Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-03-01 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour Zryip, Le 27 févr. 10 à 20:21, zryip theSlug a écrit : … … To fix this bug, replace the pad part by this new portion: -- Pad beginning with empty days: put createDate(tYear,tMonthNumber,1) into tStartDay convert tStartDay to dateitems get last item of tStartDay if

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
This is really puzzling. The thing I do see is that Rev's IDE on Linux is grotesquely small, and the dictionary font is grotesquely small. I'm really surprised in this age of political correctness that Rev considers it acceptable because it must be simply unusable by a substantial minority of

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-03-01 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour Robert, Le 28 févr. 10 à 23:26, Robert Cole a écrit : André: I continue to have fun with your calendar question. Am very glad to hear that :-) I just uploaded another stack called Calendar Lines that produces a one-line-per-month format. I downloaded it; really nice look :-) It

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-03-01 Thread BNig
André, I haven't tried to select a range of dates, yet. I tried but seems not possible in a table field (?) in the property inspector for the field of stack calendar lines go to tables, unselect crevTable, than in the basic properties make shure lock text is true and traversal on is checked.

Re: Ideas to simulate a multithreaded sockets server

2010-03-01 Thread Marcio Alexandroni
Hi, I made some progress on this topic and I think I Rev+CGI can do the job. While waiting for revServer, I decided to try CGI with Rev to see if it fits my needs. Of course, I had to use the 3.5 standalone engine, as v4.0.0 does not include the standalone engine anymore. First of all, I

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

2010-03-01 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 1 mars 10 à 12:06, BNig a écrit : André, I haven't tried to select a range of dates, yet. I tried but seems not possible in a table field (?) in the property inspector for the field of stack calendar lines go to tables, unselect crevTable, than in the basic properties make shure

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

2010-03-01 Thread David Glasgow
On 26 Feb 2010, at 11:24 pm, Richmond wrote: DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the operating system pretty well everything else should be FREE. Except stuff we need to sell to earn a crust, right? ;-) ___

Re: [ANN] Revolution.mode - Revolution syntax coloring for CODA

2010-03-01 Thread Jerry Daniels
That worked nicely, Stephen. My #-prefixed comments stopped the colorizing cold in its tracks, but I did a simple search and replace to fix. Best, Jerry Daniels The latest Rev Editor Video: http://reveditor.com/background-tabs-open-a-tab-without-going-ther On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:33 PM,

Re: To Trevor: DG feature request

2010-03-01 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: Trevor, not sure how difficult this would be, but something to consider: DG forms that are horizontal instead of vertical. ;-) It isn't trivial but it is doable. Feature requests such as this should be logged in RQCC though. -- Trevor

Re: Datagrids and Google Spreadsheets

2010-03-01 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:27 AM, David Bovill wrote: Trevor if you are listening - have you any scripts for extracting XML from datagrids that I could customise - I'm working with a version of your generic array to xml code - just wandering if you have any updates designed to work with data

Re: datagrids in revLets on Win (Vista / 7)

2010-03-01 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 27, 2010, at 6:16 PM, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: is there any special to consider, when using Datagrids in a Revlet? I built a simple stack with a Datagrid. Putting data into the DataGrid works in a standalone, but not in a revlet.

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 16:27, David Glasgow wrote: On 26 Feb 2010, at 11:24 pm, Richmond wrote: DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the operating system pretty well everything else should be FREE. Except stuff we need to sell to earn a crust, right? ;-)

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then put the font size to 12, and opened up OpenOffice and did the same thing. Its true. Rev looks like its about 6 point, and OO looks normal 12 point. After you find one of the few fonts they

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
cub...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: But I still couldn't see where socks go after you put them in the dryer. I'll keep looking. Oh, that's easy, they migrate to boys boarding schools. Every time my boys

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 18:22, J. Landman Gay wrote: Since I know little about any of this, I'll just add the info as it was passed to me: Rev needs X11 fonts. It only works with those. Tiny fonts are caused by the font server in use. A customer who had the same issue wrote: It was my font server,

ExplicitVariables

2010-03-01 Thread paolo mazza
I just installed Rev 4.5 in macosx 10.5.8 Trying to use this piece of code on mouseUp set the explicitVariables to false put 1 into UNO answer UNO end mouseUp I get this error: button Button: compilation error at line 4 (Chunk: can't create a variable with that name

Re: ExplicitVariables

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder
paolo- Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:55:41 AM, you wrote: I just installed Rev 4.5 in macosx 10.5.8 Trying to use this piece of code on mouseUp set the explicitVariables to false put 1 into UNO answer UNO end mouseUp I get this error: button Button: compilation error at line 4

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:28:32 AM, you wrote: I was going to mention that only I couldn't remember the story title. I can barely remember the story (and no, I did NOT read it when first Took it down off the shelf for a re-read this morning... it was safety pins and coat hangers...

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
If I had to guess, it's the fact that Win and Apple use graphics engines that can render smaller objects with greater detail, and so there is no need to make objects larger in order to make them look better. Bob On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Since the days of Motif,

What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the hints we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more easily; however, I can't remember what they are called. TIA, Joe

Re: ExplicitVariables

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right. Explicit variables is a compile time issue. Set it off and leave it off before you save/compile your scripts, or else leave it on and declare all your variables. Changing it in a script will only allow you to compile the next script without declaring your variables first. Bob On Mar

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the hints we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more easily;

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Jeff Massung
Tooltips? On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote: Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the hints we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me)

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Joe, I think they are called tooltips. They are indeed a bit small and not adjustable. It is possible to make your own, although it isn't very easy. Halfway this page http://qurl.tk/61 you will find an example, which shows the name, long id and id number in a tooltip when the pointer

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks to all who responded so promptly. Especially Mark who guessed why I need to know. You all are the best. Joe Lewis Wilkins On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Joe, I think they are called tooltips. They are indeed a bit small and not adjustable. It is possible

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread François Chaplais
Le 1 mars 2010 à 18:30, Joe Lewis Wilkins a écrit : Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the hints we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more easily;

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips (was: Re: Conference-DVDs arrived)

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
What only a few scientists realize (and they all work for the Government out at Area 51) is that wormholes are quite easy to reproduce. You don't think all the aliens got here by using nuclear fusion to create them now do you? Eventually every civilization figures out a way to make a dryer, and

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Very useful, Mark. How would I increase the size of the Tool Tips displayed by this plug-in? Joe Lewis Wilkins On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Joe, I think they are called tooltips. They are indeed a bit small and not adjustable. It is possible to make your own,

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
What accounts for this tendency toward uncommonly large control sizes? What tendency??? There isn't any such tendency, as far as I can see. None. Maybe its something to do with Ubuntu and how they configure things out of the box? Dunno. But it is not a factor in any distro I've used. --

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Joe, The size of the little window adjusts itself automatically and the textSize is just the textSize of the field in that window. That should be scriptable. The current plug-in displays object names only. I believe I should make a more general tooltips stack. -- Best regards, Mark

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 20:15, Peter Alcibiades wrote: What accounts for this tendency toward uncommonly large control sizes? What tendency??? There isn't any such tendency, as far as I can see. None. Maybe its something to do with Ubuntu and how they configure things out of the box? Dunno. But it is

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: This is really puzzling. The thing I do see is that Rev's IDE on Linux is grotesquely small, and the dictionary font is grotesquely small. I'm really surprised in this age of political correctness that Rev considers it acceptable because it must be simply unusable by a

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Jacque, I don't understand this either. You gave me the suggestion a while back, and I did install xfs, but it made no difference. The thing I don't get is why all the other apps work fine, but Rev does not. Is there not someone in the development group who could just tell us how Rev handles

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Great idea Mark. I can't wait! Joe Lewis Wilkins On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Joe, The size of the little window adjusts itself automatically and the textSize is just the textSize of the field in that window. That should be scriptable. The current plug-in

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 20:40, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: This is really puzzling. The thing I do see is that Rev's IDE on Linux is grotesquely small, and the dictionary font is grotesquely small. I'm really surprised in this age of political correctness that Rev considers it

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Jacque, I don't understand this either. You gave me the suggestion a while back, and I did install xfs, but it made no difference. The thing I don't get is why all the other apps work fine, but Rev does not. Is there not someone in the development group who could just

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: What Jacque never knew, and what I must confess now, primarily because a few very smart people on this list have already figured it out, is where the USB key was in the interim. Jacque, haven't you ever wondered how I got my hands on your time *warp* stack? Well now you know.

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips (was: Re: Conference-DVDs arrived)

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:54:18 AM, you wrote: Once we figure out how to get BOTH socks to warp to another location before the admittedly unstable wormholes break down, THEN we'll be able to refine a method for getting all our socks back. But I believe the Pauli Exclusion Principle will

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 21:25, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Jacque, I don't understand this either. You gave me the suggestion a while back, and I did install xfs, but it made no difference. The thing I don't get is why all the other apps work fine, but Rev does not. Is there not

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 21:34, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:54:18 AM, you wrote: Once we figure out how to get BOTH socks to warp to another location before the admittedly unstable wormholes break down, THEN we'll be able to refine a method for getting all our socks back. But

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 01/03/2010 20:40, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... I took a minute this morning to take some screen shots of Rev and OS controls on Ubuntu/Gnome, Win XP, and OS X: http://fourthworldlabs.com/revfonts/ Frankly, Richard, it looks as though you took quite some time and

[ANN][UPDATE] Revolution.mode - Revolution syntax coloring for CODA and SubEhtaEdit

2010-03-01 Thread stephen barncard
Whoops! I forgot to add support for the comment syntax I never use. (Thanks to Jerry Daniels) Now supports all 4 Rev comment styles: /* */ -- ## and // New download site: http://houseofcubes.com/down/Rev/ http://houseofcubes.com/down/Rev/ anyone who tests this please let me know of any

Re: [ANN] The Slug's Color Picker is now on the road for beta test

2010-03-01 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/2/28 René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com: Thank you very much Slug ! You're welcome René! ;) Thanks for your feedback 8-) My first remark : the width of the stack could it not be the same as the pallet of tools of RunRev ? The picker has now the same width than the tools palette,

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

2010-03-01 Thread stephen barncard
DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the operating system pretty well everything else should be FREE. Good advice for some ...That's not a realistic or practical goal for those who use their computers for more than word processing and web access.. In many

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Now here's a thought: On Mac there is a folder called .font in the user's Home folder (you cannot see it because the DOT makes it invisible): RunRev DOES NOT see fonts there. Try it. So it is probably rather daft to expect RunRev to see fonts in the same folder in Linux. Something tells me

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 22:39, stephen barncard wrote: DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the operating system pretty well everything else should be FREE. Good advice for some ...That's not a realistic or practical goal for those who use

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Now how does: 1. One find if these things; Pango, Xft, and so forth are present in a system? Use Synaptic and look them up - it will show you what's installed and what is available. Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I checked and it is known to Synaptic as libpango, and its installed. With quite a few subsidiary libraries. It probably came as a dependency with Gtk, in which case most all distros will have it. -- View this message in context:

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
revFontLoad, on Mac and Win, means I can load any silly old font I like from any silly old location into my stack and use it. Were revFontLoad to work in Linux I have a funny feeling that almost all the font problems would be solved, or, at least ameliorated to such an extent that everybody

Follow the rev tools palette by a window

2010-03-01 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear list members, To follow the rev tools palette by a window (a palette), I use the send message in time form below : command scanForRevToolsLoc set the topLeft of this stack to the bottomLeft of stack Revtools send scanForRevToolsLoc to me in 100 milliseconds end scanForRevToolsLoc

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/03/2010 22:51, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Now how does: 1. One find if these things; Pango, Xft, and so forth are present in a system? Use Synaptic and look them up - it will show you what's installed and what is available. Peter I really am a bit thick at times . . . :)

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

2010-03-01 Thread stephen barncard
Audacity does not support real multitrack audio and only uses it's own plugins. As a two channel editor, it's still not as useful as the $80 Sound Studio. Many pro features missing. There is an open source video editor avidemux2, but its interface is not that great. No competition for Final Cut.

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Tooltips On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the hints we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Before I trudged off to the Gnome Usability List with my questions, I figured I owed it to them and myself to first dig up what I can on my own. Glad I did - here are some highlights: [Usability] Gnome is Too BIG.. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2008-March/msg00010.html Gnome is

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Richard. It may be rather tedious, but when I developed in Foxpro, there were always these kinds of issues. What a font looked like in Windows was NOT what it looked like in the Mac OS. So the initialization program set up variables with fonts and sizes based upon what platform you were

Re: Ideas to simulate a multithreaded sockets server

2010-03-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Seems realy cool and as long as a dedicated server will be used, Abyss httpd will be realy usefull ! Best Regards, P. Le 1 mars 10 à 12:18, Marcio Alexandroni a écrit : Hi, I made some progress on this topic and I think I Rev+CGI can do the job. While waiting for revServer, I decided

Re: [ANN] The Slug's Color Picker is now on the road for beta test

2010-03-01 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/3/1 zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com: New update available: 0.1d The Color Picker gives now the illusion (I hope ;)) to be a part of the tools palette. Enjoy! 8-) -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8) http://www.aslugontheroad.co.cc

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: What would REALLY be nice, is if there were properties in Rev for Default Field Font, Default Label Font, Default Button font etc, with sizes and styles to match. Then it would be a simple matter of changing the defaults depending on what platform you were running. As

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Well, they are an interesting set of links! It sounds like Ubuntu is now shipping their version of Gnome with too large defaults, at least for some people, and that this can largely be dealt with by correct choice of theme and fonts. Also that the size of the system bits does not adjust for

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:36:15 PM, you wrote: see any difference in this whatever the window manager. So maybe this is something Rev is doing in Gtk? And if so, why on earth are they doing it? How about launching revolution from the commandline instead of double-clicking the icon?

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
This is what it does: pe...@vv:~/3.5.0-gm-2$ ./revolution Will try and use Shared Memory extensions XVideo extensions available? : Yes Will use X-Freetype font rendering Using Pango complex text layout then if you do 4.0 from the command line, the size is identical, and you get this

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips (was: Re: Conference-DVDs arrived)

2010-03-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: But really, the great mystery of the universe is the question of why it's always socks and never underwear. Many spiritualists use this odd fact as proof that there is indeed, a God. Again, no mystery there, it's all to do

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Interesting. On Ubuntu I get mwie...@mwieder-ubuntu:~/revolution/3.5.0-gm-2$ ./revolution Will try and use Shared Memory extensions XVideo extensions available? : No Will use X-Freetype font rendering Using Pango complex text layout *** glibc detected *** ./revolution double free or

SendCardMessage questions

2010-03-01 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
1) Does this require a freshly allocated string as its first parameter, which Revolution takes ownership of and eventually deletes? Or does it copy the data out of it, in which case the caller would have to delete it if it was dynamically allocated? 2) What context can this be called from? I

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-01 Thread G.Wolfgang Gaich
Hello all, I didn't read all the mails of this thread. My suggestion: In Ubuntu go to System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts. Activate Subpixel smoothing and click on details. There you can adjust the resolution (dpi) to the needs of your display. dpi = xres x 2.54 / the width of your display For