Greetings group,
I am new to Revolution.
before I buy it for commercial development, i need some feedback from this
list.
+ How good is revolution for commercial development?
+ How does it compare to REALbasic, VB.NET?
+ How many active users on this list?
+ How stable is Revolution? ( many
Hi Sivakatirswami,
Linux web server, Apache, call Rev CGI to receive incoming Post
Data. Beginning lines of script to read the incoming data -- see
below (suggested as a possible fix years ago by Scott Raney)
(musings... it is possible that this is a client side problem?
--machine A with
Thanks Sarah.
Terry...
From: Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 March 2006 4:39:09 PM GMT+11:00
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Storing preferences data on Windows PCs
Reply-To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
On 3/6/06,
On 6/3/06 01:23, Timothy Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like the answer is Studio, but I'm not sure.
I hope someone will clarify that.
Unfortunately we can't clarify everyone's individual licensing questions on
this mailing list. Everyone has different requirements and so any
Hi Timothy,
I've run into a problem with the player control in version 2.7
buildNumber 192 on Windows XP. The problem does not occur in
version 2.6 of Rev. It does not occur on Mac OS X 10.4.x
I've tried 2 Windows XP machines with Quicktime 6 and 7.
The problem
Player does not play video
I can't answer all of your questions, but I'll tell you what I can.
+ How good is revolution for commercial development?
I use it for commerical programs. It's fast to program and easy to maintain.
+ How stable is Revolution? ( many bugs? very less bugs? )
It has bugs but the compiled apps are
Hi Derek,
I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file
(saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an
xml file.
The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes
time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign characters
Hi Andre,
Since I moved on to Rev 2.7, I decided to move my cgi stack to the
new stack format of 2.7. Before doing that, I tried to install the
engine on my Apache installation on my MacOS X 10.4. The engine is
playing dead A simple console hello world works in 2.6.1 and
fails on
In Rev 2.7 many things seems a little quicker than before, except from the
dialogs; all kind of dialogs (answer, ask, even the save dialog that appears
when you save your stack) shows after 7-10 seconds from calling.
It's a bug?
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On Mar 6, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:
Please bear in mind that we're not simply dropping support for this
product
overnight. There is nothing stopping anyone with a Dreamcard license
renewing just now, and simply assessing the evolution of our
product line
again in a year's
Christian Langers wrote:
Hello all,
But I want to change this procedure : the app should only spit out
components if there had been changes in the component folders...
What methods should I use : checking timestamp of the folders on disk
?(how does one do that ?) Checking the number of
Hi Mark,
Hi Derek,
I'm having a little trouble importing a tab deliminted text file
(saved from excel), having rev organize it, then saving it out as an
xml file.
The import and text manipulation works just fine, but when it comes
time to export the data out to text files, all the foreign
You can also do this:
put Word 1 to -1 of tString into tString
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preferences:
I think calling the language Revolution is a typo. That was a typo in
one of the 2.7 install screens that has been corrected.
At 08:24 PM 3/4/2006, you wrote:
On 05/03/06, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use Revolution, the English like, built-in language, to add the *step by
step
Tim,
Thanks for taking my comments as they were intended. I guess riding
the OS, Hardware, Software wave can become an expensive proposition
especially if you are not getting back any rewards. I cant say how I
will feel when I reach the point of not getting rewards back.
As far as
On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:12 AM, Ram Kumar wrote:
Greetings group,
I am new to Revolution.
before I buy it for commercial development, i need some feedback
from this
list.
+ How good is revolution for commercial development?
Rev is an excellent choice for RAD, Prototyping and yes for
Thanks Alex, I've tried it and it seems to work !
I'll do the transformations later when I have more time available...
Thanks again...
Christian
(the only one on this list from Luxembourg ;-) )
Le 6 mars 06 à 12:54, Alex Tweedly a écrit :
Christian Langers wrote:
Hello all,
But I want
I just had a chance to clean up my Tooltip stacks and combine them
into one stack. The stack shows some examples and ways to play with
tooltips in Revolution. There are a couple of different ways to tweak
the tooltip behavior that most people don't realize at first glance.
I uploaded the
Hi All,
When the RunRev Team requested that more people try v2.7.1 on WinXP
last week, I decided to give it a go.
Here's what I reported back to them:
My first experience -- Motion M1300 running XP TPC Edition 2005 --
went beautifully until I built my first standalone.
At that point I
All the stacks I tried so far open, could me modified, and run with no
problem. Ditto for the standalones...
... except for the could me [read 'be'] modified part, of course.
Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise,
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your reply. It's not a question of licensing. It's a
question of planning. I'm just trying to figure out what RR product I
will need, in the long run, to continue running my stacks. Studio is
my guess.
Beyond that, it was a tiny complaint, because RR's publicity to date
Greetings Revolutionaries:
Tactile Media is proud to announce the availability of a new pair of layout
plugins for Revolution and MetaCard: tm|color and tm|gradient.
tm|color is a color-management plugin designed to enhance the way you add
color to stacks. The stack provides 5 color models from
On 3/6/06 11:29 AM, Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
When the RunRev Team requested that more people try v2.7.1 on WinXP
last week, I decided to give it a go.
2.7.1? The web site only shows a download of 2.7...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site:
Tom wrote:
Tim,
--snip--
As far as rewards go, I made a promise to myself years back (after a
bit of youthful trouble) that in my new life I would learn something
new everyday and have been doing so for 20 years now. The new things
that I learn everyday from using HC, SC and now Rev
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line in a text
file?
I have a quiz in a standalone, and when the participant finishes, the file
needs to save. the next particpant's scores should go on the next line. I use
a button at the end of the quiz:
on mouseUp
set
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line in a text
file?
I have a quiz in a standalone, and when the participant finishes, the file
needs to save. the next particpant's scores should go on the next line. I use
a button at the end of the quiz:
on mouseUp
set
Hi Ben,
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line
in a text file?
I have a quiz in a standalone, and when the participant finishes,
the file needs to save. the next particpant's scores should go on
the next line. I use a button at the end of the quiz:
on
On 3/6/06 10:47 AM, Ben Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line in a text
file?
I have a quiz in a standalone, and when the participant finishes, the file
needs to save. the next particpant's scores should go on the next line. I
Rob Cozens wrote:
It turns out I was just impatient (and perhaps gun-shy from others'
reports): I was building standalones for both MacOSX and Windows from my
90M Photo Portfolio stack, and I now know the process takes in excess of
four minutes... during which the IDE does nothing -- not even
Timothy Miller wrote:
Thanks for your reply. It's not a question of licensing. It's a question
of planning. I'm just trying to figure out what RR product I will need,
in the long run, to continue running my stacks. Studio is my guess.
If you don't mind the persistent backdrop and you aren't
Ben Bock wrote:
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line in
a text file?
snip
put fld data field into url file:test data.txt
get url file:test data.txt
put it into fld sample field that proves to me something is going to
the test data file
save url file:test
Folks,
I know this is a little OT but if you guys are like me and can't draw
a straight line with the help of a ruler, then, you all probably
looking for some quality royalty free icons out there in the wild.
I came to this site today which lists some free icon sets, some are
very nice
I've been struggling with this one for a couple days now.
Can anyone think of any reason why shortFilePath() would not return a
valid 8.3 file path? I am seeing some very strange behavior with
it. I have two standalones. The first was built a few months back,
the second just a few days
Paul Claude wrote:
In Rev 2.7 many things seems a little quicker than before, except from the
dialogs; all kind of dialogs (answer, ask, even the save dialog that appears
when you save your stack) shows after 7-10 seconds from calling.
It's a bug?
It works fine for me here, no delays at all.
Sorting by another field.
Parallel sort question
Is there an easy syntax for using the sort lines to do parallel sorting
I know how to :
sort lines of fld dataLines descending by the number of items of each
and
--using a function call to define the sortKey value (value sorted on)
sort lines of
This is what I use in one of my solutions:
put fld quiz_item1 tab into fld data field of stack data sample
put fld quiz_item2 tab after fld data field of stack data sample
Then write out, etc., etc.
If you want the data to go to the next line instead of being
separated by tabs then
put
Timothy Miller wrote:
Thanks for your reply. It's not a question of licensing. It's a
question of planning. I'm just trying to figure out what RR product
I will need, in the long run, to continue running my stacks. Studio
is my guess.
If you don't mind the persistent backdrop and you aren't
In a message dated 3/6/06 10:59:12 AM, Ben Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the correct syntax for Rev to append data to the next line in a
text file?
I have a quiz in a standalone, and when the participant finishes, the file
needs to save. the next particpant's scores should go on the
At 02:48 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
I can't quite picture the persistent backdrop. Is there a way to preview it?
DC/Rev has the backdrop currently. In your application set the backdrop
to black to see how it will look.
I'm not sure if the Rev Media IDE will have the backdrop on by default, or
Timothy Miller wrote:
I can't quite picture the persistent backdrop. Is there a way to
preview it?
Choose Backdrop from the View menu. You can set the color via script,
or from the Preferences. Note that having a backdrop doesn't prevent you
from changing apps.
Will Media support all
Jim Ault wrote:
Sorting by another field.
Parallel sort question
Is there an easy syntax for using the sort lines to do parallel sorting
There is nothing built-in, but I've used this:
local lKeyData, lLineCounter
on sortBy keyField -- parallel sorting of linked flds
put fld keyField into
I thought this might add a bit of perspective if not humor to our
discussion.
I have a really good friend who is a semi-serious amateur photographer. He's
also pretty computer-savvy. A while back I introduced him to Rev and he's
been delightedly churning out apps for his use in his hobby, happy
Thanks to Rob, Charles and Jacqueline for their counsel.
I finally read up the documentation on openStack !
(I thought it would be the same as in HyperCard,
but no). It says Put script in first card script (strange
place to put it !). So I did, and now it works.
You learn every day .
I
Dan wrote:
--snip--
This guy's not wealthy (he's retired) but he understands the value of the
right tool for the right job. I just thought that was a terribly sane way to
look at things.
And no I'll step aside and wait for the flamers to point out how little
money academia has, how
Timothy Miller wrote:
I can't quite picture the persistent backdrop. Is there a way to
preview it?
Choose Backdrop from the View menu. You can set the color via
script, or from the Preferences. Note that having a backdrop doesn't
prevent you from changing apps.
I guess I can live with
I know I've seen this, but I can't remember where to find it. Is there a
command to buffer a sound file so the player can play it more quickly?
I'm trying to string together a bunch of mp3's and minimize the delays
between one and the next one. Any tips on this would be appreciated.
I have
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:52:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: Scrollbar to drag through a movie?
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
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Hi
Is there a way to call a function in an object out of the message path?
I'm surprised that there is no syntax for something like the following:
call DoSpecialCalculation( valueA, valueB ) of fld Test
and have the return value placed in the variable it. Or even:
call into myLocalVar
Look at Value. What you want is:
Value(DoSpecialCalculation(valueA, valueB), fld Test)
At 05:16 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
Is there a way to call a function in an object out of the message path?
I'm surprised that there is no syntax for something like the following:
call DoSpecialCalculation(
Recently, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
I'm trying to string together a bunch of mp3's and minimize the delays
between one and the next one. Any tips on this would be appreciated.
I have a player with a list of files in a custom property. On a
stopPlaying, I set the filename to the next one and
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Arthur Urban wrote:
Is there a way to call a function in an object out of the message
path? I'm surprised that there is no syntax for something like the
following:
call DoSpecialCalculation( valueA, valueB ) of fld Test
and have the return value placed in the
On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
I'm trying to string together a bunch of mp3's and minimize the
delays
between one and the next one. Any tips on this would be appreciated.
I have a player with a list of files in a custom property. On a
Thanks for all your suggestions, unfortunately the sequence of sound files
is dynamically generated, so splicing them together ahead of time won't work.
I did just try a test where instead of using one player to sequentially
play through the files, I tried interleaving the list between two
Actually, I take this back. The interleaving doesn't seem to buy me much
(not sure why it did on the one test), but after restarting Rev and trying
my test again, the interleaved and non-interleaved players come out almost
identical :(.
At 05:41 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
Thanks for all your
On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
Thanks for all your suggestions, unfortunately the sequence of
sound files is dynamically generated, so splicing them together
ahead of time won't work.
SMIL is plain text so it can be generated in Rev, output as a file to
a temp
Thanks! I'm not familiar with SMIL. I will have to check into this and
run some tests.
In playing some more, my interleaved players do a better job on a
network. With a single player, it took 34 almost 35 seconds to play a
string of 10 files. With 2 interleaved players, it took 23
Hi Peter,
Another approach is to load the files as URLs with the 'load' command,
then set the player filename to each loaded url in succession. I don't
know how the transition speed would be, but at least the player would be
dealing with preloaded files. It might be fast enough.
I would
On 3/6/06 1:49 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Ault wrote:
Sorting by another field. Parallel sort question
Is there an easy syntax for using the sort lines to do parallel sorting
There is nothing built-in, but I've used this:
local lKeyData, lLineCounter
on sortBy
Fellow list members, I have a problem for which I can only find
difficult or unsatisfactory solutions, and I was hoping you might
have some suggestions.
I am making a stack to teach students math -- linear equations, to be
more precise. When I display the y = mx + b form, the best I can
Mark it may be possible to generate an image on the fly of your
equation and display that. Also, if the kind folks at Altuit would
update the altBrowser plugin to use the Gecko rendering engine (ala
Firefox), you could use MathML and get *great* equation rendering!
--gordon
On Mar 6,
Hi
Has anyone here done work with GPS coordinates. I have a set of coordinates
and a point at the centre of my map. I need to convert these to metres
relative to the centre of my map.
The coordinates are in the form:
LatitudeLongitude
37.29464 126.8324167
37.294642 126.832415
On 3/5/06, jeffrey reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Man i am feeling old... I created Apples first educational CD-ROM
(Earth Explorer - a multimedia environmental encyclopedia for jr high
kids)
And I still have a copy of it! So if I can get you to sign it, what do you
reckon and original
Hi, all. Forgive a dumb question, I read the lists often, but
often too miss days. I've tried to search on my question using the
Google advanced search to search the list, but had no luck, which
baffles me because I recall some discussion pertaining to my question.
I got an update of
I'm new to developing programs, especially with revolution.
I am getting an error when trying to open up my standalone program in
Windows XP. The error is as follows:
Can't open file C:/Revolution/Pubs/PubsMain.exe, error 0, 0
My development environment is Mac OS X 10.4, and I'm using
On 3/6/06 3:16 PM, Arthur Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to call a function in an object out of the message path?
I'm surprised that there is no syntax for something like the following:
call DoSpecialCalculation( valueA, valueB ) of fld Test
and have the return value placed
Mission critical question:
is anyone successfully using the 2.7 standalone engine for Linux on
the latest Fedora?
I have to upgrade to a new web server box and we really need the 2.7
the linux standalone engine to run with Apache.. because our
development now is in 2.7 and I can't deploy
Abstract: I've encountered two different problems uploading data over FTP - if
I could solve either of them, I'd have a working solution. One applies only
on Windows, the other on both Mac and Windows - both seem to be independant of
the destination FTP server.
I'm trying to code a utility that
Has anyone here done work with GPS coordinates. I have a set of coordinates
and a point at the centre of my map. I need to convert these to metres
relative to the centre of my map.
The coordinates are in the form:
LatitudeLongitude
37.29464 126.8324167
37.294642 126.832415
Mac Os X 10.4.4, on a Mac G4 400mhz, and Rev. 2.7. It's incredible, but all
the dialogs are deadly slow; 10 seconds at least, for every dialog (user
dialogs and Rev. internal dialogs)
Greetings
Paul Claude
on 6-03-2006 21:04, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It works fine for me
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