Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:05:12 PM, you wrote: Thanks Bob, that makes perfect sense but... just mechanically I was not sure what hoops to jump through. Ok, let me try and see what I come up with. 10 mins in, still see no solution. IS Notepad a substack of my new Startup stack or a

Re: The selection caret position

2010-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to specifically tell Rev where within the current selection the caret or insertion point actually is? My problem is that Rev always does it's damnedest to keep the current insertion point visible within a field. So, if I were to select line N of some

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

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Ah! yeeesss! completly forgot that! while reminds me that I used the first one a couple of times in my scripts ;-o))) I did not know the second one (to run) Very worthwhile to know this 2 commands and their difference Thanks a lot Emmett, I much appreciate your contribution Best regards from

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

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour Peter, Le 18 juin 10 à 14:46, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : Hmm... On my system (MacBook, OSX 10.5.8, Rev Studio 4.0.0-gm-1, build 950) the following works fine: launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word whereas launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft

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

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Ah! yes I understand now! My old handler was launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Microsoft Word That used to work! Trying to use it again, as my current version of Office is 2008, I just replaced 2004 with 2008 which was not working (whence my first post on this subject). OK!

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

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: Yes, I forgot about the show all file extensions preference. I have it off, but when I turn it on and look in my Applications folder in the Finder, all of the other apps now have .app appended, but Microsoft Word

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

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 19 juin 10 à 12:40, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: Yes, I forgot about the show all file extensions preference. I have it off, but when I turn it on and look in my Applications folder in the Finder, all of the

Re: Datagrid lost focus to next cell

2010-06-19 Thread zryip theSlug
Hi Josep, When a DataGrid is in a group and you want to navigate inside it, it seems that it lost the focus, resulting to this odd behavior. It's probably a bug. I will propose you a possible solution to help. It consists to change the default column behavior of your Data Grid. In this custom

Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
I have a series of ten checkboxes. I am trying to script them so that when checkboxes are checked, names are put into variables and then put into a field disability. I tried the following script using just two checkboxes, checka, checkb, to test my script: Checka Script: on mouseUp if the

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Ian Wood
You're only putting one term into the field. Try getting the text of the field and adding it to your string before setting the text of the field. Ian On 19 Jun 2010, at 14:18, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: Unfortunately, this script does not put Egg Allergy followed by Fish Allergy

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread wayne durden
looks like you are perhaps trying to use tConcat as a global variable without having declared it so... You could read the field into tConcat first and leave as is ... On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: I have a series of ten checkboxes. I am trying to script them

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
Ian, Thanks for your suggestion! How do I set up a script to add to a string when the script resides in each checkbox? Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Ian Wood-3 [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: You're only putting one term into the field. Try getting the text of

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Ian Wood
Try something like: Put text of field disability into tConcat Put egg allergy into tDis if tConcat does not contain tDis then Put tDis space tConcat into field disability End if Ignore the caps, I'm on the iPhone... Ian On 19 Jun 2010, at 15:06, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: Ian,

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Brigham MD
It's easier to put the script at a higher level. Group the checkboxes and name them each with the exact text you want to insert, then put the following in the script of the group: on mouseup put the number of buttons of me into nbr repeat with n = 1 to nbr put the short name of

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Bonjour Charles, As suggested by Wayne if you declare tConcat as global in each script then it works as expected Best André Le 19 juin 10 à 15:18, charles61 a écrit : I have a series of ten checkboxes. I am trying to script them so that when checkboxes are checked, names are put into

Re: The selection caret position

2010-06-19 Thread Jeff Massung
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:28 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to specifically tell Rev where within the current selection the caret or insertion point actually is? My problem is that Rev always does it's damnedest to keep the

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Woow! very nice :-)) André Le 19 juin 10 à 16:49, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : It's easier to put the script at a higher level. Group the checkboxes and name them each with the exact text you want to insert, then put the following in the script of the group: on mouseup put the number of

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
Andre and Wayne, I tried declaring tConcat as a global. It works but each time you check and uncheck and then check the same checkbox, you get multiple instances of the same content. In other words, using checka as an example, I get Egg Allergy added each I check and uncheck the checkbox.

Stack Organization and More

2010-06-19 Thread Celeste Helling
Hello, I am working on a freeware stack that will be given away at a national disability conference. The purpose is to help speech therapist evaluate the communication skills of an adult or child who is not able to talk. Right now, I have 12 skill areas that can be included as part of the

Re: Datagrid lost focus to next cell

2010-06-19 Thread JosepM
Hi Zryip, Thanks for your solution :) 3) At last, remove the dim focus behavior by executing this script: set the dgProp[dim on focusOut] of grp MyDataGrid to true I don't understand this last step.. only duplicating the line run fine. Salut, Josep -- View this message in context:

Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Justin Sloan
Hello All, I am totally lost and frustrated; I need your help. I am writing a simple text editor as my first app. Problem is, I want to be able to insert some text from a menu selection, but the text is always added at the bottom of the text field rather than at the insertion point where the

Re: Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Suppose you want to insert the date at the current location, use selectedtext to do this. If text is selected it will replace it, if no text is selected it will insert at the current insertion point. put the date into the selectedtext Will pop the date in just fine. On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread wayne durden
Hi Charles, There is a little disconnect because you have two stores for your data, your tConcat variable and your field. When you uncheck you are removing the data from the field and then your tConcat global and your field are out of congruence. There are several workarounds but the easiest

Re: Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Richmond
On 06/19/2010 07:12 PM, Justin Sloan wrote: Hello All, I am totally lost and frustrated; I need your help. I am writing a simple text editor as my first app. Problem is, I want to be able to insert some text from a menu selection, but the text is always added at the bottom of the text field

Re: Stack Organization and More

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Celeste- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:30:40 AM, you wrote: My plan is to create the main stack as the “splash screen” which will open a substack for the preferences. From the preferences, the therapist can choose which substack(s) (i.e. skill areas) they want to administer as well as the

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! I resolve my problem using the following script: on mouseUp if the hilite of button checkb then put Fish Allergy space after tConcat if the hilite of button checkc then put Milk Allergy space after tConcat if the hilite of me =true then

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner
A couple things, filter (if I recall correctly) filters lines not words or chunks, so if all of your disability items are on the same line it either will, or will not remove the whole line depending on if there is a match. Also as stated, if you're using a variable as your storage for the data,

Re: Datagrid lost focus to next cell

2010-06-19 Thread zryip theSlug
You're welcome ;) In fact the last step is cosmetic. 8-) Because your Data Grid losts the focus, and the dim on focusOut property is set to true, the selected row will be grey instead to be blue as in the normal behavior. Set the dim on focus to false give the illusion that all perfoms normally,

Problems with MenuPick

2010-06-19 Thread Steve King
Hi I have a set of tabbed cards navigated by on menupick thecard go to card theCard pass MenuPick end menupick This works fine in normal navigation. In a button of one of the tabbed cards I load data then put it into the fields of various cards then as the last statement switch to the

Re: Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Justin Sloan
That is excellent, thanks! I spent hours trying to figure that out. Maybe sometime the rev logic is just a little too easy! On Saturday, June 19, 2010, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose you want to insert the date at the current location, use selectedtext to do this. If text is

Re: export image with a drop shadow?

2010-06-19 Thread Josh Mellicker
Thanks Scott! On Jun 18, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Yes, place the image in a group with a suitable margin and export a snapshot of the group (transparency will remain intact). --Original Message-- From: Josh Mellicker Sender: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Problems with MenuPick

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Steve- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 10:00:52 AM, you wrote: Send menupick Dive Planner Unfortunately, this switches the card but not the tabs. Try setting the menuHistory of the tab control. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution

Re: Stack Organization and More

2010-06-19 Thread Celeste Helling
Funny you mention the need to use substacks. I have always used marked cards to navigate, but always though I was using the wrong method. There will probably be less than 300 cards total, so if it is efficient to continue using that method, that's what I will use. Thanks for your help!

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
Peter, I put your script in all of my checkboxes and tried it and nothing happened. Is there anything was left out of the script? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Checkbox-script-tp2261136p2261353.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread charles61
Peter, Your script does work! I neglected to read your e-mail more closely. I removed the script from the checkboxes and group them. Then I placed the script into the group script for the checkboxes. Your solution is certainly more elegant than mine and has the added benefit of adding commas

Re: Stack Organization and More

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Celeste- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:45:56 AM, you wrote: Funny you mention the need to use substacks. I have always used marked cards to navigate, but always though I was using the wrong method. There will probably be less than 300 cards total, so if it is efficient to continue using that

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not in front of my computer now but I suppose on preopenstack you could set lock screen to true, set the visible of the startup stack to false, open the real stack and away you go. Don't have your main app be a substack as i think it gets compiled like the startup stack. Somebody correct me if

Re: Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Or if you don't want to replace text that has really ben selected, Put the date after the selected text Bob Sent from my iPad On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose you want to insert the date at the current location, use selectedtext to do this. If text

Re: Insertion Point

2010-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
OMG! Did yo see a doctor about it?? Bob Sent from my iPad On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I just made a new stack and pooped a text field on it; then pasted your e-mail message into it. ___ use-revolution

[ANN] Scripter's Scrapbook update

2010-06-19 Thread Hugh Senior
19-JUN-2010 If you have recently downloaded a Scripter's Scrapbook from www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk and it didn't work, please download a new copy... All Mac OS X standalone application program updates for the Scripter's Scrapbook were corrupted. This means that anyone who has downloaded

RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Smith
Mark and Bob, thank you so much for your responses. (In particular Mark, your Standalone conference stack was a big help). Now I have but a few questions (sorry, somedays I do feel like an idiot!) It looks like I have 2 options for my Startup stack 1. In the stack script put: on startup

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:03:17 PM, you wrote: Q1 What is the difference between the startup and preopenstack messages? Startup is only sent to standalones. It's ignored in the IDE. Q2 I realize I probably need a list of revtalk messages (with descriptions) but couldn't find one.

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:03:17 PM, you wrote: Now I have but a few questions (sorry, somedays I do feel like an idiot!) Not to worry - somedays I *am* one. Wanna trade? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing

[ANN] DiagramCreator plugin maps out websites!

2010-06-19 Thread Chipp Walters
http://shaferwaltersgroup.posterous.com/diagram-your-websites I've added a plugin architecture to DiagramCreator. The first plugin is one which diagrams websites. It's pretty straightforward and has a number of interesting options. And, of course, like DiagramCreator, it's free while in beta. I