Re: [OT] Apple developing Flash alternative

2010-05-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/05/2010 07:32, Richard Gaskin wrote: Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/07/apple_developing_flash_alternative_named_gianduia.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: [OT] Apple developing Flash alternative

2010-05-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/05/2010 20:18, Josh Mellicker wrote: Is that Glandula as in glandular, or something vaguely Italian? Because if it is the former they seem to have chosen an unwise name. Apple sometimes gives different departments different names or code names so they can trace leaks. Leaks of what?

Re: [OT] Apple developing Flash alternative

2010-05-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/05/2010 20:25, Neal Campbell wrote: I suspect that just as Jerry chose Rodeo for his new service, name picking is done by the people coming up with the design and choose what they like. I know in the 90's when I was in charge of a global technology call center, I went to Apple for a best

Re: [OT] Apple developing Flash alternative

2010-05-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/05/2010 20:55, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, May 9, 2010, 10:46:49 AM, you wrote: Leaks of what? Last time I looked computers don't have glands; maybe I'm getting out of date. I'm fairly sure my Windows computers have bile glands. Oh, Gosh, here I am back at my computer

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 80, Issue 16

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/05/2010 08:25, Mark Wieder wrote: snip As Jacque has pointed out, there's a place for user plugin stacks and such. Things that aren't part of the normal rev distribution. For some reason this location isn't created when you install rev, That's odd; because when I looked inside

[OT] Another warped idea ?

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2010/05/05/virtualizing-mac-os-x-on-mac-os-x why not just partition your hard disk, or use another hard disk? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

[OT] or maybe not ?

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This may be more relevant than we realise, especially in light of recent drawn-out discussions on this list: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/03/macrumors-blood-drive/ to increase the number of blood donations by people in the Mac community Aarrr! grunts farmer George and wonders who the

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 80, Issue 16

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/05/2010 17:00, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 1:06:45 AM, you wrote: That's odd; because when I looked inside /Documents I found 2 folders: 'My Revolution Studio' 'My Revolution Media' In that case, I stand corrected. It wasn't the case before, we used to

Re: [OT] Another warped idea ?

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/05/2010 20:04, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Its not quite right, it does not let you install OSX just on Virtual Box running on a Mac. It lets you install, with all kinds of caveats, OSX on VB running on anything. I haven't tried, having no interest in running any Apple OS, but that is what

Re: [OT] Another warped idea ?

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/05/2010 21:18, Bob Sneidar wrote: May I beg to differ? It really depends on the virtualization software you employ. I use Parallels, and I can assure you, the problems you would normally encounter with any windows installation, you also encounter in Parallels. Of course, this is not a

Re: Programming on iPad

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Lemon ADE Oh, come on: what about 'Gin N Tonic', 'Bhang N Mantra', 'Iced TEA', 'Grabbitn RUN', 'Yuve bin HADD' ? go here: http://lemonade.webhop.net/ and all one gets is a single link to: http://lemonade.webhop.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and then: the User Interface; which is very

Re: Programming on iPad

2010-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/05/2010 22:51, Mark Schonewille wrote: That's not what I mean, René! of course there is text, but the the only proof of an interface is the pictures. There are no actual downloads. It is as clear as the nose on the end of my face: 'tis a leg-pull; and not a very convincing one.

Re: OT/maybe On-Rev related: free Yourname.TK domains

2010-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/05/2010 19:17, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Dear all, maybe this is of interest for some of you. Everyone can register an unlimited amount of free .tk domains at http://www.dot.tk. .tk: Tokelau, a country in the South Pacific This might be of special interest for the on-rev users,

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/05/2010 19:44, René Micout wrote: I have also a SE30, II FX and all my portables (Mac Portable, PB170, PB9400, PB G3 (black), PB Titanium, PB G4 12) All the others have been recycled... snif... :-( I only keep the Mac on which I worked Le 4 mai 2010 à 18:35, stephen barncard a écrit :

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/05/2010 20:05, Marty Knapp wrote: Actually Barney is the Antichrist. For proof: on BarneyCode put CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR Into IsBarneyTheAntiChrist put 0 into TheNumberThatWillProveIt replace U with V in IsBarneyTheAntiChrist --Should be proper Latin- well, because repeat with

Re: Apple Anti-Trust (was Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

2010-05-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/05/2010 20:09, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: What everyone here seems to forget is that flash finally took vector graphics powered by very tightly packed and efficiently executed byte code to a web that choked up by static bit maps. It was long overdue. Problem is that it never belonged

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 03/05/2010 05:17, Mark Swindell wrote: Randall, Like most people, I'm neither Galileo nor the Church. I sign my real name to my posts, and I asked you a real question hoping for a real answer... a simple, honest question about your vision for computing, to which you have no answer, only

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I'm sorry I took some time to respond to this; but fell into to bed far too late last night, having got myself (I really need to control myself) stirred up by a certain person. I am sorry about my contribution to that fairly ugly stramash. I think a great problem for Rev stacks is that they

Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
and has had no further problems. I would be extremely grateful if anybody has any ideas and/or advice regarding this problem, as it is a real problem. Obviously Vista does not play ball with Unicode fonts in RunRev in quite the same way that Mac and XP do. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 03/05/2010 16:32, René Micout wrote: Is this true ? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO René I said there would be a backlash; but I didn't think it would take this form. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 03/05/2010 18:52, Devin Asay wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am reposting this as it seems to have got lost amongst the recent cruft. It actually concerns an aspect of RunRev programming! You should know better; this is the Rant and Rave About All Things

Re: No-asci chars from the on-rev CGI

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Probably time to start using Unicode: set the useUnicode to true put uniencode(щати) into RUS set the unicodeText of fld PLACEWHERE to RUS or encode each of those Cyrillic letters via their Unicode call numbers: set the unicodeText of fld PLACEWHERE to (numToChar(X) numToChar(Z)

Re: Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 03/05/2010 19:51, Devin Asay wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thank you very much. The problem was spotted with Vista; I have had no feedback from a Win 7 user. Sorry. My mistake. Of course I knew you said Vista, but we're on the brink of a pending

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 11:26, Ian Wood wrote: On 1 May 2010, at 23:44, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: I have yet to hear an open source advocate talk to the evolution of technology. Depends on your definitions. One of the big new features for CS5 (content-aware fill) was already available as a plug=in

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 11:31, René Micout wrote: Le 2 mai 2010 à 00:44, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit : It is largely an ayn rand anarchist after school club for all white mall arcade raised nerds lacking in any real vision. Very difficult for a french to understand that ! If English speaker dont speak

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
mai 2010 à 21:41, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Nonsense: there is nothing to choose between Apple, Microsoft and Adobe; and Macromedia wasn't any better, but for companies to survive they have to eat smaller ones. While simple Darwinian theory may not make all that much sense for explaining biology

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
(2 can play at that one) (I removed the poster's name from this quote because my post is not directed at the person, but the idea that we are all equal) No; of course we are not all equal. BUT we are all dependent on other people; no man is an island. Therefore the image of workers being

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 14:12, Ian Wood wrote: On 2 May 2010, at 12:06, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Revolutionary? A supercomputer that has been trained to know where to paste a postal code? Doing alan turing proud! Please explain your comment. It makes no sense. :-( His rarely do. I tend to

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 14:16, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: snip These are revisionist applications exactly as I have noted. The funny thing is that when I hear/see the word 'revisionist' it makes me think of Marxist critiques of Trotskyism and Holocaust deniers; neither of these meanings seem to line up

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 18:11, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I don't want a chieftain but I like being a tribesman. The RunRev Tribe Well then; isn't it time we heard something from the chief? On May 2, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 02/05/2010 12:37, Pierre Sahores wrote: The way

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 20:07, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Adobe didn't conceive postscript, photshop, illustrator, flash, etc. Mathematica isn't derivative. Wolfram (for all I rail on his philosophy) is one of the last remaining computer scientists. I think there is something about the act of writing

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 21:26, J. Landman Gay wrote: rand valentine wrote: RevMobile was priced quite expensively, presumably under the assumption that it was the golden egg of Rev programming products that was finally going to get me that Lamborghini Countach. Now it's a brick, and we need to figure

Re: Ink Settings and Printing

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 21:33, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Marty Knapp wrote: I'm trying to print a card with a jpeg image on it and have noticed that when I set the Ink to anything other than the standard srcCopy that the image quality suffers noticeably. I think I tired every setting that allows

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 21:36, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 2, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Surely the spookiest thing of all is that Barney is still alive . . . :) But probably doesn't use HyperCard anymore. As far as I remember purple was problematic without the colour tools

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 21:36, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 2, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Surely the spookiest thing of all is that Barney is still alive . . . :) But probably doesn't use HyperCard anymore. But does he use Mac Developer Tools and is he a vegan

Unicode and Windows Vista

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
XP and has had no further problems. I would be extremely grateful if anybody has any ideas and/or advice regarding this problem, as it is a real problem. Obviously Vista does not play ball with Unicode fonts in RunRev in quite the same way that Mac and XP do. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 22:13, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Personal attacks again? Really, you need to substitute that 7 year old crap for a genuine statement of content? And you don't think people see it for what it is? Is it because the teacher left the room? Is that the level of morality you have

Re: Ink Settings and Printing

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 22:35, Scott Rossi wrote: When trying export (or import) all elements on a card, there is no need to do any grouping. As in Marty's case, one only needs to import a snapshot of the card. Here's one way: import snapshot from rect (rect of this cd) of this cd Grouping allows

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 22:39, David C. wrote: Personal attacks again? Well, it really wasn't intended as a personal attack exactly... I don't even know ya and really don't care about the subject matter. It was more of a poorly judged stab at some off the wall humor. I have a funny feeling that some

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 22:40, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Driving right now so will answer your questions as soon as I am out of my car. That sounds fairly dangerous: answering e-mails while driving. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 22:52, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: RevMobile was priced quite expensively, presumably under the assumption that it was the golden egg of Rev programming products that was finally going to get me that Lamborghini Countach. Now it's a brick, and we need to figure out what to do. We are

Re: Plovdiv (OT)

2010-05-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 02/05/2010 23:01, David Glasgow wrote: On 2 May 2010, at 8:39 pm, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: About 3 hours ago my wife and I went for a walk in a park here in Plovdiv; from the hill in the centre of the park I could see 3 shopping malls under construction: Shopping

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 04:34, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Some very wise comments on this issue: Yes, many of the reader 'comments' made about this article are very wise. Unfortunately the article itself seems to be written

[OT] MicroSheep follow a bad Apple

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Adobe must be sweating: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-looks-to-a-future-of-h-264-based-html5-for-web-video-content/ Well; happy RunRev developers; it is proabbaly better in the long run if Flash becomes less all-pervasive, especially if the revWeb plugin for Linux can get

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 10:34, Kay C Lan wrote: I guess someone else agrees with Apple: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/173519,microsoft-announces-ie9-will-not-support-flash.aspx What a hoot :-)) Is that person's name really Hachamovitch? Hack - em - over - itch. Must be the lack of sleep last night

Re: Is rev Oracle support just a joke?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 12:45, Sakari Ruoho wrote: I still see that the RunRev website advertises that it works with Oracle. Last time I checked this was far from the thruth. Is this still the case? The documentation says that one can run RunRev on SPARC, HP-UX, SCO Open DeskTop, Silicon Graphics

Re: [OT] MicroSheep follow a bad Apple

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 15:10, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 1, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Adobe must be sweating: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-looks-to-a-future-of-h-264-based-html5-for-web-video-content/ Not really. By saying that only H.264 is support, they mean

iPhone?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Oddly enough I see that RunRev are still marketing their revMobile (which I understand to work with Windows mobile as well as the iPhone OS): We will be introducing a brand new product, revMobile, which will initially support Maemo, Windows Mobile, the iPhone and iPad. However, as far as I can

Re: iPhone?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 17:36, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 1, 2010, at 10:31 AM, René Micoutrene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: I think it is not legal (clause leonine)... In France I think this clause is not possible. I think it is a juridic debat... Perhaps Europe could sue Apple like they sued

Re: iPhone?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 17:48, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 1, 2010, at 10:40 AM, René Micoutrene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: The only possibility for Apple to prohibit other language that C, C++ and Objective C is when you submit an application for App Store approbation... How can they do otherwise

Re: [OT] MicroSheep follow a bad Apple

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If Messrs Jobs and Gates (et al) really cared about open standards for the internet and so on, they would not be restricting Flash or code-bases; quite the opposite; they would be falling over each other to implement support for absolutely everything - whether proprietary (such as Flash) or open

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 19:24, Ian Wood wrote: On 1 May 2010, at 08:55, Peter Alcibiades wrote: HTML5 is not open. Its a different flavor of proprietary, by the way. H264 is proprietary. H264 is proprietary, but h264 is NOT part of HTML5. HTML5 just specifies a video tag without specifying the

Re: iPhone?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 20:09, Peter Haworth wrote: Here's a thought for Rev - put revMobile on Android. Pete Haworth Can we? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: iPhone?

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 20:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Colin Holgate wrote: On May 1, 2010, at 10:02 AM, René Micout wrote: I think it is possible to create application for iPad without putting it into the App Store. While that is true, it would also break the SDK agreement. The agreement doesn't

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 01/05/2010 22:23, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: don't you guys get it? Adobe is the biggest creep in techdom. Do you remember how they screwed apple over post script? They are the patent hogs who have stymied computational evolution for 30 years. The only company worse then them was

[OT] Semantics

2010-05-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Speed and standards. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361444,00.asp All the 'stuff' that we have been chewing over re Steve Jobs, Apple, Adobe and, now Internet Explorer 9, come down to Speed and standards. The question is not really about Apple's, Adobe's or Microsoft's motivation

HyperNext

2010-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes; it's that time of year again when Richmond starts burbling on about potential pretenders to the RunRev crown . . . :) I have been following HyperNext for quite some time; and for most of that time it has been crap. But there are the beginnings of something stirring over there in County

Re: HyperNext

2010-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/04/2010 21:16, stephen barncard wrote: Does it use an Xtalk? sqb Here's a sample code I lifted from one of the demo stacks (bounding lines are mine): -- Global errnum Local sdata If errnum=0 Then

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/04/2010 21:36, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Some very wise comments on this issue: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to-steve-jobs-letter-on-flash.ars Lest you forget: freedom is slavery . . . :( ___

Re: Math Help?

2010-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
then put INSIDE into fld OUTPUT else put OUTSIDE into fld OUTPUT end if Not rocket science, but it is here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/TRIGGER.rev.zip sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 08:38, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Apple is in it for the money? Really? I thought they were a non-profit like Microsoft and Google. Stupid me. Yes, really! They are in the profit for it as the Linux people are also, only their model is different. Nobody is in the computer

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 18:16, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: I was being facetious (thought that was obvious). The level of anger voiced in this thread certainly exposes selfish profit centered motives. That fact alone needed to be exposed before things got too obnoxious. My bet is that mr jobs would

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 18:22, Thomas McGrath III wrote: This is from the Apple website: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 18:26, Jeff Massung wrote: Sorry for missing it (tone sucks in email). ;-) I haven't really been following any of the Steve Jobs or new iP* TOS agreement threads, but I do need to say I agree with most everything you stated. I don't know when this was posted to Apple's site

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. That, my friends, could apply to RunRev as well as all the other third party development libraries

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 19:40, Bob Sneidar wrote: I suspect that anyone who has to have a newer, bigger fridge every year either just love having a newer, bigger fridge, or didn't plan very well, and continue to make that mistake every year. We still have an original iMac (the ugliest green ever to

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
not developed with their Developer Tools it might be a good idea for RunRev to concentrate of sorting out their Linux version. Le 29 avr. 2010 à 18:32, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 20:17, Bob Sneidar wrote: snip Bob Dear Bob, I am well aware how the real world works. Knowing that doesn't stop me from imagining that it might be a shade (just a shade) better than it is. I also pointed out my belief that, while people do do many, seemingly, altruistic

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 20:20, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes, that was what they called it. I believe that if real Turquoise could speak, it would express vehement dismay for the association with the actual color Apple used. :-) More a virulent, vaguely polluted, tropical lagoon sort of colour. When the

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/04/2010 20:33, Björnke von Gierke wrote: snip Of course cross platform tools increase the lag of uptake on new technology, and they always look awkward (yes, Rev does look awkward on all platforms). But then, they allow developers to produce one product, and get it to customers on

[OT] Steve Jobs' other job

2010-04-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Wow; things must be bad with the iPad if Mr Jobs is over here: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=eye_tv; advertising the 'EyePad' . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: What's the situation in the end, and what is to be done?

2010-04-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/04/2010 09:47, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Please someone, say something! As far as I can see the above is the biggest problem of all. Either be warm and cuddly and responsive to you clients' wishes, and demonstrate that you are listening (what's the phrase; put your money where your

Re: dot POS files and Corpus Linguistics

2010-04-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/04/2010 11:33, David Glasgow wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 3:17 am, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: I then found out that in the case of corpus files POS means 'parts of speech'. This is typical academia delighting in obscurantism. Now for more 'fun': Also bundled in the

Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills

2010-04-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/04/2010 17:45, Mark Swindell wrote: Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and

Re: Richmond goes data-mining . . .

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 10:07, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I've got through about 20 entries, and have a splitting headache from using the Rev dictionary with its 4 point font. Well; until somebody pulls their finger out back at HQ re fonts on Linux I suggest you use Björnke von Gierke's super BvG Docu

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 18:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: So its worth doing, and Richmond done good to make a start. I made a list last night and will post it later today. There are some errors that the list can correct, but for the most part I think it is accurate. Can you

Re: New version of RunRev makes .png images all black

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 20:04, william humphrey wrote: Has anyone using new RunRev build 4.5.0 dp 3 noticed that .png images display all black now? I have to go through and convert every one to gif to get them to display correctly. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 19:02, Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 27 Apr 2010, at 17:46, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have a feeling the way I went about it was extremely and unnecessarily long-winded. Yes. My stack loads all the docu stacks into memory, and _tries_ to unload them again. However

dot POS files and Corpus Linguistics

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
signed my name with my second name (Richmond) otherwise I would have had what the Americans call a 'Dear John' message . . . :) Any help re POS-file readers would be most welcome. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: I Can't change field layers

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 21:03, lunchnme...@aol.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have three problems: 1) The button and field level numbers are locked within a group. So I can't rearrange them. 2) When I click on a group it moves with my cursor until I click again. That's obviously not what I wanted. 3) When

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 21:10, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 27/04/2010 18:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: So its worth doing, and Richmond done good to make a start. I made a list last night and will post it later today. There are some errors that the list

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 21:33, J. Landman Gay wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: What I found when I was done was that the only tokens that Linux does not support fall into three basic categories: browser xcmd, quicktime-related, and things the OS itself does not support. I should have added speech

Re: Cannot run .exec file of project

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 22:15, charles61 wrote: I am using Rev Enterprise 4.0.0 (built 950). After compiling my project, I found that my app ran fine on OS X (10.6.2) but it will not run on Windows XP using Parallels Version Build 5.0.9344. The splash screen appears but the application does not launch

Re: Richmond goes data-mining . . .

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 22:28, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Jacque, what about record sound and record video? They're marked in my dictionary as being Mac +Windows only. I haven't tried to use either one. Well, I wouldn't bother because if they are marked 'Mac +Windows only' they

Re: Cannot run .exec file of project

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 22:42, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Knowing that RunRev 4.0 for Windows will not run under WINE in Linux makes me think that Windows executables made by the RunRev standalone builder are probably not very haooy with any sort of emulated environment. I run

Re: Richmond goes data-mining . . .

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 23:02, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: So; it would probably better in future, to prevent these temper tantrums, general misunderstandings, and so forth if anything that is implemented as an external was marked as so, so that folk who ran RunRev on a different

Re: I Can't change field layers

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 23:09, lunchnme...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 4/27/10 3:32:22 PM, richmondmathew...@gmail.com writes: That sounds like something to do with your operating system rather than RunRev. Personally (I know this will involve a lot of time) I would back everything up and

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 23:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: You were asking for supported tokens in the language, so that's what the list includes. I just noticed a couple of entries that are now fully cross-platform, so I removed them and updated the text file a moment ago.

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 23:50, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: You were asking for supported tokens in the language, so that's what the list includes. I just noticed a couple of entries that are now fully cross-platform, so I removed them and updated the text file a

Re: dot POS files and Corpus Linguistics

2010-04-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 22:03, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond, it appears that .pos files are LOTUS NOTES, among many others http://file-extension.net/seeker/file_extension_pos http://filext.com/file-extension/POS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Notes

RunRev Documentation

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Poking around I found that the documentation for RunRev 2.6.1 is stored as a vast number of XML files; the documentation for RunRev 4.0 is stored in stacks inside a folder called 'packaged_xml'; obviously these stacks are considerably more difficult to have a look at than the XML files for

Re: RunRev Documentation

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 26/04/2010 14:45, Björnke von Gierke wrote: http://www.bjoernke.com/?target=bvgdocu On 26 Apr 2010, at 10:38, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Can anyone suggest a wa these packaged files can be unpacked into standard XML files so that they can be looked at with an XML editor? Thank you very

Re: No app store or lock-down for the Mac planned

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 26/04/2010 15:54, Jerry Daniels wrote: http://bit.ly/c4loFL Best, Personally, given the choice of 3 days in a cage with Wily Coyote or Steve Jobs I'd choose the former every time; after all, Coyotes don't have forked tongues. ___ use-revolution

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 26/04/2010 20:44, Bob Sneidar wrote: GAWD you guys! Everyone loves the underdog, that is until he succeeds, and then he becomes Darth Vader to everyone. Every despot starts out at least thinking he is making the world a better place. But then, supposing you are the benevolent dictator,

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 26/04/2010 20:58, Marian Petrides wrote: Only the part of the world that actually INTERESTS him. ;-) On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I'm just glad Steve Jobs is not trying to take over the world. (Is he?) Richmond Mathewson did not write the above: Bob S did

Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
People who just want the list of RunRev features not available in the Linux version can cut the crap by scrolling down to the bottom of this message. -- After a heavy hint from Peter Alcibiades, and being a bit 'fried'

Re: Richmond goes data-mining (a.k.a. shovelling through the sh..)

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 26/04/2010 23:09, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Then mucked around with a stack to chew its way through those xml files and spot for those that didn't have: unix support=true in them Did you also remove all the commands that are OS-specific and don't apply to Linux

Re: Richmond goes data-mining . . .

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
on my Devawriter 'Pro' without further ado. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Richmond goes data-mining . . .

2010-04-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 27/04/2010 03:04, Graham Heather Harrison wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: One wonders why copying a directory / folder and deleting half its contents generates a .DS file; and why they choke RunRev. Actually, I've had problems with .DS files elsewhere. Start here and follow the links

Re: where is RevWeb for linux?

2010-04-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/04/2010 12:44, Bernard Devlin wrote: It's right. It is no laughing matter. Six months after the plug-in went GA for 2/3 of the supported platforms in Rev 4, the linux plug-in is not only NOT GA, the alpha is not even there. Bernard On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Peter Alcibiades

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