Re: Copy Image

Todd, Gonna need some more info here. I created two stacks "fred" and "ginger" on stack "fred" I have an image named "image" (though 'image' is a reserved word, it still works as a name) I created a second card on stack "ginger" then went to cd 1 of stack ginger I created a button "copy" on

Re: Copy Image

> I am trying to copy and image from the current card to a card in a external > stack, "GrommetData". > > If the image is already there from a previous copy, I delete it first and > then copy it to the card. > > If the image is already there all works as expected, BUT if the image is not > alredy

Re: Copy Image

Let me try to give some more info. I am so new I can't even ask the questions correctly :>( I am trying to copy and image from the current card to a card in a external stack, "GrommetData". If the image is already there from a previous copy, I delete it first and then copy it to the card. If

Re: Speed optimisation

On 10/6/05 4:21 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm - can you give a case where Kay's method gives wrong answers > because of a negative seconds value ? > As far as I can see (both by inspection and by testing) it always gets > it right. Whenever the negative seconds cause the r

Re: Stack Switching Question

On Oct 6, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Take a look at the proposal, Chipp. It's to deprecate "delete stack" and replace it with two new commands - one to delete a substack from its stack file, and the other to remove a main stack from memory. The functionality will still be th

Copy Image

Hello, Thanks for all the help last few days... Now I have another question. I am trying to copy an image from the current card to a card in another stack. The code looks like this copy img "image" to cd tCard of stack "Data" The image actually moves over to the card just fine. BU

Re: Stack Switching Question

At 11:41 AM -0500 10/6/2005, Chipp Walters wrote: I, for one, hope it doesn't dissapear, as I use 'delete stack' quite often. It's the only sure-fire way to make sure a stack is closed, and I'd have to rewrite many, many stacks if it went away. It's unfortunately named, and could certainly use

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

On 10/6/05 3:23 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeanne, It got 5 of my votes as well. But I think there is more confusion here. Paul, I think the open/close and load/purge ideas are great, with a few minor changes (plus I've included other terms in use to get an overvie

Re: Speed optimisation

On 10/6/05, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I don't think so, because your method gets wrong (IMHO) results in > two cases :-). > Well spotted. Yes I guess depending on what your going to do with it afterward it may matter. I tend not to bother with trailling zeros as Rev does a go

Re: change the size of the box in a checkbox

On 10/6/05, Kay C Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on menuPick tMyChoice --your choice is sent to here > switch tMyChoice --switch will look for a match > case ("Standard") > --remember setting them to zero will return to normal size > set the icon of button "CheckBox1" to 0 > set the hilitedIc

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RE: Using a card to make modifications to database

And helped it did!!! I threw some quotes around those variables and they are getting plugged into the database without a problem. Thank you very much All best Always Fred From: Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: How to use Revolution To: How to use Revolution Subject: RE: Using a

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Ken, Yes, yes, yes. I especially like your subtle change of "purge" to "unload" - more logical and consistent. How do you feel about requiring "load" rather than loading by reference? Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Use Revolution List Sent: Thu, 0

Re: Stack Switching Question

Chipp- Thursday, October 6, 2005, 9:41:39 AM, you wrote: > I, for one, hope it doesn't dissapear, as I use 'delete stack' quite > often. It's the only sure-fire way to make sure a stack is closed, and > I'd have to rewrite many, many stacks if it went away. > It's unfortunately named, and could

Re: Shared menus

Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I feel bad for their ROI: the API is considered "for Apple use and subject to change", which often translates to "your stuff will break with our next release." Heck, if they were ONLY THAT NICE at Apple! They routinely break stuff with their next

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Robert Brenstein wrote: Sounds good to me, Paul, but you need to accommodate closing stack window as opposed to closing stack. We have now: close with destroyStack off = close stack window close with destroyStack on = close stack window, remove stack from memory We still need to be able to

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

On 10/6/05 3:23 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeanne, > It got 5 of my votes as well. > But I think there is more confusion here. Paul, I think the open/close and load/purge ideas are great, with a few minor changes (plus I've included other terms in use to get an overvie

Re: Shared menus

Paul Claude wrote: I need, as for ABDialer or Jon's Phone Tool, to make a menu available from any app with the possibility to make a phone call, choosing an address, etc. Apple's recommended solution is to use Dock menus. I agree it's less useful, but I'm just passing on what they recommend (

Re: Stack Switching Question

Chipp Walters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I gave it five votes as well - with the understanding that >> there would be one comprehensive solution that would address >> both bugs. It would be welcome news to learn that "destroyStack" >> had disappeared with the next version of Rev. > > I,

Re: Shared menus

Richard Gaskin wrote: I feel bad for their ROI: the API is considered "for Apple use and subject to change", which often translates to "your stuff will break with our next release." Heck, if they were ONLY THAT NICE at Apple! They routinely break stuff with their next release with no warning

Re: Stack Switching Question

I, for one, hope it doesn't dissapear, as I use 'delete stack' quite often. It's the only sure-fire way to make sure a stack is closed, and I'd have to rewrite many, many stacks if it went away. It's unfortunately named, and could certainly use a better synonym. But it does 'delete a stack fro

Re: Stack Switching Question

Mark, I gave it five votes as well - with the understanding that there would be one comprehensive solution that would address both bugs. It would be welcome news to learn that "destroyStack" had disappeared with the next version of Rev. Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Mark Wieder

Re: Determine active OS langguage

On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:30 AM, graham samuel wrote: More significantly the 'queryregistry' call doesn't happen in your script because it would only be called if the platform **wasn't** Win32, which it is! I altered the logic a bit so that the registery is queried for the Win32 case, and bing

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Richard, I was also concerned about the legacy apps. My first thought was to allow "load by reference" for some period of time (for example all shipments of Rev. delivered after January 2007 would require the new behavior). But it may be that only a very small group of current Rev programmers

Re: Stack Switching Question

Jeanne- Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 9:34:21 PM, you wrote: > It is... (deep breath)... perhaps not the most well-thought-out > feature of the language. There is a bugzilla request > to split > the two functions of the delete stack comm

Re: Function to easily read values from a plist file

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, tha

Shared menus

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Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Sounds good to me, Paul, but you need to accommodate closing stack window as opposed to closing stack. We have now: close with destroyStack off = close stack window close with destroyStack on = close stack window, remove stack from memory We still need to be able to do the former. Hide stack

Re: Machine network names

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 y

Re: Shared menus

Paul Claude wrote: Thanks Richard, but you surely know that many non-apple appications override this rules, directly or through the Shared Menus Enhancer or the haxies by Unsanity; I have in my menu bar iKey, Metereologist, MenuCalendarClock, ABDialer, MainMenu, and there are many othe similar ap

Shared menus

Thanks Richard, but you surely know that many non-apple appications override this rules, directly or through the Shared Menus Enhancer or the haxies by Unsanity; I have in my menu bar iKey, Metereologist, MenuCalendarClock, ABDialer, MainMenu, and there are many othe similar apps. There is a way t

Re: Early Update Pack

Jesse, Not sure if you've gotten a response to this or not, so I'll chime in. And someone please correct me if I'm wrong. The early update pack is nothing more than an early subscription renewal of your Rev license. You could call it the "early bird special". Because you're purchasing

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Robert Brenstein wrote: Jeanne, It got 5 of my votes as well. But I think there is more confusion here. A I believe Open Stack and Close Stack should be symmetrical. In other words, Close Stack should reverse the results of Open Stack. Open Stack 1. loads the stack into memory, 2. makes the st

Re: destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Jeanne, It got 5 of my votes as well. But I think there is more confusion here. A I believe Open Stack and Close Stack should be symmetrical. In other words, Close Stack should reverse the results of Open Stack. Open Stack 1. loads the stack into memory, 2. makes the stack visible on the scree

Re: Speed optimisation

On 10/6/05, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I don't think so, because your method gets wrong (IMHO) results in > two cases :-). > Well spotted. Yes I guess depending on what your going to do with it afterward it may matter. I tend not to bother with trailling or leading zeros as Re

Re: Shared menus

Paul Claude wrote: Is there anybody who knows if Revolution may create shared menus (the menus that appears on the right side of the menubar and are available from any application)? The Apple HIG reserves those for OS use: Menu Bar Extras Reserved for use by Apple, the right side of the m

Re: Unix scripting help

I think I finally got this figured out. Turns out, Sarah, your idea did work, but I had to redirect output to a file, just like you're doing. And that made it so my script stopped hanging. What's strange, though, is that when I look at the contents of the file that gets created it's empt

Shared menus

Is there anybody who knows if Revolution may create shared menus (the menus that appears on the right side of the menubar and are available from any application)? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Create a Card in an other Stack

Perhaps you need to set the data stack as the defaultStack before sending the command? put the defaultStack into oldDefStack -- save the current defaultStack setting set the defaultStack to dataStack send "create card" to stack dataStack --do whatever else needs doing set the defaultStack to

Re: PHP and Rev cgi

Dave, it works with $1 and $2. $0 actually returns the path of the cgi script. Thanks too much ! JB > On 6 Oct 2005, at 10:40, jbv wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm trying to launch a Rev cgi script from a PHP script. > > > > I'm using the following line : > > > > exec("/home/httpd/html/c

Create a Card in an other Stack

Hello, I have ui Stack and a data stack. I want to create a new Card in my Data stack from the UI Stack, so I can store a new record on a new Card in the Data Stack. I can't figure out how to make it work. I tried using send to trigger a handler in the data stack but that doesn't seem to work.

Re: PHP and Rev cgi

On 6 Oct 2005, at 10:40, jbv wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to launch a Rev cgi script from a PHP script. I'm using the following line : exec("/home/httpd/html/cgi-bin/./myScript.cgi 0 $caddie"); and it works. But the problem is that I need to pass 2 parameters to the Rev cgi scrip

Re: stack on server very very slow: solution for workaround

Hello Phil strange workaround to gain back speed on server stored stacks: :-) There are two ways to gain access to a remote stack: I) The easy way: (NOT WORKING) set the stackFiles of this stack to "deutsch1.rev," & ServerVerzeichnis put "deutsch1.rev" into PlugIn open stack PlugIn ->

Oracle DB Connection

Hello All I have just purchased the Enterprise license so I can connect to an oracle database. Reading in the documentation, it says: Oracle: Oracle database drivers are not included as part of the Revolution installation on any platform. To obtain an Oracle database driver for your platfo

Oracle DB connection

Hello All I have just purchased the Enterprise license so I can connect to an oracle database. Reading in the documentation, it says: Oracle: Oracle database drivers are not included as part of the Revolution installation on any platform. To obtain an Oracle database driver for your platfo

Re: Speed optimisation

Dick Kriesel wrote: Not yet, Kay; that would be too easy. Although the "spec" didn't mention that the seconds might be negative, it didn't rule it out, either. The above function would return an incorrect value if there were a negative. And handling negatives correctly might increase the time

HELP!! - Geometry Gone Berserk, How to fix?

Hi, HELP! I have a Stack and the geometry has gone berserk. I have a "breakpoint" inserted in a preOpenStack handler that allows me to quit the startup path. If I let it continue the Stack displays and the geometry has scaled/moved objects as if the Stack window were MUCH bigger. If I Abort i

Re: Speed optimisation

Kay C Lan wrote: I certainly have to agee with Alex's statement about sitting back and watching. So here is my effort: ___ So do I win the Cupie doll? ;-) No, I don't think so, because your method gets wrong (IMHO) results in two cases :-).

Re: Create a Card in an other Stack

Can you give us an example of the code that doesn't work? Mark On 6 Oct 2005, at 09:08, Todd Geist wrote: Hello, I have ui Stack and a data stack. I want to create a new Card in my Data stack from the UI Stack, so I can store a new record on a new Card in the Data Stack. I can't figure

PHP and Rev cgi

Hi list, I'm trying to launch a Rev cgi script from a PHP script. I'm using the following line : exec("/home/httpd/html/cgi-bin/./myScript.cgi 0 $caddie"); and it works. But the problem is that I need to pass 2 parameters to the Rev cgi script, and can't figure how to read these pa

Re: change the size of the box in a checkbox

On 10/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting Kay C Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Kay. > > This is a fantastic description. I was not aware of the image library > method nor > the Icon section. Only been using rev for fun for about 2 years but > starting to > do something s

destroyStack, was: Stack Switching Question

Jeanne, It got 5 of my votes as well. But I think there is more confusion here. A I believe Open Stack and Close Stack should be symmetrical. In other words, Close Stack should reverse the results of Open Stack. Open Stack 1. loads the stack into memory, 2. makes the stack visible on the scree

Create a Card in an other Stack

Hello, I have ui Stack and a data stack. I want to create a new Card in my Data stack from the UI Stack, so I can store a new record on a new Card in the Data Stack. I can't figure out how to make it work. I tried using send to trigger a handler in the data stack but that doesn't seem to work.

Re: IDE Strangeness

On 10/3/05, Stephen Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > REV 2.6 - latest build OSX 10.3.9 Powerbook 17" 133 > > I'm having a strange problem with the IDE. I'm working with MySQL and > Trevor's DB library (both of which work fine) - but I'm getting > unpredictable behavior in the IDE after hours

Re: Determine active OS langguage

Hi Trevor I just tried your test (directly from your Rev user area) on my French XP machine and it still returned 'en'. I then had a look at it and found that the line replaceText(shell("defaults... resulted in a long text in French being put into tUserLangs. This reads (including the s

Re: Speed optimisation

On 10/5/05 11:16 PM, "Kay C Lan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > set the twelveHourTime to false --possibly set in openStack handler > > function addTime pTime,pSeconds > --set the twelveHourTime to false (if not set elsewhere in stack) > set the itemDelimiter to "." > convert item 1 of pTime to sec