Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: In the meantime, does anyone have any further guidance on what I have to put in the various OSX standalone builder screen fields (if anything) It's a long answer which is why you probably didn't get immediate replies. There are lots of uses for plist (property list) files

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: The document type does not need to be registered. You can make up your own, or use an existing type. One more thing about this: if your app creates common document types that the Mac already knows about, like jpg, rev, txt, etc. then you can leave the document type

Re: Problem with script working in IDE but not in Standalone studio 4

2010-07-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: Hi I have a button scrip that did work in standalone, and always works in the IDE but now will not work in the standalone! The card has several fields in two sets that take action when data is entered, fields are set so that retunr gives Close Field message. I then have a

Re: Using export snapshot with a file dialogue box

2010-07-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: Hi I am exporting a screen image of a card to file. I allow the user to select a filename then save the image using the script below. I have had to add a 400mS wait in for the save dialogue to vanish before the snapshot is taken. This works OK, but is there a better way to

Re: Question About Menu Builder

2010-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Gregory Lypny wrote: It pops down, but selecting those items does nothing. Maybe I should just delete the menu bar and try it again from scratch. Can you refresh my memory and tell me what the ampersands in front of the default items mean? The ampersand is placed before the letter that will

Re: How do you fix this?

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
charles61 wrote: I had problems with the cutting off of the bottom because of not setting the Set as Stack Menu bar in the Menu Builder. I have set the Destroystack of my splash, app and substacks to false. Now when I created my Mac app, I get the top of my second card showing the upper 1/4 inch

Re: Mac Standalone Bug

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
always worked. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Justin Sloan wrote: Jeff, I do have a menu. Is that the problem? How do I

Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, I have the following code here: local tSnapshot revBrowserSnapshot _W[browser id], tSnapshot set the imageData of img slide to tSnapshot This yields an image that looks like static noise, it is grayscale and I can see traces of the real image there... Any

Re: Question About Menu Builder

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi everyone, It's my first time using the menu builder, and I have a question. I added a couple of menu items to the File menu and they work fine. I then added a new menu called View to the same menu bar and added another couple of items, but these do nothing when

Re: How do you fix this?

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
charles61 wrote: I guess my question is how do other developers handle this type of situation when they hide the menubar on the first card? Or what do you suggest? I handle it by not doing that. :) If you're trying to simulate a splash screen, you're better off using a substack approach. Make

Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: I am also having trouble with export snapshot as well... since the revBrowserSnapshot does not work, I decided to give old export snapshot command a try: thats the error I am receiving: Error description: export: no image selected, or image not open export snapshot

Re: Question About Menu Builder

2010-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi Jacqueline, I looked in the Application Browser. Help appears as layer 57 and my new View menu appears as 56. If it's in the menu group, and it probably is if you made it with the Menu Builder, then I'm not sure what could be wrong. What doesn't work exactly? Does

Re: Location parameters in Size Inspector for stack

2010-06-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael D Mays wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:16 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The default value for maxWidth and maxHeight is the topmost limit of the allowable stack size. So if you click the up arrow, you're going to go off into the weeds; the size will be an abstraction. The fix would

Re: Location parameters in Size Inspector for stack

2010-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael D Mays wrote: If a field isn't recognizing the closefield message I would call that a major bug, if the closefield message isn't being trapped and/or acted upon correctly in a field I would call that minor. (yes I am nit picking like my cousins ;) It looks to me like it just isn't

Re: Mac Standalone Bug

2010-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Justin Sloan wrote: Jeff, I do have a menu. Is that the problem? How do I counter it? It's an ancient issue. If you have a menu, make sure

Re: Need Help with Geometry

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond wrote: Pardon my naivety; but I thought the whole point of the geometry manager (which, I admit, I have never used) was so that stacks / standalones could be made that were effectively resolution independent, scaling all their objects proportionally to occupy whatever real estate was

Re: snapshot and background problems

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: I have no data to suggest that setting the text of an image is any better or worse than the method of putting image-related data into an image. I've only seen references by the programming dudes at RunRev to use the text property, so I do. They're different properties for

Re: Location parameters in Size Inspector for stack

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael D Mays wrote: When I go to one of the location fields, type in a different number; tab: nothing happens. If I click either of the arrows for the location's input fields of the stack, the stack updates to the incremented value. I've quit and restarted Rev; created a new empty mainstack

Re: Question about Native Geometry

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Jacque, Its 1920 x 1080. When you set the text size, it works but only partly. Some of the fonts come up the right size, others do not. Some parts of a para in the dictionary are resized, other parts not. The objects also are not resized, so they don't fit any

Re: Location parameters in Size Inspector for stack

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Monday, June 28, 2010, 12:25:11 PM, you wrote: I can't reproduct this one. I wish I had been waiting around for someone to coin that word... ...but then I would have been precrastinating... groan Reproduct is a perfectly good word, it just isn't in widespread

Re: snapshot and background problems

2010-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I have no data to suggest that setting the text of an image is any better or worse than the method of putting image-related data into an image. I've only seen references by the programming dudes at RunRev to use the text property, so I

Re: Question about Native Geometry

2010-06-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Its a 22 inch, a wide screen, and it seems to be 10.5 inches high. Fonts in the dictionary appear to be about 4 point. That doesn't tell us what the actual screen resolution is though. At any rate, Rev uses font inheritance for most of its stacks, and that's based on

Re: MD5 digests of very big files

2010-06-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Looks like the culprit is the condition to escape the repeat structure. The result never reach the EOF end of file. Which other condition could i use to verify that the file have been reading completely? Try: if it is empty -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Call to all you one-liners !

2010-06-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: Depends on your objective. If the aim of the isAColor function is to determine whether the passed parameter can be used as a parameter in setting one of the color properties, then I think the function performs as designed. My issue isn't with *your* isAColor function - it's with

Re: Call to all you one-liners !

2010-06-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Francis, put (fld 1 is a color and the number of items of fld 1 is 3) into myIsRGB As mentioned, this is okay for a quick check but isn't very reliable in general. Is a color seems to return true for any comma-delimited list of integers, regardless of whether the

Re: Call to all you one-liners !

2010-06-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Francis, put (fld 1 is a color and the number of items of fld 1 is 3) into myIsRGB As mentioned, this is okay for a quick check but isn't very reliable in general. Is a color seems to return true for any comma-delimited list of integers

Re: revBrowser madness

2010-06-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Ba-BINK! You probably stumbled upon what the whole issue is with a slew of RevBrowser problems people are having. Hey Revolution Guys! Are you reading all this? Probably not, the engineers read the Improve list but rarely get time to come over here. What it sounds like to

Re: Uncomfirmed crash report (was Re: [OT] Computer news from Kassel)

2010-06-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ben Rubinstein wrote: (I also know that some bugs have been fixed although the entry in Bugzilla hasn't been addressed. That may be because the bug was found independantly either by RR directly or because of a duplicate report, and it's just annoying that they've never noticed my report; or

Re: Pasted card with a background not included in the number of cds of this bg

2010-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre.Bisseret wrote: So, if one copy/paste a card including a group whose backgroundBehavior is set to true, the new card is not a part of the cards of the background despite the fact that this background is actually on the card. More, if one clone such a card (resulting of copy/paste) then

Re: Mac Standalone Bug

2010-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Justin Sloan wrote: Jeff, I do have a menu. Is that the problem? How do I counter it? It's an ancient issue. If you have a menu, make sure the destroystack property of the stack is false. That fixes it. Then rebuild the standalone. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Animated GIF not playing

2010-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord wrote: 5 frame limit? Eeep. I haven't heard of any limit. Did you see that info somewhere? I've run much bigger GIFs. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Tools palette showing?

2010-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Emmett Gray wrote: Opie here; hide and show do what I need; I just want to hide it. But how, other than asking here, was I to discover the name of that stack? Handy trick: type this in the message box (but don't hit return yet): put the short name of the mousestack Then move your cursor

Re: Discover browsers on user system

2010-06-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord wrote: Sake of curiosity. Seems like it will be simpler to just have the user set these targets on their own and store the locations. That's how Rev does it when you set a preferred image editor in prefs. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: File browser extension

2010-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ian Wood wrote: I thought Rev used the UNIX-style '/' delimiter for all internal paths, regardless of platform? Yes, that's right. No need to translate slashes to anything else. On 22 Jun 2010, at 01:24, Bob Sneidar wrote: set the itemdelimiter to / -- for macs. use \ for windows paths

Re: Setting the icon of a btn on preOpenStack

2010-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Too little information. Where is the pre-openstack handler? Is it in the substack? Are you opening the substack to fire this handler? Secondly, I am not sure you can refer to an object in an as yet unopened stack. It's not open yet, see? But what you can do is set the

Re: File browser extension

2010-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Right. Okay. So NOW I know everything. Until some other new feature happens. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution

Re: preOpenCard inside behaviors, does it works?

2010-06-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Mark Craig, if you have a preOpenCard in a behavior script and set the behavior of a button to that script, does it fires when you navigate to the card that contains the button? Buttons never get preOpenCard messages, though. The card gets them. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Help with drill-down script

2010-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Emmett Gray wrote: Anyway, there's one feature: the first card is an index of all the cards in the stack. In HC, all you need to do is start typing and as you add letters, the selected line changes to reflect what you've typed. When you get to what you want, you hit return and that takes you

Re: Recursion limit error

2010-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord wrote: I have a divider in my stack which I would like to constrain within 2 values along the x axis. In this case it should not be less than 180 or greater than 420. if x 180 or x 420 then // do nothing else put the mouseH into iTableLeft send updateThisDisplay

Re: Recursion limit error

2010-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
I wrote: on mouseMove x,y if x 180 or x 420 then updateThisDisplay end mouseMove I forgot to include a check for the button state in that abbreviated example. Jeff's method is good: set a script local variable on mousedown and unset it on mouseup. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: The selection caret position

2010-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to specifically tell Rev where within the current selection the caret or insertion point actually is? My problem is that Rev always does it's damnedest to keep the current insertion point visible within a field. So, if I were to select line N of some

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: Hmm... On my system (MacBook, OSX 10.5.8, Rev Studio 4.0.0-gm-1, build 950) the following works fine: launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word whereas launch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app does not work. In the Finder on my

Re: How to launch an application (like word from a stack?

2010-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: Yes, I forgot about the show all file extensions preference. I have it off, but when I turn it on and look in my Applications folder in the Finder, all of the other apps now have .app appended, but Microsoft Word doesn't. Neither does Powerpoint or Excel. And when I

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Colin. If you try to navigate to a stack not explicitly listed in the Search Paths cards of the home stack (pertains to files as well) you get a dialog asking where it is. This is what I would have expected. But no such feedback, except for the result being set. As

Re: no go?

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: All: Thanks. Makes sense. Very workable. Just different. Short stilted sentences. LOL! Let's just call it concise. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: I didn't know that. A little non-intuitive, if you speak English! (Shouldn't it be: get the name of *that* card of stack notOnTop?) :-) It's UK English. If they allowed American syntax, it would be: get the name of this-here card of that-there stack -- Jacqueline

Re: Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ben Rubinstein wrote: But that reminds me - is there lore relating to the uTitle[id] of this stack the uDescription[id] of this stack etc vs the uData[id,Title] of this stack the uData[id,Description] of this stack etc vs the uData[id][Title] of this stack the

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard Actually, this card works for non-frontmost stacks too. I never was quite sure why they added currentcard, I've been using this

Re: Big Flat Stacks - NULLs

2010-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: I vaguely recall that HC was not supposed to have nulls, but some bug or other caused them and wrecked havoc with HC stacks. Compacting the stack seemed to eliminate them. HC used nulls as end-of-field markers, so if text containing nulls was pasted into an HC field, the

Re: [Very OT] Happy and need to share it!

2010-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: http://massj.tumblr.com/ Sorry for the spam (sorta), but I just have to share a very happy moment for me. Awww. So cute! It's not spam, you labelled it OT. I don't think the iPhone will be an issue, it's the driver's license you have to worry about. -- Jacqueline

Re: Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ben Rubinstein wrote: I'm converting an old HyperCard stack for a client - it's a classic HC as a single table DB job, with a bit of interesting functionality. But it's big - slightly over 38,000 cards, all with one background; about 30 MB on disk. It's _very_ slow to do various things - but

Re: pop-up cascading menus

2010-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Gabel Paul wrote: Also, WHY can't the rev team create an option button with cascading menus? No operating system has them. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: I think maybe put the long name of this card or put the long id of this card would suit you better because it is absolute. I suspect he just wants to know where he is in the stack, rather than exactly which content card he's on. So even if the cards get shuffled, he'd

Re: A better tape measurement script, please

2010-06-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael Kristensen wrote: Hi there Thanks for testing the script What happens: If the mouse goes down in an empty space of the window, then when the cursor is moved over the graphics the Tape freezes at some point and does not follow the cursor. It might be a hardware problem simce my mac

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

2010-06-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, one sees no signs they are even working on this - and other problems. Are expressions of anger and impatience any less productive than compliant silence? This is not an excusable way for a company to behave! Yes, anger on a publicly searchable list can be

Re: Using a plugin

2010-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Emmett Gray wrote: I've R'dTFM but I still don't know how to do this. I'm using RevMedia, if that matters. I've downloaded Rinaldi's auto-save plugin and want to use it in a particular stack. Where should I put it/load it (so that it will be always available with that stack if it moves to

Re: Using a plugin

2010-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Emmett Gray wrote: I've R'dTFM but I still don't know how to do this. I'm using RevMedia, if that matters. I've downloaded Rinaldi's auto-save plugin and want to use it in a particular stack. Where should I put it/load it (so that it will be always

Re: Long URL in a field

2010-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Emmett Gray wrote: In the HC version of a stack I've converted, I have a notes text field. The field has a vertical scroll bar, but not a horizontal one (and that's what I want). In HC, a long URL will wrap so you can see the whole thing on multiple lines. In Rev, it doesn't wrap so you can't

Re: Long URL in a field

2010-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: If you need real, hard-coded carriage returns or you can't set the tabstops to 1, this handler works on longer URLs that need to wrap over more than 2 lines. Well, I gave you an old handler for that -- and I just found a note to myself that it was deprecated. Here's

Re: Opaque stack resizer

2010-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord wrote: Ok, I figured out what you're talking about. The Object Library is something new to me since I last used MetaCard (never used RunRev until a few weeks ago). It works, but it's as sluggish as my two-liner code...the refresh rate (even with lockscreen) is very noticeable. drag

Re: runrev community : how many licenses? How many users? How many developpers?

2010-06-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond wrote: On 06/11/2010 07:31 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jim MacConnell wrote: Knew I was on the map but was very surprised to see I'm there twice.. and my house seems to only be a little way from my house. I'll have to go visit myself next time I'm here. Google insists that I live half

Re: Imported images are very dark

2010-06-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord wrote: The images I import into my stacks are much darker than what I see in Photoshop. Is there a reason for this? I'm working in sRGB so don't see a reason for this discrepancy. If you are saving the images as .png, they have an embedded gamma setting. Try saving as .jpg

Re: runrev community : how many licenses? How many users? How many developpers?

2010-06-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim MacConnell wrote: Knew I was on the map but was very surprised to see I'm there twice.. and my house seems to only be a little way from my house. I'll have to go visit myself next time I'm here. Google insists that I live half a block away. It puts my company in the wrong place and I

Re: [OT] Mac PPC and USB2 ?

2010-06-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: I don't know if a shipment from Brazil to Bulgaria will ever arrive, you might get some weird stamps in it as if the package traveled to asia, africa, oceania, the international space station, io and more before it reaches you but it is worth a try. You forgot to put Io in

Re: Saving Data in Standalones

2010-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Björnke- Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 1:02:27 AM, you wrote: I can't speak for Mark, but in the mentioned case it's sufficient to go to your stack, and depending on your needs, you can do it invisible: go invisible stack valid/path/test.rev ...you can go ahead and speak for

Re: Detect background application...

2010-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Simon Lord sl...@karbonized.com wrote: Is there a way to have a stack know if it's not *focused*? Can this also be done if the stack is not the foreground application? If your stacks use standard windows, you can check whether the stack you're interested in is the topstack or not. (It won't

Re: Changing environment variables

2010-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to change the environment variables my Rev app is running with? Note: shell() doesn't work because it will only modify the environment for that spawned shell process. I'm not sure if this will help or not, but you can define any new environment

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Anyone have any secrets for playing audioClips asynchronously with event messages (not other sounds) on Windows? In my Blocks game I use an audioclip and it takes a good couple of seconds to load a short click sound the first time. There's a very decided delay. After the

Re: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video

2010-06-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Don't worry about us. Jacque I have discussed this off-list and we're still friends :-) To death do us part! :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: combo box messages

2010-06-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: A problem was posted to the forums. SomeOne wanted to type text into a field, and have that text dynamically located among the lines of another scrolling list field such that closer and closer matches are found as the text entry gets longer. Easy to do. Two fields,

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond wrote: Dear RunRev users, My G4 Mac decided to play silly bu**ers on Monday and stopped functioning. Over here in the US we say broken things went south. So that's undoubtedly the problem, you've sent it the wrong direction. Swivel the machine 90 degrees to the north and it should

Re: The State of Rev (Was Re: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video)

2010-06-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Let's face it, Revolution is an odd duck. It really is. A most amazing, magical, useful and inspiring duck, but still odd. Ugly ducklings are really swans. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Cross-Platform Fonts

2010-06-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks Jacqueline, I have some notes about it here: http://www.hyperactivesw.com/resources_fonts.html All you ever wanted to know about Cross-Platform Fonts, but were afraid to ask ! :) But like I said, it's out of date. The info

Re: The State of Rev (Was Re: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video)

2010-05-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: I learned all that the third party addons do is reduce your development/support time which in return helps your ROI which makes your business more likely to succeed. Most of Rev addons are Rev built anyway. Sometimes is a wise investment to use third party tools to improve

Re: Problems setting a player object to an alias in a script

2010-05-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Howard Bornstein wrote: I want to set a player object to an alias of an MP3 file. If I do it in a script, the player returns the message could not create movie reference. However, if I set the player manually (i.e. by clicking the folder icon on property palette's source field) it takes the

Re: inconsistent field appearance

2010-05-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicolas Cueto wrote: Probably I don't understand enough about fonts but, perhaps it's the font size I'm using and this particular font aren't a happy combination? Or does that matter? Windows fonts and Mac fonts aren't the same, even if they have the same names and are set to the same size.

Re: inconsistent field appearance

2010-05-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: Probably I don't understand enough about fonts but, perhaps it's the font size I'm using and this particular font aren't a happy combination? Or does that matter? Windows fonts and Mac fonts aren't the same, even if they have the same

Re: OT: Panorama of my local iPad queue

2010-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ian Wood wrote: I've had similar thoughts but simply haven't had time to see if externals can be used with Revlets. I can save you some time. They can't. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Short name and long name

2010-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Marty Knapp wrote: Let's say a user creates a stack from one of my templates, then later in the Finder, changes its name. Now there's a discrepancy between the short name and the long name. Is that a problem or does Rev understand this? Or should I construct a routine to parse the file name

Re: Short name and long name

2010-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: Also, I think that people who go around changing the name of files they didn't create deserve to have their whole computer world go up in digital smoke. Most people know not to change the name of anything that is not a basic document of some type. In this case, the files

Re: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video

2010-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.com wrote: We have posted a video of the Rodeo development environment in action! Sarah Reichelt (co-creator of Rodeo) joins me in the video all the way from Queensland, Australia. This is a pretty big step

Re: [OT] Microsoft to announce Visual Studio for iPhone OS?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: UGH! Please, prefix posts like this with **SPOILER ALERT**. My entire day was just ruined! ;-) Jeff M. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Wait! I thought Santa and the Easter Bunny were merely different spacial manifestations of the same

Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Marty Knapp wrote: What I have is a standalone that contains template stacks from which a user creates their own stacks. These stacks are saved outside of the standalone. I wanted to institute an updating feature, where the user's stack version is compared to the template (which may have had

Re: never ending scroll?

2010-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicolas Cueto wrote: But you really should write this gadget yourself. Oh, I am, I am... Just taking a chance that someone posts something all nice and pat way before I finally get it done. And, as I struggle up the hill, new issues I hadn't thought of pop up. The latest: how to determine

Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: A while back Scott Rossi wrote: Maybe because standalones have an (editable) script limit of 10 lines, meaning you can't build scripts dynamically in standalones that exceed 10 lines. There is no such limit in the IDE. seems not to, directly refer to my script

Re: Detecting which column was clicked in a Table field

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: Hi All, How do I return the column number that the user clicked in? I know how to get the selectedLine of a Table field, but I'd like to know which column of the selectedLine the user clicked into. Something like this: put word 4 of the clickchunk into tCharNum subtract

Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: is Any script that needs do in order to execute is dynamic. adequately documented in the documentation ? When using a standalone application created by Revolution, you can include up to ten statements in the statementList. This limit is set by line 2 of the

Re: Phantom Table field

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: I have played around with table fields, but wonder where any information about them exists. The user manual barely mentions them. I see it is a single, (sort of) list field with management to permit text entry into cells. I cannot for the life of me trap any of the

Re: Hard CASE: cracking the nut?

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Marty Knapp wrote: I've been running into the 10-statement script limit issue myself. Is there a way to put a script into a field or custom property and execute it without a do command? If so, could someone offer an example? In my current scenario, speed is not a big issue. That depends on

Re: Detecting which column was clicked in a Table field

2010-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Stuart wrote: on 5/26/2010, Jacqueline wrote: Something like this: put word 4 of the clickchunk into tCharNum subtract (the number of chars in line 1 to \ (word 2 of the clickline)-1 of me) +1 from tCharNum set the itemdel to tab put the number of items in char 1 to tCharNum of

Re: [OT] Plovdiv . . . / hard CASE

2010-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Tonight I am disciplining myself to work through my CASE problem; where a CASE loop goes AWOL when the stack becomes a standalone. There's not enough info to say what's going wrong, but you'd save yourself a lot of time if you set a breakpoint near the top of the

Re: [OT] Plovdiv . . . / hard CASE

2010-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 10:25:49 AM, you wrote: There's not enough info to say what's going wrong, but you'd save yourself a lot of time if you set a breakpoint near the top of the switch structure and step through it line by line. That would show you Unless

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: It depends how the USB modem is recognised by the system. If you have one, check the driverNames. If the list includes something link cu.modem.usb, then you can use that as the driver name and open a port to that device as described above. I'm writing that down. Thanks.

Re: codes.widged

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mike Harland wrote: Could somebody please substantiate the claims that Ms Lange purports to have disproved? I find it disturbing to see that people on this list are behaving as she describes. Mike, this person is not credible in any way. She has proved it repeatedly. There is a history that

Re: [OT] A Big, Big Thank You to JLG!

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: I hosed my Linux box the other day (living too close to the edge) so had to reinstall. Reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 followed by my licenced version of RunRev 4 for Linux; 60 minutes. The connected via revOnline to JLG's Metacard setup stack and had Metacard 4 up and

Re: Stack in memory problem

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Marty Knapp wrote: The name isn't a problem - it's not a plugin or IDE stack name. I've been using it for over a year. I do have another stack of the same name in a different directory. When I build a standalone I take the original and do some things to it, then copy it to a different folder

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
gary_aitcheson wrote: put *67 before theNumber open file com3: for write write ATS7=1L0DT theNumber cr to file com3: wait 5 secs close file com3: I do not understand much of this, but it appears that it's usual function is to dial a fax machine in order to transmit letters

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: But I only replied to say that I thought all HC commands were supported in Rev to the extent that they at least did nothing. But there is no dial in the dictionary. Are there others? Maybe, but I can't think of any offhand. I've never done a direct comparison though.

Re: Who is the author of codes.widged?

2010-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Did anybody receive similar promises from Runrev as codes.widged??? Of course not. Nor any of the other things claimed on that site. Who is the author of the website: http://codes.widged.com ? Someone who's name I won't say here, because this list is publicly

Re: Reading the Supercard manual #2

2010-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 19/05/2010 23:51, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Using Help From Within the Script Editor The Help System's Language Guide entries can be looked up automatically from within SuperCard's or SuperEdit's script editor window. Simply hilite the word

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