OT Bulgaria

2010-05-27 Thread David Glasgow
On 23 May 2010, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: This IS Bulgaria; or, as an American friend once put it; I love Bulgaria, it allows me to experience the same sort of thrills my ancestors experienced in Texas in the middle of the 19th century. Have you seen that film Wild Wild West; a sort of

Re: Error go to card 1 of stack from a Menupick

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Josep, Are you sure that your error is complete? It seems to me that a few numbers are missing at the start of the list. Do you still get an error if you temporarily disable any (pre)openstack handlers? It would be useful if you posted the entire script that causes the error. --

Re: destroystack wrong behavior...

2010-05-27 Thread Thierry D.
Hi all, Thanks to all for your suggestions. I've found a solution to this question. not sure if it is completely resolved, but seems to work quite well. So, better share in the hope it will help few of you... I've changed the filename of my stack, that's it ! then the name and the filename

[Datagrid] Truncating items

2010-05-27 Thread Terry Judd
Is it my imagination or is there some automatic way of truncating items that are too long to fully display within a column that replaces the extra characters with an ellipsis? Terry... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [Datagrid] Truncating items

2010-05-27 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
You can do that using a column behavior. Would be easiest with a monospaced font of course, as then you would know exactly how many chars you could display. Otherwise, check the formattedwidth of the displaying field. Hope that gets you started,

Re: Error go to card 1 of stack from a Menupick

2010-05-27 Thread JosepM
Hi Mark, I guess that error is complete... The code on the card 3, no preopenstack, only openstack. on Openstack Global tLine put the menuHistory of btn opt_search_supplier of card 3 into tLine put 0 records found. into fld lbl_status of card 3 set the uUTF8Text of fld

Re: Error go to card 1 of stack from a Menupick

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Josep, Do you still get an error if you temporarily disable the openstack handler? I.e. if only the menuPick handle runs? I used http://runrev.info/error.html to parse your error. The beginning of the error report is: Type: Object (can't set this property) Object name: script Line:(row 0

Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Ian Wood
I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that I can look up how to use them? Thanks in advance, Ian ___

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Jimmieson
I think the term you're looking for is private e.g. private function xx On 27 May 2010, at 13:34, Ian Wood wrote: I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Ian Wood
No, that keeps it local to the object that contains the handler. I *think* I'm talking about one handler nested inside another one. Thanks, Ian On 27 May 2010, at 13:36, Phil Jimmieson wrote: I think the term you're looking for is private e.g. private function xx On 27 May 2010, at

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ian Wood wrote: I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that I can look up how to use them? In other languages like JavaScript and Scheme that sort of

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Ian Wood
On 27 May 2010, at 13:57, Richard Gaskin wrote: But I don't know of a way to even emulate closures in RevTalk (though it might be handy at times if we could). The Engine Change Log included with the install covers changes back to v3.0, and I don't see anything there like this. Can you

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Andre Garzia
If Apple allows VS made apps in the App Store I will be pissed! On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/05/2010 06:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: The weird world gets weirder: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Present During WWDC 2010 Keynote?

Re: Detecting which column was clicked in a Table field

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I found that the best way to get a column number is to use item 1 of the clickloc, subtract the left of the field to get the relative x- value for the click in the field (you may have to also correct for the borderwidth of the field)), then compare with the tabstops. This always gives the

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Jim Kanter
Doesn't xCode already recognize C code? How difficult would it be for MS to make VS2010 Objective-C capable? Probably not very. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Phantom Table field

2010-05-27 Thread DunbarX
Good ol' Jacques. Thanks. Makes perfect sense. It is the inner workings that I am interested in. Never occurred to me that such shenanigans were going on behind the scenes, but given that a data grid is actually dozens of objects all roped together, why not? Craig In a message dated

Re: [Datagrid] Truncating items

2010-05-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On May 27, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Is it my imagination or is there some automatic way of truncating items that are too long to fully display within a column that replaces the extra characters with an ellipsis? This lesson has an example showing how to truncate text. The Data

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Andre Garzia
jim, The language is not the problem, the problem is the surrounding frameworks. creating a objective-c thing for VS is relativelly easy, the hard part is the Cocoa/CocoaTouch stuff. Now, if they reimplemented everything in VS making VS some kind of XCode alternative for windows user, then it is

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Neal Campbell
I personally am betting on some sort of web technology a la ComponentOne's iPhone web product. Its inconceivable that Apple would shun flash but sign up for dot net which is just another virtualization technology that would threaten Apple control. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread DunbarX
The field's scrollbar is usually understood as an absolute indicator. When it is up, so should the scroll, when down, the same. The wheel has no such indication as to its relationship with the scrolling object. So I think you should create a wheel of some sort that you operate. A little arrows

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread stephen barncard
Recursion? On 27 May 2010 05:34, Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote: I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that I can look up how to use them?

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 27.05.2010 at 13:44 Uhr +0100 Ian Wood apparently wrote: No, that keeps it local to the object that contains the handler. I *think* I'm talking about one handler nested inside another one. Thanks, Ian Would you mean behaviours? Robert ___

Re: Reverse Intersect

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Here's another idea: IIRC you've got a remote MySQL database and a local SQLite database. How about converting the local one to MySQL and then you could issue a single SQL query joining the two databases? Seems like that would simplify things, cut down on the amount of data transferred, and

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread DunbarX
I have never seen a handler nested inside another. It would mean; on soAndSo on doThis end doThis end soAndSo There must be a semantic misunderstanding here. Perhaps what is meant is a handler call: on soAndSo doThis end soAnd So One might say that a handler sort of lives inside

Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Stuart
Ian, Can't a function call within a Handler do what you are wanting? Regards, Mark Stuart Ian Wood wrote: I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Stuart mstu...@adaptcrm.com wrote: In other languages like JavaScript and Scheme that sort of thing is referred to as a closure - here's an example from Wikipedia: // Return a list of all books with at least 'threshold' copies sold. function

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Pierre Sahores
Pourquoi préférer les allumettes quand deux cailloux suffisent... Apple = Microsoft = Crânes d'Huitres ;-/ Best, Pierre Le 27 mai 2010 à 05:56, Richard Gaskin a écrit : The weird world gets weirder: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Present During WWDC 2010 Keynote? Barrons reports

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread stephen barncard
Dogs and Cats living together. Harumph. On 27 May 2010 09:48, Pierre Sahores psaho...@free.fr wrote: Pourquoi préférer les allumettes quand deux cailloux suffisent... Apple = Microsoft = Crânes d'Huitres ;-/ Best, Pierre Le 27 mai 2010 à 05:56, Richard Gaskin a écrit : The weird world

RE: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/26/microsofts-steve-ballmer- to-present-during-wwdc-2010-keynote/ That is weird, and raises some interesting questions - Does this mean .net for Mac, iP*? Would this also provide additional food to a federal investigation? MS previously announced that Windows

Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Stuart
Jeff M. wrote: ...I'm sure you'll get a plethora of suggestions from people here itching to solve a problem and write some code in Rev, ;-) YES! That's what I like about RunRev and this forum. It inspires people. Thanx for your explanation of all this Jeff. Now I will ask my VS

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/05/2010 20:11, Lynn Fredricks wrote: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/26/microsofts-steve-ballmer- to-present-during-wwdc-2010-keynote/ That is weird, and raises some interesting questions - Does this mean .net for Mac, iP*? Would this also provide additional food to a federal

Re: Error go to card 1 of stack from a Menupick

2010-05-27 Thread JosepM
Hi Mark, Do you still get an error if you temporarily disable the openstack handler? I.e. if only the menuPick handle runs? Yes, I get the same error only in standalone, in IDE all run fine I changed the me for this stack and I get the same error... I don't know what happen... Seems

Avoiding Global Variables

2010-05-27 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks for your Update and News concerning Avoiding Global Variables. Very instructive, not covered in the Doc. Progress is a series of monumental ***k-ups ! Even after years of RunRev, we can still learn ! Keep up the good work ! -Francis

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Nicolas, Most of the iPhone's scroll-wheels are linked to tables and the tables are lazily loaded (via reusable cells) at runtime. Most of the scroll-wheels I have seen stop at the top or bottom of the content that it is trying to scroll. Where or what are you referring to? (To better

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I fell asleep reading my iPad the other night and woke up laying on half of it and I can definitely say it was not lumpy. It was flat and hard, and uncomfortable but not lumpy. This was probably due to the anti-lumpy app I had installed. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Tuviah Snyder
I'll bet 500 dollars this won't happen. As a long time professional windows and mac developer I'm infuriated by these nonsense posts and hypothetical scenerios. Its not true because 1. VS2010 is already released. It was in beta for many many months and then delayed. MS doesn't just surprise

Re: Reverse Intersect

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Mark. That would work too I suppose. I thought about it, but remember that I want this method to be portable, that is I want it to work no matter what two databases are used, and no matter what the amount of data is. Importing a HUGE mySQL database every sync cycle would not be efficient.

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Can you even do that?? I don't think you can. Bob On May 27, 2010, at 5:44 AM, Ian Wood wrote: No, that keeps it local to the object that contains the handler. I *think* I'm talking about one handler nested inside another one. Thanks, Ian

Re: Error go to card 1 of stack from a Menupick

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
I will bet that Openstack is getting sent to your calling stack, but now the new stack is the focus, and it does not contain the object you are referencing in the calling stack. I've been bit in the butt by this before. What I usually do is check to see if the short name of this stack is the

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 27, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: 1. VS2010 is already released. It was in beta for many many months and then delayed. MS doesn't just surprise developers with one more thing. You must be referring to the Windows version. I think a VS for Mac would be popular. 2. Do you

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 27, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: I'll bet 500 dollars this won't happen. It appears that Microsoft agrees with you: http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/14850981422 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Tuviah Snyder
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/05/27/microsoft-steve-ballmer-will-not-be-speaking-at-wwdc/ On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tuviah Snyder tuv...@gmail.com wrote: I'll bet 500 dollars this won't happen. As a long time professional windows and mac developer I'm infuriated by these nonsense

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
I quote: At present, developers may only create iPhone and Mac OS applications from within Apple's own Xcode development suite which only runs on Macs. That is not strictly true. You can use any environment whose native language is either Javascript, ObjectiveC or C++. I am not sure there IS

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wait! I thought Santa and the Easter Bunny were merely different spacial manifestations of the same alien? Bob On May 27, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: But maybe I'm wrong and ballmer really wants to see if Bill has the guts to fire him. I should start a blog and say Santa and

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Jeff Massung
UGH! Please, prefix posts like this with **SPOILER ALERT**. My entire day was just ruined! ;-) Jeff M. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Wait! I thought Santa and the Easter Bunny were merely different spacial manifestations of the same alien? Bob

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: UGH! Please, prefix posts like this with **SPOILER ALERT**. My entire day was just ruined! ;-) Jeff M. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Wait! I thought Santa and the Easter Bunny were merely different spacial manifestations of the same

Re: Reverse Intersect

2010-05-27 Thread stephen barncard
perhaps COMMIT and ROLLBACK for multiple transactions that may need to be undone. On 27 May 2010 11:33, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Hi Mark. That would work too I suppose. I thought about it, but remember that I want this method to be portable, that is I want it to work no matter what

RE: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/05/27/microsoft-steve-ballmer -will-not-be-speaking-at-wwdc/ No monkey-boy dance for iPhone developers... Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server

OT: Jobs vs Gates

2010-05-27 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4 Sorry, can't help it... :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Proactive International, LLC - Because it is about who you know.(tm) http://www.proactive-intl.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Marty Knapp wrote: What I have is a standalone that contains template stacks from which a user creates their own stacks. These stacks are saved outside of the standalone. I wanted to institute an updating feature, where the user's stack version is compared to the template (which may have had

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Mann
// Return a list of all books with at least 'threshold' copies sold. function bestSellingBooks(threshold) { return bookList.filter( function (book) { return book.sales = threshold; } ); } did I get it right?? as I understand it, the closure replaces a loop?

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Robert Mann r...@free.fr wrote: // Return a list of all books with at least 'threshold' copies sold. function bestSellingBooks(threshold) { return bookList.filter( function (book) { return book.sales = threshold; } ); } did I

Re: [Datagrid] Truncating items

2010-05-27 Thread Terry Judd
On 28/05/10 1:02 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com wrote: On May 27, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Is it my imagination or is there some automatic way of truncating items that are too long to fully display within a column that replaces the extra characters with an ellipsis?

How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-27 Thread gary_aitcheson
Thanks everyone for the useful feed back on this question ! I will free up some time to work on it and get back when I have a result (hopefully positive). Cheers : ) Gary ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Writing to the resource fork

2010-05-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, For a new project, it is essential that I can read from and write to the resource fork of a file. I am not looking for a way to copy resource forks. I am trying to use the setResource function, but it doesn't work. I tried it with Rev 4.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 and Rev 2.6.1 on Mac OS

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Tom, The scroll-wheel I've in mind is in the Add alarm section of the iPhone's Clock. Lazily loaded? I guess I'm off to search that. In the meantime, I'd still welcome example scripts of something that'd do an endless scroll of text in a text field, rather than a group, a table, a window, etc.

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Craig, Then it is easy to create a closed loop of data as it passes through a field based on the action of your wheel thingie. Easy? Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. (Hmmm. Can one depend when you go the other way?) That'd be prepend. Might not now about closed loops and lazy

Re: Apad - The Andriod iPad

2010-05-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: 5 who bought iPads (well put their name on a list because the 3Gs were all sold out) were all 60+ and some mentioned they had a Kindle and the main purpose of the iPad purchase was to read. Just had another

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread DunbarX
Depend. I was joking. There is a rotate concept that takes abcd and makes bcda and then cdab. When I say easy, I mean straightforward. Implementing in reality means all sorts of fun and frustrating machinations to get it just the way you want. But you seem to get that. But it should be, er,

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread Nicolas Cueto
But you really should write this gadget yourself. Oh, I am, I am... Just taking a chance that someone posts something all nice and pat way before I finally get it done. And, as I struggle up the hill, new issues I hadn't thought of pop up. The latest: how to determine acceleration. So that the

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Nicolas, The clock application uses a specially made DatePicker object loosely based on a PickerView. xCode provides the DatePicker for use in projects and it has it's own settings for either Date Time, Time, Date, and Timer which then populates the cells of the DatePicker. If I were to

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread DunbarX
Hi. How does the user flick? With the mouse? Is the mouse down when you flick? If you use anything like what I suggested, you should be able to use the mouseMove function to determine flick speed, and set the speed of rotating the data based on that. Once you have a max start speed, you can

RE: Avoiding Global Variables

2010-05-27 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Of Francis Nugent Dixon Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks for your Update and News concerning Avoiding Global Variables. Where was this? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicolas Cueto wrote: But you really should write this gadget yourself. Oh, I am, I am... Just taking a chance that someone posts something all nice and pat way before I finally get it done. And, as I struggle up the hill, new issues I hadn't thought of pop up. The latest: how to determine

VLC and Rev

2010-05-27 Thread Glen Bojsza
I was wondering if anyone has done any work with VLC and Rev? If so, can you share your experiences! regards, Glen ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Avoiding Global Variables

2010-05-27 Thread David C.
Thanks for your Update and News concerning Avoiding Global Variables. Where was this? Here ya go: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue93/newsletter3.php Best regards, David C. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: OT: Jobs vs Gates

2010-05-27 Thread Kay C Lan
Can't help but respond ;-) http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/26/technology/apple_microsoft/index.htm On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4 Sorry, can't help it... :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks