OT: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Alcibiades
For anyone curious about Linux, and who has not yet gone beyond Ubuntu, elive, one of my favourite projects, has just reached their 1.0 release. This is about as amazing a visual and desktop experience as you can get, and what you might have expected from a developer with the name of

Re: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Kane
From: Peter Alcibiades [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anyone curious about Linux, and who has not yet gone beyond Ubuntu, elive, one of my favourite projects, has just reached their 1.0 release. This is about as amazing a visual and desktop experience as you can get, and what you might have expected

Re: Problem parsing data in Gigabyte size text files

2007-07-06 Thread Dave
Hi, That sounds like a better approach to me too, however if the problem is because the file is 2GB (or whatever the limit is on Windows) then it still won't work. All the Best Dave On 5 Jul 2007, at 13:20, Andre Garzia wrote: Alejandro, if this is that kind of XML that has a simple

Re: Re: Re: XML headaches

2007-07-06 Thread Malte Brill
Thanks Ken, that´s what I was afraid of. Andre: The gt; is in the contents of the node, not in the Tag name. The whole thing is UTF8 encoded, so I do not see how the external should lose any char in the node contents. It appears that it doesn´t get along with mixed stuff in node contents

PDF files handling

2007-07-06 Thread Bryan McCormick
Ken, Andre Thanks for taking the time on this vexing PDF issue. Either solution does appear to work some of the time at least. The better formatted papers that have standard form (JEL classifcation, etc) can easily be read by Andre's solution. Sometimes by Ken's as well although many papers

Re: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:55:31 +1000, Scott Kane wrote: From: Peter Alcibiades [EMAIL PROTECTED] For anyone curious about Linux, and who has not yet gone beyond Ubuntu, elive, one of my favourite projects, has just reached their 1.0 release. Thanks for the link, Peter! I'm going to DL and

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Dom
Francis Nugent Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 40 years of programming, I think I could write a book called Some programmers are from Mars, Others are from Venus (and I don't know what planet I came from ..!) Chiche ! [my Harrap's Shorter writes: Try it! and I dare you! the on-line

OT: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Err, I've been running Ubuntu with E17 as a desk-top manager for some months now. So: What does elive have that Ubuntu with E17 doesn't? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development

Re: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Kane
From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, it doesn't look like that at all to me - the video that's there that shows elive shows dark screens at the beginning, but lighter ones later on, so I'm sure it's just a theme choice. My internet connection is running at dialup speed today so I

insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
I posted this to the IMPROVE list but nobody with an INTEL mac has confirmed this. This appears to be a problem ONLY with INTEL versions of REV. Please help me confirm this. Demo stack link below. Sometimes we design text fields with their background a dark color and the foreground a light

OT: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richmond - Q: What does it have that Ubuntu with E17 doesn't? A: Thanatermesis! I notice that they are asking for a small donation for the download - which I'm happy to give as recognition for having got to 1.0, since I've a soft spot for them, and think its amazing what they have done

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Bryan, there's still hope! :D two new tricks, does the filename contain meaningful data about the title? if so, check for the presence of those words and what is near them. I belive titles uses big font faces and appear alone on a page or at least have importance on a page. Look for big font

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/6/07, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this to the IMPROVE list but nobody with an INTEL mac has confirmed this. This appears to be a problem ONLY with INTEL versions of REV. Please help me confirm this. Demo stack link below. Confirmed MacBook Pro 2.0, 10.4.9, Rev

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/6/07, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes very difficult any text editing where the background of the field is dark and the text is light. I do not have a INTEL native text editor handy that can do a black background to see if this is a OS problem. In a Universal

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Devin Asay
On Jul 6, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I posted this to the IMPROVE list but nobody with an INTEL mac has confirmed this. This appears to be a problem ONLY with INTEL versions of REV. Please help me confirm this. Demo stack link below. Stephen, I can confirm this bug on

Re: Re: Re: XML headaches

2007-07-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Malte, I think the XML External will have trouble if gt; is present anywhere, even as node content. gt; is not an XML Entity, I had that problem before too, you can try replacing the ampersands for amp;. This may move your software forwards while RunRev External Quality Ninjas work out what is

Re: Problem parsing data in Gigabyte size text files

2007-07-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Fat32 has a 4gb file size limit, but I think NTFS or whatever windows uses nowadays is not limited like this. Cheers andre On 7/6/07, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, That sounds like a better approach to me too, however if the problem is because the file is 2GB (or whatever the limit is

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/6/07, Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: changes to a white cursor (as is the insertion point) Sorry, a little confusion there - as I was playing with all sorts of colours, but the end result is that it behaves as expected. Page black with white text = cursor insertion point = white

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Ralf Bitter
On 6. Jul 2007, at 16:17, Stephen Barncard wrote: I posted this to the IMPROVE list but nobody with an INTEL mac has confirmed this. This appears to be a problem ONLY with INTEL versions of REV. Please help me confirm this. Just another confirmation: MacBook Pro 2.33, 10.4.10, Rev 2.8.2

Base64 conversion

2007-07-06 Thread Javier Miranda V.
Something is missing in this stack, it doesn't work, can you take a look? It's supposed to convert a decimal number to Base64. I tried 3 ways to do it with no success!  Saludos, Javier PS.: Later I would like to ask something about inter-application communications and a couple of things

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/6/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A system agnostic approach would be to ask the user to select and copy the title to the clipboard, this way, you just need to check clipboarddata[text] to get your title. Unfortunately Rev's inter-app clipboard transferring ability is less

Re: What I did with Rev last night

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/5/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is so satisfying to be able to write whatever I need. Anyone else done little personal stacks with Rev lately? Finally got sick and tired of trying to track down self generated errors in very long horizontal lists that are suppose to

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Kay, I've met one of Devon Tech developers in Malta :-) Small world ain't it, a Brazilian and he is from Bulgary, met in Malta in the house of Sims and Cloe. My needs are simple. I put online versions of some parts of magazines for the Himalayan Academy Publications (www.himalayanacademy.com).

Re: Problem parsing data in Gigabyte size text files

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Friday, July 6, 2007, 8:03:36 AM, you wrote: Fat32 has a 4gb file size limit, but I think NTFS or whatever windows uses nowadays is not limited like this. The problem here is not so much with the OS limitations, but more one of apps written in C (i.e., the engine) that use the standard

Re: Problem parsing data in Gigabyte size text files

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Kane
From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem here is not so much with the OS limitations, but more one of apps written in C (i.e., the engine) that use the standard file functions (fread, fwrite, fseek, etc.) that are limited to 2GB file sizes due to the size of an integer. Switching to the

Re: Starting at square one with image processing

2007-07-06 Thread James Hurley
Message: 24 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:42:10 -0700 From: Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Starting at square one with image processing To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes;

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/7/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've met one of Devon Tech developers in Malta :-) Small world ain't it, a Brazilian and he is from Bulgary, met in Malta in the house of Sims and Cloe. Sounds more like the start of a very bad joke;- My needs are simple. As are mine.

Re: insert cursor bug

2007-07-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks Kay, Devin and Ralf for the confirmation. I guess this is one of the few problems for us Intel mac users that I can see in the Bug database. On 6. Jul 2007, at 16:17, Stephen Barncard wrote: I posted this to the IMPROVE list but nobody with an INTEL mac has confirmed this. This

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Josh Mellicker
I have found the possibility of making a variable typing error is almost nil, but the primary reason for this is that I almost never type variable names. (except the first time :-) It is faster and 100% accurate for me to use a feature I contributed to Galaxy called ScriptPaint to paint

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Josh Mellicker
On Jun 29, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Dave wrote: When I edit code (whatever the language) I type the name of the variable once and once only and maybe I don't type the whole thing at all. I then use copy/paste to paste the variable into where it is being used. Oops, I just saw this...

Re: scripting challenge Contest ?

2007-07-06 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hi Brian For a simple approach solution, this is pretty darn close, except where trailing punctuation forms part of the string to find... put This is a great script - Brian did good! into sourceText put script - Brian into findThis put wholeFindIt (sourceTest, findThis) = FALSE # should be

Re: Base64 conversion

2007-07-06 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:16:55 -0400, Javier Miranda V. wrote: Something is missing in this stack, it doesn't work, can you take a look? It's supposed to convert a decimal number to Base64. I tried 3 ways to do it with no success! Javier, you aren't allowed to upload stacks to the list, only

Windows and screens...

2007-07-06 Thread David Bovill
If I change screen dimensions or arrangement on a second monitor (at least on OSX) Rev behaves very differently to other applications. Stacks cannot be positioned properly and jump around. Specifically if the screen arrangement is one in which the top of the second screen is above the top of the

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/7/07, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, I just saw this... Copy/Paste works well, but the sequence: - mouse move to highlight the word (lose your insertion point in the line you're working on) - copy (two keystrokes) - move mouse back to line - paste (two keystrokes)

Re: What I did with Rev last night

2007-07-06 Thread Dom
Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The result, the horizontal data is now displayed vertically, nicely lined up to match. Finding extra, missing or mismatched data couldn't be easier. by the way, i think there IS a function to commute from horizontal list to vertical ones!?

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: Unfortunately, Rev and CopyPaste don't get on :-( I have a frontscript that lives in a plugin and automatically gets put in use whenever I launch Rev. Adding scriptpaint to it was a one-liner, I just did it a couple of minutes ago since it seems like such a great idea. In

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: This puts a smile on my face because the best assistant for me is a program called CopyPaste. ... Unfortunately, Rev and CopyPaste don't get on :-( I favor CopyPaste, too...everywhere but Rev. Rev's stranglehold on the clipboard trips up

Re: Base64 conversion

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Smith
Javier, I'm assuming that what you want to is to convert numbers fom base 10 to base 64. If this is right, I don't think there is a way to do this easily in Rev. The baseConvert function will only convert to a maximum base of 36, so you'll have to do the binary maths yourself! (I think

Re: Revolution Freezing or Quitting Unexpectedly

2007-07-06 Thread Shari
Hi, I have a similar problem, e.g. a crash/quit and it's inside QuickTime too. Are you using a player or making use of the export snapshot command? I have this problem on the following machines: G5, G4, G4 PowerBook all running 10.4.10. All the Best Dave Dave, Mine was related to

Re: What I did with Rev last night - few lines of code for graphical file/folder/volume navigator

2007-07-06 Thread viktoras didziulis
Didn't expect programming an embedded volumes/folders/files navigator can be so easy. If you need something like this in your application, use the source below - just copy/paste the 3 handlers from this message into a scrolling field. In object inspector check the lock text and the list

Re: What I did with Rev last night - few lines of code for graphical file/folder/volume navigator

2007-07-06 Thread viktoras didziulis
Whoops, Thunderbird reformatted the e-mail, so likely you won't be able to get it running after copying/pasting the code from my previous message. Here is a sample stack with a field using these 3 short handlers if anyone is interested: go stack URL http://www.ekoinf.net/File_browser.rev; feel

Monitoring a FileMaker Post

2007-07-06 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I'm using Revolution to send queries to extract data from a remote FileMaker database running on a Mac. The version of FileMaker is 6 Unlimited. My post is simple. It looks like this. post thePost to url theURL But because I'm often extracting hundreds, if not

Re: scripting challenge Contest ?

2007-07-06 Thread Sakari Ruoho
I probably suck on this since I'm a noob, but the nevertheless I had fun with this one.. :D This is not optimized so it might have some overhead. I also nicked a piece of code from brian's one and changed it to my needs, hopefully you can forgive me ;) button script: on mouseUp put This is

Re: Answer Dialog Position, Again

2007-07-06 Thread Shari
I'm a bit late to this thread. I found it only because I was having trouble and searched the archives. My answer was opening not only in the top right third of the screen but partway OFF the screen on MacOSX in development mode. I added my votes to this known bug/enhancement.

Re: What I did with Rev last night

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Ault
I do the old way and paste into Excel using transpose. Only works with cr and tab delimited, though. Plus, I always have Excel open I have build a few transpose functions but always with more complex issues than the one Kay C. offered. Don't know of a built-in transpose in Rev. Jim Ault Las

Re: scripting challenge Contest ?

2007-07-06 Thread Brian Yennie
Sakari, Looks like a clever approach! I haven't had a chance to try it out, but it looks to be a nice combination of techniques. Anything I post here is up for grabs, unless I specifically say otherwise (and I never have). Especially when the group is working on a challenge, I'm happy to

Re: Starting at square one with image processing

2007-07-06 Thread James Hurley
I've discovered that I have no idea what's going on with the imagedata function. I thought that the imagedata was a pixel by pixel map of the image. I tried the following handler to look at each pixel of my image: on mouseUp put the name of image id 1014 into tName put the imagedata of

Re: Starting at square one with image processing

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Ault
Chipp has done some very good imagedata and alphadata example stacks. You should see how he does: ImageTrans.rev altMakeTrans.rev and Wilhelm Sanke tiles_seamless.rev Jim Ault Las Vegas On 7/6/07 4:51 PM, James Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've discovered that I have no idea what's going

Re: Starting at square one with image processing

2007-07-06 Thread Brian Yennie
James, You are on the right track. Your interpretation of the pixels is correct. However, I would pay special attention to the size of your image - setting the imageData can reset scaling you have done, which off of the top of my head is probably why you are seeing a line become a square

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/7/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a frontscript that lives in a plugin and automatically gets put in use whenever I launch Rev. Adding scriptpaint to it was a one-liner, I just did it a couple of minutes ago since it seems like such a great idea. --great script

Re: Windows and screens...

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/7/07, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I change screen dimensions or arrangement on a second monitor (at least on OSX) Rev behaves very differently to other applications. Stacks cannot be positioned properly and jump around. Yes I mentioned that recently on another thread and

Re: What I did with Rev last night

2007-07-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On 7/7/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do the old way and paste into Excel using transpose. Only works with cr and tab delimited, though. Plus, I always have Excel open Yes I'll put my hand up, I've done that enough times:-) I have build a few transpose functions but always with

Re: Re: Re: XML headaches

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Blackman
According to a handy little book I own, 'XML - in easy steps', gt; is the standard way to represent '' in node contents, so it should work. But it also mentions that you can use the unicode character code '#nnn;' for non standard characters. I tried a simplified test here on Windows and gt;

Re: scripting challenge Contest ?

2007-07-06 Thread FlexibleLearning
Well done, Sakari! This is impressive and building on prior published work is always sound practice. We may be close to an optimizable script here, folks. Your script handles the criteria including case sensitivity, except for ends of line (CR, LF and CRLF) and tab... put This is a