Re: Accents

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Actually... using Rev 2.8.1 and Mac OS X 10.4.11, I can't reproduce the problem here. If you try answer hello do you still get jCu3l? ;-) I have no idea what causes this problem, but using htmlText might still help. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Chipp, On Dec 7, 2007 4:24 AM, Klaus Major Ian, sorry, don't use revCopyfile, and especially not revDeleteFile as I once passed it a empty string and it deleted the contents of my hard drive! Really? OUCH! I do recall uttering rather loudly some four letter words which shan't be repeated

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Ian, sorry, don't use revCopyfile, and especially not revDeleteFile as I once passed it a empty string and it deleted the contents of my hard drive! Really? OUCH! I do recall uttering rather loudly some four letter words which shan't be repeated here-- OUCH not one of them ;-)

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Ian Wood
On 7 Dec 2007, at 10:58, Klaus Major wrote: I do recall uttering rather loudly some four letter words which shan't be repeated here-- OUCH not one of them ;-) I know what you mean: BEEP! Right? ;-) Possibly even BEEP-beep-beepitty-BEP! I certainly would have... Ian

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay and Ian, Perhaps you both, being such fans of the simplicity and elegance of bundles, wouldn't mind starting a revLibrary which provides file operations on files/folders/bundles and share it with us less enlightened? When I said what a pain, I was referring to having to program around

Re: start player with rtsp://...

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Miller
Mark, As I recall, I had the same problem and discovered I needed to create a new, identical player (by script), and delete the old player, every time I needed the player to play an rtsp url. Then the start player command would work fine. Before creating the new player, of course, the

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Earlier I asked if Apple had such an api, and Klaus answered, I'm afraid not :-/ So, I just assumed they didn't have one. That's the confusion. Ah. If they have one, it seems Rev should be able to implement it. I wish they would. I think

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Chipp, On Dec 6, 2007 3:32 PM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chipp, I think I may have missed something earlier in this thread. Why do you think that OS X doesn't have an API for copying bundles (really folders)? I just did a quick search in XCode and saw FSCopyObjectSync.

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
Observations about bundles: If one needs to obfuscate a file - a bundle is surely a way to do it. Files inside a bundle are not searched by Spotlight. Need to hide a password cheat sheet? Create a bundle that has the name of a popular app you don't use by creating a folder, then add an

Re: My somewhat Off-Topic post of the day

2007-12-07 Thread Luis
Isn't that the same as what OS 9 had with Launcher? Cheers, Luis. On 7 Dec 2007, at 02:01, Kay C Lan wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 9:45 AM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laptops designed by 7-year-olds: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_laptop_club/ I see Alana, age

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Smith
A problem I've now found with the whatIsThis()/isPackage() idea is that though all the .bundle and .app folders I've looked at have a / Contents/info.plist file, a .rtfd (rich text with additions) does not. In TextEdit, create a rich text document. Type in some text, then paste in an image.

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Brenstein
get theNewFiles() get theNewFolders() get theNewContent() Which itself could start from some kind of whatIsThis() function? theNewFiles() and theNewFolders() would then be a couple of lines. NewCopyFile pStartPath,pDestinationPath Yes, that's what revCopyFile will do currently. Maybe others

Re: Accents

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ton, A quick workaround is this: put ¿Cuál? into fld xxx answer information the htmlText of fld xxx with Thanks 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

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Ian Wood
On 7 Dec 2007, at 10:41, Chipp Walters wrote: Kay and Ian, Perhaps you both, being such fans of the simplicity and elegance of bundles, wouldn't mind starting a revLibrary which provides file operations on files/folders/bundles and share it with us less enlightened? [...] Here are some I'd

Accents

2007-12-07 Thread Ton Cardona
I am using rev 2.8.1 and Mac OS X version 10.4.11 I type in a script: answer ¿Cuál? and in the box i get jCu3l? I type ¿Cuál? in a fld xxx and write answer fld xxx; I get tha same result: jCu3l? Any hints? Thanks Ton Cardona___ use-revolution

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
On Dec 7, 2007 4:24 AM, Klaus Major Ian, sorry, don't use revCopyfile, and especially not revDeleteFile as I once passed it a empty string and it deleted the contents of my hard drive! Really? OUCH! I do recall uttering rather loudly some four letter words which shan't be repeated

Valentina for Revolution 3.5 Released

2007-12-07 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, You can scroll down for the full release. To pick out bits just for Revolution users... - There are some new sample projects available that will be helpful in getting started with Valentina, especially if you are still new at this SQL thing :-) - The VKEYWORDS and custom database

Re: Accents

2007-12-07 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Ton Cardona wrote: Mark Shonewille is right in his tip, but with ... ask ¿Cuál?2 instead of answer ¿Cuál? does not work at all, it gives html formatted text That's right, it's a bug. See bug #4974 http://quality.runrev.com/ qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4974

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, at least on the Vista system I have. I was trying to move some files from another system to my wife's Vista and it kept moving the files around. Chris tells me it can be turned off. He *used* to have Vista installed on his Mac laptop, but I believe finally gave up and installed WinXP in his

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 8:09 AM, Trevor DeVore Recently I discovered that that certain copy operations would fail on Vista. Ouch. Did you have problems with put URL into URL? I didn't try using 'put URL' as I might be copying folders. I just

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
On Dec 7, 2007 8:09 AM, Trevor DeVore Recently I discovered that that certain copy operations would fail on Vista. Ouch. Did you have problems with put URL into URL? Don't even get me started with Vista. Just trying to manually copy stuff from folder to folder doesn't always work...as Vista

Accents

2007-12-07 Thread Ton Cardona
Mark Shonewille is right in his tip, but with ... ask ¿Cuál?2 instead of answer ¿Cuál? does not work at all, it gives html formatted text T. Cardona___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Standalone Text Field problem for WindowsXP

2007-12-07 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
As it turns out, much of the missing text is actually there. It just can't be seen. I thought it might be that the color for the text was being set to white, but that isn't the problem. The Menu hot keys work, but the menus themselves are still invisible. Frankly, I'm stumped. Joe Wilkins

Re: My somewhat Off-Topic post of the day

2007-12-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Dec 8, 2007 3:31 AM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis- Isn't that the same as what OS 9 had with Launcher? Sort of, but with ability to remap keyboard assignments and key legends. Yeah, but whilst I can recall that you could Launch most things, a maid wasn't one of them;-)

Re: [OT] JavaScript editor?

2007-12-07 Thread Mikey
Aptana is very popular because it's also the recommended editor for Ruby on Windows. You can get one of several editors for use with Firefox, all of which are supposed to be pretty good. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] JavaScript editor?

2007-12-07 Thread Andre Garzia
TextMate for creating javascript files (TextMate is like BBEdit but cheaper) Firebug for debugging them. Panic Coda is a nice all-in-one solution, but I don't use it. It pays to learn emacs or vi, since you'll probably be using ssh to the server and thats is probably what you'll have in there.

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: I think what Stephen was getting at was: if the extension is .bundle then it's a bundle. As such, I would assume only bundles have .bundle extensions, and therefore one can see a folder is supposed to be a file by checking a folder's extension. .bundle does indeed trigger

[OT] JavaScript editor?

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
I'm in a transition with some of my web tools, and I have a couple web projects on the horizon so I'm wondering: What's your favorite JavaScript editor? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: encrypt not working in Leopard?

2007-12-07 Thread Josh Mellicker
Thanks for checking, will try it. On Dec 6, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Jim Sims wrote: On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Josh Mellicker wrote: Has anyone else run into a problem with encrypt or decrypt in OS X 10.5 (Leopard)? We have tried using blowfish and bf-ecb, but on Leopard systems (dev

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
Agreed, the current tools don't seem to adjust for everything and custom solutions might be needed. But, if we want to know if one of the folders returned by 'the folders' is a bundle, I don't think we have a sure way. Well one way would be (is a folder) AND (has a dot-suffix) = bundle

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: But, if we want to know if one of the folders returned by 'the folders' is a bundle, I don't think we have a sure way. Well one way would be (is a folder) AND (has a dot-suffix) = bundle normal folders don't have a dot-suffix and one can't make a package by using

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Smith
But since any app can create it's own bundle documents, that list (and I haven't been able to find it) will probably never be exhaustive. Also, bundles of any sort are selectable in the answer file dialog, but not the answer folder dialog, however, 'the files' does not include them while

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
On Dec 6, 2007 3:32 PM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chipp, I think I may have missed something earlier in this thread. Why do you think that OS X doesn't have an API for copying bundles (really folders)? I just did a quick search in XCode and saw FSCopyObjectSync. It takes a

Standalone Text Field problem for WindowsXP

2007-12-07 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, I'm back after a considerable hiatus, and have some new plans for Revolution articles on the Macinstruct.com website. First, however, I need to wrap up the application that was in the mill when I dropped out of the list. I finally got a Mac Pro with the 30 Apple Display that allows

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
So, I mistakenly thought only .bundle extensions on folders were bundles-- but, you're saying there are others as well? I've 2 questions: 1. What is the factor which determines whether a folder is treated like a file? 2. How do you Mac guys handle this? IOW, when you walk through a folder

Re: How to auto startup

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 6, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 3:11 AM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another step, if you are serious about going down the path is to consider the free editor program called Smile. Far better than Script Editor. Jim is spot on the money with his

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
On Dec 7, 2007 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good question. Does it really do that for files not being transferred via HTTP/FTP? Not sure if this is what you're asking but: put URL (binfile: C:/test.jpg) into URL (binfile: D:/test.jpg) is the way I do all my local file

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
On Dec 7, 2007 12:14 PM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So even if you paste into My Documents it moves them into My Pictures behind your back? Interesting feature. Not sure *I'd* call it a feature...but evidently someone at Microsoft thinks it is.

Re: Packages (was: copy large files in Rev on Mac)

2007-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I think what Stephen was getting at was: if the extension is .bundle then it's a bundle. As such, I would assume only bundles have .bundle extensions, and therefore one can see a folder is supposed to be a file by checking a folder's extension. Perhaps I'm wrong? -Chipp On Dec 7,

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Trevor DeVore wrote: On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Did you have problems with put URL into URL? I didn't try using 'put URL' as I might be copying folders. I just modified the rev handlers to use robocopy on Vista and

Re: My somewhat Off-Topic post of the day

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Luis- Isn't that the same as what OS 9 had with Launcher? Sort of, but with ability to remap keyboard assignments and key legends. -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: copy large files in Rev on Mac

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Did you have problems with put URL into URL? I didn't try using 'put URL' as I might be copying folders. I just modified the rev handlers to use robocopy on Vista and put them into my own libraries. I imagine put URL