Scripting conference - times and dates available with log

2005-10-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
I've just re-uploaded the Dates and Times scripting conference stack with its chat transcript. Sarah Reichelt did a fantastic job, and everything you ever wanted to know about tracking and using times and dates is in there. You'll want to download this one. Jacque -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Scripting conference - times and dates available with log

2005-10-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 2, 2005, at 9:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I've just re-uploaded the Dates and Times scripting conference stack with its chat transcript. Sarah Reichelt did a fantastic job, and everything you ever wanted to know about tracking and using times and dates

Re: list field-a race to the bottom

2005-10-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Rich Lague wrote: I'm not sure that is exactly my problem. The hilited line is already visible-- it was just clicked on. It jumps the hilited line from wherever it is in field to the very bottom line of the field. However, I can see that your suggestion will work for what I want. I'll give it

Machine network names

2005-10-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
I want to know the network name of a remote machine on a network. For a local machine, I can get the address and the first part of the address is the name I'm looking for. But on a remote, mounted volume the address doesn't include its machine name. Any ideas? I only need this for Mac OS X,

Re: Bizarre problem of disappearing pictures on reducing stack size

2005-10-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, all of the arrows pictures in the stack disappeared. They would no longer appear with the command 'show image arrows' or on turning on Show Invisible Objects from the view menu. The arrows pictures could not be found, but strangely they still were listed

Re: imagesource property in Win32 standalone

2005-10-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jon Seymour wrote: Hi, I am setting the imagesource of char 1 of line xxx in order to display a small (16x16) icon in front of each line of text in a list field. If you've ever seen iTunes and its Source box you know the effect I am shooting for. Well, it works brilliantly on my OS X

Re: Stack Switching Question

2005-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: I used the file name form to illustrate another difference between HC and Rev: while you would indeed need to open a stack in HC in order to get stuff out of it, in Rev you can get property values of objects in unopened stacks. When you do that the engine reads the

Re: Stack Switching Question

2005-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dave Cragg wrote: On 5 Oct 2005, at 21:04, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I used the file name form to illustrate another difference between HC and Rev: while you would indeed need to open a stack in HC in order to get stuff out of it, in Rev you can

Re: Machine network names

2005-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
, at 5:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I want to know the network name of a remote machine on a network. For a local machine, I can get the address and the first part of the address is the name I'm looking for. But on a remote, mounted volume the address doesn't include its machine name. Any ideas? I

Re: Machine network names

2005-10-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: What I eventually decided to use for the unique machine ID -- instead of its network name -- was the host machine's MAC address. This handler gets that info, regardless of whether the program is running locally or remotely: I don't expect it matters but you can have

Re: Function to easily read values from a plist file

2005-10-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: After Jacque discovered the data in the preferences.plist file she needed, I decided to write a general-purpose function that would get values from a plist file... it's a bit long, but it takes into account a number of different scenarios for retrieving data. Very cool Ken,

Re: libCGI?

2005-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Troy Rollins wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to get Rev-CGI up and running. Sounds like Rodney Tamblin's libCGI stack would be useful, but all the links for it are dead. Does anyone have a copy available? I believe I saw it recently on RevOnline. Check out the developer utilities. Also, I

Re: Scale to fit

2005-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Todd Geist wrote: Hello I have an image on a card and would like to scale it to fit in a button dynamically. In other words as the button gets bigger the icon should until it reaches its actual size. I can handle the button getting bigger, but I have no idea how to accomplish making the icon

Re: automated testing tools (slightly OT)

2005-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Rob Cozens wrote: I'd be interested in what Jacque Gay might have to say on the subject. I recall a very interesting conversation we had at a Macworld regarding the work she did for Apple to automate HyperCard testing. It was a long time ago so I've forgotten a lot of the details, but this

Re: Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

2005-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dan Shafer wrote: Laszlo spits out SWF files that play in any Flash player from 5.0 forward, and because of the Flash technology are guaranteed to work in any browser (since over 99% of them have Flash plug-ins already installed). Well, except for those of us who remove Flash because

Re: Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

2005-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dan Shafer wrote: I guess I've gotten to a place where I ignore (as in don't even see) those animated ads any more. They don't bother me enough to miss the Flash content that i do like. I use this: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ Works very well and leaves me in control. -- Jacqueline

Re: Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO [LONG]

2005-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dan Shafer wrote: There is a vague sense of excitement about what you offer here. Your passion is obvious. That you've developed this architecture across many languages over the years is impressive. But at the end of the day, a busy programmer cannot easily figure out what this beast is

Re: Fancy Font in Properties Palette

2005-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: On 10/13/05 10:53 PM, Benjamin Pastrana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting a very Fancy Font in the properties palettes. How I can set it to verdana or arial font? Thanks Is this on Windows or Mac? And do you know what font is actually being displayed? More information

Scripting conference this week -- forgot to mention it

2005-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Today's scripting conference was canceled, due to a number of unavoidable circumstances. I meant to announce that yesterday, but somehow time got fuzzy on me and I missed announcing the change. While we did post the change to the schedule on Runtime's web site, I'm very sorry if any of you sat

Re: FORTH and Hypercard

2005-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Stephen Barncard wrote: I also liked a feature of Hypercard that was like forth - you could redefine and intercept a lower level handler using the same name. I guess it was a design decision to not allow that in Transcript but why? Speed. Raney wouldn't put it in, and now that I'm used

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: (I asked a version of this earlier.) While my stack is running but at some pause-point (while debugging, or while a modal dlg box is up), 1. in the Message Box, as soon as I type a blank space, the focus disappears (goes somewhere else??), so I can't type any more

Re: debugging modal dlg boxes

2005-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
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). But debugging the mouseUp script for that button isn't

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
. If you can change your frontmost stack to modeless during debugging, you should be able to type as usual. 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 stack is running but at some pause-point

Re: FORTH and Hypercard

2005-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacque, I wonder if Scott would come to the same conclusion today. On modern computers messages can transverse the entire path in nanoseconds. True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now. However, the reason I changed my mind about the

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
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 be able to type as usual. It turns out that the same

Re: spacebar messes up focus?

2005-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: 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

Re: FORTH and Hypercard

2005-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Monday, October 17, 2005, 10:35:14 AM, you wrote: True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now. There shouldn't really be much of a speed difference - the way this is usually handled is you create a hash table with the overloaded functions. If

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

2005-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Burgun wrote: On Oct 18, 2005, at 8:36 AM, David Burgun wrote: I mean I've been using RunRev now for about 2 years, but still: 1. The debugger refuses to obey breakpoints. I see this sporadically as well. I wish I could find a pattern as then I'm sure RunRev could and would fix it.

Re: Silly Sort Question

2005-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I have a simply twelve-line list with the name of a month as the first word on each line. The list is not in order, and I'd like to sort it January to December using the monthNames. Don't know how. sort lines of theList by first word in

Re: Open Process on OSX

2005-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Samuel M. Smith wrote: I can successfully open and read from a process but I can not get write to process to work on OS X 10.4.2 at least not all the way. First if I open process with text then runrev converts newlines to carriage returns. This is not correct for OS X. Especially unix

Re: Open Process on OSX

2005-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Samuel M. Smith wrote: I tried this suggestion but no change in behavior. I think it is a bug. Since you work for RunRev do you concur? and what will it take to get a fix? Attached is my test stack if that if of any help in verifying. The list doesn't accept attachments, so the file

Re: background grps and preOpenCard

2005-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chipp Walters wrote: I'm working on a multi-card wizard and came across this and wanted to mention a peculiar behavior and see if people thing it's correct. I create a shared background group over a few cards. I put in it: on preOpenCard beep end preOpenCard It only gets called on the

Re: Resizing Boxes

2005-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to resize the menu builder window? I'm using Mac OSX. That window now takes up my entire screen. I figure my software or stacks are corrupted, but since they still work I'm trying to find a way to deal with it. Did you change your monitor

Re: find fiasco

2005-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: I have a rather simple stack with text in fields on a number of cards (Rev 2.6 under Mac OS 10.3.2). The text is in Chinese. In order to look for other instances of a term found on the present card (in fld ID 1003) I'm using a find selection button the script of

Re: Resizing Boxes

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think my problems began when I was in a field inspector screen. Instead of putting in the left position as a three digit number as I wanted to I stupidly typed in a six digit number. After doing that revolution crashed and it hasn't been the same since. That's

Learning center videos don't play

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Someone running Windows XP is having problems running the Learning Center videos, and I'm wondering if anyone here has encountered this problem before. The videos download correctly and are stored in the correct Revolution cache folder, so a network problem isn't the reason. If he

Re: Learning center videos don't play

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:08 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Someone running Windows XP is having problems running the Learning Center videos, and I'm wondering if anyone here has encountered this problem before. The videos download correctly and are stored in the correct

Re: Resizing Boxes

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/21/05 11:22:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think my problems began when I was in a field inspector screen. Instead of putting in the left position as a three digit number as I wanted to I stupidly typed in a six digit number. After

Re: Command-Period

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, It's that newbie pest from Orlando again! I love newbie pests. I wish we had more of them. The list gets so geeky sometimes I think it scares people off. In HyperCard I could type command-period to stop a script. If I did it when a dialog box is

Re: Learning center videos don't play

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Trevor DeVore wrote: Okay, I didn't realize that on Windows it tries to use Windows Media Player. Looking at the code for the online viewer I would check that path where Windows Media Player is installed. The path is hard coded in the online viewer: case Win32 put

Re: Learning center videos don't play

2005-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Good sleuthing. Let's see what he says. If that's the problem, then Rev's scripts should probably be revised to account for a missing executable. If this is the problem I think it would make sense to change

Re: How trim?

2005-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Buster wrote: But what about this way (strips spaces and hard spaces from beginning and end): function Trim what return token 1 to -1 of what end Trim Hey. Cool! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Text Field Effect

2005-10-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Greetings List: I just posted a stack that demonstrates an unusual effect you can apply to text fields. The stack is very large (1.8MB) as it does some very intense calculations, but you're welcome to give it a try. Cute. But I see far more applications for this than just

Re: Text Field Effect

2005-10-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: I just posted a stack that demonstrates an unusual effect you can apply to text fields. The stack is very large (1.8MB) as it does some very intense calculations, but you're welcome to give it a try. Cute. But I see far more applications

Re: Targeting Paint tools at a specific grouped image

2005-10-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mike Doub wrote: Hello all, I am trying to create a set of controls that is made up of a few fields and an image. I am doing this inside of another group that is set up to manage the scrolling. I must be doing something wrong as any time I go to edit the image a new image is created the same

Re: step in debugger?

2005-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: Thanks. No, that twist on it I had recognized -- so if I need a breakpoint-and-step at the end of a handler, I put in a put 0 into tDummy line at the end. In this case, the breakpoint line is in the middle of the handler, in the middle of a repeat loop or a 'try'

Re: Runtime Engine

2005-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Stewart Lynch wrote: Sorry. I forgot the subject in my previous message. I have just purchased the e-Book on Using Revolution's Engine for Internet CGI's and the following link does not work. I am looking for the engine that will run on my Windows system. Any thoughts? The Windows engine

Re: Runtime Engine

2005-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dave Cragg wrote: On 26 Oct 2005, at 19:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: Stewart Lynch wrote: Sorry. I forgot the subject in my previous message. I have just purchased the e-Book on Using Revolution's Engine for Internet CGI's and the following link does not work. I am looking

Re: Runtime Engine

2005-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Stewart Lynch wrote: I am interested in building a CGI that I can bundle with another Web solution that I produce that runs on FirstClass. FirstClass supports CGIs so I would like to offer my cgi solution with my web solution. I was hoping that I could do this in revolution and perhaps use a

Re: Runtime Engine

2005-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Last I heard the engine remained free for CGI work to help evangelize the language in a context not likely to affect sales of the GUI product. In the worst-case scenario if that turns out to no longer be the case, one could use a standalone as a CGI, no? Don't know,

Re: Ensuring numeric input

2005-10-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: On 10/27/05 8:34 AM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .2 is a number . is just a period, not a number -2 is a number - is just a minus sign, not a number True... but that raises another UI issue - if the field has .2 in it and someone attempts to delete the 2, do we

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

2005-10-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
Timothy Miller wrote: Sure, some users would bloat entries. But then, other users would prune them. When I look at the wikipedia, the entries I see are remarkably concise. Just to play devil's advocate: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/ -- Jacqueline

Re: 2.6.1 very slow on Win XP?

2005-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kurt Kaufman wrote: Rev. 2.6.1 is *very* slow to startup on my 2 gHz Win XP box (at the point at which menus and plugins are loaded it appears to all but hang). Also, opening stacks and saving stacks is slow, but not always---depends on the stack. Do you have a virus-checking utility that

Reminder: scripting conference canceled

2005-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Just a reminder that there will be no online chat for this Saturday's scripting conference. Jerry was not able to make it, but promises his stack will be available later on. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |

Re: Changing Font Style of Text Already in a Field

2005-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dave Cragg wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, at 20:48, Chipp Walters wrote: Both Klaus and Signe Marie Sanne have good suggestions for doing this: set the textfont of char 1 to -1 of fld X to to Lucida Grande Both of their solutions involve explicitly set the font of the characters. Another way is

Re: ANN: new free altPlugin: altMenuStack

2005-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chipp Walters wrote: Yes, it's a fact you can't debug stacks with 'rev' in the name prefix anymore using the Rev IDE. I just made a stack called revtest.rev with a test handler in the card script. I could set a breakpoint and the debugger caught it. I could step through the code. Maybe

Re: Revdocs on a wiki

2005-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dennis Brown wrote: The dictionary is immeasurably useful. It is even more useful when integrated into the script editor as done in Constellation. It is. Right-click on a term in the script to see the dictionary entry. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive

Re: Getting generic OSX icon in standalone

2005-10-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Swindell wrote: I can't help, sorry, but I have met with a lot of frustration around the whole icon experience myself. Here are some things to try. Much of the frustration revolves around OS X's reluctance to update its icon info in the Finder. Build the standalone, assigning your

Scripting conference stack uploaded - debugging

2005-10-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
The scripting conference stack on Debugging is now available for download at: http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ Due to a scheduling conflict, we did not have a chat for this session, so the stack is final as uploaded (that is, no log will be added.) This is a wonderfully

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Again, Yesterday I asked: How do I change the default size of the inspector, error script windows? I'm on Mac OSX. I haven't received an answer yet. Surely someone must know the answer. All of these windows have a resize box at the lower right and can be

Re: question: how much info fits in a field?

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, I am using a field to record TCP Flow on a given port on my system by redirecting tcpflow app using appleEvents which makes much easier to debug CGI apps since all traffic is inside a nice field, the problem is, how much info can I dump into a field, I am loggin

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/1/05 10:57:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Again, Yesterday I asked: How do I change the default size of the inspector, error script windows? I'm on Mac OSX. I haven't received an answer yet. Surely someone

Re: ARGH! 2.6.1 keeps crashing

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi TJ Are you using any plugins? I was only running the altPlugin collection at the time -- but none of these Transcript-based libraries should cause an 'illegal read' exception at OS level. What OS? If windows, send me the eventviewer's event information,

Re: How to limit field to one line?

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Garrett R. Hylltun wrote: Greetings, Can anyone explain to me how to limit a field to only one line, and to intercept the return key from within that field? Besides the returnInField handler that others have mentioned, you can also limit the amount of text without any scripting at all. Just

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: In the button, add this script: on mouseup bloogle end mouseup When you click the button it will generate an error. See if the error dialog is the correct size. -- and if it *doesn't* generate an error, you

Re: How to tell a line from a paragraph?

2005-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
: function getFldLines tFld -- get the actual number of visible lines in a scrolling field -- regardless of whether they are wrapped or not. -- by J. Landman Gay put the textheight of fld tFld into txHeight if the style of fld tFld = scrolling then put the scroll of fld tFld

Re: I guess I stumped everyone. :(

2005-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: Wow! Until I read this message it didn't occur to me that the preOpenStack in the main stack of the database app I'm working on was being called (I just checked) every time one of the five or six substacks opens. Since that handler opens the database and reads much

Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

2005-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: ...so - any attempt at trying to describe this for folks who haven't dived in yet? My own twist on an old HyperCard description: Tinkertoys for software. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |

Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

2005-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: ...so - any attempt at trying to describe this for folks who haven't dived in yet? My own twist on an old HyperCard description: Tinkertoys for software. Oh, and I forgot, they also used to call it a software erector set. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

2005-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dom wrote: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the list. I find that if someone already knows what HyperCard is then there's no problem. If they don't (most of the managers I talk with when trying to pitch a project) then they just don't get it. Anybody knows that HyperCard is

Re: Dial Phone?

2005-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Timothy Miller wrote: I'd also like to dial the phone with a field or button. How about sending dial commands to the machine's native internal modem, then picking up a telephone on same line as modem? Possible? Yup: http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/msg10455.html

Re: Best Practices

2005-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: Yes, so this becomes the scripter's preference. I'm on the other side of the coin, and very rarely use explicitVariables. It's not because my typing is necessarily any better than Alex's grin, but more because I'm a curmudgeon and don't want (a) to type a whole bunch of extra

Scripting conference stack available - Standalones

2005-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Weider's scripting conference stack on Standalones is now available for download at: http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ Mark's done a nice job describing the setup and building process, and this stack covers all the basics of using the Standalone Builder, as well as

Re: Scripting conference stack available - Standalones

2005-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: The scripting conference will be held at 1131814800 seconds. To convert this to your own local time and date: get 1131814800;convert it to system date and time;put it So, you've gone on to daylight-savings time. Now it's at 3am my time instead of 2am. I'm having

Re: How is the built-in controls made?

2005-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jan Sælid wrote: So... If I understand this right the Tab Panel is just a button. And the face of the button is what changes. Ok. But...The face? What is the face made of? Polygons? Lines? The reason I'm making a fuzz about this is that I would really like to make a button that behaves like

Re: set the systemFileSelector to false

2005-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever use this? set the systemFileSelector to false This used to allow the a rev built-in custom file selector (unix style). When I build my standalone with 2.6.1, this fileselector is not included. Once upon a time, there was a selectable item to include the

OT: Web site designer

2005-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
This is off topic, but you guys know everything. I told someone I'd ask here if anyone knows a reasonably-priced web designer to do a small web site, basic stuff, not too complicated. Money is an issue but there's some. Please let me know off list if you know anyone who might be interested and

Re: Word 1 to -1 Truncating Entire Paragraphs?

2005-11-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: I am using a routine discuss on this list sometime back to kill vertical white space (extra cr's) at the beginning and end of a large text chunk.. put word 1 to -1 of fld transcript into tFinalTranscript But this is suddenly chopping off whole paragraphs and chars at

Re: frappr map

2005-11-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: All- I just created a frappr map so we can see where we are. http://www.frappr.com/runtimerevolution Interesting. The U.S. and UK have detailed roads and boundaries, and the whole rest of the world is stark white. I never knew that. I should travel more. -- Jacqueline

Re: How can I print all parts of oversize cards !?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kresten Bjerg wrote: If one could somehow script to flash the screen, like the macintosh command shift 3 /or 4 and select area or the grab application, and somehow send it to the printer??? But it has to be a cross-platform solution ! There's the export snapshot command. It

Re: scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
from keyboard -- J. Landman Gay, 1990, modified for Revolution: 2003 if (the selectedField is not ) or (charToNum(whichKey) is among the items of 28,29,30,31) -- arrow keys then pass keyDown if the ticks - lOldTicks 60 then put into lUserKeys put whichKey after lUserKeys put return

Re: scrolling to a line

2005-11-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: I've modified Xavier's modification of my modification of (somebody's??) code to search incrementally in a sorted list field. Could it have been the one I posted about two years ago? I sent this to the list: local lUserKeys, lOldTicks

Re: How can I print all parts of oversize cards!?

2005-11-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kresten Bjerg wrote: Sorry, I havent learnt how to make reply to join the thread. Been trying to follow the export snapshot idea, - but see no way to script the printing of the result, either as file or as a variableprint apparently only relates to cards !!! Yes, that's right. Do I

Re: How can I print all parts of oversize cards!....desperately !

2005-11-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kresten Bjerg wrote: Dear Jacqueline As you see from my first posting - and from the last- it is only the problem of printing a single snapshot from a visible window ( past horizontal 2000) of a large card. We have been trying to follow your suggestion of : ... importing... snapshot(s) to a

Re: How can I print all parts of oversize cards!....desperately

2005-11-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kresten Bjerg wrote: But those problems are of another kind. They are concerned with very large images, surpassing 4096 x 4096. The total card area in our case is well within these limits, the problem comes from the fact that 6 screensize windows with horizontal hrect 2000 can print,

Re: Revolution and DLLs (was Re: DLL registering) [Long]

2005-11-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: On 11/15/05 3:03 AM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. But I wonder: what do you want to mean by 'The DLL must be compiled specifically for RunRev'? Let me step in here - there's actually two things to talk about: the first is what it means to be 'compiled

Re: deleteDups()

2005-11-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to use an Xcmd set called HyperExternals Pro and one of its useful XFCN's was deleteDups(). The main thing it did was to quickly eliminate the duplicate lines in a sorted list. Here is my transcript replacement ... function deleteDups pList repeat with

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: I've got that incremental-search-in-a-sorted-field routine working the way I want it (thanks to all the help from this list.) So I decided to move it to my mainstack's script to avoid having a dozen copies in the scripts for the scrollable fields themselves. In the

Re: How can I print all parts of oversize cards..Happy ending.

2005-11-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kresten Bjerg wrote: Hey, to Jacqueline, and the other helpers Jacquelines last posting solved the problem, - Glad it worked, in spite of my confusion. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: 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.) Well, if you

Re: scope puzzle with menus

2005-11-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: A keyUp message whose parameter is cmd-U is generated when I choose a menu item whose purpose is to open a substack. So it's generated before I have even opened the substack containing the card containing the field whose script contains the keyUp handler. That

Re: deleteDups()

2005-11-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Geoff Canyon wrote: Bother -- it happened again. First we had repeat for each turning up faster than the filter command. Now I've done a test on the following, and it looks like the split command takes not quite twice as long as repeat for each (when repeat for each is handled the

Re: disable command

2005-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Nicolas Cueto wrote: An hour or two of debugging but... My card has 16 images, each with a mouseUp script. I only want one script to run at a time. So, within the mouseUp script of each image I added calls to lock/unlock handlers contained in the card script, i.e., I don't think I would do it

Re: Problem with group script

2005-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas Fischer wrote: Hello, I am working on the script of a group. Every time I choose Edit Group I get the message The object you are editing appears to have been removed or deleted... with the option to copy the text or to close anyway. Fortunately the script isn't really gone, but it is

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

2005-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: One way or another, we seem to have an OS 10.3 / 10.4 disparity, don't we? Well, perhaps... it may also be a plugin or something that has a frontscript that's grabbing the request? Or did you already install a fresh build and test that? I can confirm Charles' results

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

2005-11-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: For the test stack I just pulled a Scrolling List Field straight from the tools palette. So List Behavior is true; multipleHilites is false; traversalOn is true. I see that the lockText is also true, which seems interesting. If you pull what you call a regular list

Scripting conference - Text Munging stack uploaded

2005-11-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alex Tweedly's scripting conference stack on Text Munging has been uploaded for review before this Saturday's conference. This is a very useful addition to our archives, and covers some of the text processing commands that are often opaque to many of us, including the format command and the

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

2005-11-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mathewson wrote: Now, maybe I'm wrong, but . . . I believe that it is perfectly legal to download the Metacard IDE, download a copy of DC/RR, and then transfer the RR engine across to the Metacard IDE. Correct. However, note that since your copy of the IDE won't be licensed, all your scripts

Re: Difference between Step over and Run

2005-11-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Hurley wrote: I have noticed in the debugger that there is quite a difference in time of execution between Step over and Run I think this is because of the traceDelay. When you are debugging, every step includes a pause equivalent to the traceDelay setting. When you run, the

Re: Difference between Step over and Run

2005-11-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Hurley wrote: To understand my point you need to run the following script: on mouseUp put into field 1 lock screen --Try with and without this line. doWindowWork --With a break point maker here beep end mouseUp on doWindowWork put the ticks into tStartTime put 1 into field 1

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