Le 17 nov. 09 à 21:22, Alejandro Tejada a écrit :
This training should be offered in teacher's native language.
Although, revTalk should be keep
as an English-like programming language, without trying to
translate commands, functions, handlers,
messages and tokens to another languages.
Le 17 nov. 09 à 21:43, Mikey a écrit :
In the RR folder for the 4.0 version there are the following files:
Engine Change Log
IDE Change Log
and Read_Me_First
Than you very much,
Usually we are too inclined to ignore these small text files...
Bons souvenirs de Paris René
MacUpdate had RevMedia today: edition number and price (free) exactly right.
VersionTracker (Mac) had 'Revolution 4' described as an update, and
further details
yields a price of $249.
For some funny reason nothing shows up in VersionTracker (Windows).
Getting there; although that $249 is
Le 18 nov. 09 à 18:51, Robert Man a écrit :
I personnaly do not think it is so important for apps,
Hello !
That depends on what applications they are. For my part, I create
music applications (for my own use) and my goal is to control actions
on a touch screen (for now I use a pen) ... A
Hello Richard,
I added 5 votes...
Bons souvenirs de Paris
René
Le 18 nov. 09 à 19:50, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
Jim Bufalini wrote:
I submitted a proposal for it to the improve-list a couple weeks
ago.
Number of replies: 0.
I just searched my email client for the word multitouch on the
René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote:
I started with HyperCard in 1987 and gradually I made progress, it
took time because it's not my job (and I have neither received any
training in computers or programming), but satisfaction is so great
when you reach the goal you had set
Hi there,
I got a stack with 10 cards and want to dynamically change the order of the
cards.
Is it possible to choose 'on mouseup' a card at random?
greetings,
William
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Hoi William,
go any cd
go any cd of this stack
put the id of any cd of this stack into x
etc.
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Dear Alejandro,
It seems to me that your are trying to lead horses to water, who are neither
thirsty nor want to drink. ;-)
But you raise an interesting point. We talk about the world embracing
revTalk and revlets because the language is so easy. And, indeed it is. But,
when I think back to when
I am looking for a function that does something like this:
get the color of this card at x,y
and I would expect it to contain r,g,b
I have searched through the Revolution Dictionary, and the best I can find is
mouseColor. This has the undesirable effect of having to move the mouse to the
point
On Thu Nov 19, Generic Email generic.email.30022 at gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a function that does something like this:
get the color of this card at x,y
and I would expect it to contain r,g,b
I have searched through the Revolution Dictionary, and the best I can
find is mouseColor.
Hello !
I read that the implementation of SheepSaver was tricky...
What about that ?
René
Bonjour,
J'ai lu que la mise en œuvre de SheepSaver était délicate...
Qu'en est-il exactement ?
René
Le 19 nov. 09 à 14:04, Dom a écrit :
I installed at least SheepShaver*
That code didn't work for me ... Probably need something more like,
lock screen
put the screenmouseLoc into coord
set the screenmouseLoc to 350,350
put the mousecolor
set the screenmouseLoc to coord
unlock screen
Alternately, one can export snapshot consisting of a single pixel and parse
its
Bill, thank you! Your idea worked well.
I wrapped it into a function so it looked better for me, and put my example
stack here: http://dl.shuler.org/dl.php?i=m510yb9zxq
Thanks so much for the push in the right direction.
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René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote:
Hello !
I read that the implementation of SheepSaver was tricky...
What about that ?
René
Bonjour,
J'ai lu que la mise en œuvre de SheepSaver était délicate...
Qu'en est-il exactement ?
bon je mets la balise bilingue
you may encounter
Sheep Shaver left me feeling I had had a trip through the
dipping trough followed by a session with the emasculators . . . :)
While singing an octave higher:
I have had recourse several times to this:
http://www.kju-app.org/
with perfectly satisfactory results; both with Mac OS 9
and Windows
Hi all,
A colleague of mine wants to build a revWeb internet application that
accesses data from a MSSQL Server on a Windows server. He wants to
deploy this application as a cross platform application.
How would he go about that, as the application has the
revOpenDatabase(odbc...) in the scripts?
Once again I thank you dearly Jacque.
I have also pinned your bit about not
bothering up over my desk.
Gratefully Barry
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Just a quick post to let everybody know that I've just uploaded a new
beta of my tree library to my site.
There's a blog post on my site that goes into detail about what's new
or been fixed but in short, the big news is that this version adds
support for tabbing to and from a tree.
Bill, here's another way to get a lot of free advertizing -- send some info to
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ about the new plug-in. It works well in Firefox.
The birthday cake revlet is mesmerizing.
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I have a stack system that is being used on laptops (at this point Mac
OSX only). One of my beta testers uses it in three different
locations. Among many other things, the stack prints out notes and
various other text files from within Rev (running in IDE on RevMedia
4.0 -- eventually I'll
Peter,
tell application Printer Setup Utility
set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a variable for
the
name of your current/default printer
end tell
this applescript tells me the currently selected printer on MacOSX 10.5.8
regards
Bernd
Peter Brigham MD wrote:
I
Hi from Paris,
I think Jim has it all sown up.
From: Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com
So, I think you need focus
on the lay of the land first.
I went through many languages from 1401 Autocoder,
through Fortran, through Cobol, through 360 Assembler,
and then through PL/1. I was young and
I have a stack where I do all my testing. This stack is purged from
memory when it is closed, though this may not be pertinent.
When I open this stack in a new session of Rev from the finder (v.4) I get
a dialog that the stack revMacCursors is already in memory, and that this
might cause
If one has ever had to work with punched cards (and I have not) genuinely
deserves the title hard core. That stuff was so boring in the 60s that it
drove me away from the field.
How did anything get done?
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San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
Peter,
I was a little too fast with my reply, I am afraid
this gives me all the information of the current printer unfortunately it
does return idle even if the current printer is off.
tell application Printer Setup Utility
set Current_Printer to name of current printer -- set a
Hi Stephan and Francis,
If one has ever had to work with punched cards (and I have not)
genuinely
deserves the title hard core. That stuff was so boring in the 60s
that it
drove me away from the field.
I did as a teenager in high school on a summer job (circa 1968). ;-) I had
actually
It returns idle in all cases? Are you saying that it doesn't
distinguish if the printer is on/connected vs off/disconnected?
How would I get the contents of the various printer properties from
this script into rev variables to test this out? Do I use an 'on
appleEvent' handler -- if so,
dunb...@aol.com wrote:
I have a stack where I do all my testing. This stack is purged from
memory when it is closed, though this may not be pertinent.
When I open this stack in a new session of Rev from the finder (v.4) I get
a dialog that the stack revMacCursors is already in memory, and
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Jim Bufalini wrote:
It seems to me that your are trying to lead horses to water, who are neither
thirsty nor want to drink. ;-)
But the staggering amount of public funds that have been dumped into
computers in the classroom requires that they really ought to either get
Jacque:
There were two revMacCursors stacks in the Application Browser. Both have
the exactly same pathname, back to the toolSet folder in the Rev 4gm
folder. Both were mainstacks.There is only one such file in that folder, of
course.One was at the bottom of the list, out of sort order, which
dunb...@aol.com wrote:
So I did it again. This time the extra cursor stack was shown sort of one
level down, like it was a substack. And I was offered the option to delete.
Everything is back to normal, though I don't know why, and don't really care.
Thank you.
I think you ran up against
I don't mind edicts; I can generally ignore them. But I am unjustly accused
in this case. I never create stacks with the same name, and certainly don't
expect Rev to.
Craig
In a message dated 11/19/09 5:51:25 PM, jac...@hyperactivesw.com writes:
I think you ran up against the no duplicate
Pretty sure this isn't anywhere in my code so it must be somewhere
deeper in. Does this ring a bell with anyone? From a customer email:
Getting this error when we exit the program:
Line 434 processing token global $ProgramFiles(x86)
We running Vista on an HP laptop, the program is
Hi Shari,
I believe that this or a similar problem was discovered some time ago.
It might have been fixed already. Are you sure that you built your
standalone with the latest version of Revolution?
I remember (quite) vaguely a discussion about incompatibility between
global variable
Peter,
to test this put this applescript into a field 1 and have a field 2 for the
result
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tell application Printer Setup Utility
set tReturn to
set x to name of every printer as list
repeat with i from 1 to count of items of x
set
Hi Peter,
Here is another approach for OS X that might give you info that's easier
to use. Or not.
put shell(system_profiler SPPrintersDataType) into tDescriptions
In my world it returns this:
--- start of data ---
Printers:
Canon iP1700:
Status: Idle
Print Server: Local
I talked to... i think it was Ben... yeah, i talked to Ben during the
conference about one of the bugs i filed. Basically it's the dreaded
Mac menubar engine bug. The engine sometimes gets confused about the
actual height of the stack, and the script editor has it's own
menubar, thus the
BNig wrote:
The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately
returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current
printer is the default printer.
regards
Bernd
You can also get the names of the printers with:
put the availablePrinters into
Hi Judy,
Your points are all well taken and true - for kids. But if you read
Alejandro's original post, you will see that he is designing a course
outline for his fellow teachers who already program in more traditional
language(s), which one or ones I don't know, and he is wanting to convert
them
Here's another OS X shell command that will list only the USB printers
turned on. Unfortunately, it doesn't list them by their full names.
Here's the code (in a button):
on mouseUp
put shell(ioreg) into tList
filter tList with *IOUSBDevice*
put the number of lines in tList cr tList
Hi Jim,
I went back and re-read Alejandro's post and that is most definitely NOT
the impression it gives me. I also chatted with him for a good half hour
or more yesterday and nothing in that conversation suggested that these
teachers already know how to program using another
Definitely wasn't built with the latest version, good point. I did
see a brief discussion in the archives about a problem with that
specific global variable that others were having awhile back. Must
be something in the backend of the Rev code or stacks. But didn't
see a solution. Maybe the
Mark,
If you've got a functional ODBC driver on the MAC it should work just
like it was on Windows. At the wire level, it's just talking on sockets.
As far as using it in a revLet, it appears all of us that have this need
are, shall we say, screwed. You will have to have some sort of .cgi
Hi,
Also you can use from the shell:
lpstat -p -- to see the available printers
lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name
and to send directly to the printer:
lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file
to print
If you check the lpr command in CUPS manual
Hi Steve,
Congratulations for your Data Tree!
Salut,
Josep
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Phil Davis
JosepM wrote:
Hi,
Also you can use from the shell:
lpstat -p -- to see the available printers
lpstat -d -- to know the default printer name
and to send directly to the printer:
lpr -P name of the printer -o page-ranges=1 -o landscape path to the file
Judy Perry wrote:
I went back and re-read Alejandro's post and that is most definitely
NOT
the impression it gives me. I also chatted with him for a good half
hour
or more yesterday and nothing in that conversation suggested that these
teachers already know how to program using another
What is up with the v4.0 Script editor?
Platform: WinXP
1) Opening it with scripts in it has a delay before placing the cursor and
being able to start typing
2) There's a definite delay when editing/typing anything in the editor
3) Clicking in the numbered margin to mark a Breakpoint is also
Hi Jim,
If you spoke with him for 30-minutes yesterday, then you probably have not
missed anything and I am the one who misunderstood his post. ;-)
--Well, to clarify, it was a text-based chat as opposed to a phone-based
one, so I might well have missed something! :-)
None the less, and
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