Re: Error: wait aborted

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Cragg
The wait aborted message typically appears when you use command-period (control-period onWindows) to stop a running script and there are waits outstanding. For example, during a download. Would that explain it? Cheers Dave On 24 Nov 2009, at 21:44, Dan Friedman wrote: Greetings! Many of

Re: How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

2009-11-25 Thread Thierry D .
Le 25 nov. 09 à 08:12, Richard Miller a écrit : Here's what I am doing. Not sure why this doesn't work. Could it be that you only need to set the executable bit ? chmod +x your file HTH, Thierry I want to transfer the UNIX executable portion of a Mac rev application bundle via ftp. I

How to print a file from RunRev on Windows?

2009-11-25 Thread JosepM
Hi, Sombody have any experience about print files from Windows? In Mac I can do using shell commands, but in windows I a little lost. Using .vbs? Is valid for all windows versions? Any universal solution? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context:

Application Browser not showing group items

2009-11-25 Thread Thierry D.
Hi, Siince 2 days, the Application browser doesn't show me any controls belonging to a group ! I can see them on the screen, can list them from the properties palette ( top - right inspect button ). Running Rev4 on MacOS x Any insights ? Regards, Thierry

4d - Write

2009-11-25 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi all, anyone of you ever had to deal with 4d Write documents? Any clue on how to convert them to a more sensible format, ideally something we can display in rev? I would appreciate any pointers. All the best, malte ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Air to go outside the browser

2009-11-25 Thread Luis
Hiya, I think this was done earlier with Zinc: http://www.multidmedia.com/ Cheers, Luis. On 25 Nov 2009, at 03:59, Thomas McGrath III wrote: It seems Air is heading in the other direction as we are in Rev. ADOBE(R) Flash(R) Platform: New Beta Releases Now Available

Re: How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Miller
Thierry, Could be. I'm not familiar with this. I'm trying this: get shell (chmod + x MyExecutableFileName) When I run this in the msg box, it returns 1. But I see no change to the app. It still looks like a text document... not a Unix Executable File. Richard Thierry D. wrote: Le 25

Re: How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

2009-11-25 Thread Thierry D.
Le 25 nov. 09 à 13:07, Richard Miller a écrit : Thierry, Could be. I'm not familiar with this. I'm trying this: get shell (chmod + x MyExecutableFileName) typo ? Need to be +x , not + x ! When I run this in the msg box, it returns 1. But I see no change to the app. It still looks

Help key

2009-11-25 Thread Beat Cornaz
Is the 'help' key (on mac keyboards) a good idea? I am looking for a good key to invoke a special help function. If the user presses this key, then visual feedback by means of an image of a question mark will be displayed if the cursor is within an object that has this special help

Re: How to transfer a UNIX executable through Rev

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Miller
I believe that did it. Enormous thanks to you. Richard Thierry D. wrote: Le 25 nov. 09 à 13:07, Richard Miller a écrit : Thierry, Could be. I'm not familiar with this. I'm trying this: get shell (chmod + x MyExecutableFileName) typo ? Need to be +x , not + x ! When I run this in the

Re: Help key

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Beat, Usually, I provide help through the command-? shortcut and sometimes I add the help key as an alternative. The help key only exists on extended keyboard and not on the MacBook for example. I don't see a help key on my (old) Windows keyboard. The excape key would be a very bad

Re: Help key

2009-11-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
How about F1 ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: How to print a file from RunRev on Windows?

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Bufalini
JosepM wrote: Sombody have any experience about print files from Windows? In Mac I can do using shell commands, but in windows I a little lost. Using .vbs? Is valid for all windows versions? Any universal solution? What do you mean by print files? Do you mean a directory listing or print

RE: Help key

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Bufalini
How about F1 ? For Windows, F1 is the help key. ;-) Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Application Browser not showing group items

2009-11-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:22 AM, Thierry D. wrote: Siince 2 days, the Application browser doesn't show me any controls belonging to a group ! I can see them on the screen, can list them from the properties palette ( top - right inspect button ). Is the selectGroupedControls property of the

Re: dataGrid Request

2009-11-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: I couldn't find an independent email for you, so I'm not sure where to send feature requests. I imagine you could just log them in RQCC. In datagrids, I can use resetControl to clear all the data, but it doesn't clear the columns.

Re: Application Browser not showing group items

2009-11-25 Thread Thierry D .
Siince 2 days, the Application browser doesn't show me any controls belonging to a group ! I can see them on the screen, can list them from the properties palette ( top - right inspect button ). Is the selectGroupedControls property of the group set to false? If so then the Application

Re: Application Browser not showing group items

2009-11-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Thierry D. wrote: I've seen it, but wat I missed was to close and re-open the Application Browser after setting this property to true Right-click and select Refresh from the contextual menu. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps:

How do I determine/set the active layer of a graphic?

2009-11-25 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, I got two graphical clock arms (ovals with set startangles) that can rotate on mouseup. Their size is different: 450x450 and 327x327. They need to rotate independent from each other and that works but only when I click on the outer size of the bigger clock arm (and not on the middle

Re: 4d - Write

2009-11-25 Thread Mikey
LOL. As a 4D geek, the answer is yes. I have dealt with 4D Write documents. And Calc, and Draw, and Chart and...anyway, what do you want to put them in? Do you know what version of 4D your customer is using? Don't knock the 4D productivity apps. 4D is an outstanding,

Re: 4d - Write

2009-11-25 Thread Mikey
Oh, and Malte, how many do you have? Give me some more info on this. Mike -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good.

Re: How do I determine/set the active layer of a graphic?

2009-11-25 Thread DunbarX
In a real clock, if the hands overlap, you have to carefully grab one or the other to move them. If the big hand is over the little hand, you have to grab the outer portion of it. Is it that you need the small graphic to come to the front when you need it to? I think you had the right idea,

Re: CantModify/saveStackRequest

2009-11-25 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22.11.09 at 13:40 -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Mike Kerner wrote: Sorry, y'all, it's been the better part of a year. If I have a stack that I want the user to be able to interact with, including fields, but I don't want the changes to be saved, do I just catch saveStackRequest, or

Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Mike Kerner
I thought I vaguely recalled a way to pull up message box history. Maybe I'm thinking of some plugin. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving.

Re: How to print a file from RunRev on Windows?

2009-11-25 Thread JosepM
Sorry, I mean print the content of the file, I create a pdf and I need to print it on Windows and Mac, but the same for .doc or .txt Salut, Josep M El 25/11/2009, a las 14:14, Jim Bufalini-3 [via Runtime Revolution] ml-node+787537-1601548...@n4.nabble.com escribió: JosepM wrote:

Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

2009-11-25 Thread Heather Nagey
I just came across this: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,100567,10014516o-2000458459b,00.htm Thought it would interest you guys! If you feel the urge to post a comment, the blogger is inviting debate - just keep it positive... it's probably best not to wade in guns blazing if you

Re: How do I determine/set the active layer of a graphic?

2009-11-25 Thread William de Smet
Thanks Craig, In my opinion the problem still is that the two graphics are squares. When I use the mouseloc I can set the layer of the graphic on top but only a small part of the whole graphic is the clock arm: If the mouseloc is within the rect of grc ... . But the actual clock arm is set by the

Re: Help key

2009-11-25 Thread Beat Cornaz
Thanks Mark, Richmond Jim for your answers, My first try was with a combination of a modifier key and ?. But i'd like to use just one key for it. It is not for going to the general help, but only some objects do have this special help function, so the 'help key' has to work together with

Re: Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

2009-11-25 Thread Marian Petrides
Heather, I hope the following is tame enough for you, although I suspect it may not be. :-))) Marian I'm a full-time physician educator with a medical school faculty appointment and no formal training in programming. I've been using Revolution since it first came out and have been able

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: I thought I vaguely recalled a way to pull up message box history. Maybe I'm thinking of some plugin. I know you can use the up and down arrow keys to cycle through the history of previous items in the message box,

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread DunbarX
I modified the script of the message field in the message box for my own purposes, but if you add just one line to the enterInField and returnInField handlers there, you can send the contents of the field to some storage facility every time you use it: put me [ the date the time] return

Re: Re: 4d - Write

2009-11-25 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi Mikey, thanks for your reply. Good to have a 4d Guru around. :-) I have no doubt that 4d is a good tool, however as with any tool it depends to a huge degree on the person using it to create Software for other people. Sometimes the solutions generated in any tool may not reflect the

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Howard- Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 12:28:56 PM, you wrote: I know you can use the up and down arrow keys to cycle through the history of previous items in the message box, but I don't know off-hand a way to see the entire list at once. Maybe someone else knows that trick. put the

Import an app or doc icon into Revolution

2009-11-25 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
I made an Application which copies files, apps or folders from one location to another. Basically its a backup program. Now I had an idea of displaying the Icon of the relevant file in a list of all files which are going to be copied. Until now I show only the path and the file name. Does

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread stephen barncard
The late Eric Chatonet's Message Box picker might be good. http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolutionl=en Message Box Picker 1.1 Utility for Revolution Studio or Enterprise Freeware Additional functionalities for the message box This utility reorganizes the message history and puts the

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread DunbarX
Now that is a much cleaner solution. Once again, since I cannot remember anything anymore, where are this and similar underground goodies documented? In a message dated 11/25/09 3:49:37 PM, mwie...@ahsoftware.net writes: put the cREVSingleLineHistory of stack revPreferences

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Mikey
I would LOVE to know all the underground goodies, because I'd like to put them into a Tao of RR document. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 15:52, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Now that is a much cleaner solution. Once again, since I cannot remember anything anymore, where are this and similar underground

Re: Re: 4d - Write

2009-11-25 Thread Mikey
Malte, 1) If you have a 4d issue, it might be easier to just have someone who knows what they are doing fix it, provided that the application isn't compiled and thus the source isn't available. 2) I still would like to know what version of 4D we are looking at so I can figure out which version of

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 12:52:42 PM, you wrote: Now that is a much cleaner solution. Once again, since I cannot remember anything anymore, where are this and similar underground goodies documented? You want all the undocumented stuff *documented*? Bwahaha... Anyway, it's in

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
DunbarX wrote: Once again, since I cannot remember anything anymore, where are this and similar underground goodies documented? Many of them aren't; I'm still waiting for a leak on all the options for the _internal command. But there's a lot of good stuff in the Engine Change Log, down in

Re: Message Box History

2009-11-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Once again, since I cannot remember anything anymore, where are this and similar underground goodies documented? They aren't, because they are part of the IDE code. They're just custom handlers and properties, meant only for internal use, like anything we'd write