Re: Reports?

2010-06-16 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 6/16/10 5:57 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: The Reports project format is cross platform and cross ADK, meaning with little effort, a Report you build for use with a local Rev application can be reused with a server (for example, having a complex report generated as

Re: [V4Rev]Valentina equivalent of revDataFromQuery

2010-06-16 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 6/16/10 3:59 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Diving into Rev + Valentina, again. This time around, as highly recommended by Ruslan (William Humphrey and others) I've tried to steer clear of Rev's own DB calls and stick exclusively with Val API calls. At his point all I'm

Re: [V4Rev]Valentina equivalent of revDataFromQuery

2010-06-16 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 6/16/10 3:59 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Diving into Rev + Valentina, again. This time around, as highly recommended by Ruslan (William Humphrey and others) I've tried to steer clear of Rev's own DB calls and stick exclusively with Val API calls. At his point all I'm

Re: Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

2010-06-16 Thread René Micout
YES, thank you Richard ! I don't understand all that but (after experimentation I keep your post preciously) I think I can bring improvement in my sripts... René Le 16 juin 2010 à 01:52, Steven Axtell a écrit : Richard, Thanks for the information. I appreciate it much. Steve Axtell

Re: Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

2010-06-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
René Micout wrote: YES, thank you Richard ! I don't understand all that but (after experimentation I keep your post preciously) I think I can bring improvement in my sripts... René Thank you for the kind words, René. That I can help someone as accomplished as yourself makes my day.

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Brigham MD
A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard (note lack of space character) -- as in: put the currentcard of stack myStack into cc which gets you something like: card id 1002 Currentcard is equivalent

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Peter, I just tried this. It doesn't work. put the name of the currentcard of stack License Maker -- Message execution error: -- Error description: Chunk: can't find card Current card does, but currentcard doesn't. As far as I know current and this are interchangeable. -- Best regards,

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Brigham MD
try: put the currentcard of stack License Maker or, if you want the name of the card: put word -1 of the currentcard of stack PPtodointo c put the name of card id c of stack PPtodo -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:42 AM,

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks Peter. Yes that works. I also noticed that put the number of controls of the currentcard of stack License Maker works but put the name of the currentcard of stack License Maker doesn't. I wonder why. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread DunbarX
Mark. I get no error with either construction. Craig In a message dated 6/16/10 10:15:43 AM, m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com writes: put the number of controls of the currentcard of stack License  Maker ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Jim Ault
This series should work put the currentcard of stack License Maker into remoteCdName put the long id of card remoteCdName of stack License Maker into longCdId put the long name of longCdId put the short name of longCdId On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Thanks

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-16 Thread Richmond
On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld /field/ to /fontname/ I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return all the fonts. But you

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-16 Thread G. Wolfgang Gaich
Hello Richmond, I am pleased to have helped you (is that good english?) If you don't want that the user have to use fc-cache, you can give an information, that it is necessary to restart the graphical user interface (gnome or kde or...) after the installation of your program. A fc-cache is

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-16 Thread Richmond
On 06/16/2010 06:33 PM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I am pleased to have helped you (is that good english?) That is a perfect example of the Present Perfect, and you can feel very pleased about that. If you don't want that the user have to use fc-cache, you can give an

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-16 Thread G. Wolfgang Gaich
Richmond, thanks for the tip. Learned something new! Wolfgang Am 16.06.2010 17:47, schrieb Richmond: This is where your grammar gets problematic . . . :) 'you can supply information' . . . information is a MASS noun like 'water', 'air' and 'money'.

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-16 Thread Richmond
On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld /field/ to /fontname/ I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return all the fonts. But you

Re: Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ben Rubinstein wrote: But that reminds me - is there lore relating to the uTitle[id] of this stack the uDescription[id] of this stack etc vs the uData[id,Title] of this stack the uData[id,Description] of this stack etc vs the uData[id][Title] of this stack the

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard Actually, this card works for non-frontmost stacks too. I never was quite sure why they added currentcard, I've been using this

iPad [Was: Re: runrev community : how many licenses? How many users? How many developpers?]

2010-06-16 Thread Medard
René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: Envoyé de mon iPad content ? ;-) j'hésite encore... sans doute pas 3G (abonnement !!) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Another Odd problem with Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Richmond
I hosed my Ubuntu set up about 4 weeks ago (i.e. about 2 weeks before I hosed my Mac . . . well at least I'm good at one thing to do with computers!), mainly because I had upgraded over the internet from 8.04.3 LTS to 10.04 LTS and played around with it. So, installed 10.04 from new; and RunRev

currentCard vs this card (was Re: 2 quick questions)

2010-06-16 Thread Hugh Senior
Correct syntax would have to be: put the name of cd (the currentcard of stack Home) 'the currentCard' and 'this card' are not the same and not interchangeable... put the name of this cd of stack Home = card Home card 1 put the currentCard of stack Home = Home card 1 therefore put the

RE: Reports?

2010-06-16 Thread JosepM
Hi, Valentina Reports work with mySQL and SQLite? Where can I see some video or sample using this databases and running the report from Rev? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Reports-tp2256615p2257696.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: Valentina Reports?

2010-06-16 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 6/16/10 9:10 PM, JosepM jmye...@mac.com wrote: Hi Josep, Hi, Valentina Reports work with mySQL and SQLite? Well you have catch idea of our next big feature for VReports, :-) We will add support of SqlLite as first step. Then others. MySQL unlikely because we all know license issues.

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread Paul Looney
Ben, I should have also mentioned that Rev does not like NULLs. This is important when importing from HC - which is very forgiving of NULLs. I use something like this: replace NULL with in myData or replace NULL with empty in myData If there are NULLs in you HC data, Rev may skip some of

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Peter, no doubt the day will come. Thanks for the tip (I'm filing these away in a word document. Mark Schonewille will undoubtedly need something to base his FAQ on!) -- M -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Another Odd problem with Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Is the editor open? What happens if you open it and do cut and paste? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Another-Odd-problem-with-Linux-tp2257665p2257874.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

What's With the Tilde After the Stack File Extension?

2010-06-16 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I was working on a stack today. It has one substack. Everything was going fine until I noticed that saving the stack was taking too long (it's small) and I was getting the spinning beach ball in Mac OS X. I had the folder in which I store the stack open and noticed that

Re: What's With the Tilde After the Stack File Extension?

2010-06-16 Thread stephen barncard
Normal behavior. Rev saves a copy to revert to in case of interruption/crash. This happens rarely but you'll be glad it backed up the stack first someday. If someone pulled the plug in the middle of the save, you'd still have something. On 16 June 2010 15:16, Gregory Lypny

Re: What's With the Tilde After the Stack File Extension?

2010-06-16 Thread stephen barncard
I should say the tilde - backup thing is normal. What is causing the slowdown I can't say, but perhaps it was just a system slowdown - memory swap issue. If it came back and didn't crash, then it may not happen again. On 16 June 2010 15:53, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.comwrote:

Re: Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Time Machine has saved my arse on many occasion. Bob On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Experiment away! If you keep backups you can do no harm, and that hands-on learning is among the most powerful things humans do. ___

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
I vaguely recall that HC was not supposed to have nulls, but some bug or other caused them and wrecked havoc with HC stacks. Compacting the stack seemed to eliminate them. Bob On Jun 16, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Paul Looney wrote: Ben, I should have also mentioned that Rev does not like NULLs.

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also, what about push card/pop card? Anyone actually use that method anymore? Bob On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: I think maybe put the long name of this card or put the long id of this card would suit you better because it is absolute. I suspect

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:34:32 PM, you wrote: Also, what about push card/pop card? Anyone actually use that method anymore? All the time. Why? Do you have something that works better? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: I vaguely recall that HC was not supposed to have nulls, but some bug or other caused them and wrecked havoc with HC stacks. Compacting the stack seemed to eliminate them. HC used nulls as end-of-field markers, so if text containing nulls was pasted into an HC field, the

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread Paul Looney
Jacque, Thanks for the excellent explanation. So far we have imported over a thousand HC stacks into our Rev-based business system. These are mostly databases from our customers. We noticed that, with some customers, up to a third of the archived orders did not make it into the new system.

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread Phil Davis
On 6/16/10 8:27 PM, Paul Looney wrote: Jacque, Thanks for the excellent explanation. So far we have imported over a thousand HC stacks into our Rev-based business system. These are mostly databases from our customers. We noticed that, with some customers, up to a third of the archived orders

Re: Another Odd problem with Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Richmond
On 06/16/2010 11:49 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Is the editor open? What happens if you open it and do cut and paste? No. This is the 'normal' stack being Run as if it were a standalone (i.e. in Browse mode). ___ use-revolution mailing list