Re: Is it possible to change the revlet embed html?

2009-12-05 Thread Dom
J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I've done that here: http://jacque.on-rev.com/codebits/dualrevlets.irev The UUID is the same for both, I didn't change that. What's important is the instanceID. That must be the same for all stacks that need to talk to each other on the same

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Jim, Have an eye to Sun VirtualBox 3 (free), as a possible alternative to WMware. I switched from Parallels and never went back to it nor WMware. Run faster and safer than Parallels and never crashes. MBP Pro first gen (32 bits) - OS X 10.5.8 - 2 Go RAM - 300 GB 5400 t/ mn HD Win

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread René Micout
Mark, run(pNum) = empty So I write empty to file (text file) !? And RunRev crash... :—( René Le 5 déc. 2009 à 03:36, Mark Wieder a écrit : Jacque- Friday, December 4, 2009, 6:08:20 PM, you wrote: There's this too: put 255 into bits put 128 into bits I don't understand what the

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 4 Dec 2009, at 16:23, Kevin Miller wrote: We will continue to work on finding good ways to realistically and clearly make the case for revTalk. It is very good news that there is now a debate going on. I can't argue with that. But I wonder if code comparisons will lead to any fruitful

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I haven't stuck my oar into this discussion until now as I was interested which way it would go. My view may be a bit different to most of the real programmers who have offered views and code examples. I am not a real programmer insofar as I do not depend on programming for my bread and cheese,

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
I agree with Richmond. But then I'm someone who doesn't understand why RunRev has devoted resources to on-rev and the plugin when things like unicode and quicktime integration are still broken. I think that the true strength (and uniqueness) of Rev lies in fat-client development. Of course the

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread David Bovill
2009/12/5 Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com I think that the true strength (and uniqueness) of Rev lies in fat-client development. Of course the tiny size of the engine makes the plugin possible, and the fact that revTalk works without a GUI makes the serverside code possible. But those

request and post

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I was playing around with TileStack again and noticed in these two separate stacks a request command and a post command. I was wondering what the equivalent would be for revLets? on openTile deleteAllStoryParts put tilestack into query put tile field API Key into appkey set

Re: Importing data into RevDB

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I'm sure others have known about this but I feel like someone just turned on a giant light bulb in my head. This is the single best thing I have learned this year... set the linedelimiter to comma set the itemdelimiter to quote I am just amazed... Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software

Re: Do you remember Unicode?

2009-12-05 Thread Kenji Kojima
I should correct my words. We can use Unicode functions. http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/tutorials/unicode-in-revolution/ However We cannot make Unicode Application. • Unicode Application must have unicode menus. • Unicode Application must open a unicode name document. •

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Marriott
Your main choice is to Boot Camp or not to Boot Camp. Your second choice is which virtual machine product to use. If you Boot Camp, you gain the advantage that you can reboot your Mac into Windows natively. This has performance and compatibility benefits, especially with games that use

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: In what circumstances would you ever need to use this. The url returns over 1700 lines of text, and so many questions are raised: -- Why would you download so much data just to get a single item? There isn't a choice about that, in any

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Parallels is decidedly faster than VMware (verified personally and by a few in-depth reviews out there). It offers the Aero interface from within the Mac (pretty), and a new presentation option I like called Crystal I own both, and switched

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Colin Holgate
I went ahead and ordered the Parallels 5 upgrade. I ordered the boxed version, hopefully I can find my old serial number by the time the box arrives! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
jim sims wrote: I might be getting a 13 160 GB MacBook Pro ... What have other people done with their machines? What OS(s) have you loaded - XP, Vista,Windows 7? If Linux, what flavor might be the best/most common to develop for? How did you partition it? What sizes for each? What

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
David, I'll have to confess then, I just don't get it. If that's the new focus of RunRev then I'm not sure that a new visitor to their website would come away with that vision. Most of the focus of the www.runrev.com seems to be on traditional fat-client development. The other day I was looking

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Of course the cheap-jack end of the market (i.e. Richmond) does this: Pentium III with OEM Windows XP = $100 runs headless via Microsoft Remote Desktop Coonexion, Pentium 4 with Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS 2nd-hand VDU keyboard = $100 6 year old G4 Mac = $52 on eBay at the moment VDU ($10) Can

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I haven't stuck my oar into this discussion until now as I was interested which way it would go. My view may be a bit different to most of the real programmers who have offered views and code examples. I am not a real programmer insofar as

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 5 Dec 2009, at 15:09, Colin Holgate wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: In what circumstances would you ever need to use this. The url returns over 1700 lines of text, and so many questions are raised: -- Why would you download so much data just to get a single

Re: Is it possible to change the revlet embed html?

2009-12-05 Thread Dom
Dom mcd...@free.fr wrote: OK, I made a more thorough reading... the interesting trick is that the revlet is a mainstack with a substack I did ignore that a substack could so be revealed in a revlet! so, the communication between the two revlets resorts to normal communication between a

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: How would you do the following in Java/C/etc? get last item of line 2 of url http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L; but rather, How would you get and display the latest stock price for RBS.L from the internet in Rev/

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Bernard- Saturday, December 5, 2009, 8:34:31 AM, you wrote: Have you seen this: http://280atlas.com/what.php ? Wow - a geometry manager that works. What a concept... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Bruce Robertson
On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: How would you do the following in Java/C/etc? get last item of line 2 of url http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L; but rather, How would you get and display the latest

problem with sending functions to other cards over riding message path

2009-12-05 Thread william humphrey
If you do this in the background script of one stack: *put* anytext into tDataHolder *get* value(PutMyData(tDataHolder), card consignee_card of stack Consignees of stack clients) and in the card consignee_card of another stack -- there is this: *function* PutMyData pDataHolder

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 12/05/2009 at 01:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: The main advantage of Fusion and Parallels over Boot Camp is that you can carry on running your Mac apps, and can be dragging data directly between Mac OS and Windows, or directly opening a Mac document in a Windows application, while running

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 5 Dec 2009, at 18:12, Colin Holgate wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: How would you do the following in Java/C/etc? get last item of line 2 of url http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=RBS.L; but rather, How would you get and display the latest

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Marriott
Roger, Also, you won't have to keep converting your hd file between Parallels and Fusion. They will both comfortably use the same BootCamp partition (not at the same time of course). This led to great unhappiness last time I tried it, and constant re-activation of Windows, as well. - Bill

Re: Importing data into RevDB

2009-12-05 Thread Kay C Lan
David, Prior to exporting from Excel, do a Repace All 'tabs' with and replace all line breaks with lblblblb (obviously you can use any number of and combination of characters that you are confident will never appear in the data). Then export it as tab delimited. Every line of the resulting

Re: OT OS X HD Partitioning, multiple OSs

2009-12-05 Thread Neal Campbell
There is indeed an alternative to just bootcamp or VMs, for Intel macs (not G4/5s) called rEFIt. Unlike Windows, Intel macs use a boot architecture called EFI. You can overwrite that with an open source product called rEFIt that boots into a screen that is similar to holding down the option key

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Dave Cragg dave.cr...@lacscentre.co.ukwrote: I just don't think that pure code comparisons provide accurate comparisons of what's involved. And can perhaps deflect attention from the benefits of using Rev. With the stock quote example, I can open Rev, write my

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Kay, Kay C Lan wrote: Use examples that other languages are using, be confident to point people to your competitors tutorials, have the same examples in your own tutorials, then let them choose which tutorial they want to do. Easy. Actually, i like this approach. In this way, every

Re: request and post

2009-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: I was playing around with TileStack again and noticed in these two separate stacks a request command and a post command. I was wondering what the equivalent would be for revLets? It should be the same as always, though I haven't tested it from a revlet: (for

Re: Importing data into RevDB

2009-12-05 Thread Jim Ault
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I'm sure others have known about this but I feel like someone just turned on a giant light bulb in my head. This is the single best thing I have learned this year... set the linedelimiter to comma set the itemdelimiter to quote I am

Re: Is it possible to change the revlet embed html?

2009-12-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dom wrote: So, a step further, how to make two _independent_ revlets communicate? I tried with two stacks -- the first trying to write some data to a text file, and the second to read the text file it was impossible to show two revlets on the same page ;- even with two different (or

Re: Quicktime VR panorama movies in revlets

2009-12-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Ben, BNig wrote: The QTVR is 148 KB (KiloByte) in size, it is hosted on on-rev. So it should not take long to load, and it doesn't here. It was taken from Jacque's submission to the QCC. There must be something else going on if loading takes a while. For me it is nearly instantaneous,

Re: problem with sending functions to other cards over riding message path

2009-12-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi William, Are you using a) RevMedia or b) RevStudio/RevEnterprise? I believe, (but i will like to prove wrong) that DataGrids only work with RevStudio/RevEnterprise. william humphrey-2 wrote: and that you can only set the dgData of a DataGrid if the script is in the background of the

Re: problem with sending functions to other cards over riding message path

2009-12-05 Thread william humphrey
It is Enterprise. DataGrid works fine if the functions are all in the script on the same stack or card. It is only that I am trying to fill a dataGrid that is in another stack. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi William, Are you using a) RevMedia

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Judy Perry
And of course, this is something everybody has been saying now since at least the 2nd Monterey conference. It may not be enough to make available a free product that just dumps you straight into the world of scripting. Even Hypercard didn't do that! It provided a very and gentle graceful

[ANN] Data Tree 1.0

2009-12-05 Thread Steve Checkley
Hi all, Further to my posts every now and then about beta versions, it's with great pleasure that I'm announcing the completion of my first commercial library for RunRev: Data Tree 1.0. After being a bit frustrated with the lack of a native tree view control in Rev, I thought I'd throw my hat

Re: [ANN] Data Tree 1.0

2009-12-05 Thread Marty Knapp
Nice job Steve! Marty Knapp Hi all, Further to my posts every now and then about beta versions, it's with great pleasure that I'm announcing the completion of my first commercial library for RunRev: Data Tree 1.0. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Importing data into RevDB

2009-12-05 Thread David Coker
A note of caution when using this. The chunking rules for Rev are that a line can contain items, but items cannot contain lines. Lines can contain items, items contain words. wrong = line 6 of item 4, no matter the delimiter Not all functions obey a new setting. Filter does not follow the

OT: Panorama software

2009-12-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
I keep dreaming that one day I will get beyond admin and have time to do some creative well it may be soon. What are everyone recommendations as of 2010 for best tools for creating panoramas (including 360 degree horizontal over head ones) on Mac OSX? I see a an open source package which

Text encoding problem

2009-12-05 Thread David Bovill
How do I convert the following text Güstrow to G%C5%B8strow? Kind of stuck :( ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Judy, Judy Perry wrote: And of course, this is something everybody has been saying now since at least the 2nd Monterey conference. It may not be enough to make available a free product that just dumps you straight into the world of scripting. One palette with tools, commands and

Re: Text encoding problem

2009-12-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
wow, that's some devilishly encoded stuff! this will create it: put urlencode(unidecode(uniencode(isotomac(Güstrow)),utf8)) of which the inverse would be: put mactoiso(unidecode(uniencode(urldecode(G%C5%B8strow),utf8))) or you could combine them... put

Re: [ANN] Data Tree 1.0

2009-12-05 Thread Jerry Daniels
Steve, VERY nice. Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video: http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-drag-n-drop-your-handlers On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Steve Checkley wrote: Hi all, Further to my posts every now and then about beta versions, it's with great pleasure that I'm

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Alejandro, Interesting palette. Probably what would also be really useful is something HC had, namely, pre-scripted actions via a button (going to a particular place, using visual effects etc.). The problems then become (1) figuring out what those sample pre-scripted things should be and

Re: Code Samples/Comparisons

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Long time ago, i created this palette for editing the templates that i give to my fellow teachers: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost.php?p=239130postcount=6 I like it. Looks a bit like where I spend my day: http://www.fourthworld.net/devo2.jpg GMTA :) -- Richard