Doing in RR what we used to do in HC.

2007-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
At this point it should be observed that anybody who expects transparency between HC and RR sounds like someone who is not aware of the need to keep developing one's own knowledge and abilities. At the moment I make part of my living by churning out moronically simple RR stacks for EFL content

Emailing from within Revolution

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
[without using an email client..] I've never done this, but when it looked like I was going to need to, I planned to use the mail command from the shell in Linux. Presumably OSX has this also? http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/mailattachments.html is a fairly complete account of how to

Re: closeField and exitField problem

2007-10-16 Thread David Burgun
On 15 Oct 2007, at 20:30, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Yes, I too think that validating user entries is one of rev's weaknesses. However, artificially increasing the problem by not using the fields as data source seems a bit strange to me, especially with your reasoning. One area where

Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I'm using the following function to create a Zip file: - -- -- UtilFileCreateZipFile -- - function UtilFileCreateZipFile

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, The compress function creates data in gzip format. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier.

Re: Doing in RR what we used to do in HC.

2007-10-16 Thread Heather Nagey
http://support.runrev.com/hypercard.php cheers Heather On 16 Oct 2007, at 06:53, J. Landman Gay wrote: Devin Asay wrote: I assume y'all are familiar with Jacque's fine tutorial at http:// www.hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial/index.html. Somewhere embedded in that is a handy checklist of

matchText and accented characters

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Sheffield
The matchText function seems to be failing when searching for accented characters like á, é, í, ó, or ú. I'm not really up on my regex. Is there something special I need to do to make these characters work? For example, one search I'm performing is for the word fiancé. Thanks, Chris --

Re: matchText and accented characters

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Sheffield
Sorry, I'm using matchChunk, not matchText. But maybe the solution is the same? On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: The matchText function seems to be failing when searching for accented characters like á, é, í, ó, or ú. I'm not really up on my regex. Is there something

Re: matchText and accented characters

2007-10-16 Thread Andres Martinez
Hello Chris I think you need to check on the unicode setting. Use the following line before your search... set the useUnicode to true Regards, Andres Martinez www.baKno.com On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Sorry, I'm using matchChunk, not matchText. But maybe the

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Dave
Hi Mark, I saw that function, but it looks like it only works on a variable, not a file. I have a 5 MB file I which I want to compress and send to the server, how can I achieve this using the Compress function? Thanks a Lot All the Best Dave On 16 Oct 2007, at 17:47, Mark Schonewille

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, put the content of the file into a variable and then compress it. like: put url (binfile: PathToFile) into myVar put compress(myVar) into myCompressedVar put myCompressedVar into URL (binfile: PathToFile .gz) -- in case you want to save the gziped file andre On 10/16/07, Dave [EMAIL

Re: matchText and accented characters

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Andres. But that didn't seem to fix the problem. That property, according to the docs, only seems to apply to the numToChar and charToNum functions. I did try it just to make sure. On Oct 16, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Andres Martinez wrote: Hello Chris I think you need to check on the

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: I saw that function, but it looks like it only works on a variable, not a file. I have a 5 MB file I which I want to compress and send to the server, how can I achieve this using the Compress function? put compress(url (file:tMyFile)) into \ url ftp://myname:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
I'm sure, you wanted to write binfile, Richard. put compress(url (binfile:tMyFile)) into \ url ftp://myname:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from

libURL download failing to notice network loss...

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Friends, I am doing a simple test. Use libURL to download a simple file using load. I use load to put the file in the cache. During the transfer, I switch off the network hoping that after some interval, libURL will notice that she is alone in the world and trigger a timeout or an error in

Re: Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: I'm sure, you wanted to write binfile, Richard. put compress(url (binfile:tMyFile)) into \ url ftp://myname:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes indeed. Good catch. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread François Chaplais
Le 14 oct. 07, à 22:47, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : is much maligned in RR; and, not always, needlessly . . . But; to find out about opening other programs from within RR tool me 2 minutes with the Documentation (DC 2.6.1); a lot of time would be saved by folk if they went there first and

Re: libURL download failing to notice network loss...

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi Andre I just did a quick check here. load url tUrl with message loaded on loaded u, s put s cr u unload url u end loaded I get timeout returned in the status parameter (s). But I notice that if you are using libUrlSetStatusCallback to monitor this, no error is sent. It seems this

Re: libURL download failing to notice network loss...

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Thank you Dave! Again you save my life here! I'll patch my way around this. I have both callback messages set, one set as a param of the load call and one set using libURLSetStatusCallback, none receive the timeout here. :-/ I am still testing to see if it is an isolated problem or if I can

scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Friends, its me again, I am very verbose today. I have a big group whose rect is set to a small area of the stack. I can use the scrollbars that rev automatically adds to it to scroll the group. Now, if I want to code my way to scroll the group, how should I proceed? I have a find function

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: its me again, I am very verbose today. I have a big group whose rect is set to a small area of the stack. I can use the scrollbars that rev automatically adds to it to scroll the group. Now, if I want to code my way to scroll the group, how

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
put the vScroll of group 1 put the hScroll of group 1 I found out, I too forget what command/property works for which effect/object all of the time, rev just has too many keywords sometimes... Bjoernke On 16 Oct 2007, at 22:13, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Friends, its me again, I am very

(OT) Parsing SQL space padded results in Rev]

2007-10-16 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
(I'm reading in the Rev use list on this one. I'm sure this has been tackled and solved 1000 Times already, getting clean data back from SQL queries) At 12:23 PM 10/14/2007, SKTS wrote: but the number of spaces varies... Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: huh, are you sure? seems like that

The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: version 2.6.1... looks much better organized than in version 2.8.1 Hmm, there is a question of licencing here; but (?) I suppose people who own licences to 2.8.1 may in some way be allowed access to components from 2.6.1. It is extremely simple to hive-off the

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Trevor, Thanks for posting these. I've heard Jerry mention them some time ago. I'll be sure and add them to my Groups management library. -Chipp On 10/16/07, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: its me again, I am very verbose today. I have

Re: (OT) Parsing SQL space padded results in Rev]

2007-10-16 Thread Mikey
Are you sure it's Kauai that's rainiest? I thought the interior of Pohnpeii near Liduduhnlap had that beat by a fairly comfortable margin, at around 1400-1500 ipy. Not that Kauai isn't spectacular, but I don't remember getting rained on as much as I did on Pohnpeii...or nailed by as many

Re: (OT) Parsing SQL space padded results in Rev]

2007-10-16 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Mikey wrote: Are you sure it's Kauai that's rainiest? I thought the interior of Pohnpeii near Liduduhnlap had that beat by a fairly comfortable margin, at around 1400-1500 ipy. Ha! if that's true then you are absolutely right. it must be some local hype ... but that claim has been tossed

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Cragg
On 16 Oct 2007, at 04:46, Chipp Walters wrote: Now, for the 'other' side of things. As a thought experiment, I would suggest a very plain Rev to Javascript GUI implementation which implemented only the following: I've been thinking along similar lines, but translating Rev GUI to Adobe's

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: How outlandish is the idea of a full (or reasonably full) Transcript to JavaScript translator? Or a Transcript interpretor written in Javascript? I'd wager $50 that it's impossible. Any takers? $50 is too low for a sucker bet. :) Rev allows so much more than a browser

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Cragg
On 16 Oct 2007, at 23:25, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave Cragg wrote: How outlandish is the idea of a full (or reasonably full) Transcript to JavaScript translator? Or a Transcript interpretor written in Javascript? I'd wager $50 that it's impossible. Any takers? $50 is too low for a

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: Rev allows so much more than a browser does that it may be a better question to ask: What do I want to present in a browser? I'm not sure that's a valid question. I hate browser based apps, so my answer would be nothing. But clients/users think different. Some of them

Who was the winner in the survey?

2007-10-16 Thread Derek Bump
Maybe I've been under a rock for the last few weeks, or maybe my email server was down (it was), but I never heard any announcement as to who won the Survey that RunRev was doing about 2 months ago. So, who's the lucky programmer?! Derek Bump Dreamscape Software

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:13:47 -0300, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Friends, its me again, I am very verbose today. I have a big group whose rect is set to a small area of the stack. I can use the scrollbars that rev automatically adds to it to scroll the group. Now, if I want to code my way to

Signed apps in Tiger

2007-10-16 Thread Ian Wood
I've not seen this mentioned, but the '300 new features in Tiger' page contains: Signed Applications Feel safe with your applications. A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity. All applications shipped with Leopard are signed by Apple, and

Re: matchText and accented characters

2007-10-16 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:18:54 -0600, Chris Sheffield wrote: Thanks, Andres. But that didn't seem to fix the problem. That property, according to the docs, only seems to apply to the numToChar and charToNum functions. I did try it just to make sure. The issue is that PCRE (which is the lib

getting those pesky spaces out of a PostgreSQL select

2007-10-16 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
Swami It appears that the -A option to psql does what you want. It's right at the beginning of the man entry for psql. To see this in action log in to vel and cd to /tmp, then run psql htde -f event.sql It looks like this user_id | event_code | event_time | description

Rev friendly ISPs...

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Carwardine
Hi List... Can someone give me a list of Rev friendly ISPs? Thanks... Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Talking about a useful subset of transcript, out of my mind I think we need: chunk expressions / string manipulation. xml routines. db routines. custom properties (we can match them to json and dynamic objects) math common put/get calls libURL This is ignoring all the UI stuff, this is just what

Re: Rev friendly ISPs...

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
I use jaguarpc.net and am very happy with them. I have 2 vps and both run rev fine. Cheers andre On 10/16/07, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List... Can someone give me a list of Rev friendly ISPs? Thanks... Jim ___ use-revolution

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/17/07, François Chaplais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question here: there is a field labeled Notes in the dictionnary (vers. 2.8.1). It would be very nice if users could modify it to put comments etc.. Does somebody now of a way to do this? You may wish to look up a thread

Re: Rev friendly ISPs...

2007-10-16 Thread Phil Davis
Another is dreamhost.com. I have Rev CGI scripts running on their Linux (Debian) servers for one client. Phil Davis Andre Garzia wrote: I use jaguarpc.net and am very happy with them. I have 2 vps and both run rev fine. Cheers andre On 10/16/07, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Who was the winner in the survey?

2007-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/17/07, Derek Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never heard any announcement as to who won the Survey that RunRev was doing about 2 months ago. As a 'never won anything' kinda guy, I'm not so much interested in who won, but what the actual survey results were. I asked on this List

apache insead?

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Pierre Sahores used to have a good little rev-apache tutorial at: http://istream.homeunix.com/insead/index_en.html Is that still available somewhere? Could someone email thru a copy? regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Chipp Walters
On 10/16/07, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would utilize a subset of Transcript for basic business logic, along with a communication layer which helped move information back and forth to the server. This is where my thinking usually stops. :-) If this Transcript subset is too

Re: Rev friendly ISPs...

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
clarifying my answer better. You can choose among some Linuces in there. I've used their Fedora and now I am using their CentOS. I am using cPanel and I've used Plesk control panel before. Everything works fine, Revolution is happy and their support is very very good. http://jaguarpc.net Andre

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
I am sooo happy with my scrolling groups! :-D thanks! On 10/16/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:13:47 -0300, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Friends, its me again, I am very verbose today. I have a big group whose rect is set to a small area of the stack. I can

Re: Signed apps in Tiger

2007-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/17/07, Ian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not seen this mentioned, but the '300 new features in Tiger' page contains: Signed Applications Clearly your meant the other cat, Leopard. I also note that Stacks are back but have a new meaning for Apple. Look under the Desktop

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Date time conversion functions would be useful too. regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Talking about a useful subset of transcript, out of my mind I think we need: chunk expressions / string manipulation. xml routines. db routines. custom properties (we can match them to json and

Re: scrolling groups programatically?!

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/16/07 7:33 PM, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sooo happy with my scrolling groups! :-D thanks! I have made available a little demo stack for doing the scrolling group and setting the background color of each line separately. Two people contacted me off-list and asked for

Checkmarks in Option Buttons

2007-10-16 Thread Mike Hughes
After doing some research in the list archives, it seems that checkmarks are not compatible with menu items in option buttons -- is that still the case? Is there some sort of workaround for this: !cMy Checked Item Many thanks, Mike

Re: Moving Rev apps to the web (why isn't this on the horizon?)

2007-10-16 Thread Josh Mellicker
I have a project where I was choosing between a downloadable app or a web-based app, and I chose web-based, because of these demos of this Javascript library: http://extjs.com/deploy/ext/docs/index.html (start opening folders under the Examples and Demos folder) A framework like extJS

Re: The Documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Swindell
I think BvG is a great idea. I wish Revolution would embrace the idea and enhance and integrate the interface. It could really solve a lot of complaints and provide a wiki-like solution for user enhanced docs. still very much under control of the mother ship. Mark On Oct 16, 2007, at