Re: Detecting height of dock and taskbar

of the screen and check it's top, it will be 44, so the 22 reported in the windowBoundingRect is insufficient. D'oh! Of course, to accomodate the window's drag region. Fortunately on Mac it's a fixed size, and on Win can be obtained from the registry. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor

Re: Detecting height of dock and taskbar

, this isn't reliable. It doesn't take into account double row taskbars or unlocked taskbars, etc.. -- Why would taskbar variances affect window title bar height? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials

Re: High-Lighting an Image Object

, available as part of devolution: http://www.fourthworld.com/products/devolution/ ...and also available separately in RevNet -- see Development-Plugins-GoRevNet -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more

Re: High-Lighting an Image Object

Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Dave, Unfortunately :-( you can't set directly the borderColor of an image: 'set the borderColor of img 1 to red' don't lead to an error but has no effect. Confirmed, and logged as Bug #3158: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3158 -- Richard

Re: High-Lighting an Image Object

for an option to have backgroundPatterns drawn from the topleft of the control: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3159 If you have an interest in gaming or simulations, you might want to consider tossing a vote toward that. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Stack Switching Question

it: get fld Whatever of cd 200 of stack MyData.rev -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Stack Switching Question

will be lightning fast. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Stack Switching Question

J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I used the file name form to illustrate another difference between HC and Rev: while you would indeed need to open a stack in HC in order to get stuff out of it, in Rev you can get property values of objects in unopened stacks. When you do

Re: Stack Switching Question

J. Landman Gay wrote: Dave Cragg wrote: On 5 Oct 2005, at 21:04, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I used the file name form to illustrate another difference between HC and Rev: while you would indeed need to open a stack in HC in order to get stuff

Re: Stack Switching Question

for consistency in irrelevant ominousness ;) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Shared menus

#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3356-CHDFJEAC -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

being the more intuitive purge. Of course backward compatibility is a whole other issue, so at best we might hope for some global flag to allow the old behavior to be sustained for legacy stacks without requiring an explicit load. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Shared menus

their request to support a more consistent user experience. There is a way to use this also through Revolution? Not that I know of. What do you need to do? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: Stack Switching Question

delete a stack. That's a separate issue, addressed here: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=1081 -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Shared menus

(please don't shoot the messenger g). Any of you have an external for that? Is there a Bugzilla request to provide that? Can it be done with some combination of AppleScript/plist stuff? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

, I doubt any of this will have much effect for quite some time anyway if at all, since there are many, many bigger fish to fry in the meantime. So while it may be enjoyable conversation, I don't think we need to get too worried about any impending change on this anytime soon. :) -- Richard

Re: Shared menus

Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I feel bad for their ROI: the API is considered for Apple use and subject to change, which often translates to your stuff will break with our next release. Heck, if they were ONLY THAT NICE at Apple! They routinely break stuff with their next

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

an incorrect answer doesn't change the answer. :) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Strange math behaviour... could someone explain this ?

Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Computers are the servants of humans, not the other way around. You wish !! I know you well enough to know you're just having fun there, but because this anomaly has been accepted as normal in microprocessor design I hope the readers here

Re: 2.6.1 Release

Mark Waddingham wrote: This is just a quick note to let you know that Revolution 2.6.1 is now available for download from the usual place: http://downloads.runrev.com When will the engines at ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/ be updated? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: [OT] Microsoft Office's New UI Blazes Some New Trails for Us

it there. It looks to me at first blush like Microsoft gets this one close to right. Quite nice. Excellent link, and excellent commentary. Thanks for posting that. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials

Undocumented goodie in v2.6.1

for this one, and it's rewarding to see them moving forward well with their feature completion initiative (not to mention a really large number of bug fixes folks have been asking for). Hats off! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: Unicode Users Unite

of the value of choosing Transcript goes away. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Strange menuitem hilite issue

in script for a menu that isn't being pulled down by the mouse? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution

Re: Strange menuitem hilite issue

MisterX wrote: Hi Richard Good point. The revdocs don’t seem to say much in regards to hilite... But the hilite menuitems should clear the confusion shouldn't it? Maybe I'm just tired, but I can figure out what: hilite menuitem 9 of menu tools ...is supposed to do. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: automated testing tools (slightly OT)

=2569 -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: importing an image from a window that is offscreen

be nice if there was a built-in way to do that. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: importing an image from a window that is offscreen

Richard Gaskin wrote: For some reason it seems some email clients put a space in there -- here's one without the space: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-January/028585.html Maybe it'll come through unbroken, maybe not. Inconsequential either way, unfortunately

Re: automated testing tools (slightly OT)

you can see is a single window with essentially a bitmap. You can send mouseclicks to a given location, but can't see any results. Do you know offhand how this affects screen readers, such as those use for the blind? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Backscript

/revolution_message_path.html -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

be replaced. But can our experience/talents/creativity? That's only true if all we bring to the table is merely functional code that does only what was asked for. Clement Mok doesn't sell pixels, nor Frank Gehry ink. :) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be great if Rev Developers had a registry of talent/capabilities? Like this?: http://support.runrev.com/resources/consultants.php -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials

Re: Andre's all-Rev Web server

FTP site: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/mchttpd.zip It's a cool thing to play with -- totally customizable, as it's just a few relatively straightforward scripts. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials

Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO [|Not so Short]

/index.html Got a 30-word-or-less summary of what it does for developers? It would be helpful to see it in action -- do you have links to applications shipping with it, perhaps with descriptions of how it helped the development process? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Revolution back to HyperCard

seconds -- pretty much as fast as I can hit the return key. What does each of these scripts do? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

needs to be done, and decide who'll do it. You can solve little things like moving around files and integrating them into the master build as you go. That stuff is easy. The hard part is retaining and utilizing human energy. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Hello science in TAOO [long]

an ever greater number of high-quality commercial applications with it, and with less competition as fewer people use it. Ship successful software, and users of the library that made that possible will follow. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Hello science in TAOO [long]

that quotient for TAOO and its adoption rate will change. If that level of effort doesn't seem worthwhile to you, you may have to be content shipping commercialy successfuly software at a rate that leave the rest of us in the dust. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

Todd Geist wrote: On 10/15/05 3:40 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can solve little things like moving around files and integrating them into the master build as you go. That stuff is easy. The hard part is retaining and utilizing human energy. I think this is exactly why

Re: Hello science in TAOO [long]

, and you may not need to do as much evangelizing, as the output of your tools will speak for themselves. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

. Better still, Magic Carpet runs on any standard FTP server, with no specialized software needed on the server at all. But that's just me. If CVS appeals to others I don't understand what they're waiting for. They could open a Yahoo (or other) list and get started today. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO [|Not so Short]

that matter to them. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Revolution back to HyperCard

overall, esp. if we're talking about just searching scripts rather than fields, as I believe hint bits only apply to field objects. Maybe I can squeeze some time to sit down with those two scripts and figure out where the time is being spent -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor

Re: Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

? This is different from my own, perhaps limited, experience, and any toolmakers would do well to try to understand as many workflow models as practical. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: FORTH and Hypercard

goal, and darnit I never did come up with one. :) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

IDE about their debugging process. Could there be a relationship between a less-than-robust debugger and a buggy IDE built with it? ;) If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend the first three sharpening the saw. - Benjamin Franklin -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: Open source collaboration [WAS: Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO]

the door in the shops I've worked in. With a bit of effort it shouldn't be too hard to make a tool that atomizes stacks into whatever level best suits one's workflow. Is the desire for such a tool prevalent enough to translate into a working tool? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

/files/Extras/ If there's sufficient interest and joining the group to get one file seems annoying, I can mirror that file at a simpler location. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

suggestion is that the detailed screenrect should also calculate its answer on the fly, rather than relying on the state of the monitor at startup. I believe this too is now an issue on Windows, as it certainly is on Mac. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

philosophy. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

in the current main display -- just right-click on the desktop portion of its window, and that and other options are available in a context menu. DeskView is part of devolution, freely available at: http://www.fourthworld.com/products/devolution/index.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: ANN: Constellation Script Property Editor 1.0.0 Released

Rishi Viner wrote: Awww, no linux version... :-( I live in the hope that one day someone will put this much time and effort into making things streamlined and logical for the Linux users... dreaming on... It's all Transcript -- why wouldn't it work any platform Rev supports? -- Richard

Re: Lock that Kick... Hey

Kathy Jaqua wrote: Does anyone have a simple password script. Would this do what you need?: ask password Enter your password: -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

: the opportunities for extensibility are boundless. Congrats on the Constellation release. And remember that anytime you want to pump it up in the pages of revJournal, just send along whatever you like and I'll post it. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

Charles Hartman wrote: On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the Files section of the MC IDE working group there's a shell a couple of us built which suck up the thousands of tiny Transcript Dictionary files and imports them into a single stack using Rev's native objects

Re: Revolution back to HyperCard

, at least when it comes to field text. It gets much, much worse with larger stacks, containing many fields per card, and many cards. In those stacks, Rev's simple find command still works great. Sounds like a job for another cool plugin. Anyone got a Find plugin handy? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

Dan Shafer wrote: You cannot, in my opinion (backed by way too much research time) do better than DreamHost (http://www.dreamhost.com). Do they support Rev CGI? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Looking for a cheap web hosting ISP

Rev be compiled in such a way that it doesn't need the GUI libs while running as a CGI? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Dan On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Andre

Re: Constellation

and utilities all completely free and open source. I can create a section at revJournal for that. Would you like to be the editor of that section? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: Constellation

Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Fisher wrote I propose that a central website be created, full of code from the Rev universe. More structured than a wiki, files would be uploaded into categories and directories, but the whole database could be quickly searched. Most

Re: Rev Built-in cursors IDs

of the reserved ranges. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Constellation

of what you've delivered to them. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Rev Built-in cursors IDs

that all of the cursor IDs are within the established reserved ranges, we can hope that going forward if the Rev IDE needs new cursor images it'll use new cursor IDs for those, rather than change existing cursors. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Learning center videos don't play

the world never delivered video over HTTP before it came along. Has RR considered using a codec that's already included with QT, at least as an option when the specialized one hasn't been installed (or is installed incorrectly, or has any other such problem)? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: strange issue

languages, and plans for OOP extensions to Transcript have been part of the plan for some time now. So in my shop we're reserving the c prefix for those extensions, and use u (for user-defined property) instead. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Phishy Paypal

will turn out negative. Not that I have enough experience with PayPal to vouch for them, but simply that PayPal phishing their own customers for info just doesn't make sense. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials

Re: docWikis

already been answered: Why not use the user comment feature built into the Rev docs? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use

Re: Open source tools and plugins

are we looking for on top of that? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Constellation

/index.html] If Jerry doesn't yet have a property-mapping script to take advantage of that it wouldn't take but a few minutes to write one for him. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: docWikis

to fix a small bug than build an entirely separate system. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Setting custom properties

be used as such. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: OT: Phishy Paypal -- reinstalling OS helps?

could be next. Many Windows machines are infected within minutes of turning on their Internet connection. Fortunately, Gates recently acquired an anti-virus company, so you can help close some of the Swiss cheese holes Microsoft put in by paying Microsoft to help close them. -- Richard

Re: Runtime Engine

not likely to affect sales of the GUI product. In the worst-case scenario if that turns out to no longer be the case, one could use a standalone as a CGI, no? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: Ensuring numeric input

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, You can also add zero to it; if it is a number then the result will be empty. But is zero counted as zero, or would it add 0.1 in Intel chips? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev

Re: working method?

I could put it all in one massive library if needed, but breaking it up along logical lines helps me get to the part I need quickly. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Runtime Engine

J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Last I heard the engine remained free for CGI work to help evangelize the language in a context not likely to affect sales of the GUI product. In the worst-case scenario if that turns out to no longer be the case, one could use a standalone

Re: Ensuring numeric input

makes a mistake that puts money in their pocket, you can bet they'll make that mistake again, and again, and again... ;) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

I wonder if the process of working out the details of this project might be well served on a dedicated list, perhaps the RevDocs list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevDocs/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

to seeing the group produce a valuable addition to the family of Rev learning tools. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use

Re: AW: Finding the Stack that Started Up a Stack

Thomas Fischer wrote: Hi David, if you put answer the last word of the long name of the recent card in an openStack handler, it should give you the name of the stack. Brilliantly simple! Bravo! -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

Dennis Brown wrote: On Oct 28, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: There's been a tremendous amount of discussion about wikis here over the last 48 hours. Clearly a lot of good energy that can be put to productive use for the benefit of all. Given the great many details needed

Re: ANN: new free altPlugin: altMenuStack

, chances are the user would never see it. There isn't a switch for that? How do the folks at RunRev debug their IDE? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev

Re: RevDocs group on a Yahoo

://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevDocs/ Looking forward to seeing you there. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution

Re: Getting generic OSX icon in standalone

that creates the icns files won't affect problems with how the Finder fails updating to draw them correctly. Rather than go to all the effort to recreate an icon building tool in Rev, a more effective solution takes less of your time: http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/ :) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Geometry Question

be midly tedious to write such a handler for really complex layouts, you only write it once and forget about it. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: ANN: FastMailBase demonstrates the power of Revolution!

(the good, the bad, the ugly, the unexpected process glitches, the trademark issue, etc.) we'd love to read about it at revJournal. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com

Re: [Ann] ArcadeEngine 1.5 released

I miss something, or did that editor? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

checking removable drives

from July 2003 (detailed drives http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=101), do we have any quick cross-platform solution for this? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Geometry Question

David Bovill wrote: On 30 Oct 2005, at 20:16, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just roll your own and move on to more interesting challenges. OK - thanks Richard. Have reverted to your suggestion for complex layouts. Pity though Geometry Manager is a real time saver - I often spend a good

Re: How to limit field to one line?

unpredictable results. There is a similar limitation with the sort command: on blocks of text in which all lines have 65,535 characters or fewer it works great, but beyond that it can yield odd results. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: question: how much info fits in a field?

, or even type (it can be binary or text). The 4GB limit on the size of a single custom property will not likely come into play in common use. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http

Re: How to limit field to one line?

. I wonder what the determining factor is? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: checking removable drives

. Is this a foolhardy thing to do? Could there be a downside to writing prefs or other such app-managed data to a folder either within or at the same level as our program's folder if we have permissions to do so? It makes me nervous to consider anything in computing being this simple. ;) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Hello from newbie

/scriptstyle.html -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Strange field wraps with tabs

. In DB apps it's common to display a useful subset of fields in a list for the user to pick from, and then edit fields in a detail view showing all fields. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: checking removable drives

or the UserPath method. Precisely why the scheme Paul and Bill came up with seems to hold up thus far: If an app can't write to its own directory, it must be installed on the hard drive and not running from a removable device. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: checking removable drives

? If installed on the hard drive and able to write to the app's folder, we could differentiate prefs internally by $username. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: checking removable drives

by allowing the same app to run well with the smallest footprint possible on any machine it's run on - it would behave well when run from a hard drive and be completely portable on removable drive. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: checking removable drives

Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The only downside to self-contained apps is that there's no file-type association present in the host system's registry, so documents must be opened from within the app rather than double-clicked. But this factor is independent of any method used

Re: checking removable drives

Trevor DeVore wrote: On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: With Rev's ability to read and write the Windows directory, it would be simple enough to make the registry entries for the file type association. But for true portability this should not happen when running from

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