Hang on :-) I seem to remember Jacques saying recently that she'd
found that the internet date was more reliable across time zones than
storing seconds.
I'm sure Jacques will be along soon to give us details or tell me
(ever so politely) that I'm wrong.
Bernard
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:25 AM,
This is like a Kay Back Machine, right :-) I have some OS/2 books I
can send you so they can start working on Revolution for OS/2.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Bernard
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote:
If anyone wants Rev 4.0 Linux or Classic
I had to shout out Thank you, Eric last week (to the bemusement of
the assembled company). I was trying to create a popup menu within a
field, whilst maintaining the selection within the field, and it just
seemed impossible. I searched the list and there was Eric with the
surprisingly simple
wait for my books on BeOS and the NewtonOS... Revolution will be
ubiquitous...
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote:
This is like a Kay Back Machine, right :-) I have some OS/2 books I
can send you so they can start working on Revolution for OS/2.
Be careful with the spelling ! Jacques has a beard, smokes pipe, likes brussel
sprouts (oups, sorry) and is definitively different from Jacque...
But I can nevertheless say that I did set my computer (Mac OS X) to different
time zones and the seconds didn't change accordingly... they seem
Hi all,
As you know my company has been writing games for quite a while. Using our
animationEngine, we have been able to create fast, fun, award-winning games
using Revolution. However, recent changes in our business plan do not leave
enough time to continue our game efforts. Most revenue
Yes.
The seconds returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. And this is in
GMT, or standard universal time. So any computer anywhere will always read
the same number of seconds, provided their own time is correct. With that
you can perform identical calculations as needed.
craig Newman
Nifty idea.. now people like me can see how things work and either put
in features we always wanted or to get a piece of our own puzzle
working..
-Sean
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Kay,
Go to http://reveditor.com and click on the Quickstart link on the
right side of the page. I don't know what link you are using, but I
did have to change the URL once last week. Your page may need
refreshing.
You can also go to the docs from the help menu in the latest tRev.
Best,
for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that
you'd have a special bonus oportunity but it always happens with the most
difficult colors and the ones you have less...
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Shao Sean shaos...@wehostmacs.com wrote:
Nifty idea.. now people
Andre wrote:
for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that
you'd have a special bonus oportunity but it always happens with the most
difficult colors and the ones you have less...
Lol. You figured it out. :-)
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill
revolut...@derbrill.dewrote:
Andre wrote:
for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that
you'd have a special bonus oportunity but it
Thanks Malte
Showing every aspect of creating a commercial application in Rev
alone is worth the money
and then to provide the code, artwork sounds too plus allowing
people to use it royalty free
to make their own version of the game is as good as it gets.
You got my money!
-=JB=-
On
Jacques Hausser (who is not Jacque) wrote:
But I can nevertheless say that I did set my computer (Mac OS X)
to different time zones and the seconds didn't change accordingly...
they seem trustable within a computer.
The engine's internal clock is initialized when the engine starts up, so
if
I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier.
I was sure she had recommended internet date.
Bernard
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Yes.
The seconds returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. And this is in
GMT, or standard
Hello Folks,
anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev
4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do.
don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if
possible, anyone knows how to solve this?
Thanks in advance
anre
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On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
There is an unfortunate implication with this: because the engine
needs to be restarted to update the GMT offset of its internal
clock, this means that automatic changes to time zones like moving
from PST to PDT will be ignored by the
Jacques Hausser wrote:
Be careful with the spelling ! Jacques has a beard, smokes pipe,
likes brussel sprouts (oups, sorry) and is definitively different
from Jacque...
I'm getting a beard too, but I pluck it out. No pipe though.
It wasn't me that mentioned the internet time, I think it was
Long ago in Hypercard I built a stack that opens a damaged stack and pulls as
much as possible out of it and into a second stack. I'd create each card, and
then create each button and field, and grab each attribute and script. Very
tedious but it created a brand new exact duplicate. Whatever
OMG, how funny it is that everybody has had the same issues at one point or
another. I did the same thing...except I'm still using HC here for one
application...
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:41, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
Long ago in Hypercard I built a stack that opens a damaged stack and
Hello,
I have uploaded my first contribution for the community on RevOnline :
Spinning wheel : a [white] Asynchronous Progress Indicator Macintosh X
interface...
Bons souvenirs de Paris
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Andre Garzia wrote:
anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev
4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do.
don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if
possible, anyone knows how to solve this?
I would email it to
Hi,
I just wonder if this is actually so, as stated above? Actually I havn't
thought about this up to now and just got a bit unsure, because I also
haven't found an answer in the archives.
Can anybody confirm my presumption because I don't have a 64Bit system on
hand.
Thank you
Tiemo
It is not regression, it was working fine on 4.5 then, after a save, close
and reopen, it stopped working saying it was corrupted. I tried loading on
4.0 to see if it was indeed corrupted, it worked fine but it stopped loading
on 4.5.
I use mercurial to manage my source code, so I reverted back
Hi Andre,
good to hear you have a not too old backup
As having worked for years with Toolbook I can say that we are really lucky
with RunRev where stack corruption almost is an exotic phenomenon - I havn't
had any yet. But with the older (up to two years ago) versions of Toolbook
file corruption
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Andre Garzia wrote:
anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev
4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do.
don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if
possible, anyone knows how to solve this?
I
Bernard Devlin wrote:
I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier.
I was sure she had recommended internet date.
Nope, it was Richard. But I guarantee that anything Sarah or Richard
says about time calcs is correct. ;)
Regarding the seconds: when I was hosting
When I update the Revlet and html files the browser (Safari on the Mac but
maybe others too) still runs the old one in its cache even if I reload the page
and quit Safari.
The only way I can run the updated Revlet is the reset Safari cache from the
Safari menu.
Are there options to make this
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. Landman Gay
jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
Bernard Devlin wrote:
I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier.
I was sure she had recommended internet date.
Nope, it was Richard. But I guarantee that anything Sarah or Richard
RevList wrote:
What I am saying is that I got the DVDs today and have been watching some
of the sessions. Many of them use sample files that are no longer
available on the web site links that are referenced in the videos.
I would like to have these so that I can look at the scripts just as
I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I
can just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows?
I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any
other way? I think the answer is no but maybe some of you have an
ingenius
Presumably while those who attended the Edinburgh developers' conference
recieved
Studio 4.0 as part of the package that did not include further updates
and developer
previews?
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2010/1/25 Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com
David Bovill wrote:
Not sure if it is any use - but I can offer code for reading and writing
to
WikiPedia from Rev - it is not a complete library - but a good start.
Your code reads and write to Wikipedia.
Did you use this code as an
I've just dug out this very old and pretty untested script for detecting
whether a file is an image. Seems to sort of work on OSX - included here for
insiration :) Does anyone know a better way to do this?
function file_GetType filePath
switch the platform
case MacOS
put
Did anyone comment on Mark Waddingham's time solution using iRev?
http://runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue71/newsletter2.php
I thought it was brilliant.
Lots of great example stories in the issues of revUp. Unfortunately, they
are not indexed or searchable, and it's a bear trying to find an old
If you're going to be making the judgment based on the extension, why don't
you just put the possibilities in a switch/case statement and take care of
it locally?
--
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(a)2 Technology Partners, Inc.
831-726-8013
a...@a2tecnology.com
I think you could write a XPlat solution by analyzing the first few bytes of
the file.
Those should contain some header information. Though I must admit I did not try
that yet.
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2010/1/26 J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com:
I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can
just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows?
I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any other
way? I think the answer
thanks JB!
Hope you enjoy dissecting the sources. :-)
All the best,
Malte
Thanks Malte
Showing every aspect of creating a commercial application in Rev
alone is worth the money
and then to provide the code, artwork sounds too plus allowing
people to use it royalty free
to make
jac...@hyperactivesw.com on January 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM -0800 wrote:
Stewart -- I've lost track of what the url should be and which files
were on the server. I don't have a copy of the DVD to check, so could
you contact me off list and we can figure it out? I know...I was an
idiot. Go ahead
I call bull***t!
Bob
On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
to save time, Snow Leopard doesn't quit programs the way it used to - it
kills them. It checks to see if they have unsaved documents or un-backed-up
preference setting changes first, of course. But if not, it issues a kill
stephen barncard wrote:
Lots of great example stories in the issues of revUp. Unfortunately, they
are not indexed or searchable, and it's a bear trying to find an old
article. I only found this as it was deep within my own bookmarks.
You can get some hints at
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote:
Hang on :-) I seem to remember Jacques saying recently that she'd
found that the internet date was more reliable across time zones than
storing seconds.
It all depends what you want :-)
The seconds translates to a
Taking a quick glimpse at Wikipedia suggests this should be pretty
straightforward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#Magic_numbers_in_files
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Hi there,
Does anyone have a good example of opening a MySQL database on On-Rev
using a Rev stack on a local machine?
I've looked at the documentation thus far, and found it to not be adequate.
I just keep getting the following message, which I believe is telling me
that it just didn't connect
Hi Mark,
Mark Wieder wrote:
Yeah, that was the one case I thought of where it might be useful to
have a static, albeit somewhat outdated, snapshot of the data. Of
course, considering that Wikipedia doesn't for the most part require
broadband access where dialup would do, the following
What is new
---
- removed the automatic proxy menu support and added in custom handling
this allows the proxy menu to be used in Rev 2.8 or greater
(including 4.5.0-dp-1)
allows for proxy icon drag and drop to be in Rev 2.8 or greater
(including 4.5.0-dp-1)
- added new callback
Would an external work to suit these needs? It does not look overly
complex and I can see about getting access to a Windows box to code
for that platform.. Anyone willing to give me remote access to a Linux
box to build an external for there? [anyone have an old Intel-based
Mac they would
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Shao Sean shaos...@wehostmacs.com wrote:
Would an external work to suit these needs? It does not look overly complex
and I can see about getting access to a Windows box to code for that
platform.. Anyone willing to give me remote access to a Linux box to build
it would depend on how each system handled their dates times
internally.
I was looking at the ANSI C time routines and they start from Jan 1,
1970 GMT and there are functions to convert from localized and non-
localized times..
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Hi Rick,
Should this example help ?
function MySQL_idesk_lib
tparam1
,tparam2,tparam3,tparam4,tparam5,tparam6,tparam7,tparam8,tparam9
put revOpenDatabase
(mysql,localhost,user,db_name,password) into myDatabaseID
if myDatabaseID is not a number
then return There was an
Does anyone have a good example of opening a MySQL database on On-Rev
using a Rev stack on a local machine?
I use the scripts from the Splash21 web site http://splash21.on-rev.com/.
If you sign up, you can download all the files.
Cheers,
Sarah
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Hi David,
David Bovill-3 wrote:
I use it to move articles around between MediaWikis and
provide additional tools that MediaWiki does not have.
According to your description, this code looks like
the startpoint for a commercial application for
wiki administrators. ;-)
David, Could you
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.comwrote:
Kay,
I don't know what link you are using,...
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.com
wrote:
tRev users,
Here's the link to a page with links to the Quickstart guide
and the
zryip theSlug wrote:
Here is what I could do to have this menu in each of my documents.
This is purely theoretical.
1) Creating of a substack in my project (as a kind of library) where I
could create the main menu
2) Creating a button with some script to handle my menu bar.
3) Creating a
You guys are just too kind :-) My wife wont have to worry about my birthday
or next Christmas ;-)
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
wait for my books on BeOS and the NewtonOS... Revolution will be
ubiquitous...
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM,
The seconds is exactly what I wanted. I needed a reliable way to tell when
the user changed the record so I can sync the most recent changes.
This discussion has been great.
Bill Vlahos
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InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life
information
I built a simple list using datagrids, all goes fine. I chose to store data
in the dg cache. Except, that in any text application, you'd expect the find
command to work and display the results.
Currently, the standard IDE search finds a test word in the dg cache of the
datagrid. that's about it.
Hi Folks
There is another issue when using the seconds for a time stamp. If you
record the seconds in a month outside summer time and translate the
seconds to another format in a month in summer time or visa versa your
result is an hour wrong. So the engine is not working out if the date
Hi Pierre,
I'll take a look at this!
Thanks,
Rick
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
function MySQL_idesk_lib
tparam1,tparam2,tparam3,tparam4,tparam5,tparam6,tparam7,tparam8,tparam9
put revOpenDatabase (mysql,localhost,user,db_name,password)
into myDatabaseID
Hi Sarah,
I signed up for Splash21. When I tried to login,
it keeps giving me a login error. I've tried it
at least 12 times or more. The site isn't working
correctly for some weird reason.
Thanks,
Rick
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
Does anyone have a good example of
Hi Sarah,
Nevermind. Once I checked my email, I found
the confirmation link required to validate the account.
You would think they would have said a little something
about that when one signs up.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm looking at the
database script examples now.
Rick
On Jan 26,
Jacque
I was hoping for a better answer from someone as well. I ended up
doing what you did in a similar situation.
If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors
when adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then
parentscripting all the others has saved me
On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
Hi Folks
There is another issue when using the seconds for a time stamp. If
you record the seconds in a month outside summer time and translate
the seconds to another format in a month in summer time or visa
versa your result is an
Ron wrote:
If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors when
adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then parentscripting
all the others has saved me lots of time when I need to change something
in one of the menus.
What I've done is to have zero scripts in
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