Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Marriott
You keep missing the obvious. Whether you call it HTML or FauxML or whatever you like... is defined to specify boldface text. is defined to specify paragraphs is defined to indicate metadata that is NOT part of the contents. tags are defined to be ignored. Very simple concept, consistently a

Re: Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/9/06 6:52 AM, "Robert Sneidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bob, would the ODBC connection work for you here? >> >> Mark > > I suppose it would. I didn't look very far, but I searched for ODBC > in the A-Z help section and came up empty. I will look again. I think > Codebase has ODBC suppo

VS: Purchasing Valentina

2006-08-08 Thread Sakari
This is all I needed to know. A happy customer and the schedule of getting the keys. Thank you Dave! Sakari >I recently purchased a license. The response (with all registration >keys) was extremely fast. > >I noticed that Ruslan has responded to your mail already. He responds >with the same

Re: Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, would the ODBC connection work for you here? Mark I suppose it would. I didn't look very far, but I searched for ODBC in the A-Z help section and came up empty. I will look again. I think Codebase has ODBC support. Bob Sneidar

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Ian McKnight
On 09/08/06, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not do the following? insert the script of group analogClock into back Now all the scripts are in the message path and you don't need 'send' or use value, etc. Ah! I have known about backscripts and frontscripts for some time but never rea

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: bar Not that the title tags are in the body and still not rendered by TextEdit. However, if I replace "title" by "foo", "bar" is visible in TextEdit. Revolution does the same, if I set the htmlText of a field to above html code. I

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Ault
On 8/8/06 1:58 PM, "Ian McKnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dar - I revisited your suggestion for a custom command and made > the handler work. > > A function seemed more appropriate to what I wanted to do as it > returned a value (thats why I had thought of using the 'get' command > to

IRC Client

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Marriott
I know there was a contest a while back to write an IRC client in Rev... Did anything ever come of that? Does anyone know where one might exist? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: internal SQL queries

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Ault
Yes, filter is very fast, but not always the fastest, yet rarely far off. You could do the variable column filter string, perhaps as put cr & coolDataTable & tab into foundLines put "*"&tab into C get item 1 to colNeeded-1 of (C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C&C) filter foundLines with (it & IDnum & tab&"*

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
Just a suggestion - Derek Bump (Dreamscape Software) did some experimenting with css and rev's htmltext a couple of years ago. You might want to check it out. The simple code there did help quite a bit with translating to and from (especially to) real web pages and seemed to scale font sizes

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There would be no assumption that a property named "taggedText" would render html pages. I agree Whoops. I think the partial quote might misrepresent Roger. There is an "if" in the previou

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dar, No, I opened an html page with the following code in TextEdit while not ignoring RTF commands (isn't it funny that TextEdit uses the same option to en/disable HTML and RTF?): bar Not that the title tags are in the body and still not rendered by TextEdit. However, if I replace "ti

Re: How do I set table column width in table fields

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Equal column widths: set the tabstops of fld 1 to 250 different column widths: set the tabstops of fld 1 to 24,250,80,80,512 Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Download ErrorLib at http://economy-x-talk.com/dev

How do I set table column width in table fields

2006-08-08 Thread David ResSeguie
Hi, Can anyone tell how to change the width of columns in table fields, so that the contents fit? Thanks, David David ResSeguie Information Services Manager/Ad Co-ordinator Sundance Natural Foods 748 E. 24th Avenue Eugene, OR 97405-293

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Seriously, this is a stretch. If people really believe that, where is the outcry over the handling of white space? If you really believe that, then why haven't you submitted such bugs to BZ? If you try submitting a white space bug (I th

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Sean Shao wrote: put value("randomTime(5,2)", group "analogClock") There are some limitations to value() when working with sending arrays and the result of arithmetic. At times arrays are simply empty values and numbers have numberFormat applies with possible

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:22 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Apple's TextEdit application behaves exactly like Revolution fields in this respect. Are you looking at clipboardData["html"]? I don't think TextEdit is creating bad HTML. I think Revolution is using the same function to create htmlText

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There would be no assumption that a property named "taggedText" would render html pages. I agree. -- Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: What do you base this assumption on? Oh, I dunno, the name of the function beginning with "HTML?" The documentation which states, "Specifies the contents of a field, with its text formatting represented as HTML tags and special characters

Re: SQL, shared access to db // Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/8/06 11:36 PM, "Robert Sneidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Holy Grail for my project would be if a driver could be written, > perhaps for something like a Codebase server which can access xBase > tables directly, where I could open shared tables and indexes, and > then peruse through the

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Sorry I ever mentioned I found it bizarre. Nothing we can do about it. It is what it is. I don't use htmlText because it's too limited and limiting. Dan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Ian McKnight wrote: Thanks Dar - I revisited your suggestion for a custom command and made the handler work. A function seemed more appropriate to what I wanted to do as it returned a value (thats why I had thought of using the 'get' command to get access to the RES

Re: API Style + Navigational Model // was Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/8/06 11:36 PM, "Robert Sneidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. A typical methodology of Visionpoint 2000 is to set an index > (ordering the table), seek for a record, and then stepping through > the table one record at a time, or issuing some kind of statement > that uses REST (from the curr

Re: Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/8/06 11:36 PM, "Robert Sneidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert, This question can be interesting to all, so I will CC it to both lists. > 2. Although virtually every SQL solution I have seen declares it is a true > Relational database, I have seen NOTHING which refers to creating relat

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Marriott
Dar Scott wrote: > You are assuming that a field and htmlText has something to do with HTML. > > What do you base this assumption on? Oh, I dunno, the name of the function beginning with "HTML?" The documentation which states, "Specifies the contents of a field, with its text formatting represe

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Thanks Dar - I revisited your suggestion for a custom command and made the handler work. A function seemed more appropriate to what I wanted to do as it returned a value (thats why I had thought of using the 'get' command to get access to the RESULT and it works) but it's as if the send comm

Re: internal SQL queries

2006-08-08 Thread Josh Mellicker
I thought of filter, but the problem is the ID column always has to be the first one, right? That's fine for data fields where there is only one ID column, but there might be several... I've been thinking one could ascertain the column number of the desired ID column, then make a certain

Re: Codebase Database API

2006-08-08 Thread mfstuart
Bob, would the ODBC connection work for you here? Mark -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Codebase-Database-API-tf2069423.html#a5713445 Sent from the Revolution - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, setting the htmlText of a field *should* process the (Revolution-supported) HTML in the text, otherwise setting the htmlText of a field would not be useful. The whole point is being able to use the supported html tags to mark up text and then have it

An:New stacks uploaded to Rev Online

2006-08-08 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
All, I have uploaded two stacks to Rev OnLine for your inspection. Catagory Stack Utilities FileUtility Games WarOfRoses The FileUtility stack allows for you to develop tools to be attached together in a layout that can operate on files in folders on your dis

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Ian McKnight wrote: get randomTime(5,2) put the result send "get randomTime(5,2)" to group "analogClock" put the result It seems Rev has a limited compiler when it comes to 'send'. I'm not even sure what the meaning of 'get' would be in the above situation.

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Dar Scott wrote: > You are assuming that a field and htmlText has something to do with > HTML. > > What do you base this assumption on? > > It is clear that htmlText is a view that is html-like. There is no > reason to expect it to process HTML when it is dumped into the property. I think that

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Sean Shao
Take a look at the "value" function, it's like "send" for functions :-) put value("randomTime(5,2)", group "analogClock") _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.c

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Except that has a defined, special meaning that Rev knows about -- which is to specify the title of a document -- and that is by definition distinct from the content. The tag however, is undefined. I believe that it's appropriate to "strip

Re: Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Ault
On 8/8/06 7:24 AM, "Ian McKnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on this please? > I could keep the function and calling handler together but would > prefer to have all important scripts in one place. why are you sending "get randomTim(5,2)" instead of "randomTime(5,2)"

Re: Rev app to pull data from Amazon

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
RGould8, Are you sure you have set the permissions of the script to 755, i.e. correct execution rights, and does the script have line endings compatible with the operating system it is running on? Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: Rev app to pull data from Amazon

2006-08-08 Thread RGould8
Dan, Well, I have followed the instructions and have put the PERL script on my web-server like the Amazon API instructions say: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # This program shows how to use LWP::Simple to make an Amazon Web # Services (AWS) REST request, and how to process the response with #

Problems using Send and Functions with 2 parameters

2006-08-08 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi I have a function 'randonTime' which accepts two parameters, the first specifies whether a time should be in 5, 10 15 etc minute intervals, the second specifies 12 or 24 hour clock and returns a valid time in the form hh:mm. With the function handler in the same script as the calling handler

Re: Droplet app with AppleEvent

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Ault
This is just a shot to help you quickly, but you might try to add the repeating test MyAppName is among the processes If true, it is now up and running. Don't the exact way of doing this, but hopefully this helps to with the timing. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 8/8/06 6:46 AM, "Zax" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Droplet app with AppleEvent

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Zax, Maybe, the answer dialog is not available yet. What happens if you try the following in the mainstack of a standalone? on appleEvent beep end appleEvent If you don't hear a beep, it looks (sounds) like a bug. I don't remember seeing this bug in later versions, you might want to

Droplet app with AppleEvent

2006-08-08 Thread Zax
[sorry if I made double-post, I encountered mail problems] Hello, I would like my app made with Revolution 2.51 to react like a droplet when dropping files or folders on the app icon. I set "" as file type and it's ok: dropping something on my app icon launches my app. For testing purpose, I

Re: Purchasing Valentina

2006-08-08 Thread Dave Cragg
On 8 Aug 2006, at 12:36, Sakari wrote: If there's someone who has bought Valentina, could you help me please? I've been planning to buy Valentina for Revolution, but there's a few obstacles I've come by, so I'm asking here if you don't mind. First thing I came across is the website Valentina

Re: Purchasing Valentina

2006-08-08 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/8/06 2:36 PM, "Sakari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sakari, > If there's someone who has bought Valentina, could you help me please? > I've been planning to buy Valentina for Revolution, but there's a few > obstacles I've come by, so I'm asking here if you don't mind. > First thing I came

Purchasing Valentina

2006-08-08 Thread Sakari
If there's someone who has bought Valentina, could you help me please? I've been planning to buy Valentina for Revolution, but there's a few obstacles I've come by, so I'm asking here if you don't mind. First thing I came across is the website Valentina or the Paradigma Software has. It is

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Exactly, Bill. Nothing bizarre about it. Thank you for looking up the reference. In reply to Dar's list of applications that do or don't: Apple's TextEdit application behaves exactly like Revolution fields in this respect. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineeri

Re: HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Marriott
Except that has a defined, special meaning that Rev knows about -- which is to specify the title of a document -- and that is by definition distinct from the content. The tag however, is undefined. I believe that it's appropriate to "strip" out the information between title tags and to prese