Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: It's not so much that I'm being charged in £'s, I wouldn't care if it was sheckles, shindarkles or south pacific pesos, just so long as the exchange rate to clams on my Visa statement is 'roughly' the same. There might be good reasons for

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Dar Scott wrote: This vast difference would certainly encourage customers to be virtually in the US, which is probably not what RunRev wants. Grishim's law applies, I think. I don't think Grishim's law can be wished away, or avoided by strong moralizing

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Can't explain why, but if you, and others, are getting faster with Switch, then maybe in 'real' situations it is quicker, which makes me feel even better about using it more:-) I have been running some speed tests and the more I do the more I get

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: put random(6) into tRandomNo switch (tRandomNo) These tests involve numbers and Mark's tests involve numerals. Maybe that is a clue. -- Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Making an Image

2006-11-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: put image 2 into image 1 This feels more xtalk-y to me. You are right. Well, we already know I'm not a real card head. I do have an excuse in that I was right in the middle of a script that set several properties for images and there

Re: Change Blend Level from Script

2006-11-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 2, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Trevor Hopkins wrote: Has anyone had success manipulating the blend level of an image from a script? I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. set the blendLevel of image Portal to 50 I keep setting the property 'blend' which compiles and runs just

Re: Having problems with numberformat....

2006-11-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 2, 2006, at 3:17 PM, David Bovill wrote: put it empty I think this is a bug - no? Yes. But this might be understandable. It looks as though 'put it' will not (always) apply numberFormat and 'it empty' will. (BTW, the latter is a common way to force numberFormat in

Re: Having problems with numberformat....

2006-11-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 2, 2006, at 4:17 PM, David Bovill wrote: Does 'put it into msg' work? No - same. But I need the 12 digit value passed to AppleScript - the message box was just an example. So it looks like I can do this with empty tagged on just before I need the result. Thanks for the help.

resizeQuality

2006-11-01 Thread Dar Scott
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Re: Having problems with numberformat....

2006-11-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:57 PM, David Bovill wrote: Well I am stuck. I have not idea why it does not work. I cannot pass these 12 place decimals as parameters and why the script below does not work beats me :( This works fine for me. I'm on PPC OS X 10.4.7 using Rev 2.7.4. I hope that is a

Re: Having problems with numberformat....

2006-11-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:57 PM, David Bovill wrote: Well I am stuck. I have not idea why it does not work. I cannot pass these 12 place decimals as parameters and why the script below does not work beats me :( By the way, the numberFormat setting is not needed for a level of arithmetic

Re: Making an Image

2006-11-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: How can I make one image look like another image? I set the imageData of img 2 to the imageData of img 1, but that got really weird. set the text of img 2 to the text of img 1 What other data makes up an image? the rectangle the

Re: Right-Click Transparency

2006-10-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 31, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Trevor Hopkins wrote: I have a bunch of images in a stack. I noticed that if I right- click on a part of the image, that area becomes transparent. Thats great. However, if I go to another card and them come back, all of those areas that I asked to become

Re: External won't load on some machines

2006-10-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The external is located in the correct Externals folder (Rev) ... [I thought this was for RunRev externals. I thought the standalone builder took these, and put them in some standard place and messed with the externals property of main

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Never mind. It is in parameters where that does not work. Ah, but using pass-by-reference parameters DOES work: But you can't use pass-by-reference with send. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: Is there a send equivalent for functions? Consider 'value()'. You can specify an object. (But this will not work on functions that return arrays, if you specify the object.) Dar ___

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: Stack A - on mouseup send doSomething to stack stackB wait 1 tick (in case of, I believe that's not needed but I tend to add it) put the handlername_result of stack stackB into tResult. --- reading

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: Tadam... 1 2 3 4 Yikes! I was sure that didn't work! Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 29, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: Tadam... 1 2 3 4 Yikes! I was sure that didn't work! Never mind. It is in parameters where that does not work. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack

2006-10-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 29, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: What is exactly the scope of this the result? According to the doc: The result function is set to empty when the current handler finishes executing. I have tried grabbing 'the result' in logging functions, but found I needed to pass it

Re: Does a day start at 1:00 AM everwhere?

2006-10-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 27, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Mark Powell wrote: At 6:42 this morning, I ran this: put the short date into theDate convert theDate to seconds put ((the seconds - theDate) / 3600) and got 4.710556, which suggests that a date starts at 1:00 AM and not midnight. Is this accurate? And

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

2006-10-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: On Windows, you need to cancel pending messages, close all stack, stop externals and stop running handlers to make sure that your application really quits. I understand cancel pending messages and close all stacks, but I'll a little

Re: Careful

2006-10-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Better be careful what you put in your scripts: I would hope that my comments in delivered scripts help in the use and maintenance of the script and is free of offense and hurt, free of any indication or misreading that I intend to hurt

Re: Getting IP Address of Machine that is Currently Running the Stack

2006-10-25 Thread Dar Scott
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Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 22, 2006, at 1:02 PM, David Bovill wrote: A little lost but very interested regarding this thread - is there a stack here to test? My interest here would be in unit test type frameworks for handlers and more complex chunks of code. I implemeneted this by calling the handlers against a

Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 21, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Ian Wood wrote: Each individual stack in the suite can write out results that are specific to that stack, without the managing stack having to know anything about those specifics. Each person can then concentrate on logging the information that they need,

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: So let me get this straight: WER -- A neatly pressed, folded, and categorized collection of crash reports from actual users running Rev on a variety of system configurations, complete with a sampling of mini heap snapshots and system data,

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 21, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Not paper. The reports are provided via a secure web connection. But yes, it's a free crash analysis service provided by Microsoft for Windows XP and later that would seem to be a valuable way to diagnose program crashes. Rev apparently

Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:15 PM, kee nethery wrote: How about one master stack that looks in a folder, lists all the stacks in that folder, Good idea. I'm thinking that could fill a selection control. then sends each one a command to execute it's tests, I am thinking of two methods, one

Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: do you have accurate timing routines there to share? something that could be called before and after a test so that we can measure it? The next release of darzTimer will include the ability to install darzTimer Library. Maybe I can up the

Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Ian Wood wrote: Rather than callbacks, I'd probably go for things being called from the openstack handler with results being written to a text file with the same name as the test stack. That way you just launch each stack and don't have to worry too much about

Re: Suite of Tests

2006-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 21, 2006, at 3:19 PM, kee nethery wrote: Rather than callbacks, I'd probably go for things being called from the openstack handler with results being written to a text file with the same name as the test stack. That way you just launch each stack and don't have to worry too much

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 2:38 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: In my opinion, the 2.7.x series has been a huge step backwards in terms of reliability/stability and usability. And after five revisions it's still not ready for prime time. Here are some glaring, show-stopper problems that still persist

Re: Nobel prize

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I am insanely pleased with myself for having come up with a function to calculate the distance between two points, That will work, and Bill's comments will make it improved. (I have not received his mail, still in Carnivore I assume, but I

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Dar Scott wrote: I don't agree with this assessment. The new installer cleans up a lot (saves a lot of time and headache) and a lot of bugs have been fixed. I said this poorly. I completely accept that you are having problems and sympathize. And I'm aware

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: While I agree with you on all these points (all right - I haven't seen the application error on quit thing, but I'll grant that YMMV) I do have to take issue with this one. The first step in getting some of these problems fixed is to write up a

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 2:38 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Some of you will say, Bill it would be much more productive if you filed all this in Bugzilla. Well, I'm all for contributing to the community. But it takes time and effort to file a decent bug report. You need to have something

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-18 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Jim Ault wrote: This is one of the reasons that a script that looks 'legal and correct' will generate an error. Newbies could be very confused since they are doing 'exactly' what the docs say. It would be nice if colorizing would catch that. It is good that

Re: Using lpt1 in Windows

2006-10-18 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Paul Williams wrote: I am developing some educational software that uses a sensor that plugs into the parallel port. I need to be able to read and set the state of the i/o pins on that port. I have tried using read/write to file lpt1 without any success, can

Re: Reacting to shell commands?

2006-10-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 17, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: These parameters are in variables $1, $2,... $n. A couple years ago this did not work right. Has this been fixed? Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Rev Graphics Gurus

2006-10-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:34 AM, John Vokey wrote: I need to manipulate the contents of images in Rev in two ways: The general method for manipulating the contents of images is through the imageData property (and alphaData property) of the image control. There are four bytes per pixel in

Re: Reacting to shell commands?

2006-10-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 9:27:19 AM, you wrote: A couple years ago this did not work right. Has this been fixed? Do you remember what in particular wasn't working? I've been using these without too many problems - the things I've run into

Re: Rev Graphics Gurus

2006-10-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: err - sorry about the abbreviations How else would we know that you are in? Besides, you quoted control names. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Rev Graphics Gurus

2006-10-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And I thought I was being clever! Were you thinking of colorMap? I think this is neutered for bit depths greater than 8 and might be for 2.7 for all depths. On Windows, some colors cannot be changed. In any case, that was clever!

Re: Porter-Duff demo stack

2006-10-16 Thread Dar Scott
does porter-duff within a group. In the demo the result is layered normally. On 12/10/06, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Did I say that this stack does not have the workaround for the ink clipping? No I dont think you did. You mean there is a bug in the RunRev implementation

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm tempted to say that yes, you can't be a true card-head (love that term) without typng abbrevs for wds but wht do I kno. Well, I think people on this list have figured out that I'm not a true card-head, but they treat me kindly anyway.

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Is your first name Dar or is that an abbreviation (abbrev) for something else? Both! My birth certificate says Darwin and I use that in formal signatures. The dual name is a tradition my parents borrowed from my namesake who

Re: Context-free error messages during debugging

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: What I am saying is that I don't see that the engine has any excuse for not telling me the full context of an execution error, and I wonder why it does this sometimes and not at other times. Could this be related to password protection of

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: can I call function calling and message passings, jump? This is a good question. I have tried different words and have settled on call. I think I have seen in a HyperTalk manual words like use, send, call, generate, invoke and issue.

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I do (admittedly a bit hypocritically) feel that when discussing coding on the use-list it would be extremely helpful for one and all if abbreviations were not used. I think you are probably right (I'm still open on this), though I

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Ken, cdr and car are the building blocks of lisp... which remind me of a badge I saw in a car once which was my other CAR is FIRST... when you have a list, for example '(1 2 3 4 5) then car returns 1 and cdr returns '(2 3 4 5). And with

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Jim Ault wrote: I agree with Dar on this. Since I usually answer questions while taking a short break from my work flow, I would not want to have to 'rework' a response so that it became crystal clear to someone brand new to Rev. This includes

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/15/06 4:18 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question to all, since it seems to be OK and even in to use abbreviations, how about for examples on this list where newbies read scripts? Should those be spelled out or should newbies

Re: executionContexts

2006-10-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 14, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just tried to find executionContexts in the documentation for DC 2.6.1 and RRMedia 2.7.2 and found nothing. ... I wonder why there seems to be some resistance to documenting these things? I try to refrain from insisting somebody

Re: Threading (was: [OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users)

2006-10-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Well, one thing that leaps to mind immediately - stopping the entire application freezing up when executing a lengthy shell script or AppleScript. The operating system is already threaded. This example doesn't necessarily require Rev

Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-14 Thread Dar Scott
I fully recognize that there are different creation styles and what works for one might not work for another. I am curious about abbreviations, though. I sometimes take shortcuts in scripts but for the most part, if it is an example on this list or a script for someone else or I might

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 14, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Abbreviations are well documented in the Dictionary so I feel confident using them liberally, even in code for clients and in published libraries. Abbreviations are a useful feature of xTalks, and since they have benefit for the user I

Re: Threads

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: Threads can be produced by cloning an invisible substack (named thread) with a handler and renaming the clones to thread_1, thread_2, etc... This stack is a good mockup of what a simple threading capability would look like like. It

Re: Seeking Rev Consultant

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
and in intercepting keystrokes (assuming those apply). From Brian Yennie's comments on the lists over the years, I suspect he would be good, too. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office, home: +1

Re: cards of a bg not recognized !?

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:33 AM, André.Bisseret wrote: In the message box if I ask : there is bg frame2 --I get true If I ask : there is last cd of bg frame2 --I get false If I ask : the number of cd of bg frame2 -- I get 0 ; In fact I have more than a hundred cd with this bg ? This is a wild

Re: textColor misbehaving?

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have a field which contains a sentence in black. When I attempt to change the color/colour of the text inside the box like this: set the textColor of fld FFF to red it stays black Individual characters also have the property

Re: Seeking Rev Consultant

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
Rats! I did it too! ___ 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: running handlers

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 13, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Jon Seymour wrote: Is there a way to find out the names of all handlers currently running, that is, those that have started but not yet finished? There is only one thread in Revolution so all handlers that are currently running are those on the call stack. The

Re: running handlers

2006-10-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 13, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Item -1 is the line number within the handler, -2 is the name of the handler and item 1 to -3 is the long id of the object the handler is in. Whoops. I mean for each line with the first line being the top and the bottom line being the one

Porter-Duff demo stack

2006-10-12 Thread Dar Scott
not affect the GUI events.) Dar PS: Did I say that this stack does not have the workaround for the ink clipping? -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Skype: ask http://www.swcp.com/dsc Computer

Re: Threads

2006-10-11 Thread Dar Scott
think that too weak. Dar -- *** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Fax:call above first Skype: send me a note first http://www.swcp.com/dsc Computer programming

Re: Rounded Corners for images?

2006-10-10 Thread Dar Scott
is a good intro to the P-D operators. The next lot of inks is similar to the blends available in Photoshop. Those are described lots of places. I hope this helps. I have trouble explaining things. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's

Re: shell vs. process

2006-10-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Any of you network gurus know if ping is possible with Rev right now using sockets? The short answer is no. Well, sometimes things sneak into Rev when I'm not looking. Some computers have some service you can use like a ping and some are

Re: Rounded Corners for images?

2006-10-10 Thread Dar Scott
and allows an object to be compared to a bunch of other objects. There are also cool thinks that can be done with the image harrassing blends, but this mail is too long as it is. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place

Re: Rounded Corners for images?

2006-10-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:32 PM, David Bovill wrote: Actually this is very useful. I wont pretend I understand it all but at least I've got a start. Yeah, me too! On 10/10/06, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will depend on the layers. And remember to set the ink of the group

Re: Specific Color Ink

2006-10-09 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: So we have various buttons and controls, and everything else is black. I wanted to add hilites to all the black that is already there, without redoing all the images and opening them in Photoshop to make the black transparent. What I

Re: Rounded Corners for images?

2006-10-09 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:55 AM, David Bovill wrote: The question therefore is how to place an image inside the graphic? With 2.7 are new inks and ink grouping. Group the graphic and the image, with the graphic in back. Set the ink of the graphic and group to blendSrcOver. Set the image to

Re: Specific Color Ink

2006-10-08 Thread Dar Scott
and the card. That is, move it to the far back. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Fax:call above first Skype: ask http

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 5:47:16 PM, you wrote: I think this underscores the need for REAL type checking. I was told that a positive integer would return true if is a date is used. BZ #2783 People have created interesting bugs related to

Re: SVG

2006-10-05 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 5, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Thursday, October 5, 2006, 2:17:06 AM, you wrote: Anyone have any idea where to find SVG in Revolution? Nothing in the docs. I noted this on their site: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG

License?

2006-10-04 Thread Dar Scott
With 2.6.1 I received a license agreement file. I am not able to find it in the 2.7 Enterprise folder. Did I get a copy of the license? Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office

Re: License?

2006-10-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: With 2.6.1 I received a license agreement file. I am not able to find it in the 2.7 Enterprise folder. Did I get a copy of the license? When I installed 2.7 I saved the license agreement (there's a button for it when you install). But I

Threads (was [OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users)

2006-10-04 Thread Dar Scott
. Do this, show progress, and let me know when you are finished. Bidirectional message queue. Send messages to a thread in 'send' style. Just wondering. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111

Re: shell vs. process

2006-10-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: As you can see, I redirect the output of a shell command to a text file, then have a loop that keeps checking until the file is there. Cool. I have tried the , but without success. I think I must not have been redirecting to a file or

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: As for me, I think that all this has to be handled upstream. By allowing to enter only right values in a field, by choosing other ways: lists, calendars, graphics, etc. Just my two cents ;-) May be I miss something? You are right! And

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Jim Ault wrote: I thought that 0 was a valid positive (non-negative) integer, In the common math jargon, 0 is non-negative, but not positive. Since we are casual around here about words, it is good to ask what a person wants. Fortunately, we have the =

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 2, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Dom wrote: Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if field MyTextField is a number This is fine if signed and decimal input is allowed; but isn't an adequate check for numerics that must be positive or integers only. if field MyTextField is an integer ;-)

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: I want to check the contents of a field for numeric, so, for a field of four characters, I coded : matchText(field MyTextField,[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]) if it is true then .. Is this the right way to check for numerics, and if so,

Re: shell vs. process

2006-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
, this is worthless. I hope that helps. Let us know how tcpdump with Rev works out. Dar - -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Fax:call above first

Re: HTTPS certificate validation

2006-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
. The documentation is crisp, yet good. Now how in the world anybody would know to do that to find that info is beyond me. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Waiting until a player is loaded

2006-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: However, if I let the loop run at its natural speed, I get a bunch of blank snapshots, either because the content isn't fully loaded before the script continues, or because the screen isn't refreshing (I can't tell which.) I need a way to

Re: A bug in the revSpeechVoices function?

2006-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
to make a male or neuter list. Dar Scott ___ 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: Simulating Keystrokes

2006-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: On Mac OS X, you could use AppleScript GIU scripting. Windows has WSH, the windows scripting host that can handle scripting in several languages with VBBcript and JScript built in. Any of the languages have access to the object

Re: Simulating Keystrokes

2006-09-29 Thread Dar Scott
the keyboard driver. I'm not sure what seems to the system means. Do you have something in particular in mind? I think the start menu and bar are windows and you can send keystrokes to them with SendKeys(). Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Legos

2006-09-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 28, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Thanks everyone for putting up with my ignorance. What goes around comes around. Cast thy bread upon the waters... (Eccl. 11:1) Del of something math looking = 0. We now expect you to point out our silliness when the time comes. Dar

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: FireBird - it seems there is no way to use with Rev. One might guess ODBC or a custom external might allow use. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just posted a bug relating to Rev not noticing updates made to the clipboard by other applications under certain scenarios. I have a vague memory (from just this past month or so) of reading on the clipboard API (maybe for OS X) that it

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just posted a bug relating to Rev not noticing updates made to the clipboard by other applications under certain scenarios. I have a vague memory (from just this past month or so) of reading on the clipboard API (maybe for OS X) that

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: open file mfile put the result into mres -- mres is empty here indicating a successful open I guess you put it in the message box or something? read from file mfile at 1 until eof Check the name of the file mfile. If you

Re: Problem with visualization of a big network

2006-09-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Mark Smith wrote: You might try making a group that is big enough to contain all the buttons, setting it's lock location to true and turning it's scroll bars on - this way, the user can scroll to whatever part of the network he/she needs to see. Typically,

Re: externals and Rev 2.7.x

2006-09-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: If you are setting externals manually then it doesn't matter where you put them. You just have to make sure your path is correct. The path will be relative to the engine, not the alias to the engine that Rev creates. I have been using

Re: externals and Rev 2.7.x

2006-09-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Try something like this when changing the default folder: * try put the defaultFolder into savedDefaultFolder set the defaultfolder to defaultFolderForThisTask ... blah blah blah ... catch e finally set the defaultFolder

Re: externals and Rev 2.7.x -- Whoops!

2006-09-26 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Dar Scott wrote: However, with recent change in the IDE, this is not too bad: * put false into bad try put the defaultFolder into savedDefaultFolder set the defaultfolder to defaultFolderForThisTask ... blah blah blah ... catch e put true

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 24, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? According to the Internet Wayback machine, this happened sometime early in 2004. I know what you mean, though... I was involved with MetaCard/Revolution before that and

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote: But, it seems like the Rev user base is too small to justify two teams working on IDEs... I like the idea of competing directions. Encouraging notes, money, and occasional chocolate or books tend to encourage good ideas. Mostly money.

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