Re: Machine network names

2005-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Jacque, Is this program running on remote machine or local machine wondering about a remote connection? Some way to do this is by using reverse dns lookup. you can use host ip address on a shell command to resolve it back to the hostname but this works only with registered ips. From your

Re: [ANN] libGrowl 1.0.0

2005-10-11 Thread Andre Garzia
That is very nice I am using growl by issuing shell commands, this is a nice addition. Thanks! andre On Oct 11, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Sean Shao wrote: For anyone who is using Growl www.growl.info and wants to make their Mac OS X based RunRev programs work with Growl, there is a new

Re: 2.6.1 release notes?

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 13, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Right, of course I saw that... but... is this all there is to it? setting a window shape to an image with transparency... some how with all the hype over this new feature I keep expecting to find more in the realm of Deep masks: create

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Also doing form validation in Rev is way easier than in HTML + Javascript. It's just me or those AJAX guys seems a little code masochists... Cheers andre On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:15 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I'm probably missing something here, but if you're not building a Web application that

the most weird of the errors ever... (almost like a cold boot)

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, I am experiencing some random crashes, but right now I experienced the most weird error ever... my screen went blank (actually blue, like shutdown) but it was not shutdown, then finder relaunched and poof no applications were running, before that Rev, iTunes, Safari and Mail

Re: Handling HTML Form POST in Rev?

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Peter Reid wrote: The problem is that I can't guarantee access to a web server with cgi on it in the variety of situations where I want to deploy these forms, so I thought I'd try to build the minimum web server functionality (enough to handle the form

Re: the most weird of the errors ever... (almost like a cold boot)

2005-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: In theory, at least, that can't happen. In practice, it obviously did! I've had four black-screen-of-death crashes in the past 2+ weeks on my PBG4 with 10.4.2. I can't isolate them. Maybe there's something in the air. solar flares?

Re: Andre's all-Rev Web server

2005-10-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Jon Seymour wrote: Hi, Thanks to all for such an informative list. Someone mentioned Andre's all-Rev Web server...sounds fascinating and of interest to me...will someone point me in the right direction for more on this? With appreciation, Jon Jon, can I

Re: Andre's all-Rev Web server

2005-10-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Jon and Richard, I remember when I first encountered that mchttpd file, I think it was you that recommended that implementation for me long ago, couple years, it was using that implementation as a guide and reading HTTP Made Really Easy http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/ that I first

Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO

2005-10-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Xavier, why don't you do like simple rules, for example create a small resume of TAOO, in plain english, like the kind of text undergrads could understand. Then create a blog kind of page where you document TAOO little by little, with pratical examples. Then maybe you could gather this

on the topic of TAOO and other solo projects.

2005-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Xavier, maybe the problem with TAOO is that it's so tuned to your workflow and the way you think, that we're not able to understand it due to the fact we're not you. Sometimes we build software to serve our own necessity and those softwares are the hardest to explain for they need to

Re: FORTH

2005-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Well, the Forth kernel doesn't take up much space - there are a few implementations in C available - it might be fun to throw one of the embedded forths into an external library, but I expect you could count the interested target group on one

Re: ANN: Constellation Script Property Editor 1.0.0 Released

2005-10-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Jerry, If I could write 31,300 lines of Thanks, I'd do it I remember falling in love with Rev when I first understood mchttpd.mc and realized the power of xTalk... now I think is the second time, not only Constellation but the whole plugin suite is a must-have addition to everyone!!!

Re: Rev 2.6.1 answer wrapper?

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: I downloaded Rev 2.6.1 and noticed that on OS X it displays answer dialogs (e.g. Save this stack?) with multi-sized text (i.e. different sizes for the primary and secondary text strings), and in the correct system font. Nice! Does anyone

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Garzia
I use JaguarPC.net and never had any problem. It's cheap, fast, their support crew is fantastic and I am running Rev fine. Cheers andre On Oct 20, 2005, at 12:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: You cannot, in my opinion (backed by way too much research time) do better than

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Dan, if it still the same problem that I saw when I was there during RevConWest is a old version of libC (GLIBC), Rev is linked to a new one, it's hard to upgrade libc... I never tried, too spooky for me. Cheers andre On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: They are willing to

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

2005-10-19 Thread Andre Garzia
:09 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: Yeah, I think it's the same problem, Andre. Dan On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Dan, if it still the same problem that I saw when I was there during RevConWest is a old version of libC (GLIBC), Rev is linked to a new one, it's hard to upgrade libc

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

2005-10-20 Thread Andre Garzia
and for that reason cannot run rev... (will run older rev versions though) cheers andre -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Dan On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Andre

Re: Paypal not responding to rev cgi post

2005-10-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, You're warned not to sell things using PayPal from your software so that the user clearly sees what the browser is doing... Best is to redirect to the browser page, the IPN spec works best using HTTPS, it's the only way, also IPN is not realtime, it will broadcast messages to

Re: Constellation

2005-10-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: It is a fundamental Truth of the Universe (when you reach my advanced stage of life you can even afford to pontificate now and again) that everything takes longer than you think it will even when you take into account that everything takes

outliners Re: Constellation

2005-10-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi There Jonathan, wikipedia says: An outliner is a special text editor that allows the grouping of text in sections that are organized in a tree (hierarchy) of concepts, an outline. Outline tools can be used for computer programming, collecting or organizing ideas, or project management.

Re: Programming tools philosophy.

2005-10-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Slashdot tonight (or today,depending on your point of view) has a link to a, IMHO, fascinating article about Visual Studio. Now I've never used VS, and never will, but what the author says here about programming style and programming

Re: Darwin cgi engine and sendmail

2005-10-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Dave, there was some snipet code by sivakatirswami showing that some time ago on the list, I'll search the list and get back to you. Cheers andre On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: Hi good people Does anyone have any experience of using sendmail from the Darwin cgi engine?

question: how much info fits in a field?

2005-11-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I am using a field to record TCP Flow on a given port on my system by redirecting tcpflow app using appleEvents which makes much easier to debug CGI apps since all traffic is inside a nice field, the problem is, how much info can I dump into a field, I am loggin all traffic, so

Re: Hello from newbie

2005-11-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Erin, First of all, be very welcome. You just found the best resource ever to Revolution which is this mailing list. If you have doubts or questions, leave a post here, someone will point you in the right direction. I find this list the most amusing thing ever!!! People are friendly,

Re: checking removable drives

2005-11-03 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Garrett R. Hylltun wrote: Actually, running apps from removable devices is far more common and growing in popularity. How do other portable apps handle the customary behavior of being able to launch an app by double-clicking one of its

Re: checking removable drives

2005-11-03 Thread Andre Garzia
to work on driver, firmware, whatever deeper level than simple coding, then I think you're pretty much lost... Andre On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Garrett R. Hylltun wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:24:43 -0200 Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know if autorun.inf will work on usb

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Paul Claude wrote: On 21 feb Joel Guillod asked for this: Is there a way to access to the Mac OS X Address Book from Revolution? I found that RealBasic provides classes to do this so you can read from or write to the Address Book. Someone knows a way to

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: iCal uses an industry standard format - and it's XML. The files live in the library somewhere... iCal uses iCalendar (aka vCalendar 2.0), which is a industry standard but not XML, iCalendar is the only good format that came out of IBM/

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:29 PM, David Bovill wrote: On 4 Nov 2005, at 16:58, Stephen Barncard wrote: iCal uses an industry standard format - and it's XML. The files live in the library somewhere... Not quite - iCal uses the vCal standard. Recent version of iCal uses XML based pList files to

Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 4, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Erin D. Smale wrote: Avoiding DLL-Hell is a great point to include when I go evangelising. Imagine how much time one saves not writing or supporting them...Imagine how many headaches users will avoid... :-D -Erin I was telling a friend coder this, and then he

Re: yet another really simple question

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Charles, there's probably a wiser way to do it than the one I'll tell you now. Put all your key handling functions in a button, use the button as frontscript, it will trap everything, remember to pass the messages to the rest of the message path or your keys will stop working. cheers

Rev and education (Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev)

2005-11-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Marty Billingsley wrote: And what do you say to non-programmers, particularly school administrators who want to know why we should use this product to teach programming? - marty Marty, for school admins try telling this points: 1) Cheap. Compare the prices

Re: Best Practices

2005-11-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 6, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Erin D. Smale wrote: Also, the feedback cements my need to dive into the message hierachy and really wrap my head around it. I have Richard's article on tap and Dan's material is a good read. Geez...you guys were serious when you said message hierachy was

Re: examples accepting appleevents

2005-11-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:43 AM, kee nethery wrote: Can someone point me to where I might go to see an example of one stack communicating with another stack via appleevents (on MacOSX)? I'm not exactly sure how to pass data via appleevents and have the other app catch them and reply back.

Re: Best Practices

2005-11-08 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:07 AM, John Tregea wrote: Hi, Erin, I was interested in your comments about the message primer by Dar Scott. I am currently using an evaluation copy of Revolution. Is the primer only available in the full version? Or is it someweher I could download it? Thanks for

Re: How is the built-in controls made?

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Jan Sælid wrote: Hi Folks The more I program the more I want to customize my app, to make it look and work like I want it to. As an example I want to build a custom tab panel. What I'm curious about is how the built in tab panel in the tools palette is built.

Re: Access Address Book or iCal

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:30 PM, David Bovill wrote: On 6 Nov 2005, at 19:52, woodywoodpecker wrote: Do you use Applescript or have you find a way to read the AddressBook.data?? AppleScript. Also it reads and writes to a shared LDAP address book and I am trying to figure out a simple way to

Re: How is the built-in controls made?

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 9, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Jan Sælid wrote: Hi again Eric (Thanks for the patience) I mean the Tab panel that you drag from tools to your stack when you want a tab-panel. When I look at the properties this is a button. How is this possible? If you want to do build a tab panel from the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
Dan, I was going to comment this on your blog, but I fell this will be a big email and I know blog comment engines are not suited for this (by the way, where is your RSS feed?). I read the memos and I follow slashdot, osnews and a couple other sites with religious practice, I also am a

about drag an image...

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
folks, I can't seem to recall but I think there was some really easy way to allow a user to drag a image control around some card, just like click and drag, as if he was on development mode... I just want do be able to toogle a drag mode so that the user can re-org some controls on the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, one thing we're ignoring on this thread but that is a very important issue. The cost for the developer to deliver desktop apps versus the cost to deliver web apps. This is a major issue for small developers such as me. For example imagine my old blog client called BlogWorkz. It's

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 10, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: And your notions about 'specialized browsers' and discounting Andre's server development issues so quickly only points to the great hurdles which AJAX still has to make, currently with no visible roadmap. Andre has a server developer's

Re: [ANN] libMsn MSN Revolution 1.0.0 Public Release 2

2005-11-10 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Sean Shao wrote: Here's the second public release of my MSN Messenger stuff. When was the first release? For the programming contest held by BvG. Anyways, MSN Revolution is a MSN Messenger client written in Runtime Revolution entirely in Transcript.

Re: [OT] Sony music installs secret malware gateway

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 11, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: Just a clarification: from everything I read, you have to accept the Sony EULA on Windows before it will install the rootkit, so it isn't automatic on Windows. The installer automatically runs, but nothing is automatically installed

Re: [OT] Sony music installs secret malware gateway

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 11, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: I know it installs a RootKit, but you have to accept the EULA before it will.That is my understanding. yes, that is right. :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Make a command line software with Revolution

2005-11-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Girard Damien wrote: Hi all, I wan't to make some very useful tool under linux, and I wan't to use my favorite IDE called Revolution. But I have got some problems : - How can I pause my software until the user hasen't pressed the return key ? (for example:

Re: revCopyFile progress bar

2005-11-15 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 15, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote: Hello everyone, Is it possible to have a progress bar while a file is being copied to a server with the revCopyFile command. The files are fairly large and take a minute or so to copy. The computer is actually copying the file but to the

Re: revCopyFile progress bar

2005-11-15 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Vikram Singh wrote: Maybe you can embed a small browser (without borders etc... I am talking of Chipp's external) and play the GIF animation in the browser, rather than in the stack directly (if I remember, it will lock up/freeze too). I *think* the browser

Re: Calling webservices from RR

2005-11-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi There folks, welcome to the Revolution. As a matter of fact Rev can do webservices, any webservices you want as long as you can code. It's not as simply as some languages where you drop a WSDL file and all the methods are added. There are libraries for SOAP and XML-RPC. The SOAP

Re: Calling webservices from RR

2005-11-18 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 18, 2005, at 7:59 PM, Alessandro Manotti wrote: Sorry Andre, you agree, RunRev can manage xml. But as you know, soap is not easy to be coded, even if you have powerful xml tools. But since soap is becoming much famous, I think Runtime Revolution company should provide a tested library

Re: Calling webservices from RR

2005-11-18 Thread Andre Garzia
quite well? Or does it just need a better abstraction layer to make it more usable? On Nov 18, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: and yes, libraries should be supplied. ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http

Re: Calling webservices from RR

2005-11-18 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 18, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Andre Is your XMLRPC demo site offline now? I dug up an old email where you talked about the demos you did at port 8082 (I think) on your server but that's non-responsive. Dan Dan, my site is a little dead!!! :D I am putting a new

searching the mailing list.

2005-11-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, we had a lot of new users in the last months. I don't know if they are familiar with the mailing list search service that is provided at: http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/ This is a handy way to search the mailing list for past threads and knowledge pool.

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:13 PM, David Bovill wrote: Basically they insist on open source solutions for Government contracts - also very big supporters of open content (Creative Commons) with Gliberto Gil (Minister of Culture and renowned musician) being largely responsible for getting

Re: AUTORUN

2005-11-22 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Preston Shea wrote: I have a standalone that I want to distribute on CD. What do I have to do to get the program to begin automatically when the CD is inserted? What is different about distributing on DVD? Thanks Preston, The only OS supporting autorun right

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Personally, I think Rev is priced too low. Sh... don't talk that too loud, I am trying to sum some money to buy a new license and pounds are expensive ;-) Cheers andre ___ use-revolution

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 25, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Michael Lew wrote: For some time I have been toying with the idea that software should be sold on an income-weighted pricing scheme. If Richard can afford to pay more for Rev than Andre, it is in large part because he lives and earns in USA rather than Brazil.

Re: Referencing a variable?

2005-11-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 27, 2005, at 11:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Turning the problem inside out, could it be stated that the goal is to be able to refer to a variable without knowing the variable's name in advance? If so, you might consider using array notation: put MyName into x put 123 into

Re: Rev and User Accounts

2005-11-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:25 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If that doesn't work, try removing or archiving the Player so it isn't on the disk any more. Both DC and Rev Player use the same creator code, so it may be that OS X thinks they are duplicate apps. If I remember correctly, MacOS will use

Re: Rev and User Accounts

2005-11-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Both DC and Rev Player use the same creator code, so it may be that OS X thinks they are duplicate apps. Is there a benefit to having those apps use duplicate creator codes, or should we Bugzilla that? If they

Re: Daily Comics in RunRev... A Garfield a day keeps the stress away!

2005-11-28 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Jerry Muelver wrote: From: Ton Kuypers Subject: Daily Comics in RunRev... A Garfield a day keeps the stress away! That's why I've just uploaded a small stack to RevOnline under General or at the user DMP. Where IS RevOnline? Google is no help. Jerry,

Re: Following this List

2005-11-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Frank, move your subscription to digest mode, it's smaller! :-) cheers andre On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Frank R wrote: I want to keep following this list. But, my inbox is getting blasted pretty good. Are there any other options for following this list, other than e- mail? Is this

can't trust htmltext property!

2005-11-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, why on earth Rev is doing this presentation hack. Put a field on a stack, set the htmltext of the field to h2SOMETHING/h2, now, pull the html text property and you'll end with something like: p/p p/p pfont size=24bSOMETHING/b/font/p p/p p/p Now, if, I set a prop to header 2, I

Re: can't trust htmltext property!

2005-11-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Dan and Eric, thanks a lot... I should have known better I don't need the full html support, just need basic text, not even alighment. Since it's known how h1 to h6 will behave, I'll write myself a translator to move back from font size=24 to h2 when I pull the htmltext, will use

Re: can't trust htmltext property!

2005-11-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Chipp, Richard, Dan, Eric and Stephen, thanks for your insights. Only Rev this could be possible, in couple lines I just wrote a patch function that will pick htmltext from a field and do some mysterious magical procedures and convert it back to things I can use on my projects. I don't

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

2005-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 3, 2005, at 3:58 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: I am trying to create a button to download a file from a web site. I don't seem to be having much luck getting this to work. This is under OS X. At best, I seem to get a 4k text file. I should be getting a 5MB zip file. As far as I can

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

2005-12-02 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 3, 2005, at 4:31 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: Andre, Thanks for the quick answer. Using the correct URL does seem to help. ;-) It seems to work OK now. Though as you state, I don't want that long pause while the file downloads. Of course, the next obvious question is how do I

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

2005-12-03 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 3, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: Thanks again for the help Andre. I was spending time with the docs, but unfortunately they don't seem to tie things together very well. For instance, I found the load URL command and therefor realized that it cached the file to memory.

Re: European Revolution Conference 2006

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia
I have the most fond memories of Malta and Sims and Cloe and all the others guys. If I manage to sum enough money I'll sure stay more than some days there. I hope I am able to go again this time. Also, I noticed that I am present in 5 of the 6 conference photos! :-) Sims, thanks again for

Re: Saving data to stacks via CGI

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 4, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: this is great, but just noticed that this option is not included or recommended in any message, tutorial or page about using cgi in this platform. Does exist risks for data loss when multiple users save data to one stack in the cgi folder?

Re: jabber or other IM protocol

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Ben, there's an alpha library for MSN by Shao Sean, it's on her page at http://shaosean.tk Cheers andre On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Has anyone written a Jabber client, server, bot, or library in Transcript? (Failing that, any other IM protocol?) Any experience

Re: Why is Konfabulator Pretty?

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Yes, I've been to your site before and your stuff looks utterly fantastic! Bill I still rate my interfaces using the ALSR rating scheme... ALSR stands for Almost-Like-Scott-Rossi, for example, when I finished my webeditor interface,

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 5, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: And then what's going to be,if a professional programmer can't even write a simple print without the user should have to intervene to choose printers and styles and and Or if wanted to add a timer constant running from when the

Re: Dan Winkler (was: Times Change.... and often for the better)

2005-12-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 5, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: When Dan left Apple, he went to General Magic, a company that created some seriously cool portable technology with a very nicely thought-out user interface. I bought a General Magic Datarover 840 on eBay this year for 30 bucks, its a

Re: More on Clocks...

2005-12-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 5, 2005, at 9:43 PM, David Coker wrote: Very nice! ...but I've also experienced some odd behavior. When running the clock on Win XP in either the Rev IDE or Dreamcard Player, it looks...well.. erm.. very bad. (no transparency for the clock face and no masking for the ball

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Jerry Saperstein wrote: Some of the zealots and self-promoters here are furious that someone dared criticize the object of their passion. Jerry, I was one of the first persons to reply to your email, I don't think I was furious or rude but if you were

attachments (Re: Post script to list mechanics post

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
It's probalby good to point that RevOnline is your friend when you want to share something with your friends here! :-) Cheers andre On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Heather Nagey wrote: After going through the held for moderation posts, a couple of things I forgot. The list has a limit of 15k on

Question: RSS Feed of list content.

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, would guys here find usefull a RSS Feed of the mails of the day from use-rev? This way you could check content with your favorite feed reader, Safari, Google, whatever... I could set this up in couple days if you guys wanted but I don't want to do that if no one finds this

Re: custom password dialogue

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Anthony Weinfield wrote: Is there someway to build a password dialogue box that contains more than the password field. For example, I would like a dialogue to display or capture the userid and the password. The ask password function only captures the password.

Re: Set the icon to (icon of another stack)

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Eric, isn't the Rev interop group reserving image IDs? Like passive reserve, you just go there and reserve your range to make sure there's no conflict when stacks are interoperating... cheers andre On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Paul, As far as I know: No.

newtons

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Dom, many ways to sync a newton with macs, no rev solution though. You can use newtsync or the DCL suite, both support MacOS X and standard mac os x apps. Cheers andre On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Dom wrote: Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: ... Err... I own 3 newtons, sorry

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: I would love to hear more about how you are using rev as an extension to Mac OS X. Could you elaborate on how you are extending the built in apps (with some screen shots?) Todd, I am rebuilding my homepage and there'll be a section on

Re: What Rev Needs -- Again (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: OK, there's my attempt at acting young. Feel free to flame this old guy for what it's worth. I am probably the youngest rev developer here 25 yrs, and I do try to push Rev forward... If I could just fork() :-) I agree with you on

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Todd- Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 3:34:39 PM, you wrote: Hi Andre, I would love to hear more about how you are using rev as an extension to Mac OS X. Could you elaborate on how you are extending the built in apps (with some screen shots?)

Re: How do i check for an internet connection?

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Garzia
Kurt, that's a little gem... nice, never thought of that, I did things like get URL http://www.soapdog.org/checknet.txt; and trapped for errors, of course this code breaks if my domain goes offline, but that code of yours, that holds! Cheers andre On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Kurt

Re: Into the flamefest

2005-12-07 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:58 PM, capellan (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I am rebuilding my homepage and there'll be a section on my Application Framework or Paradigm called Alfred that is the stack controlling everything I said on top. Alfred

Re: Sending E-Mail Programmatically

2005-12-08 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 8, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Adam wrote: Hi All: Is it possible to send e-mail from Rev programmatically, without needing to interact with the user's default mail client? TVKIA, Adam Adam, there are a couple libraries for that out in the wild. There's Shao Sean libSMTP and libMAIL

Re: more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Andre Garzia
All DV cameras come with FireWire, they won't drop it... cheers andre On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Looks like FireWire's on the way out... there's been talk for some time now about USB 2.0 replacing even FireWire 800 as the emerging standard.

Re: Stock Portfolio project starting

2005-12-10 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 12/10/05 10:24 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also need to be able to run this stack at the same time I am running the DreamCard IDE. I know that if I am running DC Player at the same time as DC IDE, the two interfere in some ways.

Re: use-rev means using Rev (was 10,000 other threads)

2005-12-11 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 11, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I am so turned off by the mailing list for RunRev. Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just getting too old, but that list just seems so full of posturing, politics and some serious personal podiums! Damn! If I weren't a poet! Richard,

Re: Sockets

2005-12-11 Thread Andre Garzia
BvG, Also, to become a member of the House Of The Sockets And Ports, one should learn the write to socket read from socket commands. I'll publish a little draft today on sockets. The Socket Society meets on ChatRev... :-p cheers andre On Dec 11, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Björnke von Gierke

Re: revxml classic

2005-12-12 Thread Andre Garzia
I am moving almost all my xml projects to Ken Ray XML Library, I simply love it, and since it's 100% transcript so it will work in any place Rev would run... Cheers andre On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I have an application that uses revxml. The executables work fine

Re: Download and save .doc file

2005-12-12 Thread Andre Garzia
might be the case of using file:// instead of binfile:// PDF and DOC will have trouble if written as text... Cheers andre On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I have successfully downloaded and saved .jpg, .gif and .htm files but I have only partial success on .doc, and .pdf

Re: Oh Christ... Image Name?

2005-12-12 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:32 AM, sims wrote: At 8:31 PM -0800 12/12/05, Kathy Jaqua wrote: I am going to try Ohi next... Thank you for your concern and help Go with Ganesh, 'the remover of all obstacles'. I have a nice statue of this elephant deity on my desk keeping watch. I do too!!! :-)

Re: Full Screen for presentations

2005-12-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:50 PM, liamlambert wrote: I am looking for a way to have a stack go to full screen for a presentation thanks Liam Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRELAND Liam, don't know if you're on macs or windows but you should hide the taskbar (windows), hide the menubar (macs),

Re: MS Office and XML

2005-12-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Marielle, MS has submited the new format to ECMA to create a open standard, this is not the current format, this is an attempt to beat OpenDocument and the F/OSS initiatives out there. I bet they are putting raw binary data inside the XML, but that's just me being pessimistic. Cheers

Re: MS Office and XML

2005-12-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:19 PM, MisterX wrote: There's rawa data in SQL. Being able to store binary data in a format is maybe unfriendly to someone at one point but that's trivial compared to the advantages that this feature brings or can bring to your apps ;) Err... Xavier... Err... XML

Re: [Not so OT] MS Office UI Developments

2005-12-16 Thread Andre Garzia
I am still downloading this, since I usually find my interfaces awkward, I often look into any resources that can help me build better UIs... In my opinion, the best MS Office interface was the Office:Mac interface, far better than it's windows cousin... the inspector works fine, things

Re: CMS/BLOG Tool -- Word processing (RTF Tool)

2005-12-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi There Troy, First there are plenty of routines to manipulate text, both styles and content, just check the chunk expressions and the textSyle property, it's very very advanced and easy to use. Spell check you'll have to run your own, but you can use webservices that do that if you

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