I believe a full featured word processor would be quite possible. It
would require a substantial amount of scripting, but it would be more
time consuming than difficult.
The issue comes down to how we think of fields. If we want the ability
to manipulate every single character as if it were an
I would still appreciate it if one of you guys with printing trouble
would give my windows printing script a try. It works great for me - and
after some recent tweaking it can handle multiple font sizes on the same
line, and subscripted characters.
I don't know if it will work for others' uses,
To anyone's knowledge, is there a way in Rev to create a field that is
rotated in the same way one can rotate an image?
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Subject: Re: Rotated Text
On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
To anyone's knowledge, is there a way in Rev to create a field that is
rotated in the same way one can rotate an image
I am interested in creating a 3D object viewer - and I was planning to
write it in transcript.
I have been researching the equations, and thinking about everything I
can do to minimize processor time, including some schemes that would
increase memory usage, but reduce computations.
If I had to,
It seems to me a more significant contest between the two systems would
be to assign the same project to two very experienced developers with
each development environment, and see who gets it finished quicker.
I cannot imagine many situations where productivity is not of great
significance. If a
Just wondering...
Would it be helpful for RunRev (or someone who works outside of RunRev
but is approved by them) to offer an online Runtime Revolution training
course. Those who take the course, and make an A in it, would then be
officially accredited.
I can see benefits and disadvantages for
I should think that creating a word processing program in RR should not
be a problem - nor would creating an excel like program.
I am not sure there would be much value to doing so - since those
programs already exist - but I think pretty much all of the standard
functionalities found in those
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Just wondering...
Would it be helpful for RunRev
Well - the accreditation would serve two purposes
1) excellent line on a resume
2) people seeking to achieve the accreditation would have to learn the
program really well in order to get there. It would encourage them
become knowledgable, and prove that they have done so.
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Subject: Re: RAD contest...;-)
On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
I am not sure there would be much value
Here is a script I use for a project I am working on... I commented out
the part that sets the registry so that the progam runs automatically
upon computer startup. Even still, you would probably need to tweak it a
bit to work for your program.
On Mouseup
put the filename of this stack into
Richard's earlier comment got me to wondering...
My use of Rev is for a few specialized situations, and I am largely
ignorant of the various office software programs out there. After he
mentioned OpenOffice I went online to read about it.
Apparently it is free for customers, although Sun paid
On Jan 21, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
1) Is it really that difficult to create basic office software?
2) Why does it cost so much?
Jonathan,
to create a huge mammoth (is this how one spell
big-prehistoric-elephant in english?) like an Office app is not a task
for a single
Should you be saying
Hide image dImage
Or
Set the visible of image dImage to false
Is dImage a stack or an image?
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I bet you could write the data to a text file, and have the file open in
whatever app you use to view text files. That way, it would still be
immediately viewable, even if not in Rev.
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nethery
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The problem with large class libraries is that (with a bit of
exaggeration) only the developer understands them, and when they are
very large, with many subclasses, he will only understand them until
he's got nuts.
Um... This is one of those odd cliché translation sort of things... Really
not get what you were expecting.
Cheers
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Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:40 AM
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Subject: Re: RunRev vs RealBasic
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:06:16 -0500
Lynch, Jonathan
I am on a windows system, so I am not too familiar with Macs. (Last one
I worked on was a Mac SE)
My question is this - is there a way to use a multi-button mouse and/or
a mouse wheel on a Mac? I find both right-clicking and using the mouse
wheel very convenient. The Rev docs always talk about
Is there any kind of similar limit for variables?
I have a script that creates html. For the app the html is being pasted
into, I cannot have return characters in it. So, after compiling all the
html into a variable, I replace the linefeeds with empty (and have tried
other means of substitution
I have a field (for a spellcheck) that contains 174,000 words - each on
a different line - and it works fine.
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Subject: Re:
Occam's Razor can be used to show that the simplest explanation is that
only you exist. The rest of us are all imaginary. Solipsism is fun.
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Sanke
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 6:35 PM
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Hello everyone,
I am still working on my windows printing script, and it is almost
there. I fixed a couple bugs today, so that now it only has a problem
with superscripted text.
Actually, the problem seems to lie in a bug in RR. The effective
textfont for superscripted text is empty! Very odd, I
Do you need to? Closefield is sent when you change the contents of field
manually - the put command will not change it. Select will not change it
either, as that does not actually cause a change.
However, if you need it to, you can just add...
Send CloseField to field Field Name
At the end
Does it do the same with bitmap or gif images?
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:28 PM
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Subject: Compression question / problem
Looking for the simplest and
If you wish to script it so that right clicking on a field does
something - it is pretty easy to do:
On mousedown theButton
If theButton = 3 then
Do whatever you want done
End if
End mousedown
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I have a script worked out that seems to print nearly perfectly.
Occassionally, the second line of a field will get shifted upwards by 2
pixels, and I am not sure why that happens.
I am sure much tweaking will need to be done to enable this script to
apply to all situations. I am posting it here
Does the same bit of htmltext cause it to crash every time? If so, you
could keep cutting out lines from the htmltext until you stop getting
the crash - the look to see what was cut - might help narrow it down.
Does this by any chance involve setting the background color of text?
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Can you construct it to be chosen during opencard, rather than
preopencard? Preopencard can be little tricky sometimes.
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variation caused a crash. Very strange.
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Subject: Re: crash recipe for htmlText?
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Does the same bit
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Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
I have had problems with non-yellow background color for text, when
right clicking on it! It would cause a crash
. The
menuPick
message still doesn't get sent when I initially go to the card. :-(
Chris Sheffield
Software Development
Read Naturally
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Jonathan
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moving it to openCard but it didn't make a difference. The
menuPick
message still doesn't get sent when I initially go to the card. :-(
Chris Sheffield
Software Development
Read Naturally
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Jonathan
Sent
For my current project - it is not that important.
For the idea I have for a future project, it would be important. It
involves a complex sort of internet publishing of a multimedia form of
daily/weekly/monthly magazines. It would only be important in the sense
that it would be nice for the
Just a theoretical question, because I understand the delay in taking
this approach would probably make it impractical - would it be possible
to do the following:
1) open a magnified clone of a stack to like 10 times its width, and 10
times its height, with all the components, characters, etc.,
Is there a way to adjust the kerning on characters - that is, shifting
the character a tiny amount to the left or right, to adjust the amount
of space between two adjacent characters?
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My apologies if I am annoying everyone by obsessing over printing
issues. I tend to fixate on solving problems sometimes...
Here is an idea that should work - don't know if I will bother actually
scripting it, because it sounds rather difficult - but certainly would
be within the range of what
Could you do it with a rawkeydown message that responds to the keycode
for either space or the right arrow, tests to see if the commandkey is
down, then sends a message to your menu that selects the appropriate
item?
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I fixed this problem on my version by going into the front script (or
was it the back script?) that contains the revgourl code, and commenting
out the line that makes it add in html at the front of the URL.
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by adding up
formattedheights and formattedwidths of characters, and all that - but
it sounds slow and painful to write. Is there a quick way to get the x,y
coordinates of a character?
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Jonathan
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Jonathan
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:45 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: RE: Practically perfect printing - an idea that should work...
So, maybe I will write this script...
I just did a quick test of this idea, using a single
like you've done quite a bit of work on all this printing stuff.
How about posting your finding online when you get around to it? It
would sure help :-)
best,
Chipp
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
So...
I just discovered the formattedrect property, which applies to text as
well as to objects
: Practically perfect printing - an idea that should work...
Recently, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to determine the exact x,y
position
of a character within a field?
The selectedLoc might be one way...
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Development
For a spellcheck for a program at work - I had to make it so that it
selected the actual word, even if that word contained a dash. I did it
basically by starting with the character under the mouse click, then
counting to the left until reaching a space or linefeed or the beginning
of the field -
Are there any fonts that are the same on screen as on printer?
Some are shorter, some are longer, but I have yet to find one that comes
out the same. Normally, one would use a truetype font for this purpose.
Is there any sort of true type font we can use in Rev?
, resolution can be a killer in terms of both speed and
quality), or switch to the Mac (not always an option when developing
for other people to use, but hey, I had to suggest it anyway; it does
work correctly on the Mac).
On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Are there any fonts
exactly like it is
supposed to - but all of these ideas are really very complicated.
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Gaskin
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:55 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: More on Windows printing...
Lynch
What kind of objects does your presentation software use? By that, I
mean, I assume it does fields, pictures, audio, and video. Any other
types of objects? I have been thinking that a 3-D object viewer would be
a great object. (I hope no one objects to my overuse of the word
'object' here, which,
with the mouse while keeping
the aspect ratio the same.
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Talluto
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Open-source: Presentation software
On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Lynch
the way Chipp's altBrowser is.
BTW: OpenGL is cross-platform too :-)
Gordon
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What kind of objects does your presentation software
use? By that, I
mean, I assume it does fields, pictures, audio, and
video. Any other
types of objects? I have been
I am trying to figure out if the definitions for printer fonts can be
used like an image, or translated into an image, and then set the image
of a character, as it is typed or pasted in, to the image of the printer
font.
It sounds like torture to me, and like it would evoke all sorts of
kerning
Would it be possible to load the entire folder into a custom property on
a stack, compress the stack - then do the reverse upon uncompressing?
Or...
Write a script to compress each file in a folder, create a folder on the
server, and copy each compressed file to that folder?
-Original
.
For the best appearance of printed cards in a stack, make sure the
stack is closed (and not in memory), then set the stack's
formatForPrinting property to true before opening the stack to print
it.
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
But - somehow MS word manages to look
of the
windowBoundingRect property is ignored when the stack is opened or
maximized.
On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
I just tried it, and it was different. Maybe it depends on the font or
something.
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And don't forget that fields with part Unicode and part non-unicode act
weird. Best to set the whole field to Unicode.
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Gay
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:26 PM
To: How to use Revolution
See...
This is really a great example of why the documentation needs to be
clearer.
All you do is group the controls that you want to appear on new cards -
then set the background behavior of that group to true.
It took me a little while to figure out how to navigate between
selecting groups and
I created a script for fields that autoflow - that is, the text moves
smoothly between two (or however many you want) fields. The fields must
have the same name, except for the last word of the name of the field
must be a number - and the numbers must be sequential. Ie - text 1
text 2 text 3.
You
I wrote a script that does this - it allows you to right click on the
image, and proportionally adjust the size of the image from the corners.
In order to work, you must first set the adjustproportionally of the
image to true (custom prop). If the adjustproportionally of the image
is true then
The last field in the series resizes. All other fields move the
formatted text up and down through them as needed. The fields also allow
resizing with the right mouse button, and the text automatically
realigns after you resize a field.
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How about replacing ^M with linefeed?
Even if the line breaks are not supposed to come through as ^M, if they
do, and the problem cannot fixed any other way, maybe that would be a
workaround?
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I thought I read in past postings that Rev did not support 3D arrays -
that it only supported up to 2D arrays.
This morning I tested that, and seemed to have no problem with 3D
arrays. I am sure I am just making an ignorant mistake - either in my
testing or in what I gathered from the postings I
Not being the expert that some of these folks are - I can only respond
with exactly what you do not want to hear - ease of use...
If I can create a program in an hour that does the same thing as a
program that takes 3 or 4 hours to create in another development
environment, then I will be very
: Thursday, December 30, 2004 4:19 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Question regarding arrays...
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
I thought I read in past postings that Rev did not support 3D arrays -
that it only supported up to 2D arrays.
This morning I tested that, and seemed to have no problem
I won't be at work for 3 days, so I just wanted to say Happy New Year to
all of you folks on this list...
This list has really helped me learn a great deal about a tool I have
found invaluable in my professional life.
So...
Happy New Year!
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But, using a group as a building block for a more complex object, it
would be useful if there was a setting that allowed them to be accessed
like other objects. Also, empty groups shouldn't trap mouseclicks. The
suggested workarounds will work fine, of course - it is more just a
matter of
I reworked the earlier script I posted to include Ken Ray's approach to
adjusting the rect of the field, rather than adjusting the size and then
the position. His approach is smoother and more efficient. (Thanks Ken)
So... the following script still does these things...
1) if you right-click on
Something to consider - will the size of this data stack keep growing
indefinitely? If so, every time you save it, you are saving the entire
data set, not just the new card. This gets cumbersome when the stack
gets very large. With an indefinitely expanding data set, you need to
work out a scheme
, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems that an empty group will neither accept a mouseup message,
nor
allow that mouseup message to be passed to the card.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to handle that?
Well, my suggestion may not help, but it would be to never have an empty
Can javascript be used to send a message to a port? If so, the Rev app
could be set to listen to that port, and receive messages from the
browser.
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...
On 12/28/04 10:57 AM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The empty group acts as a page. If I have an invisible object across
the
whole page in there, then when other objects on that page are sent to
the bottom layer of that page, they will be under the invisible
button.
I can see
and unlock the screen.
Does this sound right?
Glen
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:13:03 -0500, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Something to consider - will the size of this data stack keep growing
indefinitely? If so, every time you save it, you are saving the entire
data set, not just
If the list field has a set textheight, then you could calculate the
distance from the top of the listfield to item 2 of the mouseloc, then
divide that distance by the list fields textheight, and round it. That
will give you the line number above which you clicked. Then, you can
select that line
The following script is a bit complex - but it does the following:
1) if you right-click on the main part of the field, it lets you drag
around the location of the field
2) if you right-click on one of the corners of the field, it lets you
resize the field from that corner
3) if the mouse is
If you buy altbrowser, do you also by the right to incorporate it into
standalone applications that are distributed to others, or must the
license be purchased separately for every person who receives the
standalone?
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If you are setting the htmltext, then don't you need to use p /p or
br to create returns and linefeeds?
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poncy
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:54 PM
To: Revolution
Subject: Formatting help needed
Just a thought...
An odd work-around...
Couldn't you make an image of the layout that you wish to print, then
print the image?
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Fisch
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:14 PM
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Maybe we just don't wish to waste time playing detective - do you really
have nothing better to do than taunt?
COUGH,COUGHgetalifeCOUGH
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I went from using Visual Basic for Applications to using RunRev
specifically because VBA is torture. Used in MS Word, it cannot do half
what RunRev can do, and RunRev is like 1000 times more intuitive.
The person who wrote this article obviously did not spend any real time
working with RunRev, or
I have a stack I use to figure out Unicode numbers for various symbols -
the one thing I found was that any use of Unicode in a field really
requires that the whole field be in Unicode. Otherwise, it gets
confused. Have others found this?
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Would 3D Rev Cards/stacks be possible?
That is, all objects in 3-D, the card possessing X,Y,Z dimensions, and
some sort of intuitive means of navigating within the card, including
the ability to change perspective in all the ways that a person change
the direction in which the look.
The files
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Would 3D Rev Cards/stacks be possible?
That is, all objects in 3-D, the card possessing
X,Y,Z dimensions, and
some sort of intuitive means of navigating within
the card, including
So - there are obviously VB to rev converts - are there any Rev to VB
converts?
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Webster
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:55 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: DreamCard Review-PCPLUS
I
If you do ID the original computer - then this creates a potential
problem. What if the user upgrades his computer, and wishes to copy your
software to the new computer, then erase everything on the old computer?
Since the software is licensed to the user, it would still be legitimate
- but the
Ya know...
Haven't you ever heard Captain Kirk say...
Dammit Bones, I'm stuck between a Spock and a hard space!
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:11 PM
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Subject: Re:
You can also do the same as parent/child windows with two stacks with
one stack controlling the position of the other.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:16 PM
To: How to use Revolution
I do this in an app I am creating - and the line:
Go this stack
Seems to work for me.
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Canyon
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 2:17 PM
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Subject: Making a Rev-built app hoist itself
])
I get true. This is the way I would expect it to behave.
I don't know why you would be getting different results. H.
I'm running Rev 2.5 on MacOSX 10.3.6.
- James
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What would be wrong with...
Set the casesensitive to true
If x = toupper(x) then put xxx else put x
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Major
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:50 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: testing on
This should work on the whole string:
Set the casesensitive to true
If x = toupper(x) then...
That would work even if some characters are numbers, and thus not in the
a-z set, but still not considered uppercase
For a single character you can do
if chartonum(x) = chartonum(toupper(x))
Hi James...
I tried:
matchText( z, ^[A-Z])
and it worked fine for me...
I tested it in the message box...
matchText(b,^[A-Z])
returned false, and
matchText(B,^[A-Z])
returned true
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Can the volume boost be affected through VBScript, C, or Jscript?
If so, you could maybe create a script in Rev that does the following:
1) Checks to see if the relevant .vbs file (or whichever language you
use) is located in the same folder as your stack
2) if it is not found, then writes a
Is RunRev patented?
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Kwinter
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:58 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: interesting patent
Software patents hinder progress and favor large-caps which can afford
My understanding is that for many, the point of getting a patent is not
even to prevent others from using the technology - it may well be too
broadly defined or have other problems. However, if you have a patent,
it guarantees your right to use what you patented - so others cannot
patent the idea
Do you guys know if there is a way to tell a standalone window to set
itself to the bottom, in terms of the Z-order of all open windows (not
just open rev stacks)?
Jonathan Lynch
Epi-X Editor
404-498-6061
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I found that checking the opensockets did not find the socket that was
opened by another instance of revolution - only sockets opened by the
instance of revolution that checked for opensockets.
On the other hand - the get shell(netstat -a) command checks for all
open sockets from all processes.
I thought about something like that - but was concerned that the app
would not know if the value had been changed in the file, and then
terminated. That would not matter if the program is running as a visible
window, because the user could just see that the window is not open, and
tell the program
The fact that, on my windows XP computer, Rev is automatically setting
itself up to listen to a port to which it just wrote a message seems
awfully odd.
My understanding of ports and sockets is weak - but shouldn't it be able
to write to socket 127.0.0.1:48953 without setting itself up as
of a
programfromrunning in windows
On Dec 3, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
My understanding of ports and sockets is weak - but shouldn't it be
able
to write to socket 127.0.0.1:48953 without setting itself up as
listening to port 48953?
If any application on the computer is listening
Hello... the following script seems to work.
Factors to consider:
1) The stack should be set to purge itself from memory upon closing
2) Some firewalls might prevent the program from accepting
connections on a port
3) This prevents multiple instances, but still does not quite allow
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