Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
I set up a stack containing a field FFF and a button with the following script: on mouseUp set the textFont of fld FFF to Sanskrit 2003 set the useUnicode to true put uniencode(abx) into BLOB set the unicodeText of fld FFF to numToChar(57417) BLOB end mouseUp [bad point] which I

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

2010-06-17 Thread René Micout
Hello Medard ! French reply off-list... René Le 16 juin 2010 à 19:18, Medard a écrit : René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: Envoyé de mon iPad content ? ;-) j'hésite encore... sans doute pas 3G (abonnement !!) ___

Re: Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

2010-06-17 Thread René Micout
About experimentations : and your French ? ;-) Le 16 juin 2010 à 14:03, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Experiment away! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread jim sims
I'm going to use an encryption feature in a project but I want to make sure it will be available for OS X and for WIndows machines. A wide variety of encryption ciphers seem to be available when I do put the cipherNames I have little knowledge about the merits or availability of ciphers, can

How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour, If I put the following handler in the script of a button: on mouseUp launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word/ answer the result end mouseUp I get no such program I was quite sure that I had have this working well before (Actually, I just replace 2004 with

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread Klaus on-rev
Bonjour, Andre.Bisseret: Bonjour, If I put the following handler in the script of a button: on mouseUp launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word/ answer the result end mouseUp I get no such program You supply a path to a FOLDER here, is that correct? Shouldn't it

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: 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

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mark Smith wrote: 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 I save my collected tips in a Rev stack. Searchable. And

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread BNig
André, on mouseUp launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app if the result is not empty then answer the result end mouseUp works for me. regards Bernd -- View this message in context:

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Guten tag Klaus, Le 17 juin 10 à 13:20, Klaus on-rev a écrit : Bonjour, Andre.Bisseret: Bonjour, If I put the following handler in the script of a button: on mouseUp launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word/ answer the result end mouseUp I get no such program You

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Danke shön! Bernd for your prompt reply Klaus was the winner ;-))) with the same suggestion works fine now with .app Guten nachmittag! André Le 17 juin 10 à 13:49, BNig a écrit : André, on mouseUp launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app if the result is not

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Kann
Phil, What ASCII number is a NULL? Mike --- On Thu, 6/17/10, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: From: Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net Subject: Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 12:51 AM On 6/16/10 8:27 PM,

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I suspect the problem was more related to the final slash in your original script, so a folder was specified rather than a file. Does it work using .../Microsoft Word without the .app but also without the final slash? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
We need Rev to tell us straightforwardly: Do they admit that basic functionality in the Linux version is broken? If so, do they intend to fix it? Out of deference to Jacque, Richard and Richmond, I will now bite my tongue, except to note this is not about whether Rev and I are suited. This is

Parent group

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Lord
In flash there was the notion of asking for the name of _parent to get the ID or name of the container movieClip. I have a scenario where I would like to poll a button within a group to tell me which group it's in. The long way would be to get the long name of target, filter it for a string, get

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

2010-06-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thank you Stephan, I guess it was a memory blip. A shut down and restart seems to have taken the molasses out of saving the stack. Regards, Gregory On Thu, Jun 17, 2010, at 9:09 AM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:53:34 -0700 From:

Re: Another Odd problem with Linux

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I've never had this on any Linux version. Maybe it is specific to this issue of Ubuntu? What I have had in the way of slowdowns has always been with the editor, slow, freeze and crash. Not as described here though. -- View this message in context:

Re: Parent group

2010-06-17 Thread Devin Asay
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Simon Lord wrote: In flash there was the notion of asking for the name of _parent to get the ID or name of the container movieClip. I have a scenario where I would like to poll a button within a group to tell me which group it's in. The long way would be to

Re: Parent group

2010-06-17 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Simon, In flash there was the notion of asking for the name of _parent to get the ID or name of the container movieClip. I have a scenario where I would like to poll a button within a group to tell me which group it's in. The long way would be to get the long name of target, filter it

Re: Parent group

2010-06-17 Thread Thierry
Le 17 juin 2010 à 15:22, Simon Lord a écrit : In flash there was the notion of asking for the name of _parent to get the ID or name of the container movieClip. I have a scenario where I would like to poll a button within a group to tell me which group it's in. The long way would be to

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-17 Thread Thierry
Le 17 juin 2010 à 15:09, Michael Kann a écrit : What ASCII number is a NULL? 0 ! if you want to know all, look here: http://www.asciitable.com/ Regards, Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

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

2010-06-17 Thread Andre Garzia
Gregory, If you're felling like doing some unix, then you can launch console.app (not terminal.app, I keep mixing them) and check out the logs in there, specially system.log. There might be some hint in there. Once my system was taking about 10 minutes to boot up, after being fed up for months, I

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:22 AM, jim sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: A wide variety of encryption ciphers seem to be available when I do put the cipherNames I have little knowledge about the merits or availability of ciphers, can anyone provide recommendations for a particular cipher and

RE: Valentina Reports?

2010-06-17 Thread Lynn Fredricks
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. Shh, nobody tell yet :-) First step is going to be supporting SQLite with Valentina Studio Pro and Admin.

[OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1404.html or, put another way; why RunRev should never, never let themselves be bought out by one of the major players. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread René Micout
Very cute poor little Hypercard under arm of OS9 ! :-( Le 17 juin 2010 à 17:52, Richmond a écrit : www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1404.html or, put another way; why RunRev should never, never let themselves be bought out by one of the major players.

no go?

2010-06-17 Thread DunbarX
And I thought I sort of knew what I am doing. Now in HC, if you say go to stack soAndSo, you go to that stack. In Rev, I get no such card. If the stack has previously been opened the command works just fine. But if it has never been opened, I can open it with dialogs, or by explicitly

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

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
Be careful about the Console Logs tho'. There is a lot of normal stuff that floats through there that looks like there is something wrong, but there isn't. I spent a lot of time googling until I realized I was just chasing ghosts. And IMHO HP is notorious for really badly written drivers, for

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:02 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Say it ain't so. I have no idea if it is so, but in the case of HyperCard it managed to achieve that by having global variables for Applications, Stacks, and Documents, which it filled in from the last card of the Home stack. Look

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
snif! I loved those guys! Bob On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:58 AM, René Micout wrote: Very cute poor little Hypercard under arm of OS9 ! :-( Le 17 juin 2010 à 17:52, Richmond a écrit : www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1404.html or, put another way; why RunRev should never,

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread DunbarX
Colin. If you try to navigate to a stack not explicitly listed in the Search Paths cards of the home stack (pertains to files as well) you get a dialog asking where it is. This is what I would have expected. But no such feedback, except for the result being set. Tripped me up, and I was

HTML interaction...

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Lord
Ok, this is where I ask a question without exhausting all avenues to discover the answer... If I have RunRev load an html page, what options, if any, do I have to communicating to elements in that page? First, some structure to understand what I'm asking: This is a stack—not a plugin and not a

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread Colin Holgate
I see what you mean. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Kee Nethery
My understanding is that AES is the worst (oldest), DES is better, DES3 is better, BLOWFISH is quick and simple and a good compromise between performance and security. I know nothing about RC or CAST, but I'm pretty sure RC is just a derivative of AES. Security is not a question of is it

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
On 06/17/2010 04:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: We need Rev to tell us straightforwardly: Do they admit that basic functionality in the Linux version is broken? If so, do they intend to fix it? I suspect actions WILL speak louder than words. Out of deference to Jacque, Richard and

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's also a question of how valuable to others your resources are. How to make a car run on seawater is a document very valuable to a great many people, both those who want to exploit it, and those who want to make it go away. How to put gas in your tank not so much. All of them are going to be

Re: HTML interaction...

2010-06-17 Thread stephen barncard
Hi Simon, Well that web page that shows in RevBrowser is based on a text file that's yours to create. You could parse the loaded page and reconfigure it to your needs. I don't think there's anything in the revbrowser lib that indexes content in that way that you ask, if I understand what you are

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
Picture of this morning's fiasco: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/Skritty.png Ouch! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread stephen barncard
see STACKFILES in the docs: *Examples: * *set the stackFiles of this stack to My Dialog,Custom Dialogs.rev* Use the *stackFiles* property to make one or more stacks accessible to handlers, even if the stack is not already open or in memory. ciao sqb On 17 June 2010 09:36, Colin Holgate

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
Sorry, chaps: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/Skritty.png.zip Ouch! Again! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Group [vertical] scroll bars huge on Windows

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Massung
Anyone know how to easily fix this? They are... disproportionately wide. Jeff M. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Group [vertical] scroll bars huge on Windows

2010-06-17 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Jeff - What happens if you set the scrollbarWidth of the object to 15 or 10 or yourNumberHere? On 6/17/10 11:24 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: Anyone know how to easily fix this? They are... disproportionately wide. Jeff M. -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development

Re: Group [vertical] scroll bars huge on Windows

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Massung
Wow do I feel sheepish. I completely missed that. ;-) Thanks for taking the time to point out the obvious to Mr. Blind. Jeff M. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi Jeff - What happens if you set the scrollbarWidth of the object to 15 or 10 or

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Colin. If you try to navigate to a stack not explicitly listed in the Search Paths cards of the home stack (pertains to files as well) you get a dialog asking where it is. This is what I would have expected. But no such feedback, except for the result being set. As

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread DunbarX
All: Thanks. Makes sense. Very workable. Just different. Short stilted sentences. Craig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: All: Thanks. Makes sense. Very workable. Just different. Short stilted sentences. LOL! Let's just call it concise. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Jim Sims
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It's also a question of how valuable to others your resources are. How to make a car run on seawater is a document very valuable to a great many people, both those who want to exploit it, and those who want to make it go away. How to put gas

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Wolfgang, if this were the only problem, then every reboot would take care of all the font problems, until you installed more fonts. That is not my experience. It varies from distro to distro, but my experience is that after very many reboots, you still have a situation where Rev fails to see

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
It might be something to do with subjunctives - English does have them, though they are hard to recognize. I want that you give me that apple. that seems to be OK if a little old fashioned and stilted. I want that he obey his teacher (not, that he obeys). Its a bit like je veux que tu ailles

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yeah it's legal. The good stuff they won't even let us get close to. And yes, they do still control the kind of encryption that can be publicly used, as well as the kinds of encryption that can be made available to international markets. Don't ask me how I know. ;-) Bob On Jun 17, 2010, at

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread Dave Cragg
On 17 Jun 2010, at 17:28, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Colin. If you try to navigate to a stack not explicitly listed in the Search Paths cards of the home stack (pertains to files as well) you get a dialog asking where it is. This is what I would have expected. But no such feedback, except

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

2010-06-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Andre and Bob, Good tips. Never thought of console. I'll have to add it as a must-do to my troubleshooting checklist. Gregory On Thu, Jun 17, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Andre wrote: Gregory, If you're felling like doing some unix, then you can launch console.app (not terminal.app, I

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: I didn't know that. A little non-intuitive, if you speak English! (Shouldn't it be: get the name of *that* card of stack notOnTop?) :-) It's UK English. If they allowed American syntax, it would be: get the name of this-here card of that-there stack -- Jacqueline

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Adobe have their own impressive private vault of discontinued, changed names, changed ownership, or obsolete software: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/whathappenedto/p/formeradobe.htm Adobe File Utilities AfterImage Ares Font Utilities Art Explorer ChartMaker CheckList Color Central

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Thursday, June 17, 2010, 3:54:50 PM, you wrote: SuperCard ??? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
That is the version from About.com but... in Richard Gaskin's website, SuperCard history: Feb. 1994: Allegiant acquires SuperCard from Aldus http://www.fourthworld.com/supercard/FAQ_pages/Q0010.html Let's see how dates match: In February 1994, Allegiant Technologies of San Diego bought

RE: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I remember reading in some mail list, (maybe HyperCard list) about the project of integrating SuperTalk as scripting language of Aldus FreeHand. After Freehand and SuperCard were sold to different companies, this innovation never saw the daylight. Adobe isn't alone in acquiring

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Yeah - my memory (which could well be fuzzy) is that Allegiant bought SuperCard before the Adobe buyout so Adobe never got a chance to bury it. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Thursday, June 17, 2010, 5:17:12 PM, you wrote: Adobe isn't alone in acquiring something, then selling it off, killing it or letting a product languish. Not much worse than others. Better than a lot of others. Look at Corel. Or Computer Associates. Where software goes to die -- -Mark

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
In some American dialects, it's Yo! check it out! Homeboy got card in the crib! Word! Bob On Jun 17, 2010, at 2:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: I didn't know that. A little non-intuitive, if you speak English! (Shouldn't it be: get the name of *that* card of stack

Re: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
The merger of 525 millions between Adobe and Aldus must have been in discussion for months, before their announcement of March 15 1994. So, when Aldus sold SuperCard, they probably have consulted with Adobe about this transaction. If consulting with Adobe were not necessary then... Why not sold

RE: [OT] Adobe and Apple

2010-06-17 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Adobe isn't alone in acquiring something, then selling it off, killing it or letting a product languish. Not much worse than others. Better than a lot of others. Look at Corel. Or Computer Associates. Where software goes to die Oh, yeah, esp CA. They were the bottom feeders of the

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-17 Thread Richmond
On 06/17/2010 11:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: It might be something to do with subjunctives - English does have them, though they are hard to recognize. I want that you give me that apple. that seems to be OK if a little old fashioned and stilted. I want that he obey his teacher (not, that