Re: Globals and namespaces for Rev.

2005-06-13 Thread Dennis Brown
I am not familiar with namespaces in other languages, but having just become aware that globals in anyones different project stacks (that I happen to load into DreamCard at the same time) can interfere with each other --I am appalled! I don't want to have to come up with a new name for the

Re: reading from a file

2005-06-12 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jun 12, 2005, at 1:06 PM, John Ridge wrote: I've tried another method that I thought might be faster - instead of reading a chunk at a time and popping it into a field on a new card, why not gulp the whole file into a variable, then get each item as a chunk? In fact it's slower. Ah

Watch out for Variable Watcher context [was 2.6 then going back to 2.5]

2005-06-10 Thread Dennis Brown
? Bugzilla? Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: The reason I was so confused, was that when I hit debug in the error window, it showed me the line, but the variable watcher was in a different context which had the global listed but did not have j listed. Typing

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-10 Thread Dennis Brown
Now why didn't I think of that. It's so simple! Leave it to Rev to be able to script a complex problem in a simple way. However, I think the points should be two lines bubble and tanked --and we haven't got to the end of the tanked line yet. Dennis On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Mark Wieder

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
Geoff, I also just took out the hour 'if' statement in yours, so that minutes and hours are updated together after only 10 seconds from start. The extra time for doing the hours every ten seconds is trivial. Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:40

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
Rob, Yes I did. Both seem to work if you don't have parameters. But as I posted, the call is not required to get the proper functionality. Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Hi Dennis, Nonworking script in field PN1: on mouseUp call SaveMeTxt end mouseUp Did

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
Geoff, It does have a certain elegance to it --and it preserves the subject header of 17 LINES of CODE ;-) The 3 MINUTES has grown just a tad to get it to it's current evolution. I just don't like the long math line to get the hours straight -- could there be a simpler way? Now all we

Watch out for 2.6 then going back to 2.5

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
I switched to 2.6 for a few hours, and during that time I made some edits and saved a stack I have been working on for some months. I switched back to 2.5.1 due to bugs so I could continue development on my stack. The stack acts goofy now. Here is a snippet of code: repeat with j=1 to 20

Ignore this message: Test of threading theory

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
This is just a test to see if a theory I have about Mac OS X Mail.app threading is true. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this is the only way I know to test it. I will report about it if it turns out to be true. Dennis ___ use-revolution

A reason for threading errors in Mail.app

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who replies to messages, I have noticed that Mail.app seems to put seemingly unrelated threads into an existing thread at times. I think I see a possible explanation for this. In addition to the usual method of looking at the subject text, I think

Re: Watch out for 2.6 then going back to 2.5

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
I don't waste more time, and I get a good stack. Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: I switched to 2.6 for a few hours, and during that time I made some edits and saved a stack I have been working on for some months. I switched back to 2.5.1 due to bugs so I could

Re: A reason for threading errors in Mail.app

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
acknowledge this bug. No, I don't. They'd call it a feature. On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who replies to messages, I have noticed that Mail.app seems to put seemingly unrelated threads into an existing thread at times. I think I see

Re: A reason for threading errors in Mail.app

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
Alex, If this is a standard, then as a point of etiquette, members of a list should a start new topic as a new mail message and not as a reply to an unrelated thread. Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: Dan and Mac Mail.app users and anyone who

Re: Watch out for 2.6 then going back to 2.5

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
this mistake. Thank you for the help. I am sorry to have caused you any inconvenience. My apologies to 2.6 for being accused of a crime it did not commit. Thank goodness I can recover from this. Dennis On Jun 9, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: I could use some

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-09 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Using the long id of the target will provide an absolute reference to the specific object, but I'm not sure why simply the target doesn't return the same value. Hmmm makes the target rather less useful, unless there's a benefit to

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
Geoff, Your new idea gave me an idea. Make three handlers --one for each hand (I hope I got the hour math straight) You can find it in my user space (see3d). Dennis on openCard setSeconds; setMinutes; setHours end openCard on setSeconds send setSeconds to me in 1-(the long seconds mod

Re: 'seeing' arrays in the variable watcher

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
I am running Tiger, and when I try this with 2.6 the Arrays show up in the Variable watcher window as promised. There must be something else going on. I ran the script with a breakpoint at the end. The variable watcher lower pane split in two to show the key on the left and the values

Call vs Send

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
I have two versions of a script. The first uses an implicit send and works. The second uses a call and does not work. I was trying to simplify and expand my scripting abilities with call, but I must be missing something, because I can't see what is wrong with it. I appreciate any

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
are manageable. Perhaps you should be prepared to make sure nobody else makes this mistake in your tutorial. Thanks, Dennis On Jun 8, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: I have two versions of a script. The first uses an implicit send and works. The second

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
a script that pass the name and group to the handler, but I wanted to make it even simpler and just call the routine without generating a parameter to pass. Thanks, Dennis On Jun 8, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: I have two versions

Re: Call vs Send

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
Thanks Robert,Dick,Dar,Richard,, --empty item at end of list in case I forgot anyone ;-) That is the answer I need. In my button or field script I can just put: on mouseUp --this was actually called by another button and not actually clicked on by me DoMyFieldScript --couldn't be

Re: Watching my Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Dennis Brown
Derek, I ran into the same problem. I solved it with the do command do put myVariableNameIsInHere Dennis On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Derek Bump wrote: I am updating my Error Reporting script to include all variable information (Local, Global, etc) and I am wondering how I would get the

Re: Processes keep running in Windows after quit

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
Good point, I just upgraded my clock in user space (see3d) to have a graceful stop when closed. Dennis On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: When I close a Rev 2.5.1 standalone in Windows using the close box in the top-right

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
if (the angle of grc Minute) it then set the angle of grc Minute to it set the angle of grc Second to 450 - (6 * T[3]) send setTime to me in 1 - (the long seconds mod 1) seconds end setTime On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: Good catch. As was pointed out before, trunc(T

Re: Economics Eye Candy

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
There are two classes of problems to solve. 1. Develop commercial applications for others to use to solve a problem without knowing how it is done. 2. Write your own tools to solve your own problems. Number 1 is hard and requires a lot of expertise. The user is delighted with a custom

Re: Revolution 2.6 Tiger Unleashed

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have only been using 2.6 for a few hours now, not trying to do anything any different than I usually do, but it has goofed up on me in various strange ways every 15 minutes or so. I am having to got to revert very often to recover. This is much

Re: Bug or new feature? - It's A Big Bug!

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
Of course my scripts are failing also. I write a lot of if it is empty then exit mouseUp I traced through this and found that the it variable appeared to be empty after I hit Cancel. However, the if empty would fail. When I manually select the contents of the it variable in the variable

Re: Bug or new feature? - It's A Big Bug!

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
Is there a different, parallel path to notify RunRev of something a serious as this so they can get started on it right away? Dennis On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Of course my scripts are failing also. I write a lot of if it is empty then exit mouseUp I traced through

Re: Bug or new feature? - It's A Big Bug!

2005-06-07 Thread Dennis Brown
It says don't send them bugs, but you can pay big buck to get help from them. I am not one of the big buck guys --just DreamCard. Dennis On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Of course my scripts are failing

Re: Database saved as custom property

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
John, I believe we are still limited to about 2GB of total stack size at present according to recent posts. Dennis On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi John, on 6/6/05 1:11 pm, Signe Marie Sanne wrote : Hello, Since someone a week ago said he had not ventured into

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
of T) send setTime to me in 1-(the long seconds mod 1) seconds end setTime Let me know if you see an issue with that. gc On May 30, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: That is a good point. I tested it out, and the useless set angle results in about 70ms of wasted time every second (7

Re: Transitive?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Transitive is real. I have been watching them for several years waiting for the realization of a commercial application of it. It is real cool. Checkout their web site. This would make a lot of sense for Apple. They could switch to different processors at the low, mid, and high ends

Re: Transitive?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Richard, That is what they do --take an app running on one OS and one chip and make it run on another OS and another chip. No trivial task, but they can do it. The face of software development may be about to open up to all platforms, and the face of hardware development opening up to

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Apple will win big in one sense. Apple will not have to put energy into an alternative processor path that may or may not perform as well as other Intel based PCs. Apple will be able to get a free ride in this area and the MegaHertz Processor War will no longer be an issue. By breaking

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
If it took changing 20 lines of code out of one million, and it took 20 minutes to do this without any training on what to do before hand to make Mathematica run on the new architecture, that must be a lot easier than changing to run on a New Advanced yet to be announced version of a Power

Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
I don't think you are understanding what Rosetta is. It reads the binary of one machine and Compiles it on the fly into the binary of a new machine. The result is the the new machine is not interpreting the other machines instruction set, but conceptually recompiling at the binary level

Re: who's out there?

2005-06-06 Thread Dennis Brown
The business model that I would like to see is REALbasic. Started as cheap shareware ($25 I think). Everybody bought a copy whether they needed one or not (I did). New releases came out about twice a week --new features and bug fixes. Few complained, because they could see active work

Re: who's out there?

2005-06-05 Thread Dennis Brown
Jon, I am retired. I decided to use Rev as my language of choice for doing all those programming projects that I never had time to get to before (ha,ha, I'm busier now than ever). My project list is varied from home automation to food databases, and I do conceive of free distribution

Re: OT: but interesting to Mac users

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Also what about the superiority of the G5 ?? The amazing server- farm supercomputers, etc. Can't these guys find another source for G5 chips? Sure they can... Intel Dennis ___ use-revolution

Re: bug

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
I hate to break in here, but just 10 minutes ago, I wanted to delete a custom property from a field. I selected the property in the inspector (it was the first one and it was highlighted), I hit delete, return (did not read the are you sure box very carefully) and every custom property

Re: bug

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
the trash can icons instead. Important: use the UPPER trash can to delete single properties, use the LOWER trash can to delete property sets. The Delete key is just too vague sometimes with multiple hilites all over the place. At 1:00 PM -0400 6/4/05, Dennis Brown wrote: I hate to break in here

Re: A slightly disturbing problem about items

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
I've finally determined that item delimiters come after the item. The last item of a list does not have to have a delimiter --it is optional if no more characters in the list. To keep out of trouble, and make cleanup of the last delimiter unnecessary, I always keep the trailing delimiter

Re: bug

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
It is because of issues like this that I have instituted several habits to protect myself from the IDE. 1. After I create a field or group etc. I select the can't delete option. 2. After I initially place an object, I select the lock size and position option. 3. Before trying a major

Re: bug

2005-06-04 Thread Dennis Brown
don't trust the IDE as far as I can throw it. Sigh. Jon Dennis Brown wrote: On Jun 4, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Jon wrote: Dennis: You said lots of cracks in the IDE. I'd have to agree. I've given up on saving scripts, and now only delete/kill the script editors. That way I'm SURE to see

Re: Rev. User Groups in the USA?

2005-06-03 Thread Dennis Brown
I am in Asheville, NC --which is in the same basic neighborhood, but much prettier and cooler than Hotlanta ;-) I could get interested if it were not too far from here. Dennis On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Ray Bennett wrote: I'm in Pennsylvania. I have 2 others working with me and could

Re: table hints

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
Jon, I just downloaded this stack and took the table tutorial. It is excellent... So Smart Software (http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/) today announces the availability of... Tutorials Picker 1.0 - Real time access to the So Smart Software tutorials Tutorials Picker interfaces with

Property Table Type Doc Index for all entries

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
After using the Properties of Objects (POO) stack a bit, it occurs to me that this might be an efficient way to organize an index into all the entries in the dictionary. I find it a lot easier to learn by doing than reading a novel first. However, it helps to have some hints about what

Re: progress bars

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
Jon, Yes it is a scrollbar. You are looking for the thumbPosition. Download the Properties of Objects stack from my user area in revOnline (see3d) for an easy index into the dictionary. Dennis On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Jon wrote: I can't find any documentation on Progress Bars. I

Re: Find numeric ? Help needed !

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
The only other thing to consider is that the number will be converted to a string which may suppress leading or trailing zeros in a number that can affect a string type search as opposed to a numerical comparison. Dennis On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 2:31 PM

Re: Property Table Type Doc Index for all entries

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
Xavier, Yes, I have visited your TAOO site several times. It sounds interesting, but it is beyond my simple understanding. It sounds like you are proposing something like DEVONthink Pro (which I use a lot), but I am not really sure. You propose to conquer the world of information

[ANN] Property List Table version 4 --Final??? for Rev 2.5.1

2005-06-01 Thread Dennis Brown
in the left column (this feature needs a fast machine) --Added enterKey and returnKey to open the docs --Put all code into the card's script Dennis On May 31, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Oops, one more try at the final version. ___ use-revolution

Re: Access to MySQL convert

2005-06-01 Thread Dennis Brown
Ben, How many years experience do you have with email? How many years experience do you have with programming? How many years experience do you have with life? I guess you are no more than 15 based on your emails and have not had enough experience to understand many of life's complexities.

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-05-31 Thread Dennis Brown
I can't say that I would make the tradeoff of the extra lines of code for a few microseconds, but I really like the split idea --it shows another concept in a simple way and makes the script look even simpler. I updated my clock with it. Good thinking! Dennis On May 31, 2005, at 12:55

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-05-31 Thread Dennis Brown
] send setTime2 to me in 1-(the long seconds mod 1) seconds --time left to next second --put (((the long seconds)-ST)*100)% cpu end setTime2 On May 31, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On May 31, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: I can't say that I would make the tradeoff

Re: [ANN] Property List Table version 3 --Final for Rev 2.5.1

2005-05-31 Thread Dennis Brown
to work well as a plug- in item. Please let me know if anyone else has a problem with it's operation. It is available from my revOnline user space (see3d). Dennis On May 29, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: All, My final version of the Properties of Objects table is complete

Re: Yet Another Clock

2005-05-31 Thread Dennis Brown
Scott, This is a very visually appealing display. My only critical feedback is that the hour hand needs to advance one point every 5 minutes. Otherwise, I have a hard time telling what time it is when it is close to the hour. Dennis On May 31, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: At the

Re: [ANN] Property List Table version 3 --Final for Rev 2.5.1

2005-05-31 Thread Dennis Brown
of the revdocs in the Dictionary section. Hope this helps. -Chipp Dennis Brown wrote: DB I would like to add one more feature, but I don't have a clue how to DB do this. I would like it to cause the documentation window in the DB IDE to search for the def of a property when I click

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-05-30 Thread Dennis Brown
I love this clock example. Just so simple. You guys are great! I could not resist seeing how the thinking was progressing and took it to the next step. Fewer lines, more accuracy (I have often noted that the simplest most elegant solutions take the most time to create and the least

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-05-30 Thread Dennis Brown
to me in (1 - (the long seconds mod 1)) seconds end setTime As before, the stack is available by executing this in the message box: go stack url http://www.inspiredlogic.com/rev/clock.rev; On May 30, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: I love this clock example. Just so simple. You guys

Re: here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

2005-05-30 Thread Dennis Brown
, at 2:21 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On May 30, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: Nice! I learn something every minute on this list --four heads are better than one. I do believe that the clock is down to its essence now. Every line does something essential, except displaying the Time

Re: Coding challenge?

2005-05-30 Thread Dennis Brown
On May 30, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I would like to see something graphic or animation based but would probably learn more from an SQL or XML challenge. You guys always blow me away with MOD and TRUNC etc. Since math is not to my advantage, I am rather visual in nature.

[ANN] Property List Table version 3 --Final for Rev 2.5.1

2005-05-29 Thread Dennis Brown
All, My final version of the Properties of Objects table is complete and available from my revOnline user space (see3d). It is now a significantly useful resource. Click on any object type in the column and the table will resort to show those properties first. Click on any property

Re: [ANN] Property List Table

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Brown
PM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt my scripts would be a model of superb Transcript. Perhaps someone can take a look at it and suggest better ways of doing this simple table task. It seemed very clunky to me for the way I figured out how to click on the header rows for a sort

Re: Rev difficulty

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Brown
Ben, Perhaps nobody has ever explained to you about capitals and emotions in emails. I will give it a try... We humans convey much of the emotional meaning of our words with body language and inflections in our speech. This is natural and easy when we meet face to face. However, in

[ANN] Property List Table version 2

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Brown
... Dennis On May 28, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: Thanks Ken, I will rewrite it once more using what I learned from your comments (and Richard's) to clean it up (in my own developing style) since others may look at it to learn from. One thing is that it is too big

Custom property list table

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
Hi all, I would like to have a table of all custom properties by name along the left column and all the object types across the top row with a checkmark in each box if the property is used for that object. I wanted to print it out and paste it on the wall in front of me. I am sure such

Re: Custom property list table

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
to. It seems incredible that nobody has done this before. Dennis On May 27, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 5/27/05 7:47 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I would like to have a table of all custom properties by name along the left column and all the object types across the top

Re: Problems Cutting and Pasting Objects

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
This problem has been driving me crazy also. When I go into a locked position group and cut something from a script, then back out of the and go into another locked group and paste into another script, nothing happens. The paste buffer is empty. My data is missing! Argh!!! I finally

Re: Problems Cutting and Pasting Objects

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
since years: Eric, never repeat any statement anywhere ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 27 mai 05 à 18:15, Dennis Brown a écrit : This problem has been driving me crazy also. When I go into a locked position group and cut something from a script, then back out of the and go

Re: [INFO] Javascript Colors list

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
See the color names in the quick references of the help menu Dennis On May 27, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I have been looking for a list of standardized RGB color names to use in REV for a while. Today I stumbled on a Javascript FAQ site and came across a nice list of names.

Re: Problems Cutting and Pasting Objects

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
, Dennis Brown a écrit : Eric, You are right and I also try to do this whenever I can. However, I have some time critical loops that recur for which I do not want to incur the overhead of calling a handler. But in the case I cited, I was actually in the process of moving handlers to consolidate

Property list table help

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
the properties of pObj into tPropArray put the keys of tPropArray into tProps sort tProps return tProps end ObjBuiltInProps May be help you. Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 27 mai 05 à 16:16, Dennis Brown a écrit : Yes, I meant built-in not custom properties. I guess I should wake up

[ANN] Property List Table

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
All, A quick Guide to Properties for every object type is available from my (see3d) RevOnline user space for any who are interested. Dennis On May 27, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Thanks Eric, I used what you sent here to create a stack that displays the properties of objects

Re: [ANN] Property List Table

2005-05-27 Thread Dennis Brown
clear English. I think I can find a way to do that. Dennis On May 27, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: A quick Guide to Properties for every object type is available from my (see3d) RevOnline user space for any who are interested. Dennis, that rocks

Re: delete last card problems

2005-05-22 Thread Dennis Brown
Bob, You could do this by going through a loop to clear each field on the card: repeat with c=1 to the number of controls in card 1 get the name of control c --button btnName if word 2 of it is quotelabel fieldquote then next repeat -- filter out any label fields if word 1 of

Re: is it true ?

2005-05-21 Thread Dennis Brown
On May 19, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: If we all make an effort to fix stuff or add examples to the web notes, perhaps everyone, even those not on this list will benefit. H - I think I'd agree with Phil Davis from an earlier thread on the topic

Re: Could this list be a forum/bulletin board?

2005-05-21 Thread Dennis Brown
I finally figured out how to manage this barrage of emails in my in- box from this list. I just have my mail.app program send them all to a RevList mail box that I read with threads on. Now I can find the other emails I get in my in-box. I don't know why I did not think of this before. I

Re: words in Transcript

2005-05-21 Thread Dennis Brown
Ton, word is just a term that means everything between the word delimiter which is usually set to a space character. So this is the way it is supposed to work. You could have searched for a string called or called. Dennis On May 21, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Melitón Cardona Torres wrote:

Re: undo insertion into group

2005-05-20 Thread Dennis Brown
Eric, This is exactly what I want to do, but it did not work. On May 20, 2005, at 2:16 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Bob, Buttons, fields, images, graphics, scrollbars, players and groups are controls: put the number of controls repeat for each control tControl in this card I want to get the name

Re: is it true ?

2005-05-19 Thread Dennis Brown
A good use of the Web Notes feature to correct the doc. Dennis On May 19, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 11:09 AM +0100 5/19/05, Alex Tweedly wrote: and (asin(2) = 1) does not cause an error: since (1 = 1) is always false, the whole statement is always false and Revolution

Re: is it true ?

2005-05-19 Thread Dennis Brown
On May 19, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: A good use of the Web Notes feature to correct the doc. Dennis Good idea - one of these days I'll remember the Web Notes feature myself. When I went to do it, someone had been there before me - so Thank You, whoever you were

Re: Printing Field Borders

2005-05-16 Thread Dennis Brown
On 5/12/05 2:19 AM, Timothy Due wrote: Anyway, one problem I have been having is getting field borders to print properly. I have read in these archives that when field borders are butted-up together that can cause problems, but I am even having problems in cases where the fields are not

Re: -1 as last item problem

2005-05-14 Thread Dennis Brown
, list is now 5 items get item 1 to (number of items of it) --get all the items of it has left off one item, list is now 4 items get item 1 to -1 of it --get all the items of it has left off one item, list is now 3 items Dennis On May 14, 2005, at 1:54 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 5/13/05 8:08 PM, Dennis

Re: Threading suggestion for RunRev

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Brown
Xavier, I agree with you completely. I added my votes to it. Why did you not vote for it yourself? Dennis On May 13, 2005, at 12:27 PM, MisterX wrote: Hi everyone, I posted a new bugzilla enhancement Add Threaded messaging and or execution in Transcript

Re: Threading suggestion for RunRev

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Brown
the priorities for bug fixes, it will just skew the priorities away from your preferences. Dennis On May 13, 2005, at 1:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reluctant to vote for ANY enhancement until more of the existing bugs are resolved. Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Dennis

-1 as last item problem

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Brown
I have some data that looks like this: 1,ABT,N,510,,Y 3,AMT,N,836,, 22,AL,N,132,F,Y as you can see, each line has exactly 6 items. if I do the following: put item 1 to 6 of line 1 of data I get this: 1,ABT,N,510,,Y 3,AMT,N,836,, 22,AL,N,132,F,Y If I do the following: put item 1 to -1 of line 1 of

Re: -1 as last item problem

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Brown
, Dennis Brown wrote: Notice the missing last comma on the second line. It does not matter how many commas I append, it will always leave off the last one unless there is another character at the end. Unless I do not understand how this is supposed to work, this is a bug. Yes? I believe

Re: Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-07 Thread Dennis Brown
On May 6, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by folks trying

Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Brian, This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by folks trying to learn Rev are the result of wrong or missing documentation.

Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
[I am resending this message, because it seems to have been lost in the mail] Brian, This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by

Re: Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
, at 11:01 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: [I am resending this message, because it seems to have been lost in the mail] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Cursor issues in Tiger

2005-05-05 Thread Dennis Brown
I also noticed that the cursor is getting stuck with the wrong ones. Dennis On May 5, 2005, at 11:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS X users, Is anyone else having this problem: After installing Tiger (17 Al PB, 1 gig) the pointer seems to stick. It doesn't change mode when moving to different

Re: Cursor issues in Tiger

2005-05-05 Thread Dennis Brown
OS X Tiger, G5 Dennis On May 5, 2005, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis, Thanks for the quick reply. Which OS? Which computer? Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, 05 May 2005 12

Re: ANN: ArchiveSearch 1.61

2005-05-05 Thread Dennis Brown
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the Search. It looks really good. I will use it often. Dennis On May 5, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Loaded with fives today. Today, 05-05-05, is my birthday and I'm turning 55. My first birthday present to you all is a new version of my ArchiveSearch

Re: floating text window

2005-05-05 Thread Dennis Brown
Bob, It called a tool tip. Just enter the text you want into the tool tip field in the property inspector Dennis On May 5, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Bob Hartley wrote: Hi All. In the rev ide, when you hover the mouse over a tool, a little text box pops up that tells you what it does. IE push button.

Re: To Rev or not to Rev

2005-05-04 Thread Dennis Brown
On May 4, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On May 2, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Dennis Brown wrote: On May 2, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: I'm not sure how to catalog Forth, but it's not OO (inherently -- there are OO implementations). It's procedural, certainly, but the inherent

Re: New group disappears

2005-05-04 Thread Dennis Brown
I was wondering if this is a Rev stability bug that is repeatable enough to make a BZ entry. Dennis On May 4, 2005, at 6:24 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi, I either just rename the group and then remove/add objects, or I do this: Select the Group Ungroup them Save This seems to kill

Re: naming variables...

2005-05-04 Thread Dennis Brown
It is not a scripting error if you are following the Reference Documentation supplied with Rev: --- How do I create and use a numbered set of variables? To easily create a set of variables with similar names (such as myVar1, myVar2,...,myVar20), you

Re: To Rev or not to Rev

2005-05-04 Thread Dennis Brown
This BZ on arrays would be a welcome enhancement, but it would not improve the speed of processing arrays. I was thinking along the lines of a high speed array processing instruction subset. They would be less flexible than what we have now --the nice flexible data types, dynamic memory

Re: To Rev or not to Rev

2005-05-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Pierre, I am quite aware of these, and that is what I want to run 10 times faster than. However, a lot can be done with the repeat for each more quickly than other Rev methods, but it can only be used with a single named array at a time. I have entered a BZ request for an additional

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