Re: New Beast - help required!

2008-05-24 Thread Ken Ray
he folders I mentioned above. >3. In the documentation palette - you can search for sample scripts - >where are they kept? How could `i make my library of scripts available to > this search? No idea... perhaps someone else will know... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software

Re: Determining if Stack is Visible

2008-05-22 Thread Ken Ray
: if ("My Stack" is among the lines of the windows) and \ (the vis of stack "My Stack" is true) then -- stuff goes here end if You can use "the openStacks" instead of "the windows" - it's the same thing (although "windows" is 2 l

Re: Script Editor

2008-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
n Ray's: > > http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm Right, and there's links there back to Trevor's site to get the BBEdit plugin, but there's also plugins for TextMate, SubEthaEdit, and UltraEdit-32. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Sof

Re: RevCon kudos

2008-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
>> Wish I'd been there :-( > > To insult us personally? Kay's post had a couple of ;-) in it, so I took all as sarcastic humor, not insulting jab... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http:

Re: Simple Database without SQL

2008-05-20 Thread Ken Ray
> If I buy the Standard Edition am I allowed to use it on commercial > software products without paying any royalties etc. Yup! The price is per developer seat, for unlimited products and unlimited deployment. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site

Re: SheepShaver file access

2008-05-20 Thread Ken Ray
> Giving up on that, I have been dismounting the shared drive, copying > files to it, and then restarting the SheepShaver virtual machine in > order to re-mount the shared drive. This is a pain in the patootie. Does > anyone remember how to re-mount a drive in OS 9 without restarting the > OS? I'

Re: Simple Database without SQL

2008-05-20 Thread Ken Ray
/xmllib.htm There's a comparison on the site vs. the revXML.dll, if you want to look at it, and the docs are really good and have a lot of (short) examples. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ __

Re: Zooming to Center

2008-05-18 Thread Ken Ray
tCardLoc) - tNewDistFromLeft) set the top of pImgObj to ((item 2 of tCardLoc) - tNewDistFromTop) else set the loc of pImgObj to tCardLoc end if If you want the whole script that handles everything (I had to do this to figure out what worked), let me know and I'll post it. Ken Ra

Re: regex question

2008-05-18 Thread Ken Ray
> Does anyone have a regex to remove any text between parenthesis > (including the > parenthesis) ? How about this: put replaceText(tText,"\(.*\)","") into tText You may need to deal with extra spaces left behind by removing this stuff, but it should work. Ken

ANN: StackRunner 1.8 Is Now Available

2008-05-17 Thread Ken Ray
page a bit for clarity (this is in keeping with my talk at RevLive2008 :-). You can get it here: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/StackRunner.htm Enjoy! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com

Re: Defining locals or constants

2008-05-17 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/15/08 12:02 PM, "Stephen Barncard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, Ken, is a new 2.9 stackrunner on the way? Thanks for reminding me, Stephen... watch for the announcement... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RevCon kudos

2008-05-16 Thread Ken Ray
> I hope the readers here don't mind my taking a little slice of bandwidth > to thank those involved in making this year's RevCon a great one: Amen, brother! I agree with everything you said (except the hiking part, since I wasn't there to hike. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder

Re: Wow - punching holes in stacks!

2008-05-15 Thread Ken Ray
gt; I cannot get it here with Rev 2.9 and my PPC G4 10.5.2 Mac. An I can't get it with Rev 2.8.1 on an Intel MacBookPro running Leopard... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Defining locals or constants

2008-05-15 Thread Ken Ray
end answerTenTimesWorldRadius Don't know if this makes it any easier or harder, but just providing an option... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing lis

LiveResizing (was Re: "movestack" sent continuously!)

2008-05-15 Thread Ken Ray
"true" for new stacks instead of "false" - otherwise it makes resizing look "old" on OS X. In fact the IDE itself doesn't even default to liveResizing=true. This hasn't been filed as a bug report AFAIK. Opinions? Ken Ray Sons of Thunde

Re: Subject: Scripter's Scrapbook at RunRevLive - Correction!

2008-05-13 Thread Ken Ray
> Thank you Ken... > > However, the actual address is: > > ssbk AT FlexibleLearning.com See what happens when I try to correct something? I make it more confusing than it already was! ;-) Thanks, Hugh (and those of you who privately emailed me about the boo boo)... Ken Ray

Scripter's Scrapbook at RunRevLive - Correction!

2008-05-13 Thread Ken Ray
om If you have already sent email to the other address, you will likely get a "bounce" notice with some other contact emails (any of them will work), but if you haven't yet sent an email to him, I figured I'd let you know. Sorry for the confusion, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software

Re: OT - Contact manager in Rev or ??

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Ray
;s been working on one recently, and I've seen a couple of builds and it looks pretty cool... why don't you send him an email and he can go over it with you? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___

Re: tool tip font

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Ray
> Can a tool tip's font (name, size, color, style) be set? Not AFAIK... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.co

Re: Select All in fields

2008-05-04 Thread Ken Ray
e wonder if there > is some checkbox I need to select to just make it happen. Not a "one click" thing, Kee... but it's a one-liner if all you care about is basic editable fields (i.e. not list fields): if the selectedField is not empty then \ select the text of the selectedField

Re: Fixing MacOS File Names for a NAS

2008-05-02 Thread Ken Ray
> Anyone got a solution - there are thousands of files to copy - or a script - > or a reference to figure out all the different chars that needs fixing? Sorry, David, I ran into the same thing and ended up buying a Time Capsule for Mac backup and dedicated my original NAS to PC backup... K

Re: Launching a web page

2008-05-02 Thread Ken Ray
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\http\shell\open\command\") Hmm... I just use word 1, not word 1 to -2, and the above works for me; try changing it to just use word 1, and see if that works... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMA

Re: Can't change directory with shell(cd)

2008-05-01 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/1/08 5:54 PM, "Michael D Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing this > > answer folder "" > put it into aPath > put "cd "&aPath into aRequest > put aRequest into fld 1 > put shell(aRequest) into fld 2 > put shell("ls") into fld 3 > > No matter which folder I chose, Rev'

Re: arrowKey in tables

2008-04-28 Thread Ken Ray
ey. What version of Rev is this happening in? I just tried it in 2.9 and it behaves as you describe... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolut

Re: Mac Newbee question to Mac paths

2008-04-28 Thread Ken Ray
faultFolder pointed to the folder that contained the application bundle (i.e. what the user sees as the "application"). Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ __

Re: Tab in tables and determine which cell

2008-04-28 Thread Ken Ray
> In the script below revGetCellName was used. > Where can I read about table cells and cell names > of anything else related to table fields because I > cannot find this word in the dictionary or anything > when I do a search. Last night, Bill asked me how I ended up getting to the solution; I've

Re: control-clicking objects

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Ray
ver the button since I said "at the mouseLoc", but it works in a pinch. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: control-clicking objects

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Ray
if pKey = 3 or the controlKey is down then popup button "myMenu" at the mouseLoc else pass mouseDown end if end mouseDown If I'm in browse tool, I get the "Choice 1", "Choice 2", and "Choice 3" menu items. If I'm in pointer tool, I g

Re: Working with csv files that are 5000 lines or more

2008-04-22 Thread Ken Ray
> I see you on a lot of emails doing cool stuff so I appreciate you spending > your valuable time answering the questions My pleasure, Jim! Glad I could help... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothund

Re: Getting things the wrong way round . . .

2008-04-19 Thread Ken Ray
had to clarify/correct people asking me about Revolution. Of course, if the *intent* by RunRev and Mirye is to make these things all merge and become indistinguishable, then all that needs to happen is that it officially be made known and then I (for one) will shut up about this. ;-) Just my 2 cents, Ken Ra

OT: Re: Alphabeticisation ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ken Ray
ot;alphabetize" (or "alphabetise"), which is more universally used and understood. Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailin

Re: This has to be easy! Tell a program not to open a file

2008-04-16 Thread Ken Ray
ista-Mani > fest-To-a-Revolution-Executable Sweet, Trevor! That's going to help a lot of people (especially me!). :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mai

Re: More on 'there is a file it' returning false for files w/ non-Western European chars

2008-04-15 Thread Ken Ray
g) Returns: 116 So while Script Editor can convert the combined chars back to the proper character, Rev doesn't seem to be able to do that... so it's still a bug in that we have difficulty working with Unicode file names, but at least it has an explanation... Ken Ray S

Re: ***SPAM*** More on 'there is a file it' returning false for files w/ non-Western European chars

2008-04-15 Thread Ken Ray
p us come up with a workaround/solution... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: QT: How do I convert a folderpath to a clickable link?

2008-04-14 Thread Ken Ray
ript of field "Show Link", with lockText=true on linkClicked pURL launch document pURL end linkClicked Haven't tested it, but should work (at least in principle ;-). On the other hand, if your intention was to try and open a *folder* on the network server, or something other than laun

Re: putting numbers into parentheses

2008-04-13 Thread Ken Ray
"huh?". :-) Can you restate your problem so even someone as simple as I can understand it? ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolu

Re: fixed width font question

2008-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
o this in one go, you can do this: tell application "Font Book" set tNames to the name of the typefaces of font collection "Fixed Width" quit get tNames end tell There's a way to do it in Windows I've found (querying EnumFontFamiliesEx for those who care

Re: The DO Command

2008-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
ript) on Windows as a parsing language. I know for sure it worked with standard Rev code in 2.8.1 on Classic and I'd be *very* surprised if it didn't work now (don't have an OS 9 machine to verify that, unfortunately). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email:

Re: Lock moves

2008-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
Nothing happens for 2 seconds, then both appear instantly in the new > positions. You need to add the "without waiting" phrase to the end of both of the move commands - I tripped up on this a little while ago as well, but this is the solution. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder S

Re: The DO Command

2008-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
re are others, but you get the drift. When writing cross platform apps, you may need to occasionally do an "if-then" or "switch-case" if you're trying to do something that works differently on different platforms. So for example, if you want to store preferences; on

Re: Working with csv files that are 5000 lines or more

2008-04-09 Thread Ken Ray
Performance, Part I http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/scrp005.htm Increasing Script Performance, Part II http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/scrp006.htm Increasing Script Performance, Part III http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/scrp007.htm Ken Ray Sons of Thun

Re: How to paste into multiple fields

2008-04-09 Thread Ken Ray
a["text"] into tData set the itemDel to tab put item 1 of tData into fld "FirstName" put item 2 of tData into fld "LastName" put item 3 of tData into fld "Phone" HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http

Re: Delete a group from within a group script

2008-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
nd run the deletion code from there: on mouseUp put the long id of the owner of me into tGroup send "DeleteGroup tGroup" to this card in 20 milliseconds end mouseUp -- Card Script on DeleteGroup pGroup delete pGroup end DeleteGroup That should work (haven't had a chance to

Re: [OT] one more Revolution exposure...

2008-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
and I had to explain what it is. Glad you were there! > The next conference - IMDIS 2010 will take place in Paris. Thanks for the info, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-rev

Re: MacNN | First Look: Revolution 2.9, cross-platform compiler

2008-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
ar HyperCard program. Unfortunately this is the same mistake made by Wallace Wang in his book "Beginning Programming for Dummies"; but so long as it sells copies of Rev it doesn't bother me too much. ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: Handle ^ and ยจ in a field

2008-04-07 Thread Ken Ray
o a field - normally if you trap rawKeyDown or rawKeyUp and don't pass it, you won't get anything entered in the field. But accented characters bypass this and display automatically. I just entered this into RQCC: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6347 Ken Ray Sons

Re: 2.9 - Pasting from Excel

2008-03-31 Thread Ken Ray
C to make sure it's fixed. Don't know if you want to mark 6297 as a dupe of 6269 since I'm not seeing any image data in the clipboard in my tests, but that's up to you, Bill. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.9 - Pasting from Excel

2008-03-31 Thread Ken Ray
I've logged this as a bug: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6297 Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Prevents all Windows to be shown when uniconifying the Revolution IDE.

2008-03-31 Thread Ken Ray
ow - it's application-wide. So pushing invisible objects off the stack if you intend on giving your users the 'showInvisibles' ability is a good idea. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___

Re: [ANN] GLX Application Framework

2008-03-31 Thread Ken Ray
-mara.com/glx2/. Does the App Framework work without GLX2? Also, do you know if it works with the MetaCard IDE, or is it dependent on the Revolution IDE? Once again - great job, Trevor! :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Sit

Re: San Diego?

2008-03-21 Thread Ken Ray
ile I was working for Allegiant Technologies (the SuperCard guys back then). But both STS and I are now in Wisconsin... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: text speeds are good

2008-03-17 Thread Ken Ray
(1.459333ms) per execution). So I think "put after" is about as fast as Rev's going to get... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolutio

Re: Just in case I haven't mentioned it...

2008-03-17 Thread Ken Ray
gratulations, David! I'm glad you've been so productive; that's one of the great benefit of Rev! (And of this list, too!) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-

Re: why XHTML cannot be parsed with RevXML ?

2008-03-17 Thread Ken Ray
attributes, which is > common in XHTML forms and links that target CGIs with params. To solve > this, I escape the ampersands and replace them later. Actually, this has been fixed; the current version (2.0) lets you turn off validation, so you can have the ampersands unescaped in attributes,

Re: why XHTML cannot be parsed with RevXML ?

2008-03-15 Thread Ken Ray
27;s included). Can you provide an example of compliant XHTML syntax that doesn't parse? Just curious... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@li

Re: Repeat variable name changing

2008-03-08 Thread Ken Ray
the StartTime? If that's the case, you can do: on mouseUp put fld "myField" into tNames put fld "StartTime" into tTime convert tTime to dateItems add fld "Add" to item 5 of tTime convert tTime to time repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of tNam

Re: select rectangle area

2008-03-02 Thread Ken Ray
lt;> "" then put the uStartLoc of me & "," & the mouseLoc into tRect set the rect of grc "SelectRect" to tRect if the vis of grc "SelectRect" is false then show grc "SelectRect" end if end mouseMove on mouseUp set the uSt

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Ray
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:46:15 -0800, Stephen Barncard wrote: > Yes, I know I could make one, I've done Eudora email parsing before > in HC, but if an app has already been done, it would be worth it. Check out: www.manybases.com HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Em

Re: Machine() reports unknown...

2008-02-09 Thread Ken Ray
to get you started: put shell("system_profiler SPHardwareDataType") into field 1 HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@list

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-02 Thread Ken Ray
put "\/:*?" & quote & "<>|" into tSpecialChars repeat for each char tChar in tSpecialChars replace tChar with ("-") in tFile end repeat put tFile into item -1 of pPath replace "/" with

Re: Determine which control is being focused on in focusOut message?

2008-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
e you're coming from? If the owner of the control is the card, it's not in the group... ? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolutio

Re: Rev cgi vs. php

2008-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
s model. VisualWorks has no > limits but you pay royalties for any commercial products made with > it. RunRev has no royalties but puts script limit restriction into > standalones so you can't make another RunRev IDE and use it for free. Exactly, and personally I'd rath

Re: OpenStack and preOpenStack not taken into account

2008-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
o the same problem today (Rev 2.8.1) and found that > if script debug mode was off when Rev launches, openStack and > preOpenstack were not sent. This is just an IDE-related situation, and doesn't affect standalones, right, Eric? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EM

Re: This has to be easy! Tell a program not to open a file

2008-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
(this is on > Windows)? This all has to do with "document associations". The file's extension connects to the application that controls it. Here's some info on that and how to change things: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file004.htm HTH, Ken Ray S

Re: Determine which control is being focused on in focusOut message?

2008-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
other than a "send", since the 'focusOut'/'closeField'/'exitField' message is sent to the "old" object BEFORE the 'focusIn' is sent to the "new" object. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: ht

Re: [ANN] Movie Finder Demo Posted

2008-01-30 Thread Ken Ray
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:48:38 -0800, Scott Rossi wrote: > To view the stack, execute the following in your message box: > >go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/moviefinder.rev"; Sweet, Scott! I'm always looking up movies in my area, so this will come in han

Re: Fixed Width Fonts #2

2008-01-28 Thread Ken Ray
reopened the stack I was using, ran the code again, and it returned all the fonts... but when I was testing it earlier, it actually returned the proper list! A real head-scratcher! Sorry about that... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://w

Re: Fixed Width Fonts #2

2008-01-28 Thread Ken Ray
to tOldFont put the milliseconds - S & cr & cr & temp end mouseUp Best thing is - it doesn't use an actual field object, so it could be wrapped up in a library function... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: another question about finding duplicates

2008-01-27 Thread Ken Ray
there, done that, got the t-shirt. ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a

Re: check for a CD

2008-01-24 Thread Ken Ray
L, let me know. I also had an old tip for a command-line app called DriveReady (originally it was for checking the existence of floppy disks): http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/disk005.htm Don't know if it works for CDs though... How old an OS do you need to support? Can it b

Re: Hierarchical Menus

2008-01-20 Thread Ken Ray
with a field in a group and some logic. > > I ran into the same stumbling block a couple of years ago, just > before the last Revcon (I miss you guys) and then attended a > performance by the amazing Ken Ray, who showed how to 'think out of > the box' when it comes t

Re: A SuperCard project opener ???

2008-01-20 Thread Ken Ray
er it never worked for me, so I wrote my own (it's not comprehensive but did the jobs I needed it to. However it also assumes you have a copy of SC (although perhaps the SC Player might do the trick) to output the structure/scripts/etc. to XML format first. Ken Ray Sons of

Re: docs

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Ray
erse engineering for dollars"...) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubs

Re: importing a bunch of files

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Ray
tter structured and easier to use, but that's not really SC itself (but I just thought I'd mention it). I'm sure there's a handful of other items, but those are my top 3 (or 4) places where SC does things Rev doesn't (or not as easily). Ken Ray Sons of Thu

Re: importing a bunch of files

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Ray
defines the custom property set "scores" with one -- key (element) called "Ken" and sets its value to 75 set the scores["Randall"] of me to 90 -- adds another key to "scores" put the keys of scores --> Ken Randall HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Th

Re: OT: Anyone know of a way to lock the Dock in Leopard?

2008-01-08 Thread Ken Ray
a third party launcher (or build your own), and then hide the Dock. But it it does make me curious - why would you want to lock the Dock? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-r

Re: tapping into finder events

2008-01-07 Thread Ken Ray
meant more for learning about what's going on than tapping into the events themselves for third-party use (read the "Caveat" section on the page for more info). HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site

Re: standalones again -- problems

2008-01-05 Thread Ken Ray
e to add to this, but these are the things I just tested. There was a bug (#1639) in Bugzilla that addressed some of these, but it's been marked as "Closed", so I'm going to open a new set of bugs for the items I mentioned above. Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Softwar

Re: advice on a Rev-plus-internet setup (off-topic)

2008-01-05 Thread Ken Ray
s of course with a direct "Rev-on client" to "mySQL-DB-on-remote-server" implementation. As Viktoras suggested, a more secure way is to relay (regardless of database backend). Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http:/

Re: [ANN][OT] FutureBASIC now FREE

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
s, of course, and Intel Mac) and was tooling around with it for a while before I saw your email... I don't know enough to write anything that will compile, but what exactly is not supposed to be working on Intel-based Macs? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Softwa

Re: OT: MacBook randomly shuts down..

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
w if it works for me. But in the meantime the smcFanContol software was really saved my butt... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@l

Re: Trashing a file in Windows

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
pt, and double-click the .vbs file, I get the same "no error, but doesn't move the file" problem. This may have to do with security restrictions in Windows, but I've executed dozens of VBScripts by code in the past and this is the first one to behave this way. Any idea

Re: OT: MacBook randomly shuts down..

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
was released. Check > for firmware updates and that should solve the problem. Thanks, Sarah! Based on your email, I tracked down the SMC Firmware Update for my MacBook Pro (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookpro15inchsmcfirmwareupdate.html)... hopefully that will fix i

Re: OT: MacBook randomly shuts down..

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
hat it's a logic board defect, and when I get a chance I'm going to get it fixed, but for now controlling the fans seems to be working. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _

Re: New User Doc Whine & What?

2008-01-03 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:51:16 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Ken Ray wrote: > >> 4) Turned out there was; the video downloaded and started to play, >> but I could only hear the audio; the area of the QT player didn't >> redraw and so I couldn't figure out what

Re: New User Doc Whine & What?

2008-01-03 Thread Ken Ray
s been used, but has not been defined to hold any value. This is because of Revolution's ability to coerce one thing into another without having to apply types to it, and sometimes without even providing quote marks. For example, "put Ken into field 1" will put the string "Ken

Re: [OT] Universal Keyboard Option?

2008-01-03 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:02:50 -0500, Troy Rollins wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > >> The only thing I've run into is that it seems to work better if a PC >> running Windows is the server and Macs are the clients; although I'm >> runnin

Re: [OT] Universal Keyboard Option?

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Ray
lot, I've been running Synergy with boht Macs, and only launching the PC client when I really need it. (But if that bug was fixed, I'd use it for all three all the time.) Anyway, that's my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://ww

Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Ray
ion, the only thing I can say is "your mileage may vary" (YMMV). :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: Sheep Shaver & XCMDs

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Ray
pile-It back in the day as well, so I know what you mean. And if you're only concerned about OS 9, then you should be able to use those Compile-It externals in Rev (if I recall correctly Compile-It externals were all Type 1). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email

Re: Date Format?

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Ray
e use of the format() function and judicious use of a quoting function ("q") many of us have used: function ReformatDate pDate convert pDate to dateItems put "%s-%02s-%02sT%02d:%02d:%02dZ" into tFormat do "return format(" & q(tFormat) &

Re: [OT] Universal Keyboard Option?

2008-01-01 Thread Ken Ray
tp://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) - supports Windows 95+, Mac OS X 10.2+, and Unix X11 rev 4+. Haven't done much with it myself, but I understand that Synergy is really sweet... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___

Re: Sheep Shaver & XCMDs

2008-01-01 Thread Ken Ray
un across where I couldn't encapsulate the same functionality using a custom Transcript function. And doing so would make it completely cross-platform and OS X compatible, so it is the best way to go, IMHO. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Si

Re: Sheep Shaver

2008-01-01 Thread Ken Ray
Rev, and be able to see how the HC stack performed before I convert it. It's a little buggy, but have been working pretty well for me when I've needed it. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Sheep Shaver

2008-01-01 Thread Ken Ray
for a while now) - I haven't had a chance to test it in Leopard yet, but if you're interested, I wrote up a "how to" guide on getting it installed: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W

Re: [OT] Does Ken have a long lost brother

2007-12-26 Thread Ken Ray
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:57:39 +0800, Kay C Lan wrote: > Does Ken Ray have a brother he doesn't know about? Or is it the son of a son > of thunder? I have a brother I *do* know about, and two sons, but none of them have that web site. :-) > The logos, the fonts, the colours

Re: Looking for inspiration

2007-12-19 Thread Ken Ray
end if -- process your data here end repeat end ProcessData Obviously you can "scale" this if the granularity you'd like to show is less than 1% of the overall total at a time, but I haven't really found a need for that... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.

Re: Menubar on Windows???

2007-12-17 Thread Ken Ray
welcome to access them. There is a tutorial on Menus is > Rev, among many others. Hope you find them useful. > > http://revolution.byu.edu Those are great, Devin! I knew you were teaching a course over at BYU but I didn't know you had this stuff available to the Rev community. Th

RE: Caricature challenge

2007-12-17 Thread Ken Ray
ouldn't happen dynamically in real time without stuttering, etc., especially on larger images. I miss SuperCard's manipulation of pictureData in Revolution (you can do all sorts of other things too like setting offsets, magnification etc.) - it would be a great addition to Rev... Ken Ray S

RE: Caricature challenge

2007-12-16 Thread Ken Ray
eft corner of the image. I don't know of a way to adjust any offsets of the image within the polygon (for example to look at the center of an image using this approach, although there are other ways to get that effect without using backgroundPatterns... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Softwar

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