Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
That's an interesting idea. But it was transferred as binary over ftp, so I would expect that to mean that the ftp process did no translation. I believe it is transferring as ascii over ftp where the 'return' character is translated by ftp. I can't think of any reason why an ftp program should

[ANN] StackRunner 1.9 Is Available

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Ray
Just a quick note to let you know I've updated StackRunner to use the 3.0 engine; version 1.9 is available for all platforms here: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/StackRunner.htm Enjoy! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site:

Re: Email Client (Outlook Express) won't start after console error

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Ray
After having a program error reported and then quitting the development IDE my Outlook Express won't start. I seem to remember some years ago having a similar problem and there was a registry key for Outlook which had to be reset so that it wouldn't run in invisible messaging mode. Can

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour Bernard, When you open a stack created on Win with Mac OS, the engine converts all 'texts' (scripts, objects names, etc.) using IsoToMac function (and MacToIso when it's the opposite). There is only one thing that is never converted and stays 'untouched' when switching from a

Re: Sending an e-mail without a dedicated e-mail client

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Charles, Sarah's library does attachments. Shao Sean's library could do it too, with a little more additional scripting. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch forum:

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Bonjour Eric, I think the problem may be that I'm using these characters within the keys of an array, then storing the array as a custompropertyset. Whilst these characters are not strictly alphanumeric, since they are ascii, I didn't think there would be a problem. But perhaps because they are

AW: problems building a rev-valentina standalone on mac

2008-10-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi all, after getting to the bottom of this problem with Ruslan, it seems to be that I am the only one who has his IDE on Win XP and wants to deploy a Rev-Valentina app on Mac (I have just a studio licence for Win!). Hopefully I am actually not the only one and someone can point me to the fault.

Re: more rev 3.0 woes - losing the will to live

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
But here's what I'm seeing with some stacks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls *.rev perf-test-leg.rev test-legacy.rev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more test-legacy.rev #!/bin/sh # MetaCard 2.4 stack # The following is not ASCII text, # so now would be a good time to q out of more^L [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more

Re: AW: problems building a rev-valentina standalone on mac

2008-10-09 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 10/9/08 2:01 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tiemo, I don't know if this structure is correct Ruslan either and my Mac standalone still doesn't finds Valentina. What I don't understand is both folders v4rev.bundle and dbvalentina2 look in its structure the same on Win

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Smith
Malte, what a horrible thng to happen. Without going into boring details, I had a roughly similar thing happen to a music project about 7 years ago. All I can really say is that once you've got over the shock, you'll do what everyone does after such a loss - start again and rebuild. And, as

Re: Sending an e-mail without a dedicated e-mail client

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Yennie
For those you want to send email but are worried about using their own ISPs SMTP server, or getting their messages flagged as spam, it's worth pointing out that there are several services out there for cheap SMTP. A primary perk of using a well-established service like this is that they

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Dear Malte, Le 9 oct. 08 à 11:51, Malte Brill a écrit : today is the worst day in my self employment life I'm very sad for you. It's a violation and I hope you don't you don't feel too desperate. So let's focus on possible solutions: The really secure one is to 'delocalize' and have a backup

AW: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Malte, thats really the worst scenario for your business I can think of. After I heard of a similar situation some time ago I got really paranoiac about such a scenario and improved my backup strategy. Hoping you get up again soon! All the best Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thanks guys for the suggested workarounds. I might just send Mark a stack which would show the problem - he seems to have an insatiable desire to hunt down bugs and squash them. I already mentioned to him in passing some of my scripting practices and I think he barely contained his horror. This

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Neal Campbell
Also my sincere regrets. I have done this to myself by formatting the wrong drive that had my source repository by mistake and not having a backup. I still have the executable on my website but I cannot support/enhance it because its gone. I always read in programming books that you almost always

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Andre Garzia
Malte, What a horrible thing! I thought this happened only here in Brazil. There's not much I can say, similar thing happened once to me and someone said to me: now you can do it even better. The felling of loss and frustration at lost labor is terrible. If there's anything I can do to help, just

Re: alternatelanguages ... persistent objects from createObject

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Ray
But: Could it be possible out of runrev (any idea) to have 2 alternatelanguagescripts runword1.vbs and writeagaininword2.vbs where the second just uses the word object opened by the first. = Can I use a COM-object again by any trick? The first script could perhaps give back an objectID in

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Malte, I can totally relate to this. And all I can tell you is It sucks! That said, time will pass and the feeling of being violated will start to go away. I feel for what you are going through. I found for me that using the readjustment time to reorganize my life and since I was

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Ray
What a horrible thing! I thought this happened only here in Brazil. There's not much I can say, similar thing happened once to me and someone said to me: now you can do it even better. The felling of loss and frustration at lost labor is terrible. If there's anything I can do to help, just

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Andre Garzia
err... does 10.5 runs on PPC? I thought ppc was limited to 10.4... :-O On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not as if Apple didn't give didn't give people HOW many years warning that PPC compatibility was going to be phased out! Judy On Tue, Oct 7, 2008

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bernard, Since those characters 29 and 30 are lower ASCII, there shouldn't be any encoding problems. Do you want to send me a very simple, very small stack that shows the same problem? For whatever it is worth, put numtochar(30) is mactoiso(numtochar(30)) returns true. I do indeed

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Sorry Mark, it will have to wait. I went back to use Rev 3.0 on Vista (since I thought that was crashing less than on Linux so I might be able to do this simple task before it crashed). I created a new stack, copied over the custom property, checked the cp was there, closed the property

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Neal Campbell
Yes it runs on PPC, I think Snowbunny will not however. Neal k3nc On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: err... does 10.5 runs on PPC? I thought ppc was limited to 10.4... :-O On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not as if

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Malte, Sorry to hear about the criminal activity. The world is going through some hard changes so we all need to be careful and your message is a good warning to those who haven't experienced the dark side of humanity yet. If I told you what has been happening to me you would

alternatelanguages ... persistent objects from createObject

2008-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Using alternatelanguages allows these (like VBS, Javascript) to interact with windows COM objects (using the createObject Syntax f.e. for opening word or excel and write sth there, save it and close). As I asked some weeks ago - how could I reuse such an object later? One answer in the

AW: AW: problems building a rev-valentina standalone on mac

2008-10-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Ruslan, sorry, I really feel stupid, but the standalone builder on my Win XP doesn't takes the valentina bundels into the standalone. What I did is, I copied the v4rev.bundle and database_drivers\dbvalentina2 folder (which I took from the Mac) into: C:\Dokumente und

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Hi Bernard, ISOtoMac changes characters you wouldn't expect. There are historic reasons for this. The answer is to NEVER use the function on blocks of text containing custom delimiters, but only use it on the user readable text fragments - i.e. convert each field individually. A pain, yes, but

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Yennie
Bernard, If your theory holds true (and it sounds plausible - that custom property names are subject to translation but not the property contents), one possible workaround would be to base64Encode() your array keys. It's not terribly elegant, but any base64 encoded key value should

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Damn! I wish you all the best Malte. Indeed, I hope people will bear with you and be patient. Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at

Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
I cannot believe I just called SnowLeopard Snowbunny (but I might copyright the name for future usage!!) Neal Campbell www.abrohamnealsoftware.com AIM:nealk3nc On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Neal Campbell wrote: Yes it runs on PPC, I think Snowbunny will not however. Neal k3nc On

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Jerry Daniels
Snowbunny. I think we learned from Monty Python that rabbits can be quite formidable--a known requirement for an OS X code name. Therefore, I, for one, would wholeheartedly endorse Snowbunny as the code name for the code name for the upcoming new version of OS X. Best, Jerry Daniels

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Neal Campbell
I will license it for the next GLX application for free if you want to use it! What a marketing coup! Neal On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Jerry Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snowbunny. I think we learned from Monty Python that rabbits can be quite formidable--a known requirement for an

Re: more rev 3.0 woes - losing the will to live

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
That was actually suggested by Mark (I think). But in the end I used Ken Ray's workaround from bugzilla. Thanks for the suggestion though. Some very kind and helpful people on this list. Bernard On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But here's what I'm

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hey Malte, Here's a hug from San Francisco.. Very sorry for your machine and data loss. I live in fear of such a scenario.. I am so paranoid about losing stuff.. 1) work from home, and I'm always here (hermit?) 2) Time machine is always running, 2nd 500g drive in the G5 3) Bootable backups

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Rossi
Malte: Very sorry to hear about your loss. I am sure you are disheartened, but the Revolution community needs your stuff, so please continue. Perhaps get away from work and take a couple of days to recover. Just a couple of thoughts: maybe you gave some of your development work to a friend or

Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Judy Perry wrote: It's not as if Apple didn't give didn't give people HOW many years warning that PPC compatibility was going to be phased out! 1. Not that long really. 2. Apple did not tell PPC users they would be left with an OS that still contained all sorts of glitches and a rather

[OT] Clickjacking

2008-10-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Maybe this is only semi-OT, since RunRev has announced plans to deliver a browser plugin: Web Surfers Face Dangerous New Threat: 'Clickjacking' Internet and Web browser security experts are sounding the alarm about a new type of malicious attack called clickjacking, a technique that can be

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
I just want to chime in on this a bit. In the past, one of the reasons cited for Windows continued stability problems was their apparent need to maintain backward compatibility with hardware and older software. It seems that their huge market share turned out to be somewhat of an achilles

Re: [OT] Clickjacking

2008-10-09 Thread Mikey
If you didn't know, this was announced a week or so ago, which is good news, because it means that NoScript has once again come to the rescue. If you don't know what that is, then you probably aren't using FireFox. NoScript is an extremely important extension for FireFox that will prevent just

Re: [OT] Clickjacking

2008-10-09 Thread Mikey
None of the above helps you if you are running a program that has an embedded browser that forces you to use IE or Safari, though, so keep that in mind when you allow those programs to hit the web for you. If you're using one of the tools that lets you pick the browser that will be embedded, then

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Malte, Perhaps a good cry helps-- and as Scott recommends-- a couple days off. You're such a super guy and have helped many here in the past. I'm glad to help in anyway possible. My thoughts are with you. best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Malte, I'm so sorry. I know exactly how you must feel. Your heart just sinks, it is horrible. I think all of us

Re: strange char translation from intel to ppc

2008-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Just replying to myself (in case anyone wants to know how this was resolved). I went through the keys of the array and ran macToIso() on each one. After checking that the appropriate delimiters were now ascii 30 and 29, I then ran the code and it worked. I'm glad I don't have to come up with a

Re: List of all possible messages? and flipbook

2008-10-09 Thread Michael
Hi: Thanks for all the ideas. However, I can't find a go to next card message. I wanted to trap it so that a user could flip thru the cards, but if it is one I don't want them to see, like a prefs card, then I could skip that one and go to the one after it. Maybe I'm on the wrong track? Also, I

Re: List of all possible messages? and flipbook

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Yennie
Michael, Check out preOpenCard to get a message before a card is opened, or possibly closeCard which is sent as you leave a card. One of those should probably do what you want Hi: Thanks for all the ideas. However, I can't find a go to next card message. I wanted to trap it so that a

Re: List of all possible messages? and flipbook

2008-10-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
on preopencard constant kOkcards aCard,bCard,Barncard get the short name of me if it is among the items of kOkCards then -- doodah end if end preopencard Handle the preOpenCard message to update a card's appearance before the card appears on screen. Hi: Thanks for all

Re: List of all possible messages? and flipbook

2008-10-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Left off the equals sign: constant kOkcards = aCard,bCard,Barncard constant kOkcards aCard,bCard,Barncard -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Is the Revolution Dictionary written using Revolution?

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Pepperdine
I'm trying to teach myself UI capabilities in Rev. The Revolution Dictionary has some very nice features. Is it written in Revolution? If yes, is there a way to look at how it is done? I cannot just change to edit mode while it is up. Thanks, --Scott

RE: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread John Tregea
Hey Malte, Very sorry to hear what happened, I agree with the thank goodness you am not like them sentiment that Mark expressed. I have had a similar experience. One effect of starting over is that ALL the thinking and refinement you have done to date is where you start from, not from the place

Re: Is the Revolution Dictionary written using Revolution?

2008-10-09 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Scott, Yes, here's how: 1) In Rev prefs, make sure Revolution UI elements appear in lists of stacks is checked. 2) Open Rev's Application Browser. 3) Open the Dictionary. It should appear at the bottom of the app browser list. Now you can browse it as any other stack. HTH - Phil Davis

Re: Why I didn't, and why I may, later.

2008-10-09 Thread Judy Perry
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy Perry wrote: It's not as if Apple didn't give didn't give people HOW many years warning that PPC compatibility was going to be phased out! 1. Not that long really. --3 years, actually. Seems long enough for

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Judy Perry
Malte, I'm so sorry to hear about this! Big hugs from SoCal! Judy On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen.

Re: Visible and extra monitors.

2008-10-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This one has probably come up before . . . Possibly, an itemised table showing what commands are available in each version of Runtime Revolution should be drawn up to spare people with early versions a lot of time,

Re: script abbreviations

2008-10-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:07 AM, william humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I see it for each individual thing you look up now. Thanks. I just thought there would be a list of all the synonyms somewhere. There is, in the Dictionary. As recently posted re a similar problem wanting a list of

Re: script abbreviations

2008-10-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: As recently posted re a similar problem wanting a list of Version compatibility of every keyword,property,function,message. Open the Dictionary and Cntrl+click (right click or whatever on Win) on any Column header and you'll get a pop-up list, select Synonym. Now, just like most

Re: script abbreviations

2008-10-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Richard Gaskin Good tip, but now I wonder: Control-click/right-click? Where's the non-secret way to get to that? Is this also in the menu bar somewhere? Well I would like to say that it's one of the many 'secrets' passed on to full paid up members of the Use