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On May 26, 2005, at 11:33 AM, N wrote:
Has any one discovered a method for implementing something simular to
the DoEvents method on Visual Basic? I am fully aware of the message
programming model and using send it time and wait with messages. It
is not necessary to explain it!
question.
Yeah, you got it. I was wondering if you figured a way to do it anyway.
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Yeah, but what's to prevent teams from revising and improving in those
two weeks? Maybe they have something clever in the problem where that
if not fruitful.
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in the olden days and don't use it, but 'for neither' might not have
those problems.
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On May 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
I tried the 'for neither' approach but it doesn't work, at least for
the Mac version of my helper app
Whoops. I thought the problem was on the Windows side.
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best way to deal with it...
I don't know much abut Apache, but ignorance usually doesn't stop me.
Maybe you can avoid a timeout if you provide a tiny bit of data at the
start.
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and we are all learning and growing. Though there might be some who go
from challenge to script in 3 minutes, for most of us mere mortals the
total time to design is longer.
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implementations for slow start? I don't think TCP implementations
increase the congestion window beyond the TCP window.
Am I too focused on the TCP standard and am missing the real world
implementations?
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I guess this must just be different buffer sizes ain't so?
I think that is a good guess for one, probably the send.
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there as
fast as possible and must maintain a realtime schedule.
Thanks for the pointers to rfc 1122 and rfc 2001.
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Since I'm contributing to clutter on this list, I should say that I've
realized that transmit window is a parameter in sender TCP flow
control used in some implementations and is implied in implementation
standards.
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communicating with the Mars Rover with slow start TCP?)
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On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
But compliance with current standards or with named standards (e.g.
UDP, TCP) changes over time.
Does this mean that new standards can and do change the meaning of the
term TCP? I didn't realize that.
I try to be hip but I'm just an old
it might be just a thinking style and I wouldn't
want to hurt somebody's feelings.
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of the UTF16 you get from unicodeText.
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there are subtle ways to go wrong.
Or you can put the blocking call in a command-line utility or find a
command-line utility that does what you want. Then all you have to do
is figure out how to run that.
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might be able to monitor the file or the directory of the file.
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folks seek to solve their problems is to try to
control other people.
For me, I have seen no evidence of wrongdoing by Microsoft in antitrust
practices.
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with.
I don't understand what you mean by this.
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the implications are for
shell(), but it might be worth a try. It might speed up execution.
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On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:44 PM, MisterX wrote:
Dar, would you like to be me earth embassador?
You seem to understand me ;)
I already handle the Internet access for the Smigii, so that might be a
conflict of interest.
And besides, don't you need somebody whom earthlings understand?
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On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
select line 1 to -1 of the target
Negative chunk references count from the last with the last being -1.
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select line 1 to -1 of the target
Negative chunk references count from the last with the last being -1.
Oh, and line 1 to -1 is not exactly the same as char 1 to -1.
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the
handler to the card or stack script I get the following error
Are you using me? Do you mean the target?
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special driver to do that. I have seen some port I/O drivers that look
like simple byte streams so you can open them like this in lots of
programming languages. In Revolution? I don't know, but would like to
know.
Let us know how it works out.
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Limits
There is no limit except for available memory. However, it looks like
lines and names should be limited to 64 K.
There may be some practical concerns.
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variable
contents back into the image.
Surely not! This is an incredibly slow process.
How long does it take to copy an image?
Maybe you can cut that in half by doing the read the whole image
bitmap only once.
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.) To check whether a number is in a range, do two
things: First, advance the range line number while the number is not
above the upper range limit. (if you run out of ranges, return the
accumulation.) Second, if the number is not lower than the lower
limit, accumulate it.
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the applicable rows, make the
transformation, then then put it all back together.
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On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
Correct, but it's more interesting than that. The metasyntactic foo
was adopted into the fubar phase as foobar. But foo is the real
interesting character of the bunch. The Jargon File has a lengthy and
interesting entymology of foo.
will see hideConsoleWindows
set to true. This prevents the command window from being visible.
This may meet your requirement for a clean launch.
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If you _want_ to have multiple connections, let us know.
I realize this is a general shotgun response. The point of error and
the error information can help us be more specific in responding.
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a powerful computer) and on my Windows PC;
both Mac OS's and Windows OS's can be hosts. I have been very happy
with that.
Connectix has just sold the technology to Microsoft. I'm not sure what
the implications are, but I suspect that *nix support will not improve.
Dar Scott
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 06:35 AM, Ivers, Doug E wrote:
That helps, but look how much easier this is to read and debug:
put I said, 'Let's go!'
I believe there are contexts in which a string literal can have quote
marks. I don't know what they all are.
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in VMWare, but the
networking implementation is intrusive.
What tipped the balance was that VMWare added some SMB confusion and my
OS X 10.1.? was not able to handle SMB from VMWare hosts. For all I
know OS X and/or VMWare have improved making this no longer a problem.
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On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Roger Guay wrote:
Has anyone a solution for vertical tabs?
Do mean buttons as along the edge of a notebook? Or do you mean
vertical spacers in a field?
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the Error Reporting dialogs are supposed to work (or why they wouldn't
work)
I have had the same problem. And I suspect the same reason--I don't
know how to use the error reporting dialogs.
The error string that a catch gets is not very helpful.
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this rather than wait for a change.
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bridge with no area.)
Or do you mean the smallest _convex_ polygon such that all points in
the two polygons are in the generated polygon? (By convex, I mean all
angles at corners are = 180 degrees, that there are no dents in the
sides.)
Dar Scott
.) In
this case, two objects overlap if any test-rectangle of one overlaps a
test-rectangle of the other.
The time it takes to make a test goes up with the square of the number
of sides in a typical polygon.
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On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
So, two alternative questions:
- how could I (can I?) code a 'ping' function in Rev?
Use shell.
- what is the lowest impact method that I could use, in
Revolution, to
probe a network device?
If you can have two telnet
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
Thanks for your help. Open socket for telnet/close again; works just
great.
Typically takes 0 seconds. When the router crashes, it's reported as
taken 148 seconds. Very simple, meets my needs just great.
Cool! If you ever need
the line
segment or its negation.
(I don't know how either would work in weird cases.)
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On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
For anyone interested, this BASIC program is equivalent to the
Transcript program I posted last Tuesday:
Whoops. I missed that. (My kids call it goldfish-syndrome; my memory
is no longer than the time it takes for me to walk around the
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
However, if Tomas Nally's method was optimized, it would take only one
multiply, one subtract and two adds per edge.
And this applies to Jim's, too.
After pondering on this, I think this might be reduced to three
arithmetic operations
. Some of these problems
may be limited to Windows.
Running applications like this seems to be discouraged. You might be
better off using the scheme Ken Ray mentioned, but I expect it will
have many of these same problems.
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fusion experiments or something similar. But, I can't find the mail.
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I just noticed I'm doing the same thing over and over.
I'm select a word (or several) in a field. I change the font. I
change the color. I set it bold.
And then I go on to the next one. Is there a faster way?
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that get in the way if that's its only use.
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the data set. Add a programming style in that the data
set name is the handler name.
I wonder what value should be returned for Curry's callingHandler if it
is a function or an event or a message.
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the group it'll all print, otherwise it gets truncated.
I'd expand that idea but I'm really not sure what will work. Look at
height, width, lockscreen and the like. I'd also consider copying the
group to a card that is the right size if there are other objects on
the card.
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it is in the script of a particular object. In this case,
that would be the card.
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On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 11:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Gotcha. Yeah, a caller ID would be useful.
LOL. When you put it that way, I see another use might be to not
accept calls from certain objects. This might be handled by an
immediate return.
Dar scott
that goes through the commands and functions in
alphabetical order. Some people would like to recognize and skip over
the advanced graphics section, too.
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On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Scott Raney wrote:
You can get this information with the executionContexts function.
I found that the syntax for this particular function is
executionContexts or the executionContexts
in making suggestions.
If this becomes a supported property, then maybe it can be defined in
such a way that it can grow as mc/rev needs grow and yet still be safe
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a somewhat general external and library to do
some of this, but have put it off. I still might do it depending on
customer needs. However, if mc or a third party is at work on this,
I'm not going to bother.
For new designs, I use tcp/ip with some robustness added.
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There are probably technical, licensing and installation issues and I
really have no idea the merit of this approach.
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to non-GUI things like scanning, encryption and OCR that
Ton mentioned?
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be limitations.
Now only if we could get the calling parameter types and other info.
And get them to make callbacks. And Handle complex data. And call
across networks. And... Oh, yeah, if only COM, DCOM, Automation,
Active X.
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to access resources. If a plasma cannon vendor says, Yes, there
is a way for control this with your software, you use ActiveX, then
I'm interested. If a vendor says, We have a cute telephone pad
gizmo, then I am not.
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definition. Then you could create a window with
rounded corners and change the windowShape dynamically at runtime by
repositioning the images as needed.
Yes! And some little tabs and bumps might or might not change position.
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did.
If nothing is happening along this line, I hope this will help prompt
it to happen.
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The user's time is not even considered.
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2 beeps0.000279 s0.500500 s expected
3 beeps0.500557 s1.000500 s expected
4 beeps1.000787 s1.500500 s expected
Bug.
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end if
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might be across the room.
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On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
Bug.
That sound obnoxious. What I really mean is based on the model of how
this might be done in my imagination, this sure looks like a bug.
More importantly...
I think this indicates that the counting error and the re-beep
On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
OTOH, I'm not entirely sure even this
documentor-sweep-this-under-the-rug explanation is really accurate. If
it were, I would expect the number of audible beeps to be either
unpredictable and almost random or I'd expect there to be some
references on
the self and I have used them, I'm not sure this is actually handy, but
I expect it would be.
In some sense it would create a sort of platform parity.
And I have no idea how this fits into the MS vision of the future.
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Would the way to script this be to do just those things? Or is there a
better way to script it?
I wonder if there is a way to add this to my Revolution image
right-click menu.
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then
send updateTitle i-1 to me in 1 seconds
end if
end updateTitle
Then in your code put this
updateTitle
If there are problems, let me know; I didn't even bother to check this.
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On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 01:07 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
off the top of my head...
I forgot an important part. You must set up your objects-moving-about
machinery to use send (best) and move ... without waiting. Or, as a
quick fix, perhaps you can convert the wait commands to wait
updateTitle
Then in your code put this
updateTitle
Great Minds think alike!!
And the really great ones don't subtract when adding is called for.
Barry! Don't use mine without changing the minus to plus!
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1.
What is that ABC-checkmark button?
2.
I can't remember the syntax for almost anything. Is there a fast way
to get to the TD entry or--better yet--get a syntax reminder while
typing in code?
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correctly, the line gets thicker,
but is 1
pixels smaller than the actual rect... So, using a borderwidth of 1,
3, 5,
etc. works the way it is supposed to do, but 2, 4, 6, etc. gives a
visual
discrepancy...)
Is this Windows?
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On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 02:29 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When creating a graphic (rectangle for instance) on a layout, you see
the
rect and its eight points WITHIN the object.
When changing the bordersize from an odd number
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Emmanuel Companys wrote:
I tryed it with Consonants : a fantastic stack (as well the
container as the contents).
Is this a phonetics tool? How available is that?
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as a single file with the Mainstack.
Does the Distribution Builder just make up the password for this?
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. Especially for a guy like me who has negative language
aptitude for language.
Uh, does homeschooling (we teach two of our own kids at home) count as
teaching phonetics?
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On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 10:03 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
What checkbox? I think I must be blind.
Or you're using a different distribution builder :-) It's on the
Stacks tab.
I see it!
Does the Distribution Builder just make up the password for this?
It has a field for you to type a password.
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