Re: encode text to image
Thank you Dar . I have to store an image in a MySQL database and I was told I could store the text... it is not gonna work ... I thought it was like that but I wanted be sure that there was not a way to recover the imagedata from the text. So, I have to encode and decode the image data ... I tryed this way, but unfortunately , when I decode image data and upload it in in the database, some chars get lost. Ciao Paolo I imported an image as text (URL file:xxx) I wonder if I can convert the text file to binary and set the imagedata of an image to it If the image file format is inherently binary, such as PNG or JPEG, then you should read it as a binary file (URL binfile:). Reading a binary file as a text file will corrupt it. If it is really text, then it probably has some header information that includes the size, and then a bunch of numerals in decimal or hex. You need to know what its format is. From that, you can build imageData. If the file has an alpha channel (transparency) you can also build alphaData. After you have the image data, set the text of the image to empty then set the height and width of the image, then set the imageData (and alphaData). (I'm going by memory; there might be a flaw in that.) If the image file is really JPEG or PNG then simply set the text of the image to the value. Dar Scott Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Via Calatafimi, 16 - 35137 PADOVA www.neol.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 049-7386590 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How I can to save files .txt on internet?
Hi Alvaro, Thank you Klauss ... Good instructions, but where we can I to place the username and password of the server? I think Mark Smith already answered this: ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/directory/file But, madre de dios, my name is STILL spelled Klaus, with only ONE s! :-D Cordialmente, Alvaro Abril Tecnología Divertia S.A. www.fantasticguatemala.com Tel. 502 2410 4600 Fax.502 2410 4646 Guatemala Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cgi function
Hershel, Actually you need to place the db driver inside a folder of your choice and let it know to the rev cgi engine by these 2 lines in your scripts. JB On 8/30/06 5:18 PM, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put /usr/local/bin/ into path revSetDatabaseDriverPath path Hi, doesn't work, Internal error. Tanks, Hershel ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cgi function
JB, I am Just trying this in MACOSX As far as I know the last Rev engine for MacOSX is 2.5 If I send revSetDatabaseDriverPath to Rev 2.5 i get an error. Are you sure the mySQL Library is included in the 2.5 engine? How can I check this? Thanks Paolo How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: On 8/30/06 5:18 PM, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put /usr/local/bin/ into path revSetDatabaseDriverPath path Hi, doesn't work, Internal error. Tanks, Hershel Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Via Calatafimi, 16 - 35137 PADOVA www.neol.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 049-7386590 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cgi function
paolo, what I know for sure is that the Linux Rev 2.5 I'm using as cgi engine for more than 2 years on a Linux box accepts revSetDatabaseDriverPath... Perhaps should you asked RR support : AFAIR this is where I got the advice about using Rev 2.5 because it featured various libs... JB JB, I am Just trying this in MACOSX As far as I know the last Rev engine for MacOSX is 2.5 If I send revSetDatabaseDriverPath to Rev 2.5 i get an error. Are you sure the mySQL Library is included in the 2.5 engine? How can I check this? Thanks Paolo How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: On 8/30/06 5:18 PM, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put /usr/local/bin/ into path revSetDatabaseDriverPath path Hi, doesn't work, Internal error. Tanks, Hershel Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Via Calatafimi, 16 - 35137 PADOVA www.neol.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 049-7386590 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)
Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you need to think 'misc' 'dosc' with your own data structure and content. Google the following dosc misc revolution and look at a couple of the archive posts on our list. on appleEvent theClass,theID if theClass is misc and theID is dosc then request appleEvent data put it into thedata Hi Jim, Thanks for the reply - but that's the other end of the round trip. You're right that I also need to handle the appleEvent message, in order to receive the messages from BBEdit when they come in - but I won't be receiving any until I can send the right command to BBEdit in the first place. So my question remains, how do I *send* an event with custom parameters? TIA, Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)
Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But keep in mind that you cannot do this with Revolution 2.7.3 because of a bug that scrambles the apple events. If you use Revolution 2.7.2, you can use apple events, but they come in backwards on Universal Binary builds (i.e. The class is csim and theID is csod), although PPC builds are OK. Anything 2.7.1 or earlier should work properly. See Bug #3809 in Bugzilla for more info. Thanks Ken - that's a handy reminder for when my Rev app starts *receiving* appleEvents from BBEdit. However, it's moot until I can figure out how my Rev app can *send* an apple event with custom parameters. Perhaps I was too optimistic: maybe my question should have been, not how do I do this, but *can* Revolution send an apple event with custom parameters? TIA, Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Call for Media Viewer Test: Windows Users Especially
I would kind request anyone who has time to test the following. go stack decompress(URL http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/htde_media-player.rev.gz;) It is a small Media Viewer that streams on-line video and sound via Quicktime. I have the players set to SMIL files, but we are getting reports from some Windows users that this stack is crashing the standalone completely. Some horrible Window message that the our application has to be closed and there is this ugly message from Microsoft saying: The error was caused by Quicktime player. the Software was created by Apple inc. There is an auto start the starts one player after 2 secs The previous version for this stack was working fine. So I'm looking at possible culprit being my innovative attempt to do a SMIL slide show behind audio file playing on top of a series of seq's that call a remote slide every 1minute10secs. Possibly QT on Windows is incapable of handling this. So I may have shot myself in the foot expecting MS to be able to do what Apple can do Send reports to me off list. Thanks! Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Subject: Re: more on the recorder
Thanks to the people who have given me information about recording sound in Revolution on both mac and pc. The bottom line for me is that it doesn't seem remotely work _at all_. While I was able to get something to work on my g4 laptop initially (by using the imic input and playing with the system settings independently), now nothing works, all I get are super, super slow unrecognizable recordings, whether the recordinput is imic, emic or dflt. I wonder why this is, and why such an important function is in such bad shape. I'm using 2.7.2. For those of us who use runrev to produce language materials, this capacity to record in the program is quite important, since it provides a means for students to compare their pronunciations with those of native speakers (by just recording the student and then ab-ing the student's sound and the native speaker's) rand valentine u of wisconsin-madison ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Crash report procedure
On Aug 30, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: ... Of course it means we might need to build in a little more error checking, perhaps a checksum() on some stack files and if it's not in a reasonable range, then assume the files are corrupt and delete them and get fresh copies. I need to do better at logging the context and scenarios. Frankly this kind of thing is a bit over my head... A possible strategy could be to provide, at your server, a small file with an MD5 digest or other check associated with each stack. Your application obtains that file first, then downloads the stack as binary data (perhaps writing it to disk with a ~ prefix, as Metacard does for stack saves), then checks the file for correctness, and finally renames the file and opens it only if it passes the test. I know it's obvious, but I had to stick my finger in, t -- Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: encode text to image
On Thu Aug 31, 2006, paolo mazza paolo.mazza at neol.it wrote: Thank you Dar . I have to store an image in a MySQL database and I was told I could store the text... it is not gonna work ... I thought it was like that but I wanted be sure that there was not a way to recover the imagedata from the text. So, I have to encode and decode the image data ... I tryed this way, but unfortunately , when I decode image data and upload it in in the database, some chars get lost. Ciao Paolo After you have the image data, set the text of the image to empty then set the height and width of the image, then set the imageData (and alphaData). (I'm going by memory; there might be a flaw in that.) If the image file is really JPEG or PNG then simply set the text of the image to the value. Dar Scott Getting the text of an image and then later setting the imagedata to that text indeed results in very much distorted images. What is probably needed here would be property like he formattedtext of image x. When you compare the number of chars of the text of the image and the number of chars of the imagedata you see that a lot of chars is missing in the text.- I used the scripts below in an experimental stack, which worked fine with most pictures (that is, with very few pictures some lines are missing at the bottom of the image, but otherwise the image is undistorted - the reason for the missing lines escapes me). A. Converting the imagedata to text: on mouseUp put the imageData of image x into iData put empty into imagetext repeat for each char c in idata put chartonum(C) into tc put numtochar(tC) after imagetext end repeat put imagetext into fld imagetext end mouseUp B. Setting the imagedata from the text: on mouseUp put the imageData of image x into iData put 0 into counter put fld imagetext into tText repeat for each char C in tText add 1 to counter put chartonum(char counter of tText) into tC put numtochar(tC) into char counter of idata end repeat set the imageData of image x to iData end mouseUp The important thing here is to first get the imagedata of the image in which you want to display the stored imagetext data. If you use - as a variation of the second script - put empty into idata and put numtochar(tC) after idata in the above script you will get a picture, but also a very distorted one. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cgi function
revSetDatabaseDriverPath... The rev documentation states that : «The revSetDatabaseDriverPath command is part of the Database library. To ensure that the command works in a standalone application, you must include this custom library when you create your standalone.» I have no idea but a need to solve this problem. With rev CGI you only have the engine not a standalone which includes the library. So maybe we have to manually include the revDatabase Library into another stack... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Communicate with stepper motors?
I was talking with a guy yesterday who said that using Basic you could use the printer port on Windows to talk to a stepper motor. I know pretty much nothing about robotics (or communicating through ports for that matter). Does anyone know if this is possible with Rev? I read through the docs and could see that one can read from and write data to com ports and LPT ports, but wouldn't a stepper motor just need electrical pulses sent to it? I realize I'm revealing my ignorance to the world here, but any help would be appreciated. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
mySQL RR question
Hi gang, I have created a few (and still more coming up) client-server applications using RR and mySQL, but now I am in need for a way to to create a back-up possibility for remote databases... The clients are Macs and PC's, the servers running the database Server can be Windows or Mac I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. Anyone any idea what to do, to get a dump of the database on one of the remote administrator desktops, or on my own development Mac, to have a local copy of the database? What I can do of course is use the DESCRIBE function and create my own dump, but is there another way anybody knows of? The content can run into thousands and thousands of records, so retrieving that and storing it locally can be a small problem when doing it this way, so any suggestions are welcome... Warm regards, Ton Kuypers Digital Media Partners bvba Tel. +32 (0)477 / 739 530 Fax +32 (0)14 / 71 03 04 http://www.dmp-int.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
I worked with a lot of stepper motors in my days in the movies working with Jim Cameron in the early 80's. You don't want to create the pulses yourself unless you're trying to prove something. Stepper motors require a lot more than 'electrical pulses' sent to it. They also would need anywhere from 0 - 5000 pulses per second. But the killer part is that steppers need to be RAMPED. That is, they need to be started slowly and ramp to speed. So what you need is a stepper motor controller to create the pulses. If you're good with a soldering iron, you can create a controller this way http://www.controlchips.com/cy545.htm These are reasonably cheap. Also stepper motors consume current. YOu can't just take the output of an interface directly to a motor. It takes driver transistors and a high current low voltage supply to make it work. There are often 4 or even more coils to feed, and they must be fed a perfect square wave at the right time and in the right sequence, like an internal combustion engine. Superior Electric used to make the packaged products to drive steppers that I used at New World Pictures. These are pretty expensive, but they contain all you need to drive a motor from a computer serial port. http://www.danahermotion.com/products/product_detail.php?parent_id=549 Finally, you have to decide on a strategy of feedback. That is, you need to keep track of the absolute position of whatever you're controlling. If it's just 360 degrees, that's one thing. BUt if it's controlling a camera running down a track, then you need an external way to keep tabs on where you are. For that end one usually uses encoders. Also another alternative might be a DC SERVO which works inside a feedback loop. Offset the loop plus or minus voltage and the motor runs. Encoders are part of the package. Servos are more accurate and can deliver more torque quicker. I was talking with a guy yesterday who said that using Basic you could use the printer port on Windows to talk to a stepper motor. I know pretty much nothing about robotics (or communicating through ports for that matter). Does anyone know if this is possible with Rev? I read through the docs and could see that one can read from and write data to com ports and LPT ports, but wouldn't a stepper motor just need electrical pulses sent to it? I realize I'm revealing my ignorance to the world here, but any help would be appreciated. Marty Knapp -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: encode text to image
On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:47 AM, paolo mazza wrote: I have to store an image in a MySQL database and I was told I could store the text... it is not gonna work ... I thought it was like that but I wanted be sure that there was not a way to recover the imagedata from the text. So, I have to encode and decode the image data ... I tryed this way, but unfortunately , when I decode image data and upload it in in the database, some chars get lost. The name the text for the property of the image that stores the standard compressed image is a little strange since the is binary. Perhaps it comes from the fact that you can do this... put imageValue into image Image 1 ... and it is the same as this... set the text of image Image 1 to imageValue ...just the same as setting the text of a field. If you have control over the type, you can store that in MySQL safely as a BLOB type, perhaps LONGBLOB. If you must store it as TEXT, you might be OK. If you are seeing roundtrip conversion problems, then you might want to convert the image to base64 using base64Encode() and back using base64Decode(). The function base64Encode() maps arbitrary binary data into a subset of ASCII characters. The roundtrip problem (if you have one) might not be in MySQL, but in the interface. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Skin conductance measurement
The guy that designed it was nice enough to send me a copy of his thesis. This, plus the posts from the Revistas makes it clear this is way out of my league. So unless I am offered a Chair at MIT... Thanks anyway, and if anyone does anything on physiological measurement and Rev, be sure to post the news! Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership http://www.i-psych.co.uk On 29 Aug 2006, at 6:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget that a Bluetooth interface will also give the maximum electrical isolation for the subject!!! (that would actually be my FIRST concern!) Optoisolators or transformers must be used (it's probably a law) between a human subject and anything connected to mains-based devices. That would rule out any DC-scaled sensors (most optoisolators are not linear) unless they're wired into a data acquisition module at the patient end. Old systems probably used PWM for output to get through the isolation. Isolation and safety should be foremost in medical equipment design. (Duh) Me? I don't want to write software that can blow up something, hurt someone or get me sued! ( I guess that also means defense contracts?) Good luck with your new project. Multiply your estimate of how much time it will take by 10, unless you can get out-of-the-box products to do what you want. Interfacing with the noisy, drifting, always changing Analog world after being in a nice, save, digital-stepped world can be a bit jarring. I'd love to have a software-hardware Bluetooth breadboard kit, with rev XCMDs for all platforms. [I can dream - or make one!!] sqb Then you'll have to learn how to program the PIC microcontroller to access the EDA device data and communicate with the main app. You could probably get by without the Bluetooth if you could deal with the limited portability, as that's what would eat up most of the battery power, but portability seems one of the primary advantages of this project. All in all, I think this isn't something I'd want to tackle without having something like the resources of an MIT behind me - note that this project was a Mechanical Engineering thesis. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Marty Knapp wrote: I was talking with a guy yesterday who said that using Basic you could use the printer port on Windows to talk to a stepper motor. I know pretty much nothing about robotics (or communicating through ports for that matter). Does anyone know if this is possible with Rev? I read through the docs and could see that one can read from and write data to com ports and LPT ports, but wouldn't a stepper motor just need electrical pulses sent to it? I realize I'm revealing my ignorance to the world here, but any help would be appreciated. The stepper motor does not use pulses in that sense, but phase changes. You won't be able to drive the motor directly with TTL, you will need to do level shifting. Some motors need current going both directions, so this might get involved. The printer port has gotten pretty smart since the last time I used it, so this might or might not work. It might be worth a try. In the BIOS set the printer port to the simplest form you can find. It might be called classic. You can find some printer port data online. You might be able to rig it so the handshake is always there or it always responds to each byte sent out. Better, put in a oneshot or other delay so you can write several bytes and have the motor moving at that speed. You would drive the motor by sending four or 8 letters to it in a repeating sequence. I have used a driver that makes all bits available for bit twiddling, so you can get input. I forgot the name and I don't think it was being maintained last I used it. I have read about another that makes this bit twiddling I/O available as though you have a serial port. I'd look around online for output-only printer port I/O tips. You might have trouble with jitter and getting up to speed. You might be better off getting a hobby robot control board from many sources and using a serial interface. You can also try some toy/ educational robots. None of those will do microstepping, but if you have a motor that needs both positive and negative currents, you might have off as a half step. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: mySQL RR question
On 8/31/06 12:34 PM, Ton Kuypers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, I have created a few (and still more coming up) client-server applications using RR and mySQL, but now I am in need for a way to to create a back-up possibility for remote databases... The clients are Macs and PC's, the servers running the database Server can be Windows or Mac I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. Anyone any idea what to do, to get a dump of the database on one of the remote administrator desktops, or on my own development Mac, to have a local copy of the database? It's really simple - you just need to use shell() to call on the mysqldump command line utility. For example, if you want to dump a database called test to a file at /Users/ken/test.sql you'd execut this at the command line (assuming a login of root and no password): mysqldump -u root test /Users/ken/test.sql Depending on the size of the database this can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes. To give you an idea, I routinely dump a database with hundreds of thousands of records to a 250MB .sql file and it takes about 8 minutes. If you execute this manually in the console (Terminal in OS X or DOS box in Windows), you will know that it has completed when you get another command line prompt. You can, of course, execute it from Rev with shell(), in which case you won't get control back until the dump has finished. HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sending an apple event with custom parameters (BBEdit roundtrip)
On 8/31/06 5:39 AM, Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But keep in mind that you cannot do this with Revolution 2.7.3 because of a bug that scrambles the apple events. If you use Revolution 2.7.2, you can use apple events, but they come in backwards on Universal Binary builds (i.e. The class is csim and theID is csod), although PPC builds are OK. Anything 2.7.1 or earlier should work properly. See Bug #3809 in Bugzilla for more info. Thanks Ken - that's a handy reminder for when my Rev app starts *receiving* appleEvents from BBEdit. However, it's moot until I can figure out how my Rev app can *send* an apple event with custom parameters. Perhaps I was too optimistic: maybe my question should have been, not how do I do this, but *can* Revolution send an apple event with custom parameters? You should be able to use an AppleScript wrapper, so you can do something like this example: tell application Safari «event GURLGURL» http://www.apple.com/; end tell Note that the characters around event are not less-than and greater-than symbols (i.e. Not ) but chevrons (« ») created using Option-\ and Option-Shift-\. See: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleEvents/ debugging_aepg/chapter_9_section_3.html HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: mySQL RR question
ok, the mysqldump I know, what I didn't know I could use it across the network... Will give it a try, thanks :-) Warm regards, Ton Kuypers Digital Media Partners bvba Tel. +32 (0)477 / 739 530 Fax +32 (0)14 / 71 03 04 http://www.dmp-int.com On 31-aug-06, at 21:03, Ken Ray wrote: On 8/31/06 12:34 PM, Ton Kuypers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, I have created a few (and still more coming up) client-server applications using RR and mySQL, but now I am in need for a way to to create a back-up possibility for remote databases... The clients are Macs and PC's, the servers running the database Server can be Windows or Mac I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. Anyone any idea what to do, to get a dump of the database on one of the remote administrator desktops, or on my own development Mac, to have a local copy of the database? It's really simple - you just need to use shell() to call on the mysqldump command line utility. For example, if you want to dump a database called test to a file at /Users/ken/test.sql you'd execut this at the command line (assuming a login of root and no password): mysqldump -u root test /Users/ken/test.sql Depending on the size of the database this can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes. To give you an idea, I routinely dump a database with hundreds of thousands of records to a 250MB .sql file and it takes about 8 minutes. If you execute this manually in the console (Terminal in OS X or DOS box in Windows), you will know that it has completed when you get another command line prompt. You can, of course, execute it from Rev with shell(), in which case you won't get control back until the dump has finished. HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Another Plugin Question
Where should libraries used by plugins be placed in the 2.7 folder structure? I have a stack to be used as a library by more than one Rev plugin. I don't need the stack accessible by users since it only provides functions, but there doesn't appear to be any means in Rev's Plugins Manager to configure a stack to open as a library, or to just not open at all. The only thing that comes to mind is to have Rev open the library stack as invisible and then call start using the library stack from my real plugins. This assumes I place the library stack in the plugins folder. Should I be placing the library somewhere else? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: encode text to image
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The name the text for the property of the image that stores the standard compressed image is a little strange since the is binary. Perhaps it comes from the fact that you can do this... put imageValue into image Image 1 ... and it is the same as this... set the text of image Image 1 to imageValue ...just the same as setting the text of a field. (snip) Dar Scott Hi Dar, when I first tried to make use of the text property of images (someone on the list mentioned this property, maybe it was you?) I found that setting the text of an image to an imagevalue - as you describe it above -just produces a white and blank image, in case the imagevalue used was the text of the image extracted before: Putting the text of an image into a global (or elsewhere) put the text of image x into imagetext and then set the text of image x to imagetext produces a white and blank image. Maybe I am missing something very simple here, but all variations I tried with the text property failed.- The solution I showed in my earlier post of this thread (today) does *not* make use of the text property, but converts the imagedata chars to text chars, which can then indeed be used to restore the original image. And this opens the possiblity to store imagedata as plain text, which is what I guess Paolo intended. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke www.sanke.org/MetaMedia ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Another Plugin Question
Scott Rossi wrote: Where should libraries used by plugins be placed in the 2.7 folder structure? I have a stack to be used as a library by more than one Rev plugin. I don't need the stack accessible by users since it only provides functions, but there doesn't appear to be any means in Rev's Plugins Manager to configure a stack to open as a library, or to just not open at all. The only thing that comes to mind is to have Rev open the library stack as invisible and then call start using the library stack from my real plugins. This assumes I place the library stack in the plugins folder. Should I be placing the library somewhere else? I have one of those. I used the Plugin Settings dialog to assign the stack to receive a revOpenStack message whenever a stack is opened. Then I put a handler in the stack script: on revOpenStack start using this stack end revOpenStack Then I set the stack to open invisibly when Rev starts up. After that, the first stack I open puts my library in use. Actually, every stack that is opened puts it in use all over again, but that doesn't hurt anything. If it bothers you, though, you can add: if the short name of this stack is not in the stacksinuse then start using this stack -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: How I can to save files .txt on internet?
Hello Klaus.. Thanks ! I have other question. If I need to link .swf files, how I can? Cordialmente, Alvaro Abril Tecnología Divertia S.A. www.fantasticguatemala.com Tel. 502 2410 4600 Fax.502 2410 4646 Guatemala -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Klaus Major Enviado el: Jueves, 31 de Agosto de 2006 02:09 a.m. Para: How to use Revolution Asunto: Re: How I can to save files .txt on internet? Importancia: Alta Hi Alvaro, Thank you Klauss ... Good instructions, but where we can I to place the username and password of the server? I think Mark Smith already answered this: ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/directory/file But, madre de dios, my name is STILL spelled Klaus, with only ONE s! :-D Cordialmente, Alvaro Abril Tecnología Divertia S.A. www.fantasticguatemala.com Tel. 502 2410 4600 Fax.502 2410 4646 Guatemala Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Another Plugin Question
On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Where should libraries used by plugins be placed in the 2.7 folder structure? These questions are on my mind, too. I don't have an answer, but I have a few hints and opinions. You might guess that it could go into a new folder Stack Libraries next to the plugins folder. However, the section New Distribution Structure of file Whats_New.txt says that the Standalone Builder builds using the externals in the parallel folder Externals, so there is a risk that the Standalone Builder will start inserting everything in folder Stack Libraries into builds. You might guess that it could go into a folder in the Plugins folder. This might be safe; I think altPlugins uses a folder in the plugins folder. However, it would be nice to have some structure in the plugins menu when it gets complicated. Also, vendors might use a submenu to keep all of their plugins from cluttering the plugin menu. One way to get that structure is to use subfolders. Rev can create the menu based on the folder structure. I like the idea, but I suspect it won't happen, so following Chipp's example should be OK. In the case of darzTimer, I embedded stack libraries and externals in the plugin stack, so I avoided the issue. I start using the libraries all in RAM, but the external is in a temp folder for a short time. Nothing is installed and no litter is left about. I have a stack to be used as a library by more than one Rev plugin. I don't need the stack accessible by users since it only provides functions, but there doesn't appear to be any means in Rev's Plugins Manager to configure a stack to open as a library, or to just not open at all. The only thing that comes to mind is to have Rev open the library stack as invisible and then call start using the library stack from my real plugins. This assumes I place the library stack in the plugins folder. Should I be placing the library somewhere else? If the library is embedded, then it might be in all or in the primary of those plugins. That primary plugin can be used to make sure the library is start'd. It can be accessed by the other plugins to make sure the library is start'd. One plugin might have a way to make sure it is start'd so users can use it. If the library is intended to have a life independent of the plugins, such as being part of a standalone, then you can have an option to install it in some location. The plugins will need to have some way to know where that is so they can use it. The user can decide where that location is. An OS might have a recommended location for support and you can make that the default save location. Allowing the user to choose also makes it clear that you are installing something and where it is. My current plans for the future darzTimer is to allow the user to install the library where desired and let the user decide. However, if you learn of the right place to put user accessible libraries, I might switch. I'm currently thinking of distributing everything as plugins and let the plugin handle extended installation updating, buying, docs, tutorials, and so on. I think having a folder for libraries that MIGHT go into a standalone could be handy. Right now there is only the Add Stack File... button. If there was a standard place for libraries, there might be check boxes or a multiple selection field. I wouldn't want them to automatically clutter a standalone as is described for the External folder. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Another Plugin Question
On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Then I set the stack to open invisibly when Rev starts up. After that, the first stack I open puts my library in use. Actually, every stack that is opened puts it in use all over again, but that doesn't hurt anything. If it bothers you, though, you can add: if the short name of this stack is not in the stacksinuse then start using this stack Perhaps a robust library should be able to handle (or even exploit) being start'd multiple times. In this case, since the plugin is a friend of the library, it can handle the library with kid gloves as needed. It can even use hidden commands as needed. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How I can to save files .txt on internet?
Hi Alvaro, Hello Klaus.. Gracias, correct spelling :-) Thanks ! You're welcome. I have other question. If I need to link .swf files, how I can? Hmm... Good question... You have 2 possibilities here: 1. Use a player object and play the Flash files via Quicktime. Pro: Built in solution Con: Needs QuickTime to be installed on the target computer and QT only supports Flash up to version 5 (or 6?) of Flash. 2. Use Chipps altBrowser external, that will supply a REAL internt-browser (inluding Flash etc...!) inside your Rev stacks and thus can play any Flash content. Pro: You can display websites inside your stacks on Mac an Win. Con: You will have to buy this external, but I can really recommend this solution! Check Chipps website for more info: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altBrowserCover/default.htm Hope that helps. Cordialmente, Alvaro Abril Tecnología Divertia S.A. www.fantasticguatemala.com Tel. 502 2410 4600 Fax.502 2410 4646 Guatemala Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: encode text to image
On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Putting the text of an image into a global (or elsewhere) put the text of image x into imagetext and then set the text of image x to imagetext produces a white and blank image. Maybe I am missing something very simple here, but all variations I tried with the text property failed.- I don't see it on Rev 2.7.3 on G4 with OS X 2.7.3 even after going to another card and back. Could there be some setting of paintCompression that affects this? There is a bug in which some images do not render correctly and a bug in which some lose transparency on card changes. Maybe those are related. Maybe there is an unexpected formatting option in an imported image. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Standalone OS X Apps in 2.7.3 - Default Button Broken
I'm probably not searching by the right set of criteria, so there may be a BZ on this but I wanted to confirm this is a known issue. If I create a standalone app for OS X using 2.7.3, the default button comes out looking like the old Classic (OS9) default button rather than the new throbbing blue one. Not to say I wouldn't actually *prefer* the older button, but it's clearly wrong. Is this a known issue? Any fix or workaround or am I forced once again back to 2.6.1 because of stuff RR broke when moving to the 2.7 family? -- ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Dar Scott wrote: You might have trouble with jitter and getting up to speed. Stephen Barncard mentioned that you need ramping. I think you can ramp with control from a serial port if you set a specified delay in your circuit for the handshake. All you need to do is repeat the same character several times. For example, suppose you use the lower two bits of the character code to control a two phase motor. Your forward stepping cycle could be dfeg allowing those bits to be 0, 1, 2 and then 3. To ramp up and step forward a total of 39 times you write this to the printer at one time (assuming on g): ddddfffeeeggddfegdfegdfegdfegdfegdfegddffeeggdddfffg d Knowing your handshake time and the max acceleration and the max speed, you can calculate the string before hand. Now, if this is for more than tinkering, you might want some sort of a controller with a serial interface (or an interface that looks like serial). If the timing of the oneshot for handshake makes you go so slow that you don't need to ramp, then this is a lot easier. The motor is slow, though. If you simplify the handshake and don't have a delay, then you need to ramp up by sending one character at a time and varying the delay between characters. This will have a little bit of jitter at higher speeds and can have problems if you approach the max speed of the motor. My experience with stepper motors is mostly with scientific instruments. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: mySQL RR question
Ton- Thursday, August 31, 2006, 10:34:02 AM, you wrote: I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. mysqldump -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
Marty- In addition to what Stephen posted, I want to add that if you *do* decide to write the low-level stuff yourself, stay away from setSerialControlString (BZ#1708). What you'll end up with is the port being reset before each new control value is set, and you'll have extra pulses in uncomfortable places. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Standalone OS X Apps in 2.7.3 - Default Button Broken
On 8/31/06 4:40 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably not searching by the right set of criteria, so there may be a BZ on this but I wanted to confirm this is a known issue. If I create a standalone app for OS X using 2.7.3, the default button comes out looking like the old Classic (OS9) default button rather than the new throbbing blue one. Not to say I wouldn't actually *prefer* the older button, but it's clearly wrong. Is this a known issue? Any fix or workaround or am I forced once again back to 2.6.1 because of stuff RR broke when moving to the 2.7 family? Nope, you just need to copy the Plugins folder from the Rev bundle (in Contents) into your standalone's bundle. Something I *really hope* will be automated in the next version of Rev... Right now there are too many oh yeah, and don't forget... issues when building standalones with Rev to make it as easy as it should be, IMHO. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Call for Media Viewer Test: Windows Users Especially
Is Micro$oft still doing that stuff to break others' competing products? I thought they got busted and had to stop. sqb The error was caused by Quicktime player. the Software was created by Apple inc. ... Thanks! Sivakatirswami -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Call for Media Viewer Test: Windows Users Especially
In all fairness to MS, I've heard that the version of QT for windoze is at least a version or two behind MacOS. That's not exactly bridge building. sqb Is Micro$oft still doing that stuff to break others' competing products? I thought they got busted and had to stop. sqb -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Standalone OS X Apps in 2.7.3 - Default Button Broken
Thanks, Ken. I knew there was an answer. Three dot-revs into 2.7 and we still have these kinds of rough edges? Hm On 8/31/06, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06 4:40 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably not searching by the right set of criteria, so there may be a BZ on this but I wanted to confirm this is a known issue. If I create a standalone app for OS X using 2.7.3, the default button comes out looking like the old Classic (OS9) default button rather than the new throbbing blue one. Not to say I wouldn't actually *prefer* the older button, but it's clearly wrong. Is this a known issue? Any fix or workaround or am I forced once again back to 2.6.1 because of stuff RR broke when moving to the 2.7 family? Nope, you just need to copy the Plugins folder from the Rev bundle (in Contents) into your standalone's bundle. Something I *really hope* will be automated in the next version of Rev... Right now there are too many oh yeah, and don't forget... issues when building standalones with Rev to make it as easy as it should be, IMHO. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: mySQL RR question
I've been working with Trevor's DB library, and it includes Transcript routines for uploading and download dumps. It's a bit slow on the data gathering side, however it works well. I think it needs to be optimized however for faster downloads, but it might be a place to start. His lib is completely open. Here's Trevor's site: http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/ Incidentally, he's working on some database objects stuff right now that will knock your socks off. You also might consider Applescripting CocoaMySQL or Navicat (both Mac) if they have the stuff. Navicat has the fastest DB Dump I've seen. And the fastest upload as well. I don't know about backing up raw DB files on the server that MYSQL creates. I think that's a no-no, unless it's an image of the whole server. sqb Hi gang, I have created a few (and still more coming up) client-server applications using RR and mySQL, but now I am in need for a way to to create a back-up possibility for remote databases... The clients are Macs and PC's, the servers running the database Server can be Windows or Mac I need to create a dump of the whole database, including all table descriptions and content. Anyone any idea what to do, to get a dump of the database on one of the remote administrator desktops, or on my own development Mac, to have a local copy of the database? What I can do of course is use the DESCRIBE function and create my own dump, but is there another way anybody knows of? The content can run into thousands and thousands of records, so retrieving that and storing it locally can be a small problem when doing it this way, so any suggestions are welcome... Warm regards, Ton Kuypers -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Standalone OS X Apps in 2.7.3 - Default Button Broken
On 9/1/06, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably not searching by the right set of criteria, so there may be a BZ on this but I wanted to confirm this is a known issue. If I create a standalone app for OS X using 2.7.3, the default button comes out looking like the old Classic (OS9) default button rather than the new throbbing blue one. Not to say I wouldn't actually *prefer* the older button, but it's clearly wrong. Is this a known issue? Any fix or workaround or am I forced once again back to 2.6.1 because of stuff RR broke when moving to the 2.7 family? As Ken says, it is a known issue with the plugins folder not being copied over. In fairness to RunRev, I use 2 computers and this only happens on one of them, so I don't know what makes it fail. Anyway, I recently posted a script for OS X that you can use to automate the process yourself, and it has the extra benefit of using touch to make the custom icon appear in a newly created standalone. http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-August/086297.html Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Another Plugin Question
Dar Scott wrote: On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Then I set the stack to open invisibly when Rev starts up. After that, the first stack I open puts my library in use. Actually, every stack that is opened puts it in use all over again, but that doesn't hurt anything. If it bothers you, though, you can add: if the short name of this stack is not in the stacksinuse then start using this stack Perhaps a robust library should be able to handle (or even exploit) being start'd multiple times. It isn't started multiple times. If it is already in use, putting it in use again does nothing. Well, except for changing the layering order. Whatever stack has been most recently placed in use becomes closest in the message hierarchy. But the library stack doesn't receive any messages and doesn't know about it; it's all handled by the engine. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Crash report procedure
Thanks Tereza... good idea: not, it's not that obvious (smile) I'm open to all kinds of input! Tereza Snyder wrote: On Aug 30, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: ... Of course it means we might need to build in a little more error checking, perhaps a checksum() on some stack files and if it's not in a reasonable range, then assume the files are corrupt and delete them and get fresh copies. I need to do better at logging the context and scenarios. Frankly this kind of thing is a bit over my head... A possible strategy could be to provide, at your server, a small file with an MD5 digest or other check associated with each stack. Your application obtains that file first, then downloads the stack as binary data (perhaps writing it to disk with a ~ prefix, as Metacard does for stack saves), then checks the file for correctness, and finally renames the file and opens it only if it passes the test. I know it's obvious, but I had to stick my finger in, t --Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Call for Media Viewer Test: Windows Users Especially
OK, true, Apples seems to take it's time getting the Windoz version of any given QT upgrade ported over to DOS (must be an engineering night mare) But at least at present I think they are close. Windows users are able to get a QT 7.0 version now. But my worry is that even if they are publicly touting that the QT version is uptodate, in fact its API on Windows is still deficient. On the other hand, we have windows users who say they never have a problem so, goes to hardware, configuration etc. over which no one has control... I don't know how anyone could debug this kind of thing...That's worrisome as it makes both your Application and Revolution look really bad... and you have nothing to offer the user by way of a solution. Stephen Barncard wrote: In all fairness to MS, I've heard that the version of QT for windoze is at least a version or two behind MacOS. That's not exactly bridge building. sqb Is Micro$oft still doing that stuff to break others' competing products? I thought they got busted and had to stop. sqb ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Standalone OS X Apps in 2.7.3 - Default Button Broken
Dan Shafer wrote: Thanks, Ken. I knew there was an answer. Three dot-revs into 2.7 and we still have these kinds of rough edges? Hm To be fair, the installer was overhauled more recently than that. The omission is an easy fix, requiring only a couple lines of script, and they're aware it was overlooked. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Crash report procedure
Aloha Chipp: OK great.. thanks.. this was really an anamoly brought on by our bad connection (turns out it was the cable modem which Ocean Time Warner had to replace...) in the folder where altSplash is download the files there were two files.. htde_main.rev htde_main.rev.gz I deleted those (I wish I had tested them first...) It's as if it got stuck... as normally the htde_main.rev.gz disappears. are deleting both of them, then it worked. I'm not sure we have a resetAll on the UI Sivakatirswami Chipp Walters wrote: Sivakatirswami, altSplash (there are probably quite a few new versions since the one you have) looks for a fld 'vers' in the mainstack (not the standalone). If I were you, I'd try something like: if there is a file tMainStackPath then if there is a stack tMainStackPath then That way it will check to see if it's a valid path. If you're still getting a crash then you might use a try statement around the 'if thre is a stack' I'm pretty sure that's where you're running into problems. Even so, I've never seen altSplash crash on a corrupted stack, and a press of the resetAll button should delete the offending stack and quit so the user can relaunch. HTH, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
Hey, I have been working with the BASIC stamp from Parallax. It is a micro controller and can control a few I/O switches. The language that you program in is called PBASIC. It is a simplified version of the BASIC language that the stamp understands and has a few commands that are specifically made for the micro controller. Maybe this is what your friend was talking about. So far I have been using the Parallax BASIC editor to make and load programs to the stamp, but once it has the program is has been EXTREMELY easy to talk to the stamp with Revolution via COM ports and give it parameters that it has been programmed to wait for, such as a position for a stepper motor. It may even be possible to write a program that will compile script and load it to the stamp, I haven't tried though. Just another option that you might want to look at. This process is pretty easy to do (I am 15 and I have handled it so it can't be that terribly difficult) and has a lot of potential for controlling custom devices. TTFN Bridgeyman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
