Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 55, Issue 5

2008-04-04 Thread John Vokey
I agree completely with Richard, except for one thing: the opening dialogue as one is installing the update still says ``...off of...''. Sheesh. I may be a curmudgeon, but why continue to rile me for years? ``...off... will do, is standard English, and will allow me to relax my hackles

Re: Congratulations!

2008-04-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks Kevin, Mark, Bill and All at Runrev for all the 2.9 fixes. Very helpfull in about developping Rev apps for our customers ;-) Kind Regards, -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com Le 3 avr. 08 à 22:59, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi! I'd like to congratulate

Re: combox borders in Linux/Gnome

2008-04-04 Thread GIRARD Damien
Richard Gaskin a écrit : Under Ubunto/Gnome, combobox controls in v2.9 always have a heavy 2-pixel border, regardless what I set the borderwidth to. Anyone know a workaround to get them to have a more convention look under Gnome? Personally, I disabled the GTK Emulation UI of Runrev in my

Re: System requirements?

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin Miller
On 4/4/08 01:28, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modern versions of Linux Right - what does that mean? Are there limitations with specific window managers, or specific versions of them? I'm releasing a pubic beta of my first Linux version of one of my products, and I'm finding

Re: Where do I get the full setup for 2.9, when updating?

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello, http://www.runrev.com/downloads/all-downloads/full-list/ Le 4 avr. 08 à 11:12, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit : perhaps a dummy question. I have updated my 2.8 installation to 2.9. Now I would like to archive the 2.9 setup in case I need it later again for a new machine or sth. like

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread BNig
to Jaque and Sarah just one more modification: numeric if you do the reverse sort the way it on eleven lines the word one to eleven on each then it returns: eleven ten one nine eight seven six five four three two if you add numeric it works correctly like in: function reverseList pList

Where do I get the full setup for 2.9, when updating?

2008-04-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, perhaps a dummy question. I have updated my 2.8 installation to 2.9. Now I would like to archive the 2.9 setup in case I need it later again for a new machine or sth. like that. The update updated my installation, but didn't saved the setup anywhere. How do I get it? Thanks

AW: Where do I get the full setup for 2.9, when updating?

2008-04-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Eric, sorry for not searching deep enough :) Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Eric Chatonet Gesendet: Freitag, 4. April 2008 11:26 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: Where do I get the full

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Joe, I just compiled a Classic Standalone using 2.9.0 with my very small HC stack (56k) that suddenly grew to 2.2 MB, and when transferred to a Mac G4 running 9.2.2, it produces an error dialog that says it cannot be opened due to a type -199 error. The file size increase is of

Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt wrote: And the winner is... and jolly well done to Jacque! HOWEVER, what naive types like me would like to know are: 1. How did you time these routines ? For the sake of argument, I hardly had time to take a gulp of coffee before mine was done: presumably you don't do

Searching the script

2008-04-04 Thread bruce
Hi all, When I search the script and get several hits, some scripts open when I double-click on the line, others don't. Is there something I'm missing? Bruce ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
HOWEVER, what naive types like me would like to know are: 1. How did you time these routines ? I built a test list of 5000 lines, then stored the millisecs, ran the reversing routine and checked the difference between the current millisecs and the stored millisecs. 2. Although it is

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sarah, Did you also check what happens with the speed when the amount of data increases? I wonder whether arrays get faster or slower relative to repeat loops, when you multiple the amount of data by 10 several times. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software

Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt wrote: this was enough to make the program feel unresponsive and all along I thought the answer was to show the end-users an inane animated GIF image while the processing happens :) at least it stops the 6 year-olds I teach from over-dosing on mouse-clicks! sincerely, Richmond

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richmond, When a program is unresponsive, animated gifs are stopped. Le 4 avr. 08 à 14:30, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Sarah Reichelt wrote: this was enough to make the program feel unresponsive and all along I thought the answer was to show the end-users an inane animated GIF image

2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello I am testing 2.9 and have read that 2.8 couldn't, but 2.9 should be able to play wmv videos. What I have tried is to go with the play command, not with the player object. I deselected load quicktime at startup in the rev preferences, put set the dontuseqt to true in the preopenstack

Re: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Sims
On Apr 4, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello I am testing 2.9 and have read that 2.8 couldn't, but 2.9 should be able to play wmv videos. What I have tried is to go with the play command, not with the player object. I deselected load quicktime at startup in the rev

Re: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
HI Tiemo Play videoclip is for imported movies. You can refer to imported movied by using the videoclip object. To play a file, simple refer to the file path only: play foo.wmv (if foo.wmv is in the default folder). Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Bill, I copied the new Classic standalone to a USB Zip Drive and then reconnected the drive to the G4, in turn copying the file to the G4. I hadn't refined the app very much with its own icon, etc. Just used all the default settings. But thanks, this gives me something to keep in mind

Re: Apple Text Box

2008-04-04 Thread Devin Asay
On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Paul Gabel wrote: Hi: I mean — The box you get when you type cmd-T in TextEdit. It shows all the fonts and families and other font style stuff and also has a convenient slider for Text size. as Stephen Barncard wrote. I'm getting the impression that it's not

Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Eric Chatonet wrote: When a program is unresponsive, animated gifs are stopped. That is why on big chewers I use an inane static image :) and, would be grateful if you could all look at my latest version of 'Textifier' - complete with inane static image. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Jim and Mark, I must be missing something very simple, but I don't find the trick. When using the player object, just nothing happens, a mov in the same folder is being played fine with the same statements (beside set dontuseqt to true/false). When using plain play, a small audio knack is being

Re: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Sims
On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Jim and Mark, I must be missing something very simple, but I don't find the trick. When using the player object, just nothing happens, a mov in the same folder is being played fine with the same statements (beside set dontuseqt to

AW: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Jim, testing your stack, also nothing happens, just nothing is played. So there must be another parameter depending perhaps on the setup of the PC, Quicktime, or sth. else. I even rebooted my machine (XP SP2, QT 7, Rev 2.9), but without success. I remember that I have seen my WMV video for a

Re: AW: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Sims
On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Jim, testing your stack, also nothing happens, just nothing is played. snip Download http://www.ezpzapps.com/WMV_Test.rev.zip It is a simple card with one button that opens another card which has a player and some btns. Select a

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Bill, I copied the new Classic standalone to a USB Zip Drive and then reconnected the drive to the G4, in turn copying the file to the G4. You probably lost the resource fork in the transfer. The solution is to zip the app first in OS X, then copy it to the

Re: AW: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sims and others, I'm currently working on a project that depends on playing WMV's without QuickTime/Flip4Mac in player objects (rather than videoClip objects). On my MacBook, running Windows, I have no serious problems, except that the movie is often displayed in an area smaller than

Re: AW: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Sims wrote: Download http://www.ezpzapps.com/WMV_Test.rev.zip It is a simple card with one button that opens another card which has a player and some btns. Select a WMV to play. ... Has anyone else tested WMV playback (with or without the test stack I refer to above)? I haven't

Re: AW: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: On my very old PC, I only got sound, no picture. After doing several tests, some of which in Windows Media Payer, I was eventually able to play WMV files that I couldn't play before. I am not sure that the problem is caused by Revolution. It might be Media Player,

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jacqi, Didn't get the -199 error, but couldn't find the application that created it, so wouldn't open. After transferring the zipped file to my G4, I unzipped it with the Stuffit Expander. Should I have used something else? Thanks, Joe Wilkins On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:46 AM, J. Landman

update to 2.9? --

2008-04-04 Thread william humphrey
Whenever I update RunRev to a new version all of my database connection scripts stop working. This time I can't even get SQLite to connect in the Database query builder (although it appeared to work at first). What I need is a very simple SQLite connection test. I need to know if somehow my

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jacqi, Didn't get the -199 error, but couldn't find the application that created it, so wouldn't open. After transferring the zipped file to my G4, I unzipped it with the Stuffit Expander. Should I have used something else? That should have worked. But if you

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jacqi, Still struggling with this thing. Actually, I decided to make a Classic Standalone of a Rev stack instead of an HyperCard stack that was converted; just to see if there is a difference. My problem right now is that my mind is too fragmented - not doing some stuff I should be

QT External question

2008-04-04 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hello, I am using the QT external and I am having problems understanding why on a XP I get the desired size (640X480) but on OS X I don't (320X224). The parameter line is straight forward and is. qtSetTrackDimensions lPreviewID, 1,640,480 The only thing I noticed on OS X is that when using

Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Friedman
Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and allow multiple users access to this data simultaneously, is my ONLY choice MySQL - on a server that allows remote SQL data access? Are there any other

Re: AW: 2.9 and wmv video?

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sims, play player z is incorrect syntax. It should be start player 1 You don't have a videoClip object in your stack but a player object. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-04 Thread BNig
hi Mark if you fill up a field with like a button script like this: on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo put A,B,C,D into trandomChar set the numberformat to # put 0 into tCounter repeat 9 add 1 to tCounter put any item of trandomChar tCountera longer text to see

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Not at all! for starters: OPEN SOURCE: PostGreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/ FAST: Valentinahttp://www.paradigmasoft.com/ Greetings! If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and

Testing from gMail

2008-04-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
This is a test, please ignore... seeing if I see it on the lists... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Data Storage

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Friedman
I read that Valentina is a single user database. From page 251 of the Revolution user guide: Valentina is a fast, efficient single-user database engine for Mac OS X, and Windows systems. I went to Valentina's web site, but yicks! I can't make heads or tails out of any of it! -Dan

OT: Gmail and these lists

2008-04-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
I won't be able to read this... please reply off list... Anyone else using Gmail? How do you get Gmail to allow you to receive your own posts? Gmail is currently blocking any email with matching To and From fields... ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: OT: Gmail and these lists

2008-04-04 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: I won't be able to read this... please reply off list... Anyone else using Gmail? How do you get Gmail to allow you to receive your own posts? Gmail is currently blocking any email with matching To and From fields... Looking at another

Re: update to 2.9? --

2008-04-04 Thread william humphrey
I re-installed RunRev from scratch. I tested SQLite using the demo stack and found that it works fine. I tried the database query builder (using that same test stack) and absolutely no joy. Why is the database query builder included in RunRev if it cannot be made to work? It is meant to be for

Re: OT: Gmail and these lists

2008-04-04 Thread william humphrey
I use gmail and I can see my own posts. In fact I think I may be the only one that can see them... On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: I won't be able to read this... please reply off list... Anyone else

Re: OT: Gmail and these lists

2008-04-04 Thread Colin Holgate
William, can you resend your message, it didn't show up? Just kidding ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: QT External question

2008-04-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Maybe Apple's compressor is overiding the window size? Try another compressor and see what happens. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: New Classic Standalone with 2.9.0

2008-04-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, if anyone else has been able to make a Classic standalone, either from a new Rev Stack or from a HC stack that has been opened as a Rev Stack, I'd sure like to hear about it. On my Mac Pro Running Leopard and G4 running OS 9.2.2 I have not been able to achieve it. On my last efforts,

Re: OT: Gmail and these lists

2008-04-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I won't be able to read this... please reply off list... Anyone else using Gmail? How do you get Gmail to allow you to receive your own posts? Gmail is currently blocking any email with matching To and From fields... I