RE: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Kay, another true computer scientist. -Original Message- From: Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.com Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:11 PM To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Rev and the iPad Oops. Getting late. Meant to say: The best way to PREDICT the

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Dear all, i think it is all said. Please stop this annoying discussion. This list is called use-revolution, so maybe we can come back to this again. Thank you! Matthias Am 03.05.2010 um 07:23 schrieb Randall Lee Reetz: Are you closer to understanding entropy and the evolution of

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition (was: Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

2010-05-03 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Dear all, i think it is all said. Please stop this annoying discussion. This list is called use-revolution, so maybe we can come back to this again. Thank you! Matthias Am 03.05.2010 um 07:47 schrieb Randall Lee Reetz: Why don't you ask the guys at adobe if their content is really aware.

RE: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
I hope you are kidding. -Original Message- From: Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:12 PM To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Rev and the iPad Jerry- Sunday, May 2, 2010, 9:11:01 PM, you wrote: Oops. Getting late. Meant

RE: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition (was: Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Why don't you ask the guys at adobe if their content is really aware. -Original Message- From: Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:27 PM To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

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: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
I guess if a person is sufficiently ignorant or has their fingers in their ears and screams, any honest answer will slip by un recognized. Would you like it better if I said the future of computing is better touch up tools in photo editors? In the nixon administration your rhetorical

RE: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition (was: Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
I can see how the word revolution in the context of this list has acquired so anemic and castrated a meaning. I am sorry. Next time, I will use a word that means all the way around, or when a king is replaced by a democracy. time. -Original Message- From: Ian Wood

RE: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Are you closer to understanding entropy and the evolution of complexity now? -Original Message- From: Mark Swindell mdswind...@cruzio.com Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 7:17 PM To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

Re: [OT, way way OT] Barney, HC, and the glory days

2010-05-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
I just keep wondering if early ideas of some of those kids, later in life, materialized like: http://www.southparkstudios.com/ http://htf.atom.com/ Still today, there are hundreds of stacks archived in Umich: http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/hypercard/ Computer users have multiplied by 1000%

OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, still struggeling with keeping the locked flag of a file when zipping and unzipping. I followed exactly Thierries advice to use following syntax: ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc SrcFolder testditto.zip and though a locked file in Thierries environment is still locked after unzipping, in my

Re: [OT, way way OT] Barney, HC, and the glory days

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: And it's been a while since I've seen a *real* HC stack in action - it's mindboggling that people still compare rev with this... er... dinosaur... Well, to be fair, the younger set didn't use most of HC's capabilities, such as they were. I have several hundred other

Re: [OT, way way OT] Barney, HC, and the glory days

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: WOW, does this take me back to the old days... I just want to go code a card based animation in BW and see if it will go viral on Facebook! You have to get a nine year old to do it. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Colin- Sunday, May 2, 2010, 8:52:47 PM, you wrote: On May 2, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Should we just keep dancing on titanic's deck? Is stupidity the new brilliant? Aha! Hence the new Apple slogan: Sink Different. Groan/ Kill Colin! See

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I just want a viable programming language on Linux. When stuff happens, I try to figure out whether they make it more or less likely that we'll be able to get it from Rev. You can't avoid trying to figure out what is going to happen, unless you want to make decisions by tossing a coin. I wish

Re: OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread Thierry D.
Le 3 mai 2010 à 08:54, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit : Hello, still struggeling with keeping the locked flag of a file when zipping and unzipping. I followed exactly Thierries advice to use following syntax: ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc SrcFolder testditto.zip :( and though a locked file

AW: OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Bonjour Thierry, thank you for caring :) and though a locked file in Thierries environment is still locked after unzipping, in my environment (MacOS 10.5.8) the file isn't locked anymore after unzipping. MacOS 10.6 here. Could it be this ? new ditto version in it ? Actually I

Re: AW: OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread Thierry D.
Le 3 mai 2010 à 09:56, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit : Another thought : Have you all the rights ( user and group ) to do so ? May be worth a try with this one : sudo ditto ... Good luck Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list

AW: AW: OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Same result, thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Thierry D. Gesendet: Montag, 3. Mai 2010 10:13 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: AW: OT: need advice for keeping

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Kay C Lan
Ah, been gone for a couple of hours and come back to exactly what I expected. Not a single List member nominated another List member as being more capable of running Apple than Steve Jobs. And not for want of campaigning. Some very spirited and some rather long posts clearly trying to persuade

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread chris livermore
Wow! well said Kay... commonsense is back in town. On 03/05/2010, at 6:34 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Ah, been gone for a couple of hours and come back to exactly what I expected. Not a single List member nominated another List member as being more capable of running Apple than Steve Jobs. And

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 3 mai 2010 à 00:00, Mark Swindell a écrit : I think a great problem for Rev stacks is that they are mostly created by one-man or woman shops. There are not teams with project directors, artists, photoshop experts, animators, etc. (Scott Rossi may qualify as a team, in this scenario,

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread René Micout
Pierre, It is long but I will read it... C'est long, mais je vais faire l'effort de lire... Bon souvenir de Paris René Le 3 mai 2010 à 11:37, Pierre Sahores a écrit : Le 3 mai 2010 à 00:00, Mark Swindell a écrit : I think a great problem for Rev stacks is that they are mostly created by

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

2010-05-03 Thread Ian Wood
On 3 May 2010, at 06:47, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Why don't you ask the guys at adobe if their content is really aware. So your only response to someone taking the time to go through your email in a serious manner and discuss the topics included is to take a pot-shot and not respond to

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread Pierre Sahores
René, Interesting in getting your feedback ;-) Une version remise en forme sous une forme plus fun (interview par un pote) devrait être dispo. prochainement. Best Regards from Jurançon, Pierre Le 3 mai 2010 à 12:16, René Micout a écrit : Pierre, It is long but I will read it... C'est

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
I am reposting this as it seems to have got lost amongst the recent cruft. It actually concerns an aspect of RunRev programming! - Yesterday I wrote: -

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 3, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: The best way to PREDICT the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay I wonder if Alan Kay predicted that Apple would remove his Scratch App from the App Store. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Colin Holgate: Aha! Hence the new Apple slogan: Sink Different. Please forgive me, but for those who haven't seen it, this clip is right on the mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMhICbFn2JI___ use-revolution mailing list

Re trouble with Tab Panels

2010-05-03 Thread Steve King
Hi Mark That sort of fixed it - should have guessed from background saying put after card in message path Realised I had two problems though, one not passing and secondly the tab panel seems to have a different group ID on one card. So now it works on two cards (having same Tab panel ID) and

Re: Printing in Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Steve King
Hi Jacqueline Yes, the Printer libraries are included in the standalone build, I've let Rev sort out libraries itself and also tried manually including. This has no effect though Code is : on mouseUp --answer printer (just me experimenting) --answer page setup (Just me experimenting)

Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I think that the combination of portability/touchscreen opens up a few new tricks; an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiEqf5wb3gNR=1feature=fvwp It seems to me that Apple has its own versions of technologies that accept a greater variety of user inputs, perhaps mitigating the need for

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Alan Kay didn't create the Scratch App for the App Store. John McIntosh, a software developer unaffiliated with MIT, made the Scratch app for iPhone. Read more here: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-scratch-app/ Tom Read More

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 3, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Alan Kay didn't create the Scratch App for the App Store. John McIntosh, a software developer unaffiliated with MIT, made the Scratch app for iPhone. I wonder if Alan Kay predicted that an App based on his Squeak language would be

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread René Micout
Is this true ? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO René___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Graham Heather Harrison
Having exhausted all conceivable testing scenarios (including suggestions from this list, available lessons and tutorials) to get rev to recognise Shao Sean's ssMacWindows external, I was forced to confront the Sherlock Holmesian alternative that the problem might lie with ssMacWindows. A long

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread René Micout
Hello Kurt, Beautiful realisation ! René Le 3 mai 2010 à 14:14, Kurt Kaufman a écrit : I think that the combination of portability/touchscreen opens up a few new tricks; an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiEqf5wb3gNR=1feature=fvwp It seems to me that Apple has its own versions

Rép : Apples actual response to the Flash iss ue

2010-05-03 Thread René Micout
Is this true ? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO René___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

ANN: Clipboard Link CC File Converter updated

2010-05-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, This weekend, Economy-x-Talk has updated two products that were made with RunRev: Clipboard Link and CC File Converter. Clipboard Link shares the clipboard of your computer with other computers on the network. The new version 1.2 now works fine on all platforms, including

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: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Kurt Kaufman kkauf...@snet.net wrote: I think that the combination of portability/touchscreen opens up a few new tricks; an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiEqf5wb3gNR=1feature=fvwp It seems to me that Apple has its own versions of technologies that

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
René Micout wrote: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO From tech blogger Hank Williams, on April 9: Trying to control where something is originally done is attempting to control the thought process that yields a given result. Because if you

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

2010-05-03 Thread Andre Garzia
what is happening on my list :-( I stay away for a couple of days and all things break loose... tesc tesc tesc... Now, I've just devised the perfect solution for this! Now, Revolution powered list monitor software will scan every email and assign a Revolution Content Rate factor to it, if it has

Re: Rev and the iPad

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ha ha, Thanks for that Colin, I hope pointing out the author of Scratch didn't come off as rude. I want a Dynabook Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net I Can Speak - Communication for the rest of us... http://mypad.lazyriver.on-rev.com

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

2010-05-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Is this true ? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJ djFoLD5vBSkguGO I hope you all don't mind my splitting this topic away from the others. If this is true, it may actually bring about some desirable changes. While a few squeaking developers may not have any impact

Re: Re trouble with Tab Panels

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: Hi Mark That sort of fixed it - should have guessed from background saying put after card in message path Realised I had two problems though, one not passing and secondly the tab panel seems to have a different group ID on one card. So now it works on two cards (having

Re: Card cut off at bottom because of menu

2010-05-03 Thread charles61
Jacqueline, Yes, I see what you mean. Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On May 2, 2010, at 8:49 PM, J. Landman Gay [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: charles61 wrote: Jacqueline, I tried your OS X menu script in my stack: on preOpenStack set the loc of this stack to the

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

2010-05-03 Thread David Bovill
Yes - I hope it ramps things up. On 3 May 2010 15:34, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: Is this true ? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJ djFoLD5vBSkguGO I hope you all don't mind my splitting this topic away from the others. If this is

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Jerry Daniels
I actually believe Apple HOPED the iPad and their overall initiative to reinvent computing would be a huge success. But I think they had concerns regarding how quickly it would sell beyond the Apple faithful...especially the reinvent computing part. Apple initially under-built the iPad in terms

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

2010-05-03 Thread stephen barncard
Remembering the dark days in the 90s when I had to defend my use of the Mac platform at work every day, seeing this comment on a CNN story today made me smile.. If you are going to use Apple news to report tech, where is the PC news? I have never seen any. When you do cover it to seem

Re: Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Devin Asay
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 Peripherally Related to Rev list. What

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

2010-05-03 Thread paolo mazza
I am still fighting with the NO-ASCI chars. Even if I encodeBase64 the data, if I connect to the CGI from a web-plugin using Windows platform , I get stange chars. From exactly the same CGI, and using the same revlet, from MAC i get the correct chars with accent (i.e. è à ù ) and from

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: No-asci chars from the on-rev CGI

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
paolo mazza wrote: I am still fighting with the NO-ASCI chars. Even if I encodeBase64 the data, if I connect to the CGI from a web-plugin using Windows platform , I get stange chars. From exactly the same CGI, and using the same revlet, from MAC i get the correct chars with accent (i.e.

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: PS: This message has an RCR of 2, so I've been given a Bug to solve, but since QA center is down, I am yet to know which one. It's back up again, so get to work. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: OT: need advice for keeping file flags in a zip

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: still struggeling with keeping the locked flag of a file when zipping and unzipping. Have you tried the rev zip external? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

RE: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Wow. You have a knack for pre-shaping a question to extract the exact result you are seeking, and then way way way over reading the complete lack of participation in your stacked survey to mean that the list agrees with your pre-spun conclusion. Your survey was set up as a trap and everyone

Re: Printing in Windows

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: Hi Jacqueline Yes, the Printer libraries are included in the standalone build, I've let Rev sort out libraries itself and also tried manually including. This has no effect though Didn't really think it would, since your script doesn't use the rev- printing commands. You

Re: Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Devin Asay
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 changeover to Win 7 in our Windows labs and

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Graham Heather Harrison wrote: Whether ssMacWindows has a problem with rev 4.0.0, or Mac OS X 10.6.3 I can't say, and I have not found a way to contact Shao Sean; there is no link on his web site. Can anyone help me with contact information, or who best to ask at Rev? She reads this list so

if message is XYZ then do next step (not working)?

2010-05-03 Thread Shani
Hi, I receive a message through String that XYZ reached at goal. When I try this But this command not work where as the second command work 1.if pResult is XYZ reached at goal then click at the loc of

RE: problems with Tabbed Panels

2010-05-03 Thread Steve King
HI Jacqueline Unfortunately, I had already done it by creating a blank new card from one of the 'good' ones and then copying the objects over. Works fine now. However, this is really good to know - much easier than the way I did it :-) Thanks for the help Cheers Steve Steve King wrote: ... I

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issueing

2010-05-03 Thread William Roger Moseid
Jerry's middle name might be Thor as it seems he has found out how to make The Hammer. Meaning, you beat 'em by joining 'em. Uh, that is, stacking up an overwhelming CheckMate. Best, William ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: Problems with Windows Print orientation

2010-05-03 Thread Steve King
Hi Jacqueline Good idea, but this didn't seem to work either. I did also try deleting the last reset of the orientation (in the past I have had problems with Rev racing on before Windows had caught up...) but no different, so it's not that. Temprorarily I have adjusted scaling to fit on a

Re: if message is XYZ then do next step (not working)?

2010-05-03 Thread DunbarX
Your handler works for me. If you step through the script, where does it not go wrong? Sometimes in debugging I will rewrite even simple if/then statements in their expanded form: if this then dotThat end if Instead of: if this then doThat. Because you can place a breakpoint at the doThat

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

2010-05-03 Thread Chipp Walters
While, there is certainly nothing wrong with deifying Stevie for yourself, please don't expect us to follow your self serving logic. Fact is, Steve's already got himself in some hot water over his recent draconian practices: (scroll to 1:20 and watch from there.)

RE: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: J. Landman Gay I don't think so. As far as I know, nothing's changed in the way externals work in years. There have been some new ways of forcing them to load (new as of a few years ago,) but the underlying principle of it is the same as always: externals only load when a stack is

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Lambert
JerryD wrote: tRev Mac users will get first access to these new tools to which I now only allude. What a tease! Looking forward to it. Jim Lambert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Graham Heather Harrison wrote: Having exhausted all conceivable testing scenarios (including suggestions from this list, available lessons and tutorials) to get rev to recognise Shao Sean's ssMacWindows external, I was forced to confront the Sherlock Holmesian alternative that the problem might

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 3, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Jsa7su-jIfeature=youtube_gdata Here's the good quality version for US viewers: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes ___ use-revolution

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Paul D. DeRocco wrote: From: J. Landman Gay I don't think so. As far as I know, nothing's changed in the way externals work in years. There have been some new ways of forcing them to load (new as of a few years ago,) but the underlying principle of it is the same as always: externals only load

Re: Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

2010-05-03 Thread Devin Asay
On May 3, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 03/05/2010 19:51, Devin Asay wrote: snip Do you know if any other of your Devawriter users are on SnoLeo, Vista or Win 7. If so, are they seeing the same issues? I do know that various versions of Devawriter have been downloaded

RE: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: J. Landman Gay The dummy stack trick is just a clever work-around to allow you to load an external on demand. It isn't required. It sounds like what changed was the standalone builder rather than the way externals work, but I'm not sure either how that works under the hood.

RE: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Jerry, Guess there's not much I agree with you on this one. I suspect if you ask Richard Gaskin or other developers if their customers really care if their program is Carbon or Cocoa you'll just get a blank stare-- but I'm sure they all agree it works great for them. And Richard has an excellent

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread David Bovill
On 2 May 2010 21:24, Randall Reetz rand...@randallreetz.com wrote: Is this the topic? Really? All you can come up with? Nasty childish nitpicking? Yes emailing is dangerous while driving. I wrote that note at a gas station while filling my tank. I'd be careful replying to emails from a

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread David Bovill
OK - I went out and bought a tRev license and wait expectantly. On 3 May 2010 16:28, Jerry Daniels jerry.dani...@me.com wrote: But I can say this: If you want to get involved in single language development for Mac, iPhone, iPad and whatever comes next, now would be a good time to get tRev, a

RE: if message is XYZ then do next step (not working)?

2010-05-03 Thread Shani
HI, thanks for your reply, I have tested But this work .if pResult is empty then click at the loc of btn StartGame end if where as

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Thierry D.
Le 3 mai 2010 à 19:56, J. Landman Gay a écrit : The dummy stack trick is just a clever work-around to allow you to load an external on demand. It isn't required. It sounds like what changed was the standalone builder rather than the way externals work, but I'm not sure either how that

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

2010-05-03 Thread Pierre Sahores
LOL :-) Le 3 mai 2010 à 15:13, Andre Garzia a écrit : what is happening on my list :-( I stay away for a couple of days and all things break loose... tesc tesc tesc... Now, I've just devised the perfect solution for this! Now, Revolution powered list monitor software will scan every

Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread John Patten
Hi All... I'm working on a little student utility that changes the text color and underlines the individual word in the target field as they hit the space bar. I'm wondering how I should handle passages of text that are surrounded by quotation marks? I was taking the text passage and

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Devin Asay
On May 3, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Patten wrote: Hi All... I'm working on a little student utility that changes the text color and underlines the individual word in the target field as they hit the space bar. I'm wondering how I should handle passages of text that are surrounded by

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Or, you could just check if the character is a quote and increment your counter justly. Seems to me the easiest way to do this. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On May 3, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Patten wrote: Hi

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I tried your approach and got bogged down, and finally cut the Gordian knot by avoiding the problem altogether. What I ended up doing was making sure that there are no true quotation marks in the text field -- use smart quotes instead. Open quote = numtochar(210) and close quote =

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Alcibiades
But I can say this: If you want to get involved in single language development for Mac, iPhone, iPad and whatever comes next, now would be a good time to get tRev, a Mac and an iPad if you don't already have them. tRev Mac users will get first access to these new tools to which I now only allude.

RE: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

2010-05-03 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Computers that process meaning won't work all day to make the world a better place any more or less than we (or anything else) do. But systems that know about the things they process have a substantial leg up on systems that don't. This isn't a complex concept. The execution of the design of

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Kanter
It looks like a million bucks! On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm just curious. What does that program that sold for two million dollars look like? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thierry, Paul, Thierry said: Concerning your recipie from the previous email, it works only in your context. Pass your stack and your external to someone, and you're stuck again ! Yes, I warned about that and mentioned that a relative file path would be necessary for portability. My example

Re: RevStore

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Kann
Jim, Your remark reminds me when we were kayaking north of Seattle and a woman in our group said I hope we see a ton of whales. Mike --- On Mon, 5/3/10, Jim Kanter j...@d-film.com wrote: From: Jim Kanter j...@d-film.com Subject: Re: RevStore To: How to use Revolution

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC compatibility, which worked the same way. You can often get around it like

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On May 3, 2010, at 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC compatibility, which

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Massung
Just a thought that might be a lot more helpful... Given the context of this application, and the fact that you probably don't want the quotes (and other punctuation) to be highlighted/underlined, I'd just use a regular expression like so (untested): function getNextWord pText, pFrom local

User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Graham Heather Harrison
Jacque wrote: on mouseUp ssSetWindowModified the windowID of this stack, true end mouseUp Make sure you include the ss part of the ssSetWindowModified command. (In one of your previous posts it was omitted.) Well blow me down! If that doesn't bilge the barnacles. All this time I

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Graham Heather Harrison wrote: Well blow me down! If that doesn't bilge the barnacles. I've never heard that before! That's almost as good as linguistic psychedelics from the Thread That Shall Not Be Named. :) One of those times when, because there is a known difficulty, everyone

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC

RE: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: J. Landman Gay Startup is the only time you can set the externals of a stack and have it work. The handler will never trigger during development because the IDE gets the startup message. But when running as a standalone, the mainstack will get a startup message and the externals get

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Michael
Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m On 5/3/10 3:40 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I'm inclined to agree. Put it in the QCC for us? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: User Extensions/Externals

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Paul D. DeRocco wrote: From: J. Landman Gay Startup is the only time you can set the externals of a stack and have it work. The handler will never trigger during development because the IDE gets the startup message. But when running as a standalone, the mainstack will get a startup message and

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael wrote: Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m I could easily have overlooked some simple reason to retain it. How do you use it, generally? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

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