What is the platform on Win64?

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
AIX Intel SCO SCO Open DeskTop Intel SVR4 Solaris for x86 architecture SPARC SPARC SunOS SPARC Solaris SPARC Solaris Win32 Windows (any version post-3.1) What does the platform return on 64-bit Windows systems? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: [ANN] InfoWallet 1.0

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Vlahos wrote: I'm happy to finally announce the release of InfoWallet 1.0. http://www.infowallet.com Way cool, Bill! Congrats on the release! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
program. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
help videos, say, shot in a lower-quality format. If you can wait for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) you may get QT Pro for free (well, free as in after you pay for Snow Leopard): http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/10/snow_leopards_quicktime_may_pack_pro_features_at_no_cost.html -- Richard

Re: OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Koob wrote: Richard Gaskin ambassador at ... writes: The scrubber is there and works fine, but somehow the keys are switched: the normal key to show the scrubber is the Control key, but in Rev it's the Command key. :\ So at least you can use the scrubber, but alas you'll have to re

Re Rev suport user defined events?

2009-05-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
. Can anyone here think of other messages not normally sent by default? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Quoted or unquoted literals

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
it is optimized so that it benchmarks at least 30% faster. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Quoted or unquoted literals

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
switched the order I got the same results. So I considered making a new test which swaps the order on the fly, but I'm with you: the possible difference of 0.2 ms isn't worth the trouble. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: LibURL Puzzlement

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
to use with the libURLSetFTPListCommand command. But I don't see where or how you actually get the list of files using libUrl. Just pass it a directory path ending in /, e.g.: ftp://user:p...@ftp.domain.com/somefolder/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting

Re: Set Custom property in standalone?

2009-05-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Josep wrote: It's posible to write the value of a custom property in a standalone? I trying but I can't obtain any succes. http://www.revjournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Preferred Multi-Platform Development Method

2009-05-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
for both Mac and Win for years, I was able to just drop that search library onto our Linux server and call it from a CGI without having to modify it at all other than to reformat the output as HTML. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Math issue, isn't it?

2009-05-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
serve human or do humans serve machines? http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-October/067603.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
customers will only continue to grow. IMNSHO, it's an investment worth making. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution

Re: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
news, Kevin. Thanks for posting that. I'm going to go update my Linux deployments with the latest engine -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Mac OS X Icon not being copied to Standalone

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
I find that just duplicating the standalone will cause the Finder to draw the copy with the icons. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com Richmond Mathewson wrote: Yes, you have

Re: installer made by Rev...

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
was kind enough to share this with me: get shell(chmod ugo+x quote tDest quote) ...where tDest is the path to the executable inside *.app/Contents/MacOS/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: First look at Service USB gadget

2009-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
that can be done with it, but I can dream can't I? Don Rossi, is this not the thing you need to take CyberRave into the 21st century? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site

Re: Dumb Newbie Questions -- 1 of N

2009-04-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
just needs to whip up some gadget for their own use. Use whatever feels natural, and if you hit a wall there are many options for getting over it. (No, I'm not referring to Mr. Gaskin as an abstraction.) I've been called worse. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training

Re: libUrlFtpUploadFile - upload files whose names contain spaces?

2009-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
was able to transfer a file named t t.txt to the server with the same name without error. Have you used libURLSetLogField to see the details of the transaction? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: interesting conundrum...

2009-04-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: interesting conundrum...

2009-04-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
emulated appearances: http://fourthworld.com/xui.jpg It would be nice to be able to do that sort of thing on specific controls only. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: interesting conundrum...

2009-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
for built-in properties http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3126 In other words: situation FUBAR. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: How to store a stack in a custom property

2009-04-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
delete file tFile -- delete temp file end mouseUp Nicely done. If you'd like to see this in the engine: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=577 The engine currently supports the opposite behavior (using a variable as a stack), so this would seem a good compliment. -- Richard

Re: my programming life (was: Re: Rotating images)

2009-04-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
to HyperCard. Also programmed the Mac version of the This Is Spinal Tap CD-ROM, in C. Why did Yoyager choose C for that one CD after having delivered so many cross-platform titles in higher level tools? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: lesson to learn CGIs

2009-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: lesson to learn CGIs

2009-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
engine, see that it's ASCII, and try to use text mode, which will convert line endings which may be fine for text files but will break the engine, since of course the engine's object code is binary. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Switch or If

2009-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
of repeat loops, so you can use whichever form best represents the logic involved while optimizing performance even more than using either within the loop. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: on-Rev and Domain Names

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
page of the site Kevin pointed us to lists unlimited domains as part of the package: http://www.on-rev.com The subdomains folks are posting here are just their account URLs. An account holder can move any domain you want to be managed under the same accoumt. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: on-rev example: 'globals.cgi' conversion

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: on-rev example: 'globals.cgi' conversion

2009-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
if that were not the case. ;) But if we want to see Rev adopted widely on servers, we should be careful about the message here: we don't want to work too hard to convince the world that setting up Rev on a server is prohibitively onerous. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training

Re: Wow! New CGIs

2009-04-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The new server package is very cool, esp. the live debugging, but FWIW you can do that script with the old CGI with just two lines, one in the CGI and one in a web page template: Ah, but with the new way there is nothing to merge; you don't need

Re: On-Rev: We've listened

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
on that. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Rev 3.5 Dictionary--User contributed notes!

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
myself for content that appears in my product. I would never want to get an angry email from a parent letting me know my product exposed their child to pornography, and unfortunately in the world we live in that's a risk. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: Rev 3.5 Dictionary--User contributed notes!

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
requiring that approval. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.comwrote: Andre wrote: I'd rather have

Re: Rev 3.5 Dictionary--User contributed notes!

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
of there contributions to the list, could do an excellent job in this role. Excellent idea! Truly best of both worlds, since it helps expedite approvals without requiring additional resources at RunRev. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

emacsKeyBindings - anyone use it?

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Just curious: How many of you use the emacsKeyBindings personally? And how many of you include support for emacsKeyBindings in your products? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Wow! New CGIs

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
: This is an image: img src=? return any line of url (file:cgiphotos.txt) ? The merge function is an underrated powerhouse. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Initializing local properties

2009-04-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
globally. If you need global access, why not use a global? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Initializing local properties

2009-04-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: 2009/4/15 Richard Gaskin wrote: Why are globals so unloved? Most programming languages support them so they can be accessed globally. If you need global access, why not use a global? True - some of my allergy to them is not rational :) In this case I'm trying to speed

Re: Blocking specific email addresses

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
to have filtered mails forwarded automatically (though that should be done with caution to avoid false positives going to the antispambots). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Blocking specific email addresses

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: To date Kunjon.org has shut down more than 200,000 spam sites, orders of magnitude more than all of the efforts of everyone at the US FCC combined. But to do this he needs your spam. No really: he wants everyone to send spammail to his input

Re: I'm having behavior problems :)

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
is that if you have objects that depend on having a set of behavior buttons in memory, this error notification at least lets you know what the objects you expected to be available as behaviors can't be found. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: I'm having behavior problems :)

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
and accounted for in that version's Dictionary. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: I'm having behavior problems :)

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
, I hope this gets resolved soon (if you'll pardon the pun). Behaviors are so powerful, but to use them effectively we'll need to know when things go wrong. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: I'm having behavior problems :)

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
be in /3.5.0-gm-1/, which is probably in your Program Files/Revolution Studio folder. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution

Re: I'm having behavior problems :)

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
feature. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Revolution 3.5 launched

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kevin Miller wrote: Just to let you know that Revolution 3.5 has been launched and is now available on our website or through check for updates. Congrats and thanks to the team. 3.5's Behaviors feature is probably the most significant enhancement to the language in many years. -- Richard

Re: grasping the data grid

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
with the engine's strengths while avoiding its limitations. A damn fine job, Trevor. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing

Message Path article updated for Behaviors

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
, FrontScripts, BackScripts and Behaviors in Revolution http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/revolution_message_path.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Message Path article updated for Behaviors

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Now that v3.5 is close to release with its nifty new Behaviors feature, I've updated my article on the Message Path to include a section introducing the basics of using this powerful addition to the language: Extending the Runtime Revolution

Re: Message Path article updated for Behaviors

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
and will be using it to replace my slower custom dispatcher soon. Once I get some time to play with it I'll add a note there about it. Thanks for reminding me about dispatch. That's the problem with v3.5: there's too much cool new stuff to keep in one's head. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: #####REVEXCLUDEDSTRING#####

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
of (legibility / ease of entry) reasons. Recipe? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: #####REVEXCLUDEDSTRING#####

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
of thing. Just the same, because in your case it didn't also clean up its placeholders, I'm sure RunRev would want to fix that bug if a recipe can be discovered. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: Animate contents of a stack/card to turn like a page

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
not in the QT dialog we get with answer effect, and I've found no way to emulate it in scripting. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use

Re: Only supported on some platforms . . .

2009-03-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
there are some useful features found only one some platforms, like OS X's Apple events and Window's Registry, and I'm grateful Rev provides access to them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: [even more OT] Talking Heads

2009-03-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Probably Richard Gaskin is mistaken for a similar reason in saying that All open source applications that run on Windows, Mac, or any other non-FOSS OS are just as proprietary as any Rev project released under similar license. No, not really. If its OSS, you have

Re: [OT] Open Source, EULA - the Big Bad Bogeyman

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
-stamped that one and it took a bit of a battle to pull together the thousands of examples of prior art to nullify that patent. It was eventually reversed, but sadly our system does not compensate for the loss of time in fighting stupidly-awarded patents. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: [OT] Open Source, EULA - the Big Bad Bogeyman

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
completing his patent process then the filer pays a penalty to the USPTO of $50,000. That would put an end to that monkey business, and would bring much-needed funds to the PTO so they could begin a new era in which they actually read the patents they approve. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: [even more OT] Talking Heads

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
engine: the OS itself. All open source applications that run on Windows, Mac, or any other non-FOSS OS are just as proprietary as any Rev project released under similar license. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev

Re: suddenly not working -- Rev cgi plus mysql on webhost (DreamHost)

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
this to other servers, or were you just lucky? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
cantDelete property. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Linux can't disable menuItems?

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
altering IDE menus when you wanted to modify one of your own. For this reason I tend to use button to refer to menus, requiring me to specify the button by its owner and therefore ensuring that I know exactly which object is being affected. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
in the first place I suspect you'll save yourself some time. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: suddenly not working -- Rev cgi plus mysql on webhost (DreamHost)

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
on a Dreamhost account at: /logs/domain/http/error.log With any luck the engine will have output a description of the problem there, along with the line number where it went wrong for your convenient. Hope that helps - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: Tags in dialog boxes and the command: resetAll

2009-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
, but I wonder if just making the HTML flags sufficiently limited would suffice. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution

Re: programming fonts

2009-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: I want slashed zeroes in my font to clearly distinguish between the letter O and a 0. IMNSHO that should be a standard across the language present in all fonts, removing ambiguous glyphs. And commas with sufficiently long tails. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: NULL characters and sorting

2009-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
that had been copied from MS Word. I'd be interested to learn how that happened either way. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use

Re: Unix support past 2.5.1?

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
useful article. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: ODBC access (closing connections)

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
her work at Genesearch and shares a bit of her background: http://www.revjournal.com/interviews/rev-sarah-interview1.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: ss function

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
you need it. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

programming fonts

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
so I thought I'd check in with you folks here: What's your favorite font for use in your script editor? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: illegal creativity?

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
was not a purpose of my program I wanted to add this as an additional feature. Now I am not sure if it is legal at all? Or is it? Or it depends?.. The most useful answer would likely come from either the vendor or a lawyer. Not sure which one would cost less. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: mouseControl problem

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
DunbarX wrote: I am rewriting the ss function in HC. Because it is there. What does ss do? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Unix support past 2.5.1?

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
(Irix, Sun, etc.) are no longer shipping, with many of those companies following IBM's lead in migration to Linux. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: mouseControl problem

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Development-Plugins-GoRevNet, and once you're in look in Stacks for 4w_ScriptSearch.rev. BTW: How does ss relate to the mouseControl? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
). Then try animating multiple looped sprites in Rev. Drive nails with a hammer, tighten screws with a screwdriver, but hammer nails with the back end of a screwdriver at your own productivity risk. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Stable sorting on steroids

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
, imply you should run through multiple sorts, and boast they will remain stable. Good to see this lives on in Rev. (still undocumented). Probably just an oversight. Did you flag it in the RQCC? http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting

Re: HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Embedding music files in RunRev / MetaCard stacks comes at quite a hit, both in terms of file size, and RAM requirements; the HyperCard method would be considerably 'cheaper' in both of these respects. MIDI, with QuickTime in a player object. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
for such an external? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: [OFF TOPIC] How many...

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
: http://www.arkel-od.com/panniers/commuter/overview.asp?fl=1site= :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Chunk order must be small to large

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ben Rubinstein wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I went to the mat with him over this one years ago when I was porting an HC project. He said, If you need a custom behavior, use a custom name. I said, But I *need* to override the built-in function! and he asked simply, 'Need'? Why? I

Re: Chunk order must be small to large

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
enhancement request to put it back: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

e: exit to top within modal: bug or misconception?

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
exit to top honored regardless where it's called from, but for a few of us lazy people who have a debugging task that we don't feel like stepping through the debugger to check it may be helpful. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Chunk order must be small to large

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
start really working with it, learning these differences and moving on, and the more you code with this new engine the more you find yourself saying, Man, this thing is fast!. It's no accident. It's a very carefully pruned token table. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
to how a Movie is opened from disk as you have to use the new NewMovieFromProperties API call. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
if you're traveling in a very small herd). If we're talking about a behavior that was native to HC, was Ms. Bettencourt's hack for Rev? I didn't know she uses Rev. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
after an hour or so :*-( Too bad. What's not working with it? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
://www.taggedsoftware.com/gt2/images/screenshots/scrshot_06.jpg Nice. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
on such a system, at least in so far as his engine interfaces with it. All that said, we're in 2009 now so I look forward to seeing a third-party externals author jump on this opportunity. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's definitely not possible on Windows today. --Really? 'Cause I could swear that I just heard Jacque say it maybe wasn't so easy... implying not so possible. Maybe

Benchmark: Behavior script access performance

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
the way. It's a mighty fine implementation. Thanks, RunRev! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

exit to top within modal: bug or misconception?

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
be honored within a modal unreasonable, or is this a bug? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: problem with brackets in script editor

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
compile ; get an error : first line with hint : ] The declaration in the first line ends with a comma, so perhaps the engine is expecting another variable there. If you remove the comma does it compile? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: problem with brackets in script editor

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
for the xTalk world it's quite revolutionary. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

2009-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
a business case for this it will continue to be a wish rather than a feature. But of course with a sufficiently compelling business case any tool vendor would be stupid not to. Why isn't there an external for this? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http

Re: Standalone saving

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

CLF = WTF?

2009-03-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
that will survive Rev's convert command in one or two lines? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: [OT] Another hole in the Ozone layer

2009-03-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
energy costs in excess of its purchase price many times over on top of that. Green is also the color of money. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: doMneu, alas

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
scripting - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com --- -- -- Call this instead of DoMenu, using the label of any -- menu item as the param in pItem -- on MenuDo pItem

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