Re: me vs. this?

On Aug 7, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: There's a logical this group, field, etc., when one is selected, clicked . . . So this makes sense in any piece of code that is in, or was called by a handler. V. ___ use-revolution

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

On May 24, 2005, at 3:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't the Gnu Scientific Library have this stuff? No. While the GSL includes an admirably wide range of functions (and I may steal some of their algorithms...), every last one of them is of strictly *finite* precision, i.e. it's only

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

On May 24, 2005, at 5:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started to work on a suite of handlers for infinite-precision calculations. Wouldn't it be easier to interface to an existing bigint library? Doesn't the Gnu Scientific Library have this stuff? V.

Re: To Rev or not to Rev

On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Derek Bump wrote: What programming language is not object oriented? Everything is an object. Object-oriented refers to programmatic objects. Classes, inheritance, polymorphism. RR has very little of that. V. -- Victor Eijkhout Innovative Computing Lab, University

Re: [ANN] Reminder - online scripting conferences

On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: 11.30am EST (3.30pm GMT) I thought EST was GMT-5. V. -- Victor Eijkhout Innovative Computing Lab, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 865 974 9308 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

RE: Looking for kind soul...

The seem to have jumped .7 10.2.7 was a release that only shipped with the first G5s. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Best way to set up an idle timer

the machine wakes up, the sleep period is not counted in the specified interval. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Best way to set up an idle timer

to wake me up. And it was coded in Real Basic. Oo them's fightin' words :-) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

RR binary formats (Re: Reading MP3 tags

. Naively I thought that RR wouldn't be able to handle binary data. Maybe it could. Anyone any thoughts? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: [ANN] News Reader Stack Available

this project started me thinking about the development of specialized Web browsers or MiniBrowsers whose goal is to access and display publicly available HTML in focused and unique ways. Hm... Sherlock? Watson? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996

Re: standalone has plainly readable transcript

.) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Re: Consonants (was How to open Richmond's bits of fluff....)

a guy like me who has negative language aptitude for language. QED :-) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: standalone has plainly readable transcript

I should have made the connection Any time you say that, it really indicates a deficiency in the manual. As a manual writer myself, I don't approve of the you can't say it wasn't there style of technical writing. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN

Re: Books on RunRev

reference. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED], 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, Knoxville TN 37996. tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Is there a way to interrupt a stack?

command + period? I thought that didn't work, but that was because I couldn't get one in between two answer dialogs. In the end that did it, though. So you can not break out of an answer dialog, it seems. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296

Is there a way to interrupt a stack?

I'm running a stack inthe development environment, and it's stuck in an endless loop. Is there a way of stopping it? To make this fun, it's popping up an endless stream of answer dialogs, so I don't have much of an opportunity of interrupting it. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865

I don't understand error messages

Value: is_exit This seems to claim that there is an error in a commented line?! -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Matrix inversion

of any macroscopic size, you'd better figure out how to interface RR to a fortran or c object file. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Rev math

or computational computer science. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

RE: If this is a feature, it's a nasty one.

, or a variable or parameter having a property name as value. Agree? Or does this follow from some statement in the manual that I haven't found yet? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

RE: If this is a feature, it's a nasty one.

that needs to be pointed out explicitly, because the obvious possibilities are 1/ only the actual name is allowed 2/ any expression giving a name. I don't understand at all why here only a name or a variable is allowed. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H

Bug or feature? or: Don't I love the mechanics of expansion

in the above definition.) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Launch Command

it is, the other two of course won't work. If it's a name with a space, just for the heck of it try escaping the space: Macintosh\ HD. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

At 0:50 -0800 2003/03/10, Jan Schenkel wrote: Why not just use the 'value' function ? That's what the sons of thunder suggested. It works for me. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Can I call a function that is in a different script?

-- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Can I call a function that is in a different script?

to search through the development guide.) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

How do I measure character width?

how do I measure the width of a string such as A so that I can set the text height to that? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list

Can I wake a sleeping Mac?

computer? I know that it is possible in principle, because Apple's software can do it, and I've seen RealBasic programs that did it. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Card Size

in default 800x600 resolution, and I couldn't hit the OK button on the installer because it was not on my screen. In other words: my vote is for 800x600. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Re: Nasty script stays disobedient

, Geoff Canyon wrote: send choose browse tool to me in 1 tick Should I spank it? If so, how and where? Yes, hard and op de bloote kunt ;-) Ahem. s/u/o/ if you please. -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

How can I foreground an app?

to become foremost? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Is there a traceback?

(I may have asked this before, but don't remember seeing an answer) Is there a way to get a list of through what handler calls did I get here if I run into an error? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout

Can I edit button scripts in browse mode?

, click a button, blah blah. (And the list of button c scripts does not list the stack scripts. Why?) I would like to edit button scripts in browse mode without having to click 500 objects. Is that possible? If not, is there a reason for this? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308

Can I get the stack window over the error/properties windows?

A simple click in the title bar doesn't do the trick. (OSX, in case it matters) -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

create command jumps from run to edit mode

? -- Victor Eijkhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution