Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
at I *want*, and then truncate", as Mark suggested) - but I fear that only leads to someone, some day in the future open a BZ to say that Rev gets a different answer to the same calculation than 95% of the installed base of languages). Bring BCD , that's what I say :-) -- Al

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
d that I can use that as my answer :-) :-) Though come to think of it, even if it's a modern Mac (i.e. PPC) that may be different enough from the Linux/Win machines you tried. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version:

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
r of this sort could put a day into the wrong week. Users of trunc() (whichever language they use it in :-) should be wary of the dangers. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Versi

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
etermine for myself what number of digits to do the rounding at. I do not believe this is a bug - merely a trap for the unwary. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267

Re: Speed optimisation

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dick Kriesel wrote: On 10/6/05 4:21 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm - can you give a case where Kay's method gives wrong answers because of a negative seconds value ? As far as I can see (both by inspection and by testing) it always gets it right

Re: Speed optimisation

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
a variant of yours) get it wrong in key cases of negative seconds (e.g. 00:00:00.1 - 31 gives 0:00:0-31 for you and 0:00:0-31.0 for me - both rather hopeless :-) Hey, Rob, since you wrote the "spec," do negatives matter? Yeah, yeah, it's the spec that's at fault,

Re: Speed optimisation

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
8 2.471 Kay 2.707 2.704 2.731 I think all this proves is: 1. we're down to the point where differences are tiny 2. hardware and OS may give different results 3. it's easy to get obsessive about speed beyond the point where it matters - I do it all the time !! -- Alex Tweedly http:

Re: Looking for Implementation Advice

2005-10-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
ser, I quite like to see something happen - so having them appear as you go may be OK. If you prefer not to, use lockscreen and unlockscreen to make them all just "appear" at once. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AV

Re: Speed optimization

2005-10-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
to do this call about 150,000 times each file I process). (sounds like processing a log file or something similar). So although your advice is good general advice - it doesn't apply in this case :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing mess

Re: Speed optimisation

2005-10-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
pSeconds into tSeconds return format("%02d:%02d:%04.1f", tSeconds div 3600, tSeconds mod 3600 div 60, tSeconds mod 60) end addDivandFormat -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Viru

Re: Looking for Implementation Advice

2005-10-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
is the relevant one, and pop up the right value (maybe by setting the tooltip for the field - worth looking into whether you could do that). Hmmm - it would be nice if there was a tooltip event, which would trigger a handler "pre-appearance" to allow you to adjust the text.

Re: Anyone have any experience of CPlat???

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
a no-brainer, I just can't understand why *ANYONE* would want to build a GUI in CPlat (or any other C/C++ based framework) when Rev is available! -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 /

Re: Tough revprocessing question

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
those problems where the Rev stack was memory intensive as well as CPU intensive ? -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release D

Re: JPEG comments

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
Preview" can read and write these keywords - but it isn't scriptable! Alex Tweedly announced some time back that he had a libEXIF for working with EXIF data... Alex, any update on this ? No, not really. It works well for reading EXIF data, but I never did do the other (harder) p

Re: data-design question

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
en meaning to write a real SQL app some day, so you've triggered me into trying it. I'm trying a combination of 2 and 5, partly to get a better idea of how "portable" SQL should be between PostgreSQL and SQLite. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus f

Re: data-design question

2005-09-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
david bovill wrote: On 26 Sep 2005, at 03:11, Alex Tweedly wrote: It would be interesting to have a future version where the data could be collected as a collaborative effort (like CDDB/freedb were); although the number of people who want this data may be relatively small, I wouldn'

Re: data-design question

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
Charles Hartman wrote: Two questions as I snatch a moment to think about this project: On Sep 24, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Rev front end, talking over a TCP socket to a Python back end. Python (plus pysqlite2) for the back end. I'm out of my depth here (happens fast)

Re: A last question before bed...

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
know of any other libraries that use base64 encoding of md5 strings. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 23/09/2005 __

Re: put url some url into someVar: nasty crash :(

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
d to build your own utility - but there are many very simple, single file sources available, with no library dependencies, so you could build and distribute your own executable for Win32. (Or you could download the Microsoft utility to do this - fciv - from http://support.microsoft.com

Re: data-design question

2005-09-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
hon / sockets parts . I'd probably want to make it capable of storing multiple tunes per CD track and some other things that I think would be extensions beyond what you'd need. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked b

Re: Sound formats

2005-09-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
It plays MP3's just fine on my system (WMP 9.0, WinXP Home) (actually - on all 6 Windows boxes I currently own - but I don't know the version numbers of them apart from the one I'm typing on). I haven't used it to create MP3s from CD, only for playback. -- Alex Tweedly

Re: Clipboard madness

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
're refering to?)! Nope - see above. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.3/107 - Release Date: 20/09/2005 ___ us

Re: Clipboard madness

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
k search didn't find it. But it is fixed in 2.6 !! so give it a try now. So why doesn't the menu or keycombos work? I don't know but they should as standard. Win XPproSP2 Cheers Bob -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: import data script problem

2005-09-18 Thread Alex Tweedly
item curNum of field "withtabs" of stack "PDATreader" into field "field"&curNum into two lines - something like Put item curNum of field "withtabs" of stack "PDATreader" into temp do "Put temp into field "

Re: show hidden fields

2005-09-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
stack "doubledelete" end repeat end mouseUp It should be repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields (You're mixing it up with"repeat for N times":-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AV

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Tweedly
Recently, I (Alex Tweedly) wrote: Could you write a little tutorial for us all? The 'format' incantation has always baffled me, along with the 'matchText' incantations. (Maybe I just led a sheltered life) I'll have a go. But I'm far from an expert - so cons

Re: Little maths question

2005-09-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
on't know why - but I find the order produced by the first code fragment more easy to follow, and hence more "attractive". Call me a geek :-). -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Che

Re: 'It's not yet 10am, but Aqua is drunk'

2005-09-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
lmost didn't bother reading this - 'cause I knew at least 50% of it would go over my head (non-Mac user). But even the 50% I did get was worth it. Very funny. Thanks Jason. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-

Re: AltBrowser

2005-09-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
w.runrev.com/section/revselect/index.php -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.19/93 - Release Date: 08/09/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
e statRound, I think it's noticeably better to have it built-in to "format". -- Alex. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 05/09/2005

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
;df" command to see if that allows you to deduce knowledge of the partitions ... -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 05/09/2005

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Mark Smith wrote: See the entry for 'statRound' in the docs... Yeah - but I wish there was a way to get this form of rounding in the format command. H -an enhancement !! I'll request it BZ 3111 added -- Alex. On 7 Sep 2005, at 19:44, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dom wr

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
appings between top-level directories, partitions (or logical volumes as some Unix file systems call them) and physical disks are even more tenuous (even before we get to automount partitions ). What is it that you really want to know ? -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No vir

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
.14) - which had the advantage of balancing out the rounding amounts over a large enough set of values. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 05/09/2005

Re: No volumes in Linux?

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
resumably) something similar. On Unix the form of a file name is simply /top/next/another/path/name/part.txt i.e. there is no part which can be uniquely recognized as a "volume". -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
t - so consider this the first step on a community effort to write a tutorial I'll write something up (probably) this weekend. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.

Re: Formatting Column of Times

2005-09-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
with ? If it's tHours and tMins, then you'd do format("%2d:%02d", tHours, tMins)-- " 3:55" or format("%02d:%02d", tHours, tMins) -- "03:05" -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: external Windows program running?

2005-08-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
v Standalone A gets a message on the port it's listening on, verifies it, and then exits. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005

Re: emacsKeyBindings

2005-08-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
nsupported keys bindings is "undo" !! So I don't use it , but I nearly did, and I'd like to some day And if I did it would be only for my own use. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version:

Re: CamelCase

2005-08-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
you what it would be ...) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: libdatabase : connection problem

2005-08-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
ct my typos - and therefore need to use "local", but also I use it to initialize locals as above. (And you can use the initialization form to assign values to script-local variables too). -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Chec

Re: OT: Another NPR puzzle

2005-08-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
end if else put false into stillOnA if wDict[t] and t = lower(t) then put t & cr after tResult end if else if wDict[t] and t = lower(t) then put t & cr after tResult end if end repeat -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net

Re: How to open an image file?

2005-08-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
irectory level thereafter. (see docs for "file" - the "binfile" page doesn't include a Windows example, but the "file" one does). When I open an image from the development area (then it works), it says that the source of the image is C://image.gif. So why doesn&#

Re: string format

2005-08-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Charles Hartman wrote: On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: . . . the particular problem of adding spaces after a string to fill it out to a specified length. It would work if the "incantation" argument of format() would accept a variable name, but I can'

Re: string format

2005-08-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Charles Hartman wrote: On Aug 27, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: The format function is indeed very useful - but I don't think it can be used to solve the particular problem of adding spaces after a string to fill it out to a specified length. Or at least - when I was looki

Re: CGI permissions

2005-08-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
e worth trying it with a file outside the CGI-Executables directory. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005 _

Re: string format

2005-08-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
use it to solve this problem :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: mouseStillDown Not Allowed in Front Script?

2005-08-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
think that may imply that you can't use it in a frontscript (maybe?). -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Rele

Re: Where to put the ( ) ?

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
use everything had stopped working. > clickLine() gives a chunk expression describing the selected line value of clickLine() therefore is the content of that line As Mark said - it sounds like you want "word 2 of clickLine()" -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No v

Re: Where to put the ( ) ?

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
I think you don't want the <> part - the example in the docs is simply put the value of the clickLine into textOfClickedLine -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Databas

Re: Two very simple questions

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
know about them. (Mine all involve the closing part of the comment delimiter having an extra "*" - i.e. ... **/ ) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.

Re: YIPEE !!!!!! Rev cgi & PHP - new question (shell command)

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
jbv wrote: Now I need to find how to pass parameters to the php script via the shell... any help will be apreciated... Simply pass the arguments on the command line shell("php myscript.php alex tweedly") and in the php script they are available as the array $argv (the number

Re: Rev cgi & PHP - new question (shell command)

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
;http://the.other.server.thisdomain.com/phpscript?arg1=value&arg2=val";) (watch out for quoting and urlencoding etc.) and this might be easier even if it is the same server. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Vi

Re: Rev cgi & PHP - new question (shell command)

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
ly, it depends on how you installed php and whether or not you added it (or its directory) to your PATH set up. If you didn't then you'd need to do something like /usr/local/bin/php myscript.php (that's for a standard PHP install - but some distros will put it in othe

Re: len of field

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
e. If it's not, use put char len(tVar)+1 to 14 of " " after tVar (make sure you have at least 14 spaces - more doesn't hurt you could use "... to -1" - but "... to 14" makes it more self-documenting :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.twe

Re: FTP Upload Does Not Work?

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
infile:data.jef",myURL,"uploadDone" libURLftpUpload myData,"ftp://me:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.txt" which looks to me like it ought to be the actual file name. Worth a try If that's not it ... - does it work when run from the IDE ? - does libURLftpUpload work

Re: How to write a VERY simple server?

2005-08-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
this could be as simple as on mouseUp accept connections on port 5001 with message "gotConn" end mouseUp on gotConn pSocket read from socket pSocket until CR put it into field "myData" close socket pSocket end gotConn -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net

Re: Problem with Set Script in Compiled App

2005-08-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
ython (definitely), Perl (maybe), Ruby (I'm fairly sure), Lua (I think), . Or *I* may have misunderstood :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/80 - Release D

Re: Problem with Set Script in Compiled App

2005-08-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
ovide a mechanism to allow multiple versions of the scripts to be attached, with a run-time selection between them, for QA investigative usage. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Da

Re: message watcher

2005-08-23 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: I read about the Message watcher in the documentation. What are the numbers in parentheses that follow the times? Jon It's the number of milliseconds since the last message was recorded. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing me

Re: Spell Checker

2005-08-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
the user build their own list, so didn't ever do anything with them ) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 19/08/2005

Re: Spell Checker

2005-08-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I'm sorry, no clue... But there must be something out there like that, I am sure a bit of creative online searching will find something. Good luck :) http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/dictionaries.html -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedl

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_Sprints There's a little bit of discussion about how it works (or worked for one group) at http://www.lonelylion.com/pipermail/chipy/2004-September/000377.html -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Chec

Re: Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
quot;, were not even *in* the SDK. It's been a while since I've looked at it, but I believe Alex Tweedly has been working on this issue in getting a more complete SDK with all of the functions. I hope this isn't starting to sound like "Pass the Parcel" :-) No, I'

Re: libURLftpUpload returns "invalid host address" error

2005-08-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
___ 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 -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tw

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
r (e.g. put "abc" into msg), but it can, and should, know at the handler / parameter declaration. (Some other reserved words already produce an error message, e.g. on mouseUp seconds gives the error "Handler: not a valid parameter name" -- Alex Tweedly http://www.twe

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
the submitter nor owner of the bug (far less a "sufficiently empowered user" - what a great phrase for an error report!!) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 /

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
e in (e.g. send "asd" to me in 10 seconds) which could usefully be coloured, IMHO. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Rele

Re: the message box

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
lease let us know the BZ number for those who want to vote for it -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Release Date: 18/08/2005 __

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: Alex Tweedly wrote: 2. Unless you need to for some reason I don't see here, don't mess around with date & time. What I'm trying to do is find a way to express "more than 60 minutes after the most recent time/date stamp" in such a way that

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alex Tweedly wrote: local nextFTPTime on mouseUp if the seconds > nextFTPTime then do ftp Stuff put the seconds + field "TestFreq" into nextFTPTime end if send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds end mouseUp You might want to make that send &q

Re: resolution of Time in Rev

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
tFTPTime end if send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds end mouseUp or if you want to monitor it, replace the "end if" by else put nextFTPTime - the seconds & "seconds to go" into field "TimeToGo" end if If TestFreq does vary, then you

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-18 Thread Alex Tweedly
rist could say this kind of re-arrangement is different from simple indentation - but I kinda like this idea. And it would mean that the Transcript purists wouldn't be bothered by sample scripts showing up in this radical new, ugly syntax :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net

Re: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?

2005-08-18 Thread Alex Tweedly
ev for my strong habits - but it can be frustrating. It works better for me to try to stick to one language for a week or more at a time. Of course, having a multiplicity of simultaneous projects and real life rarely allow that, but when I can do it, I stop doing this kind of silly stuff, and the

Re: "repeat for each" in reverse order ?

2005-08-13 Thread Alex Tweedly
doesn't say it there, the same is also true for the "step" value if used. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 24/06/2005 __

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
t specifically looking at PythonCard - it has a good installer mechanism for Windows, the Mac side can be done but isn't so well packaged yet. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus D

Re: For each item

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
Hershel Fisch wrote: On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hershel Fisch wrote: That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine it with the first tab and an the last "c" is not combined with the previou

Re: For each item

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
mber of items in tv End , I count it to be 7. put "a" & tab & tab & tab & tab & "b" & tab & tab & "c" into tV 222 333 444 5666 777 (Hope this comes through as fixed-width font :-) -

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
and the client / GUI in Rev. But I think some people who could readily learn enough Transcript to write a plug-in will find it harder or impossible to use Python - so that might cut down on your plug-in developer base. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in t

Re: European Revolution Conference Reminder

2005-08-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
ompound the error by cluttering the list with this apology. Alex Tweedly wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.2/65 - Rele

Re: European Revolution Conference Reminder

2005-08-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
of Sept (and the dates can be fixed up soon) then my chances go up to 50%. And if there are direct flights from Edinburgh (or maybe Glasgow) then it goes up to 60% :-) I'm sorry I can't commit better than that - but I'd rather be accurate than overly optimistic. -- Alex Twe

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

2005-08-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
on WinXP). I wouldn't be surprised if the great majority of the people on the list were amateurs like us - just most of them are quiet most of the time (and then there are a few of us who are quite vocal). -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing mes

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

2005-08-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
ing me into thinking it stopped the RevOnline check as well. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.2/65 - Release Date: 07/08/2005

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

2005-08-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
check for updates" or "Check updates once per session". -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.2/65 - Release Date: 07/08/2005

Re: File location using go shell ("startc:\..")

2005-08-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
s: put "start" && quote & "c:/program files/appz_folder/mainframe.exe" & quote into temp go shell (temp) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti

Re: design of radio-button choice

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
going on to the next. Don't be impatient!" pass mouseUp end if -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 03/08/2005 ___

Re: design of radio-button choice

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
ipt, -- handler for radio buttons on mouseUp -- if this is an answer (or if correct ??) put false into gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice etc. end mouseUp (where gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice is, obviously, a global) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing

Re: recursion limits

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
I'd just do the first of these - but the second one was an interesting exercise . -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 03/08/2005 __

Re: Mystery about file share on Mac OSX to Win client out there

2005-08-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
rks, not the other). If that isn't clear - or doesn't help - give us a network picture (Win machine addresses, etc.) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Databas

Re: [OT] Pigs Fly

2005-08-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
tion up to this clicked item), darn it !! About once a day I curse this mis-feature of Rev's IDE on Windows. (Not that I have a solution - but it still gets a curse :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Vir

Re: [OT] Pigs Fly

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
r Mac nor Win UIs support it well, there are few apps nowadays that take proper advantage of a third button, so it's not as big an advantage now as it used to be. (And I wouldn't give up my scroll wheel for it :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in th

Re: re : Objet : [OT] Software Carpentry

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
didn't say Java invented those features, he said that Java gets credit "for bringing them to the mainstream". I think it's quite reasonable to say that Smalltalk and Hypercard were outside the mainstream. And if it was about when the features were invented, LISP predates either

[OT] Software Carpentry

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
were: * A week of hard work can sometimes save you an hour of thought. * The deadline isn't when you're supposed to finish; the deadline is when it starts to be late. * Never debug standing up. * Tools are amplifiers: they allow good programmers to be better, and bad o

Re: ANN: Sudoku Assistant

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
hat info is actually already gathered in the log file, but I'm looking for a graphical way to show it. And this is actually being much more interesting than I had expected - so there may well be a Version 2 that eliminates some of the cruft that has sprung up in the various Ver 1.x&

Re: Question about keys

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
mykeys by cr and comma put the keys of mykeys into xKeys -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.6/59 - Release Date: 27/07/2005

Re: ANN: Sudoku Assistant

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
n should switch to saying "Show uncompleted". You should be able to switch between them at any time. (This doesn't count as an action for Undo/Redo - you should stay in the same mode while Undoing or Redoing). -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in

Re: ANN: Sudoku Assistant

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
great (when I wrote it I didn't intend to give it to anyone else, so it's certainly not carefully written as I would do for a tutorial, or a product), but it's not terrible either. Dive in -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Ch

Re: Full justification

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
get confused by CRs and TABs (which are word boundary characters) and double-quoted strings (which are a single word, even if they contain spaces) ? -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Databa

Re: ANN: Sudoku Assistant

2005-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
go there. That is now a common pair 7,2 and 8,2 have either 6 or 8. So eliminate the 8 from 6,2 leaving only 5 to go there, and you make a substantial step forward. Although you're not yet done, it's straight forward from then on. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net

Re: ANN: Sudoku Assistant

2005-07-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alex Tweedly wrote: It occurred to me it would be way cool if I could take a puzzle from a magazine, enter the givens in your assistant and save it. I know you have a mechanism for loading a text file with a known format that would also accomplish that but unless you have plans to

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