Finding USB volumes on Win

to identify mounted removable volumes and obtain their drive letters? Extra bonus points if I could get their names too, for those that have been named. TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: Finding USB volumes on Win

Richard Miller wrote: On 3/22/2010 10:05 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In January with the help of Phil, Peter, and others I got some great tips for identifying removable drives on OS X and Linux. But I'm having difficulty figuring out how to do the same in Windows. I can find the registry

Re: Finding USB volumes on Win

many different combinations of escapes, and no escapes at all, and no matter what I try the result says, bad key and the data returned is empty. Any clues? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: Possible virus warning

beings through mind-numbing bit-counting tasks like low-level programming languages. Don't you see it?!?!?! Connect the dots!!! ObjectiveC is people!! It's a cook book!!! Yes, the monsters are due on Maple Street :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http

Re: Possible virus warning

://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

How do you run chmod from Windows? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com Josh Mellicker wrote: Does this work? get chmod u+x tPathToYourFile get shell(it) Cheers, Josh On Mar 17

AW: How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: With a DMG the user has to figure out why they have a new volume on their Mac desktop (you'd be surprised by how many users find DMGs confusing (see the links at the bottom of http://revjournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1261255254.58153). Hi Richard

Re: How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

they don't need to play nice with the standards that drive the rest of the world. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv On Mar 18, 2010

Re: Possible virus warning

to be seen. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Possible virus warning

logins, and will probably have to be recreated from backups. That seems plausible enough, but far less entertaining than my hypothesis of corporate espionage from some nefarious organization who feels threatened by RevMobile. As logical as your scenario is, I'm sticking with mine. :) -- Richard

RE: View scripts of my standalone?

. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: View scripts of my standalone? - Major Security Issue

would let us communicate with the OS API directly from within RevTalk, as Toolbook has provided for years. I would imagine that an option for machine-code compilation would carry some limitations, but for those who could use it it may be well worth working with those limitations. -- Richard

Re: View scripts of my standalone? - Major Security Issue

Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 17/03/2010 16:33, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... All desktop platforms are now using the Intel instruction set, Really? http://www.riscos.com/ http://www.arm.com/ http://www.iyonix.com/ http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/products/a9home.shtml There are many

Re: View scripts of my standalone? - Major Security Issue

Lyn Teyla wrote: Just submitted a request via the RQCC: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8672 Excellent. Thanks for submitting that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

with an instruction for the user to unzip it on OS X before running it there. But that's a lot of hassle for them and many users will just get confused. It'd be much nicer to be able to spit out a working Mac app bundle - but how can I do that from Windows? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: How to generate a runnable Mac standalone from Windows

Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... As a workaround based on an earlier related discussion here, I'm considering storing a zipped copy of the Mac app bundle, and spitting that zip file out with an instruction for the user to unzip it on OS X before running

Re: Confusing Errors

is another watch. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Card Name space conflicts in the Rev IDE

object names are as I entered them. What steps am I missing in this recipe? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Fwd: Cross platform design tool

Randall Reetz wrote: What about anti-alias vector line and polygon edges? How old is your Rev license? Vector graphics have been antialiased in Rev for years. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: Inserting a photo into a polygon?

of the polygon to the ID of an imge. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Using the brush tool

a request for this, if you feel like it's something worth voting for: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=623 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http

Re: FTP Help Please

is not empty then answer An error occurred while downloading: the result exit to top end if Complete docs and other helpful notes on libURL are in the RevTalk Dictionary and here: http://www.lacscentre.com/liburl/liburldoc.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http

Re: cantSelect

of interaction. When we don't get them the blood stops flowing. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

lubURL nuances

fresh, is there some downside to using libUrlResetAll that I've overlooked? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: cantSelect

://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2606 Many such circumstances could be avoided altogether if we had the ability to limit the scope of a tool mode to a group: 'tool property for groups/creating objects in groups interactively' http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=623 -- Richard

Re: Application graphics

swapping icon images may seem HyperCardy, it works. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

for backward compatibility. Sticky issue; glad it's theirs and not mine. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Customizing Error Reporting Dialog

-addressed email. When they send it you'll have their address. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Comma-delimited values

that could have taken mere milliseconds if done in any saner format. CSV must die. Please help it die: never write CSV exporters. /rant -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal

Re: missing field in aplication browser

that's kinda basic doc for a new release. See the Engine Change Log and IDE Change Log files included with each Rev installation. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

) does. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

as well now that Rev supports Unicode. Try out the htmlTextToText function above and let me know where it doesn't work for you for anything you can display in a Rev field. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

Re: Thousands of cards (Was RE: very strange rev behavior)

-scratcher when you do it for the first time. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: The Linux problem, and a suggestion

arena. We're about to see its Golden Age. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: Dispatch Versus Send

was introduced: I've sort of deprecated send in my mind, reserving its use only for when I need timers, and use dispatch for everything else. Calling remote functions with it is just icing that lets me ditch call too. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http

Re: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

or Russia (home to some 90% of c...@ck sites), many of which are loaded with keyloggers and other zombieware. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

Peter Brigham wrote: On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... According to the dictionary RevTalk allows backgroundColor for chunks, and backgroundPattern for fields, and textPattern/ foregroundPattern for chunks, so I was a little optimistic about the orthogonality

Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

having PayPal as a payment option is so valuable: it reduces the payment process to just a single password field and one click. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http

Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

://www.hyperactivesw.com/solutions_zygodact.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

and RIAA! The problem with the Schrodinger algorithm is that as soon as you open the script editor to look at the code the cat dies. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal

Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

Jeff Massung wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.comwrote: [... snip ...] Then write the inverse of the generator to validate your codes, but break up the validation into multiple handlers each doing a small part of it, using obscure function

Re: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

Jeff Massung wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Richard Gaskin ... I agree with everything else you wrote, and it seems very reflective of much of the Delphi Anti-Cracking FAQ, but on this I'm confused: It seems like we're saying the same thing about obfuscation. Or maybe I just wrote

Re: Dispatch Versus Send

matters it can add up. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Application Browser not showing groups

controls, being any group which has its selectGroupedControls set to false. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Dispatch Versus Send

to Mark Waddingham for the well-optimized implementation. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

as the backgroundPattern of the portion of text being indicated? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

it as a request: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8645 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

be interesting to find other Gnome-based distros which have control sizes that more closely fit those on Win and Mac. FWIW, if I recall correctly the Gnome control sizes I see in Ubuntu are roughly the same as I used to see in Motif and Irix. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 01/03/2010 20:40, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... I took a minute this morning to take some screen shots of Rev and OS controls on Ubuntu/Gnome, Win XP, and OS X: http://fourthworldlabs.com/revfonts/ Frankly, Richard, it looks as though you took quite some time

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

of a handful of users who won't be grateful that I'm making better use of their screen real estate. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

apps now. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

fonts: what is a point in Linux/Gnome?

hope that over the long term, as Linux become ever more gentrified, end-users will demand more of the screen space back and those making window managers will satisfy their audience with more conventional control sizes? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http

Re: an annual calendar somewhere?

cr after tCal end repeat -- -- Send it to the caller: return tCal end Cal -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

dropping to the Finder

? I hope so. TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: dropping to the Finder

Jeff Massung wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In one of my apps I have a list of things I'd like folks to be able to drag to the Finder, and then when they're dropped I'll assemble the needed parts and write them to a file at the drag destination. I can't figure

Re: dropping to the Finder

Jeff Massung wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... But as Jan suggested, how do most FTP clients work? In Interarchy I can drop to any folder and it works great. I'd like to be able to do something similar - there must be a way. Sorry, Richard, perhaps I'm

Re: dropping to the Finder

Jim Ault wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've used a few like that myself (GoLive and FileZilla work that way). It may be just a Mac convention that supports this so well, but I use Interarchy for FTP and it does a wonderful job of behaving Finder-like: I just drag

Re: dropping to the Finder

for this. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

HTML and character entities in RSS

! By what rule should I know when to translate data from character entities back to plain old ASCII? Browsers seem to handle the mish-mash rather well; wish I were as graceful at handling all the inconsistencies I'm finding. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http

Re: changing stack ID

that can even change at runtime if needed without altering your stack's name. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re:Odd selection hangup

to me what I need to to do to get it deSelected, though I have, by fooling around and navigation and stuff, gotten rid of them. Closing the stack does it. A simpler and more reliable method of preventing an object from being selected is to turn on the object's cantSelect property. -- Richard

Re: when saving as standalone get a text file; SOLVED

sleuthing, Andre. Seems related, possibly worthy of a vote: Files with high-ASCII characters are not recognized by Revolution http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6394 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers

Re: Popup menu selection

provided a native command for this, but tucking this into your standard library at least gets the job down for now. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http

Re: Popup menu selection

Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: To counter this, Ken Ray and I have adopted a habit of using a handler like this one to set an option control's current choice: on SetOption pBtnName, pNum lock messages set the menuHistory of btn pBtnName to pNum

Re: FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

in isolation removes most of those interactions, usually leading to more repeatable results. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: custom properties

of this explains how variables could appear slower. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: when saving as standalone get a text file; Help!

command to build my standalones from the v4.5 runtime engines produces a runnable app. The good news there is that the actual mechanism that builds the standalones seems fine, and the engines themselves are fine, it's just something in the IDE which is likely easy to fix. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: stack menu

Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In my experience stack menus work perfectly UNLESS the height of the stack being poppsed up is greater than the monitor height. AFAIK Rev truncates stack rendering to the largest possible size, which will be within

Re: socket error 54?

Bernard Devlin wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: It does not appear to be the exact same point in the file; IIRC it varies by a couple MBs. I've tried it with Interarchy and a custom Rev-based FTP client, with the same results

Re: survey

, fourteen nights): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fortnight -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

socket error 54?

I have a weird connection which drops my socket about 25MBs into a 34MB upload using libURL. The session transcript ends with: socket error ip|6927 Error 54 reading socket What is error 54? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: socket error 54?

Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have a weird connection which drops my socket about 25MBs into a 34MB upload using libURL. The session transcript ends with: socket error ip|6927 Error 54 reading socket What is error 54? Connection reset

Re: stack menu

popup stacks may exceed that, so while that limit doesn't affect most things it becomes an error with popup stacks. If your stack that's popping up properly is taller than your monitor it would be good to know, so I can update the notes in my bug report. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev

Re: socket error 54?

Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: What is error 54? Connection reset by peer. But does peer mean the server or your app? Is it a timeout thing? It is the server. Can be a timeout, can be policy, can be timeout induced by rate-limiting, can be ... darn hard to figure out

Re: stack menu

be great to see this fixed. There's a lot of power in using stacks as menus for galleries and such, but precious few people using them (only two of us have voted for #6072 thus far). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev

Re: stack menu

if the group has no scrollbar? With or without a frontscript? That at least would *look* like a regular menu. Yep: rawKeyDown 65308 is down and 65309 is up. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Words Indexing strategies

wordCount[l] return after displayResult end repeat put displayResult into field result end mouseUp -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

Alex Tweedly wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: That looks similar to what I posted here on the 9th: open file tFile for update seek relative -1000 in file tFile repeat read from file tFile until cr if it is not empty then put it after tBuffer else

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

Jim Bufalini wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: But FWIW, I tried your version and it seemed to leave the file unchanged If your original file ends in a cr then Alex's code would end in absolutely no change. ;-) Thanks, Jim. I tried it both ways; no change to the file's contents, although

Re: FileTypes and Creators

, and it uses AppleScript to let you change them as well. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

then put it after tBuffer else delete last line of tBuffer write tBuffer to file tFile end if end repeat close file tFile Does that not do what you need? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev

Re: Words Indexing strategies

writing an index from scratch. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing

determining if a stack is locked

anyone here spare a moment to confirm this behavior, and does it seem inappropriate to you? 2. What method exists in v4.x to determine if a stack has its password set but no passkey has been entered? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

://sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

on real data. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

See why you shouldn't trust off-the-cuff code? Where I wrote: open file tFile for append ...I meant to write: open file tFile for update -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Reference (maybe Live) Distribution for Rev Linux

. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

RevCity? Even if that seems like way too much work, if you have any interest in simulations the source is a good read. This snippet from an early prototype of The Sims is an interesting skim: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/Sims/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training

Re: Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

to see that for Linux too. As an external, the code is separate from the main code base and so the Linux verison could conceivably be farmed out. I would be willing to toss in a few bucks toward that. Anyone else interested in funding that development? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev

Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

system at no cost: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download Note for Richmond and Judy: Ubuntu makes a special version for use in the classroom, Edubuntu: http://www.edubuntu.org/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers

Re: Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

target. It's bringing the benefits of Linux to an audience who might otherwise remain just a bit too intimidated to try it, and that level of broad consumer adoption can only help the Linux world as a whole. Indeed, it's essential in order to fix Bug #1. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

stack blendlevel with opaque controls?

for this, but that's more work than I'd prefer to do for multiple platforms, and seems error-prone (not to mention losing the smooth built-in resizability). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Geometry manager

Ben Rubinstein wrote: On 20/1/10 19:51, Richard Gaskin wrote: PS: a real time-saver for me in writing resizeStack handlers has been this SetRect command: My slightly different approach is a couple of ugly commands adjustObjectPosn and adjustObjectRect (below), which allow the layout

Re: iPadding around?

. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Linux deployment . . .

many things in The Cathedral and the Bazaar to be a bit optimistic in some regards, there are in fact a great many opportunities in software that runs on free OSes, both commercial and non-commercial. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

call to a global property, couldn't this be done in the engine sometime in the last four releases since it was reported? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http

Re: Linux deployment . . .

you can focus instead on the tasks you turned on your computer to do (IMNSHO Apple understands that far better than MS). Being the world's only free and open alternative means a lot to several tens of millions of people. Free and open represent a truly UNIQUE value among OSes. -- Richard

Re: Linux deployment . . .

Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time, effort and limited resources continuing development of a Linux version ? Count me among

Re: iPadding around?

Colin Holgate wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: Regardless of the opportunities or lack thereof one may see with the world's fastest-growing OS Here's a good point, RunRev should put effort into OSes based on how fast they are growing

Re: Enlarging the height of the title bar zone?

the decorations of the stack to empty, and making your own controls at the top for dragging, closing, minimizing, etc., where you could add anything else you want. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http

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