Blending for the rest of us ???

2006-05-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded a little something: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix/ not very thrilling; more coming soon, sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users

Re: Revolution Syntax Quick Reference

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Claude
Hi Mark, I have D/L your PDF: very useful. Are you planning to update it? Greetings Paul Claude on 3-05-2006 13:15, Mark Schonewille at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, Great to have a small document that provides an overview of all important commands and functions at a glance.

Exernal SDK

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, Economy-x-Talk is working on an external. Currently, we have a working application and now want to make an external out of it. Unfortunately, we cannot get the external in de SDK to work. So, I have two questions. Who got the external in de SDK to work and what did you have to do

Dumb question about external development

2006-05-05 Thread jbv
Hi list, I was wondering : with the new Intel Macs and all the universal binaries stuff, does it make any sense to imagine that external development for Rev could consist in 1 single source code compilation for all platforms (at least Win Mac) as long as it doesn't use any OS specific API ?

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Geoff Canyon wrote: Those of you who know me know that I am always fascinated by different programming languages. I've programmed in more than a few, but read up on dozens. Lately I've been taking a stab at Python. I'm keeping track of progress at http://learningpython.wordpress.com/ So

Re: Revolution Syntax Quick Reference

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello Paul, Naturally, I'm updating it. During the past 6 years, is was updated roughly every 6 months, but there is no time schedule for it. If anyone has sample scripts that really should be included in the collection, let me know. I'll be happy to include them in the next update of

Opening Hypercard stacks

2006-05-05 Thread Frank Herzog
Hi, as others have already stated before, there is a bug in runrev 2.7 when opening Hypercard stacks ('there was a problem opening that stack:'). Is this problem going to be fixed in the near future? Thanks for the help, Frank ___ use-revolution

Re: Opening Hypercard stacks

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Frank, I haven't tried opening HyperCard stacks in 2.7.1 yet, but this should be fixed in 2.7.1. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Salery is the easiest way to get your own web store on-line: http://

Re: [OT]Picture of the day at e-on software

2006-05-05 Thread Jerry Daniels
Chipp, What kind of mileage does that baby get? Jerry Buy Constellation from Runtime Revolution! http://revstudio.runrev.com/section/revselect/constellation/ On May 4, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/ Vapor drive runs on water. Now that there's a

Re: Dumb question about external development

2006-05-05 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy JB, On May 5, 2006, at 03:56, jbv wrote: I was wondering : with the new Intel Macs and all the universal binaries stuff, does it make any sense to imagine that external development for Rev could consist in 1 single source code compilation for all platforms (at least Win Mac) as long as

OT: anyone who tried to upgrade MotionArtist2 to version 3

2006-05-05 Thread runrev260805
Hi, for my last purchase at the Runrev OnlineStore i received a free version of MotionArtist 2. Trying to purchase the upgrade to V3 at e-frontier is declined by an error, that my sn is not valid. Does anyone else have problems purchasing this upgrade? It seems that this version of

iPhoto_iTunes Lib Palettes

2006-05-05 Thread Christian Langers
Hi everybody, I just added a new ressource to the revOnline space... it allows you to use the iPhoto and iTunes Lib Palettes to be used in Revolution...uses Automator to perform this (seen recently on http:// www.macosxhints.com/) Categorie : Utilities Name : iPhoto_iTunes Lib Palettes.rev

Re: iPhoto_iTunes Lib Palettes

2006-05-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/5/06 8:33 AM, Christian Langers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I just added a new ressource to the revOnline space... it allows you to use the iPhoto and iTunes Lib Palettes to be used in Revolution...uses Automator to perform this (seen recently on http://

Re: iPhoto_iTunes Lib Palettes

2006-05-05 Thread Christian Langers
add a Copy to Clipboard action Yep, and I primarily thought of drag an drop ... set the acceptDrop to true... (if one has a project which would use these palettes) But I'll try to add the action... Christian Le 5 mai 06 à 15:54, Ken Ray a écrit : On 5/5/06 8:33 AM, Christian Langers

271 Bug?

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Claude
My stack has the systemWindow prop. set to true; in the 2.7.1 IDE is impossible to set this property, the style remains topLevel. Reopening in 2.7, the systemWindow works again. It's a 2.7.1 bug or I miss something? Greetings Paul Claude ___

How to manage large SQL data sets

2006-05-05 Thread mfstuart
Hi all, How do I manage in Studio 2.7.1, large sets of SQL data? I have over half a million records in a MySQL table (just name, address, and phone number), and plan on building an application in Studio to access this data. But so far, I've not been able to get past Studio hanging/freezing

Re: How to manage large SQL data sets

2006-05-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 5/5/06 6:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, Hi all, How do I manage in Studio 2.7.1, large sets of SQL data? I have over half a million records in a MySQL table (just name, address, and phone number), and plan on building an application in Studio to access this

How to manage large SQL data sets - reply

2006-05-05 Thread mfstuart
Ruslan, here's my script: global tConnectID,tCursorID,mySelection on selectNames if the label of button NameViewOption = Active Names then put SELECT last_name, first_Name, address, city, state, zip_code, phone_no FROM names WHERE active_flag = 'T'

Re: How to manage large SQL data sets - reply

2006-05-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 5/5/06 7:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruslan, here's my script: global tConnectID,tCursorID,mySelection on selectNames if the label of button NameViewOption = Active Names then put SELECT last_name, first_Name, address,

Re: Has anyone been successful in using a QT video player in a 2.7.1 standalone? Any tutorials available?

2006-05-05 Thread Devin Asay
On May 4, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote: I am unable to successfully develop a standalone (on a Mac with OS 10.4.6 using Rev 2.7.1) from a stack containing a QT player. The stack works fine in the IDE and properly plays the video. No problems. However, when I try to build a

Re:Windows mysteries

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Presender
Hi Jim, On May 4, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Jim Ault wrote: snip Issue 2 - working on stack 001.rev saving changes frequently. Then with the stack still open, use Inspector to change the stack name to 002, then do Save As 002.rev On my Mac, I had unusual results when I tried to change a stack

Re: Windows mysteries

2006-05-05 Thread Jim Ault
Hello, Bob! How is life on that side of town? I have been so busy, actually busier that when we met. One of my businesses has fallen into an opportunity to step up to the big leagues and is taking most of my time. Your comments about the stack name change is true if you have not applied all of

How to manage large SQL data sets - reply 2

2006-05-05 Thread mfstuart
Ruslan wrote: RevDataFromQuery -- is not good choice in your case. it load everything into string of result You need to use RevQueryDatabase == The successful use of this command returns an integer, not the data. How do I get the data into a table list on

Byte order in unicode button labels

2006-05-05 Thread Devin Asay
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 discovered that the byte order is swapped between

Re: Byte order in unicode button labels

2006-05-05 Thread Devin Asay
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

Re: Byte order in unicode button labels

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Smith
Not certain that this is the appropriate or best way to deal with it (I know little about unicode), but just to swap the bytes (this sort of thing has worked well for me when dealing with binary numbers): function swapBytePairs pString repeat with n = 2 to length(pString) step 2 put

Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I have a strange phenomenon, and I've tried everything to overcome it (three days !) I use a popup menu to display a list of files (to be played with a player). On my Mac, I click on a button which contains a mouseUp handler which contains a popup menu to show the list. The list

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello Francis, Why don't you use a mouseDown handler instead of a mouseUp handler? Is the actual popup menu visible? What happens if you try to recreate it by duplicating one of the correctly working buttons and adjusting that? I have lots to do this weekend, but you can send me your

Re: Exernal SDK

2006-05-05 Thread Brian Yennie
Mark, What dev environment are you using? I've written several externals using xCode. I can't share the working code, but I could send you a shell that compiles. Contact me off-list if you want me to send you something... Hello, Economy-x-Talk is working on an external. Currently, we have

Re: Byte order in unicode button labels

2006-05-05 Thread 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

Re: Process, anyone?

2006-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
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

QT and standalones -- incompatible?

2006-05-05 Thread Dr. Robert E. Ball
I can not develop a standalone on one computer that will play a QT movie (Movie trial.mov) on another computer. I have determined the absolute file path to the player (with QT file) using put the defaultFolder / Movie trial.mov into movieName set the fileName of player Play to movieName The

Re: How to manage large SQL data sets - reply 2

2006-05-05 Thread David Vaughan
On 06/05/2006, at 4:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruslan wrote: RevDataFromQuery -- is not good choice in your case. it load everything into string of result You need to use RevQueryDatabase == The successful use of this command returns

QT and standalones -- incompatible #1?

2006-05-05 Thread Dr. Robert E. Ball
Because I could not get the QT video to work using a player and an external .mov file, I tried playing it as a videoClip. It plays just fine in the center of the card in the stack file. However, in the standalone, it plays centered at 0,0 and only the lower right quadrant of the video shows on the

Re: QT and standalones -- incompatible?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Reid
Hi Robert Are you trying to do this on a Mac running OS X? If so the problem could be to do with the way OS X application packages work - an application package is really a folder. If you get the current folder relative to the stack within the development environment and then try the same

Re: QT and standalones -- incompatible?

2006-05-05 Thread Dr. Robert E. Ball
Hello Peter, and thank you for responding -- and quickly, too. Yes, I am working on a Mac, but I want to develop a standalone for Windows as well. I thought I was doing what you suggested with the script in the openCard handler: put the defaultFolder / Movie trial.mov into movieName set the

Re: QT and standalones -- incompatible?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Reid
Hi Bob You're welcome. I've had many very helpful suggestions from this list, so it's only right that I chip in with some help as well! This list is the BIGGEST selling point for Rev - fast help from friendly people, what more can a stressed out programmer ask for!! Cheers Peter Hello

Re: How to manage large SQL data sets - reply 2

2006-05-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On 5/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the data into a table list on the card? As David has indicated all the info is in the Docs. From the Rev Docs revDatabaseColumnNamed(recordSetID,columnName[,holderVariable]) revDatabaseColumnNamed(myResults,LASTNAME)

Re: Processes, anyone

2006-05-05 Thread Cal Horner
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. I decided to use the example Employee Database that was given out by Revolution

Re: Processes, anyone

2006-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
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 standalone will remain in memory if one or both of these

Re: Processes, anyone

2006-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
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