Re: getting Wrapped up

2009-08-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I maybe reinventing the wheel, but I have found a way to mix unicode text with 'normal' text in a field. For instance: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld XXX to numToChar(12345) numToChar(32) put non-unicode text after fld XXX not exactly rocket science and I wonder why it

Re: getting Wrapped up

2009-08-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Richmond Mathewsonrichmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: If I set the dontWrap to false text does NOT wrap (2.0.1, 2.6.1, 4.0a). In fact I cannot get my unicode text to wrap at all. Is there any white space in the text? Wrapping only

Dependence on externals

2009-08-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is not, ultimately, a good solution to limitations of RunRev as a software producer should be able to produce a single package that can be compiled to run on any target platform. The problem about externals (whether 'externals' as understood in the xTalk universe, or external applications

revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Two questions. I am trying to set the filename of a quicktime player to a video stored on a remote server, but there appears to be a bug in this functionality. I see the first frame of the video, but the revlet locks up thereafter (along with the entire browser). Works fine in the development

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Solved the first item. In other versions of Rev, it works fine to set the filename of a quicktime player to something of the form, ftp://;. Doing so in a revlet will lock everything up. But when I switched to http://... , all worked fine. Streaming begins and the video plays fine. I'd

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Solved the first item. In other versions of Rev, it works fine to set the filename of a quicktime player to something of the form, ftp://;. Doing so in a revlet will lock everything up. But when I switched to http://... , all worked fine. Streaming begins and the video

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 00:40, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, don't you want cups-pdf if its Ubuntu? Its real simple. Just gives you a virtual printer which is a file. Or is there something else? Peter Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: Print to PDF? I think I am

Re: revlet and path

2009-08-07 Thread Hugh Senior
There are two issues here: [1] Accessing an external file [2] Trying to include a pw-protected stack in a revlet build The first was initially pursued because of difficulties with the second. The first is a valid issue in its own right, but to accomplish the second ensure that not only are

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Hi Klaus, Yes, I know FLV is not directly playable in Quicktime. I am looking for a workaround... some way to play a YouTube video in a revlet, other than directly through a Quicktime player. Could be impossible. Perian looks to be Mac only. Thanks. Richard Klaus Major wrote: Hi

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Well, I spoke too fast. There are a few more issues with playing videos in a QT player when the videos are stored on a server. 1. The only reliable way to have these videos play is to save them with hinted streaming turned on. Without that, some will play; others lock the revlet up. Standard

revlets and cursors

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Anybody able to get cursors to lock in and work correctly in a revlet?... or is this a known bug? Thanks. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Hi Klaus, Yes, I know FLV is not directly playable in Quicktime. I am looking for a workaround... some way to play a YouTube video in a revlet, other than directly through a Quicktime player. Could be impossible. Yep, I'm afraid it is impossible, since the only crossplatform

Re: [ANN] Sona Vocabulary Assistant 1.0

2009-08-07 Thread Ken Ray
I'm pleased to announce the release of Sona Vocabulary Assistant, an internet-aware, media-friendly product for language students. There are lots of vocabulary apps out there but none with the features I wanted, so I made one myself. : ) Very nice! Congratulations on the product launch... it

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Thanks, Klaus. It was your latter suggestion that I was thinking of, but I also found out the revbrowser does not appear to work in a revlet. Having a browser open up inside a revlet, which is itself open inside a browser... seems kind of convoluted... but could actually provide some useful

Detecting UTF-8 Encoded Files

2009-08-07 Thread Ken Ray
I recently had a need to be able to detect whether a vCard was UTF-8 encoded or not so that I could run the proper decoding on it... after a healthy web search, I found an article on Instructables for how to walk through the text of a file and be able to determine this:

Re: Rending HTML Entities in HTMLtext in fields

2009-08-07 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Sivakatirswamika...@hindu.org wrote: Is there a way to get htmlEntities #8220;Kanwar#8221; The rest of their lifestyle #8212; names, marriage rituals, dressing styles #8212; continued to be the same to appear correctly in a field where such enties

Re: Detecting UTF-8 Encoded Files

2009-08-07 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ken, I do not see any problem (and wouldn't if there were ;-) but Mark Waddingham once helped me out with a working function exactly for determining how a VCARD is encoded! Here it is including Marks (very helpful)comments: # vCards are stored as a text file, however, the text encoding

Re: OT: Any VBS, VBA, Excel specialist out there who might help?

2009-08-07 Thread Ken Ray
as i already said, i am not very familiar with vbs. My script is from a book. So i am not sure, how and where in the script i should pass this parameter. Regards Matthias Oh geez, Matthias I haven't had a chance to read the list for a while and just caught this, so I hope I can

Re: revlet and path

2009-08-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jan Schenkel wrote: Hmm, it seems to be missing the 'URL' keyword - what happens if you change: start using stack tStack into: start using stack URL tStack I was kicking myself for not noticing that, and had high hopes, but it still fails the same way. Using the url keyword, I can now

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Josh Mellicker
Richard, I wonder if there a way you could grab the HTML embed code from the page the Youtube movie is on and use that to embed the Youtube player right on the web page (forgetting about the rev player)? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Richard Miller w...@together.net

Re: revlet and path

2009-08-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Jan Schenkel wrote: Hmm, it seems to be missing the 'URL' keyword - what happens if you change: start using stack tStack into: start using stack URL tStack I was kicking myself for not noticing that, and had high hopes, but it still fails the same way. Using the

Re: revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Miller
Josh, That certainly works, but it largely defeats the goal of having everything integrated into the revlet. It would be hard (at best) to integrate the two during the same viewing experience for the user. Richard Josh Mellicker wrote: Richard, I wonder if there a way you could grab

Re: Chunks vs Arrays - surprising benchmarking results

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Looney wrote: I have nothing to add directly to the chunk vs array discussion (Trevor's reply was very good) but I have often found it helpful to increase the speed of compound selections by breaking them into individual ones. For instance if you have a large database of names and

[OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread jim sims
Hmmm... just got this email. Kinda. sorta. sounds like a Revlet thang. sims Koingo Software is pleased to introduce Project Canvas! It is a multimedia presentation tool, much like industry giant PowerPoint (or for those two remember it: HyperCard), but comes at the fraction of the cost.

Re: Chunks vs Arrays - surprising benchmarking results

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Looney
Richard, Very true. Especially regarding the limitations of the filter. The multiple search works best with hardwired searches and searches where the user selects from a series of pop-up or radio buttons. It works well when you are generating canned lists. PL On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:22 AM,

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:26 AM, jim sims wrote: Hmmm... just got this email. Kinda. sorta. sounds like a Revlet thang. A quick peak at the company's web site reveals this: All Koingo Software titles are proudly developed using REALbasic, and the comprehensive plugin set from Monkeybread

Re: Chunks vs Arrays - surprising benchmarking results

2009-08-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kevin Miller wrote: On 05/08/2009 21:02, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: Excellent sleuthing, Trevor. Confirmed: with that change I'm getting the same results. Who would have thought there could be so much overhead moving a custom property array into a variable array?

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread stephen barncard
They can try, but it's still Realbasic underneath.. I wonder if Realbasic has script limits... - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/7 Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:26 AM, jim sims wrote: Hmmm... just got this email.

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread Ian Wood
On 7 Aug 2009, at 18:57, Devin Asay wrote: So it looks like they're building a Hyper-Cardy interface on top of REALbasic. Wouldn't that be against the REALbasic EULA, assuming it's similar to the Runrev one? Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: snip put the number of lines of theText into n repeat with i = n down to 2 get line i of theText if it is empty and line (i-1) of theText is empty then delete line i of theText end if end repeat snip Couldn't you

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread stephen barncard
perhaps not if they made their own interpreter/compiler/syntax. But wouldn't that abstraction be pretty slow,then? - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/7 Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk On 7 Aug 2009, at 18:57, Devin Asay wrote: So it

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
AFAIK the RB EULA is slightly more flexible than the Rev EULA in this respect. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software products to http://www.quickestpublisher.com and get found! If you sent me

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
wouldn't it turn cr cr cr cr into cr cr ? Le 7 août 09 à 20:54, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: snip put the number of lines of theText into n repeat with i = n down to 2 get line i of theText if it is empty and line (i-1) of

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: wouldn't it turn cr cr cr cr into cr cr ? Le 7 août 09 à 20:54, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: snip put the number of lines of theText into n repeat with i = n down to 2 get line i of theText if it is

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
What about repeat until cr cr is not in theText replace (cr cr) with cr in theText end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software products to http://www.quickestpublisher.com and get found!

[ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Daniels
Revolutionistas and script editor aficionados, We now have video of the tRev Feature Friday, Aug 7: - http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-aug-7-video-part-one - http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-aug-7-video-part-two-0 - http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-aug-7-video-part-3-of-3 You will

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread Shao Sean
No script limits and there is a special scripting language that you can use in your compiled applications.. plus multi-threaded, 3D (their own 3D and OpenGL in the newest version), native data grid controls, server sockets, daemon and command-line programs and and and...

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 22:45, Mark Schonewille a écrit : What about repeat until cr cr is not in theText replace (cr cr) with cr in theText end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille yes, this does it. cheers François ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Smith
Also, filter theText without empty will do the same job. best, Mark Smith On 7 Aug 2009, at 21:57, François Chaplais wrote: Le 7 août 09 à 22:45, Mark Schonewille a écrit : What about repeat until cr cr is not in theText replace (cr cr) with cr in theText end repeat -- Best regards,

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 22:37, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : François Chaplais wrote: wouldn't it turn cr cr cr cr into cr cr ? Le 7 août 09 à 20:54, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: snip put the number of lines of theText into n repeat with i = n

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread Bernard Devlin
François, thanks for this idea. I have Quartam PDF but there are situations where I can imagine using your idea. It may not be what Richmond wants, but it is quite ingenious. Bernard 2009/8/7 François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr: From one of you previous posts, I understood

Re: [ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Jerry Danielsjerry.dani...@me.com wrote: Revolutionistas and script editor aficionados, We now have video of the tRev Feature Friday, Aug 7: - http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-aug-7-video-part-one - http://reveditor.com/feature-friday-aug-7-video-part-two-0

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2009-08-07 Thread Randy Hengst
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[upd] WebRing

2009-08-07 Thread Shao Sean
Quick note to the members of the Runtime Revolution WebRing, I updated the logo used to the new icon for Studio (the red left-thing) so you may want to see how it looks with your site (if you picked a custom logo you will not see the update).. Also, to all the new users of Runtime

Re: [ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Daniels
Thanks, Sarah! Best, Jerry Daniels Watch tRev - The Movie http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Jerry Danielsjerry.dani...@me.com wrote: Revolutionistas and script editor aficionados, We now have video of the

Web Developers

2009-08-07 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, I regularly get requests for recommendations from people wanting to start a new web site. Any of you Rev coders who also do web development, please contact me off list and I will add you to my list of people that I would recommend. Note, most of those coming for such advice often

Re: [OT] Project Canvas!

2009-08-07 Thread viktoras d.
shouldn't be slow as rb is compiled to machine code which means it should be as fast as C or C++. Although who can justify if it IS that fast in reality? Viktoras stephen barncard wrote: perhaps not if they made their own interpreter/compiler/syntax. But wouldn't that abstraction be pretty

Re: [ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Amazing stuff Jerry. Congratulations - I bought tRev a few weeks ago now and it was great then, but it just keeps getting better better :-) I just bought tRev an hour ago, and already I am frustrated with and by it. (As I have been with GLX2, and the GLX before that...) I tried to find on

Re: [ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread stephen barncard
I'm sorry you have problems. try this first http://www.revmentor.com/ Or email Jerry directly. He supports they who ask, but doesn't monitor this list 24/7. You can find his email in one of his previous posts in this thread. A great feature of tRev is that it's just Jerry, no corporate layers or

Re: [ANN] tRev Feature Friday Videos!

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Daniels
Nicolas, I thought the address of the tRev web site was all over the list. I must be mistaken. Here it is: http://reveditor.com I have posted an email address on that site as well for questions, frustrations, etc. je...@reveditor.com You can post comments to the site. Sign up,