Re: [ANN][EN][FR] ListMagic 1.0 by So Smart Software

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Only one complaint, that it makes life far too easy for the lazy among us! After a brief inspection it seems like a wonderful little timesaver. And it looks very professional, too. In about a week I can imagine wondering, did we really use once to do tables by hand? That must have been a long

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] ListMagic 1.0 by So Smart Software

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Alcibiades
By the way, you mention it 'should' work on Linux. It seems to work fine. At least, without exhaustive testing, it installs, inserting the widgets work, the sorts work, the edits work. -- View this message in context:

Re: Table field text formating

2008-12-19 Thread Brian Yennie
JB, FWIW, I believe the Rev text engine is something written specifically for Rev to be cross-platform and does not plug in to platform specific engines such as MLTE. So the upside is that they can pretty much do whatever they want (and have it work cross platform). The downside is that

Hammering on about Paragraphs

2008-12-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just to reiterate that I think it would extremely useful if RR were to be capable of identifying both: 1. British indented paragraphs; this presupposes that the TAB key would work inside textFields. 2. North American paragraphs [i.e. those signalled by a missing line]. I realise that RR is not

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] ListMagic 1.0 by So Smart Software

2008-12-19 Thread Bob Hartley
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Eric I have just downloaded the plugin. I don't need to look at it to know it will be great. :-) However, the browser script to enter details does not work on Linux (Mandrive 2009 KDE4) with Firefox 3.03. Just thought I'd let you know. Bob Bonsoir Bob, Le 18 déc.

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] ListMagic 1.0 by So Smart Software

2008-12-19 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour Bob, Le 19 déc. 08 à 10:44, Bob Hartley a écrit : Hi Eric I have just downloaded the plugin. I don't need to look at it to know it will be great. :-) However, the browser script to enter details does not work on Linux (Mandrive 2009 KDE4) with Firefox 3.03. Just thought I'd let

RevBrowser Doesn't Like Backdrop?

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Can anyone confirm that RevBrowser doesn't render properly on OS X when a backdrop is present? (Rev 3.0) I have a 1000x700 browser instance on a card running a Flash animation which runs fine. If I apply a backdrop while running the stack and drag the stack even the slightest bit, the browser

Re: RevBrowser Doesn't Like Backdrop?

2008-12-19 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 19 déc. 08 à 11:14, Scott Rossi a écrit : Can anyone confirm that RevBrowser doesn't render properly on OS X when a backdrop is present? (Rev 3.0) Yes. I opened a bug report (for rev. 2.9) about this annoying bug. ___ use-revolution

the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Morrow
I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the environment variable $USER but this only returns the user's short name. Any ideas for getting the full name? Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Scott in 10.5 that information is stored in Directory Services. The dscl command is used to interact with that. For example: $ dscl . -read /Users/gordy RealName RealName: Gordon Tillman (that's me!) --gordy On Dec 19, 2008, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote: I'm trying to get the user's

Re: Table field text formating

2008-12-19 Thread -= JB =-
Brian, I had heard that too but then after hearing they were doing a rewrite to improve text and fields I was wondering if they were going the MLTE route. I think MLTE is based on ATSUI and if they used ATSUI it would allow kerning tracking. -=JB=- On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Brian

[OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Hugh Senior
I would quote this in full, but it's better on the webPage... http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html We now need one for Rev. /H ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Bob Hartley
Hugh Senior wrote: I would quote this in full, but it's better on the webPage... http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html To quote *LOLCODE* would be *Pastafarianism* Is that only for Italians with dreadlocks. :-) Maybee that is why it is called LOL code

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Hugh, I would quote this in full, but it's better on the webPage... http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html I really didn't know that Humanism is a religion?! :-D We now need one for Rev. /H Best Klaus Major kl...@major-k.de http://www.major-k.de

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Hugh- Friday, December 19, 2008, 7:43:26 AM, you wrote: We now need one for Rev. ...the Python description seems like a good fit... ...and when I'm fighting with it, the Perl description as well g -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: OT: Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10:33:54 AM, you wrote: http://www.lynnfredricks.com/2008/12/17/why-apple-said-goodbye-to-macworld-a nd-why-it-makes-sense/ Good writeup. I notice you stop short of pointing the finger at IDG, and I realize there are valid business reasons why you wouldn't

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Reynolds
I think Hypertalk/Xtalk would fall under Unitarian i really LOLed at the last Visual Basic would be Satanism - Except that you don't REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist... looking at possibility of trying to convert some old cdroms done by others in vb to rev and its easier to

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
h Revolution is like Jehovah Witnesses. Made up of a relatively small albeit stable and friendly community of followers and controlled by a small company Revolution somehow resists the power of mainstream beliefs with large evil corporations behind. Although well known for its

Re: Hammering on about Paragraphs

2008-12-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just to reiterate that I think it would extremely useful if RR were to be capable of identifying both: 1. British indented paragraphs; this presupposes that the TAB key would work inside textFields. 2. North American paragraphs [i.e. those signalled by a missing

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Morrow
Hello Gordy, Thanks for that. I was (am!) ignorant of dscl I'll continue looking for something (additional) that might work in earlier versions. -Scott On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote: Scott in 10.5 that information is stored in Directory Services. The dscl command is

Tutorials Picker and Watcher under construction

2008-12-19 Thread Eric Chatonet
Just a quick word for all Tutorials Picker and Watcher users: I do apologize because there are some display problems right now due to maintenance. I hope to be able to fix them very shortly. Thanks for your understanding. Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet.

Script Local Variables not working

2008-12-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I discovered an odd thing with script local variables. If I call a function within a card script that uses script local variables, but I call it from the message box, the script local variables are not visible. But if I call the function from an object ON the card, then they ARE

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 19 Dec 2008, at 16:51, Bob Hartley wrote: *LOLCODE* would be *Pastafarianism* Pastafarianism is an internet meme/joke/pun related to Creationism. Check out the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/ LOLcode is also an internet joke, basically the attempt at

Flash + RevBrowser + Mac Problems

2008-12-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Has anyone on the list done much work with interactive Flash movies played within RevBrowser? I have some Flash content that displays clickable products and runs great on Windows, but performance is terrible on OS X. Clicks on the Flash content are intermittently unresponsive, and it seems the

Re: Flash + RevBrowser + Mac Problems

2008-12-19 Thread Colin Holgate
Can you tell whether the important action is to just move the mouse, or to move it out of the window? There has been a Safari problem for years where you sometimes have to move the mouse for a click to register. It can affect plugin content, and even just html links.

RE: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Randall Reetz
I wish people would use the term xtalk when refering to this language its structure and lexicon both come intact from hypercard and smalltalk before that. Revenue is a great integration synthesis of xtalk and a cross platform runtime engines, but the language is xtalk all the way in. Seems

RE: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-19 Thread Randall Reetz
Sorry, my phone is a random freudian generator. I meant revolution not revenue. -Original Message- From: Randall Reetz rand...@randallreetz.com To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: 12/19/2008 7:41 PM Subject: RE: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

[OT] Guy Kawasaki on AM Coast to Coast

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Looks like AM Coast to Coast, the radio program famous for hosting guests who are experts on UFOs, bigfoot, and all manner of conspiracy theories, comes down to earth a bit Saturday night when the guest is Guy Kawasaki: Saturday, December 20 Author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki

Re: Flash + RevBrowser + Mac Problems

2008-12-19 Thread Brian Yennie
Scott, Two quick thoughts: 1) Have you tried this outside of Rev on both platforms to see if it's a RevBrowser issue versus browser problem? 2) You might try playing with the wmode parameter for embedding your Flash in HTML. This can control whether Flash content gets its own window to