Basic SQL database question

2006-01-17 Thread David Bovill
I have a remote PostGres database which I am testing using the Database Query tool. I can connect and set the table and use the default sql select * statement I have created the form and connected the fields to the table using the property inspector. There are 3 fields - id (primary

Re: Basic SQL database question

2006-01-17 Thread David Bovill
Were you using PostGreSQL? I got an INSERT to work now by coding a raw SQL exec: Now even using the standard Database Query Builder for automatic updating of these 2 fields I get the following error: UPDATE failed on SQL command: UPDATE roles SET diz = :1 WHERE id = 1 RevDb

Re: Basic SQL database question

2006-01-17 Thread David Bovill
On 17 Jan 2006, at 22:11, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:51 PM, David Bovill wrote: Most likely. It could be a bug in 1) binding with PostGreSQL or 2) the PostGreSQL revdb code. I would try coding a raw SQL update statement and see what happens. If that works then I would

Re: Basic SQL database question

2006-01-17 Thread David Bovill
On 18 Jan 2006, at 00:01, Trevor DeVore wrote: Whenever you see a :1 (or :2, :3) in a query it is using binding. Take a look at the last parameter description in the docs for revQueryDatabase and read the Comments section. I don't think the docs refer to this as binding but that is one

Re: The formatted mouseline?

2006-01-12 Thread David Bovill
On 12 Jan 2006, at 18:20, Dave Cragg wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 16:16, Mark Swindell wrote: I'm looking for the location of the formatted line, or its coordinates relative the field, so that I can place a graphic (an underline or somesuch) under the text of that formatted line. This

Re: url GET https requests -- walking thru certificate issues

2006-01-10 Thread David Bovill
Sounds to me like you need to download and install a certificate and then use this certificate in Rev - the process you describe is what the browser does to install this certificate - so one way or another you need to get Rev to point to this certificate on the local machine - see the

Re: SSL Certificates on OSX (Dar :)

2006-01-09 Thread David Bovill
On 9 Jan 2006, at 12:35, Dave Cragg wrote: David, what is it you want to do with this certificate? Use it to provide your own secure web server, or to verify connections to https sites secured with certificates issued by CAcert? I'm assuming the latter. If that's right, then I *think* you

SSL Certificates on OSX (Dar :)

2006-01-07 Thread David Bovill
Has anyone used SSL certificates on OSX with Rev? I have created and downloaded a certificate from www.cacert.org but I am not sure if this is what is required. The file is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not a .pem file. Also I am not sure where to put it or how to work with keychain access - any

HTML named characters

2006-01-07 Thread David Bovill
Am I right that there is no built in function to convert HTML named characters (auml;)? Does anyone have such a function? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: HTML named characters

2006-01-07 Thread David Bovill
On 7 Jan 2006, at 23:30, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi David, From the docs: ÁAacute; áaacute; ÂAcirc; âacirc; ´acute; ÆAElig; æaelig; ÀAgrave; àagrave; ÅAring; åaring; ÃAtilde; ãatilde; Ä

Re: [ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

2006-01-06 Thread David Bovill
On 5 Jan 2006, at 23:48, Marielle Lange wrote: Dear all, as promised, the surprise: http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/ Very nice - and Drupal too - think this is probably the best choice for a general purpose open source CMS around at the moment. Great work!

Webservices XML and how to do it better (was XML doesn't WORK !)

2006-01-06 Thread David Bovill
Found this interesting link while researching into Yahoo web services: http://www.crockford.com/JSON/xml.html JSON is a simplified alternative to XML for date-interchange with the added advantage of working with the Javascript DOM., as such it seems a very good format for those

Re: Webservices XML and how to do it better (was XML doesn't WORK !)

2006-01-06 Thread David Bovill
Not too good in ruby - but all the work here is done in the regular expression no? Then use the same cheat to string a couple of rev lines together? On 6 Jan 2006, at 20:37, Mark Wieder wrote: g It'll be hard to beat the one-line Ruby parser: code type=ruby null=nil; jsonobj =

Re: CGIs and Global Variables

2006-01-06 Thread David Bovill
Now wouldn't it be nice to have a fastCgi (http://www.fastcgi.com/) language bindings to Rev? Now that you could build an open source strategy around! On 6 Jan 2006, at 22:15, Ken Ray wrote: On 1/6/06 1:41 PM, Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Just want to confirm

Re: MVC (was Text database using custom properties)

2006-01-05 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Dec 2005, at 13:40, Dave LeYanna wrote: Dave Bovill and I have taken somewhat different approaches to a runrev implementation of an MVC architecture. I'm not sure if Dave's made his public yet, but you can see mine on revonline. You may not like it if you're used to a traditional MVC

Re: Text database using custom properties

2005-12-12 Thread David Bovill
I think it should work fine - have not stress tested the approach yet - but it is what I use (custom properties linking the index to the structured text files). I have just started using an MVC (model view controller) architecture for all my Rev apps - which has been a lot of work figuring

Berlin anyone?

2005-12-12 Thread David Bovill
Anyone from the list in-or-around Berlin in December? I am going to the Chaos Computer Club Conference (27-30 December in Berlin) - presenting a paper - and it would be great to meet up with any revolutionaries out there! NB - it's always a great conference and chance to meet up with and

Re: More on arrays

2005-12-08 Thread David Bovill
On 6 Dec 2005, at 20:09, Wouter wrote: Hi David, To base64Encode someArray first combine someArray. The problem is that this cannot be done in a general way (for marshalling arrays) - as you never know what characters to combine the array with (they might be present within the array)?

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-08 Thread David Bovill
On 7 Dec 2005, at 02:02, Dan Shafer wrote: Another thing that would surely help would be to get RunRev on Linux really cooking; so many of the young programmers I know and hear about are Linux-savvy. My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever succeeded interesting any truly

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-08 Thread David Bovill
On 7 Dec 2005, at 11:09, Heather Nagey wrote: Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see them there, and I wonder how many of them have

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-08 Thread David Bovill
On 8 Dec 2005, at 18:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: My experience too - it has been the only way I have ever succeeded interesting any truly bright under 25 year olds - the main thing that puts them off is the lack of an open source strategy. They go yeah this is great - but is it open

Re: Messages in setprop...

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
So you want a recursive setProp handler :) I have not tested this in a while (and there are a few little thins that don't work quite as expected with these - they do not return arrays for instance) - but I would try to avoid putting too much code in the setprop / getprop handlers and use

Re: jabber or other IM protocol

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Yes I have one from 2-3 years ago - should still work. Very cool to Jabber a whole stack live to another user :) On 4 Dec 2005, at 23:29, Andre Garzia wrote: Ben, there's an alpha library for MSN by Shao Sean, it's on her page at http://shaosean.tk Cheers andre On Dec 4, 2005, at

More on arrays

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Seem to remember that an array was binary data... - but base64Encode(someArray) doesn't give you anything? Anyway to get at the value of an array to dump / send it somewhere? That is without looping over everything as in previous post? ___

Re: Flame wars on the list...

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
On 6 Dec 2005, at 13:41, Heather Nagey wrote: This is a cease and desist notice, anyone who still has anything to say on the subject which has been going under the heading of Why isn't Rev more popular may send it to me off list, if they really feel they can't hit the delete button in

Marshalling Arrays

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Thought I'd post these scripts as they are related to the questions Xavier raised regarding using arrays and nesting... but first some comments and questions: 1) Marshalling menas packing some data into some format for sedning somewhere and then unpacking it at the other end. 2)

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 21:01, Dan Shafer wrote: I've been racking my brain the last 48 hours and I cannot come up with a single development tool company that has succeeded at doing this since Borland's very early days. I'd be delighted if someone could point me to a real exception to that

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 21:14, Dan Shafer wrote: As someone who has been playing in the software universe for far, far too long, I can tell you that: (a) your basic idea is attractive and workable (b) it is an economic disaster for the publisher Why? Because of something called SKUs. That stands

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:03, Mark Smith wrote: Dan, this is an innocent question, not intended to provoke or contradict, but where do you think Rev is currently falling down with regard to either pro developers or inventive users? Hard one to answer as RunRev do do a VERY good job at trying

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:02, Dan Shafer wrote: I have given up on this dream. In the 70's and 80's, several companies tried -- with true object-oriented platforms such as Smalltalk and Java -- to create viable third-party marketplaces for software components, to no avail. I know what you

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: 1) Lack of the large number of professional grade commercial plugins or open source libraries available compared to other platforms (this seems to be changing slowly). They're out there, just poorly cataloged

Spelling out openess

2005-11-24 Thread David Bovill
On 24 Nov 2005, at 05:01, Chipp Walters wrote: Finally, if my above interpretation of your first post is incorrect, then please accept my apology. Thanks for the kind comments (we cna all be sensitive). From my original post: Now of course for a small piece of code like this - well may

Re: Spelling out the license - protesting too much

2005-11-23 Thread David Bovill
I wish it were that simple! A couple of last points from me on this (I retreat humbly flamed): I have learned a couple of things from my stint working for Creative Commons UK and on prior commercial work making compilations of works - much of which was posted by the authors in the spirit

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-23 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 21:26, Marielle Lange wrote: David Bovill wrote: Government contracts do not require that all tools and code used is open source (I think this would not even be legal). Unfortunately, this is not clear. I have been in discussion with the guys of this project: http

Re: Spelling out the license - some geometry handlers

2005-11-23 Thread David Bovill
On 23 Nov 2005, at 12:36, Marielle Lange wrote: Likewise, I don't believe commercial developers are a threat to the open source movement. So why not change the license to Share alike rather than Share alike-Non commercial? Thanks for the comments - i agree. I have no real strong opinion on

Re: What I understand 'Open Source' to mean

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 21:38, Richard Gaskin wrote: But in terms of contracting with governments which require open source software, I think that leaves us out even if our part of a solution is open source since we, like Flash, Director, Toolbook, and xCode developers, rely on proprietary

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 21:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: But the bottom line for us Rev developers is that if a customer requires a truly open source solution then the source must be open -- that's not the case with Rev, Windows, or OS X, so it rules out solutions dependent on any of those

Re: SHA-1 algorithm in xTalk?

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 21:58, Alessandro Manotti wrote: On 11/21/05, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SSL libraries that RunRev uses should be able to do this - and I would have thought considerably faster than a native and possibly less secure Transcript implementation - no? What do

Re: Object Orientation in arrays

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 08:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how to handle these, that's not the problem. Im wondering if there isn't a better way to handle the arrays and/or which is easier to manage... Not with arrays - I don't think they are up to handling the complex nesting required.

Re: SHA-1 algorithm in xTalk?

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
Thanks! On 22 Nov 2005, at 12:22, Wouter wrote: Which is easy to do with shell() and openssl. SHA-1 has been compromised too. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2927 etc. Bummer isn't it :)

Re: Object Orientation in arrays

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, The thing with XUL or the basis for this question is to just translate XML type data or streams of data to memory for faster management I also tried to work with xml in a recent project and as soon as i had 500 objects in

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 22:03, Mathewson wrote: I believe that it would, ultimately, be in RR's interest to release a FREE (as in totally free) version of RR for Linux - possibly modified from current Linux RR versions so that it cannot be used to manufacture standalones for commercial platforms.

Re: Object Orientation in arrays

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
I thought this would be your baby :) On 22 Nov 2005, at 13:49, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: Hi David, Do you talk about mapping of XML document into database ? Yes. Any nested level of XML can be simulated on self-recursive table. I just love recursion :) Generally speaking any XML document

Re: [slightly OT] using sudo -S via shell

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 13:58, Ton Kuypers wrote: Couldn't get it to work, but found a much better solution on http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html; Now I just create an AppleScript and run it, works like a charm :-) Thanks for the pointer! Something like this (not tested):

Re: Object Orientation in arrays

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 15:23, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: Would be great to have an example of this for / with your documentation - it is not an easy concept to grasp without a good example? Easy in fact, e.g. Something as Single Table Kind{ element, attribute, .. } Name Value

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-22 Thread David Bovill
On 22 Nov 2005, at 16:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xara http://www.xara.com/ ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
Linux support is not about how many desktops you can sell applications to - it is about the quality of developers you can attract, and the ability to deliver intranet, and government contracts (at least here in Europe) which specify support for open platforms. It is also about being able

Re: SHA-1 algorithm in xTalk?

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
No but I need it badly for digital signatures! Don't think anyone knows about this though :( On 19 Nov 2005, at 03:10, Phil Davis wrote: I don't know much about hashes - is SHA-1 enough better than Rev's md5digest to warrant paying someone to do it? Or will md5digest do what you need?

Re: ANN: TreeView in Revolution!!

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
There are 3 or four sketches around but none which i have found that are what I would call finished objects - or truely general purpose. I guess there are many people on the list who have rolled their own custom solutions as it is relatively easy to do that in Rev. I am working on a tree

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 16:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: Maybe only 1-2% of your typical desktop customers will be using linux - but I personally would not be using Revolution without good Linux support for the reasons above. And the Brazilian government's policy is

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 17:16, Richard Gaskin wrote: Depends on the license requirements, doesn't it? That is, even if I inherit enough wealth to be able to afford the luxury of working for free, at the end of the day the RunRev engine isn't open source so it's not possible for me to deliver

Re: SHA-1 algorithm in xTalk?

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
The SSL libraries that RunRev uses should be able to do this - and I would have thought considerably faster than a native and possibly less secure Transcript implementation - no? On 21 Nov 2005, at 17:35, Alessandro Manotti wrote: Sorry if I introduce myself in this posts. Please note

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 17:49, Mathewson wrote: What might be rather a good idea is if people in the know (i.e. Richard Gaskin, RR staff members, or the people involved in the MC IDE development) made an explicit statement as to what is FREE (as in totally and utterly free), what is SEMI-FREE (Um ?)

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
Hoping you would reply :) On 21 Nov 2005, at 18:00, Andre Garzia wrote: That's what happens when goverment decides to migrate itself to linux without thinking that in the Real world, people might need proprietary platforms, the zealots excuse is: if we all move, we'll create momentum to

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 19:20, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mathewson wrote: Now, maybe I'm wrong, but . . . I believe that it is perfectly legal to download the Metacard IDE, download a copy of DC/RR, and then transfer the RR engine across to the Metacard IDE. Correct. However, note that since your

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 19:19, Mathewson wrote: My wife is Bulgarian, her father was ina Communist prison camp . . . Goli Otok? Earliert his year I went to Sofia (Capital of Bulgaria) and listened to Richard Stallman, and reached the follwoing conclusions: 1. He is a long-haired hippy rather

Re: [OT] Web Services Dead? Don't Tell Amazon

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 20:08, Dan Shafer wrote: During our recent thread on thin-client vs. desktop apps, several people suggested that Web Services were passe, outre and otherwise obsolete and deadsville. Someone forgot to tell amazon.com. They announced not one, not two, but three totally

Spelling out the license - some geometry handlers

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
Agreed On 21 Nov 2005, at 19:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: The license is the best place to start. The MC IDE license spells out its own terms, and points to the Rev license which governs the engine. As an example: Some recent code I have been working on trying to formalise the exact

Re: [OT] Web Services Dead? Don't Tell Amazon

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
On 21 Nov 2005, at 20:30, Jan Schenkel wrote: However, I still don't think that letting the server do all the work while your computer is sitting there as a glorified VT100 terminal, is the optimal design of a distributed application. Let the server do what it's best at: serve shared data ; and

Re: Spelling out the license - some geometry handlers

2005-11-21 Thread David Bovill
Sorry some bug fixes - sure they can be improved sped up? License This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-18 Thread David Bovill
On 17 Nov 2005, at 00:52, Alex Tweedly wrote: I have good confidence in the sanctity of my laptop, so I'm happy to use it, even over public wifi access, because all the traffic is ssh-secured end-to-end. But using a web cafe, or kiosk, public Internet access at a library, etc. all put me

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-18 Thread David Bovill
On 17 Nov 2005, at 04:46, Dan Shafer wrote: Pricing models will change. We'll see pay-per-use, pay-per-month, pay-per-file, pay-per-K and other similar models. When it's not necessary for the manufacturer to package, distribute, sell, track, upgrade and otherwise deal with thousands and

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-15 Thread David Bovill
On 14 Nov 2005, at 20:53, Dan Shafer wrote: Agreed. That and security are the issues and they have been more than adequately addressed for a long time now. The omigod my data isn't on my own server alarm is a red herring. Any company that sees the advantage in distributed browser-based

Re: MC/RR and QT movies on Linux

2005-11-15 Thread David Bovill
Better still would be cross platform VLC? On 15 Nov 2005, at 08:14, Mathewson wrote: I am just about to see what can be done with OpenQuicktime ( http://www.openquicktime.org/ ) as it M I G H T be the answer to bl**dy xanim. Those of you who haven't blotted your copybook with the folks at

Re: Rev Image libraries

2005-11-14 Thread David Bovill
that are duplicated in groups in stacks - luckily they all have the same name - sometimes you just have to cope with other peoples mess :) Anyone got an Icon Tool or organiser that I can use / add this stuff to? On 10 Nov 2005, at 22:12, David Bovill wrote: function rev_MyImageLibraries put

Re: Safe (icon) image IDs

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 11 Nov 2005, at 21:17, Scott Rossi wrote: But this reminds me of a Stupid Web Trick™ that I use in situations where I want to grab something from the Web, but for whatever reason the link is inaccessible from my browser (or Rev in this case). STEP 1 - open your favorite text editor STEP

Re: frappr map

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 12 Nov 2005, at 08:06, Pierre Sahores wrote: About AJAX, just a work in progress using ka-map, mapscript, mapserver (to get from www.maptools.org and http:// www.kyngchaos.com/macosx/downloads.php, a runtime revolution glue application's server (not online at this time), a MySQL

Re: download and Mime problems (was RE: Safe (icon) image IDs)

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Nov 2005, at 18:54, MisterX wrote: Could this help? It seems free... and open source ;) http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/mime-editor/ Looks like Linux only - freedesktop. Rox is cool though :) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Nov 2005, at 05:24, Sivakatirswami wrote: Actually he was talking about a very much larger framework/standard where Warner Brothers was thinking if they did it that way then everyone could talk to their accounting via web services, banks, vendors... etc everyone... i.e. the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Nov 2005, at 20:45, Sivakatirswami wrote: For these people, as Chipp said, productivity is the most important issue, with nearly 500 publications a year to get out the door, some of the weeklies, its time to get real, and the glitter of the web service has finally worn off, get the

Re: Safe (icon) image IDs

2005-11-11 Thread David Bovill
Can't download - can you give me the url of the download page? Thanx On 11 Nov 2005, at 05:00, MisterX wrote: http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=82 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Safe (icon) image IDs

2005-11-11 Thread David Bovill
go url http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php? name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=82 Returns no such card I cannot save link as from my email client as far as I can tell - and wget does not seem to be installed on my laptop here - leaving me the option of writing a local html file with the link and

kwote

2005-11-11 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for the improvements Sarah! On 11 Nov 2005, at 04:17, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Yes, it works for me (Mac OS X 10.4.3) but I prefer to let Rev do the work of finding the correct path for AppleScript. Also I have never used the merge function and can't really see why it is needed. Here is

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 00:38, Dan Shafer wrote: I almost labeled this post off-topic since our purpose here is to discuss how to use Revolution. But I decided on balance that it affects everyone here, so I left off the [OT]. I've just posted a blog entry at http://www.eclecticity.com/.

Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 03:03, Alex Tweedly wrote: Sorry about the problems. I find it's one of the biggest problems with Rev's live IDE style - it's so hard to ensure that you are properly emulating a cold start. Not at all - thanks for sharing it!

Basic focus issue!

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Not that i am not focussed or anything - just these pesky Rev fields :) With the Address Book I am trying to deal really properly with their edibility - click on them and they change appearance (come to the front) click elsewhere and they fade back into the background. The problem with

Re: pull down menu

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Yeah - I don't know how to do it either :) On 10 Nov 2005, at 14:23, Dominik Hruza wrote: Hello, i just started working with the program designing the interface for an adressbook i want to get rid of the 3D effect in the menu of a pull down button, but set a background color and so on

Basic focus issue - solved!

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
on mouseEnter set the lockText of me to false end mouseEnter on mouseLeave set the lockText of me to true end mouseLeave on openField set the backgroundColor of me to red --pass focusIn end openField on focusIn set the backgroundColor of me to red --pass focusIn end focusIn

Re: how to reject a mouse

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Did a quick experiment - try putting this script in a scrolling field: on mouseDown if the autohilite of me is true then put the params end if end mouseDown on mouseUp if the autohilite of me is true then put the params end if end mouseUp and then changing the

Re: Basic focus issue - slight fix!

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
-- to prevent rapid mouse movements making rev think the target is the card or something else... -- probably even better / safer to give all the fields a custom property and check that on mouseEnter put the long id of the target into focussedRecord if word 1 of focussedRecord is

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 18:50, Dan Shafer wrote: Once again, your view is limited to what now is rather than to what can and will emerge. Software is an ecosystem. Today, if you took your blogging tool and made an AJAX version, you might well see yourself being forced to create a massive and

Re: Rev and the Disappearing Desktop: A Focus Shift

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 20:37, Dan Shafer wrote: Absolutely. I see two possible applications for Rev in the emerging world of AJAX and RIA development. First, there's what you suggest here, Andre: the creation of a tool for building such apps. Now there's a very interesting paradox here

Rev Image libraries

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Anyone got a handy little function for getting the file or stack names of all the rev image libraries: grocking this now - if that's the right terminology? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Rev Image libraries

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Not quite sure this gets them all - seem to be some things missing here compared to the rev image library drop down? On 10 Nov 2005, at 22:03, David Bovill wrote: Anyone got a handy little function for getting the file or stack names of all the rev image libraries: grocking this now

Revealing a folder on Mac

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
on folder_Open someFolder replace / with : in someFolder put line 1 of the volumes into startUpDisk -- Macintosh HD:Applications:Revolution 2.6.1: put startUpDisk before someFolder put tell application kwote(Finder) into someAppleScript put return activate after

Re: Revealing a folder on Mac

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
Sorry: function kwote string return quote string quote end kwote On 11 Nov 2005, at 00:34, Dan Shafer wrote: David NOt without some understanding of what kwote does. Dan On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:28 PM, David Bovill wrote: on folder_Open someFolder replace

Safe (icon) image IDs

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
If I am creating a library of icons-is there a way of ensuring that the ids are unique - keep getting icon clashes ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-09 Thread David Bovill
On 6 Nov 2005, at 19:52, woodywoodpecker wrote: Do you use Applescript or have you find a way to read the AddressBook.data?? AppleScript. Also it reads and writes to a shared LDAP address book and I am trying to figure out a simple way to store xtra metadata in the Apple Address Book

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-09 Thread David Bovill
I'd be interested in this for the Address Book app I'm working on. Not addressed the issue of data synchronisation in any depth yet... On 8 Nov 2005, at 18:22, Dave LeYanna wrote: I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available and

Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-09 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for posting this Alex - word of warning and feature request for RunRev - or is as ever there a way I haven't spotted? First the warning - downloading the stack Networked Address Book from revOnline automatically asked me to locate x,y, z - can't remember - to which I naturally said

Re: [OTAnn] Feedback - take care!

2005-11-08 Thread David Bovill
Personally - i don't like the feel of this. Web app on site requires you to trust certificate and therefore presumably give you access to all your emails. Marketing to a list like this, without including so much as a url, or anything that looks like a real name - well to be frank the

Re: List fields and linktext

2005-11-06 Thread David Bovill
arrays. Pity Rev strips out extra tag information when setting the htmlText of a field or you could really link and store lots of useful info along side the displayed text. On 6 Nov 2005, at 00:35, David Bovill wrote: Is there a way to have list fields work when the lines have the linkText

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
- the scripts I have for vCal, vCard are no way complete, aim to move onto that after Wednesday. Would be great to merge the two libraries - but see note below. On 4 Nov 2005, at 18:32, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: I am working on both cVard, vCal and Apple Address Book

Virtual custom property question

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
If I set the custom property of a control from somewhere else - lets say: set the display_Colour of group 1 to red And this group has defined an appropriate setprop handler - say: setprop display_Colour someColour set the bgColor of btn 1 of me to someColour end

Re: Virtual custom property question

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
On 5 Nov 2005, at 16:43, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi David, You could use the mouseControl (see in the docs) but I'm not sure it would be really safe in all cases. Depends of your layout. So, you could implement a stack custom property to retrieve the last clicked control: would be safer :-)

Re: My Prototype update!

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
Yes - great case study and congratulations! On 5 Nov 2005, at 20:42, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Comments: WoW, Revolution really made my job easier, It has been robust and simple and has out shined Director for this project. We can really use Revolution to further help us in this process

Re: Virtual custom property question

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
Wow thanks - new one to me... why is it not documented? Are there others like this hidden somewhere? On 5 Nov 2005, at 23:28, Ken Ray wrote: executionContexts ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

List fields and linktext

2005-11-05 Thread David Bovill
Is there a way to have list fields work when the lines have the linkText property set? Hacked at the moment with scripting the hilitedLine ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-04 Thread David Bovill
On 4 Nov 2005, at 16:58, Stephen Barncard wrote: iCal uses an industry standard format - and it's XML. The files live in the library somewhere... Not quite - iCal uses the vCal standard. Recent version of iCal uses XML based pList files to created indexes of the wierdly named files - but

Re: Geometry Question

2005-11-01 Thread David Bovill
On 30 Oct 2005, at 20:16, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just roll your own and move on to more interesting challenges. OK - thanks Richard. Have reverted to your suggestion for complex layouts. Pity though Geometry Manager is a real time saver - I often spend a good percentage of my time on a

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