real time monitoring, etc... was Revolution Reading GPS Data,

2008-03-04 Thread viktoras didziulis
...trying to figure out more than one (well... two) way of how one can make Revolution read a constant data stream coming via sockets, never ending log files, GPSes or any other real time monitoring system. Application has to display the changing status of these readings and in the same

found some lost printing in Linux 2.9

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
OK, the following seems to more or less work for printing cards. First you have to set the printerOutput to some file. Then print the relevant card using print This results in a postscript file appearing in the default folder. Then you do put shell(kprinter the print file) which brings up

Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wrote (probably in a moment of fairly naive euphoria): it would be perfectly possible to write a description in the text format and write a reader to reimport that to make a stack! Well, I suppose it would. BUT It would probably then be necessary to spit out details of ALL properties for

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread viktoras didziulis
not necessarily all. Majority of them have default values that in many cases mean empty :-). All the best! Viktoras Richmond Mathewson wrote: I wrote (probably in a moment of fairly naive euphoria): it would be perfectly possible to write a description in the text format and write a reader

Re: real time monitoring, etc... was Revolution Reading GPS Data,

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 4/3/08 08:04, viktoras didziulis wrote: ...trying to figure out more than one (well... two) way of how one can make Revolution read a constant data stream coming via sockets, never ending log files, GPSes or any other real time monitoring system. Application has to display the changing

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

2008-03-04 Thread Graham Samuel
FWIW, the GPS device I described is marketed by a European sports retailer, Decathlon, as KeyMaze 300 GH-601. I've found out via the SiRF web site (the device uses a SiRFstarIII processor) that it is actually a rebranded GlobalSat GH-601 - this is GlobalSat of Taiwan. On the SiRF site this

Re: unexpected widows nastiness

2008-03-04 Thread David Glasgow
On 3 Mar 2008, at 6:00 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: I don't know what's wrong, but since no one else has answered, I'll try anyway. :) What I'd do to track this down is to capture the file name of the image as it occurs in your script (for example, from the variable watcher,) and

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Len Morgan
Perhaps the way to solve this would be to dump all the properties of the template objects of this stack and then dump only properties of the objects that are different than the templates. This buys you a couple of things: 1) You only dump what's different 2) If someone has modified their

Re: unexpected widows nastiness

2008-03-04 Thread Len Morgan
Why can't you debug on Studio? That's all I have and I debug with it all the time. I don't think Enterprise has any different debugging facilities than Studio (but I could be wrong). len morgan Now why didn't I think of that? The image displayer changes dimensions to fit different shaped

Re: unexpected widows nastiness

2008-03-04 Thread Ian Wood
He can't debug with Studio because it's normally a single-platform licence - he can't run Studio on Windows as well without paying more... Ian On 4 Mar 2008, at 12:01, Len Morgan wrote: Why can't you debug on Studio? That's all I have and I debug with it all the time. I don't think

Multiple instances of a window

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Checkley
Hello all, I'm designing a document centric application. Is is possible to have Rev launch the same stack more than once i.e. create more than one instance of a window? I'm guessing that other than duplicating the same stack a few times or cloning the stack at runtime, it's not. Guess this

Re: Multiple instances of a window

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Baxter
Steve Checkley wrote: Hello all, I'm designing a document centric application. Is is possible to have Rev launch the same stack more than once i.e. create more than one instance of a window? I'm guessing that other than duplicating the same stack a few times or cloning the stack at

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Dave
The way I've done it in the past is to have a template for each type of object that contains the default values. This gets stored once for each object type, then for each object just send the properties that have changed from the default. All the Best Dave On 4 Mar 2008, at 09:07,

Re: Team Development using Run Rev

2008-03-04 Thread Dave
On 1 Mar 2008, at 20:08, Mark Wieder wrote: Dave- Saturday, March 1, 2008, 3:43:43 AM, you wrote: I found the best way to handle this was to export all the script as text files and them to a compare/merge of the source code and import the text files back into a master stack that is used to

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
It would probably then be necessary to spit out details of ALL properties for each object (472 last time I looked) which would be both silly and involve a lot of redundancy . . . 1. who cares about redundancy? 2. The entire list of properties in an object can be made into an array (and saved

2.9 Beta License Key

2008-03-04 Thread Dave
Hi, How to I get a Beta license for the latest 2.9 Beta release? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: 2.9 Beta License Key

2008-03-04 Thread Thierry
Hi Dave, How to I get a Beta license for the latest 2.9 Beta release? Same key as the previous one ! Regards, Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Please Test Revolution 2.9 Beta!

2008-03-04 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Dave, How to I get a Beta license for the latest 2.9 Beta release? Thanks so much for asking, I was just about to post to the list a plea for people to test. As many long-time list participants know, we are reaching the end of long process to release Revolution 2.9, which I sincerely

Re: Please Test Revolution 2.9 Beta!

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, You might want to check out the forum on the RunRev website. People have been posting feature request and bug reports there and they ask themselves why there is no response from RunRev. (I wrote you off-list about it some time ag). Best regards, Mark Schonewille --

Re: Please Test Revolution 2.9 Beta!

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Marriott wrote: Thanks so much for asking, I was just about to post to the list a plea for people to test. As many long-time list participants know, we are reaching the end of long process to release Revolution 2.9, which I sincerely believe will be the most functional, most reliable,

Re: Team Development using Run Rev

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
mfstuart wrote: I have some questions as to even if RunRev allows itself to be a software development tool for development teams. So here are my questions: Who is using RunRev in a group development environment? (reply if you are) Many here and elsewhere. How many developers are on the

Re: 2.9 Beta License Key

2008-03-04 Thread Dave
Hi, I lost my key then! Have searched for it but no luck. Think it was in the email of a machine that has long been re-formatted. Can I get new key please? Thanks a lot Dave On 4 Mar 2008, at 16:08, Thierry wrote: Hi Dave, How to I get a Beta license for the latest 2.9 Beta release?

Re: Please Test Revolution 2.9 Beta!

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- reason to use any other version of the software. (We know there a few hold outs who have stuck with Revolution 2.6.1 or, bafflingly, even older editions.) ...maybe because that's the last version that was released for linux, eh?... Don't blame the hold-outs here - the stack format

Re: Team Development using Run Rev

2008-03-04 Thread Josh Mellicker
On Mar 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: And does it offer any kind of diff or comparison features? TextWrangler has a well-implemented Compare Two Front Documents feature that I have found really useful. (pasting the latest version of a huge stack script into one text doc and

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: It would probably then be necessary to spit out details of ALL properties for each object (472 last time I looked) which would be both silly and involve a lot of redundancy . . . 1. who cares about redundancy? 2. The entire list of properties in an object can be made

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

2008-03-04 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Graham, Graham Samuel wrote: --- snip --- It looks to me as if my wish to create better software for it (on a Mac primarily) is pretty much a dead end - although if I can get hold of a serial-to-USB converter I might be able to experiment a bit. BTW I wonder why Rev has never entered the

Re: Please Test Revolution 2.9 Beta!

2008-03-04 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Mark, Those are intriguing theories but they don't pan out when we look at the data (survey from the summer)... most of the people who are using 2.6.1 and previous are NOT users of Linux, Mac Classic, or CGI. The people who are using the 2.6.1 engine for CGI generally have kept current with

Multiple instances of a window

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Checkley
Actually, setting properties of the stack sounds like a superb idea as they would be unique to that stack and as a bonus, getting and setting 'the propName of me' or 'the propName of this stack' ties them in perfectly with scripts. Thanks! Steve

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

2008-03-04 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and staggered back, appalled. It reminded me of what a gentleman named Robert Lipe said to me on another list when he thought I was trying to reverse engineer the USB interface of my device (maybe I was - I had not considered

OT: Best Windows Emulator on Mac?

2008-03-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: Do you recommend any PC on the MAC emulator? Parallels has a big name, but it's a bit clunky.. But I used and it works... it also does most flavors of Linux too... I think some people switched to VMWare and like it better... more stable? dunno really... Since I

Re: OT: Best Windows Emulator on Mac?

2008-03-04 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
I discovered virtualbox which is a free VM when I was looking for something to run on my Ubuntu machine and it works really well on Ubuntu. I think they mentioned an OS X version was available or becoming available, do a google search and see! Best regards Neal Campbell

Newbie issue - fld vs bg field vs cd field

2008-03-04 Thread Timothy Miller
Greetings, I'm don't quite understand when (or if) it is necessary to specify cd fld whatever vs bg fld whatever vs fld whatever in Rev. When confusion arises, I'm solving it by trial and error. Some of my stacks and scripts, retreaded from hypercard, require the correct field or

Re: Newbie issue - fld vs bg field vs cd field

2008-03-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm don't quite understand when (or if) it is necessary to specify cd fld whatever vs bg fld whatever vs fld whatever in Rev. When confusion arises, I'm solving it by trial and error. Some of my stacks and scripts, retreaded from hypercard, require the correct field or button

RE: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread ryley powell
what do u think u are doing i singned up yesterday Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:07:39 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files I wrote (probably in a moment of fairly naive euphoria): it would be perfectly

Re: Newbie issue - fld vs bg field vs cd field

2008-03-04 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Greetings, I'm don't quite understand when (or if) it is necessary to specify cd fld whatever vs bg fld whatever vs fld whatever in Rev. When confusion arises, I'm solving it by trial and error. Some of my stacks and scripts,

ANN: Sample Scripts Stack 1.0.7

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, While doing my work with HyperCard and its descendants, I save interesting and useful scripts in my old-time HyperCard stack. This collection of Sample Scripts has now grown to over 300 scripts and contains scripts written in Transcript, SuperTalk, HyperTalk, AppleScript, Perl, and

Re: ANN: Sample Scripts Stack 1.0.7

2008-03-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks for sharing, Mark. There seemed to be a problem with the links to search... also... will you be making these available in Scripter's Scrapbook format? thanks sqb Hi, While doing my work with HyperCard and its descendants, I save interesting and useful scripts in my old-time

Re: ANN: Sample Scripts Stack 1.0.7

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
You're welcome. Which link caused a problem, exactly, Stephen? There won't be anything in Scripters Scrapbook format. Sorry. I prefer to have all scripts available on the web site for everyone. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: Revolution Reading GPS Data

2008-03-04 Thread Phil Davis
Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks Phil for that insight. I had a quick look at your link and staggered back, appalled. It's pretty ugly. It reminded me of what a gentleman named Robert Lipe said to me on another list when he thought I was trying to reverse engineer the USB interface of my device

Re: Team Development / Exporting stuff to text files

2008-03-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Agreed 100%. Key word in the below sentence is architectural. IMO, a properly designed architecture can handle multiple programmers, each working on their own stacks. After all, remember, one can insert 50 stack libraries into the message path. best, Chipp On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM,

Re: OT: Best Windows Emulator on Mac?

2008-03-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Aloha, I've paid for both parallels and vmware. parallels was wonderful till version 2, now it's dead slow. VMWare fusion works wonderfully, even better than parallels ever did. I am very happy with VMWare, one of my best buys ever! Andre On 3/4/08, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Contents of Scrolling Field disappear after going to a card

2008-03-04 Thread mfstuart
Hi all, I'm creating a navigation system using a Scrolling Field as a menu - like iTunes. eg: Contents of the field: (tab delimited values: item 1=menu description, item 2=menu id) Main - 1 Card 1 - 2 Card 2 - 3 Card 3 - 4 I grouped the field and set its backgroundBehavior to true. Then I

Re: Contents of Scrolling Field disappear after going to a card

2008-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
mfstuart wrote: Problem: When the field is clicked on, it uses its script: go to card, with item 2 value, the menu id. When it goes to the different cards, the contents of the Scrolling Field disappear. But the Scrolling Field itself remains visible, and so I can't navigate anymore, when on the

Re: OT: Best Windows Emulator on Mac?

2008-03-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04/03/08 at 22:22 -0300 Andre Garzia apparently wrote: Aloha, I've paid for both parallels and vmware. parallels was wonderful till version 2, now it's dead slow. VMWare fusion works wonderfully, even better than parallels ever did. I am very happy with VMWare, one of my best buys ever!

Re: Newbie issue - fld vs bg field vs cd field

2008-03-04 Thread Timothy Miller
Sarah and Devin both nailed it. I totally forgot about HCaddressing. That explains a lot. Some of my scripts don't work if I don't specify cd field or bg field. That's why. Thanks a bunch, Tim On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Nice thing about Rev - you don't have to

Re: Contents of Scrolling Field disappear after going to a card

2008-03-04 Thread mfstuart
Thank you Jacqueline, that did it. But I would never of thought to check that property. Regards, Mark Stuart J. Landman Gay wrote: mfstuart wrote: Problem: When the field is clicked on, it uses its script: go to card, with item 2 value, the menu id. When it goes to the different