Multilingual interface
Hi all, Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Creating two (or more) separate stacks gives a lot of extra work; especially during development. I was thinking about some kind of a language-preference that gives all the buttons another label and give some fields another content. The main problem is that I don't understand how I can change the content of a menu. There is something about dynamically changing a menu in the Rev Encyclopedia: About menus and the menu bar. I have to put a mousedown handler in the group. But what should it contain? Are there any examples of it? Also, would I need to extend the switch stucture like: on menuPick pWhich switch pWhich case Save case Bewaar -- Dutch for 'Save' saveStuff break case Quit case Stop -- Dutch; well that doesn't have to be explained quitStuff break end switch end menuPick Finally, can I discover what language the OS is, so I can set the standard language preference setting of my stack to it? Terry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows, answer command
Scott: What you say is true...if you use the Distribution builder. If you try running a stack by simply launching it first without Rev running, the Answer command is not available. I understand what is happening now, but it should either be pointed out or corrected. I like to think I can launch the stack first and test it that way without going through the Distribution build process. But maybe that's the only way with Rev. Richard Recently, Richard D. Miller wrote: Secondly, I can't get the Answer command to work at all during runtime on Mac or Windows. ASK works fine, but Answer does nothing. Works fine in development mode, but not during Runtime. The answer dialog is simply an additional stack that you need to include in your own stack if you're going to distribute your stack separately from the development environment. I think it's called Distribution Builder in Rev or something similar -- make sure review all the options here when building your stacks as standalones. Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows
I'd really like to know if others are running it this. Is it possible to build a stack on the MacOS side and then edit the same stack on the Windows side? Perhaps I'm encountering a problem exclusive to VirtualPC? Thanks. Richard First problem. I created it in Mac OS 9.1. Using 1.1.1b. Dragged the Rev file over to my VirtualPC window. Opened the 1.1.1 Rev beta in Windows. Opened the stack (actually tried it with all my stacks). Can't edit anything in any of the stacks. Application Overview seems to see it (most of the time), but the Message box doesn't see it. The pointer tool just causes the stack to respond as if it was in browse mode. Anyone been down this route, specifically building 1.1.1b stacks first on the Mac, then transferring them to VirtualPC? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: FTP progress feedback
At 8:54 am -0500 17/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using the put URL ftp command to transfer files to a server. Can someone offer a suggestion of how to get the percent completed of an FTP in progress to show in a progress bar? Hi. Tracking the urlStatus isn't officially supported for ftp uploads at present. (But coming soon.) However, you might try something this (no guarantees.). local lcCanCheck on mouseUp #whatever put whatever unto tUrl put whatever into tUploadData put true into lcCanCheck send ftpCheckStatus quote tUrl quote to me in 50 milliseconds put tUploaddata into url tUrl put false into lcCanCheck #whatever end mouseUp on ftpCheckStatus pUrl get urlStatus(pUrl) put it ##or whatever if lcCanCheck then send ftpCheckStatus quote pUrl quote to me in 50 milliseconds end if end ftpCheckStatus It's important that the send command comes before the put command, as the put command will block until the upload completes. Cheers Dave Cragg (Runtime Revolution -- It's got the power.) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Does destroystack work?
I'd like to know the verdict on destroystack. I simply cannot get it to work in the development environment in OS9. Does it work during Runtime on a Mac? Does it work properly in Windows...during development and runtime? I've got several thousand images I prefer to imbed in relatively small stacks, rather than leave on the CD as external files. I need to copy an image from one of those stacks into my main stack without having that image stack stay in memory. I've got the destroystack and destroywindow in each image stack, set to operate on the closestack command. My main stack copies the image then sends a closestack command to each image stack. But the memory remains unpurged (at least according to the revloadedstacks function in Mac OS9 development and the Application Overview window). Feedback on this problem would be appreciated. If this isn't a reliable way of going, I'll have to stay with external files. Thanks. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing field text
Hello, Do you know how i can print just the content (text) of a field, and not the complete card, with the command print? Thanx AD ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac
Bonjour Yves, hi Devin and all, P.S. What you got is definitively a jpg-file, anyway... Try to set the filename of an MC image to that file et voila... :-D Yes I'm working on a Mac Thanks. -- Greetings. Yves COPPE here is the promised explanation of how to copy an image (any binary file) on a mac correctly. It's a bit long. So be warned :-) On the mac, the OS needs some specific information about a file, to correctly handle doubleclicks etc... We exspect Photoshop to be lauched, when we doubleclick a .PSD-file (with or without the file extension, which is not necessary on the mac, as long as we see that eye-icon !). But the OS looks for the information about the Type (what kind of file is it) and Creator code (what app created that file) INSIDE that namely file. These info is stored in the resource-fork of an file. But a resource-fork is something totally unknown on windows, so it doesnt appear when copying a file from mac to win. And that's the reson why a file looks corrupt when we copy it back from win to mac. The resource-fork really got lost. Windows simply trashed it :-( (Hey, what's that ? That's not the kind of file i know ! Two parts in one file ? Sorry ma'm, no way... Bye... :-) So when using MC to copy files on a mac, one has to set the filetype, which is a series of 8 chars, describing exactly the above mentioned. First 4 chars represent the creator , the last four the type. Example: A jpeg-file created by Photoshop has 8BIM as its signature and JPEG as the default code for jpg-files. Filetype: 8BIMJPEG A photoshop gif-file: 8BIM GIFf So, noone can know all the filetypes, but we need that info to get an exact copy of a file :-( No problem, lets MC do the work :-) Here we go: ##OldfilePath is the path to the file to copy ## We need to set the filetype BEFORE we copy the file. ##Here is a little function that will do the dirty work :-) on mouseup ##or whatsoever set the filetype to ye_olde_filetype(OldfilePath) ##this function will get one argument, the path to the file ##and will return the exact filetype :-D put URL (binfile: OldfilePath) into URL (binfile: NewfilePath) end mouseup function ye_olde_filetype el_patho put the directory into old_dir ##always a good idea to save and restore the original directory ! ##a MUST if you work with relative paths for images etc... set the itemdel to / put last item of el_patho into the_file ##the filename delete last item of el_patho set the directory to el_patho ##now we are in the folder where the file resides put the long files into all_files ##take a look in the reference about the long files ##that returns a list with lots of infos about the content of a folder ##(divided by a comma) ##like the filename, date of last modification, last saved ... ##and the filetype as the last item of each line get line(lineoffset(the_file, all_files)) of all_files ##now we extract that line containing the filename set the itemdel to , ##restore the old itemdel. very important set the directory to old_dir ##restore the old directory return last item of it ##that's it end ye_olde_filetype Hope that helps. Have a nice weekend. Best from rainy germany Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Multilingual interface
Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Hi Terry, Here is how I handle them: * Dates, times, and numbers are are stored unformatted in a database and are formated when displayed according to Mac OS Control Panel specifications. * Data labels and other on-screen literal text are replaced with icons. * The application is 100% button driven, and the function of each active button is displayed in a Help field when the cursor enters the button. * There is a Translation screen where the user is presented each button prompt other help message in turn, and can translate them to another language. * There is a Configuration screen where the user selects a language and the help prompts other text for that language are loaded into the stack. * The user manual is written in html so the user can translate it with any html editor. To see my design in action (in HyperCard), download the Mac demo at http://www.oenolog.com/apple_demo.htm. When OenoLog Version III was released, I touted it to the press as the world's first globalized business application: capable of end-user translation and world-wide distribution (on Macs) in a single version. I can't help you with the menu bar, since my application hides it. I know the Mac Human Interface Guideline police don't like that but: A. OenoLog softwqre was originally designed as a dedicated driver for specialized instrument, not as a cooperative application to work seamlessly with other Mac apps; and B. Frankly, I consider the menubar of today to be the DOS Prompt () of yesteryear. The menubar GUI was developed close to 30 years ago. Ever notice how most major software apps use a palette in addition to the menubar today? I believe point click is superior to pull down select in most user interfaces, and I find a button-driven interface MUCH easier to program than a menu-driven interface...especially one where the menubar changes with different tool selections. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
checking if a path is relative?
Is there any way to check if a path is relative or absolute? On windows I think an absolute path always contain a :, and a relative can not contain :. But on Mac.. an absolute path does not contain :. Anything else you can check for? any ideas appreciated, Revolution rocks! /Niklas __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac
on 19/1/02 4:01 PM, Klaus Major at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (long description of how to copy a binary file on a Mac, without losing the type and creator codes snipped) This is perfectly good as far as it goes, but will still lose anything that might be in the resource fork of the file. If you're going to go to that much trouble to make a mac-specific file copy routine, you might as well get the Finder to do it for you, which is a complete solution. Some gotcha's along the way: AppleScript of course doesn't understand about the Revolution use of the Unix filename conventions, so you have to switch them; and as far as I could tell, there isn't directly a way to tell the Finder to copy a file with right destination and name. So you have to copy it, then rename it. The following script works as far as I can tell, with two exceptions I can foresee - see below. It has the advantage over the variations of using put URL ... into URL that it doesn't require Rev to have enough memory to load the whole file at one lump; it preserves the type and creator codes, but also other information like the file date; and it preserves the resource fork, which I don't think is possible using any solution entirely in Transcript. function copyFileMac srcPath, dstPath -- first need to work out whether the destination is available -- (and whether the the source file is valid) if there is not a file srcPath then return Source file does not exist else if there is a file dstPath then return Destination file exists! -- an alternative implementation would delete the existing file end if -- we also only deal with absolute paths, only with files if (first char of srcPath /) or (first char of dstPath /) then return invalid source or destination path (must be absolute) else if (last char of srcPath = /) or (last char of dstPath = /) then return invalid source or destination path (must be files) end if -- separate file names from folder paths, find out if source -- and destination are in the same folder, check source folder -- exists set the itemDelimiter to / put last item of dstPath into dstName delete last item of dstPath if there is not a folder dstPath then return invalid destination path (folder doesn't exist) end if put ((item 1 to -2 of srcPath) = dstPath) into sameFolder put resPathToMacPath(dstPath) into dstPath put resPathToMacPath(srcPath) into srcPath -- create the applescript put tell application quote Finder quote return into asCom if sameFolder then put duplicate file quote srcPath quote return after asCom else put copy file quote srcPath quote \ to folder quote dstPath quote return after asCom end if put set newFile to the result return after asCom put set the name of newFile to quote dstName quote \ return after asCom put end tell return after asCom -- do the work do ascom as applescript return the result end copyFileMac function resPathToMacPath p -- p delete first char of p -- / -- can't just do [replace / with : in p], because -- wouldn't handle real / in file/folder names set the itemDelimiter to / put empty into macPath repeat for each item i in p replace : with / in i put : i after macPath end repeat delete first char of macPath -- : return macPath end resPathToMacPath One exception I can foresee is that quotes within the path will not be handled correctly. I imagine that this could be handled - I don't know enough about how characters can be escaped in AppleScript, or how variables can be passed in from Transcript. Secondly, because it first copies the file into the destination directory, then renames it, it would fail if the destination directory already has a file with the same name as the source (but not the destination name). This could obviously be scripted round. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Multilingual interface
Recently, Terry Vogelaar wrote: Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? I don't know if they're bright ideas, but here's what we did. We used a single stack to display content, with all text content, button labels, alerts, etc stored in external text files. All the files were grouped in folders by language, and were provided by the client's translators. The benefit of this arrangement was the client could edit content as often as they wanted, and all we had to do was swap the new text files with the old. We could also give development versions of the stack to the client, and they could edit text and see the results of the editing in place, without having to know anything about MC. The stack had a language selection screen presented at startup. Selecting a language simply told the stack which set of external content to use when loading the content into fields on various cards. Alert/error dialog messages were all stored in a single text file for each language, and were read into a global variable at startup for easy access. This setup seemed to work ok, especially since text translators were located all over the place and had different schedules for turning around translations. It is a lot of external files to manage, but if there's going to be a lot of editing taking place, external files are much easier to deal with. FWIW, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #125 - 5 msgs
Thanks a lot Yves!!!:) Effectivly Rev is sometimes limited but it's a real pleasure for an HyperCard lover to be able to use millioncolors graphics and quicktime movies!!! That's definitivly the Holy Grail i was looking for!;) Thanks again! AD (Yves is a french name, right? Because je suis moi-même français so Is the rev community full of french people?) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression
OK, I've withstood my curiousity long enough - what do the uppercase S letters stand for in text like the excerpt below: So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justSanythingS I've seen that use of the uppercase S in a few posts recently - is this a new Internet thing that I'm just too behind the times to get, or is it a different character set that's not coming across on my PC, or what? Hey, I don't mind asking dumb questions! Tommy Simmons Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc. www.employmentlawadvisors.com - Original Message - From: yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac Hello, So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justSanythingS -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac
Hi Yves, Hello, function ye_olde_filetype el_patho put the directory into old_dir ##always a good idea to save and restore the original directory ! ##a MUST if you work with relative paths for images etc... set the itemdel to / put last item of el_patho into the_file ##the filename delete last item of el_patho set the directory to el_patho ##now we are in the folder where the file resides put the long files into all_files ##take a look in the reference about the long files ##that returns a list with lots of infos about the content of a folder ##(divided by a comma) ##like the filename, date of last modification, last saved ... ##and the filetype as the last item of each line get line(lineoffset(the_file, all_files)) of all_files ##now we extract that line containing the filename set the itemdel to , ##restore the old itemdel. very important set the directory to old_dir ##restore the old directory return last item of it ##that's it end ye_olde_filetype Hope that helps. Have a nice weekend. Best from rainy germany The function ye_olde_filetype doesn't work. But your explication is correct. So I write : set the fileType to 8BIMJPEG BEFORE copying the image and it works fine. The problem comes from the fact that your funciton doesn't return a filetype. it only returns empty ! Funny thing. It works for me here on my mac... ?! I always test my scripts before posting ;-) Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justanything -- Greetings. Wow, i do not have a dictionary at hand. What does that mean: ameliorate ? Wait, since i had latin at school, melior means better ;-) So if i could make my script better... See above... ??? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression
William T. Simmons wrote: So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justSanythingS Odd. Actually on the Mac this shows as an ellipsis e.g. ... So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justanything Er, no William - actually yesS, of courseS, we hip peopleS do this all the timeS. :) -- Troy RPSystems www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RAPID SEQUENCE of audioclips using the PREPARE command
In use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #112, Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried using the prepare command on all the audioClips before you attempt to run the script that Scott Rossi supplied? Kind regards, Kevin I made a couple of attempts to incorporate the 'prepare' command into the scripts Scott Rossi (Thank you, Scott) supplied to play a sequence of audioclips. First, I tried to 'prepare' the next audioClip right after playing one audioClip: on runAudio if the sound is done then if the uCurrClip of me the number of items of fld cliplist then set the uCurrClip of me to empty exit runAudio end if play audioClip (item (the uCurrClip of me) of fld cliplist) set the uCurrClip of me to the uCurrClip of me + 1 prepare audioClip (item (the uCurrClip of me) of fld cliplist) end if send runAudio to me in 5 milliseconds end runAudio The 'play' commands begins playing its audioClip, which is quickly interrupted by the 'prepare' command playing the same sound. (Putting a 'wait until done' after the prepare command simply results in the complete sound being played twice and taking twice as long.) Next, I tried to 'prepare' the complete set of audioClips in the initial mouseUp handler: on mouseUp if the sound is not done then play stop set the uCurrClip of me to empty exit mouseUp end if repeat with i = 1 to the number of items of field clipList prepare audioclip (item 2 of field clipList) wait until the sound is done end repeat set the uCurrClip of me to 1 runAudio end mouseUp The successive 'prepare' commands plays each of the 10 sounds (presumably loading them into memory, as well) Then 'runAudio' plays the sounds at a rate of a little more than 500 ms per audioClip, when the audioClips are each 250 ms long. That rate (2/second), pretty erratic and about half what it should be (4/sec), is not significantly different from what I get without using the 'prepare' command. In summary, using Scott Rossi's scripts, Revolution could only play the 250 ms audioclips at a rate of about 2/second, and the prepare command did make it any faster. (I was running on a Mac PowerPC G3 220 MHz cpu under OS 9.0.4. Naturally, it's faster on a faster Pentium 4.) In fact, I can't tell if the 'prepare' command works any differently than the 'play' command! Keven suggested you should try the prepare command, it will buffer audioClips before playback. Let me know if that works for you? Well, it does not seem to work. Is this a bug? How is 'prepare' supposed to work? I'm still open to suggestions, but it looks like I'll have to work on extracting and combining the audio file data, as suggested by Geoff Canyon and Sjoerd Op 't Land (Both have supplied useful information that I still need to digest and apply.) Thanks and best regards, Scott Saults J. Scott Saults, Ph.D. Research Associate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology 210 McAlester Hall ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Building in serial number scheme
I'd appreciate hearing any thoughts on ways to build in serial number protection...at least into one main opening stack. I'm not concerned with a foolproof system (should one even exist!)...just something that will stop most folks from running my program without a correct serial number. Is there a standard approach to this? Last time I did this (five years ago), I simply had a list of some 50 numbers in a text field inside the program. Users had to have one of them to get into the program. Worked OK. Certainly not very elegant. Of course, that means there were only 50 numbers out there, making it fairly easy for someone to get into the program if they caught onto what was going on. But for the most part, it kept people out. Suggestions? Thanks. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #125 - 5 msgs
Thanks a lot Yves!!!:) Effectivly Rev is sometimes limited but it's a real pleasure for an HyperCard lover to be able to use millioncolors graphics and quicktime movies!!! That's definitivly the Holy Grail i was looking for!;) Thanks again! AD Salut, je suis belge. Ma langue maternelle est le bilinguisme ! (Français-Néerlandais) Je suis d'accord avec toi, Revolution est vraiment le digne successeur d'Hypercard qu'on attendait depuis longtemps. Encore quelques bugs à corriger et quelques fonctionnalités à implémenter (entre autre au niveau du print ou de la présentation en table ou encore l'accès direct au appearance mgr sur mac) et ce sera presque parfait -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac
Hello, Sorry Klaus, my English is absolutely not perfect ameliorate means better your script indeed doesn't work on my mac but your theory is correct; If I write set the typefile to 8BIMJPEG it works fine I'll work on it further I want to thank you very much for your help in this big problem on mac. Without you I surely wouldn' have found any solution -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac
Hello J'y pense : au lieu de m'exciter à écrire le plus correctement possible en anglais, je peux écrire directement en français. Là il n'y aura pas de fautes ! Comprenne qui pourra -- Salutations. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
sort container
Hello, in the doc, I read : The sort container command is a stable sort. This means that if the sortKey for two items or lines is the same, sorting does not change their order, so you can do two successive sorts to create subcategories within the major sort categories. I can't apply it to the following problem : Let's suppose a tabstop fld the first column contains dates the second text I'd like to sort the fld so that it's sorted by date (first column) and afterwards sorted by text (alphabetically) in this case the sortkey changes first it's item 1 of fld xxx and then it's item 2 of fld xxx How ? thanks. -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Type and Creator - Klaus Major
Title: Type and Creator - Klaus Major Hello, I've found why your function doesn't work : function ye_olde_filetype el_patho put the directory into old_dir set the itemdel to / put last item of el_patho into the_file delete last item of el_patho set the directory to el_patho put the long files into all_files get line(lineoffset(the_file, all_files)) of all_files set the itemdel to , set the directory to old_dir return last item of it end ye_olde_filetype the FileName of el_patho contains a date : DD/MM/ so you will see what kind of strange chars are returned with : put the long files into all_files That's why otherwise the function is correct thanks. -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multilingual interface
Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Terry, et al: You should also take a look at Revolution's Profile Manager Tutorial. From page 2: ...you can use the Profile Manager to create multiple language versions of your application,... I have not looked further into this yet; but if there is a method built into Revolution via the Profile Manager, it's the obvious place to start. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression
Well, I'm on a Mac (OS X 10.1.2) and I get the funny "" as well. Mine have a little mark atop them. Perhaps it is a PC mail handler in between us. No worries. What with Yves testing my French and Klaus calling on Latin (and happily not saying so in Deutsch) this site is fascinatingly diverse as well as informative. cheers David On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 07:22 , yves COPPE wrote: OK, I've withstood my curiousity long enough - what do the uppercase "S" letters stand for in text like the excerpt below: "So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justSanythingS" I've seen that use of the uppercase "S" in a few posts recently - is this a new Internet thing that I'm just too behind the times to get, or is it a different character set that's not coming across on my PC, or what? Hey, I don't mind asking dumb questions! Tommy Simmons Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc. www.employmentlawadvisors.com No I haven't type any "S", and I don't know why it comes on your mail. I think it's because I use a Mac and you a PC and the translation may fail elsewhere I hope you can read my mail without too many added chars ! -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Building in serial number scheme
I'd appreciate hearing any thoughts on ways to build in serial number protection...at least into one main opening stack. Hi Richard, Before I describe my approach, let me point out its limitations: 1. It is Mac-specific. 2. It only works on hardware/OS combos where the Apple System Profiler returns the computer serial number. 3. It works for me because my product is designed and priced for a limited marketplace. That being said, the AppleScript script: on getSerial() tell application Apple System Profiler launch copy SerialNumber to myNumber quit application Apple System Profiler end tell return myNumber end getSerial will return the Mac's serial #. (BTW, Apple System Profiler does NOT quit; but that's another issue.) When a winemaker orders, or subscribes to, OenoLog, the license is specific to the her/his Mac by serial number...which he/she retrieves using the System Profiler and includes on the order form. I burn a CD for that specific installation with the serial # encrypted in the stack. As I look to the future, I must determine which of the Mac-specific features in OenoLog can be reprogramed to be platform independent, and which must be given up if I am to achieve cross-platform compatability. It would be nice if Revolution had a built-in method of uniquely identifying the computer it's running on. Some people have suggested the Ethernet address as a possibility; but for my purposes the serial # is more easily retrieved by the user. I'd be happy to participate in any effort address the issue by RunRev or MetaCard staff and/or users. I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who knows what toolbox call ASP uses to retrieve the serial # (some argument to gestalt(??)). If I knew that, I could ditch AppleScript; but I'm too cheap to pay Apple $200 so I can ask them directly. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: replacetext
At 5:40 PM -0800 1/18/2002, Bob Rasmussen wrote: To Rev documentation folks: Given the subtle distinction between commands and functions, I think it would be a good idea in the Rev documentation to give examples only of usage in proper context. That is, please don't show functions alone on a line in a way that makes them look like commands. I've thought about doing this, especially since the problem has cropped up on the list twice now. The problem with it is that embedding the function in a complete statement makes it more complicated - especially when the function call itself is complex, I'm concerned about it causing confusion. Of course, I could just stick get in front of all the examples, but that doesn't always make a statement you'd actually use in a real-world handler. And I'm a little concerned about new developers getting the impression that get is the only way to use a function, as opposed to using it in a conditional, etc. Does anyone else have an opinion about this? Any other ways to make it crystal clear that a function can't be used as a complete statement, and avoid confusing people? -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
