Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Joe F.
Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte. I was actually expecting something like getSystemID to be built into Revtalk, but... You inspired me to make myself a script library. Thanks, Joe F. On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 30/03/2010, at 2:51 PM, Joe F. wrote:

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Joe F.
Hmm- that's an interesting angle- thanks for the input. My immediate purpose is for a single user, private app. If anyone else gets access to it they could only have malicious use for it, so I'd want it to just destroy itself if possible. On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Peter Alcibiades

Re: Standalone issues

2010-03-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm curious how you go about protecting the external stack files in your project. I was just coming to post a question about that when I read yours. I create a stack in a separate stack file, then I set it's password to protect it's scripts. I suck it up into a custom property of the main

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Alcibiades
what I do know is that every other program I have ever downloaded onto my Ubuntu box that does text or images allows me to print to my printer. Yes, this is true. Its also true that a programming language without printing is useless. Can't believe I actually wrote that. -- View this

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/03/2010 12:18, Peter Alcibiades wrote: what I do know is that every other program I have ever downloaded onto my Ubuntu box that does text or images allows me to print to my printer. Yes, this is true. Its also true that a programming language without printing is useless.

Re: Revtalk communication

2010-03-30 Thread Shani
HI Landman, thaks good example. actually i want to use rev as a server and JADE (JAVA AGENT DEVELOPMENT ENVIORNMENT) as a client. do you know that is there is any example related that one. Regards, Shani On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:09 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: Shani

Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Heather Nagey
Thought you folks might appreciate: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-ipad-needs-its-hypercard.html cheers Heather Heather Nagey Customer Services Manager http://www.runrev.com/ RunRev - Software construction for everyone ___ use-revolution

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/03/2010 14:32, Heather Nagey wrote: Thought you folks might appreciate: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-ipad-needs-its-hypercard.html cheers Heather That is a point; and what I cannot understand is why the whole thing, and not just re the iPad: . . . needs Hypercard has been

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Ian Wood
On 30 Mar 2010, at 13:01, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The next, inevitable question is; when do your good folk either:- produces iPad-functional versions of RunRev? I suspect that this would be impossible given Apple's stance on no runtime-interpreted code in App Store apps. :-( or

Re: [ANN] The Slug is now on the road with the Step by Step collection

2010-03-30 Thread David Coker
I'm happy to announce the availability of a new downloadable section in my website. In this section you will reach the first Step by step stack devoted to palettes. The subject of this first part is : palettes with an orientable titlebar. This stack explains : - How to create the

Re: [ANN] The Slug is now on the road with the Step by Step collection

2010-03-30 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/3/30 David Coker davidoco...@gmail.com: I'm happy to announce the availability of a new downloadable section in my website. In this section you will reach the first Step by step stack devoted to palettes. The subject of this first part is : palettes with an orientable titlebar. This

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Shani, check out the documentation built-in with Rev. open socket expect and IP or server name, unless filename is a machine on your network, that code is wrong. Also what is that # symbol doing there? Om shanti andre On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Shani shani.run...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Stephen, Just checked them out, the company is porchdog, so we're cousins... Cheers andre On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: There used to be a little app called SPIKE that did this that was released by a company called Soapdog. I

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
Joe F. wrote: Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte. I was actually expecting something like getSystemID to be built into Revtalk, but... You inspired me to make myself a script library. Note this approach works 99% of the time, but can go wrong (or at least be very confusing) if the

Re: ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
Sounds really interesting Mark. I'll definitely use it. But I won't use it for code testing - it's just too easy (for someone as easily distracted as me) to finish up with slightly different code on each machine :-( I use Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) to automatically sync all my machines -

How do I uninstall the revWeb plugin?

2010-03-30 Thread paul foraker
For testing purposes, I need to uninstall the revWeb plugin. What's the cleanest way to do that? -- Paul ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: How do I uninstall the revWeb plugin?

2010-03-30 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Paul Foraker wrote: For testing purposes, I need to uninstall the revWeb plugin. What's the cleanest way to do that? -- Paul On Windows, just delete the revWebPlayer folder: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\RunRev\revWebPlayer Other OSs... I have not

Re: DataGrid Forms, checkboxes and Pull-Down buttons?

2010-03-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:11 PM, John Patten wrote: I'm using datagrids to display some data out of a mySQL database. I created a check box and a option button in the template for my data grid row. I would like to be able to check if data row checkbox hilite is true or not and would like to

Re: Data grids in standalones

2010-03-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Can I tell the standalone builder to include the data grid library even if setting inclusions manually? Or do I have to un-protect my stack to get this to work. Add a Data Grid Templates substack and the standalone builder will include the

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Thanks for the input. :) I am looking into this and among my options might be: launch a report viewer with RunRev for display and print capabilities (my last resort), and building an external in VC++ that takes directions from RunRev and processes a report into a PDF for display/Printing for the

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Actually most Reg-Key schemes work exactly like that. The Name or email of the person buying is encoded in some way within the key, or via a reference in a database. Therefore the ID is tied uniquely to that customer. Of course you could mail around the program, but that won't help at all

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Neal Campbell
While I adhere to the private key generated from Customer data model, I have seen a different paradigm in my market space which is password protecting the download directory of the fully-enabled version. If the end-user posts the installer someplace, the software becomes free but oddly enough it

iPad use with Rev users .... ?

2010-03-30 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I'm sorry, but I'd like to open a discussion on the following subject, but directly concerning Revolution. With an iPad, 1 - Can I run compatible Revolution stacks ? There is no keyboard, so maybe by replacing keyboard functions with buttons, and resizing some of

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread Andrew Kluthe
C# Is it going to be out of the question to build an external that uses C# or VB.NET code? I am finding lots of tuts on how to do what I need in these languages (both of which, I am mildly familiar with). I know you can use Visual C++ to build windows externals, but what about C# or VB .Net?

Re : iPad use with Rev users

2010-03-30 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, . and when I send my mail, I had not seen the mail from Heather Interesting discussion on iPad content, Thought you folks might appreciate: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-ipad-needs-its-hypercard.html ...nor the comment by Lyn Fredericks. So my

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Joe F.
Thanks for covering that 1% Alex. Added a notes field to my script library. Joe F. On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Joe F. wrote: Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte. I was actually expecting something like getSystemID to be built into Revtalk, but... You inspired

Re: Data grids in standalones

2010-03-30 Thread Joe F.
I just had to deal with this and the solution was to manually put revdatagridlibrary.rev into the compiled app's bundle. For OS X = MyApp.appContentsMacOS For Windows in the app folder at the same level as the executable. My project was a completed stack (with substacks, including its own

Re: iPad use with Rev users .... ?

2010-03-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: 2 - Can I key in data ? I have seen no way of doing this ! Right this second I'm having problems keeping a stack running on my iPhone, but in the simulator at least you can have a text input field, and it will bring up the

Re: Standalone issues

2010-03-30 Thread Joe F.
That's good Sarah. Thanks. I was going to try downloading a password protected stack and unlocking (or deleting) it based on the machine's MAC address. Angles... lots of angles. Joe F. On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I'm curious how you go about protecting the external

Re: Data grids in standalones

2010-03-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 30, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Joe F. wrote: I just had to deal with this and the solution was to manually put revdatagridlibrary.rev into the compiled app's bundle. For OS X = MyApp.appContentsMacOS For Windows in the app folder at the same level as the executable. My project was a completed

Re: Re : iPad use with Rev users

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's as though all those people who read the original post on that blog never went on to read anything else and just said what they wanted to say. I expected someone at least to say, Really?? There's a hypercard like programming environment that will work on the iPad??? That's Great!!! But no,

Re: DataGrid Forms, checkboxes and Pull-Down buttons?

2010-03-30 Thread John Patten
Thanks Trevor... I have been searching the list and found those same resources you describe. I'm closer, but still not quite getting the concept. I noticed that tutorial examples are using Table and not Form DataGrids. I have been using the Form version of the DataGrid, are the examples

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread Neal Campbell
I don't think you can build an external in C# or VB,Net as its a managed .net language. You still can write C++ in an unmanaged mode (but Visual Studio doesn't default to that) You could using VB6, Delphi, etc. however. Crystal reports stopped releasing the VCL (the visual components of Delphi)

Re: Re : iPad use with Rev users

2010-03-30 Thread Neal Campbell
Sadly blogs are a write once read never mechanism. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums:

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread zryip theSlug
You can build DLLs with Visual Studio. Whatever the language used (C#, C++ or VB.Net) the assembly code generated is (supposedly) the same. However as pointed by Neal, all language in Visual Studio are managed .net languages. I don't know if an external create in this way could works with RR.

Re: iPad use with Rev users .... ?

2010-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: With an iPad, 1 - Can I run compatible Revolution stacks ? Yes, eventually, within the minor constraints of revMobile. There is no keyboard, so maybe by replacing keyboard functions with buttons, and resizing some of my stacks, I could solve this problem. 2 -

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread Marcio Alexandroni
You can build DLLs with Visual Studio. Whatever the language used (C#, C++ or VB.Net) the assembly code generated is (supposedly) the same. However as pointed by Neal, all language in Visual Studio are managed .net languages. I don't know if an external create in this way could You can build

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Rodney Somerstein
Heather Nagey wrote: Thought you folks might appreciate: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-ipad-needs-its-hypercard.html That is somewhat interesting and I noticed that several Runrev fans have started putting comments there. (Too much of that and people will start thinking it is a

Drag Drop on Revlets

2010-03-30 Thread Ton Cardona
Do revlets allow drag drop and, if so, why am I unable to make them work? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Marian Petrides
FWIW, this amateur (OK, near amateur) finally bit the bullet on RevMobile when I got a special offer that dropped the price to something like $550 because I REALLY want to be able to develop for the iPad. OTOH, my subscription to Rev Enterprise is paid up until 2016 or so and I bought into

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Alcibiades
This version of the problem is interestingly different from the usual two ways in which it presents. I've seen it from the perspective of a user wanting not to be tied to one physical machine, and also from the perspective of a vendor wishing to use tying to one particular machine to inhibit

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Yennie
I wonder if a starter version of RevMobile would be in order - i.e. - Shows a Rev splash screen - Must be a free app That would seem to allow people to test the waters with a nice app for $0 down, and then if they had something worth selling they would need to purchase the full RevMobile.

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Be aware that changing a single occuring string in your app to hacked by l33t dude is actually simpler then reverse engineering the registration code. Will that work with Rev apps? In my experience, changing almost anything in the compiled app causes it to fail to

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread Marcio Alexandroni
In my opinion, it depends on the kind of software. As developers, we tend to have more than one machine, at least a notebook and a desktop where we write software, but we never use both at the same time. In this case, tying the software to a hardware ID is not suitable. For production software

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Brian Yennie wrote: I wonder if a starter version of RevMobile would be in order - i.e. - Shows a Rev splash screen - Must be a free app That would seem to allow people to test the waters with a nice app for $0 down, and then if they had something worth selling they would need

Re: Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 30/03/2010 22:34, J. Landman Gay wrote: Björnke von Gierke wrote: Be aware that changing a single occuring string in your app to hacked by l33t dude is actually simpler then reverse engineering the registration code. Will that work with Rev apps? In my experience, changing almost

Re: [optimization] calendar week ISO 8601 / DIN 1355

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Cole
Malte and Sarah: This should work for people who have PHP installed: on mouseUp put php -r quote echo date('W', mktime(0,0,0,3,15,2010)); quote into tPHPcommand put shell(tPHPcommand) into field Test Results end mouseUp FYI, Bob On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:36:33 Sarah

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Great idea Brian. This is exactly what GameSalad does -- $99 Express version (doesn't have to be a free app though). The splash screen does all the advertising. Currently the splash screen is about 15 seconds long, and so it's giving

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-30 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Great information. The curious side of me wants to build a Rev external to do just what I need; however, I found a solution that allows me to invoke everything I need to do from the command line. I.E.: sending C:\Program Files\Visual CUT 11\Visual CUT.exe -e X:\FOManager\FOM

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: Great idea Brian. This is exactly what GameSalad does -- $99 Express version (doesn't have to be a free app though). The splash screen does all the advertising. Currently the splash screen is about 15 seconds long, and so it's giving GameSalad a bad

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Note the rest of my po I like to clip early! Your other point was about less than stellar content, and that is true, the best engine on earth would get a bad reputation if only poor games were made with it. I was illustrating the opposite,

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: Note the rest of my po I like to clip ear Two can play at that game :-) Your other point was about less than stellar content, and that is true, the best engine on earth would get a bad reputation if only poor games were made with it. I was illustrating

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Yennie
Definitely a valid concern, although if it's truly 15 seconds that just seems excessive. I would think just a couple seconds would work, especially if it's a decent looking splash screen and you can actually perform some legitimate loading while it displays. I don't see any reason why it would

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-30 Thread Douglas
May I point out that both Calvin Klein and Pringle do Left and Right socks. (Their logo is embroidered either on the left or right of the sock.) It is again a strange fact that I seem to end up with 2 left socks or 2 right socks after a wash that contained only one pair! Douglas . (A first

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: Definitely a valid concern, although if it's truly 15 seconds that just seems excessive. They have changed how it works over time. It used to be that there were 12 seconds of splash screen before anything attempted to load, and no indicator

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Neal Campbell
Not completely on target but kinda... I use ComponentOne stuff in my dot net applications, has anyone seen/heard/used their iPhone development kit? As much as I can tell, it is using dot Net ASP code for a testing environment and somehow converts it to an iPhone app. It sounds pretty creative but

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Rodney Somerstein
Marian Petrides wrote: FWIW, this amateur (OK, near amateur) finally bit the bullet on RevMobile when I got a special offer that dropped the price to something like $550 because I REALLY want to be able to develop for the iPad. OTOH, my subscription to Rev Enterprise is paid up until 2016 or

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Shani
open socket to (127.0.0.1 : (6800)) with message Server connected is this is rihght code for rev and what about in JADE? Regards, SHani On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Shani, check out the documentation built-in with Rev. open socket expect and

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Shani, I know nothing about JADE but your command still wrong. Please also check the docs, your message has a space in it when it should not. Try something like: open socket to 127.0.0.1:6800 with message serverconnected Cheers andre On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Shani

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Yennie
Shani, Do you want Rev to be *client* or *server*? If you want it to be the server (with a Java client) then you need to look at the accept command: accept connections on port 6800 with message serverConnect on serverConnect tSocket read from socket tSocket for 1 line ... end

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Shani
Yes, I want to use Rev as a Server. I send another email with detail. kindly see that. and correct that plz. Rev is on Server Side JADE is on Client Side Regards, SHANI On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Brian Yennie bri...@qldlearning.comwrote: Shani, Do you want Rev to be *client* or

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Ah... that changes everything. you will use the accept connection command. Check the docs on that, it will help. Now, the question is why do you want a Rev server? A server built as a Revolution Desktop application is a single thread application, if your server is doing anything intensive (and

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Yennie
Shani, As I wrote in my previous post, you need to use the accept command, not open socket. Also, I think you are misunderstanding the with message portion. This message needs to be the name of a handler which is called when a connection is made. See my example and also the docs on this.

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Douglas- Welcome to the list community... Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 2:23:32 PM, you wrote: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_do_all_those_darned_left_socks_keep_going Douglas . (A first time poster who does the washing and also programs in RunRev) You do the washing in RunRev? I'm seriously

JADE file display in Rev?

2010-03-30 Thread Shani
*Hi, * *I have problem to display (filename.bat). when i use this program it display the shell, when i close this then it display the result that Agent was running.* *when i use * * *set the hideConsoleWindows to true *it kill the Agent. * *see code in these links for detail. *

Re: Open Socket

2010-03-30 Thread Shani
Thanks Andre Garzia and Brian Yennie, this link is very helpful. but if you have a time then kindly check these links and make changes and guide me all my mistake. http://www.4shared.com/dir/35326335/dcff5fd2/REV2JADE.htmlhttp://www.4shared.com/file/253171642/cc342c25/testjade_rar.html you can

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think he was saying it's the poster that does the washing. Considerably more impressive. Bob On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Douglas- Welcome to the list community... Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 2:23:32 PM, you wrote:

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Rodney, Am 31.03.2010 um 00:02 schrieb Rodney Somerstein: As far as I know, I never got any kind of special offer for Rev-Mobile. If I had some kind of offer to drop the price of Rev Mobile, I likely would buy into it. There is an offer in the store

Re: Data grids in standalones

2010-03-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Can I tell the standalone builder to include the data grid library even if setting inclusions manually? Or do I have to un-protect my stack to get this to work. Add a Data Grid Templates substack and the standalone builder will include the Data Grid library:

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I don't really care about the conference access, but I didn't see an option to just participate in the alpha and release without all the conference stuff, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, the conference would be great, but I would gladly give up live access to that for access to Rev-Mobile.

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Petrides, M.D. Marian
My mistake in not clarifying. The offer was for educational discount on pre-purchase of Rev-Mobile, so only applies to educational users. On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Rodney, Am 31.03.2010 um 00:02 schrieb Rodney Somerstein: As far as I know, I never got any kind of

iTunesWIdget

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Brigham MD
For anyone who wants to try it out, I made a simple iTunes widget stack so I could stop and start iTunes without leaving Rev. It's just a simple circular button shaped stack that is palletized, tiny so you can park it anywhere. Click to stop/pause playing, shift-click for help, option-drag

Re: Life-cycle of paper clips

2010-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Douglas wrote: May I point out that both Calvin Klein and Pringle do Left and Right socks. (Their logo is embroidered either on the left or right of the sock.) It is again a strange fact that I seem to end up with 2 left socks or 2 right socks after a wash that contained only one pair!

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alex Tweedly wrote: Joe F. wrote: Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte. I was actually expecting something like getSystemID to be built into Revtalk, but... You inspired me to make myself a script library. Note this approach works 99% of the time, but can go wrong (or at least be very

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

2010-03-30 Thread Rodney Somerstein
My mistake in not clarifying. The offer was for educational discount on pre-purchase of Rev-Mobile, so only applies to educational users. That make sense, Marian. I forgot about the educational discounts. Many companies offer those on software. I just managed to pick an expensive hobby.