Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread René Micout
Hello Francis, Le 10 juil. 2010 à 19:44, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit : Wonderful ! I have never seen so many complex naming conventions that I am sure you don't follow. If I bothered to think about naming conventions it is obviously to use it... If you do, then it is for who ? If it is for

RE: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I've got a page set up on iGoogle that has various back and forth translators between different languages I know or am interested in. It's pretty quick and easy, adding a Rev interface wouldn't save me much, I don't think. Google's translation isn't a tool I would completely rely on for

Re: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sat Jul 10, 2010, Mark Swindell mdswindell at cruzio.com wrote: Has anyone developed any vocabulary/ language learning stacks in Rev? Seems like an apt application for the tool, but I didn't see anything in revOnLine. Picture dictionary type things with rollovers for different

Pink Elephants MC Tutorial

2010-07-11 Thread David C.
Hey folks, I'm wondering if there might be a copy of the old MetaCard demo stack available for download anywhere? I was playing around this morning, ended up at the old MetaCard site and started thinking about pink elephants for some silly reason... ;-) Best regards, David C.

Re: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, I have created a set of stacks that help teachers to set up exercises in Arabic and I created a number of dictionaries in Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. I also managed to make RunRev speak Chinese on a Windows PC. Unfortunately, these projects not freely available. If you would

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread zryip theSlug
I'm using no naming convention. I develop stacks with no variables, no handlers and no functions. I only put objects in a card, drawing circles, rectangles and other complex forms. That's way I have never bugs in my stacks. The next I have to understand now is why, when I'm clicking on a button,

Re: Language learning stacks (an addition)

2010-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
A couple of years ago someone from this list had presented a language-learning stack with various exercise formats. Unfortunately I forget the author and the name of the stack. It must be hidden somewhere on my harddisks, presumably on my old G3 Mac. I think the stack had been available under

Re: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, i've messed with several of the online tools translating blocks of text as well as websites back and forth. In a way it reminds me of the experiment where you take a group of 5 people, send 4 out of the room and relate a simple story to the 5th. Then bring in each in turn so that they can

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
On 07/11/2010 04:08 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: I'm using no naming convention. I develop stacks with no variables, no handlers and no functions. I only put objects in a card, drawing circles, rectangles and other complex forms. That's way I have never bugs in my stacks. The next I have to

Re: Go to a web page automatically

2010-07-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tim Selander wrote: Using the on-rev.com server scripting, is there a ?rev command that will open a specified web page? 'launch' URL didn't seem to do it for me. To send the client's browser to a different page after processing their request in a CGI, I have the CGI include this line:

Re: Go to a web page automatically

2010-07-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richard, put location: http://www.domain.com/page.htmlcrcr On the on-rev.com revserver, put url http://www.domain.com/page.html; works fine while put location: http://www.domain.com/page.htmlcrcr don't. Best, Pierre -- Pierre Sahores mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 www.wrds.com

Re: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Mark Swindell
Wilhelm, The MC stack below using the polygon tool shapes is pretty much an example of the concept I was wondering about... thank you for sharing it. Mark - http://www.sanke.org/Software/MultipleChoice.zip On Sat Jul 10, 2010, Mark Swindell mdswindell at cruzio.com wrote: Has anyone

Re: Language learning stacks

2010-07-11 Thread Mark Swindell
I recall a linguistics professor years ago telling the story of the supercomputer translator going from English to Russian and back again. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak came back as The vodka is good but the meat is rotten. :) No, it's not reliable in any absolute sense, but it

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread René Micout
:-) Le 11 juil. 2010 à 15:08, zryip theSlug a écrit : I'm using no naming convention. I develop stacks with no variables, no handlers and no functions. I only put objects in a card, drawing circles, rectangles and other complex forms. That's way I have never bugs in my stacks. The next

Re: Pink Elephants MC Tutorial

2010-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun Jul 11, 2010, David C. davidocoker at gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I'm wondering if there might be a copy of the old MetaCard demo stack available for download anywhere? I was playing around this morning, ended up at the old MetaCard site and started thinking about pink elephants for

answer file and windows 7

2010-07-11 Thread Olivier Dussutour
Hello, It's the first time that i post a message to the list :-s I'm french and my english is deplorable, sorry I have problems with the command answer file and windows 7. It have no effect!?! my code is : answer file Selectionnez un questionnaire : with questionnaires/ with type Text|txt

Re: answer file and windows 7

2010-07-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Olivier- Sunday, July 11, 2010, 10:35:09 AM, you wrote: Hello, It's the first time that i post a message to the list :-s Welcome. I'm french and my english is deplorable, sorry I have problems with the command answer file and windows 7. It have no effect!?! my code is : answer file

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
zryip theSlug wrote: I'm using no naming convention. I develop stacks with no variables, no handlers and no functions. I only put objects in a card, drawing circles, rectangles and other complex forms. That's way I have never bugs in my stacks. The next I have to understand now is why, when

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/7/11 J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: The problem is that you are not thinking hard enough about what should happen. Rev is telepathic and you need to concentrate. The last time I tried, I squinted during 2 months, which is very disabling for a slug. -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish

Re: Pink Elephants MC Tutorial

2010-07-11 Thread David C.
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Wilhelm Sanke sa...@hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote: Hey folks, I'm wondering if there might be a copy of the old MetaCard demo stack available for download anywhere? I was playing around this morning, ended up at the old MetaCard site and started thinking about pink

Re: Pink Elephants MC Tutorial

2010-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun Jul 11, 2010, David C. davidocoker at gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Wilhelm! It seem to run just fine, but many of the graphics (including the elepahant ) must have been stored as files instead of embedded into the stack because they never appear on screen. Still though, it's fun to see

RE: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany (although we will have rain in two days !) Richmond : I agree with you (mostly) David C : Thanks for that comment! It's gratifying. Rene Micout (excuse me if I wax into French) : Je ne peux pas être plus en accord avec toi - Pour dire vrai, je voulais secouer le

Re: Pink Elephants MC Tutorial

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
I have just run a search for mcdemo2.mc on my Mac and found 9 copies of it (seriously frightening; maybe they are having babies); so, if for some funny reason you cannot get Wilhelm's copy to work drop me an off-list line. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: My naming convention

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
On 07/11/2010 11:15 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: snip As I haven't written programs in a REAL development environment What, pray tell, do you mean by a REAL development environment ? I hope that that does not imply that you think that RunRev is NOT . . . . snip Question ! How many of

File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
I need to get a list files in a folder and display it in a card field. The function the files doesn't detect OS X bundle-type files such as rtfd and Pages documents. Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a script for getting a full file list that includes these special OS X files?

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Jerry Daniels
They're folders. On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to get a list files in a folder and display it in a card field. The function the files doesn't detect OS X bundle-type files such as rtfd and Pages documents. Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a script

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
On 07/11/2010 11:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to get a list files in a folder and display it in a card field. The function the files doesn't detect OS X bundle-type files such as rtfd and Pages documents. Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a script for getting a full file

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
On 07/11/2010 11:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to get a list files in a folder and display it in a card field. The function the files doesn't detect OS X bundle-type files such as rtfd and Pages documents. Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a script for getting a full file

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Bundles can have more extensions than just .app. Some bundles that I know: .app .bundle .kext .rtfd .webarchive All the iWork files are bundles (.pages, .key...) Dashboard Widgets are bundles too... I think the easiest way to detect bundles is to get the folders and treat any folder

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, Bundles can have more extensions than just .app. Some bundles that I know: .app .bundle .kext .rtfd .webarchive All the iWork files are bundles (.pages, .key...) Dashboard Widgets are bundles too... I think the easiest way to detect bundles is to get the folders

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jerry Daniels wrote: They're folders. I know. I need a way to find out which ones are executable and are, therefore, files. I don't want any real folders in my list. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Jerry Daniels wrote: They're folders. I know. I need a way to find out which ones are executable and are, therefore, files. I don't want any real folders in my list. Oops. I meant which ones are *not* executable. This seems harder than it should be. -- Jacqueline

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, Bundles can have more extensions than just .app. What about checking for a plist inside the bundle? Would that be reliable? Do only apps have plists? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, July 11, 2010, 3:13:57 PM, you wrote: I just spent some time looking at shell commands and I can't find one of those either. The ls command has lots of options but none that will separate out executable app folders from regular files. AFAIK every .app contains a

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
If you want to say Thank you, you can explain why one cannot copy paste from the script editor on Linux into anything! Hello Jacque, It's not a Rev's script editor related problem ! To solve this, you need to tune the KDE (or Gnome, etc...) desktop manager clipboard (or, even quit it) to

[ANN] Step By Step 02 - Introduction to the Data Grid is on the road

2010-07-11 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear List, The Slug is happy to announce the availability of a new stack in the step by step collection. The Step by step 02 - Introduction to the datagrid presents: - What is a Datagrid table? - What is a Datagrid form? - What is a cell? - What is a row? - What is a template? - What is a

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Jacque, For your mac os x programming pleasure: Mac OS X identifies bundles using three ways [1]: The Finder considers a directory to be a package if any of the following conditions are true: * The directory has a known filename extension: .app, .bundle, .framework, .plugin, .kext, and so on.

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Based on information in the link below, I believe you can do getFileInfo -aB directoryname where -aB checks to see if the bundle attribute bit is set, unfortunately, according to information in the same page,

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Jacque, For your mac os x programming pleasure: Thanks. After staring at the problem all afternoon, I think I garbled my request due to Fuzzy Brain Syndrome. What I need is a list of both regular files and files that happen to be bundles, but does not include apps,

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mike Bonner wrote: Based on information in the link below, I believe you can do getFileInfo -aB directoryname where -aB checks to see if the bundle attribute bit is set, That sounds promising. I've read up and see now that I'm looking for packages, not bundles, and that there's a difference.

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Pierre Sahores wrote (re: copy/paste in Linux script editor): It's not a Rev's script editor related problem ! To solve this, you need to tune the KDE (or Gnome, etc...) desktop manager clipboard (or, even quit it) to avoid keystoke problems that are locking your script editor's environment.

[ANN] Translating your Rev stacks into web apps

2010-07-11 Thread Jerry Daniels
Fellow Rev developers, If you're like me, you have lots of stacks you've built over the years. Maybe you've wondered how they'd translate into standard web elements that could run on an iPad or desktop Chrome browser. We now have a tool for Revolution developers that will do this. Rodeo

Re: File lists

2010-07-11 Thread Richmond
On 07/12/2010 06:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Pierre Sahores wrote (re: copy/paste in Linux script editor): It's not a Rev's script editor related problem ! To solve this, you need to tune the KDE (or Gnome, etc...) desktop manager clipboard (or, even quit it) to avoid keystoke problems that