Re: how to get the frame rate of a Quicktime movie?
O my gosh Klaus, can't believe I missed that. Thanks! On Aug 28, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi BNig and Josh, I just copied this from the online documentation of Trevors wonderful EnhancedQT External: ... function qtGetTrackFrameCount (MovieControllerID, TrackIndex) Description: Returns the number of frames in video track. Parameters: MovieControllerID: Target Movie Controller ID. TrackIndex: Video track index. Default is 1. Return: Number of frames or -1 on error. ... So it looks like Trevor already took care of this :-) 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: Can't delete virus file with Revolution
Further scans and searches for files that could be associated with the NMap Win virus returned no results. I have to conclude that this virus alarm of SpywareSweeper was wrong. Other deficiencies of this programs are that it prompts for updates when none are available and that it indeed did not quarantine and delete three cookies it had found. I found the following statement on a webpage of Symantec: Behavior SpywareSweeper is a misleading application that may give exaggerated reports about potential risks on the computer. One question that remains for me in the broader context: Is it possible to remove the protection of Wiindows files from inside Revolution? Regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ 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: Can't delete virus file with Revolution
Hi Wilhelm, Use need to use the ATTRIB command. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 29-aug-2007, om 10:45 heeft Wilhelm Sanke het volgende geschreven: One question that remains for me in the broader context: Is it possible to remove the protection of Wiindows files from inside Revolution? Regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ 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 to get the frame rate of a Quicktime movie?
Hi Josh, O my gosh Klaus, can't believe I missed that. please don't worry, I'm sure it wasn't there yet a couple of days before! ;-) Thanks! Best 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
Gradient Textures
I've been taking a look at those gently beveled buttons / bars, and I'm wandering the best way to do this. It seems people often use gradient fill in images created in another program. My first take on this is that it is not the optimal way to do things - is it not better to use a small image and tile a button or a background of a group? For instance a 1 pixel wide image (in the shape of a vertical line) which fades slightly at the top and bottom - rather than an entire image in the form of a bar? I have not played with gradient fills in Rev - but I know that there are some imagedata experts out there that have experimented with creating such fills with Revolution. Would it not be possible therefore to get Rev to create these fill automatically? So that a bar could be created of any height, width and base colour wanted? ___ 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: Gradient Textures
Hi David, There is a gradient toy on RevOnline, user name Mark. You might want to look at the scripts to see how I did this. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 29-aug-2007, om 13:07 heeft David Bovill het volgende geschreven: I've been taking a look at those gently beveled buttons / bars, and I'm wandering the best way to do this. It seems people often use gradient fill in images created in another program. My first take on this is that it is not the optimal way to do things - is it not better to use a small image and tile a button or a background of a group? For instance a 1 pixel wide image (in the shape of a vertical line) which fades slightly at the top and bottom - rather than an entire image in the form of a bar? I have not played with gradient fills in Rev - but I know that there are some imagedata experts out there that have experimented with creating such fills with Revolution. Would it not be possible therefore to get Rev to create these fill automatically? So that a bar could be created of any height, width and base colour wanted? ___ 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: Gradient Textures
Thanks Mark - fun little stack. I'll do a test with background textures - lets see what happens to the texture if you change the image :) On 29/08/2007, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, There is a gradient toy on RevOnline, user name Mark. You might want to look at the scripts to see how I did this. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 29-aug-2007, om 13:07 heeft David Bovill het volgende geschreven: I've been taking a look at those gently beveled buttons / bars, and I'm wandering the best way to do this. It seems people often use gradient fill in images created in another program. My first take on this is that it is not the optimal way to do things - is it not better to use a small image and tile a button or a background of a group? For instance a 1 pixel wide image (in the shape of a vertical line) which fades slightly at the top and bottom - rather than an entire image in the form of a bar? I have not played with gradient fills in Rev - but I know that there are some imagedata experts out there that have experimented with creating such fills with Revolution. Would it not be possible therefore to get Rev to create these fill automatically? So that a bar could be created of any height, width and base colour wanted? ___ 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: Proper Field Validation Methods and other annoyances...
Hi Len, 1) Why does put 4 is a date return true? If this function doesn't actually work, why is it still available? I'd like to be able to have users enter a date without any kind of punctuation (i.e., 08142007) and be able to validate it as a valid date. The same applies to entering 1315 as a time (no colon). Others have explained why is a date returns true for any integer. Here is a function that validates user input as valid according to the current system date format and returns the date in dateItems format. function validDate theString -- 5 April 04:RCC put stripBlanks(theString,false) into theString -- strips leading or trailing blanks from a string get systemDateFormat() -- see Called Routines below set the itemDelimiter to char -1 of it -- the Separater if the number of items of theString 3 then return false delete the last char of it delete char offset(mm,it) of it -- remove double characters, if any... -- which there will be until RR system date -- correctly recognizes suppression of leading -- zeroes delete char offset(dd,it) of it delete char offset(yy,it) of it repeat with x = 1 to 3 switch char x of it case m put item x of theString into theMonth if not validDigits(theMonth) then return false -- each char = 0 and = 9 if theMonth 1 or theMonth 12 then return false break case d put item x of theString into theDay if not validDigits(theDay) then return false if theDay 1 or theDay 31 then return false break case y put item x of theString into theYear if not validDigits(theYear) then return false put length(theYear) into charCount if charCount 2 and charCount 4 then return false if charCount is 2 then add 2000 to theYear if theYear 1 then return false break end switch end repeat if theDay 29 then return truereturntheYearcommatheMonthcommatheDay,0,0,0,0 if theMonth is 2 then if theDay 29 or not leapYear(theYear) then return false -- leapYear returns boolean else return truereturntheYearcommatheMonthcommatheDay,0,0,0,0 else if offset(0,theMonth) = 1 then delete char 1 of theMonth set the itemDelimiter to comma if theMonth is among the items of 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 then return truereturntheYearcommatheMonthcommatheDay,0,0,0,0 if theDay is 31 then return false else return truereturntheYearcommatheMonthcommatheDay,0,0,0,0 end if end validDate Cal;led routines: function systemDateFormat put 1999,1,9,0,0,0,0 into testDate convert testDate to short system date -- RR pads day/month regardless of settings -- which means function will not recognize the -- absence of leading zeroes until this is fixed put 2 into characterNumber repeat while char characterNumber of testDate is in 1,9 add 1 to characterNumber end repeat put char characterNumber of testDate into dateSeparater put empty into returnDateFormat set the itemDelimiter to dateSeparater repeat for each item datePart in testDate if datePart 9 then if datePart 99 then put y after returnDateFormat put y after returnDateFormat else if datePart 1 then if length(datePart) 1 then put d after returnDateFormat put d after returnDateFormat else if length(datePart) 1 then put m after returnDateFormat put m after returnDateFormat end if end repeat return returnDateFormatdateSeparater end systemDateFormat 2) This is the biggie. What is the proper way to validate the contents of a field. I tried writing a closeField script that would do the validation, put up a message box if the format/contents are wrong, then set the focus back to the field for correction by the user. I end up getting two insertion point cursors (one in the bad field and one in the next field. The keyboard does go to the bad field but having more than one insertion point is confusing to me let alone my end users. By the way, I have tried not passing the closeField message but I'm not sure if the tab to next field takes place anyway. Among my back burner projects is a Data Dictionary-driven RAD, which will validate user input in a field as compliant with the Data Dictionary specifications for the data that field captures (eg: required?, numeric?, # of decimal positions, show thousands separator?, show currency symbol?, lookup table, autoentry?, max length, max lines, etc). Only some of the edits have been tested at this stage; but all that our working are triggered by closeField, enterInField (and returnInField for single-line fields),or internal logic if auto-entry fields, and I
Re: no selection rectagle with screen grab?
Hi Everybody, Just officially joined. I don't see the problem on my Aluminum Powerbook. However, I have been trying to figure out why I get a black background when I export a snapshot via a script that selects the area. When I alter the scrip to force manual selection, this doesn't happen. It exports fine then. Any thoughts? Fred Maynor Remembrix On Aug 15, 10:24 pm, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info, gang. I just updated Terry Judd's bug report on this with the information we've discovered today: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4664 It used to work so well, disappointing to have to consider pulling a feature from one of my apps -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more:http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[OT] Sort of... I need a mentor for V4REV...
Hi Folks... This is [OT] sort of... because it is a cross-over issue... We are truly finding starting to use V4REV a problem... The Valentina wiki and other docs are not as helpful as we expected them to be... I would like to spend an hour or so on the phone with somebody who can help us make sense of V4REV before I dump it all and go to a database that has some books to reference. Is there anyone out there that can help? BTW we are using a MacBook w/ Intel and OS 10.4.10, Rev 2.8.1 and V4REV 3.3 for development Thanks in advance... Jim -- HiringSmart Canada is a successful international end-to-end human resource support business providing science-based assessments and productivity tools to multi-branch businesses where each branch, without the help of an HR professional, attracts, hires and engages THE RIGHT PEOPLE. We Help You Attract, Hire and Keep the Right People. www.TalentSeeker.ca www.HiringSmart.ca www.KeepingTheBest.ca HiringSmart Canada 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 ___ 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
ODBC problem
Dear All, I have a problem with Revolution accessing databases through ODBC. I'm running Revolution Studio 2.6.1 build 152 on Windows XP. 1) Background We are collecting scientific research data in field using up to 25 iPaq PocketPC at a time. For data collection we run a simple database management software on the PPCs, called HanDBase (http://www.ddhsoftware.com/). We collect a wide array of data, so we had to put about 50 linked databases on the PPCs. HanDBase has an ODBC driver. Revolution is used to access the various HanDBase databases on the various PPCs through ODBC, to process and store the data, to join other data sources (eg, results of lab analysis on biological samples), and prepare tables to be submitted for analysis to various numerical and statistical packages. 2) The problem When we read data from HanDBase using ODBC we got a systematic error for date and time fields; all other fields are read correctly. The date fields are read on all records as the numeric value 20, and the time fields are read on all records as the numeric value 18. We had this problem in the past, starting with Revolution 2.1. At the time, we were interested in date fields only, and so I sorted out a workaround to get the required date information without using ODBC, and forgot the problem. Now, we also need to read the time fields, and no workaround seems possible. We can read the same HanDBase date and time fields correctly on all ODBC programs that we tested, so it seems a Revolution problem. HanDBase can show date fields, time fields, and timestamp fields (date + time); all three kinds of fields are coded in the database as a timestamp; HanDBase technical support confirmed me that the ODBC format for date and time field isd the standard ODBC timestamp format, as from Microsoft ODBC API specifications (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190234.aspx). 3) What I know. - If I read the data type using revDatabaseColumnTypes() Revolution reports all these fields as TIMESTAMP; I understand that Revolution also recognizes these other data types: DATE,TIME,DATETIME, but it seems to read the data type of all our date and time fields as TIMESTAMP, and this make sense because it is in accordance to the HanDBase ODBC format - In my scripts I use the revDatabaseColumnNamed() function to access the fields in the databases, but the problem exists also if I use the revDataFromQuery() function - I suppose the revDatabaseColumnNamed() function to be coded in the revdb.dll, because I found no trace of it in the revdatabase script 4) Possible solution I can use vbscript to access my HanDBase databases through ODBC, save the data as ASCII files, the read the ASCII files in Revolution and follow with the data processing. I made a rough try and it works, but it doesn't make much sense. Moreover, I'm not very happy with this solution, because I'm already under pressure from my colleagues to abandon Revolution, and move our whole data management system to something else. But this will mean to port a huge amount of scripts, and I'm a biologist, not a programmer, so I would prefer to sort out a solution in Revolution. I will much appreciate your help, thank you in advance. Sorry for the long email. Kind regards Filippo Galimberti Filippo Galimberti, PhD Elephant Seal Research Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eleseal.it ___ 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: Drag Drop with color cursor
Welcome to MS and Entourage... Jim on 8/27/07 7:28 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Jim, Even after you quoted and resent the link, I can still click on it in Apple Mail and directly get to the correct page. I have no idea what your mail client does with it. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 27-aug-2007, om 23:46 heeft Jim Carwardine het volgende geschreven: This got wrapped and I can't figure out how to unwrap the line. Just taking out the carriage return doesn't seem to help... Jim on 8/27/07 11:41 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: http://search.gmane.org/search.php? group=gmane.comp.ide.revolution.userquery=drag+and+drop+dragdata ___ 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 -- HiringSmart Canada is a successful international end-to-end human resource support business providing science-based assessments and productivity tools to multi-branch businesses where each branch, without the help of an HR professional, attracts, hires and engages THE RIGHT PEOPLE. We Help You Attract, Hire and Keep the Right People. www.TalentSeeker.ca www.HiringSmart.ca www.KeepingTheBest.ca HiringSmart Canada 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 ___ 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
trouble with standalone valentina
My application works fine in development mode but when I build the
standalone and test that database does not seem to get updated?
When the user opens the app it checks to see that they have registered if
they have it opens if not they have to click a register button, when they do
it sends then to a online rev app to complete the registration after they
complete it will log the new registration number in the online database
(mysql) and there local database (valentina), this work fine in development
mode but not the standalone. With the standalone it completes the
registration and as lone as you do not close the app it continues to see tha
t it is registered but as soon as you close and reopen then app it ask the
user to register again, so not sure what is going on, check the local
database and it is empty but the online has the registration number in it,
Below is the script that I am using not sure how to test this it works every
time in development mode just not as a standalone?
Thanks
rob
global dbID2, guserIDnum, gbase, dbID, gusername, gpassword, greg
ON mouseUp
put into fld _status
IF the optionkey is down THEN
edit the script of me
exit mouseup
END IF
put fld username into gusername_#
put fld password into tpassword
put md5digest(tpassword) into tMD5
get binarydecode (H*,tMD5,tlogin_passwd)
put Select uid from wt_users Where wt_users.name='gusername' AND
wt_users.password='tlogin_passwd' AND wt_users.active='Y' AND
wt_users.banned='N'; into theSQL
put revqueryDatabase (dbID2, theSQL) into curID2
IF curID2 is not a number THEN
answer Please enter the correct login information
break
ELSE
put revDatabaseColumnNamed(curID2,uid) into guserIDnum
-- put guserIDnum into fld userID
END IF
revCloseCursor curID2
MAKE REGISTRATION KEY _#
put urlencode(makekey()) into _key
set the _customKeyVSCR of this stack to _key
put Select * from registration Where
registration.userId=guserIDnum; into theSQL
put revqueryDatabase (dbID2, theSQL) into curID2
put revqueryDatabase (dbID, theSQL) into curID
IF curID2 is a number AND curID is a number THEN
put revDatabaseColumnNamed (curID2, greg) into gbase2
put revDatabaseColumnNamed (curID, greg) into gbase
IF gbase is empty THEN
put UPDATE registration set greg='_key' where
userid='guserIdnum' into theSQL
revExecuteSQL dbID, theSQL
put it into terror
ELSE IF gbase is N THEN
put UPDATE registration set greg='_key' where
userid='guserIdnum' into theSQL
revExecuteSQL dbID, theSQL
put it into terror
END IF
IF gbase2 is empty THEN
put UPDATE registration set greg='_key' where
userid='guserIdnum' into theSQL
revExecuteSQL dbID2, theSQL
put it into terror2
ELSE IF gbase2 is N THEN
put UPDATE registration set greg='_key' where
userid='guserIdnum' into theSQL
revExecuteSQL dbID2, theSQL
put it into terror2
END IF
put SELECT greg from registration where
registration.userID='guseridnum' into theSQL
put revquerydatabase (dbID2, theSQL) into curID2
put revQueryDatabase (dbID, theSQL) into curID
put revdatabaseColumnNamed (curId2, greg) into treg
put revDatabaseColumnNamed (curID, greg) into treg2
--check to make sure that reg number is in both database
IF matchtext (treg,_key) AND matchtext(treg2,_key) THEN
put Registration Complete into fld _status
put into fld username
put into fld password
put into treg
put into treg2
put into greg
open card springcalc of stack springcalc
show stack springcalc
close stack Registration
revclosecursor curID
revclosecursor curID2
revclosedatabase dbID2
close stack reg_stack
ELSE
put error during registration into fld _status
END IF
END IF
END mouseUp
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Help with shell() script
I am trying to use the openssl function within cygwin in windows. The following is the script, instead of sending the command 'version' to openssl it appears to be sending /C as the result quotes that /C is not a valid command. The it variable contains: openssl:Error: '/C' is an invalid command. Standard commands asn1parse ... Putting 'version' in at the prompt works OK. What am I doing wrong and where does the /C come from? Paul on mouseUp set the hideconsolewindows to true put c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe into filepath open process filepath set shellcommand to c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe put version into shellc get shell(version) answer it end mouseUp ___ 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: Help with shell() script
Hi Paul, The problem, if im correct, is that you are assigning the shell to be the exe to be exectuted in the shell... Set the shellcommand to cmd.exe -- reset it to what it should be - if im correct... i didn't know we could set dir and the shell command! get shell(filepath Version) should work better IMOHO... Unfortunately i dont have the openssl.exe from cygwin to test. hope that helps cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/08/2007 16:44:59: I am trying to use the openssl function within cygwin in windows. The following is the script, instead of sending the command 'version' to openssl it appears to be sending /C as the result quotes that /C is not a valid command. The it variable contains: openssl:Error: '/C' is an invalid command. Standard commands asn1parse ... Putting 'version' in at the prompt works OK. What am I doing wrong and where does the /C come from? Paul on mouseUp set the hideconsolewindows to true put c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe into filepath open process filepath set shellcommand to c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe put version into shellc get shell(version) answer it end mouseUp ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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: Help with shell() script
I checked it with a little script: set the shellcommand to c:\apps\cygwin\ls.exe get shell() -- needs the quotes apparently or it wont compile answer it when you execute this you will see again the damn /c in the error message Tested quickly in MetaCard... should be the same in Rev... cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/08/2007 16:58:10: Hi Paul, The problem, if im correct, is that you are assigning the shell to be the exe to be exectuted in the shell... Set the shellcommand to cmd.exe -- reset it to what it should be - if im correct... i didn't know we could set dir and the shell command! get shell(filepath Version) should work better IMOHO... Unfortunately i dont have the openssl.exe from cygwin to test. hope that helps cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/08/2007 16:44:59: I am trying to use the openssl function within cygwin in windows. The following is the script, instead of sending the command 'version' to openssl it appears to be sending /C as the result quotes that /C is not a valid command. The it variable contains: openssl:Error: '/C' is an invalid command. Standard commands asn1parse ... Putting 'version' in at the prompt works OK. What am I doing wrong and where does the /C come from? Paul on mouseUp set the hideconsolewindows to true put c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe into filepath open process filepath set shellcommand to c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe put version into shellc get shell(version) answer it end mouseUp ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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: Microsoft XML
Yes, I've never had a client complaint with this method. And since the resulting file acquires a nice icon and can be double-clicked to open, it looks and feels like an Excel document. Actually it's BETTER as the client can load the created document, then add it to an existing workbook, do a little column adjusting and save as an Excel spreadsheet. The 'launch' command causes the file to be opened with Excel, since the file was written with a fileType of XCELTEXT. HTH - Phil Davis ___ -- 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: trouble with standalone valentina
Hi Rob, Le 29 août 07 à 01:03, Robert Mann a écrit : My application works fine in development mode but when I build the standalone and test that database does not seem to get updated? Databases are not my field but reading your script I saw: set the _customKeyVSCR of this stack to _key Could it be simply related to the fact that a standalone can't be saved? Then the _customKeyVSCR is always empty when relaunching. Hope this helps. Not sure ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.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: trouble with standalone valentina
Thanks eric, but the script that does the update of both databases is on the web so it is not compiled into a application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Chatonet Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:26 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: trouble with standalone valentina Hi Rob, Le 29 août 07 à 01:03, Robert Mann a écrit : My application works fine in development mode but when I build the standalone and test that database does not seem to get updated? Databases are not my field but reading your script I saw: set the _customKeyVSCR of this stack to _key Could it be simply related to the fact that a standalone can't be saved? Then the _customKeyVSCR is always empty when relaunching. Hope this helps. Not sure ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.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
Re: Gradient textures
My stack http://www.sanke.org/Software/ImagedataToolkitPreview3.zip has a number of gradient tools, both for creating gradients from scratch and to create gradients or gradient patterns from images. See the examples in my Imagedata Art Gallery. The stack at present allows working only for a fixed image size - 640X480 - but you could use the snapshot tool to select parts of a produced gradient. The new upcoming version of the Imgedata Toolkit will allow to process any image size 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: trouble with standalone valentina
Hello Robert, this may sound naive. But instead of using this stack try to use the real name of the stack. The stack you think is the default might not be the default one so you may been accessing the property of some other stack which is empty. try using something like: if the _customKeyVSCR of this stack is empty then answer current stack is the short name of this stack end if if it is the correct stack, then check is the custompropertyset is the right one. You may be accessing the right stack all along but trying with a wrong property set being the current one. If the problem still persists, run your routine that saves the VSCR key and then open the *troublesome* stack in the IDE and check if the value is being saved. Chances are if you're acessing it right but there's no value that the save routine is wrong. HTH andre On 8/29/07, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rob, Le 29 août 07 à 01:03, Robert Mann a écrit : My application works fine in development mode but when I build the standalone and test that database does not seem to get updated? Databases are not my field but reading your script I saw: set the _customKeyVSCR of this stack to _key Could it be simply related to the fact that a standalone can't be saved? Then the _customKeyVSCR is always empty when relaunching. Hope this helps. Not sure ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.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
Re: Microsoft XML
Has anyone looked at the native format used by Apple's Numbers? Some interesting history might help with this question... many years ago (1989?) Apple purchased the kernel for their spreadsheet used in AppleWorks from WingZ (now long since defunct). They paid $1,000,000 for it. I know this because I was using WingZ 1.0 and absolutely love the program. It had (even at 1.0) far more capability than MS's skinned down bleached out program. WingZ went bust, I suppose, for lack of market. Anyhow, the current version of AppleWorks can accept a cut and paste of the data and formulae from WingZ. However, since Apple did not implement ALL of WingZ capabilities some things don't work as well. It is PRESUMED the new Numbers spreadsheet is a derivative of all this. If not I reckon it's sol time (again). On the other hand, the original code for WingZ 3.0 was dumped to the web as a Linux program. Not being a Linux programmer I was not able to get it to run on Mac - though I do have that code in the event anyone wants it, let me know. Life, Light, Love Laughter, Dale Pond Sympathetic Vibratory Physics http://www.svpvril.com/ Passive Income Shopping Online http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/17477 ___ 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: Gradient Textures
David Bovill wrote: I've been taking a look at those gently beveled buttons / bars, and I'm wandering the best way to do this. It seems people often use gradient fill in images created in another program. My first take on this is that it is not the optimal way to do things - is it not better to use a small image and tile a button or a background of a group? For instance a 1 pixel wide image (in the shape of a vertical line) which fades slightly at the top and bottom - rather than an entire image in the form of a bar? That's pretty much the approach I took when writing my Gradient tool in devolution. It generates a vertical or horizontal gradient only 8 pixels wide (I found 1-pixel widths to be problematic), and then stretches it to fill the space required. This allows gradients to be generated very quickly, and they take up very little storage space. The only downside to this approach is that it's only good for the gradient itself. That is, if you also need text or other elements in the same image the stretching will hose that, and using a stretched image as a backgroundPattern causes the object using it to render with varied tiling results (there are some funky limits to tiled fills on Mac, and different limits on Windows). -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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: trouble with standalone valentina
The _customKeyVSCR is working properly this is later used to check paypal payment which is working, The problem is getting the information into the valentina database in development mode it goes in but when I build a standalone it does not? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre Garzia Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:19 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: trouble with standalone valentina Hello Robert, this may sound naive. But instead of using this stack try to use the real name of the stack. The stack you think is the default might not be the default one so you may been accessing the property of some other stack which is empty. try using something like: if the _customKeyVSCR of this stack is empty then answer current stack is the short name of this stack end if if it is the correct stack, then check is the custompropertyset is the right one. You may be accessing the right stack all along but trying with a wrong property set being the current one. If the problem still persists, run your routine that saves the VSCR key and then open the *troublesome* stack in the IDE and check if the value is being saved. Chances are if you're acessing it right but there's no value that the save routine is wrong. HTH andre On 8/29/07, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rob, Le 29 août 07 à 01:03, Robert Mann a écrit : My application works fine in development mode but when I build the standalone and test that database does not seem to get updated? Databases are not my field but reading your script I saw: set the _customKeyVSCR of this stack to _key Could it be simply related to the fact that a standalone can't be saved? Then the _customKeyVSCR is always empty when relaunching. Hope this helps. Not sure ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.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 ___ 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: Gradient Textures
On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: (there are some funky limits to tiled fills on Mac, and different limits on Windows). Didn't 2.7 do away with these limits? Or am I mistaken? -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: Microsoft XML
Dale Pond wrote: Some interesting history might help with this question... many years ago (1989?) Apple purchased the kernel for their spreadsheet used in AppleWorks from WingZ (now long since defunct). They paid $1,000,000 for it. I know this because I was using WingZ 1.0 and absolutely love the program. It had (even at 1.0) far more capability than MS's skinned down bleached out program. WingZ went bust, I suppose, for lack of market. Anyhow, the current version of AppleWorks can accept a cut and paste of the data and formulae from WingZ. However, since Apple did not implement ALL of WingZ capabilities some things don't work as well. So that's who killed Wingz. I've always wondered about that. Wingz was an unusually useful program, and when it was EOL'd I never really understood why; it was so original that I felt the only problem with it was its marketing, the challenge of selling something that so redefines the spreadsheet. I've long advocated such an approach, doing away with the inflexibility of row-and-column fixation which characterizes most of the market, and which arguably is just a holdover from pre-GUI character-driven displays. But it's a tough sell: so many people have become so used to being bound to the limits of traditional spreadsheets that it's difficult for them to conceive of a more open way of working. I have a half-dozen prototypes on my hard drive experimenting with a similarly free-form approach to making a calculation tool like this. The combination of the marketing challenge, Excel's dominance, and Rev's lack of column alignment kept it on the backburner. I can't feel to badly that Apple's beating me to the punch on delivering this, since it almost requires a company of their size to validate such an unusual approach to get people to take it seriously. One odd anomaly with Numbers, though: no macro/scripting language? Strange omission -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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: Gradient Textures
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: (there are some funky limits to tiled fills on Mac, and different limits on Windows). Didn't 2.7 do away with these limits? Or am I mistaken? Possibly, I can't say: I needed gradients and not necessarily a gradient tool, so I built the tool to do what I need for making presentations and UIs. Since it's been working all these years I haven't gone back to research other options, but perhaps if things slow down here I'll get back it some day. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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: Gradient Textures
Thanks guys - I'll give it a go. Richard, when you say: using a stretched image as a backgroundPattern causes the object using it to render with varied tiling results Do you mean that if I use backgroundpattern with a button or group then the text label or other elements that you would expect to work can work inconsistently - or are you refering to the effect you would expect if the gradient bitmap has bitmap text burned into it? I can't quite picture the circumstances... ___ 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: Gradient Textures
Successfully crashing Rev with this :) Just to check - imagedata is basically one long binary string with each pixel represented by 4 bytes (that is characters for the rest of us), and no consideration of the width and height of the image coming into this simple long string. On the other hand if you dont get the format and length of this string right - you may end up crashing Rev :) The length should be: 4 x the width of imageObject * the height of imageObject Now to figure out what i am doing to crash Rev... ___ 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
canceling a wait with messages call...
Hello Friends, tricky newbie question here. I have a handler which is a looper. It will loop downloading files from a queue. It uses a line: wait while lCurrentFileStatus is empty with messages to let the handler block (but not the application) till the download is complete or blocked. Tricky thing is, if you simply unplug the network during the FTP file transfer, revolution is giving no error, it waits and blocks forever until you abort with CMD+. when it promptly sends the expect error message back to the handler. I can't wait till the user aborts the call, it's not polite, so I've used another handler running in parallel with this one which is a timeout handler. My first option was, if the timeout handler triggers, then I set the script local variable lCurrentFileStatus to some non-empty-but-error value and the looper handler would unblock itself and continue processing. This didn't work, I don't know why, this is the expected behaviour. A script local variable is used as flag and one handler blocks waiting for other handler to work with it. It works like a charm if the download goes okay, the message sent to the callback handler changes this script local variable and the handler unblocks. If there's no network and my own timeout handler tries to set this variable to something, the handler does not unblock, instead of debugging libURL or Rev Engine or wherever the problem is, I am now trying to cancel the blocked handler. I though it would appear in the pending messages, but it does not. So the question is, how do I cancel a blocked handler? Cheers andre ___ 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: Help with shell() script
Yes Xavier, this is the problem, I am trying to script the openssl shell. I can run a single command from the cmd.exe shell but it quits at the end, what I need is a way to open the opessl shell and then read and write shell commands to it but the '/C' keeps gettng in the way. Has anybody else had any success with working with this? Paul I checked it with a little script: set the shellcommand to c:\apps\cygwin\ls.exe get shell() -- needs the quotes apparently or it wont compile answer it when you execute this you will see again the damn /c in the error message Tested quickly in MetaCard... should be the same in Rev... cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/08/2007 16:58:10: Hi Paul, The problem, if im correct, is that you are assigning the shell to be the exe to be exectuted in the shell... Set the shellcommand to cmd.exe -- reset it to what it should be - if im correct... i didn't know we could set dir and the shell command! get shell(filepath Version) should work better IMOHO... Unfortunately i dont have the openssl.exe from cygwin to test. hope that helps cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/08/2007 16:44:59: I am trying to use the openssl function within cygwin in windows. The following is the script, instead of sending the command 'version' to openssl it appears to be sending /C as the result quotes that /C is not a valid command. The it variable contains: openssl:Error: '/C' is an invalid command. Standard commands asn1parse ... Putting 'version' in at the prompt works OK. What am I doing wrong and where does the /C come from? Paul on mouseUp set the hideconsolewindows to true put c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe into filepath open process filepath set shellcommand to c:\cygwin\bin\openssl.exe put version into shellc get shell(version) answer it end mouseUp ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER
Re: canceling a wait with messages call...
Andre - the way I've done this was by using the libURLSetStatusCallback command - you can then check for anything and do your download asynchronously. When the callback is downloaded then fetch the next item from your list? ___ 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: Gradient Textures
David Bovill wrote: Richard, when you say: using a stretched image as a backgroundPattern causes the object using it to render with varied tiling results Do you mean that if I use backgroundpattern with a button or group then the text label or other elements that you would expect to work can work inconsistently - or are you refering to the effect you would expect if the gradient bitmap has bitmap text burn On that sentence I was referring to the former, but both have anomalies, each of a different sort. If you have what is really a small image (8 pixels wide) stretched horizontally to, say, 800 px, then the imageData is really only 8 pixels regardless of how the image object is sized. So when you assign the ID of that image object to another object, such as a button, it will adopt the imageData when rendered, regardless of the apparent size of that image object. In most cases that may be fine, but in v2.6.2 an earlier (haven't experimented since the compositing engine was revamped) the OS limits on tiled images could sometimes give unexpected results. For example, if you make a vertical gradient using the narrow method I decribe, and make that image object 1024x768 (I use this mostly for presentation backgrounds), then you can place the object in a background and it works great. But if instead you set the backgroundPattern of the card or stack to use that image, on Mac it'll crop the height to some arbitrary limit I haven't taken the time to define, causing it to tile vertically as well as horizontally, causing the gradient to appear truncated and start over again from the top somewhere in the middle of the card. With the other situation (burning text into an image), the visual distortion is merely what one would expect when stretching the image object. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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: canceling a wait with messages call...
David gave you an answer that works for downloading, but there could be other events you want to wait while Suggestion: try a custom property wait while the cpBusyFlag of this stack is not empty --since it might trigger when a script local will not --seems like a bug to me Another thought is to do the following to force the re-evaluation of the flag variable get lCurrentFileStatus repeat while it is not empty get lCurrentFileStatus wait 1 second with messages end repeat Hope this helps Jim Ault Las Vegas --- Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, tricky newbie question here. I have a handler which is a looper. It will loop downloading files from a queue. It uses a line: wait while lCurrentFileStatus is empty with messages to let the handler block (but not the application) till the download is complete or blocked. Tricky thing is, if you simply unplug the network during the FTP file transfer, revolution is giving no error, it waits and blocks forever until you abort with CMD+. when it promptly sends the expect error message back to the handler. I can't wait till the user aborts the call, it's not polite, so I've used another handler running in parallel with this one which is a timeout handler. My first option was, if the timeout handler triggers, then I set the script local variable lCurrentFileStatus to some non-empty-but-error value and the looper handler would unblock itself and continue processing. This didn't work, I don't know why, this is the expected behaviour. A script local variable is used as flag and one handler blocks waiting for other handler to work with it. It works like a charm if the download goes okay, the message sent to the callback handler changes this script local variable and the handler unblocks. If there's no network and my own timeout handler tries to set this variable to something, the handler does not unblock, instead of debugging libURL or Rev Engine or wherever the problem is, I am now trying to cancel the blocked handler. I though it would appear in the pending messages, but it does not. So the question is, how do I cancel a blocked handler? Cheers andre ___ 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: Microsoft XML
Richard Gaskin wrote: So that's who killed Wingz. I've always wondered about that. Wingz was an unusually useful program, and when it was EOL'd I never really understood why; it was so original that I felt the only problem with it was its marketing, the challenge of selling something that so redefines the spreadsheet. I've long advocated such an approach, doing away with the inflexibility of row-and-column fixation which characterizes most of the market, and which arguably is just a holdover from pre-GUI character-driven displays. But it's a tough sell: so many people have become so used to being bound to the limits of traditional spreadsheets that it's difficult for them to conceive of a more open way of working. I have a half-dozen prototypes on my hard drive experimenting with a similarly free-form approach to making a calculation tool like this. The combination of the marketing challenge, Excel's dominance, and Rev's lack of column alignment kept it on the backburner. I can't feel to badly that Apple's beating me to the punch on delivering this, since it almost requires a company of their size to validate such an unusual approach to get people to take it seriously. One odd anomaly with Numbers, though: no macro/scripting language? Strange omission == I apologize to everyone about this off topic issue. WingZ and HyperCard were so VASTLY important to me and my research - still are - but I see the EOL fast approaching - unless someone can get WingZ 3.0 going on a Mac and I can convert over all my HC work. WingZ could be scripted almost as easily as HyperCard. I'd say the general user public was not interested in such flexibility and power. Programmers would be though. I located some links to the program: A good article on and about the program, etc. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Investment+Intelligence+Announces +Release+of+Wingz+and+Wingz+...-a053426836 Download the WingZ program from here: http://www.ibiblio.org/linsearch/cgi-bin/isearch Life, Light, Love Laughter, Dale Pond Sympathetic Vibratory Physics http://www.svpvril.com/ Passive Income Shopping Online http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/17477 ___ 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: canceling a wait with messages call...
On 29 Aug 2007, at 18:10, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Andre tricky newbie question here. I have a handler which is a looper. It will loop downloading files from a queue. It uses a line: wait while lCurrentFileStatus is empty with messages to let the handler block (but not the application) till the download is complete or blocked. Tricky thing is, if you simply unplug the network during the FTP file transfer, revolution is giving no error, it waits and blocks forever until you abort with CMD+. when it promptly sends the expect error message back to the handler. I don't exactly follow the details of your problem, but I'm guessing this is a general gotcha when using libraries that use wait ... with messages or wait for messages to implement asynchronous behaviour. As you can imagine, libUrl is full of this stuff. When you implement a sequence of wait ... with messages, they have to unblock in the reverse order they were used. So assuming you made a number of libUrl calls (vial load url, for example), and then used the above line, the waits inside libUrl won't unblock until the above wait unblocks. It's easy to get into an eternal wait. The general rule is not to use waits of any kind while a library (or any other routine) that uses asynchronous waits is running. Possible ways to avoid using waits. -- rely on the callback message of load url to set things -- use send ... in -- use script-blocking calls (get url) Sorry if I've missed the point entirely. :-) Cheers Dave ___ 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: Gradient Textures
Thanks for the explanation Richard - lets see how it goes with 2.8.1 now that I've figured out what was causing the crash (setting some binary rgb values to a number 255)... ___ 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: Gradient Textures
David Bovill wrote: Thanks for the explanation Richard - lets see how it goes with 2.8.1 now that I've figured out what was causing the crash (setting some binary rgb values to a number 255)... Good sleuthing there, David. Thanks for posting the recipe. It's good to stay up on any crashing issues in case we need to find a workround. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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
connecting to 3.2 valventina database with rev
Valentina 3.2 I am getting the following error on the converting valentina connection id to revdb connection id revdberr,invalid database type with the follow script put 20 * 1024 * 1024 into theCacheSize put empty into theMacSerialNumber put fld serial into theWinSerialNumber put into theEncryptionKey get Valentina_Init(theCacheSize, theMacSerialNumber, theWinSerialNumber) put VDatabase_Constructor(kDisk) into theConnectionID get VDatabase_UseEncryptionKey(theConnectionID, theEncryptionKey, kStructureAndRecords) get VDatabase_Open(theConnectionID, dbPath) ## SOME BASIC ERROR CHECKING IF VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) is not 0 THEN IF VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) 0 THEN put OS error ( VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) ) into theError ELSE put VDatabase_ErrString(theConnectionID) into theError END IF answer Error connecting to valentina: theError exit to top END IF ## NOW WE CONVERT THE VALENTINA CONNECTION ID TO A REVDB CONNECTION ID ## SO THAT WE CAN USE THE REVDB FUNCTIONS put revOpenDatabase(Valentina2,,theConnectionID,,) into dbID this is where I get the error put dbID into fld dbID any ideas as to why? ___ 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
https Help Needed
Hey Rev List: I'm under a very tight deadline on an https file access stack for Mac/Win. I need to download a file from a secure server to a local drive, ideally using 'load URL' so I can monitor progress. Apparently there is a bug in the SSL stuff in libURL that prevents the library from working reliably on OSX(?). I was able to workaround the problem of *reading* a text file on the server by using the previously posted shell workaround for OSX: get shell(curl -v -k secureServerPath) This seems to work fine for reading, but now how can I download a file from this same secure server and monitor progress? Any option for this? Am hoping somebody can provide a solution soon as I'm quickly running out of time. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: https Help Needed
Scott, How about: 1) Use curl to get the file size from the HTTP header using the -- head option: -I/--head (HTTP/FTP/FILE) Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP- servers feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used on a FTP or FILE file, curl displays the file size and last modification time only. 2) Download the file to the user's temporary folder, and monitor the size of the temp file. --- Brian Yennie QLD Learning ___ 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: connecting to 3.2 valventina database with rev
I tried valentina3 did not work Tracing my steps back I was running valentina 2.5.6 reloaded this works fine -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Mann Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: connecting to 3.2 valventina database with rev Valentina 3.2 I am getting the following error on the converting valentina connection id to revdb connection id revdberr,invalid database type with the follow script put 20 * 1024 * 1024 into theCacheSize put empty into theMacSerialNumber put fld serial into theWinSerialNumber put into theEncryptionKey get Valentina_Init(theCacheSize, theMacSerialNumber, theWinSerialNumber) put VDatabase_Constructor(kDisk) into theConnectionID get VDatabase_UseEncryptionKey(theConnectionID, theEncryptionKey, kStructureAndRecords) get VDatabase_Open(theConnectionID, dbPath) ## SOME BASIC ERROR CHECKING IF VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) is not 0 THEN IF VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) 0 THEN put OS error ( VDatabase_ErrNumber(theConnectionID) ) into theError ELSE put VDatabase_ErrString(theConnectionID) into theError END IF answer Error connecting to valentina: theError exit to top END IF ## NOW WE CONVERT THE VALENTINA CONNECTION ID TO A REVDB CONNECTION ID ## SO THAT WE CAN USE THE REVDB FUNCTIONS put revOpenDatabase(Valentina2,,theConnectionID,,) into dbID this is where I get the error put dbID into fld dbID any ideas as to why? ___ Valentina mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina ___ 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: https Help Needed
Sadly, as things stand, we can't interact with the shell on OS X (see bug 2538), so Brian's suggestion of using curl and monitoring the resulting file seems like it could work. Best, Mark On 29 Aug 2007, at 20:54, Scott Rossi wrote: Hey Rev List: I'm under a very tight deadline on an https file access stack for Mac/Win. I need to download a file from a secure server to a local drive, ideally using 'load URL' so I can monitor progress. Apparently there is a bug in the SSL stuff in libURL that prevents the library from working reliably on OSX(?). I was able to workaround the problem of *reading* a text file on the server by using the previously posted shell workaround for OSX: get shell(curl -v -k secureServerPath) This seems to work fine for reading, but now how can I download a file from this same secure server and monitor progress? Any option for this? Am hoping somebody can provide a solution soon as I'm quickly running out of time. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: https Help Needed
Sorry, I take that back. I don't think it will work because shell calls are blocking - your app will do nothing until the shell call to curl is completed, appending an ampersand (to put the process in the background) doesn't work in Rev on OS X. BTW, what are the problems you're having with libURL and https? I had some problems with frequent timeouts, and although I've since migrated that particular app to using curl, before I did, I managed to come up with a repeat loop that kept trying until it succeeded. Not ideal, but it worked. Best, Mark On 30 Aug 2007, at 00:46, Mark Smith wrote: Sadly, as things stand, we can't interact with the shell on OS X (see bug 2538), so Brian's suggestion of using curl and monitoring the resulting file seems like it could work. Best, Mark ___ 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: https Help Needed
On 8/30/07, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I take that back. I don't think it will work because shell calls are blocking - your app will do nothing until the shell call to curl is completed, appending an ampersand (to put the process in the background) doesn't work in Rev on OS X. I don't know anything about HTTPS so can't help you there, but I do have a technique for non-blocking shell calls which might help. I have included my ping function below which uses the shell ping command with extra parameters that tell it to send the result to a file. Then I just have a loop that checks for that file and when it has arrived, reads the result that way. Pinging is instant when it works, but takes a long time to fail, so I find this trick works really well. Maybe you could do something similar. function checkPing pIP put specialFolderPath(Desktop) /ping.txt into tFileName if there is a file tFileName then delete file tFileName put ping -c1 -npIP into tShellCmd put tFileName 21 after tShellCmd get shell(tShellCmd) put 0 into timeCheck repeat 50 times add 1 to timeCheck wait 1 tick with messages if there is a file tFileName then put URL (file: tFileName) into tRes if tRes is empty then next repeat -- file created but no result yet put wordOffset(loss, tRes) into tWord if tWord = 0 then next repeat -- file created but result not complete -- if there is a file tFileName then delete file tFileName put word tWord-2 of tRes into tPercent if tPercent = 0% then return true else return false end if end repeat if there is a file tFileName then delete file tFileName return false end checkPing 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: Microsoft XML
Hi Another spreadsheet application I looked at recently is a simple one called Tables (http://www.x-tables.eu/), but decided to wait till Apple's Numbers came out. Personally I like tables views (rows/columns) because they are an efficient way to view lots of information quickly and still find it annoying Rev's built-in tables aren't very flexible. Found Wingz at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/ Readme for Wingz says it supports: Linux, Windows95/98/NT, Solaris, AIX, SunOS, HPUX, IRIX, Mac Seems to be available only as linux binary unfortunately no source code :( I am keen to check out Wingz Numbers and their respective approaches to working with financials. Unfortunately, I've still out bush with my limited wireless broadband Macbook (which only has mac windows). Didn't have time to add a linux partition :( So I will try again when I get back to civilization (miss my nice warm studio). Never been a big expert on spreadsheet applications but my knowledge is growing every day, thanks everyone. regards alex Dale Pond wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: snip One odd anomaly with Numbers, though: no macro/scripting language? Strange omission == I apologize to everyone about this off topic issue. WingZ and HyperCard were so VASTLY important to me and my research - still are - but I see the EOL fast approaching - unless someone can get WingZ 3.0 going on a Mac and I can convert over all my HC work. WingZ could be scripted almost as easily as HyperCard. I'd say the general user public was not interested in such flexibility and power. Programmers would be though. I located some links to the program: A good article on and about the program, etc. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Investment+Intelligence+Announces+Release+of+Wingz+and+Wingz+...-a053426836 Download the WingZ program from here: http://www.ibiblio.org/linsearch/cgi-bin/isearch ___ 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: https Help Needed
So redirecting the output stops it blocking? Wow, I never thought to try it...thanks, once again, Sarah! Best, Mark On 30 Aug 2007, at 01:05, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I don't know anything about HTTPS so can't help you there, but I do have a technique for non-blocking shell calls which might help. I have included my ping function below which uses the shell ping command with extra parameters that tell it to send the result to a file. Then I just have a loop that checks for that file and when it has arrived, reads the result that way. ___ 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: connecting to 3.2 valventina database with rev
Well I spent the whole day trying to figure out why data was not being saved in the valentine database with a standalone I guess you have to make sure you do the following when you close the app or data is not saved, this works with valentina 2.5.6 now I will try and change all to 3.2 and see if it works ON DoCloseval get VDatabase_Close(theConnectionID) END DoCloseval ON VCloseCard get Valentina_ShutDown END VCloseCard ON rclosecard revCloseDatabase dbID END rclosecard ___ 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: https Help Needed
Hello Scott, don't know if you already solved that. have you tried: LibURLSetSSLVerification false your cURL line below is doing just that with the -k in it. Maybe with this setting in place, everything works. Cheers andre PS: you know that TM|Colors and TM|Align are my favorite plugins here... :-) On 8/29/07, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Rev List: I'm under a very tight deadline on an https file access stack for Mac/Win. I need to download a file from a secure server to a local drive, ideally using 'load URL' so I can monitor progress. Apparently there is a bug in the SSL stuff in libURL that prevents the library from working reliably on OSX(?). I was able to workaround the problem of *reading* a text file on the server by using the previously posted shell workaround for OSX: get shell(curl -v -k secureServerPath) This seems to work fine for reading, but now how can I download a file from this same secure server and monitor progress? Any option for this? Am hoping somebody can provide a solution soon as I'm quickly running out of time. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: https Help Needed
Recently, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Scott, don't know if you already solved that. No, I didn't, but I was hoping you might offer a solution. :-) have you tried: LibURLSetSSLVerification false Definitely. The problem seems to be that using native Rev to access a secure server is unreliable on OSX. In my testing so far I'm getting empty results with nothing happening. Windows is OK. your cURL line below is doing just that with the -k in it. Maybe with this setting in place, everything works. I really don't understand what that shell thing is doing. I was hoping there was some way to adapt it to my needs. I'm just a simple designer. :-) PS: you know that TM|Colors and TM|Align are my favorite plugins here... Glad to hear it. But just wait until Revolution Live in Las Vegas... :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: connecting to 3.2 valventina database with rev
On 30/8/07 6:54 AM, Robert Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, Well I spent the whole day trying to figure out why data was not being saved in the valentine database with a standalone You have not answer it seems on my question. Did you install VComponents folder into compiled standalone using script ? Note, that if your project is not huge, you can send us project or even compiled app WITHOUT installed VComponents folder, and we can try debug it here to see where is mistake. I guess you have to make sure you do the following when you close the app or data is not saved, this works with valentina 2.5.6 now I will try and change all to 3.2 and see if it works ON DoCloseval get VDatabase_Close(theConnectionID) END DoCloseval ON VCloseCard get Valentina_ShutDown END VCloseCard ON rclosecard revCloseDatabase dbID END rclosecard -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] ___ 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
Answer Annoyance
If I put a simple text file on a server that contains the following: hello world /hello ...and I script: put url pathToServerFile into tData answer tData ...I get this: world How do I tell the answer dialog that I *DON'T* want the HTMLText? I want the actual text! Arg. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Answer Annoyance
then don't put tags in the text? If I put a simple text file on a server that contains the following: hello world /hello ...and I script: put url pathToServerFile into tData answer tData ...I get this: world How do I tell the answer dialog that I *DON'T* want the HTMLText? I want the actual text! Arg. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design -- 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
