revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have been to http://revweb.runrev.com/ and it says, as it has for some years now, that the Linux version is coming shortly. Is it in fact coming? And if so when? I'm asking because I need that kind of functionality one way or another in the next couple of months. Peter

applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Hello, on mac machine I want to ask the user the name of a MS Excell file on the desktop then I want this script not in LiveCode language but applescript (for another purpose afterwards in the livecode script) here is my applescript code that doesn't run (!) set le_chemin to (path to

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Yves, Runs fine here. What's your problem? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker plugin for Runtime Revolution at

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 28 oct. 10 à 14:13, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Yves, Runs fine here. What's your problem? says error can't find file this has been destroyed or destroyed (in French !) http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Greetings. Yves COPPE yvesco...@skynet.be

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
That's strange. I don't get any errors at all, even if the file doesn't exist. Which version of Mac OS X are you using? as unicode text might no longer be necessary. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 28 oct. 10 à 14:37, Mark Schonewille a écrit : That's strange. I don't get any errors at all, even if the file doesn't exist. Which version of Mac OS X are you using? as unicode text might no longer be necessary. leopard on a G5 and snow leopard on a Core 2 duo same problem

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Yves, Why don't you use the choose file command? Much easier. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker plugin for Runtime

Re: applescript question

2010-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 28 oct. 10 à 14:49, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Yves, Why don't you use the choose file command? Much easier. ok, I will change my script thanks Greetings. Yves COPPE yvesco...@skynet.be ___ use-revolution mailing list

CronJobs [was Re: Where is the Login to Rev's Web Hosting]

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Andre, Well, that's just too darn easy! As always, thanks a ton, Gregory On Thu, Oct 28, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Andre G.: Gregory, On your control panel there's something called cronjobs which is exactly what do you want. You can specify the intervals and the commands to run. :D

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: I have been to http://revweb.runrev.com/ and it says, as it has for some years now, that the Linux version is coming shortly. Is it in fact coming? And if so when? I'm asking because I need that kind of functionality one way or another in the next couple of months.

Re: CronJobs [was Re: Where is the Login to Rev's Web Hosting]

2010-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
You're welcome Gregory! :D On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.cawrote: Hi Andre, Well, that's just too darn easy! As always, thanks a ton, Gregory On Thu, Oct 28, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Andre G.: Gregory, On your control panel there's something

Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Bill Andersen
I'm sorry this is so long winded. I'm hoping it will help you understand my motivation... I am a necessity programer. I don't sell my programs, I program as a systems analyst to achieve results for my employer. I have developed fairly complex solutions in FileMaker and I can program in VB,

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Bill, The 3.5 engine is quite capable but it lacks the revolution libraries such as libURL, thats why your calls to URL commands fail. Another issue is that getting database working is not that trivial when you try for the first time. You need to set the externals on the startup handler to point

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
Bill On 28 Oct 2010, at 22:39, Bill Andersen wrote: I'm sorry this is so long winded. I'm hoping it will help you understand my motivation... ... snip I've read how to get the runtime working as a CGI and played around enough that I 'can' (seemingly) make it work from a shell

Re: LiveCode applications accepted in iOS App Store

2010-10-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Kevin, FYI, I'm surprised the app was accepted because it has the text IPHONE TEST APP on the background and Apple's submission guidelines specifically state that no 'test apps should be submitted. It is a minor thing for sure and the app itself seems ready for prime time but I would be

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
You can also leave off the -ui but then instead of a put you must write to stdout. Worked last time I checked on 4.0, didn't test on 4.5 so don't know if it will work there. Also, since you run without -ui you get a window flash. On the subject of revserver, Andre, you mentioned that liburl works

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
I also am keen to use LiveCode to write shell programs and believe that it is possible by adopting a slightly different approach. I believe that if you build a standalone of your script, you can run the 'standalone program with the -ui argument. Peter, This approach has a couple of

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
On the subject of revserver, Andre, you mentioned that liburl works with that, but I have yet to get it to work in a revserver script. Has there been an updated release of revserver that works wiht liburl, or do I just have something broken on my end or.. ? Mike, I think it can handle

Re: Title Text

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
In the UK they have Kilometerage?? Bob On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Richmond wrote: On 10/27/2010 08:05 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Your Mileage May Vary. I thought this was a common net-breviation. :-) DNA On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:03 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: YMMV??? In a message

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah k. Yep was confused. No libUrlFtp stuff doesn't work and even libURLVersion throws an error. I forget sometimes how much you can do with just the URL keyword. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: On the subject of revserver, Andre, you mentioned

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
On 10/28/2010 01:13 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I have been to http://revweb.runrev.com/ and it says, as it has for some years now, that the Linux version is coming shortly. Is it in fact coming? And if so when? I'm asking because I need that kind of functionality one way or another in the

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Its a really simple application, its for a guy that I work with. I would really like for him to be able to write it and keep it going himself. I am lately rather seriously in the mode of lessening people's dependence on me for this stuff. What it is, he will have a large map on a big screen.

How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
Hi Guys, One developer, which try now implement some GUI around SQL Lite have touch me with wonder that SQL Lite do not have any way to modify schema of database. At this URL http://www.sqlite.org/omitted.html You can read that Only the RENAME TABLE and ADD COLUMN variants of the

auto identification of connected printer (Mac)

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Brigham MD
In case anyone else would find it useful, I've finally managed to tune up my handlers for LiveCode printing from a Mac laptop, designed to avoid any unnecessary printing dialogs. This is useful if you, like me, use a LiveCode app on your laptop in a number of different venues and need to

Underscore in script for windows?

2010-10-28 Thread charles61
I am using the following script to open a text file for both windows and Macintosh. My question is do I need two separate scripts one for the Mac and one for for Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) with a space instead of an underscore? For example /S504_Student for /S504 Student for Windows. if

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Peter Alcibiades wrote: It could run locally. Except that everything else runs on a server, so it would be nice if it were all in one place and accessible from anywhere on the LAN, which is why it would be nice to run it as a browser plug in. I'm with Richmond about not holding your breath

Re: auto identification of connected printer (Mac)

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Great job Peter! This is a great example of how extensible LiveCode is. With Hypercard we were at the mercy of xcmd's, and they were not always well written or even compatible with each other. Being able to shell out or access compiled externals makes LiveCode an excellent front end dev tool,

Re: How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well I wonder what the max record count is for sqLite? I hardly think it's millions of records! But I may be mistaken. Still, I fail to see why you HAVE to drop a column if you don't want it anymore. Granted it's kind of dirty to leave a heretofore unused column stranded in your schema, but

Re: How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
What I find more egregious is this statement: The ADD COLUMN syntax is used to add a new column to an existing table. The new column is always appended to the end of the list of existing columns. The column-def rule defines the characteristics of the new column. The new column may take any of

Re: How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh yeah and this tidbit of info is useful: After ADD COLUMN has been run on a database, that database will not be readable by SQLite version 3.1.3 and earlier. Bob On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: Hi Guys, One developer, which try now implement some GUI around SQL Lite

Re: How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 10/28/10 8:09 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Hi Bob, Well I wonder what the max record count is for sqLite? I hardly think it's millions of records! But I may be mistaken. Still, I fail to see why you HAVE to drop a column if you don't want it anymore. Granted it's kind of dirty to

Re: How you modify SQL Lite tables which have many records?

2010-10-28 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 10/28/10 8:25 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Really, this is so limiting that it may be better to dump your database, recreate the new structure, and then re-import it, or do the second database thingummy, rather than try to modify the schema. Right. Modification of schema is pain

HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
This is a repost of a message I just sent off entitled 'HELP' which was blocked with this message: Your mail to 'use-revolution' with the subject HELP Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message may contain administrivia

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread DunbarX
All over the web dictionaries. It isn't pretty... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
The latest worm to make its way onto our discussion lists is ww32.kle...@mm and it is quite sophisticated. See http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kle...@mm.html for full details. On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Richmond wrote: This is a repost of a message I just sent off entitled

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
http://www.korean-war.com/Archives/2002/04/msg00153.html On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Richmond wrote: This is a repost of a message I just sent off entitled 'HELP' which was blocked with this message: Your mail to 'use-revolution' with the subject HELP Is being held until the

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
http://www.mail-archive.com/security-bas...@securityfocus.com/msg03257.html On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Richmond wrote: This is a repost of a message I just sent off entitled 'HELP' which was blocked with this message: Your mail to 'use-revolution' with the subject HELP Is being

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
And from another blog. Note the date tho': -Original Message- From: Gary E. Miller [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:08 PM To: Schmehl, Paul L Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I see that the Administrivia contains as one payload it's own spam mailer. It uses a long list of subject lines, and I think one of them is HELP. If this is the subject line you used, or if the subject line contained that word, you may have triggered a false positive in the list's AV filter.

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
On 10/28/2010 09:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I see that the Administrivia contains as one payload it's own spam mailer. It uses a long list of subject lines, and I think one of them is HELP. If this is the subject line you used, or if the subject line contained that word, you may have triggered

the siglum key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
[Hope this subject line doesn't throw a 'bluey'] If I have a button that contains something like this: on mouseUp put silly phrase into fld XXX end mouseUp it works . . . Now if I set up a card script so that when I hit the 'Q' key on my keyboard a mouseUp is sent to my button, it works.

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Bill Andersen
If you stick to the 3.5 engine or switch to RevServer but want to do some net stuff not enabled by libURL, you can always shell() to cURL and be happy. Yes. However, I'm still having to work with 'non-rev' syntax (learning how cURL works). As it turns out, I already know most of it

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
I've used PHP to do 'shell utilities', I sure wish Rev could act similar. How nice would it be to just have one language/syntax for the bulk of your code. There is RevServer... -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___

Re: the siglum key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
I put this in a button script: on mouseUp put any item of random,Silly,Phrase into field 1 end mouseUp And this in the cardscript: on keydown theKey if theKey is ` then send mouseup to button 1 else pass KeyDown end if end keydown It works for me, so not sure whats up on

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 1:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I see that the Administrivia contains as one payload it's own spam mailer. It uses a long list of subject lines, and I think one of them is HELP. If this is the subject line you used, or if the subject line contained that word, you may have triggered a

Re: the siglum key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
On 10/28/2010 10:22 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: I put this in a button script: on mouseUp put any item of random,Silly,Phrase into field 1 end mouseUp And this in the cardscript: on keydown theKey if theKey is ` then send mouseup to button 1 else pass KeyDown end if end

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
Gottit, al last: 'administrivia' has to be pronounced as 'administrivia' rather than 'adminis - trivia'; which made things sound like a sort of mindless babbling game indulged in by bored administrators . . . :) On 10/28/2010 10:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/28/10 1:46 PM, Bob Sneidar

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 2:08 PM, Bill Andersen wrote: I've used PHP to do 'shell utilities', I sure wish Rev could act similar. How nice would it be to just have one language/syntax for the bulk of your code. You can insert libURL (or any other script) into the message path so that commands to the

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 2:46 PM, Richmond wrote: Gottit, al last: 'administrivia' has to be pronounced as 'administrivia' rather than 'adminis - trivia'; which made things sound like a sort of mindless babbling game indulged in by bored administrators . . . :) :) It's a little of both I think. It's an

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
On 10/28/2010 11:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/28/10 2:46 PM, Richmond wrote: Gottit, al last: 'administrivia' has to be pronounced as 'administrivia' rather than 'adminis - trivia'; which made things sound like a sort of mindless babbling game indulged in by bored administrators . . . :)

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Only one thing to do. Test it. I just sent an email with the word HELP in the subject line and body. Let's see if it bounces. Bob On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That may not be what is going on. On many text-based lists like this one, the word HELP is the standard

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Richmond
On 10/28/2010 11:12 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Only one thing to do. Test it. I just sent an email with the word HELP in the subject line and body. Let's see if it bounces. Bob Presumably this thing is positional; after all this heading is getting through, while simple HELP did not. On

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
HAH! You nailed it Jacque! My test email got bounced. What an odd thing to reply with though! Administrivia?? Why not just say Administrative Command? Bob On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/28/10 1:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I see that the Administrivia contains as

Re: the siglum key ???

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
*slaps forehead* I need to learn to read. However, have you done something as simple as on rawKeyDown theKey put theKey end rawKeyDown to see what code is actually being sent? If you aren't going for a specific key other than the one in the upper left of the keyboard, and keyboards differ,

Re: the siglum key ???

2010-10-28 Thread DunbarX
Richmond. In a blank card script (so no other offending traps) I have: on rawkeydown var if var = 96 then put tilde else if var = 113 then put Q pass rawKeyDown end rawkeydown Works fine. Can you say what is different, in concept to how you are doing it? Or could there be something

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
I have a question regarding this, if one were to copy the script as you explained, and instead of placing it in a stack could one paste it into an .irev file and use it as an include with revserver scripts? On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:03 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Bill Andersen
Thank you so much. I will try this and let you know how it works out... Bill On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/28/10 2:08 PM, Bill Andersen wrote: I've used PHP to do 'shell utilities', I sure wish Rev could act similar. How nice would it be to just have one

Re: liburlftpcommand problem

2010-10-28 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, thanks for your suggestions. In fact it was a CRLF after each entry. I got that entries from a PUT URL command, which fetches the file list from an ftp server. I removed all CRs, but forgot that there could be also CRLFs. Regards, Matthias Am 27.10.2010 um 15:28 schrieb Andre Garzia:

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: I have a question regarding this, if one were to copy the script as you explained, and instead of placing it in a stack could one paste it into an .irev file and use it as an include with revserver scripts? Yes, I think so, but I'm not sure how much of

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: HAH! You nailed it Jacque! My test email got bounced. What an odd thing to reply with though! Administrivia?? Why not just say Administrative Command? It's an ancient boilerplate error message that's been around forever, and I think was written when

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:12 PM, Richmond wrote: So . . . What about the rawKeyDown being 0 ? I'm not exactly sure what you're after. The keycode for the key where the tilde is on my keyboard will be different from the keycode of the same place on another keyboard. Keycodes are assigned to

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Monte Goulding
On 29/10/2010, at 3:52 AM, roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: It could run locally. Except that everything else runs on a server, so it would be nice if it were all in one place and accessible from anywhere on the LAN, which is why it would be nice to run it as a

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Nope doesn't work, and I don't know enough to determine if it would be worthwhile to beat it into submission or how to begin if it is worthwhile. (tried it with the 4.5 script) Mostly was just wondering, revserver throws errors such as: 183,485,43,) 482,746,1,private EXECUTION ERROR: 681,0,0,1

Things that make you go HMMMMMMM?????

2010-10-28 Thread Cal Horner
OK, so we have this wonderful menu builder tool provided by runrev for Elsie forty-five. Why can't it be used for the Tab panel? It seems to me that the Tab panel has the same attributes as the menu button and the handler is basically the same. So, why didn't the people at runrev hook the Tab

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Just a guess . libURL uses private handlers, and RevServer scripts can't have private functions in them. (The Docs say 'private' applies to desktop and server, but my simple test suggests otherwise ?rev private function a p return p+p end a put a(4) ? fails, remove the 'private' and it

Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
I have a little app that will be used on a number of computers, so I want it to check for a new version being available, and update itself if needed (and desired). I know the easy way to do this is to have the executable be basically a 'splash screen' that starts the *real* stack, and

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Oh cool. May mess around with it some more just to see. Thx! On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Just a guess . libURL uses private handlers, and RevServer scripts can't have private functions in them. (The Docs say 'private' applies to desktop and

Missing mouse clicks

2010-10-28 Thread Terry Judd
I¹ve got something weird going on where after creating a series of objects by script (events in a calendar tool) the first two clicks on any of the created objects aren¹t trapped. On the third click the group (of events) mouseup script gets triggered and from then on a single click on any object

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mike If you're using the 3.5 engine you can use liburl via the following: http://www.lacscentre.com/liburl/releases.html regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Cool, thanks much. Grabbed a stack to experiment with. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Alex Shaw a...@harryscollar.com wrote: Hi Mike If you're using the 3.5 engine you can use liburl via the following: http://www.lacscentre.com/liburl/releases.html regards alex

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
On 10/28/10 11:52 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: Is the server mounted? If so an alias may do the job. Another option is to build a standalone that loads the stackfile off the server. There are many ways to kill this cat. Cheers In House LAN ?? I second Monte's motion on this one. I must have

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
On 10/28/10 1:21 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I have a little app that will be used on a number of computers, so I want it to check for a new version being available, and update itself if needed (and desired). I know the easy way to do this is to have the executable be basically a 'splash

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Sivakatirswami- Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:21:09 PM, you wrote: on preopenstack set the loc of this stack to the screenloc send LaunchGrapple to this stack in 1 seconds end preopenstack on LaunchGrapple go stack url http://inHouse.domain.org/rev_stacks/grapple.rev; end

Photoshop Applescript fails , why?

2010-10-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm trying to drive some photoshop processes with Livecode. The idea is small applescripts are easy, bigger file operations are easier done in LiveCode. 2 problems ONE: Apple script dies in LiveCode, but runs in Script Editor.app why? tell Application Adobe Photoshop CS5 do action merge

Re: Photoshop Applescript fails , why?

2010-10-28 Thread Terry Judd
What happens if you use system events to activate Photoshop first and then tell Photoshop to do its action? tell application System events to tell application Adobe Photoshop CS5 to activate tell application Adobe Photoshop CS5 to do action [action] from [set] Terry... On 29/10/10 2:21 PM,

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread Jim Sims
Alex - search the List archives for Chipp's updater, he has a few posts that outline what seems to be a good system and gives some excellent advice. sims --- On Oct 29, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I have a little app that will be used on a number of computers, so I want it to

Re: Photoshop Applescript fails , why?

2010-10-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, looks like a bug in LiveCode's API to the Script Editor compiler: I suspected LiveCode can't even compile the script. duh, right... add put the result watch... [field PhotoshopScript] tell application Adobe Photoshop CS5 activate end tell tell application System Events Adobe

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread stephen barncard
Search for Magic Carpet at Chipp's site. On 28 October 2010 21:10, Jim Sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: Alex - search the List archives for Chipp's updater, he has a few posts that outline what seems to be a good system and gives some excellent advice. sims --- On Oct 29, 2010, at 1:21 AM,

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 6:21 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: And, what do you as app users prefer 1. The app automatically updates itself when a new version is available. 2. The app downloads the new version automatically, and then (next time?) on startup asks if you want to install the update. 3. The app lets yo

libURLDownloadToFile and LiveCode

2010-10-28 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, Under Revolution 4, this script work like a charm : on mouseup ... libURLDownloadToFile theUrl, theDestUrl, Downloaded wait 0 milliseconds with messages ShowInfo theUrl end mouseup on ShowInfo pUrl local tStatus,tResult put URLStatus(pUrl) into tStatus switch

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 5:28 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Nope doesn't work, and I don't know enough to determine if it would be worthwhile to beat it into submission or how to begin if it is worthwhile. (tried it with the 4.5 script) Mostly was just wondering, revserver throws errors such as: 183,485,43,)