not familiar with a digit command, such as 0. That might be
something special with your modem or some newfangled thing or something
cool I just haven't seen. Or should this be the O command for Return
to On-line State?
Dar
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Thanks! I hope to get back into a list or two slowly.
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at the start but the button is in some leftover state.
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set the menuHistory of button myButton to 1
or
set the label of button myButton to whatever its label is
Ah. Thanks. I had this but I neglected to spell the name of my button
right.
Thanks!
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, here is a model, but it is pretty wild: I know external calls
are slow, but I would be surprised if Rev is pushing pulling data
through queues to another thread that runs external calls.
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That is, if calls are like this--f1(), g(), g(), f2(), g()--
at some point the data returned is that that should have been for the
previous call--empty, f1(), g(), g(), f2(). I have no queues in my
code, but it looks as if data is queued but an
the string as UTF-8 in the properties and apply
uniEncode() to generate the host-order UTF-16. That avoids the problem.
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On May 4, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Cal Horner wrote:
A stand-alone app doesn't delete itself out of the Windows Task
Manager list
when the stand-alone app is closed. The app remains in the
processes list
and each time it is used another copy is left.
This might be an old, old Rev bug from
On May 5, 2006, at 10:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Cal Horner wrote:
With all the tenacity of a Pit Bull, I charge on. Trying to figure
out why
the process related to a stand alone .exe stays in the Windows
Task manager
list, even after the Stand alone if finished, closed and removed.
A
to the unicodeText field
Russian1
end mouseUp
The useUnicode property is very limited in what it influences. It
applies to charToNum and numToChar only. For example, from the code
point of a Unicode character you can create the host-orter UTF-16
used by Rev.
Dar Scott
On May 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
I am writing an app with button labels in a non-Latin script
(Cyrillic). Under certain conditions I need to change the label of
these buttons. To do so I store the unicode text of the different
label names in custom properties. But I just
want small caps, you might also try changing the size and
using caps.
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few characters that bypass the xxxkeyDown messages, such as umlauts,
so if you want to filter those out in the future, neither method
above will work. This is a known bug: 1147)
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On May 13, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has used Revolution in a non-Gui
environment. I
am finding several cases where telecom vendors don't support a
windowing
system on their linux products, only the command line. I believe that
Metacard use to be able
the wimpy help, but I know that I would take anything at
the 11th hour.)
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On May 15, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Russ McBride wrote:
on mouseMove x, y
set the cursor to watch #doesn't do anything
I tried it and I can't get the watch to go away.
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the numberFormat to #.00. If you actually want the round of
the two digits, use round() instead of trunc(). If you want those
two digits you can pick off the last two characters after formatting.
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is the lookahead assertion.
To create the regex, I'd use format() which allows a special \
notation for literals in the first parameter, but the usual ' quote
' method will also work.
This pairs quotes from the right, so if the quotes are not paired,
this will goof up at the start of the string.
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arithmetic. For me, I lean toward
going toward a decimal point in Revolution arithmetic.
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On May 20, 2006, at 6:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
By the way, I just tried the original script (quoted at the top
above,) using Mac OS 10.4.6 and I did not get 26, I got 27 as
expected. I suspect it is system-related. I believe the Rev engine
relies on the OS's math routines to get its
at Bug 3610 and all the others it consolidates
and see if you agree.
Being a Scheme programmer, Andre, you probably have a better grasp of
the issues than, say, one whose background is in C programming.
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I always use something like:
send myAdd pArrayA to stack someStack
so that the variable is evaluated before the send.
Hi, Sarah!
I'll pick on two aspects of that.
First of all, I haven't been convinced that there are any merits to
On May 21, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
If you have control of the stack, you can change it to take a
flattened stack.
Or better, pass the parameter through a global.
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wondered if the fuzziness of Revolution numeric
equality was based on the equality of formatted strings, but it does
not seem to be. For that reason, I think the adjustment to trunc()
should be based on the same method, not on string formatting.
Dar Scott
On May 22, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Isn't it true that
send myCmd x,y to...
just sends that exact string (minus the quotes) to the target: if
so, the target environment can only resolve x and y if it's in the
same name space as the script that did the sending (I mean
On May 22, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
I *do* regard tacking on an empty string to trick
the parser as a hack, and I haven't tried it in conjunction with
setting a non-default numberFormat. But I always thought numberFormat
was a post-numeric-processing display thing.
I had not
On May 22, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
I could use a box-like approach as used by Dar Scott to generate
strings that could hold multiple values. but this would add new API
to my supposed-to-be easy module.
The boxes module does handle arrays with arbitrary values in both
their own for delivered scripts.
I think it is reasonable to ask RunRev for a pure function and to
depreciate use of convert. The pure function should have exactly the
same results on all platforms.
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might give a better clue.
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this harder 'put item 2 of tLine' just before the decode
fixes it, too, so this may be hard to debug.
In failure only three characters seem to decoded, except for line 35.
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number always gave the same date
time, no matter what computer it was converted on.
This sounds much like the pure-function convert that I whine about.
Is there an enhancement request in?
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On May 24, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
The seconds value can't be used for dates and times beyond 3:14 am
on January 18, 2038, which I guess translates into issues for the
dateItems too. See here:
http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html
Thank you!
I have a vague memory of
of lines of code
down about 50 lines.
What are these dll files for? And, any reason they would need to
be with a windows exe?
Those are for encryption related functions. You only need those if
you use the functions.
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script) and the script for libraryStack changes the global.
In all libraryStack scripts confirm the target. (My style is to pass
if it is not for this script, but some folks just ignore it.)
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On May 24, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
I thought of that too, no libraryStack touches the global.
Maybe some IDE message handler uses a variable by the same name? Are
you renaming an object or creating an object or doing something that
will create a message?
Dar
On May 25, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
I haven't used it myself, but you can download Dar Scott's
presentation
Ah, but I covered everything but what what Mark is trying to do.
Dave is the expert there.
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It might be that the server is also expecting a certificate from the
client and for some reason that creates a timeout error. Yet curl
works, so that is not likely.
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On May 25, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
I have a need to sort long lists of Cyrillic unicode text according
to Russian alphabet order. Before I start writing my own routine,
has anyone figured out how to sort unicode text lists?
Here are some hints:
1.
Trick: If you are sorting
On May 26, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
It seems the secure socket is being opened OK (at least the Rev
engine thinks so), and the timeouts are occurring on the first
read immediately after writing the request.
On further checking, it seems the first write to the socket
(writing
still get timeouts even with verification on?
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You might want to check your firewall settings.
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On May 26, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
A 'sort lines' command, after converting upper case to lower, works
fairly well, except that, curiously, a space sorts *after* all
cyrillic chars.
That's weird.
Space is U+0020.
The basic Cyrillic lower case seem to be U+0430 to U+044F,
On May 26, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
A 'sort lines' command, after converting upper case to lower, works
fairly well, except that, curiously, a space sorts *after* all
cyrillic chars.
I think I figured out what it is. 'sort' seems to see NUL as the end
of the string and
On May 27, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
For the Russian (don't know if this will come thru in your email
reader):
Я вижу вас.
The unicode is (omitting the U+ convention):
042F 0020 0432 0438 0436 0443 0020 0432 0430 0441 002E
But what rev is seeing during sort is a series of
putting some spaces in your test lines.
There is a bug related to fields with any lines longer than about
32000 pixels before wrapping. So if you have very long lines, that
could be the problem.
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On May 29, 2006, at 6:54 AM, sims wrote:
At 1:47 PM +0200 5/29/06, sims wrote:
iow - does it make any difference if there is 1 or 2 equal signs
at the end?
With strings I've tested here it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Never-mind... seems to be some divisible by 4 'thang'...I'm going
On May 30, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
## Devin's changes - it turns out leaving the code points in
decimal works perfectly,
## and I only had to make a couple of adjustments.
if unicodePoint 1039 and unicodePoint 1072 then -- ignore case
add 32 to unicodePoint
else if
On May 31, 2006, at 8:48 AM, jbv wrote:
the 2nd image is just a black rect; although the imagedata
contains more than 5 Mb of binary, it seems that they're
all zeros...
It might be that Rev is gagging on the large JPEG. Perhaps, this
works better with PNG.
Dar
On May 31, 2006, at 12:45 PM, jbv wrote:
I wonder if there's a way to know when the import snapshot
is completed to start further processing of the imageData...
Candidates might be...
unlock screen
wait
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Several places in Revolution as in font names, htmlText, uniDecode(),
and uniEncode() the word language is used to designate the
character encoding. The value for language is not the name of some
standard, it seems, but is some other name, often the name of a
natural language. Presumably
I've been using 2.7.1 on XP for a while and am now wrapping up a
project. Just need to do some file I/O. Only ask and answer do not
work. I get a flicker on the screen I think. Otherwise nothing.
They work on 2.7.1 on OS X.
Could I be missing some file?
Dar Scott
On May 31, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
I've been using 2.7.1 on XP for a while and am now wrapping up a
project. Just need to do some file I/O. Only ask and answer do
not work. I get a flicker on the screen I think. Otherwise
nothing. They work on 2.7.1 on OS X.
Could I
Wow! Great news for sorting Unicode!
On May 30, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
I got your code to work by making some simple changes in the
sortCodeFromRussian function:
Deven, I've been processing some bits of UTF-8, and something dawned
on me that is probably known by the Unicode
On Jun 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
replace Ж with ж in lList
I didn't know you could do that with the current editor. I had been
suggesting a way to do that kind of thing using UTF-8 and was hoping
an script editor publisher would pick up on it.
However, the 2.7.1 editor
On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Jun 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
replace Ж with ж in lList
I didn't know you could do that with the current editor. I had
been suggesting a way to do that kind of thing using UTF-8 and was
hoping an script editor publisher
On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
You're starting to convince me that UTF is the way to go.
8
UTF-8
I'm starting to convince myself, too.
Dar
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lines end up with the same number. If two lines have
the same number, they will sort in the same order that they had.
(There is also a minor problem that random(n) has will favor smaller
numbers for n100,000,000. Also, don't use n2,000,000,000. Sarah's
n=1,000,000 is good.)
Dar Scott
that was fixed for 2.7.2.
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20:unable to get local issuer certificate
Hmmm. The problem may be more than the .pem. If that doesn't fix it,
let us know. Gotta run.
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On Jun 5, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
It's Rev 2.5 rc 2 here.
There are some important differences between 2.5 and 2.5.1 in the
handling of certificates. I don't know if that would apply to your
problem.
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the sever has a bad
cert. Try a post with some other tool. Maybe then you have learned
what you need to do the post.
I hope you get this solved before RevCon. I can then pass all the hard
SSL questions on to you!
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On Jun 5, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
I'd like to go like the open secure socket command where I can simply
choose to ignore verification.
Maybe for this specific post you can.
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use open secure without verification.
Can you post with your web browser? Or at least get past the
authentication?
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This sure looks like you have the wrong .pem, try the openSSL with a
site you know will work. You should not get the 20.
It might be that your server has a forged or old signature.
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Yesterday, you were writing post and, in my tiredness, I kept reading
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and that newly-produced software won't run
on it soon? Not on your life.
Maybe a PowerPC-based Mac Mini is just the thing for supporting a
certain class of customers.
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This may not mean that OS X can run on a PC or the other way around.
Is this related to Metrowerks selling their '86 compiler?
In our scripts we should not depend on OS X as an indicator of byte
order.
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numTochar():
-- just keyed into the mail
-- This assume unicode is some form of UTF16
function unicodeIsUTF16BE
set the useUnicode to true
return (char 1 of numToChar(1)) is null
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However, there are some things we have little control over. And some
things we do.
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have something hot is quite
understandable and appropriate. I appreciate your desire to share this
with us. Maybe this would be a good hallway and Friday night
discussion topic at RevCon.
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underscore, letter or digit that is bound by non-word characters or
string boundary.)
The replaceText() function is improved for speed in Revolution 2.6, I
understand.
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And gentle encouragement for RunRev is always good! Or rioting.
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I tinkered with the new replaceText() and it seems to work.
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. The popular clock
script going around might do that. It doesn't have a graceful way to
stop, the last I saw.
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
Let me know what you think.
You can even put the advance for the minute hand and for the hour hand
in separate send cycles that can be approximate.
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
I am getting a strange behavior, which I think started recently on some
stacks which were working OK before.
I see this in 2.6. There was some performance enhancements made for
replaceText for 2.6, so this is probably a bug in that.
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(There is also an unsupported way.)
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(There is also an unsupported way.)
now, I am curious...
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The same with 'the owner of'. That is, 'the target' and 'the owner of'
are objects. I might be confused as to what is happening.
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Similarly
get the id of the target
returns the proper, and unique, id of the button clicked. So while the
target itself returns incomplete description to uniquely identify an
object, it can still be used to get unique identification as
.
This is on a dual 1.25 GHz G4.
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and they do weird
things like paste and clear stack properties. Does the IDE use
function keys?
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However, alphaData is one byte per pixel and image data is four bytes
per pixel (Dummy and RGB). The shape must match.
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On Jun 19, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Erik Hansen wrote:
the heated emotions over scripting conventions,
literally involving a food fight,
Yes, for the record let it be known that none other than the
otherwise-mild-mannered Dar Scott threw food at Ken and I during our
to that.
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I had to applaud and I almost regretted buying all that throwable
food at the corner market. Almost.
For myself, the food fight was a highlight of the conference.
Enlisting Andre's throwing arm was a good move, and my only regret was
that
On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:28 PM, jbv wrote:
There's another recipe that I've been using for years :
Perhaps these have in common the mental block, the assumption, the
think I Know, that gets in the way.
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not see any interaction between Dreamcard and Revolution should that be
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well.
Would either RPN or the use of external-side variables by name be just
as usable to you?
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One main advantage of put value into variable is that it emphasizes
the container model. On big problem is that terms like RHS (value) and
LHS (variable) get confusing.
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means it blocks development testing. The developer
can temporarily shorten the names and continue development and testing
until a workaround or fix is available.
Or did I miss something?
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the name. It can also do whatever is
needed to clean up after the old name. Quitting need do something
simple, such as setting the custom property to empty.
(I have no idea whether an alias will really work for a player.)
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