Re: time shorthand convertor

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
convertTime Now for homework, put in some date validation (try entering 789). (we had some plumbing work done on our house in October of 2003, and the plumber wrote a shorthand inscription noting that it was finished in 103, which still boggles my mind every time I think about it...) -- -Mark Wieder

Re: VB COM in Revolution?

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Wieder
. The communication model is probably rev -- (something.else.that.can.talk.to.COM.objects) -- COM For some projects you need to decide whether it's worth continuing in rev or whether the proper model is simply (something.else.that.can.talk.to.COM.objects) -- COM -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: time shorthand convertor - Is there an advantage to declaring local variables?

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Josh- Friday, July 28, 2006, 10:26:19 AM, you wrote: Is there an advantage to declaring local variables? (other than a reminder?) (taken off line to avoid getting into the religious wars once again) -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use

Re: The definition of a word

2006-07-29 Thread Mark Wieder
always been. And yes, I do rely on this for syntax parsing. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

Re: Need quick check on Intel Mac

2006-07-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Friday, July 28, 2006, 10:59:59 PM, you wrote: The bit operators should move to 48 or 64 bits as soon as they can, Agreed, but in the meantime have you checked out libBitwise? http://www.shaosean.tk -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use

Re: Math challenge thing

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Wieder
the answer, and luckily didn't get around to posting them and making a fool of myself. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Math challenge thing

2006-07-31 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Oh good, I'm glad you had trouble too. ...I'm not quite sure how to take that... g Hey - same to you, lady. And your little dog, too... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: 2.6 Dreamcard stacks won't launch when converted to 2.7 standalones

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Wieder
there's nothing to point to. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: [OT] Tactile Closed

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Monday, July 31, 2006, 9:54:12 PM, you wrote: closed from Aug 1 to Aug 8 for vacation (no email access). For any folks gasp a vacation *without* email access? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

OT: java

2006-08-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- completely off any conceivable topic, but my brain has been free-associating all morning Apparently white chocolate is to real chocolate as Javascript is to java. ...and speaking of java, I couldn't resist a link to This is Coffee! http://www.archive.org/details/ThisisCo1961 -- -Mark

Re: Getting version string for standalone app

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Wieder
] of the mainstack. I then grab that custom property on stackOpen and place it a field in my About substack. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Ubuntu audio redux

2006-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
DRM issues at present. At any rate, I learned of http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/, which looks like it might solve the audio problems with the current Ubuntu releases. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
does with punctuation... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: MySQL problem(2) ...

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Wieder
around, would you? Or would that be considered documenting them? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

Re: OT: The passing of Pluto

2006-08-24 Thread Mark Wieder
. Fortunately the only vestiges of octal left seem to be left over in things like chmod. Sometime late last century I vaguely noticed that there weren't any Datsuns around. ...and there's a town in Japan that got renamed Toyota. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Skin conductance measurement

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Engineering thesis. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: [partly OT?] Amazon S3, EC2, cyborgs

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
implementation but kept coming up with different results, so I back-burnered it. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: [partly OT?] Amazon S3, EC2, cyborgs

2006-08-29 Thread Mark Wieder
it to S3 in order to get it into EC2space. This would obviously be done outside of rev. There are also problems in that EC2 is a linux-only space and there is no current linux version of rev. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution

Re: [partly OT?] Amazon S3, EC2, cyborgs

2006-08-30 Thread Mark Wieder
. I assume, though, that the major use of this will be to configure a cluster of virtual machines for a given task, boot the cluster until the task is complete, then shut it down. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: u3: where to store data?

2006-08-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Phil, thanks... 'You da man!!!' Ditto from here. Thanks, Phil (and Malte). Great useful stuff. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: mySQL RR question

2006-08-31 Thread Mark Wieder
Ton- Thursday, August 31, 2006, 10:34:02 AM, you wrote: I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. mysqldump -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Communicate with stepper motors?

2006-08-31 Thread Mark Wieder
in uncomfortable places. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: Everyone at Burning Man?

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Wieder
the burn live at 9PM PST Saturday... the theme for this year is The Future: Hope and Fear, and that's an on-topic subject if there ever was one... http://www.current.tv/burningman/ -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

...and that ain't all...

2006-09-03 Thread Mark Wieder
this demoting Pluto stuff is. This is just the first step to also exclude our Earth. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: RR Forums

2006-09-04 Thread Mark Wieder
compelling rationalization I've seen for the advantages of a web forum. I'd still like to have the phpBB email option enabled on the rev forum, but now I'm looking forward to joining up. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

OT: Zela

2006-09-05 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Since I didn't make it to Burning Man this year, I thought I'd do the next best thing and share my current favorite Wikipedia entry: For a while, Zela, known as Zilch, was a kaza in the sandjak of Tokat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zela -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: remove html tags from text

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Wieder
tHtml without ** return tHtml end striptags Clever... but it'll fail on if xyz 4096 then maybe replace the two filter lines with filter tHtml without * -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
through other means, and I'm used to setting semaphores to flag the fact that data needs to be changed. Does anyone actually use a closeField handler? And for what? Just curious... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: translating a color name to RGB triplet

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
for this is at: http://www.febooti.com/products/iezoom/online-help/html-color-names-x11-color-chart.html You can access the full list from within Revolution by using the colorNames function. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: translating a color name to RGB triplet

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
) returns AliceBlue,239,247 -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, September 9, 2006, 11:19:56 AM, you wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: I've been working on a legacy app where closeField was used to make sure field data got saved before exiting. This had some serious consequences, like crashing the IDE when you switch to another app and back

Re: closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
triggered in unexpected situations, so I thought I'd pose the question to see if there's some scenario that requires closeField as either the best way to deal with a problem; or one where closeField is the only way to catch certain things. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
if I bring a web browser to the front and then go back to the app. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Saturday, September 9, 2006, 10:08:38 AM, you wrote: Actually I was kind of taken by surprise by your question - to me it was kind of like asking does anyone use the + symbol in math equations anymore? You're still using the + symbol? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: closeField

2006-09-10 Thread Mark Wieder
into quadrants, allowing you to classify objects as earth, air, fire, or water. Its material manifestation is the Phillips screwdriver. Hope this helps. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
for tools? The only alternative I've seen to rdp is Citrix Metaframe, and while it's much better than the MS implementation, it's certainly not free. I'd love to learn about something else that would take its place. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Thursday, September 14, 2006, 10:52:03 AM, you wrote: Which multiple workgroup domains or Remote Access? ah, sorry... the remote access part... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
among users. It allows for a real multiuser situation, and that's necessary when you need to have two or more users logged on to a single computer without getting in each other's way. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Friday, September 15, 2006, 6:45:10 AM, you wrote: 1. This email list. rotfl -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
, especially xtalk, should be readable by itself. If your code needs comments then it isn't well written. Josh - thanks for the well-thought-out arguments here. The fact that I take issue with them in no way means you haven't presented them well. ...flame suit off -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Josh- Thursday, September 14, 2006, 1:07:20 PM, you wrote: If anyone else has common timewasters and app bloating techniques, let's hear 'em! The overuse of custom props when persistence isn't needed. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use

Re: windows shell copy text

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
sims- Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 9:40:43 PM, you wrote: With OS X Applescript I can use the following to place hilited text I haven't tried it, but maybe something like this would do the trick: http://www.autohotkey.com/ -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
a smiley in there. Lighten up, folks, it's Friday on my planet. I *do* hope people don't take this seriously, but then ya never know... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
cross-platform, but they don't allow for remote logins without running into the mousewar situations that accompany screen sharing. To be fair, the single-user rdp server built into XP pro has some limitations as well, but it's quite a different beast from the screen-sharing apps. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: Salon.com Article Bemoans Demise of Line Programming (BASIC)

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
IBM moved the control key from its natural position next to the A key. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Wieder
can use put Config15() into the backColor of me and if you've mistyped something you'll get an error that the function can't be found. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Digest Reply Link

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
an address and a Re: subject here would help. Not sure what you're referring to here. To reply to the list I just hit my Reply button. Maybe you need a different email client app. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Digest Reply Link

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
grouped by subject, then subgrouped by time. It's a configurable option. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Field modified function?

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
workarounds to check if the field contents have changed manually... If that's what you're interested in then you should be checking the selectionChanged message rather than the closeField message anyway. It's not a workaround, that's what it's for... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
at the point where I don't really want to toss out what I've built and start from scratch, so I end up spending time refactoring, reengineering, and patching. And then sometimes reworking things from scratch anyway. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
6 months from now. Different strokes. I find it much easier to debug if I modularize my code: break things down into (re)usable functions, get them tested and working, then build other things from them. Probably something I learned from my Forth days, building things from the ground up. -- -Mark

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
(the user is not an admin and I need to install a package) then there's no substitute for rdp. For the full Windows server rdp you can have multiple simultaneous logins, each with their own memory space. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Wieder
if they want to save it before exiting much more readable than if me is not empty then ask Do you want to save this drivel? if it is not yes then ... ...If you think comments in natural language are useless, try posting a joke on a listserv without appending a smiley g... -- -Mark

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
server running on the user's machine and have them say what's this thing in my taskbar and shut it down. It's happened. But other than that, vnc would do the single user job just fine, and may actually have an advantage in that the user doesn't have to log in again after I'm done. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
in fixing bugs. The comments help with this. Yes - that's my point exactly. I can barely remember two weeks on why I coded a section a certain way, or what repercussions my occur. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
jbv- Saturday, September 16, 2006, 2:23:53 PM, you wrote: comments are useful for human beings, but are computers supposed to joke ? Whether they're supposed to or not, I think my computers have picked up my bad habits. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Digest Reply Link

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
. The only difference is that instead of being bothered with emails coming in constantly they will show up a few times a day. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Digest Reply Link

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
to browsing readily in that manner, but I do think a rev solution would be nice. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Digest Reply Link

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
spaces (per RFC#SomethingOrOther). -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: Field modified function?

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
to implement an undo or revert feature you need to save the original contents anyway... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: simple mailto hack (Re: Digest Reply Link)

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
to client apps to handle it properly. If it didn't work this way I'd never be able to put up with digest mode. Check section 5.1.5 (Digest Subtype) of rfc 2046: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution

Re: Folder permissions question

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
this will be backported to FreeBSD and then to Linux where it will finally enable Linux to reach the desktop. g I believe the backporting thing has been relegated to the suundo project. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: simple mailto hack (Re: Digest Reply Link)

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
header fields. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: simple mailto hack (Re: Digest Reply Link)

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Wieder
to handle MIME digests properly. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Wieder
, and it saved me from having to rethink it from the ground up. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: simple mailto hack (Re: Digest Reply Link)

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Wieder
. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: about Galaxy

2006-09-24 Thread Mark Wieder
the save operation got fixed up a bit lately, so maybe something along the way also cured the infinite loop... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-24 Thread Mark Wieder
features, etc. The IDE is something that third parties can work on: making improvements and drop-in replacements for existing features ala Galaxy, or by adding plugins. But the engine is something that only the rev team can modify. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Wieder
. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: OpenStack

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Éric- My BZ #3843 also adds a refinement to and supports your #3816. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: OpenStack

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Wieder
it does not. And yes, I did start noticing this on 2.7.3. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: OpenStack

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Wieder
, and this causes a silent error. This is with the latest Galaxy build in my plugins folder. I'm not sure why this is working for me when the other day this most definitely was not. There are certain rev anomalies that seem to crop up only on odd-numbered days... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Legos

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Robert- Thursday, September 28, 2006, 8:54:10 AM, you wrote: believe I could not see it. Is it too much coffee or not enough? If ya have to ask, it's definitely not enough... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Legos

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Thursday, September 28, 2006, 9:24:29 AM, you wrote: THis happens to us all. I think this is the very thing that leaving 'variable checking' on and declaring variables is supposed to catch. Amen to that. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Francis- Saturday, September 30, 2006, 11:56:36 AM, you wrote: Is this the right way to check for numerics, and if so, what have I done wrong ? Try if field MyTextField is a number -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: The Save command - what does it really do?

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Wieder
is that in the docs? I can't find it in mine... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Wieder
/H- However, these return conflicting values if pValue is empty. So I suppose the question to ponder is is empty a positive integer? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: License?

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Wieder
). But I haven't done that in any of the point releases, so I couldn't tell you if it's changed since then. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Robert- Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 5:47:16 PM, you wrote: I think this underscores the need for REAL type checking. I was told that a positive integer would return true if is a date is used. BZ #2783 -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
retroactive predictions. Contradicting him is futile, because he will then go back and change the timeline, and then where will you be, eh? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: shell vs. process

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
thought you had an example of how to ping using sockets... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: SVG

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
and not a lot of fun. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Google Code Search

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Wieder
All- I just got pointed to Google Code Search today. Looks like a great online tool. There's no xtalk in their otherwise great selection of programming languages, but they're open to suggestions (there's a feedback link)... http://www.google.com/codesearch -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Google Code Search

2006-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Viktoras- Friday, October 6, 2006, 1:26:07 AM, you wrote: As we all know stacks in Rev are binary files with scripts as text. My Have you grepped a stack lately? Or opened it in a text editor? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution

Re: OT: Macbook Random Shutdown

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
chain a little bit at a time. Andre - have you tried going into Open Firmware?: Boot the computer while holding down command-option-o-f At the prompt type reset-nvram reset-all reboot -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
so that they are available from any script. And probably there are other ways to deal with this that I haven't thought of off the top of my head... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
David- Monday, October 9, 2006, 10:43:04 AM, you wrote: You can also use call-by-reference parameters. Thanks. I knew I was missing an important one... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
. Environment variables Yep. Yet another way to do things... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
for a way for called procedures to have access to the calling procedure's variables and the way to do that (one way to do that, anyway) is to pass them as parameters to the called procedure. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: OT: Macbook Random Shutdown

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
to the Apple store... Update: well, from Apple's site it appears to be true... http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Articles/BootProcess.html Bummer. How are kids gonna learn anything these days without a Forth system to play around with? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL

Re: OT: Macbook Random Shutdown

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
joke) Apparently the pram zap on intel macs does what the open firmware reset function does (resetting the variable to defaults). ANd rEFIt looks like an interesting tool. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Usability

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Very interesting article on usability issues: http://hackthismac.com/2006/09/18/a-unique-view-on-usability-or-visibility/ -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

rip dot mac

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
if I need it and secure transfers, and my isp and domain host take care of the rest. Anybody who wants a free gmail account invitation contact me offlist. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
be. There - can I get any vaguer than that? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
wouldn't expect to find any significant differences. Rev does almost everything in memory, so the differences you'd find would probably have to do with levels of indirection and shouldn't make a difference unless you're nesting repeat loops and/or doing very time-critical applications. -- -Mark

Re: Macro Substitution

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Wieder
this in any event. My take on this would be to drop the ampersands as unnecessary and replace the dot concatenator with an ampersand. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Variable Scoping

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
that you've got a procedure that uses a hundred or more variables. Can you give an example? There's probably another way of thinking of this that will solve your problem easily. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

10 Apps to Increase Productivity on Your Mac

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Small Dog Electronics' latest Tech Tails newsletter has a link to an article on applegazette on 10 Apps to Increase Productivity on Your Mac and I thought I'd pass it on... http://www.applegazette.com/mac/10-apps-to-increase-productivity-on-your-mac/ -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Wieder
visible and enabled object (card or button or whoever catches it first). -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

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