AW: Where to put an ini file on Win with write access for all users?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Jim, very enlightening, but still some follow up questions :) I know the word legacy, but am not sure, what is a legacy file? What makes Vista to recognize my Ini.xml as a legacy file, could I give it another name or dir (and being accessed by all users) to not being a legacy file and being

AW: How is the virtualStore beeing deleted on Vista?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Jim, Wow, even if I would want to create a cleanup, I had to read all possible user profiles on the machine (don't know, if that is possible at all) and delete their virtualStores of my files. That means, as long as I have virtualized files in my app, I'll let them where they are, as corrupted

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Thierry
Le 16 févr. 09 à 03:25, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com wrote: Has anyone tried to hack Rev to use BBedit as a script editor? What would you like to see in an editor that's not in the ones available yet? Using the facilities, functionalities, looking as the

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Luis
Hiya, Is this the Enterprise version of McAfee? I'm not sure if the same applies to the consumer versions: In the On-Access Scan Properties you can set an exception in the ScriptScan tab. Failing that, you can tell it to exclude scanning a specific folder (where the actions and the

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 15.02.09 at 20:40 -0800 Mark Wieder apparently wrote: Kay- Sunday, February 15, 2009, 8:03:04 PM, you wrote: What would you like to see in an editor that's not in the ones available yet? clippings/boilerplates find differences parentheses balancing conditional balancing folding

Any workaround for corrupted title bar with QT player found?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, being in the last Beta tests with my Rev 3.0, Build 750 app, with QT player, I still get on some XP machines the corrupted title bar, on other XP machines not. Up to now, I don't even find the difference between these machines. There is a pretty long QCC report 6235 with different trys of

How to launch an app on top of the finder?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, probably an easy one for the Mac guys: When starting app 1 in the finder it launches app 2, BUT app 2 is being launched behind the finder window. Same result if I do just launch myApp or using tell application finder to open myApp with applescript Any idea, how to bring app 2 on top of

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
For my Christmas or Ganesha Chatturti or Solstice, I want: Macros Diff Plugin facility so we can integrate Git On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Kay- Sunday, February 15, 2009, 8:03:04 PM, you wrote: What would you like to see in an editor that's

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Sims, I think the trick is not on the client side but on the server side. Instead of pointing your Rev client to a fixed server, use a balancing solution, there are load balancers that are able to distribute the request among multiple servers so that you can scale (add more servers) as needed

RE: Where to put an ini file on Win with write access for all users?

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Tiemo, very enlightening, but still some follow up questions :) I know the word legacy, but am not sure, what is a legacy file? Something that for, God knows what reason, Windows feels it needs to protect itself against and so it sandboxes it. What makes Vista to recognize my Ini.xml

RE: How is the virtualStore beeing deleted on Vista?

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Bufalini
LOL -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Tiemo Hollmann TB Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:25 PM To: 'How to use Revolution' Subject: AW: How is the virtualStore beeing deleted on Vista?

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
This is actually entered in Quality Control long time ago, as I just found out: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2590 Robert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

AW: Where to put an ini file on Win with write access for all users?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Jim, Thank you for coaching, really helpful! Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Jim Bufalini Gesendet: Montag, 16. Februar 2009 16:00 An: 'How to use Revolution' Betreff:

Re: Can anybody HELP !!

2009-02-16 Thread Dave
Hi All, On 29 Jan 2009, at 18:24, J. Landman Gay wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've been looking at the problem reported by Camm and others and I *think* I have found at least part of the problem. The inability to save a stack with a password set and the answer dialog enabled. In my application,

Re: Can anybody HELP !!

2009-02-16 Thread Dave
Hi Camm, On 4 Feb 2009, at 10:46, cam...@tesco.net cam...@tesco.net wrote: Dave , Jac and all involved. Well some progress .just why ? Made no difference using revAnswerDailog from 2.8.1 but I used revStandalonesettings.rev from 2.8.1 and BINGO Standalone built on Rev 3.0 ...

Re: convert to lower ascii 128?

2009-02-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Alex Tweedly wrote: Chipp Walters wrote: Ben, Thanks for the tests. Illuminating again. You are correct, I was actually running my tests on shorter strings, but hundreds of them in sequence. So it might be useful for you to try Ben's fourth (i.e. array-based) method, but do the set-up once

Re: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-16 Thread william humphrey
When downloading it again should they do so here: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolutionl=en or somewhere else? On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com wrote: Hi Neal, Glad you found the correct stack. :-) Anyone that downloaded ListMagic 1.1 prior to Friday

Lists to arrays and back again

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
I apparently do not understand arrays at all. I have a 2 row list, called myVar. Each line contains 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 respectively. I want to use the split command to make an array so that myVar[1,1] = 1 and myvar[2,1] =4. split ALWAYS seems to think that the first item it encounters in each

Re: Delete column

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Sneidar
On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:56 PM, -= JB =- wrote: When you say values in a list do you mean like a table field in a variable? Yes. But I think you are saying two things there. Table Field and Variable can both hold a list, which is values seperated by the columnDelimiter. I am not sure what

Re: Deleting a column ...

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
I did this: ON testFunction breakpoint put 1,2,3 return 4,5,6 into myVar split myVar by column delete variable myVar[2] combine myvar by column put myVar END testFunction After splitting, myVar looks like this: after combining myVar looks like this: What I get

Re: List Magic testimony

2009-02-16 Thread Luis Puente
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Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Sneidar
WHOA THERE TONTO! I thought the whole idea to properties was persistence?? That means that I cannot save, for instance, the database settings a user entered? I have to create an external file for all of that? And so many card and object properties in my app DEPEND on persistence through

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Jerry Daniels
No. Those features are not in GLX2 Script Editor. On Feb 15, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: What would you like to see in an editor that's not in the ones available yet?

RE: Re-4: List Magic testimony

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Neal, Yes. Download from there. Jim Bufalini -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of william humphrey Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:14 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Re-4:

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Luis wrote: Hiya, Is this the Enterprise version of McAfee? I'm not sure if the same applies to the consumer versions: In the On-Access Scan Properties you can set an exception in the ScriptScan tab. Failing that, you can tell it to exclude scanning a specific folder (where the actions and

Re: How to launch an app on top of the finder?

2009-02-16 Thread stephen barncard
And you've set the systemwindow of stack #2 to true? Stephen Barncard - San Francisco 2009/2/16 Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de Hello, probably an easy one for the Mac guys: When starting app 1 in the finder it launches app 2, BUT app 2 is being launched

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Also, if your client has gotten the latest update from Microsoft last Tuesday you might want to consider rolling it back. This one bit us this last week and caused some MSAccess applications to stop working. The patch in particular is 960715 - removing it fixed our seemingly unrelated

AW: How to launch an app on top of the finder?

2009-02-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Stephen, not yet, I am not sure if that is what I want, because I need it just for the first open to come into front and not for the full presence and the docs say it has no effect on Mac OS. But I'll give it a try tomorrow, thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Luis
Hiya, You could include a manual 'how to' for this... I think if you set the script to run at startup (via a Registry key setting?) you might prevent it from being deleted: Not too sure about this, but it's something I've heard about. Will McAfee check the application's Trusted Sources? If

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thanks for the ideas, folks. I've long believed it should be possible to make a really good editor for Transcript, and since Ken and I have been using ROSE for some time maybe I'll be able to add more of these at it continues to evolve. The hardest part is Rev compatibility, since it's

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread stephen barncard
And persistent they are, if the stack file the custom properties are in is saved with a simple save command. A stack file can hold any number of custom properties. Even arrays, stacks and images can be turned into a custom property and restored. Persistence = a file somewhere!The file can be in

Re: How to launch an app on top of the finder?

2009-02-16 Thread stephen barncard
Well, it does palletize the window, but it really seems to make it the topmost window on the screen in the IDE. Between 2 running apps: unknown. Stephen Barncard - San Francisco 2009/2/16 Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de Hi Stephen, not yet, I am not sure if that

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Monday, February 16, 2009, 9:21:26 AM, you wrote: I've broken the list into two parts; the ones here at the top could use more explanation to describe exactly what you're after - are they documented in BBEDit? If so I'll just look 'em up there: Since I put these in, I'd probably

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Looney
Bob, Think of custom properties as fields - without some of the field overhead. Putting information in custom properties and retrieving it is much faster than using fields. And you can create and delete custom properties on the fly much more easily than with fields - with less code. Two

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Ault
DIFF - 'Search for differences' in BBEdit is very useful, especially for less English like code, such as Flash Actionscipt. It does the diff between two documents and lines them up side by side with sync scrolling, makes a list of the differences by line numbers (in a separate window), and then

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Mark. Thanks. I do understand that properties are persistent so long as a standalone is running. I understand that Revolution standalones will not save the state of properties when you quit them. I was saying that Applescript standalones CAN and DO save the state of properties when

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.02.09 at 09:21 -0800 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: I've broken the list into two parts; the ones here at the top could use more explanation to describe exactly what you're after - are they documented in BBEDit? If so I'll just look 'em up there: - Diff - Plugin facility so we can

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: BTW I tested the theory that an app cannot be modified while running. This is not true. I opened TextEdit and while it was running I opened the package contents and edited a plist file using PlistEditPro. I changed one of the values and saved the plist successfully. You

Re: Lists to arrays and back again

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry all. This was sent as a duplicate from an address that was not registered with the list. Please ignore it. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I apparently do not understand arrays at all. I have a 2 row list,

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread stephen barncard
Like with fields, you can not store user information in a custom property in an application (or standalone). This isn't quite right. On the mac, I can save data to a separate stack INSIDE of a standalone package with no problem. Not always the best place to put the data in some situations,

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Luis. Gotta weigh in on this with Jacque. There is no way a distributed app can require this level of futzing by the end users, or even an IT person. If I encountered something like that in some software that told me I had to edit some registry key or play with permissions to get

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Mark! Just what the doctor ordered (again from you). I thought I remembered something like this. Since the app is mainly going to be used in house that will be perfect. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 14, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: On

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
If this is another duplicate from me I apologise. My email keeps defaulting to the wrong account and I don't catch it in time. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 13, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: WHOA THERE TONTO! I thought the whole idea to properties

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Monday, February 16, 2009, 10:28:57 AM, you wrote: BTW I tested the theory that an app cannot be modified while running. This is not true. I opened TextEdit and while it was running I opened the package contents and edited a plist file using PlistEditPro. I changed one of the values

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh gotcha! So you are saying that the properties are something that is a part of the executable inside the package? How odd. Anyway, I don't want to belabor the point. The fact is, there are workarounds, and some with real benefits (such as default restoration) and such that will work

Printing in high quality - any experts?

2009-02-16 Thread David Bovill
Anyone know how rev prints images - a Desktop Publishing program will display screen resolution images but use the linked high quality image to print. What does Rev do, if you have a linked image? I am assuming it prints a screen resolution image and ignored the full data in the image on file? If

Re: Printing in high quality - any experts?

2009-02-16 Thread stephen barncard
Others may chime in on this, but Rev works pretty well using oversize* image files shrunk on screen with the printer using the extra resolution and size for detail. This is in version 2.9 onwards. By oversize, I mean more pixels available than needed for screen resolution. Stephen Barncard

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Monday, February 16, 2009, 11:01:59 AM, you wrote: Oh gotcha! So you are saying that the properties are something that is a part of the executable inside the package? How odd. Not that odd if you think of the package as a folder. That's what it is and it's up to the OS to show it to you

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Oh gotcha! So you are saying that the properties are something that is a part of the executable inside the package? How odd. The confusion stems from OS X lying to us: it tells us that an application is a file, when it's really a folder. :) The actual executable (the

Re: How to launch an app on top of the finder?

2009-02-16 Thread Terry Judd
tell application 2 to activate Should do it. Terry... On 17/02/09 1:34 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: Hello, probably an easy one for the Mac guys: When starting app 1 in the finder it launches app 2, BUT app 2 is being launched behind the finder window. Same result

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry all didn't make myself clear. The oddity was not that Mac apps are packages. The oddity is that the properties cannot be saved when you quit the app because they are (ostensibly) part of the executable. I believe that was the reason given for the fact that a revolution executable

Re: Deleting a column ...

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Lew
Dear Bob You need to set the columndelimiter to comma for your script to work. The columndelimiter defaults to tab (sensibly, in my opinion). This works: on testFunction breakpoint set the columndelimiter to comma put 1,2,3 return 4,5,6 into myVar split myVar by column

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Swindell
Bob, You're right, I'm not clear what you're saying. :) First off, I'm not one of the illuminati on this list by a long shot. But I do think I have a grasp of a couple of concepts, and I'll be corrected if I'm wrong. Properties are associated with objects. Objects come with a set of

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Sorry all didn't make myself clear. The oddity was not that Mac apps are packages. The oddity is that the properties cannot be saved when you quit the app because they are (ostensibly) part of the executable. I believe that was the reason given for the fact that a

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Looney
Stephen, You are correct, of course. I was over-simplifying. I completely agree with you that putting user data inside a stack inside a standalone is not a good idea. The most important point I was trying to make was, as Mark had said earlier, custom properties can persist. Paul Looney On

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Andre Garzia wrote: Sims, I think the trick is not on the client side but on the server side. Instead of pointing your Rev client to a fixed server, use a balancing solution, there are load balancers that are able to distribute the request among multiple servers so that you can scale (add more

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Mark that is probably the methodology I will use when the time comes. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: The exception to the above is that if you make any change to an executable (a standalone), including

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Alex, are trying to save bandwidth? oops, I've missed that part, I though he was afraid the server would enter DoS or something. I agree that using a balancer will do absolutelly nothing about bandwidth costs or usage, and yes, you're right about pound getting all the requests before distributing

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jim Sims wrote: I'm discussing the development of a promotional marketing tool with someone who services the internet gaming industry here in Malta (poker, bingo, casino, etc.). About ten years ago he did something similar with a software company that went on to sell a license to the BBC.

Re: Deleting a column ...

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yep figured this out. I was using commas instead of tabs. DOH! Others helped me on this one also, Kudos to all. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Michael Lew wrote: Dear Bob You need to set the columndelimiter to comma for your script to

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Brian Yennie
Jim, Are you sure that simple polling is really too bandwidth wasteful for your application? You can make a lot of HTTP requests for a tiny file without coming close to the bandwidth needed for even small media files. A single dedicated web server should be able to service many thousands

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Luis
Hiya, The 'how to' part referred to the manual setting of the exception. The other part (the registry insertion) would be done by the Rev app. Granted, I should have made it clearer, but in this instance I was following through as if it were a conversation. Cheers, Luis. Bob Sneidar

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

2009-02-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Andre Garzia wrote: Alex, are trying to save bandwidth? oops, I've missed that part, I though he was afraid the server would enter DoS or something. I agree that using a balancer will do absolutelly nothing about bandwidth costs or usage, and yes, you're right about pound getting all the

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: At the risk of pulpifying this long-dead horse, for clarity's sake I don't believe it's the *executable• within an AppleScript applet bundle that is being modified. AFAIK that isn't possible in any UNIX-based

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: clippings/boilerplates find differences parentheses balancing Those shouldn't be deal-breakers with a tool as flexible as Rev. Forgive me if I'm a bit of a Rev snob for text editing, but I find the engine

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 17.02.09 at 11:12 +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein wants, powerful Search/Replace which optionally uses GREP with optional Find All search mode You know, in the Rev's Edit menu, at the bottom is Find and Replace (cmd-F). You have multiple options to include or exclude what

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: What I had in mind was seeing all lines with a given string at once. There is not grep option for the search or replace within the editor, either. Nice, I like that idea.

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.comwrote: At the risk of pulpifying this long-dead horse, for clarity's sake I don't believe it's the *executable• within an AppleScript applet bundle that is being modified. AFAIK that isn't possible

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

2009-02-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: I then quit ScriptEditor and double clicked on my newly created App. It came up with a dialog with the number 1 and then self quit. I double clicked on it again and it said 2, etc etc. The Modification Time of the file changed with each running of the App. Does it have a

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

2009-02-16 Thread Ken Ray
I am working with a developer who has written a custom VBA module for XP and Vista. McAfee identifies this module as a virus and deletes it, which renders a large part of our software useless. The module does create and delete some temporary files, and also sends a shell command that launches