
There are also commas between quotes. This means that embedded quotes and commas are part of the string data and need to be preserved. eg. chain, gold, 12, hook clasp,out of stock,0,36.00, 79.99 Jim Ault Las Vegas On 6/22/07 10:19 PM, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't

Re: Colorizing List Fields

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Ault
On 6/21/07 6:15 PM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While either of these approaches will work, the html version is much faster if you have to color a lot of lines because you can work in a variable instead of directly in a field. I have a printout generation routine where every 2nd

Re: Clipboard

2007-06-22 Thread -= JB =-
On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: When you set the clipboardData to empty, the contents are empty but it still has a type. The clipboard is text when I try that; apparently Rev thinks empty is a text type. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]