Hi all,
Thanks for your feedback. I've decided to complet my
current project in the previous release and a another
new project in 5.7
Cheers
Scott
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can't deal with more food functions right now.
I am well known for my culinary expertise but did not realise how far it
extended, Tom!
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On 20 Feb 2006, at 01:07, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
Yes, you should be able to do it. Revolution has a global property
called the icon which, if set, specifies the icon that is
displayed in
the OS X dock. You could write a script that takes a snapshot of a
small
image containing the
It's possible that a Rev stack may intercept a key combination when the
stack itself is in background?
As example: I'm working in my favourite word processor and I need to press
command-function-6 to let my Rev stack come in front.
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I'm keeping a set of songs, about 70 in a small data base, each one
has it's own card, and has several versions in r fields, Original
Tamil, English transliteration, literal translation, prose
translation, Lyrical Song version.
Now, I'm wanting to keep some other versions as well, but it's
It depends on if you are using the document or just proof reading
it. If you are using it, then it makes finding things really easy.
All you do it enter a word or phrase like mouseStack and it will
return a list of all the occurrences with a rating bar similar to
spotlight. Then you just
At 7:04 PM -0800 2/18/2006, Scott Rossi wrote:
Why is it not possible to substitute 1 and 0 for true and false? Is this
possible and I've just never seen it? Has no one ever needed this option?
It goes back to the way xTalks handle values. True and false are
strings, not numbers (the
Hi Mark and Jaque,
Jacque-
Yes, you should be able to do it. Revolution has a global property
called the icon which, if set, specifies the icon that is
displayed in
the OS X dock. You could write a script that takes a snapshot of a
small
image containing the text you want to show, and
Recently, Klaus Major wrote:
Revolution has a global property
called the icon which, if set, specifies the icon that is
displayed in
the OS X dock.
and what is the correct syntax for this?
I believe it's:
set the icon of this stack to 1005
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Does it help to know that CPs are like handler-local variables in one
respect, in that you can create them simply by putting values into
them, without any initialising step eg:
put thisTamilSong into the uTamilSong of this cd
and then, if a CP doesn't yet exist, getting it's value will
Hi Paul,
I would write a keyboard listener script. This might get you started:
A stack with a field and a button:
In the buttons script:
on mouseUp
if the flag of me is empty then set the flag of me to false
set the flag of me to not the flag of me
if the flag of me then
put empty
Hi Scott,
Recently, Klaus Major wrote:
Revolution has a global property
called the icon which, if set, specifies the icon that is
displayed in the OS X dock.
and what is the correct syntax for this?
I believe it's:
set the icon of this stack to 1005
thanks, that was it! :-)
Regards,
Hi from Paris (it's not raining, but winter is dragging on !)
I wanted to display my Song Lyrics in a stack, but Word files are
no go, so I did a batch convert on my Word folder (VINC is very
useful !), and got perfect HTML files (24 point titles, bold text where
I want it, spacing OK, etc.).
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:27:07 -0800, Geoff Canyon
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On Feb 19, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Just to add a tiny footnote to this: Judy, how would you tackle a
situation where a user (or a handler) can put in say a number from
1 to 50, and each of those
Judy Perry wrote:
...we used to use Pascal as our intro to programming course
language because it was developed as a teaching language.
Now we use C++ -- why? Because we think it's a better teaching
tool of basic programming concepts? No. Because we've somehow
been convinced that in a
Hi Malte,
Thank you very much, it works perfectly.
Greetings
Paul Claude
on 20-02-2006 11:50, Malte Brill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Paul,
I would write a keyboard listener script. This might get you started:
A stack with a field and a button:
In the buttons script:
on
Why not have your own 'tooltip' field that you show for as long as
required. Set its layer so it is above the other field(s), update its
contents and move it to the mouseloc or nearby before showing it. Then
hide it when ready eg, send 'disappear' to field theTooltip in 1
second . (The disappear
Testing out my PayPal thing and running into a few walls:
My brand new Windows XP (home edition) is not allowing my stack to put some
text into my remote file server.
put cr theText after URL ftp://username:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/revproject/reg/key_log.txt
This has worked on every other
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create a system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
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Buongiorno Paul,
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create a
system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
sorry, I'm afraid that is not possible with Rev :-/
Regards
Klaus Major
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Richard Gaskin wrote:
Rev is a software development tool. The only software worth developing
is the stuff that doesn't exist yet. If what you need already exists
it's almost always cheaper to just buy it than make it yourself.
That's a perfect encapsulation of what drives me to programming. In
On 20 Feb 2006, at 13:20, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
Testing out my PayPal thing and running into a few walls:
My brand new Windows XP (home edition) is not allowing my stack to
put some text into my remote file server.
put cr theText after URL ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Hi Martin and Tom,
Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 13:29 Europe/Paris, Martin Blackman a écrit :
Why not have your own 'tooltip' field that you show for as long as
required. Set its layer so it is above the other field(s), update its
contents and move it to the mouseloc or nearby before showing it.
Klaus Major wrote:
Buongiorno Paul,
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create a system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
sorry, I'm afraid that is not possible with Rev :-/
It may be worth noting
On 20 Feb 2006, at 13:20, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
Testing out my PayPal thing and running into a few walls:
My brand new Windows XP (home edition) is not allowing my stack to
put some text into my remote file server.
put cr theText after URL
ftp://username:[EMAIL
Francis,
When you view the word exported html files in your browser try
resizing the window really small and see if it messes up the lines.
If so then that is because Word set them as dynamic resizing. I have
had that happen. In your Rev field then the lines are wrong because
the field
On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Klaus Major wrote:
Buongiorno Paul,
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create
a system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
sorry, I'm afraid that
As always, I think freedom is beautiful; and it would be also beautiful to
have the possibility of using the full potential of a programming language
brilliant as Revolution.
On other hands, hacking the system may be a way to increase its power; I
don't think Apple really feel hurt by this,
André,
Would you care to share your script? Thanks.
Tom
On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:45 AM, André.Bisseret wrote:
Hi Martin and Tom,
Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 13:29 Europe/Paris, Martin Blackman a
écrit :
Why not have your own 'tooltip' field that you show for as long as
required. Set its
James Spencer wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Klaus Major wrote:
Buongiorno Paul,
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create a
system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
I recently purchased an update to Studio so that I could make my
applications into standalones. I have three apps, one for solving
Sudoku puzzles, one for translating English sentences into Latin and
one for drilling the 14 tenses of Italian verbs. All three of these
apps work perfectly
On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As already said, Rev does not provide such facilities so this is
getting off-topic but the info here is not really correct. While
it is true that there is no Apple sanctioned API for specifically
Menu Bar Extras as referred to in the HIG
Do you have any quits in your application? Could you be encountering some
error on preOpenStack that is causing you to exit?
So the icon just bounces in the dock on OS X and then disappears?
It would be hard to say without knowing more about your stack.
Could you be using something that you
It may be worth noting that there is no sanctioned API for that, as
Apple considers those menus to be exclusively for their own use:
Reserved for use by Apple, the right side of the menu bar
may contain items that provide feedback on and access to
certain hardware or network
Dave,
I would check that your libraries are included in your build. One of
the preferences for a build has a button to include libraries, if
they are not present it can create a problem. That is why a simple
stack works, it doesn't include anything from the libraries. The
player usually
I have also experienced crashes in the script editor on Windows XP Pro.
Used to happen back in 2.5.x as well (on W2K), but 2.6.1 was wonderfully
stable.
Waiting in eager anticipation of 2.7.1
Steve Paris
Dave Beck wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded 2.7 last week and have been having an awful
I've now been programming in a pile of different languages, including
various assembly lanuages, and several dead ones for just about 30
years. However compact and quick-to-write B, C, and their derivatives
are, they are unbelievably difficult to read, which prompted one
speaker at a VAX
Rob,
I agree wholeheartedly with you on this. Switch statements are not
hard to comprehend once you've got some mental velcro to hang them
onto, some preexisting knowledge to connect to. They are imposing
when you don't have that.
Two conditions need to be met for most programming
Mark,
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Mark Wieder wrote:
Case-Switch statements are preferred by real programmers.
Not so. I've put forth the situations in which I would normally use
switch statements, but I do use if/then statements (and even elses) a
whole lot. I even nest them.
Fair enough!
Well, of course. However, the larger looming point is that instead of
using PowerPoint because it's the right tool for the job, they choose it
as a runner-up to the thing that is the right tool, some crucial parts of
which are utterly incomprehensible out of the box.
Like using case statements
This reminds me of an ACM article I'm having the students read this week
(It's something like 'Text vs Hypertext: Which is easier to use to find
information' or some such thing).
It involved two groups with reference material on Sherlockiana -- one
group had all the info in a Hypercard stack and
Thanks very much for the useful info, Stomfi!
For new Linux users, Stomfi is a VERY distinguished Linux educator. You
can find a wealth of top information written by him at
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1211.html
However, with regard to the distribution of Linux/Mac versions of
Karen wrote:
On 20 Feb 2006, at 01:07, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
Yes, you should be able to do it. Revolution has a global property
called the icon which, if set, specifies the icon that is displayed in
the OS X dock. You could write a script that takes a snapshot of a small
image
Yep. The politics of higher ed (at least at my own campus) are
mind-boggling.
One of the arguments clusters around the notion that all bachelor's
degrees should require roughly the same number of units/credit hours in
the subject, regardless of how complex or not the subject is. Anything
else
Judy Perry wrote:
Like using case statements and pwhich's where a simple if-then series will
do. ;-)
I know we can easily re-write the Original Poster's script with a simple
if-then series.
But if you can rewrite it without a 'pWhich' (or an equivalent
'theItem', or 'pBasket', or )
Judy-
Monday, February 20, 2006, 10:16:02 AM, you wrote:
It's kind of like getting past the hurdle of writing your first
function. And why you would want to do that in the first place.
Yeah, my programming binky is still firmly clenched between my teeth on
this one @;-)
g Pretty much my
Custom Properties is the winner!
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* I will usually use a custom property: 50% (11)
* about 50%/50%: 27% (6)
* I will usually use a global variable: 23% (5)
Total Votes : 22
with some really
Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 17:09 Europe/Paris, Thomas McGrath III a
écrit :
André,
Would you care to share your script? Thanks.
Tom
It's my pleasure, Tom
---
---In the script of the field :
Remind you : the field contains titles of texts (not wrapped lines) ;
some
templateCard property???
Summary:
Used with the set command to set the properties of newly created cards.
sqb
So, the question is... is there some way to set up some kind of
custom prop set, such that when you do create card the new card
will have those custom props generated
I think Richard meant for those of us in the inventive software business...
Who wants to be a lemming - Give me the esoteric, the unusual the
serendipitous that no one else is doing!
If the only software worth developing etc
Then
You had better tell all those open source donkeys at Linux,
Folks,
please someone fill my lack of knowledge of windows platform. Do I
need to escape spaces in folder names in windows like using \ in
MacOS X?
Cheers
andre
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Folks,
please someone fill my lack of knowledge of windows
platform. Do I
need to escape spaces in folder names in windows
like using \ in
MacOS X?
Cheers
andre
Hi Andre,
Why exactly do you need this for? For shell commands
it should
Rev 2.6.1
Greetings,
The Dock Icon thread got me thinking... Is it possible in Rev to add
a menu icon entry in the Mac Menu Bar up top?
I'm not actually working any project that needs that, but was just
curious, as it might be cool for some later projects.
Thanks,
-Garrett
On Feb 20, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote:
Rev 2.6.1
Greetings,
The Dock Icon thread got me thinking... Is it possible in Rev to
add a menu icon entry in the Mac Menu Bar up top?
Disregard this question as someone else asked it also in the System
Menus thread.
-Garrett
On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:24 AM, James Spencer wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As already said, Rev does not provide such facilities so this is
getting off-topic but the info here is not really correct. While
it is true that there is no Apple sanctioned API for
I've been working a lot with Custom Properties lately and have come
across an undocumented system condition that's taken a while for me
to find out aboutso I'll pass it along.
I say 'condition' because I think this is normal behavior for the
custom property system. But it's a GOTCHA for
Hi all, when I want to use the start using script I have to use it in every
sub stack or the main stack will do it?
Thank's Hershel
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Judy,
Inquiring minds want to know: what were the results of the ACM test?
Dennis
On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
This reminds me of an ACM article I'm having the students read this
week
(It's something like 'Text vs Hypertext: Which is easier to use to
find
information'
On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
I've been working a lot with Custom Properties lately and have come
across an undocumented system condition that's taken a while for me
to find out aboutso I'll pass it along.
I say 'condition' because I think this is normal behavior
Rev 2.6.1
Greetings,
Has anyone ever found a way to add spell checking ability into
resulting rev apps?
Thanks,
-Garrett
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Hi Hershel,
Mainly, three ways of doing:
1. Start using stack Stack descriptor: put the script of stack
Stack descriptor into the message path. Used with libraries.
2. Insert script of Control descriptor into front/back: put a
specific script into the message path to receive the messages
André,
I tried your script and it works reasonably well. I'm not sure how
much better you could make it without creating your own tooltip windows.
GTH
Tom
On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:46 PM, André.Bisseret wrote:
---
---In the script of the field :
Remind you : the field
Trevor -
I've seen references that the brackets are enough to serve as quotes
- it works either way for me. That's not the problem.
Quotes or no quotes - I've found one can't save a custom property
with a name of an existing regular PROPERTY in the same object
without problems -- unless of
On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
I've seen references that the brackets are enough to serve as
quotes - it works either way for me. That's not the problem.
Quotes or no quotes - I've found one can't save a custom property
with a name of an existing regular PROPERTY in
Thanks Dave and Bruce for the info...
This (below) was very interesting;
(By the way, the engine makes two calls to the url to do this. First
it retrieves the entire url from the server, then writes back the
retrieved data with the new data appended. So this may not offer the
efficiency you
I have a colleague who wants to build what amounts to an SMTP proxy
that sits between a standard email client, listens on the proper port
for output, pre-processes email, and then sends it out to a
pre-defined SMTP server. Minimal UI.
It's not clear if this project is feasible, and if so whether
I second what Mark says about these sorts of explanations, particularly the
Assume nothing and inclusion of (complete) example scripts for new users.
Thanks to the forum I now have a (partially) working menu, thanks to these
posts I understand parameters more clearly. Transcript may be
Stephen,
Let me see if I understand correctly. Are you saying you can't do
something like this:
set the uMyPropSet[name] of this stack to my value
yes! did you try this??
reserved words, maybe, but duplicate properties names -- nope.
Is this a bug or just the way it is?
?
I use rev
Ken Apthorpe wrote:
I second what Mark says about these sorts of explanations, particularly the
Assume nothing and inclusion of (complete) example scripts for new users.
Thanks to the forum I now have a (partially) working menu, thanks to these
posts I understand parameters more clearly.
Stephen Barncard wrote:
Trevor -
I've seen references that the brackets are enough to serve as quotes -
it works either way for me. That's not the problem.
Quotes or no quotes - I've found one can't save a custom property with a
name of an existing regular PROPERTY in the same object
On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Ken Apthorpe wrote:
You are having a dream. You are in a different country, and
there's a group
of locals around you all talking to each other. It's an english-like
language, you catch individual words but they string them together
in a very
strange way. You
On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:
Hi all, when I want to use the start using script I have to use it
in every
sub stack or the main stack will do it?
I had a start using in the startup script and it seemed to never get
called. So I added a small script in front of the
Ken Apthorpe wrote:
You are having a dream. You are in a different country, and there's a group
of locals around you all talking to each other. It's an english-like
language, you catch individual words but they string them together in a very
strange way. You stand there gawking and trying to
Ken Apthorpe wrote:
I second what Mark says about these sorts of explanations, particularly the
Assume nothing and inclusion of (complete) example scripts for new users.
I found my old notes (from the HyperCard list, but Rev is the same.) It
has a simple example. If I get time, I will combine
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
Stephen,
Let me see if I understand correctly. Are you saying you can't do
something like this:
set the uMyPropSet[name] of this stack to my value
yes! did you try this??
reserved words, maybe, but duplicate properties names -- nope.
Garrett,
This topic has kept my interest for some time.
Jean-Baptiste LE STANG has written an AppleScript extension
http://www.lestang.org/ that allows a link to Apple's OSX spell
checking engine. It can be used with Revolution to create a spell
checker. Obviously it requires OSX
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Regardless of the above, you couldn't say a truer thing. Reserved
words shouldn't be used for variable names.
Jacque,
I'm going to respectfully disagree on this one in that I haven't
found any problems with using reserved words as keys
Charles-
Monday, February 20, 2006, 5:27:41 PM, you wrote:
Hah! back atcha...
A friend from California was heading down to Lafayette, Louisiana to
attend school. He drove into town and stopped at a gas station to ask
the attendant for directions and it was a full 60 seconds into the
answer
Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Regardless of the above, you couldn't say a truer thing. Reserved
words shouldn't be used for variable names.
Jacque,
I'm going to respectfully disagree on this one in that I haven't found
any problems with using
Jacque-
on alertStranger mixmastabilongjeezuscrise!
beep
put wanpelasquashimallbuggerup! into field Stupid
end alertStranger
What are they telling you?
shoodnaswaronlis. aneniway, prameterzdonhakwotz.
Yahnesclamathingstu. Gon confuzikompila, no?
--
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On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Scott Morrow wrote:
Garrett,
This topic has kept my interest for some time.
Jean-Baptiste LE STANG has written an AppleScript extension
http://www.lestang.org/
Excellent, thanks a bunch Scott. I have a couple of projects that I
would love to have spell
Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
on alertStranger mixmastabilongjeezuscrise!
beep
put wanpelasquashimallbuggerup! into field Stupid
end alertStranger
What are they telling you?
shoodnaswaronlis. aneniway, prameterzdonhakwotz.
Yahnesclamathingstu. Gon confuzikompila, no?
Nahdifits
At 19:27 -0600 2/20/06, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I just did this:
set the cList[name] of this stack to testName
put the cList[name] of this stack
And got the expected result. Did I do the test right?
J. did you check to see if the stack name changed?
This does it every time in the Inspector:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 7:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Regardless of the above, you couldn't say a truer thing.
Reserved words shouldn't be used for variable names.
Jacque,
I'm going to respectfully disagree on this one
Aha! I can reproduce both of these. Now I see what you mean. You and
Trevor are talking about two different things.
Trevor is naming new property sets uniquely. The keys of these custom
property sets can be anything, but the actual name of the set itself
cannot be a reserved word. That's what
Stephen and Trevor,
This is a long-standing complaint of mine about custom properties
in MC/RR (please see the archives), which has usually received at
best irrelevant responses, if any at all (the most common response).
IMHO, for consistency, *all* custom properties should be quoted
I'm feeling the odd, irresistable urge to fire up PowerPoint...
blech :-(
;-P
Judy
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote:
on alertStranger mixmastabilongjeezuscrise!
beep
put wanpelasquashimallbuggerup! into field Stupid
end alertStranger
What are they telling you?
I'm trusting C3PO could translate this?? (yup, you guessed it: kiddies
are just now new devotees to the Jedi religion...)
Judy
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Mark Wieder wrote:
shoodnaswaronlis. aneniway, prameterzdonhakwotz.
Yahnesclamathingstu. Gon confuzikompila, no?
You should see what it gives me when I feed it medieval french.
Does Babelfish do Klingon? I know it doesn't do medieval french...
Judy
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote:
What are they telling you?
shoodnaswaronlis. aneniway, prameterzdonhakwotz.
Yahnesclamathingstu. Gon
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Hi Folks,
I was testing a SQL locking issue and found that the
revDataFromQuery function will cause Rev to crash if
the query fails due to a locked record. My ODBC
connection specifies repeatable read as the
default isolation level in the ODBC
Howdy Dan,
On Feb 20, 2006, at 18:05, Dan Shafer wrote:
I have a colleague who wants to build what amounts to an SMTP proxy
that sits between a standard email client, listens on the proper port
for output, pre-processes email, and then sends it out to a
pre-defined SMTP server. Minimal UI.
Tch tch, I don't think anyone really tried. It's quite easy if you know a
bit of pidgin from Papua New Guinea.
mixmastabilongjeezuscrise
mixmasta = mixmaster, a 1950's brand of electric beater for eggs, cream,
cakes etc.
bilong = belongs to
jeezuscrise = Jesus Christ
So, it's something
On 20 Feb 2006, at 23:51, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
Yes, I was looking for efficiency as well as privacy (not to
mention simplicity!). I didn't want to do this via getting a cgi;
as I understand it, those calls can be read. (is this still true if
one does it through rev and not with the
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