RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Smith
...@lists.runrev.com [use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Wieder [mwie...@ahsoftware.net] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 10:51 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions) Mark- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:03:17 PM, you wrote: Now I have but a few

RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Smith
Revolution Subject: Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions) Not in front of my computer now but I suppose on preopenstack you could set lock screen to true, set the visible of the startup stack to false, open the real stack and away you go. Don't have your main app be a substack as i think

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:05:12 PM, you wrote: Thanks Bob, that makes perfect sense but... just mechanically I was not sure what hoops to jump through. Ok, let me try and see what I come up with. 10 mins in, still see no solution. IS Notepad a substack of my new Startup stack or a

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not in front of my computer now but I suppose on preopenstack you could set lock screen to true, set the visible of the startup stack to false, open the real stack and away you go. Don't have your main app be a substack as i think it gets compiled like the startup stack. Somebody correct me if

RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Smith
-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Wieder [mwie...@ahsoftware.net] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 1:12 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions) Mark- Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:05:12 PM, you wrote: Thanks Bob, that makes perfect sense

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:03:17 PM, you wrote: Q1 What is the difference between the startup and preopenstack messages? Startup is only sent to standalones. It's ignored in the IDE. Q2 I realize I probably need a list of revtalk messages (with descriptions) but couldn't find one.

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:03:17 PM, you wrote: Now I have but a few questions (sorry, somedays I do feel like an idiot!) Not to worry - somedays I *am* one. Wanna trade? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing

RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Smith
...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brigham MD [pmb...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:33 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Hi Peter, no doubt the day will come. Thanks for the tip (I'm filing these away in a word document

Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
MD [pmb...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:33 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Hi Peter, no doubt the day will come. Thanks for the tip (I'm filing these away in a word document. Mark Schonewille

RE: make standalone (was 2 quick questions)

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Smith
Of Bob Sneidar [b...@twft.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:10 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: make standalone (was 2 quick questions) The caveat about saving anything in a compiled rev app is that no runtime app can be modified. Otherwise, anyone could interject their own malicious

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard Actually, this card works for non-frontmost stacks too. I never was quite

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Hi Peter, no doubt the day will come. Thanks for the tip (I'm filing these away in a word document. Mark Schonewille will undoubtedly need something to base his FAQ on!) -- M I save my collected tips in a Rev stack. Searchable. And

Re: 2 quick questions

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

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
In some American dialects, it's Yo! check it out! Homeboy got card in the crib! Word! Bob On Jun 17, 2010, at 2:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: I didn't know that. A little non-intuitive, if you speak English! (Shouldn't it be: get the name of *that* card of stack

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Brigham MD
A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard (note lack of space character) -- as in: put the currentcard of stack myStack into cc which gets you something like: card id 1002 Currentcard is equivalent

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Peter, I just tried this. It doesn't work. put the name of the currentcard of stack License Maker -- Message execution error: -- Error description: Chunk: can't find card Current card does, but currentcard doesn't. As far as I know current and this are interchangeable. -- Best regards,

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Brigham MD
try: put the currentcard of stack License Maker or, if you want the name of the card: put word -1 of the currentcard of stack PPtodointo c put the name of card id c of stack PPtodo -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:42 AM,

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks Peter. Yes that works. I also noticed that put the number of controls of the currentcard of stack License Maker works but put the name of the currentcard of stack License Maker doesn't. I wonder why. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread DunbarX
Mark. I get no error with either construction. Craig In a message dated 6/16/10 10:15:43 AM, m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com writes: put the number of controls of the currentcard of stack LicenseĀ  Maker ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Jim Ault
This series should work put the currentcard of stack License Maker into remoteCdName put the long id of card remoteCdName of stack License Maker into longCdId put the long name of longCdId put the short name of longCdId On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Thanks

Re: 2 quick questions

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

currentCard vs this card (was Re: 2 quick questions)

2010-06-16 Thread Hugh Senior
Correct syntax would have to be: put the name of cd (the currentcard of stack Home) 'the currentCard' and 'this card' are not the same and not interchangeable... put the name of this cd of stack Home = card Home card 1 put the currentCard of stack Home = Home card 1 therefore put the

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brigham MD Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:27 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term currentcard (note lack of space

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also, what about push card/pop card? Anyone actually use that method anymore? Bob On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: I think maybe put the long name of this card or put the long id of this card would suit you better because it is absolute. I suspect

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:34:32 PM, you wrote: Also, what about push card/pop card? Anyone actually use that method anymore? All the time. Why? Do you have something that works better? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
1. How can I get the number of the current card (and put it into a field or variable)? Related: since I am reading a property from an object will the solution to this problem generalize to all properties for all objects? 2. Has someone compiled a FAQ from this mailing list and where can I

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, put the number of this cd put the number of the current cd put the number of this cd of stack Foo put the number of the current cd of stack Foo I think there is a FAQ on the RunRev homepage but probably it isn't what you're looking for. I'd be happy to host a FAQ on runrev.info if we

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille [m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:33 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions Mark, put the number

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
: 2 quick questions Mark, put the number of this cd put the number of the current cd put the number of this cd of stack Foo put the number of the current cd of stack Foo I think there is a FAQ on the RunRev homepage but probably it isn't what you're looking for. I'd be happy to host a FAQ

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Terry Judd
...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille [m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:33 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions Mark, put the number of this cd put the number of the current cd put the number of this cd of stack Foo put the number

Re: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille [m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:33 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions Mark

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
Judd [...@unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:32 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: 2 quick questions Mark - put the following handler in the stack script on preopencard if there is a fld cardNumberField then put the number of this cd into fld cardNumberField end if end

RE: 2 quick questions

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
quick questions I think maybe put the long name of this card or put the long id of this card would suit you better because it is absolute. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone On Jun 15, 2010, at 19:21, Mark Smith mark_sm...@cpe.umanitoba.ca wrote: HI Mark, I was all

Re: 2 quick questions

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