Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread David Bovill
The htmltext property does not let you display html - but a very narrow subset of html - so the html entities will need to be converted in your script. On 12 February 2010 05:24, Jeffrey Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any examples out there of not only localizing a Rev stack's UI,

Re: Words Indexing strategies

2010-02-12 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: I have a dll named: dbsqlite.dll (452 K) in my Rev Studio instalation. If an experienced database developer could lend a hand, i would be really grateful. Hi Alejandro Ok, since you don't know anything about

Behavior Nightmare

2010-02-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Does anyone know what the message order is for behaviors assigned to multiple objects? I have a set behaviors assigned to a card, and a set of behaviors assigned to a group that is placed on the same card. It seems that the behavior scripts of card are being handled *before* the behavior scripts

RE: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Bufalini
Jeff, There is a very nice product available from revSelect called NativeSpeak. http://www.runrev.com/products/related-software/nativespeak/ Having set up the localization of an application from scratch and being painstakingly aware of all the issues you will run into, which go far beyond mere

RE: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 29

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Bufalini
Jim Lambert wrote: Jacque wrote: on mousemove x,y put the helptext of the target into fld help field end mousemove With rev messages that are called very frequently, like mousemove, I generally do a test to see if the overhead of refreshing a field is really necessary. on

Re: Behavior Nightmare

2010-02-12 Thread David Bovill
Been using behaviors for a while now - and they have seemed unproblematic and intuitive to me. I may well have missed something as I use them in a particular way, but this is as far as i know the situation (shoot me down if I get something wrong). Behaviors are effectively backscript for the

Re: Behavior Nightmare

2010-02-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Does anyone know what the message order is for behaviors assigned to multiple objects? I have a set behaviors assigned to a card, and a set of behaviors assigned to a group that is placed on the same card. It seems that the behavior scripts

Re: Behavior Nightmare

2010-02-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
Do the groups have their 'backgroundBehavior' property set by any chance? In theory, a behavior acts like an object-specific backscript, but the message path for background groups is a tad strange when it comes to the card script, so who knows? Can you confirm this with simple logging to a text

Re: Words Indexing strategies

2010-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bernard Devlin wrote: However, it looks to me like the existing indexes don't contain enough information for you to calculate frequency of occurrence (a measure of relevance). Once again, MetaCard to the rescue! :) Raney included this little gem in MC's Examples stack, and using repeat for

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jeff Massung wrote: I'm still new to Rev, but in other languages this is dead simple: ... // nuke everything else at the end of the file trunctate(fp, new_len); ... Done. Now, maybe this isn't as easy in Rev as it is in C and *many* other languages. But it should be [if it

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: That looks similar to what I posted here on the 9th: open file tFile for update seek relative -1000 in file tFile repeat read from file tFile until cr if it is not empty then put it after tBuffer else delete last line of tBuffer

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jim Bufalini wrote: Just one thing Alex, you need to: put URLDecode(the detailed files) into t in case the file name has, for example, a space in it. Thanks Jum, I didn't spot that. But then, if the file name had a comma in it, I'd be caught out. I think what I needed was to

Re: Help message Broadcasting system

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Cool, I am going to meditate on the responses and come up with something that will take care of my needs. Thank you all for the quick input and elaborate responses! On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Trevor DeVore [via Runtime Revolution]

Encoding h.264 videos on Windows 7 through Rev

2010-02-12 Thread Richard Miller
What do I need to install to have h.264 show up as an option in the Rev video compression dialog box under Windows 7? Is there a codec I need to install? Thanks. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Massung
Thank you both for the thoughts and the link. NativeSpeak looks nice. Currently, while localizing the interface of my app is something I will have the distinct pleasure of looking forward to /sarcasm, my interest is mostly on displaying unicode (or non-ANSI) characters in a field that are read

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: on mouseUp put the unicodeText of fld src into fld dst set the unicodeText of fld rep to fld dst end mouseUp Try: set the unicodeText of field dst to the unicodeText of field src When you put into a field you are setting the text

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Massung
Wow, I could swear I tried that before with terrible results. Just tried again with a fresh stack and it works. In fact, modifying dst to be a variable instead of a field to hold the temporary data works as well. Sorry, I feel a little sheepish. Thanks, Trevor. Jeff M.

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: Wow, I could swear I tried that before with terrible results. Just tried again with a fresh stack and it works. In fact, modifying dst to be a variable instead of a field to hold the temporary data works as well. Sorry, I feel a little

[ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
Fellow Rev developers, We just posted this video showing the new control manipulation in tRev's snapshot mode: http://reveditor.com/need-to-move-controls-in-card-snaps-zoom Here are the details: NEW Controls in Zoom: - zoomed cards now show a fully functional list of controls -

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: That looks similar to what I posted here on the 9th: open file tFile for update seek relative -1000 in file tFile repeat read from file tFile until cr if it is not empty then put it after tBuffer else

Re: altRevBrowser Noob

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Thanks for the replies. Well the whole idea was to be able to go full screen as soon as it opens without user intervention, something that apparently Adobe will not allow with flash, because it poses a security risk. So my plan is to either trap for a rawkeydown and have it quit when

RE: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Bufalini
Richard Gaskin wrote: But FWIW, I tried your version and it seemed to leave the file unchanged If your original file ends in a cr then Alex's code would end in absolutely no change. ;-) Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: OT: Our place in Hawaii....

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas McGrath III
That did the trick! Now I'm rockin Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Thomas McGrath

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread David Coker
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.com wrote: Fellow Rev developers, We just posted this video showing the new control manipulation in tRev's snapshot mode:    http://reveditor.com/need-to-move-controls-in-card-snaps-zoom Here are the details: NEW Controls

Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Beckmann
How is the easiest way to incorporate spell checking into a standalone on different platforms? Are there spellcheck Rev stacks that have been created that can be placed in the script hierarchy? Thanks. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: altRevBrowser Noob

2010-02-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well the whole idea was to be able to go full screen as soon as it opens without user intervention, something that apparently Adobe will not allow with flash, because it poses a security risk. Maybe you know this already, but Adobe has a an online security manager

Re: AW: Andre's house - completely offtopic

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Talluto
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Hi I made a google maps entry that is open for anyone to edit. If you have a google account of any sorts, you can go here, and click on save to my maps and then edit to add your own location:

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Bufalini wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: But FWIW, I tried your version and it seemed to leave the file unchanged If your original file ends in a cr then Alex's code would end in absolutely no change. ;-) Thanks, Jim. I tried it both ways; no change to the file's contents, although the

Re: Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread David Coker
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jim Beckmann jimbeckm...@comcast.net wrote: How is the easiest way to incorporate spell checking into a standalone on different platforms?  Are there spellcheck Rev stacks that have been created that can be placed in the script hierarchy? Thanks. I haven't

Re: OT: Our place in Hawaii....

2010-02-12 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Music does not play on safari - iPhone Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:50 AM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: That did the trick! Now I'm rockin Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can

OT: More on Revolution

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
I suppose it's too late to ask for all the money back that we lent/gave to almost every country in the last century, that now thinks us the bad guys? It would go a long way to solving our present economical problems. No matter, we have no intention of paying back the Chinese, who are funding

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
David, Have to say, that's great to hear. Sometimes virtual shops like ours almost operate in a vacuum. Glad that you're liking the product and the new zoom feature! Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video: http://reveditor.com/need-to-move-controls-in-card-snaps-zoom On Feb 12,

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour, Great update Jerry ! I particularly appreciate that the first tab is now always and only for the browser That makes it very easy to go to and fro between the browser and the object's code tabs (don't know if between is necessary! ;-))) Thank a lot Good week-end to all Best

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
Andre, That the second congratulations posted today. Glad you like the update! Very gratifying to hear. You guys are making my weekend great and it's only Friday! Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video: http://reveditor.com/need-to-move-controls-in-card-snaps-zoom On Feb 12, 2010, at

Re: OT: More on Revolution

2010-02-12 Thread Colin Holgate
Bob, is there a chance that you posted this to the wrong revolution list? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Swindell
I have to second David's comments. TRev is coming together nicely, a piece at a time. The new fixed Browser tab is a welcome improvement over the previous Tab implementation. It's hard for me to use the built-in Rev editor at this point, and I'm relying less and less on the Application

Re: Help message Broadcasting system

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Kluthe
What about combining the custom property idea with the db idea. Eventually the data for my application will be in a remote mySQL and I would like to be able to update help information and have it get changed on the client end as its updated in the db. I need non-tech folks that work for our

Re: OT: Our place in Hawaii....

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas McGrath III
You are right, NO music plays in Safari on the iPhone. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami

Php Framework for Rev based Development Strategy

2010-02-12 Thread David Bovill
I'm looking for a php framework that will allow a php based team to work together with a Rev based team. The aim is to use revLets to rapidly prototype interfaces, and when these are settled and tested where appropriate replace these with AJAX / php based interfaces. The legacy php project is a

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: snip If anyone can suggest how I can end up getting the above example to work, I'm all ears... and feet. ;-) Jeff, I don't know if you have gotten it working yet, or at what level you are with unicode, but a couple of years ago I wrote

[ANN] RunRev Community Linux 0.0.2

2010-02-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, I've made an update to our little Revolution enabled distro. I've added revMedia, some big Gnome packages and some network, media and printing packages as well. My connection at home is terribly slow, it takes about six hours to download the vmware image here, so most of my testing

Drag and drop from browser bug?

2010-02-12 Thread David Bovill
Thought this used to work? Do earlier versions set the dragdata correctly when you drag and drop an image from the browser? Testing on OSX - but images that you can successfully drag and drop onto the desktop - but you are unable to get useful data out of the dragdata. I'd expect that the

Re: Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread Scott McDonald
Jim, The RunRevPlanet SpellCheck stack should meet your requirements. You can make the rrpSpellCheck.rev stack a substack and so it become part of Standalone application, which means no extra files to distribute with your app. After it is made a substack, you can spell check a field with just a

Re: Drag and drop from browser bug?

2010-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: Thought this used to work? Do earlier versions set the dragdata correctly when you drag and drop an image from the browser? Testing on OSX - but images that you can successfully drag and drop onto the desktop - but you are unable to get useful data out of the dragdata. I'd

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Massung
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Jeff, I don't know if you have gotten it working yet, or at what level you are with unicode, but a couple of years ago I wrote an article to try to unravel some of the confusion surrounding using unicode in Rev. You may find it useful. See

strange option menu behavior

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
I may be doing something that option menus were not intended for, so I want to check if others are seeing the same behavior. Using Rev 4.0, I'm creating an option menu in a stack with all the possible menu items I need in it. However, some of these menu items need to be disabled at different

Re: altRevBrowser Noob

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks for all your help everyone. I was able to get it to work, not with a key click but with a keystroke. I just trap for rawkeydown 113 and quit the app. Too simple for my belabored brain. Bob On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well the

Re: OT: More on Revolution

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
heh heh. That bit about the enemy being US got my goat a bit. :-) On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Bob, is there a chance that you posted this to the wrong revolution list? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Jim Beckmann jimbeckm...@comcast.net wrote: How is the easiest way to incorporate spell checking into a standalone on different platforms?  Are there spellcheck Rev stacks that have been created that can be placed in the script hierarchy? I wrote a Mac only

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes I feel myself being inexorably drawn into the world of tRev. I think when the script editor from GLX2 is reintroduced, (I forget who is working on that) I will use tRev exclusively. tRev's editor is awesome in lots of ways, but there are still times I have to have a step debugger, so the

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jim Bufalini wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: But FWIW, I tried your version and it seemed to leave the file unchanged If your original file ends in a cr then Alex's code would end in absolutely no change. ;-) That's not what my testing showed (or appeared to show). Here's the short

Re: strange option menu behavior

2010-02-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
That sounds like the standard behavior of option menus on Windows - there's no way to disable any of the menu items (nor to insert separator lines, for that matter). The same goes for combo-boxes, by the way. The only solution I've been able to cook up, is to use a popup menu - use the 'at'

Re: altRevBrowser Noob

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoops! Spoke too soon. It seems that once you click in the browser window, neither clicks nor keystrokes ever make it into the Rev engine ever again. On the Mac as well as in Windows, if the browser is not clicked, hitting the Q key will quit the app (because I trap that rawkeydown and quit).

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Bufalini wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: But FWIW, I tried your version and it seemed to leave the file unchanged If your original file ends in a cr then Alex's code would end in absolutely no change. ;-) Thanks, Jim. I tried it both ways; no change to the

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
Bob, Glad you are grooving on tRev. tRev has definitely changed the way I personally develop apps, mentor and work on projects for people. But the area where I've seen the most change in my own habits is in the debugging arena. I used to debug in GLX2's and Rev's modal debugger a lot. I

Re: [ANN] Move controls in tRev Object Browser with the new ZOOM!

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
I meant to say: The biggest advantage of the decoder (not debugger) in my previous post. On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: The biggest advantage of the debugger: its design/architecture keeps it completely out of Rev's way. It cannot really crash Rev or tRev. It's like a

RE: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Bufalini
Alex Tweedly wrote: I suspect the *trick* of opening a file for append, then seeking back into the middle of the file before doing a write is OS-dependent. It's certainly not documented (either way), and I was surprised when Jim said that it could be done. Intuitively, 'append' should mean

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alex Tweedly wrote: I strongly suspect it only works on Windows :-( Sorry. I don't have either a Mac or Linux box to try it on, however I did just try it on the on-rev server (as an .irev script) and it also appears to leave the file unchanged there. I wonder if it has to do with the

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Alex Tweedly wrote: I strongly suspect it only works on Windows :-( Sorry. I don't have either a Mac or Linux box to try it on, however I did just try it on the on-rev server (as an .irev script) and it also appears to leave the file unchanged there. I wonder if it

Re: Localization

2010-02-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Massung wrote: However, it would appear that Rev renders unicode characters *incredibly* slow. :-( I have a field in a data grid template that needs to display unicode characters. Sadly, regardless of caching controls, fixed row heights, whatever,

Re: Help message Broadcasting system

2010-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com wrote: What about combining the custom property idea with the db idea. Eventually the data for my application will be in a remote mySQL and I would like to be able to update help information and have it get changed on the client

[OT] Google Buzz - Beware

2010-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
2010/2/12 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com: Uhm.. just so that no one is confused, adding yourself to the map does _not_ reveal your email at google to anyone (tho 99% of the times it's of course going to be username@gmail.com). For those Gmail users who had Buzz turn up and just accepted

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Could you try this in your multi-line msg box and let me know what it does on Mac ? put abcdefg CR into URL file:b.txt put URL file:b.txt open file b.txt for append write x to file b.txt  at 2 close file b.txt put URL

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Could you try this in your multi-line msg box and let me know what it does on Mac ? put abcdefg CR into URL file:b.txt put URL file:b.txt open file b.txt for append write x to file b.txt at 2 close file

Re: AW: Andre's house - completely offtopic

2010-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Mikey mikeyt...@gmail.com wrote: I know this was largely tongue in cheek, but since I've been all over the region between Hawaii, RMI and FSM, just a comment: Glad you picked up in that, I was starting to get tongue cramp ;-) 1) Johnston used to be serviced

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

2010-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Could you try this in your multi-line msg box and let me know what it does on Mac ? put abcdefg CR into URL file:b.txt put URL file:b.txt open file b.txt for append write x to file b.txt at 2 close file

Re: Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I'd love to use these routines, but when I run your demo stack nothing happens in the field that should be checked, except the flagged words become unflagged. In the listBadWords handler, when the Applescript command is executed I get tErrorList = execution error -- which is not trapped

Re: [OT] Google Buzz - Beware

2010-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
I realise the horse has already bolted, but for those who haven't turned Buzz off, another link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/google-buzz-privacy/ On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/12 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com: Uhm.. just so that no

Re: Spell check

2010-02-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
No, I wrote it originally on 10.5. After installing the XSpell scripting addition, maybe you need to restart Rev to get it to know about the addition. I don't remember if I did that when I first installed. Cheers, Sarah On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux 0.0.2

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Great work. I'll download and have a bash. Andre, we really owe you much thanks for this work. What we need now is for Rev to agree formally that this (or something else if they prefer) is a reference distribution, and bring specification and performance on this into line. Specification