Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Of course its a thorny issue, and it depends what you want, who you are, and what your machine is. I don't think you lose anything by moving from Ubuntu. Like many other long term Linux users, I'm a bit baffled by its popularity. On old machines try Zenwalk (slackware based and uses Xfce). If

Re: Happy Birthday.... My Little Mouse

2008-12-09 Thread Judy Perry
May we all light a candle today and remember Doug Engelbart! (You know, I'm always a little horrified when my CS students don't even know who he is/was...). Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Bob Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All The Mouse is 40 today...

Happy Birthday.... My Little Mouse

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All The Mouse is 40 today... :-) Happy Birthday. :-) see it here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7768481.stm Cheers Bob ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Hartley
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Of course its a thorny issue, and it depends what you want, who you are, and what your machine is. I don't think you lose anything by moving from Ubuntu. Like many other long term Linux users, I'm a bit baffled by its popularity. I totally agree with what Peter has

How to set the cursor at the end of a textfield

2008-12-09 Thread Reinhold Venzl-Schubert
Hi! How can I set the cursor to the end of the text in a field. with focus fld text the cursor is placed a the start of the text in the fld. Thanks Reinhold ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: How to set the cursor at the end of a textfield

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour Reinhold, Select after text of fld MyField Le 9 déc. 08 à 15:38, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert a écrit : How can I set the cursor to the end of the text in a field. with focus fld text the cursor is placed a the start of the text in the fld. Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet.

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Mikey
Thanks, guys. I'll add an extra partition or two. I had given up on Mandrake, so I guess I'll give it another shot. As for KDE, like Mandrake, I never liked it, so I gave up on it and went Gnome full time. It will probably take more work to convince me to go back to that window environment.

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, agreed on Vector. Its a very worthy reasonably light alternative that comes in a few flavors, has been around for a good while, and has a decent set of gui tools. Vector and Zenwalk being Slackware based may sometimes be less easy to manage software on than Mandriva or other RPM based

Menu Key Accelerators

2008-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
By the way, is anyone else STILL experiencing the 'accelerator keys' problem in Rev in the IDE? You know, typing command-something and not have it happen unless you go to the actual menubar or do it several times. This was reported to be fixed but it's still the same for me in 3.0, 3.5 -- Mac

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Well at one point I considered 'fooling around' with Linux. Not anymore. I don't have that much time to fiddle. What a tower of Babel. Peter Alcibiades wrote: Of course its a thorny issue, and it depends what you want, who you are, and what your machine is. I don't think you lose anything

Re: Menu Key Accelerators

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Stephen, In the script editor's menu bar, none of the accelerator keys work for me, except command-dash, to comment out lines (shift-command-dash doesn't work either). Even if the menu flashes, nothing else happens. In the default menu bar, the accelerator keys work most of the time in

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Hartley
Stephen Barncard wrote: Well at one point I considered 'fooling around' with Linux. Not anymore. I don't have that much time to fiddle. What a tower of Babel. Exactly... (I'm about to commit heresy) A computer is a tool. I used an ARM Rics Machine for my degree work in 1995 it was the best

Re: Menu Key Accelerators

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Ault
I am using 2.9 and the good old script editor on Leopard 10.5.5 Copy-paste seems to work all the time which was not true of 2.7.2 however, there is consistently a mode that occurs throughout the day where the cmd-S for Save will not work unless I activate the stack window first. Also

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Stephen, you might as well write, that at one point you considered fooling around with programming, but there were too many languages to choose from. Its pretty simple, just pick any one of Bob's and my mainline choices, install it, and use it. You'll have a different experience from Windows or

Re: Linux Distro choices [was: Ubuntu...etc]

2008-12-09 Thread Mikey
One word: Compiz. Expose is but a dim shadow in its presence. I now love virtual desktops. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: How to set the cursor at the end of a textfield

2008-12-09 Thread Reinhold Venzl-Schubert
Merci beaucoup, Eric! J'ai utilisè put after fld text mais Select after text of fld MyField est tres plus élégamment. :-) Reinhold How can I set the cursor to the end of the text in a field. with focus fld text the cursor is placed a the start of the text in the fld.

Re: How to set the cursor at the end of a textfield

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonsoir Reinhold, Your French is as good as my English :-) The main thing is that we are all able to understand each others and to help if we can. Le 9 déc. 08 à 19:26, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert a écrit : Merci beaucoup, Eric! J'ai utilisè put after fld text mais Select after text of fld

Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Looney
How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Thanks in advance, I appreciate it. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information-on-linux-using-dmidecode-command/ Peter Paul Looney wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Thanks in

Re: variable storage

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
François- Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:07:35 PM, you wrote: that's a big if. I assume that the purpose of an object's ID is to be unique. This cannot be verified by a single user, IMHO. The closest To add to what Bjornke posted, if I delete a button and then want to recreate it (as in a

Re: Menu Key Accelerators

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 8:17:46 AM, you wrote: By the way, is anyone else STILL experiencing the 'accelerator keys' You betcha. Copy seems to work as long as I've previously made a change to a script. Most of the time. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Looney
Thank you, Peter. One down, two to go. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information- on-linux-using-dmidecode-command/ Peter Paul Looney

Ugly ID memories

2008-12-09 Thread DunbarX
In a message dated 12/9/08 3:08:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To add to what Bjornke posted, if I delete a button and then want to recreate it (as in a version control storage and retrieval system), then there is *no way* to reuse its previous id in that stack. The id number is lost to

[ANN} Zygodact - complete serial key registration system

2008-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Although there was a brief mention of Zygodact here on the list, I've been informed that I should make a more formal announcement. They made me do it. :) So without further ado, I present Zygodact. Zygodact provides an easy, automated way to add a complete registration serial key system to

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Here's what I have, Paul... for OS X it can take a while (a few seconds) to get the number on OS X (since it has to go through a series of different system_profiler data types), but it works (watch for wraps):

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Paul Looney wrote: Thank you, Peter. One down, two to go. This may be of use: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env001.htm Ken knows everything. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Looney
Ken, It worked perfectly, of course. Thank you. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Ken Ray wrote: How can I retrieve the computer serial number in OS X, Vista and Linux from Rev? Here's what I have, Paul... for OS X it can take a while (a few seconds) to get the number on OS X

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Looney
Jacque, Ken really does know everything! He had actually replied before you suggest his site. Of course, YOU know everything, too. Those of us second tier programmers on this list are very fortunate to have both of you helping us. Paul Looney On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay

Re: [ANN} Zygodact - complete serial key registration system

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonsoir Jacqueline, Sounds great but I miss something: How and why are you tied with Zygodact? Le 9 déc. 08 à 23:05, J. Landman Gay a écrit : Although there was a brief mention of Zygodact here on the list, I've been informed that I should make a more formal announcement. They made me do

Announcing Revolution - The Canine Edition

2008-12-09 Thread Kurt Kaufman
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Re: Ugly ID memories

2008-12-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Object ID's are simply a way for the software to uniquely identify an object. That the ID is made visible to the programmer seems to me to be a convenience. Since you can refer to an object by name anyway, there really is no hard fast reason to refer to it by it's ID. It would be like

Re: [ANN} Zygodact - complete serial key registration system

2008-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Eric Chatonet wrote: Bonsoir Jacqueline, Sounds great but I miss something: How and why are you tied with Zygodact? I wrote it. :) HyperActive Software has joined the RevSelect program and sells Zygodact via the RR online store. I guess I forgot to mention that part. I should have put my

Re: Getting the Serial Number of the User's computer

2008-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
Never personally used it in anger, but in Linux its dmidecode. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information-on-linux-u sing-dmidecode-command/ It seems you can get it by doing dmidecode -t 1, but it requires permission, so you would need to sudo and provide a

Re: Ugly ID memories

2008-12-09 Thread DunbarX
In a message dated 12/9/08 6:06:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Object ID's are simply a way for the software to uniquely identify an  object. That the ID is made visible to the programmer seems to me to  be a convenience. Since you can refer to an object by name anyway,  there really is

Show Globals

2008-12-09 Thread Fred moyer
Hi everyone. Am I the only one for whom the script editor on 3.0 is glacially slow? It is almost impossible at times to code, especially when I have lots of huge globals loaded. For that matter, in Preferences, it seems that checking or unchecking Show Globals in the Script Editor area

Re: Show Globals

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Ault
A couple comments about global variables and variable watcher. 1) I am using 2.9 so I don't see the 'slow' behavior 2) I prefix all my globals with 'z' and my script locals with 'x' so that they sort to the bottom of the watcher window. 3) you can use the 'page up' ' page down' keys to jump

Re: Ugly ID memories

2008-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Any problems using the altID property? Since IDs increment for each object created, if restoring an object setting the altID should avoid any conflict with existing or new objects. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for

Re: Show Globals

2008-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Fred moyer wrote: Hi everyone. Am I the only one for whom the script editor on 3.0 is glacially slow? It is almost impossible at times to code, especially when I have lots of huge globals loaded. I don't see any slowdown particularly. Do you have enough RAM? I'm just guessing, but maybe Rev

Re: Show Globals

2008-12-09 Thread Terry Judd
The script editor is just fine as long as you don't need to debug anything complex. Once you've got more than a few variables, and particularly if these include multidimensional arrays it bogs down horribly. It needs some attention I reckon! Terry... On 10/12/08 4:03 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL

Meaning of error codes

2008-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
I want to deal with my own error messages. Does anyone have a list of the 'official' error codes in rev 3.0? Also I remember that at one time someone on this list was offering a library for this purpose.. thanks sqb -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - -