teaser

2010-08-11 Thread Shao Sean
still low standards but here are a couple little teaser videos of stuff i have been working on.. a 5 minute video showing off how to quickly create a basic ftp client with the FTP control.. http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stUElQR0JLRFtXQV1UX19cVlVX/ssftpcontrol and a shorter (2

Re: teaser

2010-08-11 Thread Matthias Rebbe
That looks promising! Will the SMTP control support attachments? When can we test them? Regards, Matthias Am 11.08.2010 um 09:00 schrieb Shao Sean: still low standards but here are a couple little teaser videos of stuff i have been working on.. a 5 minute video showing off how to

[OT] O'Reilly eBook deal of the day (top 10 books for USD 9.99)

2010-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, O'Reilly is promoting a deal that will last only for today. They are offering their top 10 ebooks for USD 9.99. Thought you guys might like it. http://oreilly.com/store/ddbst.html Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code.

Re: teaser

2010-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Shao Sean, You Rock!!! These are such time savers that I think I could put them into use right now. Congratulations on very elegant design (loved the callbacks) and overall developer friendliness. I look forward for the time when these will be available. If you have the inclination, please

Re: Front scripts vs Behaviors

2010-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Dar Scott had a quite nice stack called message path primer which was great! It was my introduction to rev message path and till today I still remember it fondly. Wonder if RevOnline still has it... Just checked, it does not, but I have his website handy: http://pages.swcp.com/dsc/revstacks.html

Re: the pendingClick

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I was going to post something on those lines too (the one where you set a variable to know whether to not do the mouseup after all), but there's a big problem. The rules for mousedoubleup are that it is triggered when the mouse is released after the double click. That means you could click,

Re: the pendingClick

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Controls that take different behaviors based on whether a single- or double-click has been received often limit the single-click behavior to selection, but reserve any action for the double-click. For example, you may have an Inspector that updates when an object is single-clicked, but

Re: Functions for On-Rev

2010-08-11 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Alex and Pierre, Good tips! Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Sneidar
So THAT'S why I spilled my coffee!!! Bob On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You got a little confused is all. You're supposed to let the *engine* keep the list, not you. :) But here's what really happened, and you shouldn't blame yourself. I saw your request but there

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
You got a little confused is all. You're supposed to let the *engine* keep the list, not you. :) But here's what really happened, and you shouldn't blame yourself. I saw your request but there was nothing I could do until I finished my time warp stack a few years from now. Then I went back to

Re: Multiple revCursors stacks

2010-08-11 Thread Hershel Fisch
Hi and thanks, sorry I meant to say subStacks for a main stack. Also how can I check the dates? Thanks, Hershel On 8/10/10 11:31 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 8/10/10 2:52 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi, I¹m wordering why I have multiple stacks with name ³revCursors² and

Re: revdb_connectionerr

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for the replies and clarification. I do normally check the result of each db call but came across a circumstance where revdb_connectionerr would have been useful. I like the idea of using try/catch for all db operations and will implement that but I guess it relies on knowing what

Re: Classic CGI on Win

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Malte- I found the writeup I posted to this list on 18 April 2006 archived at gmane. I'm posting it in its entirety. In 2006 I was still using a Win2k server, so some of this is probably different now. I still don't recommend doing this, but this should at least give you an idea of what you'd be

Re: revdb_connectionerr

2010-08-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Pete, In checking the result of a db connection, each time the POST or GET command did'nt return the expected reply from the cgi or irev script, you will get directly the SQL backend debug comment in the detailed level mode as set in your db server prefs. Always very usefull, at least in

Re: Front scripts vs Behaviors

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mark. I've read Richard's write up before, very useful. Maybe if I explain a bit more what I'm trying to achieve. I've written a development framework for my apps which serves as the interface between controls on cards and my sqlite database. Groups on the card are tied to a db

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Haworth
I would love to see the ability to drag/drop controls into or out of a group in the Application Browser window. Sometimes ungrouping, select/ deselect control, group can be really error prone if nested groups/ hidden fields are involved. Pete On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:12 AM,

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Pete, That is a really useful feature request. Bugzilla it and we'll vote! Andre On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.comwrote: I would love to see the ability to drag/drop controls into or out of a group in the Application Browser window. Sometimes ungrouping,

Microsoft Win XP and read only folders

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Talluto
Today we had an issue with XP and its intentional desire to set folders in specialPath(26) to read only. If you ever find that your update tech or prefs logic fail when it shouldn't, you may have fallen victim to permissions being set to read only. Keep in mind that MS does this on purpose

Re: Microsoft Win XP and read only folders

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Sneidar
The thing that scares me about your approach, is the (some software will not operate correctly with the system attribute disclaimer. I would be very reticent to change any installations default system behavior if it might cause problems for other software down the road. Obviously, this is a

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre, Pete- Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 10:16:27 AM, you wrote: Pete, That is a really useful feature request. Bugzilla it and we'll vote! tRev does this already. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Multiple revCursors stacks

2010-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/10 11:07 AM, Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi and thanks, sorry I meant to say subStacks for a main stack. Also how can I check the dates? I see, it was an inclusion in a standalone. In that case you'll need to delete the duplicate stacks manually using the Application Browser. Right-click on

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/10 10:52 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: I think that time travel external of yours would make a nice RevSelect add-on. I want to get it in my 2008 MegaBundle please. How do you know you didn't? :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Front scripts vs Behaviors

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 10:01:05 AM, you wrote: interface between controls on cards and my sqlite database. Groups on the card are tied to a db table and controls in the group are tied to columns in the table related to the group. Cool. I've thought of doing something like that.

Re: teaser

2010-08-11 Thread Shao Sean
Will the SMTP control support attachments? If you need this now, look for our old MIME Encoding library.. When can we test them? We feel that the quality of them is too low to publicly test.. Congratulations on very elegant design (loved the callbacks) and overall developer friendliness

Re: teaser

2010-08-11 Thread Shao Sean
we were asked off-list but we figured an on-list reply would be beneficial to anyone else wondering.. the ftp control does not use libURL but a completely brand new code base that is non-blocking and allows for multiple connections (including multiple downloads).. keep in mind that rev is

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Sneidar
Look I keep spilling my coffee into these temporal rifts that time travel external opens up next to my desk. Do you have any idea how hot coffee coming through a temporal rift could alter time for all of us? And why MY desk?? Bob On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On

Find or Search Function

2010-08-11 Thread Ted Mills
Does anyone know of a tutorial showing how to create a search function or a find function that can be used to search all cards in a stack for a certain word that may be in all fields and then going to that card as well as have next and previous functionality to find each instance of the search? I

Re: [OT] Moving forward

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
While we're quoting nuns... The only way I know what I really believe is by keeping watch over what I do. -- Sister Helen Prejean -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:01 AM, William Roger Moseid wrote: Bravo, Jerry! Jerry

Re: Find or Search Function

2010-08-11 Thread DunbarX
There always seems to be a better way, but you can always: on mouseUp ask Find? if it then put it into tFind repeat with y = 1 to the number of cds repeat with u = 1 to the number of flds of cd y if tFind is in fld u of cd y then put fld id the id of fld u of cd y

Re: [OT] Moving forward

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: The only way I know what I really believe is by keeping watch over what I do. -- Sister Helen Prejean I met her once. She seemed nice. It was in connection with a HyperCard based version of Dead Man Walking.

Re: Multiple revCursors stacks

2010-08-11 Thread Hershel Fisch
Hi and thanks, Sorry didn't express myself properly, so I'll try to elaborate a bit, When I open RunRev everything sounds fine, I then open my App. A message comes up saying A stack revMacCursors is already in memory. The Revolution UI does not distinguish stacks which have identical names,so

Re: Find or Search Function

2010-08-11 Thread Colin Holgate
In HyperCard you could speed up that sort of thing by saying: unmark all cards mark cards by finding whatever repeat with a = 1 to the number of marked cards go marked card a --then run around the fields if you need to end repeat That may well work the same in Rev, and might make things

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/10/10 8:47 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: :-O x 1 Is it that simple?!!? :-O *GASP* I can code a whole web server in Rev but could not do it! :-D Now, for your amusement, I will tell you what I was doing. I kept a Stack (the

Re: [HELP] anyone have a simple handler to add a control to a group programatically?

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Andre, Pete- Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 10:16:27 AM, you wrote: Pete, That is a really useful feature request. Bugzilla it and we'll vote! (I would love to see the ability to drag/drop controls into or out of a group in the Application

Date to Days

2010-08-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Has any kind soul (not on holiday) got a script for converting a date to a number of days (any recent base such as 1900 will suffice). With Thanks - Francis Nothing should ever be done for the first time ! ___

Re: Date to Days

2010-08-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Has any kind soul (not on holiday) got a script for converting a date to a number of days (any recent base such as 1900 will suffice). You will have to do some math to acheive days, but here is a start. From the Rev Dictionary: convert the date the time to seconds

RE: ListMagic Users: Cannot import LM data with the status of checkboxes

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Bufalini
Hi Charles, The checkboxes are not part of an export or import. They are only active when you are using the list and their status is not saved. In this sense they are similar to highlighting a line. The line highlight is also not saved in an export or restored in an import. If this is important

Re: Date to Days

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Ault
Study Sarah's offering from her web site http://troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks look for DateTime stack On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Has any kind soul (not on holiday) got a script for converting a date to a number

Re: Find or Search Function

2010-08-11 Thread Ted Mills
Thanks for the response's. I will give it a shot and see what happens. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Find-or-Search-Function-tp2321792p2321929.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

SoCal Rev User Group meeting: Thursday, August 19th

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
The next meeting of the Southern California Rev User Group will be on Thursday, August 19th, at 7PM in Glendale. Early birds can meet at 6PM at the restaurant across the street to share a meal before the meeting. One of the topics being presented is an overview of Rev on Linux; other topics

Dividing Line in Button

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Friedman
Greetings... You can add a dividing line in a option menu (a button who's menuMode is set to option) on the Mac by simply putting a - into a line in the button's text. How do you get a dividing line on Windows? All I get is the dash. Thanks in advance,

Re: Dividing Line in Button

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Friedman wrote: You can add a dividing line in a option menu (a button who's menuMode is set to option) on the Mac by simply putting a - into a line in the button's text. How do you get a dividing line on Windows? All I get is the dash. Not supported by the Win HIG - I say ignore the

Re: Microsoft Win XP and read only folders

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Talluto
I have not decided one way or the other just yet. We have the luxury though of having the hardware to ourselves. Our software stands alone on the hardware as the equipment it runs on has one central focus. This may not work well for those that make apps that must exist with the rest of the

Re: SoCal Rev User Group meeting: Thursday, August 19th

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Vlahos
Yay! Thanks Richard. I'll be there. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The next meeting of the Southern California Rev User

Re: Multiple revCursors stacks

2010-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/10 3:12 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi and thanks, Sorry didn't express myself properly, so I'll try to elaborate a bit, When I open RunRev everything sounds fine, I then open my App. A message comes up saying A stack revMacCursors is already in memory. The Revolution UI does not

Re: Microsoft Win XP and read only folders

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 10:34:58 AM, you wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256614 The technote says it applies only to Win2k. Are you saying that you also had the same problem on XP and that applying the registry key fixed the problem? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net