Re: How am I supposed to answer a Post???
I am in nabble for the first time and it is even better than gmail for observing threads and this is my first test reply. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-am-I-supposed-to-answer-a-Posttf4300818.html#a12282396 Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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: google calendar API
Does anyone know how to post to a google calendar using RunRev on Mac OS X instead of Win XP? _ Thanks a lot, Mark! Using curl does the trick. However, I would appreciate if this worked without an external shell command. BTW, I have Rev 2.8.0 studio and the docs lack a hint to the missing HTTPS implementation as far as I can see. If anyone knows an easy way to do this with sockets (and maybe openSSL?), please let me know. Now, here is the working code (Win XP) to add an event to your GoogleCalendar: (You'll need * A form, a button, 3 fields named Output, HEADER, newentry in Revolution. * Install curl, http://curl.haxx.se/download.html try the 7.16.0 WIN32 version, if necessary edit curlPATH. * Paste an XML-formatted event into field newevent according to the format specified at: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/elements.html . Try this Exampel first: http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/gdata.html#add_event -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/google-calendar-API-tf3872376.html#a12282560 Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ 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
runrev 2.6
Does anyone know if the download on the runrev page which says 2.6 is actually a newer version? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: runrev 2.6
Bill Humphrey wrote: Does anyone know if the download on the runrev page which says 2.6 is actually a newer version? ___ answering my own question. It is 2.6.5 108 while the released version was 2.6.5 91 so I guess that means there were 17 builds or improvements since then. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: text selection question
Thank you. This wait for 1 tick solves the problem completely. Well, openField changes the focus sort of by definition. If you want a word auto-selected, you'll need to delay the selection until after openField is finished. Try this: on openField if target is not empty then send doSelect to me in 1 tick end openField on doSelect select word 1 of me end doSelect ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: text selection question
Robert Brenstein wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: Just what you found out: you are selecting at wrong time. Whatever occurs after you made the selection shifts the focus causing the selection to be unselected. I would not have expected a simple on open field to have something else happen after that changes the focus. I wonder what it is so I can stop it? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Database Query Buider
Does anyone know how to get the database query builder to set the cursor to busy when it is working. Simple tasks like refresh or connect always take several seconds and everything just freezes with no indication that anything is happening. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
text selection question
How come when you do this: select word one of fld x_areacode1 The text just flashes for a second and doesn't remain selected? Is there some command: select word one of fld foolish coder and hold that selection *[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: text selection question
If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: How come when you do this: select word one of fld x_areacode1 The text just flashes for a second and doesn't remain selected? Is there some command: select word one of fld foolish coder and hold that selection *[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Strange database connection behaviour under Linux
Have you used YourSQL or similar utility to test the connections to other machines? Rishi Viner wrote: Hi All, Hoping for some help with this. I'm using Dreamcard 2.5.1 to put data into a MySQL database. I have developed the application on my laptop running SuSE 9.1 Pro and it works great. I can connect to MySQL databases on my local machine and on various remote servers on our network. The problem comes when I try to use this stack on any other machines. I have tried running my stack using the Dreamcard Player on one machine running RedHat 9 and another running SuSE 9.1 Pro with no luck. I get errors like: There was an error in connecting to the database. Please check that the connection fields are correct. Revdb error: revdberr, invalid database type I have double checked the connection information and it is good. I have also double checked that my database user has permissions to connect from the various hosts I am connecting from. I have the same problem whether I use the Database Query Builder or do it manually in a script. In frustration and thinking that it may be a Player issue, I have installed the Dreamcard IDE on the RedHat machine, but get exactly the same problem. It looks like Rev can't find or use the database drivers on the other machines, yet they seem to be in the right location (comparing with my original development machine). I have little (no) experience with preparing stacks to run on other machines from the development machine. Any ideas / suggestions as to what might be causing this? Thanks, ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: clear fields -- a faster way
I want to clear fields like this: repeat for each field tField in card DocApplication of stack CustomForms put empty into tField end repeat but I keep getting the error bad terminator -- what am I doing wrong? Sarah Reichelt wrote: on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to the number of flds put empty into fld x end repeat end mouseUp Now this works ok except that the card has some labels and the script clears the label contents. I use this sort of script which only clears editable fields. on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to the number of flds if the lockText of fld x is false then put empty into fld x end repeat end mouseUp Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Database Query Builder -- errors
In case anyone else wants to use this great thing extensively then when designing your databases always use unique names for every column even when in different tables because if you refer to a column as tablename1.shipID and another one as tablename2.shipID even though SQL is happy with this the database query builder update feature will choke. And if you use SQLite which won't allow you to alter tables then you will be in trouble. Also when you have many joins in your query use the index for the fields you are most likely to want to change (this error is not as perfectly repeatable). Should I bugzilla this? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Database Query Builder -- errors
Thank you, thank you. I didn't even think to try alias for the name and I was just checking out how I can make view's in SQLite and then swap those in and out easily. I'll try it now and see. Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Bill Humphrey wrote: In case anyone else wants to use this great thing extensively then when designing your databases always use unique names for every column even when in different tables because if you refer to a column as tablename1.shipID and another one as tablename2.shipID even though SQL is happy with this the database query builder update feature will choke. You could probably get around this by doing: SELECT tablename1.shipID AS ShipID1, tablename2.shipID AS ShipID2... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Database Query Builder -- errors and aliases
Boy did that crash RunRev fast! I don't even have to worry about changing anything back to the way it was ;) Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Bill Humphrey wrote: In case anyone else wants to use this great thing extensively then when designing your databases always use unique names for every column even when in different tables because if you refer to a column as tablename1.shipID and another one as tablename2.shipID even though SQL is happy with this the database query builder update feature will choke. You could probably get around this by doing: SELECT tablename1.shipID AS ShipID1, tablename2.shipID AS ShipID2... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?
You left out the given for any computer platform that all your hardware has to be replaced every three years or so even though it still works perfectly because hardware advances are so great in such short cycles and tied with software advances that you have to (if you want to enjoy those advances). There is a Luddite answer for all this but then a Luddite wouldn't even have a computer in the first place. Richard Gaskin wrote: Judy Perry wrote: Yeah, but what about the money we have invested in PPC-native apps? Do we get those all free? Nope. That's part of the Mac Tax we've all been paying for years. Artificial demand is how Apple keeps itself and its vendors in sales. They can't do it just a 2.5% marketshare, and if you take iPods out of the picture their revenue position rather bites. Apple can only stay afloat by selling the same product to the same customers over and over. We pay an annual OS X tax of $139, even though the first two (arguably three) releases were of beta quality. Sure, there are the occassional switchers. But I doubt many of the 2 million Tiger sales went to them. For vendors, Apple was the only major vendor who transitioned to USB without continuing support for legacy ports. This created an artificial demand for new peripherals, and a lot of vendors who were leaving decided to stay to cash in. Apple needs vendors, vendors need disproportionate sales to justify the disproportionate RD. It's good for everyone -- except the consumer who gets the bill. So if we love the Mac platform enough to have endured these things for so long, is a third set of arbitrary paid upgrades really that much more expensive than the two we've already paid for? Like a friend keeps telling me, It's an economic democracy: one dollar, one vote. If we want to vote for Apple we pony up the cash. If not, there's always Linux. It's already available for both x86 and PPC. ;) I dunno... I kinda like my dual G4 desktop I still love my Power Computing box. It still does what I bought it for, but that hasn't stopped me from buying newer computers in recent years. I suspect you'll get far more than two years' life out of your G4. Just as with PPC, a switch to Intel doesn't mean your current Mac will suddenly stop working. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Using a card for printing reports
If these are typical form elements, though - boxes, lines, and so on - I'd suggest trying them as graphics instead. You can draw graphics directly onto a card using the tools, and they will print at full resolution. -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com It's too bad there is no way to convert a PDF or an EPS to whatever formats the native Bezier graphics are in RunRev. That would be the ideal solution for everyone as then RunRev would not need a fancy report generator as you could do your design in Adobe Freehand or similar. Also the prevalence of PDF's for other government forms (like those fun 1040's) would seem to be a motivator for creating a conversion engine (are there tons of British forms available as PDFs too?) The problem is that I have 20+ complex U.S. Customs forms and Caribbean island forms (St. Martin, Anegada, St. Kitts etc.) that are all available as PDFs but RunRev has no easy to use complex report designer nor any ability to import PDF's... So I am experimenting with having each report be a gif in the background on a card especially for that purpose and than writing code to put in the information from my vessel and crew and passenger databases onto the various places on the form (both sides sometimes and with odd number of lists). So far this is not working very well (small print not readable). All of this I accomplish now with several HyperCard stacks and the truly excellent features of Nine to Five Reports. Those features are adding another conversion problem as well because Nine To Five had an index and search feature that I used extensively throughout the old stacks that I now have to re-write too (but that is a unique problem that I can live with). The final goal is to use RunRev's internet access as U.S. Customs is changing everything to paperless and that was difficult to do in HyperCard. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Building reports - NTF reports features wanted!
The existing report builder in rev 2.2 is basically a label maker or card printer. It does not have any design tools. If you want to print a PDF form or even print some data on top of an existing form it would be very difficult (no positioning tools for field outputs). There is also no way to add a background tiff or PDF. What are the work-arounds for this? Can rev 2.2 be combined with AppleScript to send data to Acrobat Pro? I imagine you could have an Acrobat form for each of the reports you need with fields labeled for the data and it would always be running at the same time as your stack and you send the data to it as needed. Has anyone done this? I have an existing set of Hypercard stacks that use NTF reports and I would like to convert it to runrev. I understand that runrev chose not to buy NTF Reports and incorporate its power (or is that something happening in the future?). Would I be better off redesigning everything in filemaker pro or some other program that has report building tools? I really like everything else about runrev and want to use the program. My favorite thing is its Hypercard like ability to make changes and tweaks as you use the program you built. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
REPORTS USING PDF FORMAT
Has anyone built an application that imports PDF's that can be used as backgrounds for reports and printed in the same quality? It would need to be easy to make a new report using a new or modified PDF. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
