Re: Peace, goodwill, and happy scripting!

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
sims wrote: Learn more about Rev, you say? On that note Richard, next week I will be announcing special 'extra early bird' pricing for those who wish to attend the European Rev Conference 2006. 3-4-5 November 2006 in Malta Keynote Speaker discussion: Kevin Miller CEO of Runtime Revolution

Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Sean Shao
Holy bat guana Batman, what a noisy list lately!! Abso-freakin-lutely nothing lately has really been about using Revolution or anything of the sort. What a joke you are. That and someone's comment about RunRev being in Scotland are the best so far to date.. How much longer will the flaming

RE: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Saperstein
Well said, Sean. Some of the zealots and self-promoters here are furious that someone dared criticize the object of their passion. A few of the private e-mails I've received are magnificient: sputtering, fuming, accusing and indicative of conditions well described in the DSM.

RE: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Jerry, you seem to have a major attitude problem. You don't get it at all and your 'disgruntled customer' bit doesn't really flow here. Everyone else has been pretty nice I think -- the only real FLAMER here seems to be you!! Stop the bad vibes now - go troll somewhere else, please. sqb

Re: Revolution Encyclopedia

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richmond and Chipp, Le 6 déc. 05 à 07:57, Chipp Walters a écrit : There have been other stacks which import the content of the help files and other XML data which ships with Rev. Perhaps that's the tact you should try? IOW, create a stack which is empty but then imports the Dictionary

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
It appears that our friend Jerry Saperstein hates everyone and everything. Maybe in the 'business' too long... It seems he likes the word zealot. A little research shows many complaints and insults on all kinds of forums and lists. Web Quote: By all means, though, avoid Apple,. While

Re: How to Make Rev More Popular [Enhance the IDE]

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
I am sure the extra megabytes is for installing current libraries that most people have installed by now, but that may not be available on the oldest/minimum requirement system supported, or those machines not maintained by Microsoft Update regularly. [As for the business apps stuff, please

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Pierre Sahores
Well said, Sean. Jerry,... The most i love in about Rev = the most i love in about creation : to take a problem and to drive it to its most usefull attendee result solution... Many Thanks to anyone there, in Boulder and in Edimburg, whose helped us in about software to gohead in this way

RE: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Saperstein
Stephen: Other than showing your fanaticism and inability to civily deal with someone who has the temerity to challenge the object of your obsession, what do you hope to accomplish? While it is flattering to imagine you or one of your like-minded zealots Googling me, what is your point?

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Jerry and all others, As you know it, I never reply to mails about Rev philosophy or criticism. And I am very happy that all that occurred when we slept in Europe :-) All that can go round in circles a very long time, going on spoiling this list. The clever will be the first to stop as

RE: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread xavier . bury
Man, This list is really getting corny... No more talk about xtalk or rev stuff. It's been 3 weeks im deleting nearly every message in my 3 mailboxes (and the new spam)... Business applications? Man, i run a bank's storage systems with rev for some 2000 users everyday since 5 years!!! Never a

Re: Messages in setprop...

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
So you want a recursive setProp handler :) I have not tested this in a while (and there are a few little thins that don't work quite as expected with these - they do not return arrays for instance) - but I would try to avoid putting too much code in the setprop / getprop handlers and use

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Muelver
For me, the most interesting aspect of typical flame wars is the persistent demonstration of logical fallicies offered by participants on all sides. http://members.tripod.com/AttitudeAdjustment/Books/Logic.htm provides a useful summary. In the heat of the flame, personalities lose their

Revolution Encyclopedia

2005-12-06 Thread Mathewson
I will keep my port of the R Enc. to myself in the light of Chipp's and Eric's messages. BUT . . . This set of messages and many others seem to have a common, underlying theme . . . NOT that the RR documentation is bad - Its not! BUT that it is BADLY ORGANISED - or, at the very least, AWKWARD

Flamefesting A-Go-Go!

2005-12-06 Thread Mathewson
Dunnit, Been There . . . Grew up, got over it, bought some long trousers . . . I personally have an intense dislike for all things 'Microsoft' - guess how many clients I've got by going round and telling them that the OS on their box is CR*P, RUBBISH and so on - NONE. Now, I'm fairly obsessed

Re: jabber or other IM protocol

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Yes I have one from 2-3 years ago - should still work. Very cool to Jabber a whole stack live to another user :) On 4 Dec 2005, at 23:29, Andre Garzia wrote: Ben, there's an alpha library for MSN by Shao Sean, it's on her page at http://shaosean.tk Cheers andre On Dec 4, 2005, at

Stack for use-revolution list archive

2005-12-06 Thread paolo mazza
I wonder if someone has developed a stack to browse/search the messages downloaded from the use-revolution list archive . I think it would be very useful for Revolutionaries. Ciao Paolo Mazza ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Stack for use-revolution list archive

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Buongiorno Paolo, At first sight two: Archive Search by Mark Wieder (mwieder on Rev Online), a stack you use within the IDE. Resources Picker (a plugin that makes numerous things more but for the mailing list cooperates with your browser, Google, Gmane, Mail Archive, etc.) The latter is

Re: Stack for use-revolution list archive

2005-12-06 Thread xavier . bury
Yes there is! It is called ActiveSearch - available in RevOnline... It's under the Utilities category... cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/12/2005 12:52:14: I wonder if someone has developed a stack to browse/search the messages downloaded from the use-revolution list archive .

Re: Save on Linux, not on Mac, Win

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: Ken Ray On 12/5/05 8:23 PM, Jerry Muelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, StackRunner won't even run the stack on Win XP. It just goes away after I select the stack file. On Mac, is showed the same reluctance to access the file as Dreamcard Player. Jerry, I'll contact you offlist to

Arial--still okay for cross-platform?

2005-12-06 Thread curry
Does anyone know whether Arial font is still distributed with all Macs? I've used it for cross-platform and I'm wondering if it's still good for that purpose. If anyone knows, or if anyone's Mac doesn't have Arial, please let me know. Thanks--TIA, -- Curry Kenworthy Curry K. Software

Re: Arial--still okay for cross-platform?

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Curry, The common *font names* between Mac OS X and Windows are the following: Arial Arial Black Arial Narrow Century Gothic Comic sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Tahoma Times New Roman Verdana

Re: Save on Linux, not on Mac, Win

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/6/05 6:56 AM, Jerry Muelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry, I'll contact you offlist to follow up on this so we can patch StackRunner to make it work for you situation. Looks like it was me, not StackRunner, Ken. I tweaked my stack to fix some file-processing glitches. Then I fed

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread graham samuel
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:47:53 +0100, sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:52 PM -0200 12/4/05, Andre Garzia wrote: I still rate my interfaces using the ALSR rating scheme... ALSR stands for Almost-Like-Scott-Rossi, for example, when I finished my webeditor interface, I looked to it and thought:

Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Is it just me or is it incredibly hard to change the layer order of a Group or Control in the lastest version of RunRev? The previous version was pretty hard but latest version is just terrible. So, maybe I am doing something wrong: If I have a control that is outside of all groups on

Re: Can't change the layer of an image

2005-12-06 Thread graham samuel
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:18:19 +0100, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, I would bet that, without noticing it, you grouped this image (find a blank group elsewhere). Then its layer could not be changed. To change the layer of controls owned by a group, you have to edit the group.

Re: Save on Linux, not on Mac, Win

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: Sarah Reichelt It sounds like the filter on your answer file is not matching your data file type correctly. Try using answer file without any filters and see if that works. Yup. That was it. Runs fine without the filter. This is great! My little hypertext-doc-building app now runs on

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread xavier . bury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/12/2005 15:18:13: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:47:53 +0100, sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:52 PM -0200 12/4/05, Andre Garzia wrote: I still rate my interfaces using the ALSR rating scheme... ALSR stands for Almost-Like-Scott-Rossi, for example, when I

Re: Can't change the layer of an image

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Graham and above all, to all others :-) Le 6 déc. 05 à 15:21, graham samuel a écrit : Yes, that must have been it! I was aware that you can 'group' a single control but I'd never done it before. In fact I guess you can cut something from such a group as long as you're in the mode

Printing limitations [was Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?]

2005-12-06 Thread graham samuel
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:00:58 -0800, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] In OS X, Mac Classic, and Windows, it's common to define the parameters for the print job in the Print window, with some settings defined in Page Setup. Rev gives you access to both: answer printer --

RE: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
Just had to say I know I like a *bit* of a moan now and then, hey this is *way* over the top! I have just one question: Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? Think everyone one should take a chill-pill comptemplate 1200 baud modems for a while! All the Best Dave

Re: Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread xavier . bury
Hi Dave i see your troubles! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/12/2005 15:20:09: Hi, Is it just me or is it incredibly hard to change the layer order of a Group or Control in the lastest version of RunRev? The previous version was pretty hard but latest version is just terrible. no, it's

Re: Need to search the web (was: An unsolicited message on my Rev address)

2005-12-06 Thread Kay C Lan
Eric, But it's not *my* function: the main work is due to Jim Ault. Thanks to him :-) Thanks for passing on Jim's function (and thanks to Jim). I put the function to quick work, but unfortunately I ended up in a worse situation:-( I had the parsed data nicely presented in a list field so

Re: Need to search the web (was: An unsolicited message on my Rev address)

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Kay, The Answer dialog is a modal window: this means that you can't do anything else than validate an option. In your case, you have to build the window by yourself in order to present options and choices in the *same* window :-) Not too difficult... Just study correctly your layout ;-)

RE: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
As you put it so well If you don't agree with him and he doesn't seem to be willing to change his mind (he's asking for a refund) just let it go, no need to attack him personally on or off the list. I once get threatened with being beaten to death for daring to say it was a silly idea

Re: Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, Many questions... :-) Xavier answered some of them. Thanks Xavier :-) Le 6 déc. 05 à 15:20, David Burgun a écrit : Hi, snip Also, is there a secret to using the Property Inspector Size and Position pane effectively? 1. If a value is highlighted in a box in the property

Re: Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
Is it just me or is it incredibly hard to change the layer order of a Group or Control in the lastest version of RunRev? The previous version was pretty hard but latest version is just terrible. no, it's the way to approach it that is wrong IMOHO... So, maybe I am doing something wrong:

More on arrays

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Seem to remember that an array was binary data... - but base64Encode(someArray) doesn't give you anything? Anyway to get at the value of an array to dump / send it somewhere? That is without looping over everything as in previous post? ___

Flame wars on the list...

2005-12-06 Thread Heather Nagey
...are off topic, unproductive, self perpetuating, and a waste of good energy you could be spending typing something else. This is a cease and desist notice, anyone who still has anything to say on the subject which has been going under the heading of Why isn't Rev more popular may send it to

Re: Paranoid?

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Hurley
Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Hurley wrote: I see that I received issue 22 and issue 26 of the digest, but am missing issues 23 through 25. Anyone know why this might be? We spent issues 23 through 25 talking about you. ;) Why aren't I more popular? Jim

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Jerry Saperstein wrote: Some of the zealots and self-promoters here are furious that someone dared criticize the object of their passion. Jerry, I was one of the first persons to reply to your email, I don't think I was furious or rude but if you were

List etiquette and mechanics

2005-12-06 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear List Members, It has been a long time since I did one of these posts. Apologies, in a world of many hats its sometimes hard to find time to wear my listmom one (pink, with feathers and cherries). So, here are some basics about how this list works. Firstly, the list only knows you are a

Re: Flame wars on the list...

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
On 6 Dec 2005, at 13:41, Heather Nagey wrote: This is a cease and desist notice, anyone who still has anything to say on the subject which has been going under the heading of Why isn't Rev more popular may send it to me off list, if they really feel they can't hit the delete button in

Post script to list mechanics post

2005-12-06 Thread Heather Nagey
After going through the held for moderation posts, a couple of things I forgot. The list has a limit of 15k on any individual post. If your post exceeds that it will be held for moderation. You cannot post attachments to the list, if you have something to share with list members the best thing

attachments (Re: Post script to list mechanics post

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
It's probalby good to point that RevOnline is your friend when you want to share something with your friends here! :-) Cheers andre On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Heather Nagey wrote: After going through the held for moderation posts, a couple of things I forgot. The list has a limit of 15k on

Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Claude
To assign temporary an image to the button icon of your stack, Revolution looks for the specified image first in the current stack, then in other open stacks. But if you need to indicate an image of another open stack X (without copying the image to your stack), you can assign this image to your

Re: Documented Cursor Bug...Please try.

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
YEP. Did it here. Affirmative. MAC OS 10.3.9 Powerbook G4 17 1.33 ghz Latest Rev IDE and engine. Here's the deal. I would very much appreciate it if many of you could test out this simple recipe stack: -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list

Missing revolution documentation

2005-12-06 Thread Nicholas Nginya
Hi, I am trying out the revolution application and have somehow made my revolution documentation window minimized and now i cant get it maximized. I can clearly see it on my task bar, how do i get it back maximized?? Runtime Revolution Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Weinfield
Is there someway to build a password dialogue box that contains more than the password field. For example, I would like a dialogue to display or capture the userid and the password. The ask password function only captures the password. -- Tony Weinfield

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
You should search the list about two months back -- there was a heated thread about creating a clock in minimum code and processor load. Several on this list were competing for the cleanest, smartest code. It got down to less than 10 lines I think. I believe for certain that a widget like

How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-06 Thread Nicholas Nginya
I am doing a cyber cafe billing system but how do i check for an internet connection. Kindly Help Best Regards NICHOLAS NGINYA The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers,

Re: How do i send a binfile as an email attatchment

2005-12-06 Thread Nicholas Nginya
Hi! After writing to a binfile, how do i automatically by using a script attatch the binfile named using a specific name field in the application send it via email as an attatchmet to a particular email address. Nicholas Nginya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing a cyber cafe billing

Marshalling Arrays

2005-12-06 Thread David Bovill
Thought I'd post these scripts as they are related to the questions Xavier raised regarding using arrays and nesting... but first some comments and questions: 1) Marshalling menas packing some data into some format for sedning somewhere and then unpacking it at the other end. 2)

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: David Burgun 1200 Baud modems are the key to a happy life. You got 1200baud?! I was thrilled to move from a 110baud, strap-on-the-phone-mouthpiece acoustic modem to the great-guns 300baud phone cradle modem. And now you say they make 1200baud modems? Where will it stop?! Jerry

Question: RSS Feed of list content.

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, would guys here find usefull a RSS Feed of the mails of the day from use-rev? This way you could check content with your favorite feed reader, Safari, Google, whatever... I could set this up in couple days if you guys wanted but I don't want to do that if no one finds this

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Paul, As far as I know: No. Alphabetical order may be.. But the best way between different main stacks you want run together is to not have the same IDs for any image. Change them in the property palette. But don't use the following: * 1-100: reserved for built-in cursors

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Anthony Weinfield wrote: Is there someway to build a password dialogue box that contains more than the password field. For example, I would like a dialogue to display or capture the userid and the password. The ask password function only captures the password.

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Eric, isn't the Rev interop group reserving image IDs? Like passive reserve, you just go there and reserve your range to make sure there's no conflict when stacks are interoperating... cheers andre On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Paul, As far as I know: No.

Re: Missing revolution documentation

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Nicholas, Type in the message box: set the iconic of stack RevDocs to false Le 2 déc. 05 à 05:43, Nicholas Nginya a écrit : I am trying out the revolution application and have somehow made my revolution documentation window minimized and now i cant get it maximized. I can clearly

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Absolutely Andre :-) Ken, [EMAIL PROTECTED] manages this with great kindness... Le 6 déc. 05 à 17:15, Andre Garzia a écrit : isn't the Rev interop group reserving image IDs? Like passive reserve, you just go there and reserve your range to make sure there's no conflict when stacks are

Re: Revolution Encyclopedia

2005-12-06 Thread Dave LeYanna
OK, bottom line... How do I get this encyclopedia? I still have older versions of Rev somewhere and I'm sure I can extract them... Dave Mathewson wrote: I will keep my port of the R Enc. to myself in the light of Chipp's and Eric's messages. BUT . . . This set of messages and many others

Re: attachments (Re: Post script to list mechanics post

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Andre Garzia wrote It's probably good to point that RevOnline is your friend when you want to share something with your friends here! :-) RevOnline really is nice. I used it for my revRotatePoly example. Question: Is there a method to link directly to a stack posted on revOnline (that is, a

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Anthony, My How to Ask for a Password tutorial might help you. You will access it thought Tutorials Picker a free plugin that interfaces with the So Smart Software website in order to display all available tutorials directly from the web. You will find it by going to

Re: attachments (Re: Post script to list mechanics post

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Bill, 1. Yes it's possible since my Rev Online Picker plugin knows how to... 2. But, I don't think that Runrev would allow this in a mail: the url uses a specific path which provides information they probably would not clearly disclose... 3. Sorry. 4. Ask support... Le 6 déc. 05 à

Re: Missing revolution documentation

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Another tip: When my RevDocs window disappears I type set the loc of window revDocs to the screenloc to get it back. Eric Chatonet wrote Type in the message box: set the iconic of stack RevDocs to false Le 2 déc. 05 à 05:43, Nicholas Nginya a écrit : I am trying out the revolution

Stack for use-revolution list archive

2005-12-06 Thread paolo mazza
I wonder if someone has developed a stack to browse/search the messages downloaded from the use-revolution list archive . I think it would be very useful for Revolutionaries. Ciao Paolo Mazza ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: I haven't used M.Y.O.B. in years, but recall it being a good program. But I'm surprised neither of these has ever asked you to tell them what printing you're using. Just for the record, I've used MYOB for years as my accounting program, and it puts up the print job

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/6/05 10:15 AM, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, isn't the Rev interop group reserving image IDs? Like passive reserve, you just go there and reserve your range to make sure there's no conflict when stacks are interoperating... Yes, you can go to the RevInterop group on

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/6/05 10:18 AM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely Andre :-) Ken, [EMAIL PROTECTED] manages this with great kindness... Thanks for this kind words, Eric! :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Revolution Encyclopedia - 'Roll Your Own'

2005-12-06 Thread Mathewson
I am posting this information on the understanding that anybody who follows this course of action will NOT distribute the resultant free-standing stack anywhere - keep it on your machine at home, nothing else, Please! In various versions of RR there is a folder called revencyclopedia.rev

Re: Arial--still okay for cross-platform?

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
Does anyone know whether Arial font is still distributed with all Macs? YES, indeed. -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Eric, You'll need to make your own window, as the dialog presented by ask password is not customizable beyond the prompt text. But, there is no built-in Password style for fields. Here is what I thought was a very simple solution to that: 1) Include a tiny image (such as a 10x10 pixel

Re: Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/6/05 9:16 AM, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't understand this, what if I have a control in a another group that is lower than the group I want to move the control to? In the previous version of RunRev, you could set relayerGroupedControls to true, selected the

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Easiest way is to check if you can connect to a known site (e.g. Google). if the length of Xttp://www.google.com 0 then -- we're connected else -- we're not connected end if (Change Xttp to http) Nicholas Nginya wrote I am doing a cyber cafe billing system but how do i check for an internet

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Paul, There is a way to tell to Revolution to look in stack X before the other open stacks, even if they have been loaded previously? start using stack X places stack X ahead of all other library stacks in the message chain; but it will not place it ahead of the topStack. The

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Bill, Would be a very elegant and short coding solution if I had not the time to read the letters that are typed (Mac OS) Then you have to use a rawKeyDown handler (or KeyDown + deleteKey) and it becomes another story... But the idea is very good: completely cross-platform :-) Best

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Cozens
Paul, Eric, er al: But don't use the following: * 1-100: reserved for built-in cursors * 101-135: reserved for built-in brush shapes * 236-300: reserved for built-in patterns * 301-1000: reserved for built-in icons * 101,000-103,000: reserved *

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Rob, Interesting idea that could be mixed with profiles: not the easiest to manage but... :-) Le 6 déc. 05 à 18:31, Rob Cozens a écrit : I have suggested previously, but never seriously explored, the possibility that one could change the look and feel of an app with one start using

RE: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Very clever... I did this with something much more complicated - storing the test in a custom property as it is typed. Your way is better. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Marriott Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:13 PM To:

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Stephen, I want to clear something up -- 1) I'm not trying to create the leanest, most efficient clock 2) I'm not trying to create a clock at all 3) I was trying to replicate exactly the look of a typical K. widget, which happened to be a clock, in order to prove that we as Rev users could do

RE: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
This is an easy problem to work around... The following method will activate just as soon as the character is placed, and before any keyup handler is executed. Just do this: On rawkeydown Send hideMyKeys to me in 0 seconds End rawkeydown on hideMyKeys -- enable masking of password during

Rev slowing to crawl.. then hanging...

2005-12-06 Thread Judy Perry
Rev 2.6.1, build 152 Mac OS 10.3.9 Using ChatRev v. 1.3b1 If Rev's the current app of focus, cpu usage spikes to 25%, th en 50 or 65%, up to 89%, whereupon it hangs. It slows all the way there. If I switch focus to another app, the cpu usage drops, but spikes again as soon as Rev is the app

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Marriott wrote: - if someone wants to create an exact replica of the K. clock in Rev, they should give up, which is what I did :) Or while we wait for enhancements to the rotate command just make any of the other widgets/gadgets that don't rely on that command, which would be 99.99% of

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Marriott
Yes a characteristic of this technique is that a letter typed appears for the milliseconds between the keydown and the keyup event. Even on Windows. You can regard this as a serious security breach, or as an improvement on usability (to ensure someone is typing what they think they are typing).

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Lynch, Would not you prefer: On rawkeydown Send hideMyKeys to me in 0 seconds pass rawkeydown End rawkeydown on hideMyKeys lock messages lock screen repeat with i = 1 to the number of characters in me if the imagesource of char i of me is not tinyPadlock then

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, That will always return true. I think what you meant to say was: if the length of URL http://www.google.com; 0 then Unfortunately, this solution doesn't work with some proxy servers. -Chipp Bill Marriott wrote: Easiest way is to check if you can connect to a known site (e.g. Google).

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Dom
Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: ... Err... I own 3 newtons, sorry, use them everyday, sorry, even with WIFI :-) Hehe... I got recently a MP 130 (a new unit) Somewhat hard to synchronize to the Mac though... No Rev solution ? -- Revolutionario

RE: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Don't know if you saw my other post - this is easy to fix, if you want to do so: On rawkeydown Send hideMyKeys to me in 0 seconds End rawkeydown on hideMyKeys -- enable masking of password during entry lock messages lock screen repeat with i = 1 to the number of characters in

RE: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Ah yes... One of those little minor things that actually makes it work! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Chatonet Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:18 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: custom password dialogue Hi Lynch,

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Lynch, Le 6 déc. 05 à 19:22, Lynch, Jonathan a écrit : Ah yes... One of those little minor things that actually makes it work! Does not matter: you got the trick! Bravo :-) Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. So Smart

Re: More on arrays

2005-12-06 Thread Wouter
Hi David, To base64Encode someArray first combine someArray. Greetings, W. On 06 Dec 2005, at 16:22, David Bovill wrote: Seem to remember that an array was binary data... - but base64Encode(someArray) doesn't give you anything? Anyway to get at the value of an array to dump / send it

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 26, Issue 7

2005-12-06 Thread Marielle Lange
Dear all, They have already been many replies to that post that I read only now. But they all seemed very long to me. I used it as an excuse to get back to transcript programming after a month away from any computer. I propose an entry for the shortest solution. You have to assume that

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-06 Thread Ton Cardona
Nicholas Nginya wrote I am doing a cyber cafe billing system but how do i check for an internet connection. I've seen this one: function wellConnected return URL http://www.google.com/; empty end wellConnected ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev performance: help!

2005-12-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'll chime in on this one: I had a stack which was adding an item to the pending message cue every 2 minutes... at the same time some user action, which was frequent ( Stop and Resume a player object), posted the same msg... after 10 minutes of running time, the stack had 100 pending msgs!

Tagging HTTP Get Requests to audit click thru traffic from thin rev app net client

2005-12-06 Thread Sivakatirswami
Goal: From with a rev remote client app deployed to fooNumber of desktops, be able to monitor click thrus on buttons or links to external URL's. e.g. Let's say, for discussion purposes, that one were to credit Runrev, Shafer Media or Altuit in one's credit boxs, -- or any advertiser for

Freezing when I edit field contents

2005-12-06 Thread Mathewson
When I edit field contents in stacks in 2.6.1 on my Macs RR sometimes freezes and the only way I can get out of this is a Force Quit - this can be a pain in the b*m as all the edits after the last SAVE are lost. NOW in the 'palmy days' of Hypercard, there was no need to SAVE as this was done

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 10:00:57 AM, you wrote: 3) I was trying to replicate exactly the look of a typical K. widget, which happened to be a clock, in order to prove that we as Rev users could do stuff just as cool as K. if we wanted to. Why? There are things runrev does really

Re: How to Disable the Preference and About Box Items

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
One thing tho, you also need to test if running under MacOS X for this to work, else under MacOS 9 and Windows the Preferences Item will be disbaled (which may or may not be what is required). I don't see how as long as the -1 is left in there. IMO, a better way of hanlding this would be to

Re: Freezing when I edit field contents

2005-12-06 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richmond, 1. I never encounter this: Is that happens with a brand new stack? If not, you know the story :-) 2. You could have a look at the SmartSave plugin from Frederic Rinaldi: http://rinaldicollection.free.fr/frevplugins_frame.htm that makes Rev acting as HC. 3. You might prefer a

Rolling your own - continued

2005-12-06 Thread Mathewson
This has been a long-term habit of mine; I have rolled quite a few stacks I have found down in the basement of versions of RR and MC into free-standing stacks and then popped them into the plug-ins folder of my latest version of MC/RR. This generally means that all those EXTREMELY USEFUL details

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