Re: app crashes frequently

2002-11-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
i am running Rev 1.1.1. under os X 10.2.1. on a Pismo. so far i haven't done much developing, because the app CRASHES ALL THE TIME. anybody else with the same experience? olli. I don't use a Mac, But I have read here that there is an OS bug in the Appearance Manager that causes these

Re: Open app when a PC starts up

2002-11-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Goal: Have a Rev app open automatically when a PC starts up. Problem: VirtualPC on my Mac seems to add the shortcut but the Rev app doesn't open at startup on VPC...so I am left wondering if the issue is VPC or my script. Anyone feel like testing the following script on a PC? on mouseUp

Re: Colornames to RGB values; was: Re: Illustrating the message path indocumentation

2002-12-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
PS still looking for CMYK scripts if anyone has them. Cheers Monte The code which Ken Ray pointed you to at Borland's web site looks promising, but keep in mind that CMYK is only intended for printing pigmented inks on paper or some other reflective media. The color representation on the

Re: Get File Owner

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Ken, I am glad that this should work, but on my system (NT 4.0 service-pack 6) it tells me that /Q is an invalid switch. It seems that in Win 95 - 98 dos commands had some enhancements that don't work anymore. I wish RunRev would just add owner to the detailed files. Thank you for your help.

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I have verified that this syntax works. Dar is correct. URL is not needed. set the imagesource of char 1 of line 3 of fld 1 to binfile:C:/somewhere/image.jpg Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED] The example in a TD leaves off the URL part. That may be a typo or it may be a clue. Dar Scott

FTP Time/Date

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
The following is a FTP dir listing retrieved from a Win-NT FTP site using Rev1.1.1. I noticed this anomaly as I was parsing out the Time... The Year is where Time usually is. Why are the returned results inconsistent? Is there another way to get time/date of remote files with Rev? -- 1 owner

Re: List etiquette and general helpful hints

2003-01-09 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Politics, religion and cheese are all off topic. Off topic posts should be marked with the header OT, and kept to a minimum. I agree with this statement. I would like to suggest that the policy of the list should be that off-topic posts pushing religious, moral or political views are banned.

Re: FTP progress bar

2003-01-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Vikram, I tried your script suggestion. With some modification, I got it to partially work. I have been referring to the LibUrl documention on the RunRev site, but I am still having problems. The script below APPEARS to send a file, and says successful, but the file is always only 58k in size

Re: FTP progress bar

2003-01-12 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Vikram, Thank you VERY much for your help! The vital piece if information you provided was that the urlcallback handler needed to be in the STACK SCRIPT. I had it in the button script. The progress bar actually does something now (for a change). I am a happy Revolutionary! Kind regards, Roger

libURL will not accept data in a variable

2003-01-15 Thread Roger . E . Eller
This one is very strange and inconsistent. I am simply using a variable to contain each piece of my ftp URL. I have replaced each variable with quoted text (one at a time) to determine which variable is causing me grief. It it the variable containing my IP address. So I tried using a field

Re: libURL will not accept data in a variable

2003-01-15 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Richard, I have confirmed that the IP in the variable is the correct one. This URL is used in the following command. libUrlFtpUpload URL tData, tUrl Here is the error that was returned. There was a Script Compile Error at 9:22:26 AM Error description: Expression: double binary operator

Re: Why does a Save screw up the scroll settings?

2003-01-19 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Your file Map.rev on your website is not a stack. It only contains the text binfile:/users/bvg/desktop/stacks/scrollMap.rev. Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/18/2003 at 10:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can look at it under http://www.yanku.net/bvg/downloads/stacks/Map.rev

Re: Somewhat OT - Demo RAD tool for the Mac

2003-01-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Charles, On Windows, it is a single key (use of toes is not required), just press Print Screen. The image is on the clipboard, and can be pasted into any document that supports graphics. It is a bummer that selected regions or selected windows are not an option. Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade version and pricing

2004-03-15 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Among all of the bug fixes and new features, I hope there will also be current engines for ALL of the various *nix flavors that Revolution supposedly supports. I have been waiting for the IRIX version update since 1.1.1. Kevin stated a few months ago that the boxes used for building these

Re: Newcomer

2004-03-18 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Wow, Andre, you make me want dive in the deep end of the pool! Especially if you come from an RB background. What's more, unlike you, I'm NOT a programmer, which makes this sound all the more appetizing. Michael, Warning: Corn Enclosed This list certainly is a pool of knowledge, and the

Re: 'add' Page NOT Screen vs Page vs Card!!

2004-03-29 Thread Roger . E . Eller
on ratUp put fld Recipe of card 1 of stack 1 into cardMethod put fld Chapter of page 1 of book 1 into pageMethod put fld LeftQuadrant of screen 1 of monitor 1 into screenMethod put fld Switches of panel 1 of display 1 into panelMethod put fld Slices of pickle 1 of jar 1 into

Re: News: Retrolution 4 Released

2004-04-01 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Mark Wieder wrote: Rod- Thursday, April 1, 2004, 2:14:00 AM, you wrote: RM *Support for upper and lowercase letters, except for the letter P I WOULD URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER AND NOT ALLOW LOWERCASE LETTERS, AS THIS MAKES THE CODE MUCH MORE READABLE. NOW THAT I HAVE RETROLUTION ON MY OLD

Re: Import snapshot fails in standalone

2004-05-16 Thread Roger . E . Eller
It seems strange to reply to my own question, but others may encounter this possible bug. The part I failed to mention before is that I am putting the captured image into an existing image that is part of a group. This works in development, but a built standalone will not display the captured

Re: ANN: Export Vector to Adobe Illustrator

2004-07-07 Thread Roger . E . Eller
By the way, Does this entusiasm enough the developers of this list to collaborate in the creation of a pdf export handler? ABSOLUTELY! I thought you'd never ask. My company is rapidly making PDF *the* standard format for all electronic documents. I would be willing to help in any way

Re: Getting back stack resizability

2004-07-10 Thread Roger . E . Eller
- create a new stack - turn Metal Texture on - turn Metal Texture off - try to resize your stack ... ... Is another property to switch? David, This looks like a bug to me... The usual set the resizable of stack myStack to true has no affect. Can someone else using Windows please confirm

Support for MSSQL databases

2004-07-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I was wondering if RunRev will ever add Microsoft SQL to its database connectivity offerings. In the corporate environment, alot of times it is required that we use Microsoft (even though MySQL is just as good or better). Thanks. Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Revolution 2.5 Beta 1

2004-07-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Hi Kevin, I'm that guy who uses SGI Irix (probably the only one, right?). I see that development of new versions continues, and that is very good. But there are still deficiencies in 2.2 for Irix that you may or may not be aware of. I don't know why, but ALL imported graphics are converted to

Re: urgent QTversion question...

2004-07-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Hi Klaus, Of course this is only important on windoze! On the mac QT is the only multimedia engine so far... I'm not so sure about that. Unless you mean integrated into the OS. Anyways, check this out... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx I

Re: Feeling Supremely Stupid...

2004-07-23 Thread Roger . E . Eller
To me, that is the biggest change in 2.5! Now you drag-N-drop the tool items to the stack instead of the usual click-on-tool, click-on-stack method. It takes a little getting used to. ~Roger Eller Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/23/2004 04:01 PM Please respond to

Re: Any Chatters? Revisited

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I'm curious why Tuviah's chatter stacks haven't been improved and implemented into a user community builder. I agree. iChat is nice, but the Rev community is very cross-platform. We need something that runs on ALL of the supported platforms that RunRev supports (with no code changes). It

Re: Any Chatters? Revisited

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
iChat uses the AIM service, for which there are compatible clients for Mac, Win, and AFAIK Linux. I guess Rev's Irix users may be out of luck. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation You say Irix users (plural)??? There is actually an Irix port of the Linux gAim chat

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I just ask for feedback on PDF readers error messages on linux and mac os x Alejandro, I for one am very appreciative of your work in this area. PDF output needs to become as easy as printing. As a matter of fact, that is one way of getting a PDF out of a Rev stack (if you own Adobe Acrobat

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
As a matter of fact, that is one way of getting a PDF out of a Rev stack (if you own Adobe Acrobat - not reader). Or, a Mac. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. Yet another cost-prohibitive factor. ;-p Also, did you know that PDF files from the rendering engine bundled in OS X are not Adobe

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
If you are using FreeHand, then i suggest that you use the pdf export handler because it solves some errors in the AI handler. Al, Thanks for this update. I will follow your advice. Now after your triumph with Vector to AI and a Vector to PDF, what will you do for an encore? Maybe Vector

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Let me know if I can assist with testing or providing sample PDF files created with various programs. Of course, if you could save these same set of vectors graphics as pdf from other applications, like ghostscript, corel, indesign, open office, etc..., you could compress all of them and

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf

2004-08-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Alejandro, Actually, i do not have CAD software to test this conversion. Is DXF written as ascii text? In its simplest form, DXF can be ascii only. The DXF CAD file format appears to be well documented at myfileformats.com. http://myfileformats.com/search.php?name=dxf There are numerous

Re: User Contributions on our website

2004-08-09 Thread Roger . E . Eller
...We would like to encourage the authors of the remaining contributions and new contributions to upload them to Revonline... You are referring to Revonline in the beta 2.5 correct? Without access from inside a corporate firewall, Revonline is useless to me (at work anyway). In the

Re: OT MacinTalk

2004-08-10 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Historical note: Macintalk came with the earliest Macs, so it was around since System 3 (the earliest MacOS I remember) if not even earlier. It is debatable which computer company had speech synthesis first. I remember Macintalk, but I also remember

Re: [ANN] vector to pdf v02b

2004-08-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Inform to the mail list about any incompabilities and error messages with Acrobat 6 and Readers from Mac OS X and Linux. Since v02 and v02b, PDF files will not open in Reader 6.0 with or without ascii85 or hex encoding. Reader 6 gives no error message and displays an empty square page. The

Re: Simulating password entry

2004-08-20 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Devin, Your final script is WONDERFUL! I only made a slight modification to make it more X-platform, On windows, ascii 165 looks kinda like a chicken footprint. Also, the default font apparently doesn't contain the bullet character on Win. I changed the font in the script, but of course that

Re: [OT] - Off Topic - RE: Starting Lindows

2003-09-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Gary, 2cents I perceive this discussion as ON topic since what is being discussed is how to gain access to another Rev supported OS. Is this any different than the OS X shell, Windows registry, AppleScript and QuickTime discussions on this list? It's all part of the great things that Rev can

Re: Some doubts 'bout Revolution

2003-10-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
At 10:44 PM -0300 10/4/2003, Júlio César Ködel wrote: My question was: it is possible to make this look and feel of Classic MacOS in a Rev. application running in Windows (i.e. I make a application, that is distributed for Windows machines, and want to apply ClassicMacOS style on it, as it is

Re: Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Paul, I've developed projects for both machines. You will be more productive, and faster on the Mac than in the Windows environment - fewer quirks, crashes, etc. Then move your project over to the Windows environment to work out the bugs there for that operating system. That's my 2

Re: Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On Nov 5, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: On 11/5/03 9:33 AM, Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone's manner of productivity can be different. Excellent point. So let's not start a my insert item here is better than your insert item here thread. Yeah! I was getting a

Re: Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 11/06/2003, at 05:23 AM jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question : who needs to put 10,000 files in a single folder ? I might be wrong, but to me it sounds like a perverted approach of graphic interfaces... ... The point I want to make is that putting 10,000 files in a single

RE: revGoURL help

2003-11-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
on mouseUp set the itemDelimiter to / put (item 1 to -2 of the effective fileName of this stack)/ into myFolderName get file:myFolderNamegen.html revGoURL it --- This works in Runtime but not in standalone end mouseUp on mouseUp set the itemDelimiter to / put (item 1 to

Re: Engine for Irix !!

2003-11-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I have to chime in here as well because we also develop for Irix machines. I have not yet been able to get any of the 2.x.x versions to even load past the splash screen. It loads the splash and hangs until I kill the process. I am still having to rely on 1.1.1 for Irix development, which is

Re: Newbie - send open to windows exe file

2003-12-12 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Thomas, I have a simple question: How/can I send an open from REV to a windows executable file so that it launches. The exe is a self installing demo I need to link to on the CD. Check out the launch command in the help. Also shell can do this. All you need is the path to the .exe file.

Re: Rev Crash Again! ... cardImage() function

2004-01-08 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Jim, set the icon of btn Gallery Button to cardImage() In my simple HC-like mind, this should work... Almost... you have to use the id of the image. set the icon of btn Gallery Button to 1143 ~Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Transcript and/or ECMA

2004-02-09 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 02/09/2004 at 08:06 AM, Claude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Revolution can speak the same langage as JavaScript, Flash (and tomorrow Director) that can help thousands of programmer to test it and to adopt it. Claude This brings an idea to mind... If we can do fld 1 as AppleScript, can

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 9/2/04 09:23 AM, Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without in any way losing our great Mac support, we're working hard on our presence on other platforms. Kevin, Does that include SGI Irix? I still don't see any current Rev software available for all of the supposedly supported

Re: Windows appearance issues

2004-02-10 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Yechhh! I need to fix all this stuff so it looks good in Windows How-to suggestions please. Ken N. Windows is very corporate (gray). OS X is very artistic (colorful). Mac OS 9 is somewhere in between. Therefore, the easiest way to get a semi-decent look is to use the built-in

Re: Transcript has a HUMAN orientation

2004-02-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Transcript has a HUMAN orientation. French, Chinese, or Hindi would serve just as well. = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org You are correct, but all of the aliens on Star Trek speak English (although it is due to the Universal-Translator). ;^P Now that would be a cool

Re: RR as a browser plugin?

2004-02-12 Thread Roger . E . Eller
And there is also http://www.softmac2000.com/ If you already own the Mac hardware, it is perfectly legal to emulate your Mac on another machine (although not running simultaneously). We had a 68040 Mac Quadra that died years ago, so we used its ROM in an emulator. When you are porting

Re: palm pdb file syncing

2004-02-14 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Bob, Palm Database Viewer was written by Lars Lewejohann. I don't know much about it because it was v.0.01beta when I it was announced on this list (I still have it). The about box has links to http://www.phwnotyping.com and http://www.tiny-red-book.com I hope this helps. Roger Eller

Re: palm pdb file syncing

2004-02-14 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Oops! I mis-typed that first link. It should have been http://www.phenotyping.com ~Roger ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Scanning ON SCREEN barcodes

2004-02-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
For obvious reasons, the laser beam of a barcode scanner cannot read a barcode that is displayed on your monitor. However, if the resolution of the display is high enough to detect the differences in line-thickness of each bar... Is it possible for Revolution to take a snapshot of a 1 pixel

Re: More dialer stuff

2004-03-03 Thread Roger . E . Eller
...will it work the same in Windows? Can someone check for me? According to the docs, modem: is only for MacOS. For a PC, you have to substitute COM1: - COM4: I tried, but it gave errors. My modem is internal and on COM3. I am not near an analog phone line, so I couldn't test thoroughly...

Re: move a palette stack along with another stack

2007-01-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 01/04/2007 at 01:14 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to do this in real time? On Windows, the pallette will smoothly follow the main window. On OS X, the pallette will snap to the main window when the mousebutton is released (after dragging). As far as I know,

Re: OMG!!!! Steve Jobs is launching the iPhone and it runs MacOS X.

2007-01-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Now that there is a 'smaller' version of OS X , I wonder if the releases will be named something like: Tabby, Calico, and Persian. :-) Or, with the new company name change, the new releases could be different varieties of apple. I'm looking forward to Granny Smith (aka 11.0.0). Roger Eller

Need to hide the Acrobat tools via scripting in AltBrowser on PC

2007-01-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I am using altBrowser on a PC in Win2k XP. Is it possible to instruct altBrowser to display the PDF alone, without the tools that are invoked by the Adobe Reader plugin? Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Visibility Problem

2007-01-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I tried the Message Box to see what was going on. When I entered the command: Show graphic g9 and press return, it does not show the graphic. Sometimes, when referencing objects by name, I see this behavior when there are (accidentally created) duplicates with the same name. Try using the

Re: A Standalone Win Build Problem

2007-01-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 01/22/2007 at 09:06 AM Charles Szasz wrote: Bill, I made the changes you suggested but that did not work. My question now is if changed the appearance of the card to have a gray background how do I maintain a white background for printing purposes so I don't get a gray background?

Re: user groups : educators

2007-02-01 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Stephen Barncard wrote: I get all tense and impatient during chat, waiting for people to type, and wishing I hadn't joined the chat. One can't really do anything else during a chat session. True... unless you are using a 3D virtual world (http://www.secondlife.com/)as your chat interface.

Re: user groups : educators

2007-02-01 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Marielle Lange wrote: Yes, I had that in mind as well, some revolution bar in Second life. Indeed many companies organize training or support within the second life environment. What is your character name in second life? Mine is Sydney Scapin (but I don't connect that often... I find it

/Volumes/SomePlace-1 ----Why?

2007-02-07 Thread Roger . E . Eller
We have run into a scripting issue when a volume has been ejected or unmounted, then re-mounted in Mac OS X. The re-mounted volume name path will have a -1 or -2, etc. appended to the end of path. This is problematic for scripting to automatically access files within the volume (using the

Re: Parallels Desktop

2007-02-20 Thread Roger . E . Eller
QEMU is a free alternative virtualization environment. It has less bells whistles than Parallels, but you can't beat the price. It runs XP quite well too. The Mac version has been simply named Q. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/license.html

Re: Parallels Desktop

2007-02-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Chip Walters wrote: With the new Coherence option, you can actually use both Mac and PC simultaneously, as their application windows can share the same desktop. Actually, they just make the Win desktop transparent. Try layering Win and Mac application windows and you will see that you can't

Re: Filling Combo Box from Database

2007-02-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Dave Ingledew wrote: So far so good but how on earth do I get this data into the ComboBox. set the text of btn myComboBox to This cr That cr The Other or... If you have your data in a variable already... set the text of btn myComboBox to tRecords Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Parallels Desktop

2007-02-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 22 Feb 2007, at 6:35 AM, Adrian Williams wrote: Roger, I'm having problems downloading from the link you supplied... It worked for me. Maybe the list wrapped the url. Try the link below, then click link to NTFS-3G 20070116-r4.dmg. http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/ntfs-3g/ Roger

Re: XP and Vista question

2007-03-02 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 03/02/2007 at 1:28 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it's kind of worse than that. Microsoft does not allow any of the Basic or Home versions to be used in virtualilzed environments. You need to purchase the Business or Ultimate version to allow for that (BTW, they're getting

Re: AW: How to create PDF files?

2007-03-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, I am too interested in creating pdfs on Win and Mac. I didn't find any link to quartum in google. Can anyone provide a link? Someone posted to just use the print dialog on mac. Is a pdf printer standard on mac? On win it is not. Thank you Tiemo On win it is

Re: Print to PDF on Win?

2007-03-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Richard, there is a free one called pdf995 which is hosted at pdf995, I've used once some years ago and it worked for me. Cheers andre On Mar 5, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which freeware solution would you recommend for printing to PDF from Windows? I have a lot

Re: [ANN] Major Windows DST Bug

2007-03-12 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 3/12/2007 at --WHO KNOWS WHEN?--, Ken Ray wrote: Sarah Reichelt posted a fix that can be used in the [meantime]... I know this is a serious bug, but your wording in the sentence above just made me chuckle. silliness off Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Implications of limited wash to flash drives

2007-03-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
The 2Gig drives are now $49 at CompUSA - two different companies. It's fast enough to write 44.1k stereo audio in real time. You can even get an 8Gig drive for $79 at TigerDirect.com. It comes with excellent backup software for PC. This is not a U3 drive, so you don't have to use the included

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-20 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I used to be pretty huge on Debian-based Linspire as the best Linux flavor for complete technophobes/newbies. Then I learned that Linspire just partnered with Ubuntu to share technologies. The Linspire operating system will transition to using Ubuntu as their baseline. Linspire will do

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-20 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 03/20/2007 at 03:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have Ubuntu installed under Parallels, and until I run Rev it's pretty great. Then I run Rev, and the whole system stops accepting input, both keyboard and mouse. Jacque tells me she has the same issue. Anyone else see this? Know of

Re: Using Shell to copy files

2007-04-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 04/04/2007 at 09:04 AM, Nic Prioleau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I have found the problem but not the solution... Perhaps you may have an idea... The server from which I am copying is asking for a username password to gain access. Is there a way to pass the username and password?

Re: Using Shell to copy files

2007-04-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Nic, Here are some ideas: Try opening a folder using the tip posted at sonsothunder.com. It will prompt the user you for a username/pass combo and you should be good to go. Also, check out the function shortFilePath() I just tried the sonsothunder.com tip and found that it works fine if

Re: Assigning IP addresses . . .

2007-05-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what was plugged in at the far end. Expensive, but cool idea... http://www.bb-elec.com/product.asp?SKU=ANYWHEREUSB/5 Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Script Limits in 2.8.0 [was Spreadsheet]

2007-05-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 05/13/2007 at 10:16 AM Viktoras Didziulis wrote: It is likely to prevent somebody using Revolution studio to create a competing RAD environment. Unfortunately this also prevents from implementing any kind of scripting, or complex formula translations which would not compete with the RAD in

Re: Script Limits in 2.8.0 [was Spreadsheet]

2007-05-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 05/13/2007 at 11:37 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Shouldn't this limitation be obsoleted? I had read once that RunTime had no fear of a competing IDE, and in fact, they encourage it. It was explained that a license to the engine is still required, so RunTime would still benefit from sales. This

Re: Script Limits in 2.8.0 [was Spreadsheet]

2007-05-13 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Roger.E.Eller wrote: Certain application types need this flexibility such as AI. My preference would be either the removal of the limitation completely or to expand it to 25 lines (or more). It would still be limiting enough to prevent mischievous persons from stealing RRs business, yet broad

Re: Connect to SQL Server via ODBC on Mac?

2007-05-14 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I haven't tried accessing MS-SQL from Rev since 2.6.x, but it worked after installing the Actual driver. It costs only $29.95 and worked quite well. You can try it for free, but it will only return 3 lines from a query until you acquire a license. http://www.actualtechnologies.com/ Roger Eller

Re: Connect to SQL Server via ODBC on Mac?

2007-05-15 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Ben Rubinstein wrote: Your suggestion inspired me to downlaod and try the current Actual drivers. Unfortunately, after installing this, the Actual driver doesn't work at all (even just in the ODBC Administrator) - and the installation seems to have trashed my OpenLink setup! Aaargh. But

Obtaining the hardware MacAddress ON WINDOWS

2007-05-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
When you have Parallels or VMware installed on a Windows box, it created multiple virtual NICs. Each one has its own MacAddress. I want to determine the MacAddress of the REAL hosts NIC? It isn't in the registry, so how can this be achieved? I have tried the following, but it returns all 4 NICs,

Re: Obtaining the hardware MacAddress ON WINDOWS

2007-05-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Ian Wood wrote: Is the MAC address of the real hardware actually *visible* to the Windows install? I thought Parallels virtualised all network connections to the enclosed OS. Ian I need to determine the REAL MacAddress, NOT from within the enclosed guest OS. Parallels is installed, but not

Re: Browser Sampler: Crashing on 2.8.1 in the IDE

2007-05-18 Thread Roger . E . Eller
It loads ok, but then crashes: It renders the page and then a couple of seconds later boom! Cheers, Luis. On Windows XP, the page begins to load, but then presents an error dialog that says there is a problem executing scripts on this page, then it loads and looks normal. Probably just

Re: Browser Sampler: Crashing on 2.8.1 in the IDE

2007-05-18 Thread Roger . E . Eller
It loads ok, but then crashes: It renders the page and then a couple of seconds later boom! Cheers, Luis. On Windows XP, the page begins to load, but then presents an error dialog that says there is a problem executing scripts on this page, then it loads and looks normal. Probably just

Re: Obtaining the hardware MacAddress ON WINDOWS

2007-05-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
How about the tip: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env001.htm Does that work for you? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. It appears to be a good all xplatform script, however the Windows part suffers from the same problem that my script does. put shell(ipconfig

Re: How to find amazing stuff (was: Re: Where do I find Trevors Enhanced QT Externals?)

2007-05-23 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Tiemo and all, It seems like many of us do not know the Rev Search engine (Rev 2.7 or later) you can access by clicking on the last tab in Rev help. And I don't say that only because I wrote it ;-) The new Rev Search engine is nice, but like Rev Online and Rev Net, it

Re: How to find amazing stuff (was: Re: Where do I find Trevors Enhanced QT Externals?)

2007-05-23 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Andre Garzia wrote: it could be proxy support. Maybe it's not a firewall issue but his corporate network uses proxies and he hasn't setup one with Rev. But my proxy prefs are set. oops... forget about that... I just saw the part about login. if you login from the web browser, can you use

Re: Filling in PDF forms

2007-05-25 Thread Roger . E . Eller
David wrote: I've had a quick search regarding the ability to auto fill in PDF forms - that is not creating PDF's from databases - but lets say you have an existing PDF that you need to fill out many many times from your data - software that does this for you. Rob Cozens wrote: FWIW, the US IRS

Re: revSpeak with 2.8.1

2007-05-29 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Jim Sims wrote: Does anyone have a Rev 2.8.1 WIndows standalone that does revSpeak? Maybe this is a new bug? Jim Sims I copied and pasted your simple revSpeak Hello World into a button. I then built a standalone with 2.8.1. It works on my machine (WinXP SP2). Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free size of different volume?

2007-05-29 Thread Roger . E . Eller
First, Scott Kane wrote: on mouseUp put the defaultFolder into tDir set the defaultfolder to /Volumes/util/ Then, Richard Gaskin wrote: It's working here for 2.70 on XP SP 2. I specify D:/Downloads and get the correct free space in bytes for the drive. Indeed it does. So this issue

Re: rev onLine down?

2008-03-30 Thread Roger . E . Eller
If they will be working on a RevOnline bug anyway, can they also give this one some attention? http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1962 Bug 1962 is about RevOnline, but also the Check for Updates fails for the same reason. --- Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.9 - Pasting from Excel

2008-03-30 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Does this work using Open Office in Linux? I would try it but I don't have the link to download RC4. Appears to be a problem on Windows only. AND it works for me as well in Leopard .2 and 2.9.0 rc 4 and Excel X for mac service release 1 (2001) Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Card to PDF file

2008-06-18 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Tom, I use the freeware CutePDF writer as a virtual printer driver. Make sure to click both the Free Download and the Free Converter and install both. It uses Ghostscript as the engine, and makes very nice PDFs from Revolution cards. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Hi All,

Re: screen keyboard

2008-06-19 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Richmond, I haven't had a chance to try this, but supposedly with the new support for vbscript and other languages in 2.9, I would think you could execute a vbscript to send a keypress. How to move the focus to another app like Word, etc. I do not know. The 2 line mini script below is pure VB. It

Re: EeePC follow-up: working with Rev

2008-08-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Hi Chipp, I too have an EeePC (the 1000h w/10 screen). I absolutely love it The first thing I did was install Ubuntu (special version modified for tiny screens). I can boot into XP home or Ubuntu Hardy in less than a minute. I have Rev installed in both OS's. The greatest thing I added was

Re: Parallels

2008-09-02 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Alex Tweedly wrote: Or, to be completely specific, does Parallels allow a MacBook Pro to run high-performance graphics games, such as World of Warcraft, or Halo III (IV ?) Sarah Reichelt wrote: Bootcamp definitely does allow such things. My kids run all their PC games on an iMac

Re: Re-3: put visible watermark onto a jpg with rev ?

2008-09-05 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i tested it now with answer files under vista to let the user select the jpeg-files, which shall get the watermark. I have choosen 100 files at answer files dialog and the program saves the snapshots successfull. But if i move an other Window e.g.

Re: ANN: Flow Chart Software Project

2008-11-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Having that said, I have two questions. First of all, does anyone know a great name for this programme? I have been thinking about a name since the start of the project, but still have no inspiration. Any ideas? How about RiverFlowPro, or BReasyFlow, thinking of naturally occurring things that

Re: ... distribute in multiple languages?

2008-12-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
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ODBC access (closing connections)

2009-03-19 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:53:27 -0700, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Check out the docs for the revDataFromQuery function which I think will do what you want in a lot less code. I think your script can be condensed to: put revOpenDatabase(ODBC,testdb,,,) into myDB put SELECT Item Id, Item Title from

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