On Jul 22, 2006, at 12:37 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
James Spencer wrote:
Does anyone know of an easy way to include a combo box in a
background but permitting each card to have a different value. I
can simulate it a couple different ways, e.g. storing a custom
property with the card
Maybe there's no easy way to do this but it surprised me a bit: I
would like to have a combobox in a background group with what would
be its sharedText property set to false, assuming it had a sharedText
property. Being a button, it of course does not so I hoped its
sharedHilite property
On Jul 2, 2006, at 9:22 PM, GregSmith wrote:
Though I've only been reading this forum for a short time, I've now
got the
definite impression that the Revolution environment is for
developers -
hard core developers . . . well, programmers - hard core
programmers . .
. not weak,
I'm trying to try out the demo Valentina external without success so
far. Attempts to initialize with:
get Valentina_Init( 10 * 1024 * 1024 )
fails with a syntax error, I assume because the external is not being
seen by Rev. I've set my stack's exteral property to:
On Jul 1, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:22 AM, James Spencer wrote:
I'm trying to try out the demo Valentina external without success
so far. Attempts to initialize with:
get Valentina_Init( 10 * 1024 * 1024 )
fails with a syntax error, I assume because
On Jun 20, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Every time I send a message to the use-rev list, I get an email
such as the one below. It's from a list member who hasn't had the
good grace to set up his spam filters to accept mail from the list
that he (or she) joined. Seems to me it's
On Jun 10, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Byron Turner wrote:
The current version of a stack crashes rev as do the last 2
versions of the stack. Versions 3 generations ago are fine. It
probably would only take me half a day to recreate what was lost,
but I'd sure like to avoid that. Is there some
, the topLeft of the clone will be offset 32 pixels
from the topLeft of the defaultStack. I don't think you can stop
that from happening.
HTH -
Phil Davis
James Spencer wrote:
This is a curiosity question. OS X 10.4.6 and Rev 2.7.1. My
application contains a substack which I clone
This is a curiosity question. OS X 10.4.6 and Rev 2.7.1. My
application contains a substack which I clone as needed for a
multiple windows. I had thought a cloned stack inherited all of the
properties of the original (other than it's name) but for some
reason, the location of my cloned
Or even easier, click the Messages button up in the toolbar before
opening the stack and then click it again once it is open.
James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Badges?? We don't need no stinkin badges!
On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:49 PM, Jim Ault wrote:
On 4/14/06 9:23 PM,
Richard and Jim thank you both. It was because I was well aware that
there were these exceptions not listed and because it is not a
trivial task that I asked my question. A sick part of me is glad to
see I have not missed some obviously, and trivially easy solution.
Now off to code a
This should be really easy and I don't want to rediscover gravity so
I'll ask first: does anyone here have a simple algorithm for
staggering new windows in a multiwindow app? I've gotten spoiled by
Cocoa, etc. which takes care of this for me but cloning a template
window in Rev does not.
On Apr 8, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Has anyone studied out carefully the issue of shipping Rev stacks
to countries on the US state department embargo list? These being
currently (found in many typical EULA's)
Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, military or
On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote:
In Constellation's var watcher I fastidiously check each temp var
and global to see if they have keys...if they do, then they are
shown as arrays with keys, etc. I neglected to do this with params!
I'll get this fixed tomorrow and put the
On Apr 1, 2006, at 3:25 AM, David Burgun wrote:
There's really no need to copy it entry by entry, you can just copy
the whole array as in:
put LibGetArray() into myArray1
put LibAnotherFunction(myArray1) into myArray2 --Here you could
put it back into Array1
I do this all the time.
On Mar 30, 2006, at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
James Spencer wrote:
My problem is that while the debugger shows tArray in my mouseUp
handler to be valid and shows it to have been correctly modified,
when I step into the library code for LibUseDifferentArray, it
shows pArray
On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
If all else fails, you can always declare a local script variable
to hold the array and then just use that. No passing of anything
required. Or you could try passing the variable by reference (add
an @ sign in front of the parameter)
On Mar 30, 2006, at 10:00 AM, David Burgun wrote:
Hi.
Depending on how you have coded it, there will be 2 copies of the
array, e.g.
if you do this in the library:
local sgLibArray
function LibGetArray
return sgLibArray
end LibGetArray
function LibChangeArray theArray,theKey,theData
Can anyone confirm this problem. I'm getting an array from a
function in a library. I modify that array and then pass it to a
handler also in the library. The debugger is showing that the
modified array is valid and contains what it should but the parameter
in the library is shown as
On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Graham Samuel wrote:
Yup, that's what I've always done in the past: I just thought
constant declarations might help,
Custom properties can act like global constants.
This may be true but it strikes me as an expensive means of
On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
I think the point is that when a variable is passed to a function/
handler 'normally', the data in it is duplicated, and if the data
is big, this is not as efficient as passing it by reference -
obviously, if you need to change the data in the
On Mar 18, 2006, at 9:39 PM, John Tregea wrote:
Hi,
Just a question regarding the form many of you use for naming
variables. I see a lot of variable names starting with 't' and
wondered what it indicates. I use 'g' as a prefix for my global
variables but that is all.
John (Ready to
On Mar 17, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I agree. There is a very small list of handlers where I usually have a
pass: openStack, preOpenStack, openCard, preOpenCard. Apart from that
I almost never use pass, so I would prefer it if Constellation left
it out and I added it manually
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every
single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have
admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk
(which I actually think got it right)
On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Klaus Major wrote:
Buongiorno Paul,
Someone knows if the new Rev. 1.7 give some new chance to create
a system
menu on Mac Os X (the menus visible by all applications, as
MenuCalendarClock, MenuMeters, iKey, etc.)?
sorry, I'm afraid that
On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As already said, Rev does not provide such facilities so this is
getting off-topic but the info here is not really correct. While
it is true that there is no Apple sanctioned API for specifically
Menu Bar Extras as referred to in the HIG
On Feb 19, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Glenn E. Fisher wrote:
As a historical note, (I'm a very old programmer since 1962) back
when I was writing compilers and emulators in B and C in the line
editing mode ;-), the switch case statements were really needed.
In these kinds of programs many many
On Feb 19, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Scott-
Saturday, February 18, 2006, 9:05:32 PM, you wrote:
As one of the folks who has gone back to 2.6.1, I'd say there's no
problem with using 2.7. The things that bother me about the new
release revolve around the inability to use the
On Feb 12, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Ken Apthorpe wrote:
However, it would resolve one uncertainty for me
if someone could say whether I have enough RAM to run it (and Finder).
Previously:
Mac is a G4 400 with 448MB RAM, OS 10.3.8
Jacque has been directly trying to assist in your problems but
On Feb 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Girard Damien wrote:
I am making some useful library for my softwares, and I have got
one problem.
How I return an error ?
Because when I use return, this doesn't work very great.
on hellotest theNumber
if isnumber(theNumber) is false then
return error
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Mathewson wrote:
Recently I had an interesting correspondence with a lawyer
in the US stimulated by my earlier posting re Apple and
Hypercard.
The reasons behind my previous posting were:
...
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
This is off-topic and massively
I suspect that the tooltip is not only not terribly helpful but is
also a typo and should be CFBundleIdentifier which is used by the
preferences system. From Apple's documentation:
This key specifies a unique identifier string for the bundle. This
identifier should be in the form of a
On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote:
Just asking if Transcript, which has been made English-like in the
first instance (the setting of the property by using the verb hide)
can be extended to be English-like in the second instance (accessing
the state of the property by using
On Nov 13, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Bob Hartley wrote:
Hi All.
i have tmalign in the gadgets folder but refreshing the gadgetbar
to the
gadgets folder does not show tmal;igh in the gadgetbar grouping.
Anyone know the problem. I'm on winXP
Because you are on winXP, there may be something else
On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan,
I, for one, think you are being way too kind to the Rev IDE. The
debugger opens at random sizes. Buttons and bits of buttons float
around the script editor. Opening the Variable Watcher opens the
Object Inspector (on top of the
On Oct 9, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
Something I don't understand about the revExecuteSQL command. I
open my MySQL database and get an id. Now, to make later steps more
general purposes, I'd like to ask the database for the structure of
one of its tables (number of columns,
On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Paul Claude wrote:
Anyone have idea about how to use the Apple's CSNotificationCenter (
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/
CFNotifica
tionCenterRef/index.html) to read informations of other
applications from a
Revolution stack?
On Aug 20, 2005, at 1:16 AM, MisterX wrote:
Hi Ken
This seems more like an OS behavior
than a Rev problem doesn't it?
It sure should be made aware for those
developping on PCs hoping to deploy on osx...
...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
On Aug 20, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Ken Ray wrote:
Well, actually it's not as common to do that in Windows apps as in
Mac -
they usually don't have Preferences under the Edit menu; they have
Options under the Tools menu, or if it does have Preferences,
it's not
under the
On Aug 7, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:
Hi all what is the meaning for this error Error description:
recursionLimit: Recursion limit reached
Thans, Hershel
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On Aug 6, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
While I'm not sure this can be characterized as a bug, I'd call it
a surprising feature. And it has a particularly intriguing problem
if you have multiple background groups. In that case, the
background groups live in layers, of course, each
On Aug 6, 2005, at 8:53 PM, TJ Frame wrote:
Hi everyone,
1) If I have the points A and B, how would I determine point C
that lies
along the slope but is X units in length from the origin (which
will always
be point A)
I can find the total distance between A and B or the midpoint
using
On Aug 2, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
In any language I've worked with, you declare a global and it stays
in memory until you delete it or quit the program.
I don't know of any language that deletes globals automatically
based on whether the app closes or opens files from
On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Existing Users should update from the Help menu. The update will be
located in a 'new version' folder for you. (Version 5 Users will
find that all
their existing Entries, settings, preferences and personal plugins
will be
Yea, I think there's something wrong here. Expanding topic's is
similarly slow. I thought we had the documentation problems licked.
Spence
James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Badges?? We don't need no stinkin badges!
On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Michael J. Lew wrote:
I've
On May 2, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
Setting those aside, Rev lacks several characteristics most people
consider inherent to OO. That doesn't make it bad or good,
necessarily.
When this thread started, my reaction was because of these missing
characteristics, I would have said
On Apr 30, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
But that's moot. Nobody's going to do either. Java is good for some
things for which Rev is not suited (mostly apps requiring lots of
interaction with system-level resources and multi-programmer
projects) and Rev is good for some things for
On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 4/29/05 5:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
We're on Daylight Savings Time right now, so everything shifted one
hour. EST right now is -4. This fall, it will be -5 again. At
least, I
think so, because I'm in Central time
On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/15/05 9:16 PM, James Spencer wrote:
I've got a button which, when it is pressed and held, I want to do
some things (brief and repetitive) and then do some other things once
it is released. I've got handlers in the button script
I've got a button which, when it is pressed and held, I want to do some
things (brief and repetitive) and then do some other things once it is
released. I've got handlers in the button script:
on mouseDown
repeat while the mouse is down
-- do stuff repeatedly while
On Nov 20, 2004, at 11:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 11/20/04 3:12 PM, James Spencer wrote:
OK, one last stupid question and I'll have this thing beat. My
button icons are all working fine but what aren't are icons for the
answer dialogs: generally I've called for answer question My
prompt
On Nov 21, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
All the docs and learning materials are a huge improvement. Perhaps
it is
the sheer complexity of the language that makes one feel as if a
mindreader's services are necessary.
I disagree; I regularly write applications with Cocoa using Objective C
On Nov 21, 2004, at 12:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
As you guessed, it appears that the standard RR icons are not copied
over. Interestingly, I haven't been able to get them to copy over
even if I make a button that uses one of them as the icon (I was
going to just use standard RR icons for
I know this question has been asked but in going through the archives,
the only solution I've seen was very general and I didn't really
understand the details. I've got an old project that I've been working
on short of on-and-off since Rev 2.0 or so. I made the mistake of
using Rev's
On Nov 20, 2004, at 11:15 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 11/20/04 10:22 AM, James Spencer wrote:
I know this question has been asked but in going through the
archives, the only solution I've seen was very general and I didn't
really understand the details. I've got an old project that I've
been
On Nov 20, 2004, at 11:15 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 11/20/04 10:22 AM, James Spencer wrote:
I know this question has been asked but in going through the
archives, the only solution I've seen was very general and I didn't
really understand the details. I've got an old project that I've
been
Menus are just plain driving me nuts and I'm hoping someone can at
least explain this behavior with the goal that maybe I can understand
what is happening for future reference.
The particular project at hand uses four stacks, one of which is really
nothing more than a splash screen although it
On Sep 27, 2004, at 5:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 9/27/04 4:39 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
Boy, V2.5 is now starting to act very squirly. I get into a situation
where combo and popup buttons will no longer pop open. Not only the
buttons on my stack, but also the buttons on the property
On Sep 6, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I suggest making a separate sub-stack and MOVING your original menu
group to it, where it can be set to non-Mac style for easy editing. If
you call it Menu1, then in your main stack's preOpenStack handler,
you can say:
set the menuBar of this
On Sep 5, 2004, at 12:38 PM, K wrote:
I am sorry for my Project Builder ignorance I am used to using Code
Warrior (*NIX development) and Visual Studio (Win32 Development). I
seems to be experiencing linking problems with the stanard C/C++
library.
Simple example:
NOTE: This is a C version I
It strikes me that this should be easy but I'm a dolt and can't figure
it out. Nor can I find anything in the documentation (one more voice
in the wilderness: the documentation is great for looking up specific
Transcript elements but stinks for figuring out how to use the
development
On May 1, 2004, at 1:09 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 10:23 PM, David Kwinter wrote:
So who's our physics master? I have experience backtesting
optimizing systems once I've programmed them - but defining the
environment following their specs looks extremely challenging.
On Mar 13, 2004, at 10:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/13/04 2:40 PM, James Spencer wrote:
What I don't get and hope that some kind soul will tell me is:
a) Considering that the data stack is not a substack of the main
stack but rather is a completely separate entity in its own file,
why
On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
I'm cringing at jumping into this thread, because I DO NOT think
RunRev has exactly been guilty of poor support or response to bugs.
HOWEVER, I can't quite agree with the Office OR OS comparisons. Both
are consumer products, not developer
Newbie question just so I can understand what is happening. I'm not
understanding how message passing works or how this works in the
context of substacks.
I've got some old stuff I'm converting to Rev. standalones to run under
OS X and I've been wandering through the example Employee Data
On Dec 5, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I could use a core dump on OS X, but I can't figure out how to
generate one.
Here's what I've been doing:
1. In the terminal: limit coredumpsize unlimited
(compensates for OS X's default value of 0)
2. Launch my app
3. In terminal: kill
On Dec 5, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I could use a core dump on OS X, but I can't figure out how to
generate one.
Here's what I've been doing:
1. In the terminal: limit coredumpsize unlimited
(compensates for OS X's default value of 0)
2. Launch my app
3. In terminal: kill
1) Is there any convenient way to search the archives of this list
other than downloading the entire mess and doing a text search?
2) What I was really looking for: is Menu Builder a one-time only tool.
I.e. can you use Menu Builder to edit a menu bar that you have
previously created or once
On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 09:09 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
1) Yes, and you have two options :
- either via an advanced Google search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com
- or via this search page, courtesy of Mindlube
http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi
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