OT: How to recognize a double layer drive?

2009-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I am to publish an app on a double layer DVD-ROM. Now I came to the question of the system requirements. Does anybody know how to recognize, if my DVD-drive can play DL discs? Or can all DVD-drives play DL discs since the beginning. I really don't know, but would like to tell my customers

Re: OT: How to recognize a double layer drive?

2009-02-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hello, I am to publish an app on a double layer DVD-ROM. Now I came to the question of the system requirements. Does anybody know how to recognize, if my DVD-drive can play DL discs? Or can all DVD-drives play DL discs since the beginning. I really don't know, but would like to

Re: OT: How to recognize a double layer drive?

2009-02-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, ... I'm not an expert, but I guess all DVD drives can do this since the beginning. All of the DVD drives I have met (Mac and Win) in the last 5 years were able to playback Video DVDs and these are in fact double-layer disc without exception :-) I forgot the important

Re: OT: How to recognize a double layer drive?

2009-02-03 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi Tiemo, as far as I know, DL disks have been in the DVD specification since almost the start, so all players should play plant-pressed ones (just like the movie DVD's you can buy). I know that some early DVD players/ writers cannot play DL disks that were produced directly from a DL DVD

Re: When should cmd-period work?

2009-02-03 Thread Malte Brill
It's dead, Jim. Jupp. For what it´s worth. I added a wait 10 millisecs with messages after your formatFld calls in the update handler. On first run I was able to command period out of it and rather surprised to see the script of stack revDebugger popping up pointing to (ebug mode is

AW: OT: How to recognize a double layer drive?

2009-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks for verifying Klaus and Phil, I was just a little unsure, because one of my older DVD writers can't read my self burned DL, but that's obviously the +/- specs of self burned DVDs... Thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Recover from Temp?

2009-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Kay C Lan wrote: Whilst I wouldn't argue against the use of TimeMachine, for those who have it, I find GLX2's Archive feature a swifter solution for such Rev specific problems. And (not that this helps Scott now) I have a button on my personal toolbar that I use to save instead of the

Re: Recover from Temp?

2009-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ben Rubinstein wrote: More directly relevant to Scott's problem; I don't know what it means when Spotlight displays a dotted line icon either. An hypothesis, since Spotlight (even when just searching for filenames not content) searches in its database rather than in the file system, would be

Re: Recover from Temp?

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Sims
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I've just looked at the man page for 'locate', and it says: Another terminal 'thang' is mdfind, such as (mdfind .rev~): Macintosh:~ jimsims$ mdfind .rev~ /Users/jimsims/Library/Mail/pop-s...@mail.ezpzapps.com/INBOX.mbox/

Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread paolo
Dear friends, I had this crazy idea: I would like to create a Rev application to control the temperature of my room. So, I need my application to import the temperature from a thermometer and switch on/off the heater. I found documentation for an affordable external device in internet :

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Paolo, I'm not familiar with this device but the answer to 2 is yes for sure, I do it here all the time. I also control my telescope, TV, Cable, Robosapien Robot, lights, etc. If the device can handle serial commands then that is the easiest way. I am looking into that device now... more

AW: OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thank for the insight, Klaus Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Klaus Major Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 14:57 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: OT: what are the

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Paolo, The Macintosh drivers for this device are the standard FTDIUSB Serial Drivers which emulate a serial device over USB so the good news is that you should be able to connect to the virtual port from Revolution on the mac. I am not familiar with the drivers being used for windows

How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour, I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values or if it is empty. Well, by empty I mean that the field contains not any word or number. But it happens that it may include carriage returns and/or tabs. In such cases : field thisField is empty return false. If

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Andre, Bonjour, I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values or if it is empty. Well, by empty I mean that the field contains not any word or number. But it happens that it may include carriage returns and/or tabs. In such cases : field thisField is empty

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi André, if number of words of fld This Field is 0 and (fld This Field contains cr or fld This Field contains tab) then... -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch forum:

selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Is there a way that I am missing to get a selected object from one stack in another stack 'without' having to palette the window of the second stack? I want to act on a user selected object in stack one while in stack two. Thanks Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net

Little issue with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread DunbarX
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Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 3 févr. 09 à 15:22, Klaus Major a écrit : Bonjour Andre, Bonjour, I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values or if it is empty. Well, by empty I mean that the field contains not any word or number. But it happens that it may include carriage returns and/or

Re: When should cmd-period work?

2009-02-03 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Devin Asay wrote: This has happened to me several times in Rev 3.0, but I've never been able to pin it down to a recipe. It's almost like what happens when a running script throws an error and kicks you into debug mode, and you try to do

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 3 févr. 09 à 15:24, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi André, if number of words of fld This Field is 0 and (fld This Field contains cr or fld This Field contains tab) then... -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Bonjour Mark Excellent :-) Same answer as I made to Klaus : I feel ridiculous

RE: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab?

2009-02-03 Thread Hugh Senior
This assumes what you need is whether text is in the field... function isEmpty pFld return (num of words of fld pFld = 0) end isEmpty HTH /H Bonjour, I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values or if it is empty. Well, by empty I mean that the field contains not

Re: OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hello, coming from the windows world, I am not really aware, what a standard setup on a Mac has to do. I know, there are tools like PackageMaker, but I would like to know, what a Mac User usually expects, when he inserts a CD - and what of that PackerMacker would provide and

OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, coming from the windows world, I am not really aware, what a standard setup on a Mac has to do. I know, there are tools like PackageMaker, but I would like to know, what a Mac User usually expects, when he inserts a CD - and what of that PackerMacker would provide and what not. What does a

Re: When should cmd-period work?

2009-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Malte Brill wrote: It's dead, Jim. Jupp. For what it´s worth. I added a wait 10 millisecs with messages after your formatFld calls in the update handler. On first run I was able to command period out of it and rather surprised to see the script of stack revDebugger popping up pointing to

Re: Little issue with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Thanks all. Changing the names of the innocent seems to have stopped the bleeding. Good, figured it was an IDE conflict. BTW, go home still works as in HC. In the IDE you won't be able to get in, it's locked, and it will just flash the splash screen. In a standalone,

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre.Bisseret- Yet another variation: if word 1 to -1 of field thisField is empty -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Big issue with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 6:14:55 AM, you wrote: Glad changing the names did the trick. I have not put any scripts into back. Or front. I only start using the utility stack, so I guess that makes it a library. My Rev world is not very big; I have only four stacks. But before I

Re: Big issue with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Craig, In a message dated 2/2/09 6:32:57 PM, mwie...@ahsoftware.net writes: By its stack script is in use do you mean you're using it as a library stack, frontscript or backscript? In that case you're probably getting duelling openCard handlers. I have not put any scripts into back.

Re: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Out of curiosity, will this stack continue to work in demo mode indefinitely? If Eric's family decide to continue to market it, I will certainly pay for it as it is quite a nice bit of Revolution programming. Just what I needed in fact. But if not, then I cannot risk using it in a

He's a GENIUS!

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
ANDRE! Your a freaking genius! Great job on the RevDOCS! I will use that one for sure. Is there a way to send money for it or are you an eccentric millionaire who just wants to save the world? Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM

Re: OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Most Mac deinstallers I have seen are actually just shell scripts that delete everything from where the installer put them. If you know how to write shell scripts then it shouldn't be all that hard to write a deinstaller. The real trick is getting it to run as an admin. Not sure how to do

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread camm29
Paolo , Should work ! If you do not have a RS232 Port then use a serial Port/Usb emulator driver. If you have a RS232 Port then use a USB to RS232 cable convertor. Rev will send / read from Serial Com Ports only , the above is the solution. Rev 3.00 is better as you can use Com Ports 9

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder, isn't there a way to use regular expressions to check for white space? Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Andre.Bisseret wrote: Bonjour, I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values or if it is empty.

Re: OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Luis
Hiya, You might get more search hits with 'uninstaller'. Cheers, Luis. On 3 Feb 2009, at 12:59, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, coming from the windows world, I am not really aware, what a standard setup on a Mac has to do. I know, there are tools like PackageMaker, but I would like

OT: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This might help: http://guides.macrumors.com/Uninstalling_Applications_in_Mac_OS_X and, just to get your digestive juices flowing, here's a quote from the introductory paragraph: Uninstalling applications in Mac OS X is very different than uninstalling in a Microsoft Windows environment

Re: How to I fix the color picker palette?

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Ault
I have updated all of the OSX software and still get the 'freeze', but there is an easy workaround. I can use either Eric Chatonet's Color Picker or Scott Rossi's tmColor (the 'tm' stands for Tactile Media) with no difficulties. They are both installed in my plugins menu in the Rev IDE Thanks

Re: Big issue with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread DunbarX
In a message dated 2/2/09 6:32:57 PM, mwie...@ahsoftware.net writes: By its stack script is in use do you mean you're using it as a library stack, frontscript or backscript? In that case you're probably getting duelling openCard handlers. I have not put any scripts into back. Or front.

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread DunbarX
This was a big thread on the HC list a few years back. Spaces are odd, in that they are not word delimiters. Although they are. One space between two word is two words, as is ten spaces between them. In HC: get the number of words of a b c --two spaces between the chars, returns 3 And

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread stephen barncard
I've found that using a non-breaking space instead of a space solves a lot of problems with parsing text. For instance links clicked in a field with two words connected with a NBS will act as one word-pair. This is perfect for headers. Perhaps filtering and searching with a NBS might work better

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: This was a big thread on the HC list a few years back. Spaces are odd, in that they are not word delimiters. Although they are. One space between two word is two words, as is ten spaces between them. In HC: get the number of words of a b c --two spaces between the

selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Humpf: probably have to set the DEFAULTSTACK to the stack which you are wishing to act on, select the object, manipulate, and then set DEFAULTSTACK back to the stack from which the manipulation command is coming. Probably best to set the LOCKSCREEN to true while you do this so as to avoid

RE: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Bob, ListMagic will not remain in demo mode indefinitely. We are working out details for the sales, maintenance and growth of ListMagic and all those who purchased already will probably receive unlock codes within the week, for the latest 1.1 version. Apologies to you and any who have

Re: How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

2009-02-03 Thread DunbarX
Jacque: Score one for modernity. That spaces in Rev can be itemdelimiters is clean and logical, and obviates the whole issue. I have replaced spaces now and then in HC with both visible and invisible chars to emulate a space/word delimiter. I was among the camp in the HC thread that

Button Basher

2009-02-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded an improved version: 1. Sorted out the 'wonky' red button on the METAL BUTTONS page [stupid Richmond forgot to lock a resized image - and let that be a lesson to you all !] 2. Code contributions by Bernd Niggemann. You had better believe it: Bigger, Better and Twice as Butch.

Re: He's a GENIUS!

2009-02-03 Thread Nicolas Cueto
ANDRE! Your a freaking genius! Great job on the RevDOCS! I will use that one for sure. I must've missed a message or two, cause I don't know what Bob Sneidar's referring to here. The only docs I know of are the ones that come with Rev and the paper-bound one. Anyone? Thanks. -- Nicolas Cueto

Re-2: He's a GENIUS!

2009-02-03 Thread runrev260805
Hi Nicolas, that was an article in the Runrev Newsletter #64. Here is the link to the article: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/january/issue64/newsletter1.php?id=NW064S46431 Regards, Matthias Original Message Subject: Re: He's a GENIUS! (03-Feb-2009 22:54) From:Nicolas

Re: selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Jac, but once you get to the second stack with the pointer tool the selection is lost? No? I have to play some more. I was just hoping for experience. I tried a quick experiment before I answered and the selection stays until you select something else or click in a

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread stephen barncard
I'm pretty sure the KEYSPAN interface and software works with rev the last time I tried it. Just checked. They're now owned by Tripp-Lite.http://www.tripplite.com/EN/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=518txtModelID=3914 sqb 2009/2/3 Bob Earp rje...@hotmail.com Paolo, to my knowledge there is no

Re: Re-2: He's a GENIUS!

2009-02-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Yes, a great idea and product! Kudos to Andre :-) Andre, how hard would it be to add an option to output the whole thing as txt? It would be good for adding to printout documentation. -C ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Earp
Paolo, to my knowledge there is no capability within Rev of communicating with a USB port, although I think Chuck had been working on something along time ago.I've been wanting to use a Rev project as an interface to the aircraft simulators we build and have been working on getting Rev on OS

Re: selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Is there a way that I am missing to get a selected object from one stack in another stack 'without' having to palette the window of the second stack? I want to act on a user selected object in stack one while in stack two. I'm not seeing any problem with just using

Re: selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jac, but once you get to the second stack with the pointer tool the selection is lost? No? I have to play some more. I was just hoping for experience. T Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this

Re: selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Phil, I will try this.. Experiments to follow. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Phil Davis wrote: How about

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- The Arduino works well with rev. If you're using Windows and need to do some usb protocol troubleshooting, there's a great tool available at http://www.aggsoft.com/usb-port-monitor.htm Unfortunately they don't have an osx version, and I haven't found anything else that does this sort of

Re: selectedObject()

2009-02-03 Thread Phil Davis
How about setting the defaultStack to stack1 before referencing the selectedObject? (This is a guess, but seems plausible) Phil Davis Thomas McGrath III wrote: Is there a way that I am missing to get a selected object from one stack in another stack 'without' having to palette the window of

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Yes the HIGH SPEED serial adapter will work. I use it here all the time. The other serial adapters were not high speed and caused problems. I use the 19HS model that Stephen listed. I have also used straight USB devices that make use of the standard FTDIUSB Serial Drivers with great

Re: Subject: Drawing a curved shape - 2nd attempt

2009-02-03 Thread Judy Perry
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Judy Perry wrote: So, what's the difference? Neither one of us particularly feels the need to call the other names. I will start: Judy, you're unmutual! :) --Ahh, but, Richard, you and I both know that

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Judy Perry
Wasn't there an old HC serial (ADB) adapter thingy that allowed you to control external electronics? Made by Beehive maybe? Used to control the lighting of the world's tallest towers? (Jacque would remember). Is there a USB version of it now? I thought that people used to do this sort of thing

Re: Import temperature and anything else you can think of

2009-02-03 Thread dunbarx
I use the Beehive ADB/IO gadgets to this day. Four are in my shop working as I speak on two 266 MHz grey boxes. I have sold commercial HC driven products using them, and when they went out of business, they offered a couple dozen to me at cost. I took them all. Still have some. There were two

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread dunbarx
I did those towers. 1998. Still working... Craig newman On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:01:17 PM, Judy Perry katheryn.swynf...@gmail.com wrote: From: Judy Perry katheryn.swynf...@gmail.com Subject:Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev Date: February 3, 2009 11:01:17 PM EST

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread Judy Perry
Dunbar, That is s awesome! So, does the serial adapter thingy still exist as far as you know? Was it Beehive? Judy who REMEMBERS! http://revined.blogspot.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM, dunbarx dunb...@aol.com wrote: I did those towers. 1998. Still working... Craig newman On Feb

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread dunbarx
Judy. Makes you one of the oldsters, you know. The serial gadget was by someone else.  I can check when I get to my office.  Beehive was the ADB guys All three developers are out of the business.  There should be someone willing to take up the calling with Rev and USB, though. Someone smart

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread stephen barncard
This company mentions apple drivers and Runtime Rev. They make USB I/O Boxes -- and even some stuff that works with fischertechnik kits.They've been around for a while. http://www.bkohg.com/serviceusbplus_e.html The CD-ROM contains the Service-USB driver for Macintosh MacOS X, QuickTime films

Re: Import temperature and switch on/off the heater with Rev

2009-02-03 Thread -= JB =-
You could probably do it with X10 devices. I used to control X10 devices with OS 8.6. They were controlled from the serial port but the new device is USB. I am writing a stack that will control the serial and USB ports but haven't been working on it for a few months. I was able to

AW: what are the components of a standard Mac install?

2009-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Bob, Luis and Richmond, For shedding some more light on this Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richmond Mathewson Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 18:40 An: