Re: How to make an app accessible for all users on Mac?

2009-04-17 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Tiemo, Another idea: put the app into the folder users/AllUsers (or such like that; in German: Benutzer/ Für alle Benutzer) All Users can start the app from there;. Greetings Richard. -- From: Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de Subject: AW: AW: How to

Polygon geometry - any suggestions?

2008-05-16 Thread R. Hillen
Hello David, I use the following function (sorry, but I forgot, who created it) function ptInPoly p, pts put false into inside put item 1 of p into xt put item 2 of p into yt put item 1 of line 1 of pts into xOld put item 2 of line 1 of pts into yOld repeat with i = 2 to the number

Revolution Reading GPS Data

2008-03-01 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, is there anybody who succeeded in reading data from a gps device into a revolution application? How did you do it? Which device did you use? Thank you. Richard. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

select rectangle area

2008-03-01 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I want to select in an application an rectangle area of an image by dragging the mouse from one edge to another, whereby the selected rectangle is visualized. As I have no idea how to do it, all tips are welcome! May you help? Thank you! Richard.

How to get modificationdate of a file on Internet?

2008-01-07 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want to get the modification date of a file on Internet, say for instance www.richard-hillen.de/gkz_status.txt How can I do that? Thank you, Richard. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Silly HTML mail sender on RevOnline

2007-12-20 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, Andre, sorry, but I coudn´t find your user space. What is your name in RevOnline? Richard. From: Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANN: Silly HTML mail sender on RevOnline Hello Friends, While doing some tests on HTML email sending, I created a silly stack that is able to

OSX - Reading adresscardfiles doesnt work

2007-11-27 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac OS X, RR 2.8.1 I want to read the data in the adresscardfiles; so I tried: on mouseup --set the folder with addresscards put Users/MyUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/ MetaData/ into AdressFolder set the defaultfolder to AdressFolder --List of

put into URL() on windows

2007-11-05 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On OS X I often wrote such like: put aa.txt into myfilename put seconds() into url(file:// myfilename), which worked ok. Standalones for OS X also worked, but a standalone for windows put the result can´t open file. What is wrong? Thank you for your help.

Re: Concatenate mp3-Files on Macintosh

2007-10-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Klaus, Hello Mark, Thank you for your quick response; as the script of Klaus didn´t work at once (you wrote not tested ;-), I now use the One-Line of Mark to concatenate mp3-files in sourceFolder and to store it in targetpath. get shell(cat quote sourceFolder quote *.mp3

Concatenate mp3-Files on Macintosh

2007-10-24 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want to write a tool for Mac OS X, which asks for a folder with some mp3-Files within and after that concatenates them into one file. By googling I found this tip: 1. Place mp3s on Desktop 2. Open terminal and type cd Desktop 3. Type cat *.mp3 giveitaname.mp3 I tried and it

post a file

2007-09-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want to tansfer a local binary file fff.shp to url MyUrl by http-post. Can you explain, how to post a file? I think somewhat like post file fff.shp to URL MyUrl Is that really so simple? Thankx Richard. ___ use-revolution mailing

dragDrop/copyfile problem

2007-09-18 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want to copy some files into a targetFolder by dragging them onto a dragdropArea; so I took a field with the following script: -- on dragEnter set the acceptDrop to true pass dragEnter end dragEnter on dragDrop put /Users/hillen/Desktop/ttt into targetFolder

Re: test if file exists on http-server

2007-09-03 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Andre, Hello Jan, Thank you very much! Richard. Message: 11 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:46:29 +0200 From: R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test if file exists on http-server To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

test if file exists on http-server

2007-09-02 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I have to check some hundred files, if they are available on http- server; as they are big, is there another way than to try to download them? Thank you! Richard. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

set filename in Applescript from RunRev, OSX

2007-05-30 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, in an AS-example of scripting mail.app on Mac OSX I found: ... set theAttachment to choose file ... make new attachement with properties {file:theAttachment} at after the last paragraph ... I want to choose the file in a Revolution-Script and use the choosen FilePath in the

OSAX: Scripting Additions OSX

2007-05-27 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, there are AppleScript scripting-additions called OSAX, XMAIL.osax for instance; is it possible to use OSAXes from Revolution on OSX (and how)? Thank you for your help. Richard ___ use-revolution mailing list

Umlaute in revmail - OSX, mail.app

2007-05-18 Thread R . Hillen
Hello list, 1) if p = schoen, the following statement will work: revmail [EMAIL PROTECTED],,p,textbody will work; if p = schön (german umlaut for oe), no new mail appears. 2) if p = test and ttext = hello, dear friends, revmail [EMAIL PROTECTED],,p,ttext works, if ttext = hällo, liebe

Print Word-docs to pdf on OS X by revolution (and applescript?)

2007-03-27 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I have a lot of word-files (with Footnotes), which I want to print to pdf on Mac OS X using the button in OSX-Print-Dialog. Can you tell me how to do? How to do it in Applescript? BTW: I learned with your help to use the shell command to convert doc to pdf, but that doesn´t work

Email Encode / SMTP

2007-02-07 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, As i want to send same email programmatically, I´m looking now for Shao Seans Email Encode 2.5.2 and SMTP 2.5.3. I looked for both Programs on Shao Sean´s website; there they are offline and not downlodable. Can you give me some tips, how to get them? Thank you.

html to pure text

2007-01-21 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I suspect, there is a very simple solution, which I dont´t find: How to transcode amp; to or szlig; to ß? Thank you in advance, Richard.___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

how to adress a users folder on Mac OSX

2007-01-18 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, what should I write to get a list of files in the library of the actual user? somewhat like: put files(/Users/???/Library) into FileList ? Thank you for your help Richard. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Decode xml-data of mac-adressbook

2007-01-11 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, on Mac OSX I try to get the contents of the adressbook; for each adress there is a xml-file in /Users//Library/Caches/ com.apple.AdressBook/Metadata. The xml-file starts with ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? My adresses are german ones, so there are umlauts like äöü... If in

applescript: print rtf to pdf etc.

2006-11-18 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac OSX I want to print some rtf-Files bfrom runrev. I assume, that is a job for applescript. As I don't know about apple-scripting: May someone tell me, how to open the file xxx.rtf by MS-Word (or another suitable application) and print it to xxx.pdf? And if I may have a

How to get the free capacity of a windows volume

2006-06-28 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I have to build a filecopy-script for Windows (XP) and would like to know, if there is enough place on the target disk, lets say, on E: May you tell me, how to get the free capacity of a drive? Thanx in advance. Richard. ___

Re: revMail, OSX 10.4.4 and Umlaute

2006-01-17 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Sarah, Dave and Thiery, Am 17.01.2006 um 17:11 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Message: 10 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:58:33 +0100 From: R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: revMail, OSX 10.4.4 and Umlaute To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text

revMail, OSX 10.4.4 and Umlaute

2006-01-16 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, On OSX 10.4.4 I´m using revMail to send some Data using the Mac-Mail- Programm.. After upgrading to 10.4.4. this doesn´t work. I found the cause was a german Umlaut in the text of the subject. revmail [EMAIL PROTECTED],Hier Ausfüllen,Text of Mail doesn´t work, but revmail [EMAIL

No background in painted rect

2005-12-01 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Xavier, hello Ken, thank you for your help. Message: 3 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:55:30 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No background in painted rect Hi Richard you need to set the opaque of the polygon to true... To find more about paint, there's always the rev

No backgroundcolor

2005-11-28 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I wanted to make a green rect with a red edge, so I wrote create invisible graphic set the style of it to rectangle set the rect of it to 20,20,50,50 set the foregroundcolor of it to 255,0,0 --RGB_Color set the backgroundcolor of it to 0,255,0

Re: foundline() and linedelimeters other than return

2005-04-18 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I wrote: on mouseUp set the itemdelimiter to | set the linedelimiter to \ put a linedelimiter into field haha put b linedelimiter after field haha find b in field haha answer the number of lines of field haha return the foundline end mouseUp This Script return 2 lines with

Re: audio -- some MIDI / Quicktime resources in Revolution

2005-03-01 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Xavier, May I give a little correction: The value of KHz gives (the number of samples per second)/1000, as Hertz (Hz) means the number of samples per second and 1 KHz means 1000 Samples per second. Richard. Message: 6 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:18:23 +0100 From: MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 103

2005-02-01 Thread R. Hillen
Hello Frank, I would guess that you are using OSX 10.3.7; right? That could explain your DNS-Problem, as Apple has changed its DNS-calls. So If I start Apple Mail, I have to wait 50 seconds. Apple told, that it is a bug, so wait for 10.3.8 or return to 10.3.6. Hope it explains. Richard.

Error in Standalone-Builder

2005-01-18 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, some time ago (Revolution 2.1) a built a little database using the splash-stack-method and compiled it successfull for Mac OS9, OSX, Windows. Now I got Revolution 2.5 Studio, changed this and that in my database-stacks and tried to compile it again. The compilation-process starts

revMail NewLine Error with Mac OS 9?

2004-05-23 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, With RunRev 2.1.2, OSX I tried to use the RevMail-Command: on mouseup put line1 return line2 into MessageBody RevMail [EMAIL PROTECTED],,Test,MessageBody end mouseup I made Standalones for Mac OSX and Mac OS PPC. The Standalone works fine on Max OSX 10.3.3; But

wrong cursor-icon, unchangable

2004-03-30 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I used RunRev 2.1.2 over a long time on Mac Powerbook OSX 10.3.2, 10.3.3. (Classic enabled) 3 days ago I upgraded to 10.3.3, 1 day ago I installed RunRev 2.2RC2. Some hours ago I was programming a litte stack, when the arrow cursor changed to an icon, I know since a long time from

DataStack in Mixed Environment

2004-03-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Working in a mixed environment of Mac- and Win-Users, I use the splash-screen-method (with engine in the splash-screen) and separate stack as data-stack. With distribution builder (2.1.2) I make a version for windows (win_splash.exe and win_data.rev in a separate datafolder) and a

get mail from pop3

2004-01-20 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Some days ago I read about Shao Seans new libSmtp and libEmail, so I wanted to try it out. But my ISP wants me to first get mail from my account (with username, pssword) before I can send mail. So my question: How can I get Mail from a pop3-server with RunRev? Thanx for your help.

print break -bug or feature?

2004-01-02 Thread R. Hillen
Hello listees, I made a printstack to print Adress-Labels (8 x 5 cm) on paper 20 X 30 cm. After having printed all cds with names beginning with A (say cd1...cd4) I wanted to start a new page for labels with names beginning with B (cd5...cd6) and so on. So I wrote: open printing with dialog

stack with german umlaute in filename gets not saved

2003-11-26 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, on Mac OSX 10.2.8, RunRev 2.1.2 I made a simple stack with a mainstack as a splash-screen and a substack as a datastack with some datafields. In the DataStack there is a Save-Button: on mouseup save this stack if the result is not empty then answer the result end mouseup If I build

put into - and get from URL fails in Windows-Standalone

2003-11-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, With Mac OSX, 10.2.8, RunRev 2.1.2, Virtual PC 6.1 with Windows 98, SE I tried: If I write to a file or read from a file a la hypercard with open file, write to file, close file or read from file with open file, read from file, close file, my OSX and Windows Stanalones work. If I

About from the OSX-Menu

2003-11-23 Thread R. Hillen
RunRev-Standalones all have a File-Menu with About. Somebody knows, how to intercept choosing the About-Menu? (I tried menupick, but it failed.) Thanx in advance Richard Hillen ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Quit from the OSX-dock

2003-11-23 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, if I start a RunRev-standalone on OSX, it appears as an icon in the dock and can be quitted from there. Somebody knows, which message is sent, if I use the dock to quit the standalone, so that I can do the final things (like save changed data) before the application quits? (I

RevPrintReport - with dialog?

2003-11-19 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Finally i succeeded in using the report-builder to make a report for my data-stack and printing it by a handler; (The trick was, that the report stack must be visible in the foreground, if you send RevPrintReport from the datastack.) Before printing I do a page-setup with answer

Duplicate Substack

2003-11-17 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want some slightly different substacks; to save work, I would like to duplicate one substack and to modify it afterwards. How can I do that? Thanx in advance Richard Hillen. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Print a Report

2003-11-17 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, with the help of the report-builder I made a report. Now I want to print it by a handler. I tried: on mouseup open stack MyReport hide stack MyReport answer printer if it is cancel then exit to top -- Cancel doesn´t work, why? send RevPrintReport to stack MyReport end

Mac OSX - use Message from about

2003-11-13 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac OSX, RunRev 2.1.2 until now I didn´t build and use menus in my Rev-standalones. But now I want to use the About-Menu to start my help stack in my Application. Is there somebody, who may give me some hints? Thanx in advance. Richard Hillen.

Problems with report-printing

2003-11-13 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Last week I transferred my Hypercard Adressbook successfull to RunRev (Mac OSX, 10.2.8, Rev. 2.1.2). Totay I tried to script the printJob. I read the helpful Mail of Jan Schenkel about using the report-builder and studied the docs. I made a report with some fields, linked to my

bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2 - Should it be a bug? May you help? Richard.

Re: bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread R. Hillen
--- R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2 - Should it be a bug

Save this stack fails - the solution

2003-10-23 Thread R. Hillen
nonsense; they belonged to another problem. Graham Samuel asked: Can R Hillen tell us what the OSX standalone looks like when he looks at it on his Mac via Dave - is it a folder, or what? It´s a folder, that´s right! Richard Hillen. ___ use-revolution

Save this stack fails

2003-10-22 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac OSX, RR 2.1 there is a simple stack: one button with the script: on mouseup save this stack if the result is not empty then answer the result with ok else answer saved! with ok end mouseup If I run that script under the developer-environment with the stack on my

name of opening stack

2003-10-21 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, There is a stack1a and a stack 1b; both are able to open a stack2. How may stack2 get the name of the stack, which opened it? Any Ideas? Thany a lot! Richard Hillen. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

closefield-message lost

2003-10-20 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, in my current projekt there are two questions (Mac OSX, RR 2.1): 1) To save changed data in a stack, there is a ToBeSaved-Flag, which gets set, if the contents of a field is changed. Therefore each field has a closefield-handler, which sets the ToBeSaved-Flag. My problem: If I

repeated send-comands

2003-09-22 Thread R. Hillen
Hello List, I want to display some pictures, one after another (somewhat like a dia-show) and to be able to stop the show at any time by pressing a button. The pictures are very big, so loading from CD and scaling takes some time too. With T1 = Intervall between to pictures it should be

Hide minimizeBox - bug?

2003-08-31 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Using Mac OSX 10.2.6, Rev 2.1 I wrote: on preopenstack set the decorations of this stack to default set the minimizeBox of this stack to false end preopenstack I built standalones for Mac OSX and windows. On OSX it worked as expected; the MinimizeBox became white and was

A Rev-Database used from different OSes

2003-08-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I´m working with my co-workers in a mixed environment: Windows, OS9, OSX In former times (before Rev 2.0) I built some little databases using a splash screen as mainstack and a database in a substack. Building the standalones for Mac OS, Windows and OSX I crossed in the

News from Mac OSX - Mysterious Serial Port

2003-08-21 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, some time ago I asked this or that re Mac OSX Serial Port. Sarah and others sent usefull tips, thank you all. Now I want to tell about what happened: On my Mac G4 I use the GPort from GriffinTechnologies, which replaces the build in modem. On Griffins website I found a driver for

Re: Missing Color in StandAlones

2003-07-31 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I followed Thiery Arbellot: When you build the distribution, have you uncheck the check box apply default Colors (step 3 of 3, tab Stacks) ? and unchecked the check box. Now my Stack is colored. thanx to all for quick help. Richard Hillen

Missing Color in StandAlones

2003-07-30 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On MacOS X 10.2.6 with Rev 2.0.2 just after downloading I didn´t succed in building a colored standAlone. This are my steps: 1. step Start Revolution File / New Mainstack Object/Stack Inspector/Colors Patterns/Background-Color = Blue/ Close Inspector Window - stack Color becomes

Background color of stack

2003-07-24 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, with RunRev 2.0.1, Mac OSX 10.2.6 : whatever backgroundcolor I choose in the stack properties, it becomes white in the standalone-version. What shall I do? And b.t.w: Does someone using a registered version succeed in getting version 2.0.2? How to? Thanx in advance Richard

Scrolling Image-window

2003-07-13 Thread R. Hillen
Hello List, first I would like to thank all people, who helped me to get snapshots of my movies, scale them and put them into a database-stack. Now here is another problem: I have some very large Images (4000x4000 pix) (maps of noise in Germany), which I want to show without scaling in a

Import Snapshot from MoviePlayer doesnt work?

2003-06-29 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I want to get the first image of a movie. As Chipp Walters suggested, I tried to do a Import snapshot from the rect of player ... But I got an image of the movieplayer with a white plane; no Movie ;-(. May you help again? And a second question: The Import Snapshot-command

How to Get First Image of a Movie (.mov)

2003-06-26 Thread R. Hillen
Hello List, I want to make a inventory over a lot of little movie-snippets. From Users Point of view - he drags a movie-snippet onto a card, - the card script calculates the URL of the movie and puts it into a field, - a script gets the first image of the movie and puts it into an

Re: Re: Read From locked files under WinNT

2003-03-11 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, Richard I opened, but not opened for read. That was the fault. Thank you! Richard Hillen. Message: 5 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:08:27 -0800 Subject: Re: Read From locked files under WinNT From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R. Hillen

Read From locked files under WinNT

2003-03-10 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, I wrote a minimal program to read textfiles: answer file, open file, read from file, put it into fld xxx, close file and made a standalone for Windows using RunRev 1.1.1 on MacOSX. On two WindowsComputer (WinNT, Win2000) I had a simple TextFile to test it and it all was ok: the data