Re: ICS functions Library

2009-12-02 Thread stephen barncard
Again, I mentioned it because it was the only vCal lib that I'd heard of. It used to be at the soapdog.com site, which doesn't exist. And it's not at andregarzia.com. So at this point it's up to Andre if he wants it out there. He wrote it a long time ago... - Stephen

Re: Ethics... and the lack of it.

2009-12-02 Thread Kay C Lan
Alejandro, I agree with Bill and Jim, this isn't ethics, it's business. Continuing with Bill's decking analogy. If you asked a bunch of builders how much his $10,000 deck was worth, I imagine you'd get a bunch of quotes on how much each of these guys would charge to build the same thing. On the

Re: Ethics... and the lack of it.

2009-12-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
All if fair in love and war. . . . and business. My work is only worth what somebody else is prepared to pay for it: I installed Mint Linux on somebody's PC and they paid me at the going rate as it was not mission critical for their business. Somebody else paid me a LARGE amount of money

Re: ICS functions Library

2009-12-02 Thread -= JB =-
Okay, thanks for the reply. -=JB=- On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:09 AM, stephen barncard wrote: Again, I mentioned it because it was the only vCal lib that I'd heard of. It used to be at the soapdog.com site, which doesn't exist. And it's not at andregarzia.com. So at this point it's up to Andre

Re: ICS functions Library

2009-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I lost that library when I lost my laptop! :D I will get Sivakatirswami copy and post it online. I made that library ages ago, I am a much better programmer now and probably would have coded it differently, but it works as expected. It was very minimalistic full of redundance. :D On

Mucking around with extended non-unicode font

2009-12-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
As most people are aware by now, I have a penchant for mucking around with fonts: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriter.html So, digging around, I came across Apple's in-built DevanagariMT truetype font which: 1. Is an extended truetype font with 749 characters. 2. of which only

Re: ICS functions Library

2009-12-02 Thread -= JB =-
Thanks, Andre -=JB=- On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, I lost that library when I lost my laptop! :D I will get Sivakatirswami copy and post it online. I made that library ages ago, I am a much better programmer now and probably would have coded it differently,

RE: Ethics... and the lack of it.

2009-12-02 Thread Michael Kann
Hennie Youngman explains business ethics: You and another guy own a store that sells men's suits. A rich Brazilian comes in and buys a suit. When the Brazilian is about to leave you notice that he has paid you $100 too much. Here's where the business ethics comes in. Do you tell your business

Making your app apple (and vb) scriptable

2009-12-02 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi all, I could use some pointers on this. I would like to make an app applescriptable on the mac and if possible vb scriptable on PC. Has anybody done this before? Any pointers on what needs to be done? Cheers, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing

Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
I have entered the testing phase with my new software based on the revweb plugin, and would appreciate any and all feedback (negative, positive, suggestions whatever) from anyone who wants to check it over. The site is still rough around the edges... plus, I have little in the way of

RE: Ethics... and the lack of it.

2009-12-02 Thread Jim Bufalini
Richmond Mathewson wrote: snip 2 simple reasons: 1. The Ransom demanded was 5 times what they paid me. 2. They had an extremely valuable meeting with business clients the next day and those documents were among those that had been hosed. Ethics ain't in it. And Kay C Lan

RE: Ethics... and the lack of it.

2009-12-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Many thanks for replying to this request. Jim Bufalini-3 wrote: [snip] I don't see the ethics issue. As the Italian half of my ancestry would say (in America), It's not personal, it's just business. :-) and Kay C Lan wrote: I agree with Bill and Jim, this isn't ethics,

[ANN] tRev users: vote for your fav feature

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry Daniels
tRev-ers, I'd really like to know what you like about using tRev so far. So, I created a poll: http://reveditor.com/vote-for-your-favorite-trev-feature Please, this is for users of the product only. Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video:

[ANN] tText users: poll regarding plugins

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry Daniels
Wild, young, text-crazed Bohemians, If you are a user of tText, MJ and I were curious...have you created a plugin for it? Please vote: http://reveditor.com/ttext-users-have-you-created-a-plugin Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video:

Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
Normally a bastion of Java Enterprise related news, this article is all about Rev 4 compiling native apps for Mac,Windows and Lunix, coming with a web plug-in and revMedia being free. http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58720 Prepare for I'll stick with a real programming

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Jim Kanter
2nd message—already there. On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: Prepare for I'll stick with a real programming language, thank you very much remarks ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Marriott
Jan, Prepare for I'll stick with a real programming language, thank you very much remarks; but it will hopefully drive traffic to the runrev.com site for Java developers sitting on the fence with JavaFX, Flex,... Just remember, Real programmers don't use plain English. :)

Re:ICS Functiosn - where to download vObjectPackage.rev

2009-12-02 Thread Ian Gordon
I found a copy here. http://www.soapdog.org/vObjectPackage.rev thanks to Andre as always! Ian Message: 21 Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:33:24 -0800 From: -= JB =- sund...@pacifier.com Subject: Re: ICS functions Library To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com And

Re: ICS Functiosn - where to download vObjectPackage.rev

2009-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Oh, is it there :-O I have like 3 servers and 20 domains, I keep loosing track of where things are... On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ian Gordon i...@1492.ca wrote: I found a copy here. http://www.soapdog.org/vObjectPackage.rev thanks to Andre as always! Ian Message: 21

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Actually, the most open minded (or knowledgeable) programmers should recognize that RevMedia is similar to: 1) Adobe (Macromedia) Director, (using Quicktime to play Movies, Externals to add functions, a web plugin to show content in browser and a remarkable list of similar functions and

tText plugin

2009-12-02 Thread Generic Email
I thought I would like to write a tText plugin that would execute the script being edited and put the output into another tab. I didn't see a way to retrieve the full path of the file currently being edited. So the flow would be something like this: 1) Get the full path to the file 2) see if it

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Actually I think some of the comments have a point. That language comparision pdf is misleading. Even I could write better code than that in those languages. I would suggest people on runrev would change that pdf to present optimum code in C++/C#/JAVA and the like, like, very professional code and

Re: tText plugin

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry Daniels
Gen, Why would you need the file path? You've got the text staring you in the face in tText. Look at the two samples that come with the product. They take text from one tab, munge it and then put it into another tab. Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video:

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Richard, Just out of curiosity, checked out your site. Unfortunately, it's not working on my setup (Vista, Firefox 3.5.5, revApp 4.0.0-rc-1 build 940). Here's what I see at my end. A window with a left-side menu and a downloading message appears. During downloading, a screen object that I guess

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread David Coker
Richard, Although I'm not sure what all is supposed to be functional, I was able to view some golfing videos after browsing around a bit to find where they were located in the program. Also took a snapshot of one and saved it to my desktop. All of the above on a RC running Vista and Firefox.

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
David, Thanks for taking a look at it. Isn't that just the way these things go... works for you, but not for Nicolas. Same basic configuration. Vista. Firefox. Same plugin. Different results. More digging ahead... The files are all in a Swing Browser folder... either in Documents or the

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
Nicolas, No explanations... yet. But thanks for looking. I haven't received any other reports of the problem you encountered, but I'll dig into it. Will likely contact you offline. The frustrating thing is that there's no way to know how many problems like this are due to the plugin. Most

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Richard, I tried it again, this time after updating my Rev plugin version. One very small difference this time. Right before the downloading message appears, for a very brief second I can see an image of a golfer and some other screen objects. But after downloading is done, it's the same

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: Actually I think some of the comments have a point. That language comparision pdf is misleading. Even I could write better code than that in those languages. I would suggest people on runrev would change that pdf to present optimum code in C++/C#/JAVA and the like, like, very

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
Nicolas, Yes... this can be a bit frustrating. Just walked another user through the startup process. He's using XP and IE. Wouldn't work at all. He switched to Firefox and everything worked perfectly. Not a single problem. The black screen you are seeing is just a protective graphic to

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread David Coker
Hey Richard. ...well now, there lies the problem. I followed the path that was displayed withing the program and didn't find any such folder as you've described. Just did a complete search for the entire computer and all users as Admin and still didn't locate anything. How about sharing one

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
Hi David, The folder is called Swing Browser. It should be in AppData, which I believe is a hidden folder. I put the files in there because there seemed to be some consensus here that specialfolderpath(26) was a good place for Rev files. If you open Rev and type specialfolderpath(26) in the

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolas Cueto
No problem, Richard. the nuances of the plugin... and it's many inconsistencies. It's definitely not ready for show time. Which is a large reason for my helping you out. I figure you butting heads with it now makes my revlet life easier later on. Speaking of which. Does Swing Browser do

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Miller
The only printing that is working is through Rev's print this card from xx to yy. That works fine. Printing from the browser's print command doesn't appear to work. Yeah... I figured I'd post info about the site here to help sort out more revweb issues. Hopefully, this process will serve a

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richard IIRC, the Java example of how to make an alias is from the Apple web site. That raises an interesting question. Is is because Apple's engineers write poor Java that Steve Jobs said “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” or

Re: Rev 4.0 article on TheServerSide

2009-12-02 Thread William Marriott
Alejandro, Bill, Why don't link to Stomfi tutorials for Novell Linux in these answers? Just discovered them thanks to your post... really nice to have a few pages on the Novell site about us :) Will try to make some use of them. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1211.html - Bill

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread David Coker
Hello again Richard, This is just an FYI for anyone else that wants to remove the application files that are downloaded during testing. I finally found them hidden in: C:/Users/x/AppData/Roaming/Swing Browser/ I'm *really* new to using Vista and have never gotten around to seeing where they

[OT] Illustrating C

2009-12-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Today, i borrowed from a software developer the book Illustrating C that Alex Tweedly recommended some months ago to learn C programming: http://www.amazon.com/Illustrating-C-Ansi-Iso-Version/dp/0521468213

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Miller wrote: The only printing that is working is through Rev's print this card from xx to yy. That works fine. Printing from the browser's print command doesn't appear to work. Just curious because I've never tried it, but does a Flash plugin print from the browser? Or a QuickTime

Re: [OT] Illustrating C

2009-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Alejandro, While I was coursing computer science I used that book a lot. I love it! Most of my fellow students had huge C bibles with thousand pages and more, I had only that book and it contained everything I wanted and was easy to follow and understand. I really think it is a great book,

Re: Swing Browser is in testing

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Just curious because I've never tried it, but does a Flash plugin print from the browser? Or a QuickTime movie poster? Flash plugins did print from my browser. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Standalone Not Working

2009-12-02 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Created a standalone on my Mac for both Mac and Windows. I opened the Mac version and it works fine. I then uploaded the whole things (folder with both versions) to a FirstClass server so that my students can download it. When I download the Mac version from the server, it

Re: Standalone Not Working

2009-12-02 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Created a standalone on my Mac for both Mac and Windows.  I opened the Mac version and it works fine.  I then uploaded the whole things (folder with both versions) to a FirstClass server so that my students can download it.   When I download the Mac version from the server, it will not open.