Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Jacque, Le 2 août 07 à 05:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit : You can put info in custom properties and password-protect the stack, which makes the properties unreadable and encrypted. Unfortunately (and this would be a nice to have), custom properties can be accessed as usual in a password

Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread Josh Mellicker
Hi, and thanks for all your responses. entering/reading data manually: text file way easier What is manually in this context? What other processes in the workflow require manual editing? Basically I was saying typing stuff in a text file is easier than altering custom properties with

Re: mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Mark, Le 1 août 07 à 18:14, Mark E. Powell a écrit : After a user enters cursor in a fld (its traversalOn property is true), I want control-A to select the text of that fld. How do I do it? Sarah answered yet in the case you have a menu bar but may be you have not :-) A

Re: Shy Images

2007-08-02 Thread Dave Cragg
On 1 Aug 2007, at 13:12, Len Morgan wrote: Any ideas? Could I somehow duplicate the image I start with, make it a top level image, and switch what Rev thinks it's dragging to that? In addition to Ken's suggestion for copying the image in question, another possibility may be to keep a

Re: Find Command

2007-08-02 Thread Dave Cragg
On 2 Aug 2007, at 03:59, RG Teeter wrote: The handler below: on mouseUp 1 select the clickline 2 put the selectedtext into wordToFind 3 find string wordToFind in field TestFld2 4 put wordToFind the result 5 find string Cafe (das) in field TestFld2 end mouseUp line

Re: [slightly [OT]] A little Help removing Galaxy

2007-08-02 Thread william humphrey
I didn't go to the galaxy forum because of laziness born of frustration. I think that the command - and cmd shift are built into revolution and you're right cmd shift is sort of broken so it explains why I couldn't get it to work when random trying everything. Galaxy has a built in commenting

data stream processing

2007-08-02 Thread viktoras didziulis
Hi. I have a console application that constantly spews out numbers at a rate of 3 numbers per second. The task is to read the number and display it in a field, then as soon as the next number arrives it should replace the field's contents with new number visualise it graphicaly and so on ad

Vista menubar btns: Bug?

2007-08-02 Thread FlexibleLearning
Gr... In Vista, menubar pulldown btns hilite as standard btns on mouseEnter. Although I have logged this as a bug, I am not yet entirely convinced. If anyone else can confirm the behaviour or provide an explanation I would VERY much appreciate it. Driving me nuts here! /H

Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Jacque, Le 2 août 07 à 05:24, J. Landman Gay a écrit : You can put info in custom properties and password-protect the stack, which makes the properties unreadable and encrypted. Unfortunately (and this would be a nice to have), custom properties can be accessed as

Vista dilemma

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Sheffield
I'm wondering if anyone can help with this. I've got a standalone that, by default, is installed to the Program Files directory. At one point, it performs a check to see if the currently logged in user can write to that directory. Right now I just have it attempt to write to a file and

Re: data stream processing

2007-08-02 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Viktoras, Can the data stream come to the Rev app through a network port? If so, the easy solution would be to do something like this: on openStack accept datagram connections on port xx \ with message handleData end openStack on handleData pIPAddress, pData -- handle the data

Re: Vista dilemma

2007-08-02 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - So, question number one. Is there some way to tell my standalone, or the Vista OS, that I really and truly want my check to be performed on the Program Files directly, and not have things redirected to the VirtualStore? First - check out Version in the Help

Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Josh Mellicker wrote: entering/reading data manually: text file way easier What is manually in this context? What other processes in the workflow require manual editing? Basically I was saying typing stuff in a text file is easier than altering custom properties with a property editor

Re: Vista dilemma

2007-08-02 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:23:49 -0600, Chris Sheffield wrote: So, question number one. Is there some way to tell my standalone, or the Vista OS, that I really and truly want my check to be performed on the Program Files directly, and not have things redirected to the VirtualStore? The only

Re: Shy Images

2007-08-02 Thread Len Morgan
Thanks for the help Ken and Dave. Ken's routine worked almost untouched (just a little renaming of the variables). I'm having a few problems where the mouseRelease message is getting sent (it drops the picture where the mouse button was let go) but then it still seems to think I'm holding

moving resources out of a resource fork

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to export them all out. I can easily access them and copy them with resedit or rezilla, but i remember having an old os9 app that would take and export all the

Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread Josh Mellicker
Thanks for your illumination on this topic. On Aug 2, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If I'm reading your posts correctly it sounds to my ear like you've already decided. If it works, why change? I was just wondering if there was any case in which someone would store such a

Re: moving resources out of a resource fork

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Wood
Try File Juicer, it'll extract almost anything from almost anything... http://echoone.com/filejuicer/ Ian On 2 Aug 2007, at 18:41, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to

Re: mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-02 Thread Mark E. Powell
Hello Eric It does not work for me. For testing, I created a simple stack with one field and the script you suggested in the card script: www.aboutmyfiles.com/controlKeyDownTest.rev With the cursor in the field, control-A does nothing. If I choose Select All from the Rev IDE Edit menu, same

Checkbox maker

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Lambert
I've uploaded EZ Checkbox Family to RevOnline under CategoriesUtilities or UsersJimL. It contains a Checkbox Family control that lets you create groups of checkboxes with a just single click and get the selected items with one line of code. There are also a few commands to

Re: Shy Images

2007-08-02 Thread Dave Cragg
On 2 Aug 2007, at 18:22, Len Morgan wrote: I'm having a few problems where the mouseRelease message is getting sent (it drops the picture where the mouse button was let go) but then it still seems to think I'm holding down the button and I've still got an image that's getting dragged

Re: moving resources out of a resource fork

2007-08-02 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 8/3/07, Jeff Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to export them all out. I can easily access them and copy them with resedit or rezilla, but i remember having an

Re: moving resources out of a resource fork

2007-08-02 Thread Mark Smith
Jeff, have a look in the docs at the getResource(), getResources() and copyResource() functions. Best, Mark On 2 Aug 2007, at 18:41, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 47, Issue 1

2007-08-02 Thread Mark Greenberg
On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings for a really nice website! :) Thanks, Alejandro! And thanks also for helping me get started way back when I switched to Rev. Actually, I don't know if I would have stuck with Rev if it weren't for the amazingly helpful

Re: moving resources out of a resource fork

2007-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Reynolds wrote: Im starting to do a port of an old hypercard stack i have to a new Rev app. The old stack has a pile of pict resources and i need to export them all out. I can easily access them and copy them with resedit or rezilla, but i remember having an old os9 app that would take

Re: Find Command

2007-08-02 Thread RG Teeter
Dave was right, line 2 had a return in it. line 5 did not. I discovered this 20 minutes after I went to bed, got up and lo and behold it now works. Another difference between HC and RM. Many thanks. Bob Begin forwarded message: Friends, I have recently upgraded from HyperCard to

Re: save data in custom properties in a stack- or a text file?

2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
Again I say it's how you or your user use the data, and their skill in maintaining it without errors. If you find yourself complaining about editing custom properties in the inspector, then take an hour and write a property editor that saves properties instead of saving as a text file. This