Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Morrow
Rats... I knew that but got stuck on focus... and focus on empty doesn't cut it! : ) -Scott Morrow On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Hello Thomas, You can also focus on other objects. Your button script could say focus on me and that would remove the focus from your field.

Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ken, Hello Thomas, You can also focus on other objects. Your button script could say focus on me and that would remove the focus from your field. Even simpler: select empty :-) Yep, but then you will also lose all current selected text and/or line(s) in list fields! So focus on

externals

2008-12-06 Thread Beat Cornaz
I started to learn to make externals and got puzzled by the following, which is from the Rev tutorials - Externals 1. I don't understand the path order as suggested below, as this would mean that there are 'External' folders buried within 'External' folders 4 folders deep. I am sure that this

[OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Talking about reinventing the wheel . . . I tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 on a Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz, 256 RAM and got the black screen of death: subsequently found out 2 things: 1. This is an all-too-common problem. 2. Ubuntu have not responded to all the piles and piles of moans about this fact.

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Neal Campbell
Just make sure you set the execute bits (chmod +xxx .) so that it can be a program! Best wishes Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 - Try Spot for OS X, the

AW: How to detect a CD Drive / write permissions?

2008-12-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Ken, Mac and Win. Obviously there is no native Rev function, do you have snippets how to ask the shell for it? Thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Ken Ray Gesendet: Samstag, 6. Dezember 2008 06:24

Re: AW: How to detect a CD Drive / write permissions?

2008-12-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hi Ken, Mac and Win. Obviously there is no native Rev function, do you have snippets how to ask the shell for it? Please take a look at this thread in the Windows section of the Rev- forum: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2357 There you wil find some vbscript

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
thanks, Neal and everyone else who responded, I couldn't forget the permissions after Andre said on the Revcon video I almost had a t-shirt made with chmod 755 in big letters so you won't forget! I still can't get a rise out of the executable, except errors. echo.mt (from Jacque's site,

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Neal Campbell
Sulinux is the secure kernel for your instance of Linux. You might want to google around and see if you can learn more about it and what you can do around it! If all else fails, contact your ISP! Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911

Re: AW: How to detect a CD Drive / write permissions?

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
On MacOSX, perhapsdrutil can work for you Usage: drutil -drive [drive-arguments] command [command-options-and-arguments] drutil commands are: atip - Displays ATIP information about inserted CD-R/RW media. bulkerase - Bulk erases -RW media in either quick or full mode. drutil bulkerase

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Jim Sims
On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: thanks, Neal and everyone else who responded, I couldn't forget the permissions after Andre said on the Revcon video I almost had a t-shirt made with chmod 755 in big letters so you won't forget! I had a nightmare of getting a tattoo

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks Jim, yes I checked and of course ROR has it everywhere. I did add it to the old echo.mc script ( and changed the suffix to .cgi ). I'm writing a report to DH support. I'll let everyone know how it went. sqb On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: thanks, Neal and

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
I run Rev CGIs on Dreamhost daily. Once you find the culprit you'll have a great time. Have you checked your error.log from the server's logs folder? I write my CGIs in a simple stack I made for doing so, which has a button to upload the script so I take care of several small steps in one

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks Richard. That's good to know. Yes, I've been looking at the logs and I always get this error: suexec policy violation: see suexec log for more details, referer: http://cms3.mitchmarcusmusic.com/ I have no suexec log. the only other error is the error for not having the error page!

Re: Newbie

2008-12-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- How do you live without Rinaldi? I know that it is possible to work around anything, one always could. But I am going to miss fullFind. I haven't *seen* Rinaldi physically in about four years, but he's still lurking around these parts. I have only needed an external once in all the

Rinaldi and Rev Speed wuz Re: Newbie

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
The speed thing is really true with Rev. When I started experimenting with Rev in late 2001 on Mac OS9, I wasted a whole lot of time worrying if my old XCMDs would run in the environment. I was just familiar with the way I always did it -- HC for the front end, XCMDs to do the heavy lifting.

Re: writing lines to the driver

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
Something really strange is happening. The driver I was writing to mentioned below is the internal modem on a Mac G4 AGP. You use the AT commands to control the modem. I used to be able to enter ATV and then it would put the configuration into a field. The configuration consists of a

Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Scott Morrow wrote: Rats... I knew that but got stuck on focus... and focus on empty doesn't cut it! : ) But 'focus on nothing' does :-) This was added in 2.9. It is great because it will remove focus from whatever object has focus. 'select empty' only works

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: By the way, doesn't FTP in Rev send passwords in plain text? How do you work around that? Until Rev supports secure FTP there is no preventative solution. So I handle it as I do when using many other tools that don't provide secure FTP: I change my site's password

Re: writing lines to the driver

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
I solved the problem and it was a minor change I made to my code that caused it. I was doing some testing with reading the port and how to determine the end and then forgot I changed it. This is based on Sarah's readPort and I originally used until recEOL but changed it to EOF (end of file) to

BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
The Rev Dictionary provides info about the BinaryEncode function and it mentions, use the BinaryEncode function to encode one or more values as binary data. Does this mean I can put a whole field into the BinaryEncode function and encode it and if so does someone have an example

Re: BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi JB, put binaryencode(h*,mySourceVar) into myDestVar get binaryDecode(h*,myDestVar,mySourceVar) What kind of data do you want to encode and what do you want to do with it? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-06 Thread Mikey
I'm a Hardy-Intrepid survivor, so here goes As someone who has gone through a variety of issues with a Hardy to Intrepid upgrade (I started a thread on the Ubuntuforums about it), the most common problem is with unused package uninstalls. If toward the end of the Intrepid upgrade you answer yes

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-06 Thread Mikey
Something that I also tried that doesn't work as well is putting /boot in it's own partition. After fiddling and fighting with it, what I really wanted to do, and finally settled on doing, was putting GRUB in it's own partition, and letting each distro have its own /boot directory.

Re: BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Mark, Thanks for the info! I am working on a communications program and was transferring files. When I transfer a stack that I read as a binary that has been placed in a field after I read it, the transfer has a problem. Immediately it shows the message box saying it is having trouble

Newbie2

2008-12-06 Thread dunbarx
Back in the day, HC listMembers had enormous patience with certain people. They were indulgent. Time will tell. I have a variable foo  (remember foo?) containing: aabb bbcc ccdd abc bcd and a script that has:    filter foo with a*b    answer foo I get empty in foo, when what I am looking

Re: BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Mark, When I try the code below I get an error dialog. on mouseUp put Hello Mark into theData put binaryencode(h*,theData) into dataEncoded put dataEncoded into fld id 1009 end mouseUp Should I be able to put the encoded data in a field without decoding it? Any idea why this

Re: BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi JB, BinaryEncode encodes data as binary data. BinaryDecode decodes binary data into something else, e.g. hex. You get an error because you are trying to encode data while indicating that you are using hex data, but you are using plain text (which you might assume to be binary). Since

Re: BinaryEncode

2008-12-06 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Mark, Thanks for all of the detailed info. I have never used a custom property for anything yet even though I have seen many people mention them. Looks like I will be learning now. thanks again, it will probably save me a ton of time now that I don't need to look for the problem

Re: Newbie2

2008-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: I have a variable foo (remember foo?) containing: aabb bbcc ccdd abc bcd and a script that has: filter foo with a*b answer foo I get empty in foo, when what I am looking for is a substitute for Rinaldi's fullFind Changing the wildcard characters changes

Re: Newbie2

2008-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunbarx wrote: Back in the day, HC listMembers had enormous patience with certain people. They were indulgent. Time will tell. We're so indulgent you'll beg us to stop. I have a variable foo (remember foo?) containing: aabb bbcc ccdd abc bcd and a script that has: filter foo with a*b

Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Actually in my case I do want any current selections to be lost i.e. not focused on or even an insertion point. I think I will go with the select empty and see how that works. Thanks you guys Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS

Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Focus on nothing - really does work. I could not find this in the dictionary on focus??? That does exactly what I need Thanks Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page:

I've done something really cool

2008-12-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Well, guys I have been playing around ALOT lately (when I'm supposed to be working on another project). Anyway, I came up with something that I think is really cool. I mean really cool. It's blowing my socks off how cool this is. So here's my question. You guys and gals have been so

Re: unfocus field

2008-12-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 6, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Focus on nothing - really does work. I could not find this in the dictionary on focus??? It doesn't seem like it made it into the dictionary. You can find info on it in the engine release notes that came with 2.9. I find it is always

RE: Sqlite remotely

2008-12-06 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Remotely? like multi-user on a server? Even a single user. And what's with multi? I understand that multi is not safe like its stated on their website, but other then that? There's nothing to stop you from opening an SQLite database remotely, but as Kee and others have stated, SQLite was

Re: AW: How to detect a CD Drive / write permissions?

2008-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
Mac and Win. Obviously there is no native Rev function, do you have snippets how to ask the shell for it? For Mac, you need to use the system_profiler shell command, pass it one of the data types you're interested in, and then parse the result. I'm not sure what Mac OSes you need to support,

Re: Rinaldi and Rev Speed wuz Re: Newbie

2008-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
The speed thing is really true with Rev. When I started experimenting with Rev in late 2001 on Mac OS9, I wasted a whole lot of time worrying if my old XCMDs would run in the environment. I was just familiar with the way I always did it -- HC for the front end, XCMDs to do the heavy lifting.