repeat the db funcs

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
missing some. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

another beginning SQL/Rev question

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
. Using a variable (or several) instead of myArray doesn't help, neither does putting some dummy stuff () into myArray[1], myArray[2], etc., ahead of time. What am I not understanding? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: another beginning SQL/Rev question

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
. But that works only (if I understand correctly) after you've used a select statement. It works on a cursor that's already been returned. I'm trying to get information about the column names numbers before I do a select (in preparation for select). Charles Hartman

Re: another beginning SQL/Rev question

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 9, 2005, at 2:26 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

Re: another beginning SQL/Rev question

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
Hartman On Oct 9, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 9 Oct 2005, at 19:26, 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

Re: repeat the db funcs

2005-10-09 Thread Charles Hartman
a simple solution. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

missing stacks

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Hartman
. This is a moderately dumb thing in Rev (other multi-window apps deal with it OK) that can be more than moderately frustrating and confusing for a newcomer. And me, though I've been doing stuff with Rev for several months. Yes, it's an already reported bug. Charles Hartman

printing bug

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Hartman
, print something on the current printer, then come back. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: missing stacks

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks Eric. That does it. On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Charles, revApplicationOverview and revDocs Le 10 oct. 05 à 18:34, Charles Hartman a écrit : Will someone remind me how to get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] documentation and app- browser stacks back into view? (I

Re: missing stacks

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Hartman
Should have mentioned I'm using OSX. But thanks for put the windows -- I didn't think of that. Charles Hartman On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:49 PM, MisterX wrote: Just type this in the message box put the windows copy the stack's name set the topright of stack paste here to item 3

field as menu?

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Hartman
-button is bad, bad). But a list is a field not a button and has no menu style . . . Somebody pity the poor confused remind me what to do in this situation? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

weird msg-box phenom?

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Hartman
starting up that window again . . . (OS 10.4.2; Dreamcard 2.6.1 but it happened on 2.6 before I upgraded) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Constellation users?

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Hartman
-source guy; but having sprung for Dreamcard, I'm very glad I also sprang for Constellation. It's cleaner, better integrated, and for me somewhat more intuitive than the Rev IDE, which I continue to find very quirky. Charles Hartman ___ use

Re: [OT] Microsoft Office's New UI Blazes Some New Trails for Us

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Hartman
don't have to *think* about the bookkeeping) and half -- the more interesting half -- like synths. IMHO Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Browser Fields

2005-10-13 Thread Charles Hartman
be interested if anybody had code they wanted to share for incremental searches. I can't quite figure out how that's done (efficiently). Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: New date format: YYYY-MM-DD

2005-10-14 Thread Charles Hartman
a built-in date-conversion function, with different standards as arguments controlling the output? It would be *great* to have a smart function like that, that would take the whole range of formats various users might type into a field. (Anybody got one?) Charles Hartman On Oct 14, 2005, at 6:26

Re: New date format: YYYY-MM-DD

2005-10-15 Thread Charles Hartman
Wow -- as in, wow! Charles Hartman On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/14/05 5:53 PM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a built-in date-conversion function, with different standards as arguments controlling the output? It would be *great* to have a smart

spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-16 Thread Charles Hartman
in the msg-box input space again. 2. now I see the same thing happening with editable text fields in my modal dialog box itself -- typing a blank space loses the focus. I don't see anything about this in Rev's Preferences, so I guess that's the wrong place to look. Any clues? Charles Hartman

debugging modal dlg boxes

2005-10-16 Thread Charles Hartman
for debugging modals that I don't know about? Can't find anything in the docs . . . Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks -- no, I didn't see this answer before. (Sorry, whoever answered; intermittent server problems here.) Now that I know: How do I turn that off? Charles Hartman On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:41 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: (I asked a version of this earlier.) While my

Re: debugging modal dlg boxes

2005-10-17 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:47 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: I know this is a dumb question -- but I'm having a hard time debugging a modal dialog box. What am I missing? When the box is full, the Done button processes its data (and sends it off to a MySQL database

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread Charles Hartman
dialog box is modeless. Maybe not all the time, I'm not sure. But while I'm typing in one of the dlg's text fields, I'm getting the same loss-of-focus-on-spacebar. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 17, 2005, at 6:11 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: On Oct 17, 2005, at 1:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Also, the behavior doesn't seem to occur unless you have a modal stack frontmost. If you can change your frontmost stack to modeless during debugging, you should

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
bugs after the fact. Wel . . . of course there *are* programming environments in which that's not so hard. Rev, in contrast, doesn't have (as far as I can tell) even any way to tell how you got to a particular breakpoint line --a stack inspector in the other sense. Charles Hartman

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Wow. I knew that. I forgot that, somewhere about a week after I started using Rev. Thanks. coh On Oct 18, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Charles- Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 4:07:56 AM, you wrote: Wel . . . of course there *are* programming environments in which that's not so

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
a beginner who needs the Docs a lot) I agree that they're very good -- it's just that they are *deathly* slow. Not for a filter with in the Dictionary (though I appreciate the DM gadget for that anyway), but for the Topics. Charles Hartman

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
the impossibly slow part of Rev's docs. (If it's just the dictionary, then the MM xscript gadget does it for me . . .) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Dang, I'd forgotten about that very handy piece of devolution. Now I have to have devolution running, again, too. I need six screens. Charles Hartman On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I can't ell you how many times I've had to use the message box to reposition windows

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the Files section of the MC IDE working group there's a shell a couple of us built which suck up the thousands of tiny Transcript Dictionary files and imports them into a single

Re: Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Hartman
in stack. The address is: http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia. Go to page Tools and Samples for Development. Yes, that is *very* fast indeed. Thanks! And revBrowser looks handy, too -- prospects of bringing it up to date? (The site says it needs it . . .) Charles Hartman

Re: A New and Frustrated User

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Hartman
front-end. Without it, I'd have to switch to Terminal all the time and issue MySQL commands; this is faster and breaks the train of thought a lot less. Thanks! Charles Hartman P.S. I can second what you said about adding on complications when you undertake to make Rev and MySQL work together

Re: Constellation

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Hartman
finally usable.) Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Constellation

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Hartman
) into getting the programs to work together in either case, and since the commercial ones are generally *harder* to combine, the attraction of open-source solutions mounts up pretty quickly. But I think I'm off-topic. Sorry. Charles Hartman On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Chipp Walters wrote

Re: outliners Re: Constellation

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Hartman
Now that is interesting news. Charles Hartman On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Not yet. But the developers and I are meeting next week to discuss that very question. Dan On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote: The AquaMinds site says plug-ins must be Java applets

Re: Phishy Paypal

2005-10-22 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:19 AM, MisterX wrote: I can't tell you how much they do! And they certainly don’t take their customer's problems seriously either! If you mean PayPal -- it's pretty clearly not PayPal sending out all that PayPal phishing spam. Charles Hartman X

Re: Phishy Paypal

2005-10-22 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 22, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Sounds reasonable. Why would PayPal phish its own customers? Weird idea -- or an ultimate perfection of capitalism? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

stack while debugging

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Hartman
, the one I'm looking at, the one whose controls and variables I want to access. So I keep typing stuff into the msg box that gets errors because I'm not noticing it's paying attention to some other stack. Might that be fixable? Charles Hartman

Variable Watcher

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Hartman
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Re: Variable Watcher

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Hartman
to the expected value. But if I don't do that, the value is not live updated in the lower panel. Charles Hartman On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 10/25/05, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --and while I'm complaining: Variable Watcher is handy, and it's nice

Re: Variable Watcher

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm using 2.6.1 on Tiger. Hm. Charles Hartman On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Jim Ault wrote: I used to see this once in a while in pre 2.5.1 on Panther. (2.2.1 probably). Found that relaunching Rev would get it working again. Now on 2.5.1/Panther and all is well. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 10

Re: Variable Watcher

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Hartman
I don't have time to check at this minute -- but I'll take Mark W's message (a little farther down the list) to mean that this has already been BZ'd . . . right? Charles On Oct 25, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 10/25/05, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I have

Re: Variable Watcher

2005-10-25 Thread Charles Hartman
OK, I've posted it: #3204. Charles On Oct 25, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Charles- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 9:14:53 AM, you wrote: I don't have time to check at this minute -- but I'll take Mark W's message (a little farther down the list) to mean that this has already been

step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
breakpoint. In any other debugging environment I've seen, that's not what step means. It means execute the currently-highlighted line and stop. (This is using Constellation, but I assume it's behavior of the underlying debugging engine, not the UI.) Charles Hartman

Re: Deleting an Array Entry

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
the value associated with Key2? I think (I could certainly, easily, probably, be wrong) the only way to eliminate the key itself would be to make a new array and copy the other key/value pairs to it . . . Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Deleting an Array Entry

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
I love it when somebody asks a question on this list, and somebody else answers, and I learn something I should have known. I just have to remember to leave out that _middle_ step, trying to answer myself. Charles Hartman On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: You say delete

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
on . . .] with the breakpoint on the get libdb_ . . . line. Charles Hartman On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: I've been bumbling numbly along with debugging -- and somehow it just occurred to me that something's wrong here: I put a breakpoint on a line

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: I've been bumbling numbly along with debugging -- and somehow it just occurred to me that something's wrong here: I put a breakpoint on a line in the middle of a script, run till I

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
(my prev snipped out to save space) On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: This sounds like the problem we have discussed before, where if there is an error in a function or handler call and the breakpoint is set in the calling handler, the debugger will simply run to the end

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: There is a checkbox in Constellation that needs to be checked called: into. Make sure it is checked for it to work as expected. ?? I don't want to step into; I want to step over

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
On Oct 26, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: I totally get it Charles. As in other areas of life, one must use workarounds until something changes. All in all, it is minor compared the problems that have been solved by Constellation. True enough. I've been collecting little nits,

working method?

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Hartman
to think about it differently? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: working method?

2005-10-27 Thread Charles Hartman
. Tons of great suggestions. And somewhere in there is the combination that will help me feel like a rational being while I code. Already, all this makes me think about how I *do* do it, which makes it easier to think about how I should could. Gratefully, Charles Hartman

tiny mystery

2005-10-30 Thread Charles Hartman
by the preOpenStack handler. That list shows a hilite on the blank line after the last item in the list. How do I get rid of it?? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: tiny mystery

2005-10-30 Thread Charles Hartman
Excellent, that does it: openStack rather than preOpenStack. Thanks! Charles On Oct 30, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 30 Oct 2005, at 12:56, Charles Hartman wrote: I've got a dialog substack that includes two fields with listBehavior set to true. I fill them up from scripts

Re: tiny mystery

2005-10-30 Thread Charles Hartman
up with the blank line at the end of the (now shortened) list hilited. So there's something general I don't understand. What's sneaking in and puting hilites where I haven't asked for them in a script and the user hasn't clicked anything new? Charles Hartman On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:40 AM

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-02 Thread Charles Hartman
a little-known but very useful Rev-internal command. (Hint: watch what happens to the person sitting next to you.) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-02 Thread Charles Hartman
substacks . . . Charles Hartman On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 11/2/05 7:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for responding Jacque, As I said before in other questions to the group I've apparently suffered some sort of corruption. These three windows

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-02 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:42 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: on openStack if the owner of the target is me then set the rect of this stack to the screenRect else pass openStack end if end openStack -- but when I do add this bracketing condition to my preOpenStack handler in the main

Re: checking removable drives

2005-11-03 Thread Charles Hartman
. Charles Hartman Not that I can see - especially in Windows where some apps write to the AppData folder, some write to the Registry, some write local files, I think you should do what best suits you. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-03 Thread Charles Hartman
nothing if I'm really opening the stack. All that makes sense I think. I can't think how to write that line for both contexts -- suggestions? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

yet another really simple question

2005-11-04 Thread Charles Hartman
to consolidate this? I'm sure there is, but I can't seem to find it . . . Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

how to reject a mouse

2005-11-10 Thread Charles Hartman
not to work (unless I've done something else wrong). Is there a right way to do this? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: how to reject a mouse

2005-11-10 Thread Charles Hartman
-clicks in a field that I'm using as a scrollable list. Trapping mouseUp and/or mouseDown seems not to work (unless I've done something else wrong). Is there a right way to do this? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: how to reject a mouse

2005-11-10 Thread Charles Hartman
list. Trapping mouseUp and/or mouseDown seems not to work (unless I've done something else wrong). Is there a right way to do this? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Safe (icon) image IDs

2005-11-11 Thread Charles Hartman
'Pears to work in Safari. (Loads into a browser window, but savable from there. Charles Hartman On Nov 11, 2005, at 2:26 PM, MisterX wrote: http://monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=82 ___ use-revolution mailing list use

scroll-to-letter in sorted list

2005-11-11 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm sorry, I can't remember who posted the nifty partial solution to incremental searching in a sorted list in a field: scroll to the first item that begins with whatever letter the user presses. I've made a microscopic improvement to take care of the case in which no item begins with the

Re: XOSMediaLib under construction

2005-11-12 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 12, 2005, at 7:29 AM, MisterX wrote: - list navigation based on sorted column+keys typed in sequence - thanks Charles for boosting that script's fix. (You'd be welcome, except that I don't think any of the interesting bits are mine -- and I can't remember who did the main code!

scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread Charles Hartman
put the seconds into lastKeyTime put lineOffset(CR kTyped, me) into lo if lo is not 0 then set the scroll of me to lo * the effective textHeight of me end keyUp Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread Charles Hartman
0, so no scroll at all. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Hartman Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 17:08 To: How to use Revolution Subject: scrolling to a line I've modified Xavier's modification of my modification

Re: scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: FWIW, I don't think that's expected behavior or necessarily good user experience design. If there's no find then things should stay the same. Maybe a beep but a scroll to a phantom location doesn't really help me much, doesn't give me any new

Re: scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread Charles Hartman
I finally figured out where I got the original code which I quoted in my message http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-November/ 069934.html -- it was written by Klaus and posted on Ken's SoT site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/fld003.htm On Nov

scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Hartman
it? I could build a kludge filter (maybe, though it would be easier if I knew exactly how those keystrokes got in there), but there must be a better way. Any advice enlightenment much appreciated as always. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Hartman
Jacque, I would not have thought of that in 127 days. Thank you! (I'm still a little puzzled. I still don't see why my script local variable is getting tampered with by something outside the script at all. I fear I'm missing a General Concept here.) Charles Hartman On Nov 15, 2005, at 10

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
containing the field whose script contains the keyUp handler. That handler then calls a handler in the main stack, which reads and writes a variable there in the main stack script. So why does that cmd-U (or the 'u' part of it) end up in that variable? Charles Hartman

Re: OT: de Smet C compiler

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
). It was good; it worked; you could do anything you could think of with it, at the time. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 16, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I can only shake my head. *So far* you can. (Tomorrw Aunt Zelda may shake it for you . . .) Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
(= paste). Puzzling. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
really, really expensive? Yes, many are now; but many aren't. Jarhead was edited, as I understand it, by whatshisname the great film editor using Final Cut Pro. Pro-level audio software, though not cheap, is within reach for an amateur. Will that stop being true? Don't like it. Charles

Re: Signatures and quoting

2005-11-17 Thread Charles Hartman
They don't shoot people on this list. Lethal injections are the preferred mode. Charles Hartman On Nov 17, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Sean Shao wrote: ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
. So commandKeyDown works outside the field, but only rawKeyDown works inside the field. I'd really like to know if I've got something wrong about this. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
: On 11/18/05 7:57 AM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So commandKeyDown works outside the field, but only rawKeyDown works inside the field. I'd really like to know if I've got something wrong about this. Charles, that's not what I'm getting... I created a simple stack with two

keycodes??

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Sometimes I need to use rawKeyDown handlers, which receive a keyCode parameter. Two questions: is there a table of these somewhere? and, are these cross-platform? (If I have to use two tables, and wrap everything in an if platform structure, I'm going to be very sad.) Charles Hartman

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
I myself could *really* use that sometimes. And if they want crank-based software too, maybe I could help . . . Charles Hartman On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Aren't there some crank-based ones too? One or more cranks for 30 min. battery life I think... I'll take a look

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
. The latter is easier to deal with, so I should go back and experiment with that some more. One way or another, we seem to have an OS 10.3 / 10.4 disparity, don't we? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
palette, is that property false? If you have no commandKey handler at all, doesn't cmd-A select all the lines in the list? Charles Hartman On Nov 18, 2005, at 9:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: I can confirm Charles' results with 10.4.3 Revoloution - so it's not just

Re: keycodes??

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks to Sarah Phil. I just wanted to know if I could trust the basics -- escape, return, enter, arrow keys. Charles On Nov 18, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 11/19/05, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I need to use rawKeyDown handlers

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Hartman
good Linux support for the reasons above. And the Brazilian government's policy is worth keeping in mind, and watching as a plausible trend. Charles Hartman On 18 Nov 2005, at 21:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: I don't know RunRev's position, but for myself I see Linux as a challenging beast

Re: Living together BUT not married: RR/MC and Linux

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Hartman
I assume that in DreamCard I can write an OSI-certifiable thingie that is a DM stack, with StackRunner bundled with it. Charles Hartman On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mathewson wrote: Now, maybe I'm wrong, but . . . I believe that it is perfectly legal to download

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 23, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: All those numbers are called perfect squares. And only they have an odd number of factors, because one of the factors is the square root of the number in question. For example, nine has three factors, 1 and 9 and 3. [I confess, I can't see

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-24 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 24, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:19:31 -0500 From: Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain

Re: OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

2005-11-24 Thread Charles Hartman
I absolutely promise not to post on this topic any more. But having said something stupid I have to take it back, which requires posting, trying to avoid saying something stupid . . . I think this is called karma. What I neatly demonstrated had nothing much to do with the problem,

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Charles Hartman
?? Not according to http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Where'd you see it? Charles Hartman On Nov 26, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Mathewson wrote: GIMP is now available for MAC OS X without having to fool around with X11. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-27 Thread Charles Hartman
the street, instead. A lot of people tried programming for the first time because of Borland Pascal, DeSmet C, HyperCard . . . They weren't choosing between one product and another (e.g., a pro and a lite version). I imagine a certain number of the pros on this list began that way. Charles

Re: Constant 'Nonsense' about RR documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Charles Hartman
, needs) are misleading. It's the message path that dominates everything, I think. When you keep it in mind you tend to make right decisions about design, large and small. When you forget about it, you don't just do inefficient work, you paint yourself into deeply bafflling corners. Charles

Re: Rev and User Accounts

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Both DC and Rev Player use the same creator code, so it may be that OS X thinks they are duplicate apps. Been zilla'd: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? id=2814. But it's still marked Unconfirmed? Charles Hartman

Re: AW: Front Stack/Window???

2005-11-30 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Thomas Fischer wrote: actually, it might be useful to activate the Message Watcher (available in the Debug Menu when editing a script, but staying around after the script is closed). It will be necessary to suppress some messages (at least cRevGeneral - what

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
the flexibility of a natural language is available then feel hurt bewildered that it isn't. (For an example, port a Hypercard stack to Rev and look how many errors pop up that have to be solved by inserting the where Hypertalk didn't require it.) Charles Hartman

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
, but for people who've gotten somewhat farther up the learning curve. (Not that it matters much.) Charles On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Charles Hartman wrote: As a Prof. of English and long-time amateur programmer (but if you say hobbyist in my vicinity I'll bristle) I

Re: Times Change.... and often for the better

2005-12-02 Thread Charles Hartman
Just raising my hand here as Civilian Who Wouldn't Be Using Rev If I Couldn't Do It For Under $100 (since it's my own non-amortizable money). It can make sense for Rev not to want me, but it makes a different kind of sense for Rev to swallow its pride take me on. Who knows what might

Re: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-04 Thread Charles Hartman
On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: I have to agree with Sarah. I often want to see if a string doesn't contain another string. where I always feel you should be able to use something like: if myVar does not contain fred This would mean adding does to the Transcript

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