Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 3/20/06 9:30 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best solution I've come up with for removing block comments is put the script of SomeObject into tScript put token 1 to -1 of tScript into tScript This sounded really cool, but I can't get it to work. :( Really? What isn't

Re: DRM for Images and Text in Stacks

2006-03-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK further testing I finally settled on a compromise taking Key Ray's suggestion but not using compressed imageData, I don't see any advantage (I could be missing something) to using compressed imageData over simple jpg storage. Either format would be equally hackable... I think this

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
I'll answer about the comments separately,when I've had more time to think about it. But - this one is quick ... Dick Kriesel wrote: But tokenizing seems unrelated to the challenge of getting a handler from a script, because it can lose the control structure of a handler. For example,

Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I want to port scripts from Hypercard into Rev 2.6.1, where I can play with them to my hearts content, but all my attempts have so far failed. I can access the fields and their contents, but the word button doesn't give any joy. Does anybody have any ideas ? -Francis Nothing

Re: Help with Arrays??

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Smith
Wow. The following meaningless script fails, (though it doesn't produce an error) ie. the result is simply 12 in the message box, the keys of the array are not sent to the message box... on mouseUp showArray 12,makeArray(12) end mouseUp on showArray 12,tArray put x cr the keys of

Re: Help with Arrays??

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Smith
Sorry, typo (in message, not tested script): on showArray 12,tArray should be on showArray x,tArray Mark On 21 Mar 2006, at 10:49, Mark Smith wrote: Wow. The following meaningless script fails, (though it doesn't produce an error) ie. the result is simply 12 in the message box, the keys

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/21/06, Francis Nugent Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi from Paris, I want to port scripts from Hypercard into Rev 2.6.1, where I can play with them to my hearts content, but all my attempts have so far failed. I can access the fields and their contents, but the word button doesn't

Re: Table Column Widths

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/21/06, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to make a scrolling table field have column widths that vary? If not, is it possible to add object types so I can write my own, or has someone else already done this? If you don't need the fields to vary once set, you can

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 3/21/06 2:37 AM, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect you have a different idea for what handler 'a' will do - in fact, it *always ask the time. You suspected correctly, Alex. Thanks for finding another mistake. That example only shows that the list of tokens is insufficient to

Re: Draw spokes on a wheel

2006-03-21 Thread Jim Lyons
Mark, I used Revolution a couple of years ago to teach middle school kids interested in programming. Then I discovered NetLogo, an agent-based modelling system that traces its roots back to the original Logo. It is perfect for beginners, and has the advantage of immediate feedback and

Re: Draw spokes on a wheel

2006-03-21 Thread Jerry Muelver
Jim Lyons wrote: Mark, I used Revolution a couple of years ago to teach middle school kids interested in programming. Then I discovered NetLogo, an agent-based modelling system that traces its roots back to the original Logo. It is perfect for beginners, and has the advantage of immediate

HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Devin Asay
Hi Folks, Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact? I'm working on an application where I need to save styled text in an XML document. I can successfully insert the htmlText of the styled field into the

application help file

2006-03-21 Thread Martin Blackman
Has anyone got any thoughts on building a help file for an application ? I am considering making a pdf file using openoffice, which can build in hyperlinks and bookmarks. But I think the searching features offered by traditional help files may be easier on the user. The help file will be medium

Re: application help file

2006-03-21 Thread haripratap
What ever you Thought is better and you are thinking about Search Option even that option is Available with fre PDF readers else you can use can Create a Class for this Module where it can Even Fetch you with some Financial Reasource if you release it as a Plugin - Original Message

Re: DRM for Images and Text in Stacks

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami wrote: OK further testing I finally settled on a compromise taking Key Ray's suggestion but not using compressed imageData, I don't see any advantage (I could be missing something) to using compressed imageData over simple jpg storage. Either format would be equally

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Wouter
on Sun Mar 19 16:12:57 CST 2006 Geoff Canyon wrote: Unfortunately for anyone attempting this task, this is a perfectly valid script: /* this is a comment as is this */on mouseUp answer yes end mouseUp This style of commenting shows rev's inability to parse for handler names there after.

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dick Kriesel wrote: On 3/21/06 2:37 AM, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect you have a different idea for what handler 'a' will do - in fact, it *always ask the time. You suspected correctly, Alex. Thanks for finding another mistake. That example only shows that the

linux sound issues

2006-03-21 Thread Joe Baskerville
hi all, i have an issue with playing sound from a stack on linux. the documentation states that revolution uses xanim to play audio files, but as has been documented in many places, this is no longer in development and is tricky to install. so im trying to use mplayer instead. the methods

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread Wouter
on Sun Mar 19 16:12:57 CST 2006 Geoff Canyon wrote: /* this is a comment as is this */on mouseUp answer yes end mouseUp Another problem with this kind of commenting is shown in the following cases: /* this is a comment as is this */-function whatever return something end whatever /*

Re: Help with Arrays??

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Arthur Urban wrote: I don't know what the heck is going on here, but I know it's making me a wee bit testy. (I don't like needless local variables, what can I say...) Here's the code that works just fine. Please note that I've confirmed the value of x, it is

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Hi Folks, Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact? ... comments Here are my comments. Some of the text is colored font color=#FFred/font amp; font

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Wouter
for example: on returninfield mousedown end returninfield Greetings, Wouter On 21 Mar 2006, at 17:03, Jeff Honken wrote: Is there any way to combine events so you don't have to have redundant code. I would like the same code to run on both the on returnInField and on mouseDown events.

revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, I am currently working through the XML docs and am desparately looking for something llike - revXMLfindNodeBycontent There is a revXMLmatchingNode but that only lets me find the node that has an atrribute with a specific value! Do I really have to cycle through the XMLtext or

Application Browser Anomaly

2006-03-21 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi All, Rev 2.7; WinXP TPC 2005 Edition: Both last night and now this morning I have done something that sets the Application Browser in a state such that double-clicking on a substack opens the script of the substack instead of opening the substack itself and double-clicking on a card of an

RE: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jeff Honken
Wouter, Thank you for the reply but I'm a little confused with your answer. I want the same code answer Hello to run in a field no matter if I click on the field with the mouse or press the enter key in the field and I don't want to: on returnInField answer Hello end returnInField on

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I haven't ever really tested it and I have an instinctive feeling that functions should be self-sufficient and shouldn't change anything outside them. Maybe it will suit me better in some circumstances. This is true, but passing by reference

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
Wow -- so what does this do? On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Hi Geoff, Out of curiosity, do you have an example handy of a long handler that you think makes more sense to keep together than to break up? Or one that you think can't be broken up without significant effort

Re: Table Column Widths

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Another option: If you are using the table as a user interface, then I have a pseudo table object that acts like a table should. It allows you to move columns and rows, and resize columns, and insert and delete rows and columns, etc... It can be found here: http://revolution.widged.com/stacks/

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Hi Folks, Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact? lt;snipgt; ;-) Is there a way to do this? Will I have

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Wouter
Hi Jeff, This should work if the locktext and the traversalon of the field are true: on returnInField mousedown end returnInField on mouseDown answer Hello cr the millisecs end mouseDown W. On 21 Mar 2006, at 17:39, Jeff Honken wrote: Wouter, Thank you for the reply but I'm a

Re: linux sound issues

2006-03-21 Thread Girard Damien
Hi joe, The media support under runrev under Linux/Unix is really poor (compared to Windows or MacOS X). There is a enchancement request about that, please vote for him : http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2290 -- You will cannot play a video file in your stack with your

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 30, Issue 54

2006-03-21 Thread Robert Sneidar
Wow thanks Sarah that is huge! I didn't see that anywhere in the docs but I probably didn't look closely enough. But no I have an odd thing happenning. I can only set columns widths up to 120. Anything over is interpreted as width-120 so that if I set the width to 125 I get a column 5

Database Conversion

2006-03-21 Thread Robert Sneidar
Does anyone know of any good dBase/Foxpro table to sql/Valentina conversion utilities? I can write one in Revolution I suppose, but I would have a lot of front end work to do first, and this project is already huge. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jim Ault
The usual practice is to make a handler either a function or a procedure that is called from either more than one handler or more than one event or both events and handlers on returnInField hello end returnInField on mouseDown hello end mouseDown on hello play

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jim Ault
oops. Too early in the morning.. wrong answer since I miss read the question. On 3/21/06 9:06 AM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usual practice is to make a handler either a function or a procedure that is called from either more than one handler or more than one event or both

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread simplsol
Francis, Have you converted the HC stack to a Rev stack (by opening it)? In my experience this makes all of the scripts (including button scripts) accessible. Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Francis Nugent Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, 21

Re: [?] Mac Classic, 2.6.1, MySQL

2006-03-21 Thread simplsol
Sean, Permit me an off the wall question... Do you REALLY need to support OS 9? Any computer Apple has made since 1998 (8 years!) will run some flavor of OS X (although they probably need more RAM). The time and effort you would put into supporting OS 9 could be invested in making your OS X

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 8:12:11 AM, you wrote: You need to escape , ', , and when entering data into an XML node. I can't remember if RevXML has any handlers for this or if you just have to do it by hand. For an example of the escape characters just do a Google search for xml

Tabbed group background thingies

2006-03-21 Thread Andy Calloway
Having read a bit of Dan's book and gone through a couple of the RunRev demos, I thought I'd try to apply what I'd just learned so I went back to a stack with tabs on it. It's got three tabs and I've added some text fields, buttons etc to some of them. It worked fine, click on a tab and the new

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/21/06 9:43 AM, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact? Yes. You need to use a CDATA node instead of a normal element node. The markup looks like this: ![CDATA[bThis

RE: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jeff Honken
Jim, That's exactly what I'm looking for but why on a windows box doesn't the left mouse click work. Here's the code: on returnInField hello end returnInField on mouseDown theButton if theButton is 1 then hello else end if end mouseDown on hello answer Hello World end hello

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Trevor- Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 8:12:11 AM, you wrote: You need to escape , ', , and when entering data into an XML node. I can't remember if RevXML has any handlers for this or if you just have to do it by hand. For an example of the

Re: revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/21/06 10:21 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am currently working through the XML docs and am desparately looking for something llike - revXMLfindNodeBycontent There is a revXMLmatchingNode but that only lets me find the node that has an atrribute with a specific

Re: revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ken, On 3/21/06 10:21 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am currently working through the XML docs and am desparately looking for something llike - revXMLfindNodeBycontent There is a revXMLmatchingNode but that only lets me find the node that has an atrribute with a specific

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Ken Ray wrote: My XML Library handles getting and setting CDATA information for a node quite easily Ken, This is good to know. The RevXML external doesn't handle CDATA, does it? I seem to recall that when I tested using CDATA with RevXML it didn't work

Re: Tabbed group background thingies

2006-03-21 Thread Dan Shafer
Probably you're just missing hide/show commands. That's the trick in tabbed designs. Depending on how you've managed the tabs, you may need to do that explicitly. Check out the great tutorial at http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolution_didacticielsl=en On 3/21/06, Andy Calloway [EMAIL

Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2006-03-21 Thread Levi Kendall
Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem making a standalone application for OS-X from a Windows machine. Actually making it is not the problem really, running it is. The save to standalone works fine and I end up with what I am assuming is the executeable in a structure that looks as such: My

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jim Ault
Why are you using theButton as a parameter? First, where is the mouseDown handler? In the message path, it should be either in the button or field the user clicks or in the card, stack, or back script behind the button or field. If the mouseDown handler is in the button or field, use on

Re: revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Ken Ray
shameless plug My newly-released XML Library 2.0 will let you do it - stsXML_FindNodesByData. And you can use it along with the revXML DLL with no interaction issues. http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm /shameless plug I know, Ken, i know, but I already paid

RE: Tabbed group background thingies

2006-03-21 Thread Andy Calloway
Ahh - It's down to not creating a new card by the looks of things. Now, how to create a card and do a tab thing... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer Sent: 21 March 2006 17:52 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Tabbed

Re: Database Conversion

2006-03-21 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 3/21/06 7:03 PM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, Does anyone know of any good dBase/Foxpro table to sql/Valentina conversion utilities? I can write one in Revolution I suppose, but I would have a lot of front end work to do first, and this project is already huge.

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/21/06 11:51 AM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Ken Ray wrote: My XML Library handles getting and setting CDATA information for a node quite easily Ken, This is good to know. The RevXML external doesn't handle CDATA, does it? I seem to

Re: [?] Mac Classic, 2.6.1, MySQL

2006-03-21 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 3/21/06 7:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean, Permit me an off the wall question... Do you REALLY need to support OS 9? Any computer Apple has made since 1998 (8 years!) will run some flavor of OS X (although they probably need more RAM). The time and effort you would

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Actually, you can *retrieve* CDATA with revXMLNodeContents, but you can't *set* it. That's part of the reason I'm still updating my XML Library. ;-) ... Trying it with CDATA tags already around it: revPutIntoXMLNode

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 9:43:36 AM, you wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Trevor- Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 8:12:11 AM, you wrote: You need to escape , ', , and when entering data into an XML node. I can't remember if RevXML has any handlers for this or if

Re: revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Joel Guillod
Hi Ken, On 3/21/06 10:21 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am currently working through the XML docs and am desparately looking for something llike - revXMLfindNodeBycontent ... Sorry, Klaus, AFAIK you can't find data information with the revXML DLL. Damn!!! What a pity :-/

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Yes and no. As long as you have the data stored properly encoded then you should be able to decode it on the way out: set the htmlText of field grunt to urlDecode(xmlData) Oh, I see what you are getting at. Yeah, that would work but wouldn't

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dick Kriesel wrote: On 3/20/06 9:30 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best solution I've come up with for removing block comments is put the script of SomeObject into tScript put token 1 to -1 of tScript into tScript This sounded really cool, but I can't get it to work. :(

Re: DRM for Images and Text in Stacks

2006-03-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: I think this comes close to making the images at least some what obscurely stored. --create a substack --import images into custom props as jpegs, --One could put these props in something a available as a card property or something very obscure, like a

Re: DRM for Images and Text in Stacks

2006-03-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, I wrote: field contents are encrypted along with the rest of the stack data when a stack is password protected, while custom props are not ...or maybe custom props *are* encrypted. That's weird, I could have sworn that custom props were visible when viewing stack data in a text

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Geoff , Wow -- so what does this do? From Serendipity Reference: The findSDBRecord command checks for the existence locked/unlocked status of a record with the record type and key specified in line 1 of sdbBuffer. It can also be used to unlock a record that was previously locked

Re: DRM for Images and Text in Stacks

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, I wrote: field contents are encrypted along with the rest of the stack data when a stack is password protected, while custom props are not ...or maybe custom props *are* encrypted. That's weird, I could have sworn that custom props were visible when viewing

Re: Draw spokes on a wheel

2006-03-21 Thread Nicolas Cueto
I think Rev might benefit from the addition of TG-type controls, but it seems like a long shot to me. I have built a tool in Rev to work with NetLogo files if anyone does take an interest. (It needs to be updated -- I can't keep up with them!) Please, Jim, I'm interested in the tool. And if

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
See if URLEncode() and URLDecode() will package and recover your text and/or htmltext to XML's liking...it works for me on other stuff... sqb On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Hi Folks, Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then successfully retrieve

Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I thought that I had been explicit, but apparently not ! From a Rev 2.6.1 stack, I want to open a HC stack (at the same time), examine it visually, type a name into a field in the Rev stack which corresponds to a button that I see in the HC stack. Then I want to hit a button in

Re: Draw spokes on a wheel

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 21, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Jim Lyons wrote: I used Revolution a couple of years ago to teach middle school kids interested in programming. Then I discovered NetLogo, an agent- based modelling system that traces its roots back to the original Logo. It is perfect for beginners, and has the

Re: Draw spokes on a wheel

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: BTW, what is TG? Turtle Graphics. Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Printing DLOG on Mac OS X

2006-03-21 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Other OS X programs can do this (Apple's Mail program, for example)... On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Yves, Hi list is there a way to get the printing DLOG on mac OS X appearing in sheet mode ? I'm not sure, but iI think this is not possible since the dialogs do not

Re: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Cubist
In a message dated 3/21/06 8:14:18 AM, Jeff Honken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to combine events so you don't have to have redundant code. I would like the same code to run on both the on returnInField and on mouseDown events. Jeff In general, the solution to this problem

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread Bridger Maxwell
Try using AppleEvents. I don't have a mac nearby to test it on, but I have seen it work. I don't think the Hypercard program needs to have a handler to receive this. request the script of btn (cd fld ButtonName) from program Hypercard On 3/21/06, Francis Nugent Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Application Browser Anomaly

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Both last night and now this morning I have done something that sets the Application Browser in a state such that double-clicking on a substack opens the script of the substack instead of opening the substack itself and double-clicking on a card of an unopened subStack opens the script of

Re: revXMLfindNodecontent

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I am currently working through the XML docs and am desparately looking for something llike - revXMLfindNodeBycontent There is a revXMLmatchingNode but that only lets me find the node that has an atrribute with a specific value! Do I really have to cycle through the XMLtext or something

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
From a Rev 2.6.1 stack, I want to open a HC stack (at the same time), examine it visually, type a name into a field in the Rev stack which corresponds to a button that I see in the HC stack. Then I want to hit a button in the Rev stack which picks up the script from that button in the HC

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, I thought that I had been explicit, but apparently not ! From a Rev 2.6.1 stack, I want to open a HC stack (at the same time), examine it visually, type a name into a field in the Rev stack which corresponds to a button that I see in the HC stack.

Tabstops

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/22/06, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow thanks Sarah that is huge! I didn't see that anywhere in the docs but I probably didn't look closely enough. But no I have an odd thing happenning. I can only set columns widths up to 120. Anything over is interpreted as width-120 so

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread simplsol
Hello from San Dimas, I'm missing something here. Why not just have Rev open the HC stack, this will convert it to a Rev stack? You would be able to access all of the button and field scripts - and do whatever you want with them. You could then write any Rev script needed to import/export or

Progress Made?

2006-03-21 Thread Arthur Urban
Has there been any progress with the perpetual crashing in WinXP? I literally save every couple of minutes because of the instability of the IDE. I would like to note to any Rev Developers that might be listening though, is that the crash potential is the highest when I have text selected in

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/21/06, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have an example? I agree that if you end up passing in a handful of arguments by reference, you haven't accomplished much by breaking out the routine. The question is if there isn't a better way to slice the routine, where that wouldn't

Calling Rev Compiler On Command Line

2006-03-21 Thread Scott Kane
Hi, Is there are method (I've checked the doc's and found nothing) of calling the compiler in Rev without loading the IDE? TIA Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.6/287 - Release Date: 21/03/2006

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Smith
You might put the multiple results into the elements of an array, and return the array. Mark On 22 Mar 2006, at 00:55, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 3/21/06, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have an example? I agree that if you end up passing in a handful of arguments by reference,

Re: [?] Mac Classic, 2.6.1, MySQL

2006-03-21 Thread Sean Shao
In regards to the two posts - one from Paul Looney and one from Ruslan Zasukhin.. PL Do you REALLY need to support OS 9? Yes. PL The time and effort you would put into supporting OS 9 That's the great thing about Rev, there's very little extra time and effort required. RZ But develop new

Re: Progress Made?

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Smith
Arthur, check out this thread: http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-February/ 076870.html Best, Mark On 22 Mar 2006, at 00:40, Arthur Urban wrote: Has there been any progress with the perpetual crashing in WinXP? I literally save every couple of minutes because of the

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I didn't think of that Mark. Again, arrays are things that don't come naturally to me, so I probably ignore them when they would be useful. In this case, it sounds like a really good solution. Thanks, Sarah On 3/22/06, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might put the multiple results into

Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?

2006-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: When you open a HyperCard stack in Rev, the property called HCaddressing is set to true. Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: All newly imported HC stacks have their HCAddressing property set to true. With that kind of female solidarity here, the men amongst us must be

Re: Progress Made?

2006-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Arthur Urban wrote: Has there been any progress with the perpetual crashing in WinXP? Yes, I believe they have isolated it. It took quite a while to even get a stack that would crash on the development machines, so it wasn't a universal problem for everyone. Lots of people seem to be running

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-21 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm just a simple Caveman programmer. Your advanced technology and talk of arrays and multiple functions frighten me. In this case, I'd just as soon keep thinkgs in a single handler which cavemen like me can read and debug easily. :-) -Chipp Sarah Reichelt wrote: I didn't think of that

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2006-03-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Levi Kendall wrote: Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem making a standalone application for OS-X from a Windows machine. Actually making it is not the problem really, running it is. The save to standalone works fine and I end up with what I am assuming is the executeable in a structure

Re: Calling Rev Compiler On Command Line

2006-03-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Scott, I believe a script is compiled when it is 'set'. So to compile a script just get it, modify it, then set it. best, Chipp Scott Kane wrote: Hi, Is there are method (I've checked the doc's and found nothing) of calling the compiler in Rev without loading the IDE? TIA Scott

Re: [?] Mac Classic, 2.6.1, MySQL

2006-03-21 Thread Judy Perry
Indeed. My department's Mac lab (yep, the FrankenLab of ill-repute) runs OS 9 only. Initially, it was because of some problems with dual boot (and the machines not having enough RAM); then it was because of the RAM issue, and now, quite frankly, I think it is because I'm the only Mac person in

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 11:19:29 AM, you wrote: On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Yes and no. As long as you have the data stored properly encoded then you should be able to decode it on the way out: set the htmlText of field grunt to urlDecode(xmlData) Oh, I see

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Levi Kendall wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem making a standalone application for OS-X from a Windows machine. Actually making it is not the problem really, running it is. The save to standalone works fine and I end up with what I am assuming is the executeable in

Re: Progress Made?

2006-03-21 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm working on a small project and for the first time trying to use 2.7 because of it's anti-aliased graphics (which are great!) I, too, keep having Rev crash in the middle of programming (twice in the last hour). I was wondering if there's a 'recipe' for this so I can watch out for it?

Re: Progress Made?

2006-03-21 Thread Arthur Urban
It would be great if I could help out. Is there a specific means to generate a crash log? J. Landman Gay wrote: Arthur Urban wrote: Has there been any progress with the perpetual crashing in WinXP? Yes, I believe they have isolated it. It took quite a while to even get a stack that would

RE: Combined Events

2006-03-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:43 AM -0700 3/21/2006, Jeff Honken wrote: That's exactly what I'm looking for but why on a windows box doesn't the left mouse click work. Here's the code: Does it work if you don't specify which mouse button? -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com