Problem with more than one open stack

2007-11-11 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a stack that runs a task that takes a about 2 mins to run. While it's working I want to display a simple Progress window, this works ok, except the when I Go to the Progress stack, the calling stack loses it's context so that references to fields on the stack don't get resolved

Re: More problems with revExecuteSQL

2007-11-01 Thread David Burgun
esn't have that. The 13T01 is the time. It appears that the expression for the date is getting evaluated as a math function. I think your template SQL statement should be something like: ... VALUES (':1',':2',... Hope that helps len morgan David Burgun wrote: Hi,

More problems with revExecuteSQL

2007-11-01 Thread David Burgun
Hi, After finding out that the data I was sending with revExecuteSQL needed to be escaped if it contains double-quotes or colon etc. I decided it would be better to put the data into an array and use the parameter substitution feature. When I run it now, I get the following error: unreco

Re: SQL Lite for RunRev?

2007-10-29 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted! All the Best Dave On 29 Oct 2007, at 15:47, Thierry wrote: Le 29 oct. 07 à 16:40, David Burgun a écrit : What do you mean by "SQLite is included with RunRev nowadays" ? Hi Dave, look here: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/m

Re: SQL Lite for RunRev?

2007-10-29 Thread David Burgun
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SQL Lite for RunRev?

2007-10-29 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Does anyone know where I can download a version of SQLIte for Windows and Mac that works with RunRev? How do I access the SQLLite calls from RunRev? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.co

Returning a Value from an AppleScript

2007-10-19 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I'm using: do myAppleScriptCode as "AppleScript" to run an AppleScript. How can I return a value from the AppleScript to RunRev? I'm sure I've seen this somewhere, but I'm at a customer site at the moment and don't have access to everything. Thanks in Advance Have a Great Weeken

Getting the Current User Name On Windows

2007-10-19 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I'm using the "whoami" shell function to return the current user name on the Mac. Does anyone know the equivalent code for Windows? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Problem Running Under Windows

2007-10-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, Apologies if this message has already been posted/answered. My email has been playing up and I lost a load of emails last night. If this has been answered, would someone mind forwarding me the replies? I'm still trying make this work and not having much luck at present! Thanks a lo

Problem Running Under Windows

2007-10-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have an Application that works ok when running under the RunRev IDE and as a Standalone on Mac OS X. However, when I run the start on Windows under the IDE, I get the following error: Type: Chunk: Can't find stack Object: CardStartup Line: else Hint: ISMColdStart After stepping thru

Zip Format?

2007-10-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I'm using the following function to create a Zip file: - -- -- UtilFileCreateZipFile -- - function UtilFileCreateZipFile theZipArchiveFilePat

Re: closeField and exitField problem

2007-10-16 Thread David Burgun
On 15 Oct 2007, at 20:30, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Yes, I too think that validating user entries is one of rev's weaknesses. However, artificially increasing the problem by not using the fields as data source seems a bit strange to me, especially with your reasoning. One area where this

Re: SOAP Library - More

2007-10-12 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, Thanks a lot for that, I managed to get it working in time for the demo! I've re-structured it quite a bit, I need to fix a few problems, then I'll release it back. I've made it a lot more general purpose and much easier to use. Thanks Again All the Best Dave

Re: COM support in RunRev

2007-10-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thanks a lot Ken, that should help no end. All the Best Dave On 5 Oct 2007, at 16:12, Ken Ray wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:58:58 +0100, David Burgun wrote: I know I can achieve the same on the Mac from past experience of using RunRev with AppleScript, however I am not sure of if and

Re: SOAP Library - More

2007-10-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi Again, I'm really confused on how this SOAP library has to be setup. I've been trying to make sense of it by stepping through the code but since I'm not sure what it is supposed to work, I'm not having an awful lot of luck! For instance, this function: -

Re: SOAP Library

2007-10-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, Thanks for that, it looks a lot cleaner. One question though, I can't find any documentation on the SOAP.RPCRequest() function. When I click it in SOAPLib Stack, it just shows the name. I have the following snippet that I am trying to get to work before moving onto more complex

SOAP Library

2007-10-05 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am interested in using SOAP to communicate between a client and server. I downloaded "Unsupported Stacks" from the RunRev web site and found a file called "SOAP_toolbox.rev" which seems to do what I want. However when I came to use the functions in the stack, I found a few problem

Getting MAC Addresses

2007-10-04 Thread David Burgun
Hi, How can I get the MAC addresses of all appropriate devices on a system? e.g. if a system has Ethernet and BlueTooth, I want the MAC address of both devices. This has to work on Mac OS X and Windows. Thanks in Advance All the Best Dave ___ use

COM support in RunRev

2007-10-04 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I am looking at the viability of moving a RealBasic application over to the RunRev. The application communicates with various other applications. To do this it uses AppleScript on the Mac and COM under Windows. I know I can achieve the same on the Mac from past experience of usi

Re: Looking for certain types of buttons

2006-05-04 Thread David Burgun
On 4 May 2006, at 13:01, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: At 07:57 -0400 4/5/06, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Kaveh, That seems very efficient but if you are trying to make debugging quicker than put that code is a separate handler: [...] Just what I needed. Thanks! I just seem to remember something li

Re: Revolution vs Visual Basic

2006-05-04 Thread David Burgun
On 8 Mar 2006, at 14:45, Mark Smith wrote: A little out of my depth in saying this, but I don't think Revolution would be optimal for writing large and complex image manipulation routines, for example. I'll leave it there, as I have no experience of VB, so perhaps others can offer usefu

Unlock Code for RunRev 2.7.1?????

2006-05-02 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I just downloaded and tried to unlock version 2.7.1 but I got the message: "The entered license is too old to unlock this version" It worked fine under version 2.7.0. Do I need a new unlock code for 2.7.1? Thanks a Lot All the Best Dave __

Re: Use of the Debugger ?

2006-04-27 Thread David Burgun
Hi, One of the really good things about using a Message Based Schedular is that you can build debug/trace into the Schedular and thereby trace specific message and/or objects. This has cut my debugging time in half! For instance: You have 10 objects that receive a message "MSGX" and do so

Re: Stop IDE from executing stack when opening stack?

2006-04-27 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I insert the following code into the preOpenStack handler: if (the environment = "development") and (the tool = "pointer tool") then exit preOpenStack end if This has the effect of stopping the message paths from executing IF the stack is being run with the IDE in "Pointer"

Re: Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
eb. I don't know if this makes it easier or not? Thanks for your help. All the Best Dave On 26 Apr 2006, at 19:31, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:09 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi Trevor, It's using mySQL right now, but I could use any SQL based database. I'm no

Re: Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 26 Apr 2006, at 19:16, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 7:50:54 AM, you wrote: I've just had an enquiry about an application I developed in RunRev a while back. It's basically a small database that contains small images, a 2D size and a product code.

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 26 Apr 2006, at 18:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Burgun wrote: On 25 Apr 2006, at 21:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ton Kuypers suggested: > use Constellation? A good choice. And there's MetaCard, and devolution, and you can roll you're own The problem is for Newbie

Re: Mysterious missing messages

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
Maybe someone should write a custom message eater object that gets pinker the more message it consumes! All the Best Dave On 26 Apr 2006, at 17:28, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, David Burgun wrote: even a "rogue" object... it made me laugh out loud at the idea of a Rev object m

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 26 Apr 2006, at 16:40, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Apr 26, 2006, at 8:18 AM, David Burgun wrote: Also, when a newbie buys RunRev and starts to use it, depending on their past experience, they have a big task to get their head around, a programming language, an IDE and the whole MC concept

Re: Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
Jeez, I thought I had a doppelgänger for a minute! Is it me or have we got cross-threads here? Cheers Dave On 26 Apr 2006, at 17:07, David Brooks wrote: What kind of database is your app using right now? MySQL under Mac OS 10.4. Stack, text, SQL or other? Also, what kind of envi

Re: Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
quot;, but now they want to make it available over the web so anyone can go to the page and do the same thing. There is no authentication in terms of getting a User ID or Password. All the Best Dave On 26 Apr 2006, at 16:47, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:50 AM, David Burgun wro

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
issues have been present since the debugger was introduced. They are there in version after version of Rev. Many are listed in Bugzilla. Most are obvious to a causual user. But they don't get fixed! I hope they listen to Scott, but history is not encouraging. Paul Looney -Original

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 26 Apr 2006, at 15:59, Jerry Daniels wrote: If I read this thread correctly, it isn't that the Rev IDE is untrustworthy, but rather that the second typing of an enter key closes the Rev script editor. Yes, bad UI design. It's not just that though, there are loads of problems in the ID

Converting a RunRev App to a Web-Based App?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I've just had an enquiry about an application I developed in RunRev a while back. It's basically a small database that contains small images, a 2D size and a product code. They would like to convert this to a web based application. How easy/difficult would it be to convert the existin

Re: Mysterious missing messages

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
Laughing my Socks Off! Would be an interesting bug! All the Best Dave On 26 Apr 2006, at 15:01, Ian Wood wrote: On 26 Apr 2006, at 13:52, David Burgun wrote: whereby it creates a "rouge" object Or even a "rogue" object... it made me laugh out loud at the idea of

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 25 Apr 2006, at 21:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ton Kuypers suggested: > use Constellation? A good choice. And there's MetaCard, and devolution, and you can roll you're own The problem is for Newbies. If you are learning a new environment you really don't want to add to the learnin

Re: Turn Off Double-Entry?

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
On 25 Apr 2006, at 19:23, Jim Ault wrote: Later I am switching windows and happen to click on the Replace button, and without realizing it, I have replaced the string "tCounter" with empty in every part of my stack script. There is no undo for this, even if I realized my mistake the moment

Re: Mysterious missing messages

2006-04-26 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I've had this problem or something very like it in the past, but I could never reproduce it. I think that sometimes RunRev gets itself in a state whereby it creates a "rouge" object and that objects causes all kinds of side-effects. If you still have the errant stack, I suggest you se

Re: Copy/Cut/Paste Edit Menu Questions?

2006-04-25 Thread David Burgun
Excellent! Thanks a lot! Have been away for a few days and have only just caught up on my email. Thanks a Lot All the Best Dave On 22 Apr 2006, at 16:48, J. Landman Gay wrote: David Burgun wrote: I should have asked the question differently! What I meant to say was, in a menu handler

Re: script help

2006-04-24 Thread David Burgun
Opps! a Typeo crept in! The line should read: set the visible of image myImageIndex of card myCardIndex of this stack to true Actually this would be better written as a function with a parameter to specify whether to hind or show the images: function SetVisibleOfAllImages theVisi

Re: script help

2006-04-24 Thread David Burgun
Hi, This should do it: on mouseUp local myCardCount local myCardIndex local myImageCount local myImageIndex put the number of cards in this stack into myCardCount repeat with myCardIndex = 1 to myCardCount put the number of images in card myCardIndex of this stack into myImage

Re: Copy/Cut/Paste Edit Menu Questions?

2006-04-22 Thread David Burgun
On 21 Apr 2006, at 20:25, Garrett Hylltun wrote: David Burgun wrote: Hi, I've noticed that the copy/cut/paste commands work automatically when you use the Command-Key short cuts, e.g. if you have an Text Field and you select the text within it, you can copy or paste into that

Re: Stack file format change in 2.7 - BACK UP!

2006-04-21 Thread David Burgun
7 To change the stack's version from 2.7 to (as an example) to 2.5 : just type "set the stackfileversion to 2.5" from your 2.7 IDE and save the stack ! Best Regards, Pierre Le 21 avr. 06 à 13:33, David Burgun a écrit : I hope so! That's great! All the Best Dave On

Copy/Cut/Paste Edit Menu Questions?

2006-04-21 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I've noticed that the copy/cut/paste commands work automatically when you use the Command-Key short cuts, e.g. if you have an Text Field and you select the text within it, you can copy or paste into that field. This seems to work in the IDE and in the Standalone. My first question is

Re: Stack file format change in 2.7 - BACK UP!

2006-04-21 Thread David Burgun
I hope so! That's great! All the Best Dave On 20 Apr 2006, at 14:36, Geoff Canyon wrote: I think saving in the pre-2.7 format is available in the upcoming release. gc On Apr 20, 2006, at 2:41 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi All, I really can't understand all the mystery surrou

Re: Stack file format change in 2.7 - BACK UP!

2006-04-20 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I really can't understand all the mystery surrounding this "fix" to allow backwards compatibility. As far as I understand it, there is a way to tell the engine to save in the old format or the new format, with version 2.7 defaulting to the newer format. That all sounds reasonable.

Re: How to manage memory load in standalone substacks?

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I think you'd be better off holder the video clips in a separate file and loading them dynamically when you need them. Apart from anything else it will be hard to ship a 75+ MB Stack File! I can give you some pointers if you need them. All the Best Dave On 18 Apr 2006, at 19:49, Ben B

Re: Problems with revcopyfile

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Opps! That won't work either, I think that should do it tho: ask file "Save File As:" if it = empty then exit mouseUp put it into myFilePathName set the itemDelimiter to "/" put item -1 of myFilePathName into myFileName put myFilePathName into myFolderPathName put empty into item -1 of myFolderPa

Re: Problem with Edit/Preference Menu Item

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
track the problem down but as it is Guess I'll just have to ship this App with a disabled Preferences Item in the Application Menu and an Enabled Preferences Item in the Edit menu, I hate doing it, but I don't have any other choice. All the Best Dave On 18 Ap

Re: Problems with revcopyfile

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Try doing this: if it is empty then exit mouseUp put it & "/" into filePath IOW, add a "/" to the end of the file path. I think that should make it work. All the Best Dave On 30 Mar 2006, at 21:36, Jonathan Kotthoff wrote: This does not seem like it should be this hard...I must be missing

Re: "Save As..." not working

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Yes, I have had it do this Under 2.6.6 on Mac, I got around by reinstalling RunRev. I don't tend to use it now, I find it easier to dupe the file in the finder, guess it's different on Windows? All the Best Dave On 18 Apr 2006, at 17:16, Preston Shea wrote: The "Save As..." function on my

Re: Problem with Edit/Preference Menu Item

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Tried it but it made no difference, the other "special" menu items work ok, one of the differences is that (according to the docs) with the Edit/Preferences item, it checks for the item starting "Preferences", I am wondering if it's comparing incorrectly. I cut and pasted the "Prefer

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
On 18 Apr 2006, at 16:29, Mark Smith wrote: I time things like this by putting them in a loop: put the millisecs into stTime repeat 1 -- for example put the short name of this stack into myStackName end repeat put the millisecs - stTime on my machine, this takes 11 millsecs. But where

Re: Problem with Edit/Preference Menu Item

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
st Dave On 18 Apr 2006, at 13:20, David Burgun wrote: Hi All, I have a Stack that creates a Menu Bar and then Populates the Buttons and Items within the Buttons. This works fine except that he preferences menu item doesn't seem to be being moved to the App Menu correctly. When I look

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
file name would be a superset of the stack name. Which is a shame, where speed matters, as getting the short name from the engine is quite a bit slower than simply parsing the file name. Best, Mark On 18 Apr 2006, at 15:37, David Burgun wrote: Hi, I have a stack called s1.rev,

Re: Looping

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi, In general, you just create a number of loops! Like so: repeat with myLineCount = 1 to the number of lines in myList -- -- LineCount will now be set to 1, 2, 3, etc. until the end of the list is reached, so -- put line myLineCount of myList into myLineText -- -- Will put the text

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
the stack the object is in, and then checks whether or not it's among the lines of the openStacks - which is a list of the short names of all currently open stacks, not their file names. It seems to work perfectly well, here ( I assume the listing below is not your actual script, th

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
tines for getting short names etc, are going to be faster than string slicing. I've no idea what kind of overhead there is in calling externals, and it'd have to be a pretty good external to beat Rev's string handling, I think... Best, Mark On 18 Apr 2006, at 13:28, David

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
ideas??? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 18 Apr 2006, at 13:18, Mark Smith wrote: I see what you mean. Maybe what's needed is a library of functions to deal with this sort of thing. Mark On 18 Apr 2006, at 10:34, David Burgun wrote: Hi, The problem with that is if you have groups

Problem with Edit/Preference Menu Item

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have a Stack that creates a Menu Bar and then Populates the Buttons and Items within the Buttons. This works fine except that he preferences menu item doesn't seem to be being moved to the App Menu correctly. When I look at the menubar, the edit menu still has the "Preferences..

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-18 Thread David Burgun
don't know how flexible it is. Best, Mark On 15 Apr 2006, at 12:54, David Burgun wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for this. One thing that has puzzled me is why you can't access things like the stack or card of an object. For instance why can't I just do this: put the short name o

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-15 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thanks a lot for this. One thing that has puzzled me is why you can't access things like the stack or card of an object. For instance why can't I just do this: put the short name of the stack of the long id of me into myStackName or put the short name of the card of the long id of

Re: Starting up a script in "safe" mode

2006-04-15 Thread David Burgun
You can do it from the message box. Type this: answer file "Stack File";edit the script of stack it If it's in the Stack Script or answer file "Stack File";edit the script of card 1 of stack it or you could just add a script to a button: on mouseUp answer file "Stack File" edit the script

Re: When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-14 Thread David Burgun
Hi, The problem is that I only have the long id of an object, to get the stack name from this I have to parse the long id as a string, which I can do, but it's slow. Any Ideas? All the Best Dave On 14 Apr 2006, at 13:10, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi David, Close and Delete from memory shoul

When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

2006-04-14 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a stack that has: destroyStack, destroyWindow set to true. However, when I close it in the IDE (and maybe the standalone, haven't tried it?) it seems to still be around, by this I mean that: if exists(theObjectLongID) = true then end if Succeeds and you can call objects inside

Re: problems with find command

2006-04-14 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Yes, there are numerous problems with the Find Command. Do you mean the Global Find or the one in the Script Editor? You could try fiddling with the settings in the prefs, failing that, if you want to be 100% sure of finding everything you are looking for then the best bet is to paste

Re: How to stop screen "flicker"

2006-04-14 Thread David Burgun
d, set the window off-screen first. Please, let us know whether this solves your problem. Mark David Burgun wrote: The loop is part of a cold-start up process, I want to run all the stacks qualifying stacks in a folder in "ColdStart" mode, this allows each stack to reset it

Re: progress bar

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, set the thumbPosition of me to 10 Or any control reference, like: set the thumbPosition of scrollbar " ProgressScrollbar" to 10 Hope this Helps All the Best Dave On 13 Apr 2006, at 22:40, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: Hi! I am new to Revolution and Transcript. Giving a try to Revolution

Re: Weird and Horrible Problem??!!

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
ol, however, you could look at the source code and see how it generally works. I chose the Sprograph Example since you had ported to RunRev initially and thought you be familiar with it. All the Best Dave On 13 Apr 2006, at 17:53, Alex Tweedly wrote: David Burgun wrote: How can an arra

Re: Another Weird Thing??

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
ested the replaceText and got blank I used the replace "|" with comma in myMessageData and that worked. Tom On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:32 PM, David Burgun wrote: Hi, I seem to be being plagued by weirdness today! Take a look at this c

Another Weird Thing??

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I seem to be being plagued by weirdness today! Take a look at this code: set the itemDelimiter to "," --Do I need this? put theMessageData into myMessageData put replaceText(myMessageData,"|",",") into myMessageData

Re: Where to Store Libraries and Other Files in 2.7?

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I don't put anything at all RunRev folder, I assume that the libraries will be in the same folder as the stack(s) that use them. I locate them dynamically by getting the file of the current stack and replacing the last item with the library name. You have to use the copy panel of the

Weird and Horrible Problem??!!

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have some code that does this: put "KindStart" into myKind Then, later on it does this: switch myKind case "KindStart" .. break end switch The problem is that it never hits the case "KindStart" statement. I put a breakpoint in the Script that does the switch and t

Re: Custom Properties

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I don't see what is to be gained using setProp's in this example? Surely: function setEditMode pMode if pMode then enable button "Save" enable button "TextColor" set the lockText of fld "myfld" to true set the traversalOn of fld "myFld" to true else disable button

Re: Using 'try'

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, A try statement will "catch" an occurrence of a "throw". The throw can be performed anywhere in the engine or from one of your own handlers/functions. If an "exception" is "'thrown" and there is no "try" structure in place, then an execution error will be generated (e.g. the Engine or

Re: startup question

2006-04-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, One way of doing it is like this: put "stack " & quote & myStackFilePath & "LibStack.rev" & quote into myTempStackFilePathName get value("LibStartUsing(" & theParam1 & "," & theParam2 & ")",myTempStackFilePathName) Then in LibStack: function LibStartUsing theParam1, theParam2 st

Clarification on Menubar under MacOS X?

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have created a Menubar containg just a "File" menu and given it the following items: Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Quit If set this menubar as in: set the menubar of this stack to myMenubar The menu appears ok except that when it displays, the last ite

Re: bugs

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
On 10 Apr 2006, at 17:54, Robert Sneidar wrote: It is theoretically possible to write bug free code, but the chances of doing it decrease exponentially with complexity. (For anything like software someone would actually want to use, the chances are about the same as the coin dropping to th

Re: Recent posts

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
n sort by that field whenever nec. An inventory stack was one past project where I actually had 4 sort orders + mod dates. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/10/06 5:37 AM, "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, I dunno! Would it help to di

Re: List Moderation, recent threads and New Forum

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi Lynn, On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:06, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hi all, So guys and gals, here it is: Wa too much noise to signal ratio. It's taken me hours just to get up to speed on the discussion for the last two days, and how much more do I know about using Revolution? Almost nothing!

Re: Recent posts

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, I dunno! Would it help to diagonal draw a line across cards in a RunRev stack? If they ever got out of order you could then maybe use the same trick to put em back again!?!? All the Best Dave On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:50, Marian Petrides wrote:

Re: Bugs

2006-04-10 Thread David Burgun
On 10 Apr 2006, at 02:13, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, Many - many years ago, I came across a simple program written to print out paychecks (in 1401 AutoCoder, for anybody who wants to know). The input to the program was you've guessed it ... punched cards, containing basi

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 21:04, Rob Cozens wrote: Geoff, et al: Well, my international (from an american viewpoint) friend, how about this: on mouseUp -- display the date answer the system date with "OK" end mouseUp The requirements are stated clearly in the comment, so the long date is out.

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 19:33, jeffrey reynolds wrote: Lynn, This list has been very stable and as lists go pretty civil. yes once and a while there are little firestorms, but all and all its very self moderating (except for a few of the comments that were posted that went into illegal areas

Re: Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 19:19, Ken Ray wrote: On 4/9/06 12:57 PM, "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Do I need to restore the field selection after switching cards? I have a stack with two cards and in card 2 the user selects an item in a list field and it gets select

Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Do I need to restore the field selection after switching cards? I have a stack with two cards and in card 2 the user selects an item in a list field and it gets selected ok, they then switch to card 1 and then back to card 2 but the current selection is lost when card 2 re-appears. Is

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 00:07, Garrett Hylltun wrote: I'm sure you're right though, I'm sure were not being singled out for something derogatory. It's obvious the intent, which had nothing to do with you. Which adds to your puzzling reply on this. Almost all those names that were listed are th

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 8 Apr 2006, at 12:07, David Vaughan wrote: So tell me what could go wrong? ;-) I realised while cooking the salmon this evening (crocodile being off the menu) that Geoff had inadvertently provided a wonderful case study on bugs. Any link to Geoff in the following is purely coincident

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
I really don't think you understand the ISM concept and think it's some strange thing that is somehow going against the way Xtalk's work. It's really not. It's really just a convenient and flexible way of allowing an object to communicate with other objects without having to explicitly tell

Re: How long does one put up with crashing? - reply

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
On 7 Apr 2006, at 22:25, Dave Cragg wrote: On 7 Apr 2006, at 21:19, Chipp Walters wrote: But, then there's another problem (at least for me). Currently, I'd like to get my hands on a 2.6.6 version of Rev. But the latest installer I have is 2.6.1, which when properly online updated, goes t

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
On 7 Apr 2006, at 17:49, Mark Wieder wrote: David- Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:26:29 AM, you wrote: Approach 2, results in much better software and much happier engineers. The idea is to have QA involved right from the start, at the design stage. QA's job here is to ensure that components (such

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
That's true of course, I could rewrite the Script Editor and may well do so, but really, unless I invested a lot of time understanding the how the rest of the IDE worked, it would probably not work very well. If I were to do it, I'd rewrite the whole thing. All the Best Dave On 7 Apr 2006

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
On 8 Apr 2006, at 02:06, Bob Warren wrote: Garrett Hylltun wrote: >Have you ever dropped a stack of a thousand or so punch cards!? That was the last time I ever dropped a stack. Took me weeks to put the stack back in order before I could run it through the reader. Yes, and worse. On one occ

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
On 7 Apr 2006, at 22:43, Ken Ray wrote: On 4/7/06 3:36 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm so old my first computer was made of cardboard. Heck, we had to 'punch out' the cardboard parts just to build it (and we did this all by candlelight as electricity wasn't invented yet)

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi, All my messages pass along the very same chain you are using, the fact that there is a library that is managing events has nothing to do with it. I've experienced the problems I mentioned (and they have been verified by others) in small 3 control test stacks with no libraries etc. I d

Re: How long does one put up with crashing?

2006-04-07 Thread David Burgun
I'd really go back to version 2.6.6, it's much more stable. Just beware the Stack File Incompatibility issues, I think there is a plug- in that saves a stack file in either format. Don't give up on Rev, for all my moaning it's a great product (when it works!) and it's worth the effort, you j

Re: How to stop screen "flicker"

2006-04-07 Thread David Burgun
. Why did you include that? Completely contrary to HyperCard, Revolution's "lock screen" command prevents windows from being redrawn but does not prevent them from appearing on screen. You might want to set the loc of the stack off-screen before changing the visible property, then hi

Re: Eureka! It's late, I'm tired and grouchy and I can't figure out a way to do this!

2006-04-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, On 7 Apr 2006, at 14:43, David Bovill wrote: David Burgun wrote: Hi All, Ok, I finally found it! I knew I had the code there somewhere, it was on a PowerBook I had forgotten I had! Got it working now, see below. It's really quite neat! A spot of recursion every now and then is

Eureka! It's late, I'm tired and grouchy and I can't figure out a way to do this!

2006-04-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, Ok, I finally found it! I knew I had the code there somewhere, it was on a PowerBook I had forgotten I had! Got it working now, see below. It's really quite neat! A spot of recursion every now and then is good for the soul, check it out! Oh, one thing that I could do with confirma

Re: It's late, I'm tired and grouchy and I can't figure out a way to do this!

2006-04-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I took the following code and massaged it into my Script to form the function below, but it still doesn't work! See the end of the message for a list of the objects visited. I just want a loop(s) that visits each object just once! On 7 Apr 2006, at 02:39, J. Landman Gay wrote: on sc

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