Re: Stop Rolling Loop

2010-10-20 Thread wayne durden
Glad that helped Raz. In practice the wait period can be much much smaller, and in my experience even a zero value will allow most user interface actions to be picked up. Wayne On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Razvan Pantescu razv...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi Wayne, Thank you for your

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread wayne durden
Hi Scott, Congrats! The trailer was intriguing. Will be getting this a bit later today (my wife controls the iTunes account and the iPad) both because it sounds intriguing on its own, and to support a long time supporter of this community. Good luck on racking up some big sales! Wayne On

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread wayne durden
Hi Scott, Wife still not back but I managed to find the iPad and crack her iTunes account password even without Dar's help! So one of the numbers in today's sales is me :) Graphics look very nice. The load time with GameSalad logo is a little of a bummer, but I know you took that into account

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread wayne durden
Jacqueline, This one wasn't LiveCode. It's GameSalad... Still it is a great accomplishment for Scott, and one to be proud of! Wayne On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:55 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 10/16/10 12:28 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Hello List: Just sharing a little

Re: Stop Rolling Loop

2010-10-13 Thread wayne durden
Hello Razvan Pantescu, This is where you need to use the wait 0 milliseconds with messages item which was recently discussed on the list. Put the wait with messages inside the loop and it will detect interface events like clicks on other buttons. Then you will need a section to check some

Re: [ANN] slotmachine iPhone was scrolling wheel

2010-10-09 Thread wayne durden
Once again, Bernd, the revlet version works VERY WELL! Super fast and even more attractive than before. Very impressive and a really good job! Wayne On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM, BNig niggem...@uni-wh.de wrote: Hi all, I announced a scrolling wheel 2 days ago, complaining about the speed

Re: [ANN] scroll wheel object for RevMobile iPhone made with Rev

2010-10-07 Thread wayne durden
Very Nice! Wayne On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, BNig niggem...@uni-wh.de wrote: some time ago someone was looking for native iPhone controls for RevMobile. I tried to emulate an iPhone scroll wheel through Rev objects that looks close to the native scroll wheel. The advantage of an Rev

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread wayne durden
I think that just missed the year... On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Yves COPPE yvesco...@skynet.be wrote: Le 03-oct.-10 à 16:04, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Yves, What about this: set the itemDel to slash sort lines of myList by item 2 of (word 2 of each) and item 1 of (word 2 of

Re: Hopefully a simple question

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
For the part about setting up the graphic, what it sounds like you are after is typically referred to as making seamless tiles. In many graphic programs there is an offset filter. I think you are describing the gist, a 50% horizontal and vertical offset, and then you smooth out the imperfections

Re: Read from file not working 4.5?

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
Hi John, It is not at the level of it not opening text files because my apps which do that in 4.0 also do in LiveCode 4.5. My suspicion is that the default folder may not now be what you think it is...stick a put line or two into the script to put the defaultfolder or TtargetToOpen into the

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
I think the scenario Dunbar is describing can be handled with a combination of an overhead watcher script that includes a send in time message to call itself every so often, and a global variable or variables which are being set in the sub-condition checking scripts which may contain repeat

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
Hi Zryip, Sorry, I didn't catch the first post. And Craig, I don't quite get the point about it all being in the same handler? Because with the wait with messages and the send in time scenario, all the handlers are effectively getting some time slices and all getting to run somewhat as if each

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
Hi Craig, Perhaps it is in the semantics when you say interrogate a running handler somehow. A running handler can document it's status by setting a global variable. Even if that handler has a repeat forever loop, if you have a wait 1 millisecond with messages statement within the loop the

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread wayne durden
I am sorry Craig, I apparently got lost in the thread or came late or something I came to RunRev from RealBasic where we did have threads of a sort and I used them primarily to allow a responsive interface while processing over large text files. I haven't missed them with the combination of

Re: Hopefully a simple question

2010-09-23 Thread wayne durden
Hi Mike, I don't have anything to add with regard to organizing your game, but if you want some really spiffy graphics for tile based game design there are some really good free ones at the following url: http://lunar.lostgarden.com/labels/free%20game%20graphics.html For instance the set:

Re: OT: general name for...

2010-09-22 Thread wayne durden
I don't think you would call a function in javascript a handler. My feeling is that there isn't a universally accepted term that would apply across all the language types. Code chunk or snippet is as generic as you would get without getting strange looks. Handler to me has connotations out of

Re: on-rev

2010-09-21 Thread wayne durden
On the windows side the Mozilla FireFTP plugin works for me against on-rev. Not sure if the plugin exists for the mac version of FireFox but the service does respond to FTP transfers for me... Wayne On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Same

Re: Where does revMobile go?

2010-09-21 Thread wayne durden
It is a fantastic combo of storage service and application that appears like a local folder across all of your machines! It is a remote file service done right! Best thing in a long time for synching files across machines effortlessly. I cannot understand how either Microsoft or Google have not

Re: Invisible HTMLText Character?

2010-09-21 Thread wayne durden
Maybe make it the same as the background, i.e. a white bullet on white... If you can insert a table in the html your bullet can be top aligned in the first column and your text points in a second ,,, tables will handle the stretch to text content for you automatically. Rough but just some ideas.

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-20 Thread wayne durden
Hello Colin, I am just a tad confused, have folks with a license received a new Rev account password yet. I don't want to get stuck in a bit of limbo. I have an enterprise license for a little over another year, but on the RC I downloaded you don't put in the license code any longer and I

Re: on-rev

2010-09-20 Thread wayne durden
Same here... in short, I have become very disappointed in the founder's deal for on-rev. Felt like just enough was created to launch to market and then stagnant as other saleable offerings were targetted On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't used

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-17 Thread wayne durden
I am going to throw out one more time that I thought someone relatively recently had said on one of the runrev lists that they had an app that was taking a long time to launch and by updating the graphics driver the problem vanished. It seemed relatively unusual to me at the time that that could

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-17 Thread wayne durden
Hey thanks Ken! Your google-fu must be stronger than mine! I was beginning to doubt my sanity because I thought it was pretty recent. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: I am going to throw out one more time that I thought someone relatively recently had

Re: [FOSS] On the creation of Rev to Web tools

2010-09-15 Thread wayne durden
Hi Malte, I too have pondered the question. I ended up feeling that the buy in required by the commercial nature of the main product limits uptake by young blood (generally poor) in numbers necessary to create open source momentum. I have watched Ruby go from zero to being on the radar in the

Re: OT: Waiting for DNS to update a new site.

2010-09-15 Thread wayne durden
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Propagation used to take days. These days it seems to take just minutes or hours at Dreamhost or ON-Rev. Your milage may vary I agree with this, propagation in general is very very quick now. One think

Re: Slow launch times on Windows 7

2010-09-15 Thread wayne durden
Seems like this came up recently and someone on the list reported that updating the graphics drivers fixed this? I could be mistaken Wayne On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: A customer has contacted tech support about an issue we can't solve,

Re: Printing Field contents in RunRev Enterprise 4.5.5

2010-08-16 Thread wayne durden
You might also double check that you didn't create two fields that have the same name with one being blank I quite often use button scripts to flesh out handlers before I turn them into functions in a card or stack script. I occasionally copy and paste a button control, change the script

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
Hi, Just want to make sure I have the general understanding of the issues... On a shared hosting setup where there is a process time limit such as 30 seconds, would that mean that some other entity using the same server with an intensive process could latch essentially all of the processing for

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
a mess. No one can hog the whole server for 30 seconds because, there is a CPU limit as well. It is not just time, the limits are set so all users can reach the limit without affecting each other. Thats the idea Andre On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, wayne durden wdur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
I second Michael per the scripts Andre! Wayne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
browser. Andre On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, wayne durden wdur...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Andre, and I am working through your article now as well. I get that it is per process but the part that isn't still clear to me is that the OS can be doing my intensive process for 30 seconds

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
Hi Mike, Thanks for that encouragement and I have seen such efforts on this list in the past. I don't think my situation is an ideal candidate because the business logic of the processing that happens is quite convoluted and hard to keep mentally in focus. The app in question takes lines of

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
Great Bob, got it! Probably would have taken hours of searching before this light bulb would have flashed on about the rationale for the limitation. Thanks, Wayne On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Bob- Good use-case about why this is necessary. --

Re: [RevServer tips] Spreading the load or why wise developers use asynchronous workflows

2010-08-04 Thread wayne durden
Graphic manipulations perhaps multiple iterations over the same image changing pixel values has proven to eat lots of time in my experience with rev in the past. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: I will craft something as soon as I have the time :-D

Re: [revServer] process timeout issue

2010-08-02 Thread wayne durden
Hello Pierre, I just wanted to chime in that I appreciate the details you have provided in this thread and the benchmarks which Andre has helped flesh out... It helps some of us coming to this platform a little later evaluate its suitability for additional projects. Rev has proved excellent for

Re: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

2010-07-22 Thread wayne durden
Andre did some work on a Haiku xtalk for a Google summer of code... there's a skeleton out there somewhere... wayne On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: We can all play at that one . . . :) Speaking of... Rev, when are you going to get that RevX

Re: [OT-Rodeo] Still waiting for the aha moment

2010-07-21 Thread wayne durden
I would like to chime in with a question as well. I am not sure I really am seeing what might be happening in the marketplace. I understand the concept of creating a web app for hire for a third party that wants a presence on iPads, where the app might be free for exposure, etc. But are web

visibility of a second stack called from a main stack

2010-07-17 Thread wayne durden
Hello all, I am using Ent. 4.0 and am having an issue where I am using a button on a main control center stack simply to open another stack and click at the location of a button there. What happens is that for a moment the outline of the window for the second stack is visible and I would prefer

Re: visibility of a second stack called from a main stack

2010-07-17 Thread wayne durden
try setting the loc of the second stack off-screen, though you shouldn't have to do this... HTH, Mark On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:24 AM, wayne durden wrote: Hello all, I am using Ent. 4.0 and am having an issue where I am using a button on a main control center stack simply to open another

Re: visibility of a second stack called from a main stack

2010-07-17 Thread wayne durden
believe you have to open it (just tested it here and I didn't have to , I just referred to it by name). Otherwise you might have to go the start using route, but I've never gone that route. Mark On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:08 PM, wayne durden wrote: Thanks Mark, will likely do this, seems

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread wayne durden
looks like you are perhaps trying to use tConcat as a global variable without having declared it so... You could read the field into tConcat first and leave as is ... On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: I have a series of ten checkboxes. I am trying to script them

Re: Checkbox script

2010-06-19 Thread wayne durden
Hi Charles, There is a little disconnect because you have two stores for your data, your tConcat variable and your field. When you uncheck you are removing the data from the field and then your tConcat global and your field are out of congruence. There are several workarounds but the easiest

Re: REALBasic vs Revolution

2010-06-05 Thread wayne durden
I would agree about the chunk expressions and text. But I will say it all depends on your task. I have used RealBasic for about 7years and RunRev for about 3. My main project is software which goes through lists of individual trading transactions and matches the trades into round trips and

Re: Apad - The Andriod iPad

2010-05-24 Thread wayne durden
Roger, Have you already the product in hand? If so, how is your experience? Wayne On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote: P.S. Anyone know what the retail price is for something like that? I bought mine here:

Re: dot POS files and Corpus Linguistics

2010-04-27 Thread wayne durden
I think we can all agree RunRev is the best dev environment going but suggesting dot.net is a POS may be going a little too far On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/04/2010 22:03, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond, it appears that

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread wayne durden
In my part of the country all y'all is not strictly imperative. It works equally well in the interrogative, i.e. Are all y'all comin' to the pig pullin' on Sa'urday? If so bring some tea? [Where tea is a beverage made by filling an empty gallon milk jug 3/4 of the way full of sugar and infusing

Re: Comma-delimited values

2010-03-08 Thread wayne durden
Hi David, Richard et al. I hear your pain on the CSV issue. However, wishing it would die I think deserves a more careful reflection. Sometimes the devil you know is worse than the alternative... I use RunRev almost exclusively for parsing and processing datasets for active traders. CSV is

Re: Replace colors in imageData under linux doesn't work

2010-03-07 Thread wayne durden
Hi, only a wild guess here as I don't have a setup to experiment, but is there any possibility the alpha channel order isn't the same...? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Ludovic Thébault ludovic.theba...@laposte.net wrote: Hello, I've made a map wih several sectors. Each sector have a

Re: Removing unwanted comma's

2008-04-05 Thread wayne durden
Hi David: I have to do this all the time for datasets I process. If you need to do it quick and dirty one off, rather than code up a routine in rev, you can open the dataset in excel. If the field three data is numerical you can get rid of the comma by selecting the column then using format

Re: Reversing a list

2008-04-03 Thread wayne durden
Hi Bernd, I suspect the issue in the large list is that it is taking more than a second to populate the sort list or the start time is near the rollover of milliSecond ... Wayne On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:21 AM, BNig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, -- Jan Schenkels solution: ## local

Re: Jeanne de Voto cookbook (was Re: ABout the Rev Search Engine (was: Re: Problem with revExecuteSQL - More))

2007-11-02 Thread wayne durden
The bottom line is it's one of those Christopher Alexander Pattern Language problems... There is an overall quality of goodness we can't really capture from any one aspect, we just know what we have had so far isn't quite it... Longness or shortness, I don't know. I got immense value out of

Re: Doing in RR what we used to do in HC.

2007-10-17 Thread wayne durden
Hi, Even if items have not been removed, there are intangible qualities that combine to create an overall impression as well... The last sort of user manual I saw was an improvement, but it just tailed off uncompleted and as far as I know it was never updated since that time. Without this list,

Re: Easy, readable and fast text based format for Rev?

2007-06-12 Thread wayne durden
If for any reason the tab character proves to be unusable, you might choose the pipe character | just above the enter key with the backslash. I too like simple name/value schemes for data where possible. Generally they're much, much faster than parsing xml if nesting isn't an issue. As an

re: professor made software with runrev and sold for 2 million dollars

2007-06-07 Thread wayne durden
Hi folks, just came across an article here with a runrev connection: http://www.theunion.com/article/20070606/NEWS/106060142 Not a whole lot of detail, but this apparently relates to teachMac and teachIt being built with runrev. This may be old news to some, but I hadn't heard this before...

Re: professor made software with runrev and sold for 2 milliondollars

2007-06-07 Thread wayne durden
Hi JB! I have a google news filter set up to flag hypercard references and this article mentioned it so it showed up in the results. The filters work great for things that aren't making a lot of headlines anymore because you aren't inundated with too much stuff, but it catches lots of

Re: professor made software with runrev and sold for 2 million dollars

2007-06-07 Thread wayne durden
Hi Jacque! You mean the article text or the underlying teachMac technology? I assume the latter...but not quite sure? Wayne On 6/7/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wayne durden wrote: Hi folks, just came across an article here with a runrev connection: http://www.theunion.com

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread wayne durden
Congrats Andre: Beos was great, Have watched Yellow Tab flame out and am hopeful Haiku makes it to release! Of course then you are going to have to get an xtalk implemented for it Wayne On 4/12/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, I am pleased to say that I was

re: trying to get image functionality as in RB

2007-04-06 Thread wayne durden
Hi all! I am trying to rebuild an app I have in RB which takes an image dropped on it and resizes it. I am able to duplicate the app for images on the local computer file system, but with my RB app I can drag an image from a browser which is actually the primary use of it.. (i.e., take an image

Re: trying to get image functionality as in RB

2007-04-06 Thread wayne durden
Thank you Ken! I will give that a go shortly. It looks like it will shorten the existing method I was using that was handling the local files as well. Thank you very much! Wayne On 4/6/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:58:50 -0400, wayne durden wrote: Hi all! I

Re: trying to get image functionality as in RB

2007-04-06 Thread wayne durden
PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/6/07 3:57 PM, wayne durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Ken! I will give that a go shortly. It looks like it will shorten the existing method I was using that was handling the local files as well. Sure... here's a way, assuming you already have an image object

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-30 Thread wayne durden
Thanks for these comments. On Windows I use a fantastic editor called Crimson Editor. It too has the remote saving FTP capability. However, in times past, I had not been successful with the feature and had avoided and forgotten about it. The comments spurred me to revisit and I discovered an

re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Hi everyone! Just wondering offhand if anyone has an already done cgi that accepts a single email address line from a form and adds it to a text file? One that finds it and deletes the line from the text file would be great for managing the unsubscribe part too. I am replacing perl cgi's and

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Hi Jaqueline! Thanks for your comments. I actually waded in and put in the time today and have solved this already. CGI is particularly aggravating because it tends to involve multiple files (the form posting page, the cgi script, any text files being used as flat file databases, and any text

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
, this way, you'll only upload your cgi when you're positive it works... It's really a time saver, setting breakpoints in CGI and stepping thru. On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: wayne durden wrote: I swear sometimes I believe I am net more productive saving the script one line

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
ten minutes to put it back up andre On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:19 PM, wayne durden wrote: Hi Andre: I am interested but the link I found on the web to it was offline? could you post where it's available? On 3/29/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone doing CGI work with Rev could

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne, my server has crashed for some weird reason, so I disabled it's fastCGI support, meaning, my page is down, but the server is running and you can fetch your file at: http://andregarzia.com/RevHTTP.zip Cheers andre On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:29 PM, wayne durden wrote: I don't

number of colornames?

2007-02-11 Thread wayne durden
Hi all! I have a question regarding the colornames. I was doing a simple exercise with a script that was creating cards with a hundred colors per card with a field with their name and their rgbcolor. In doing so, I have hit a headscratcher Putting the number of lines of colornames()

Re: number of colornames?

2007-02-11 Thread wayne durden
] wrote: Hi Wayne, I'm pretty sure that if you refer to the lines in the colornames, you can access them all. For example using put the last line of the colornames in the msg box returns YellowGreen, which is probably the last color. Try it. HTH, Joe Wilkins On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:47 AM, wayne

Re: number of colornames?

2007-02-11 Thread wayne durden
? Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 11-feb-2007, om 21:44 heeft wayne durden het volgende geschreven: Hi

Re: number of colornames?

2007-02-11 Thread wayne durden
to iterate and not getting the sensible answers? Jim Ault Las Vegas On 2/11/07 2:11 PM, wayne durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to beat a dead horse or belabor a point, but: the number of lines of colornames() returns 552 however as I iterate through the lines using something like