Re: franklin3d

2009-09-19 Thread Judy Perry

What are we poor Mac users to do?

I know Lynn promised something would be forthcoming, but will the same 
pre-order stuff be available when a Mac test version is available?


Just wondering...

Judy

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote:


Hey Joe,

Lynn announced the beta for it here:

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2009-September/128409.html

It is currently available to test for windows:

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Re: franklin3d

2009-09-19 Thread Judy Perry

Oh, come on Joe -- didn't you do a coloring book in Rev?

I know, I know... not a game... still, you never know ;-)

Judy

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

Thanks Malte. It'll be interesting to see if it has any application to the 
kinds of things I do. I don't do games. (frown)

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RE: Want to Try Franklin 3D - 3D Engine for Revolution?

2009-09-19 Thread Judy Perry

Any idea when a Mac version will be available?

Sorry if you've said previously...

Judy

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Lynn Fredricks wrote:


Hi Richard,


Where to Learn More
---
The website is just coming together, here:

http://franklin3d.com/. It

will be more polished over the next few days.


snip


The Windows test stack is available right now. Here are the links I posted
the other day again:

Download: http://www.franklin3d.com/download/franklin3d_win.zip

Report Issues: http://www.franklin3d.com/bt

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks

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Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-19 Thread Thierry

Le 18 sept. 09 à 21:25, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :




From a personal point of view I can see that Haiku looks quite sexy in
GUI terms and probably boots and runs faster than a lot of Ubuntu  
distros
[and to support this I should point out that I have just put my P3s  
in my

school BACK to Ubuntu 5.10 from 8.04 as 5.10 is significantly less
resource hungry] until there is a port of RunRev or an equivalent RAD
I cannot see myself or any other educational types who roll their  
own

going down that route.


Hi Richmond,

Do you know PureOSlight  ?  ( http://pureos.org/ )

PureOSlight est un mini liveCD (350 mo) avec Xfce,
Iceweasel, Icedove, Abiword, Gnumeric, Exaile, VLC..

May be interesting for you  ?

HTH
Regards,
Thierry

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RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Thierry

Hi all,


Great news from France :-)

This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !

not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in French


Regards,
Thierry

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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Yves COPPE


Le 19-sept.-09 à 11:30, Thierry a écrit :


Hi all,


Great news from France :-)

This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !

not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in  
French






Indeed ! which magazine ?

Amicalement.

Yves COPPE
yvesco...@skynet.be

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AppleScript Users

2009-09-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon

Hi from Paris,

I check in regularly to another forum
(applescript-us...@lists.apple.com),
just to see what is going on, and maybe
to pick up a useful Apple Script.

Since the release of Snow Leopard, there
has been a flurry of messages talking
about all the things that don't work
no more ! :(

I haven't yet made my decision to go Snow,

..but I think I will wait a little !

-Francis


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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Thierry

Le 19 sept. 09 à 11:51, Yves COPPE a écrit :


Le 19-sept.-09 à 11:30, Thierry a écrit :


Hi all,

Great news from France :-)

This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !

not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in  
French


Indeed ! which magazine ?

Amicalement.
Yves COPPE


You're lucky it is distributed in Belgium too :-)

OpenSource Magazine  No 22 ( Sept-Oct 2009 )

it's a very short text, but still

Regards,
Thierry

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Re: Support for SQL Server in SQL Yoga

2009-09-19 Thread Len Morgan

Thanks for this Trevor!!!  I'll give it a workout and report back!

len morgan

Trevor DeVore wrote:
Just a note for those who have been asking about SQL Server support in 
SQL Yoga. I just uploaded 1.0.0 build 5 BETA. With this version SQL 
Server accessed through RevDB using ODBC is passing unit tests. You 
can find links to downloads and the docs (works in progress, finished 
before release) here:


http://www.bluemangolearning.com/revolution/software/libraries/sql-yoga/

An example of which properties to set on a SQL Yoga Connection object 
for SQL Server can be seen here:


http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/manuals/sqlyoga/lessons/5861-Incorporating-SQL-Yoga-Into-Your-Application-For-the-First-Time 




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Re: Want to Try Franklin 3D - 3D Engine for Revolution?

2009-09-19 Thread David Bovill
Lynn - its good to see there are quite a few standard formats supported by
the open source Irrlicht
backendhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrlicht_Enginethat Franklin3D
is using:

Irrlicht supports a wealth of file formats. It will load and display 3ds Max
files, Quake 2 MD2 Models, Maya .obj objects, Quake 3 .bsp maps, Milkshape3D
objects, and DirectX .x
files.[18]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrlicht_Engine#cite_note-17More
3D format support have been written as external plugins.

I've not been able to find any reviews comparing Irrlicht with other cross
platform 3D engines out there - Irrlicht is an interesting choice but not an
engine I've heard of before - have you got any links to reviews or perhaps a
reason why you chose Irrlicht over other more common open source game
engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_game_engines (for
instance OGRE and Crystal Space)

I'd also be interested on your thoughts as to how you might integrate
something like Blender into the workflow / editing environment?
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Re: Support for SQL Server in SQL Yoga

2009-09-19 Thread George C Brackett
The 'download demo' is listed on the page as 1.0.0 build 3 -- is that  
just a typo?  Is this the page purchasers should look at to find out  
about new versions?  I'm eager to keep up to date...


George

On Sep 19, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

Just a note for those who have been asking about SQL Server support in  
SQL Yoga. I just uploaded 1.0.0 build 5 BETA. With this version SQL  
Server accessed through RevDB using ODBC is passing unit tests. You  
can find links to downloads and the docs (works in progress, finished  
before release) here:


http://www.bluemangolearning.com/revolution/software/libraries/sql-yoga/

An example of which properties to set on a SQL Yoga Connection object  
for SQL Server can be seen here:


http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/manuals/sqlyoga/lessons/5861-Incorporating-SQL-Yoga-Into-Your-Application-For-the-First-Time

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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin

Thierry wrote:


Great news from France :-)

This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !

not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in French


...and even rarer to read about Rev in a venue that focuses on open source.

Good to hear - is there an online version of the article?

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Re: franklin3d

2009-09-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins

True, Judy. You never can tell.

Joe Wilkins

On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Judy Perry wrote:


Oh, come on Joe -- didn't you do a coloring book in Rev?

I know, I know... not a game... still, you never know ;-)

Judy

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

Thanks Malte. It'll be interesting to see if it has any application  
to the kinds of things I do. I don't do games. (frown)


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RE: Want to Try Franklin 3D - 3D Engine for Revolution?

2009-09-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Judy,

 Any idea when a Mac version will be available?
 
 Sorry if you've said previously...

Its all dependent on our Founder orders. We've funded development of
Franklin 3D in a...well...sour economy that has become so endearing to all
of us ;-) Development of Franklin on Mac OS X is a little more expensive
because of the skills needed on the platform. But if we get enough
pre-orders then its just a few months at most.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server


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RE: franklin3d

2009-09-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
 Oh, come on Joe -- didn't you do a coloring book in Rev?
 
 I know, I know... not a game... still, you never know ;-)

Franklin3D is something you can use for more than just games. Two big ones
that come to mind are 3D based simulations and also 3D data visualization. 

Also, don't forget you can do 2D within the Franklin3D as well - except that
its accelerated by whatever underlying hardware situation you have.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server 

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Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson

Thierry wrote:

Le 18 sept. 09 à 21:25, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :



From a personal point of view I can see that Haiku looks quite sexy in
GUI terms and probably boots and runs faster than a lot of Ubuntu 
distros
[and to support this I should point out that I have just put my P3s 
in my

school BACK to Ubuntu 5.10 from 8.04 as 5.10 is significantly less
resource hungry] until there is a port of RunRev or an equivalent RAD
I cannot see myself or any other educational types who roll their own
going down that route.


Hi Richmond,

Do you know PureOSlight  ?  ( http://pureos.org/ )

PureOSlight est un mini liveCD (350 mo) avec Xfce,
Iceweasel, Icedove, Abiword, Gnumeric, Exaile, VLC..

May be interesting for you  ?

HTH
Regards,
Thierry


Merci bien!
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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Thierry

Le 19 sept. 09 à 15:19, Richard Gaskin a écrit :


Thierry wrote:


Great news from France :-)
This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !
not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in  
French


...and even rarer to read about Rev in a venue that focuses on open  
source.


:-)


Good to hear - is there an online version of the article?


No.

but , really, was only few lines to present mostly revMedia,
a link to runrev.com, and finish with
Rev Studio and Enterprise being not free
for standalone applications...

If you want to practise some open-french, here is the source :
http://pdf.opensource-magazine.com/

Regards,
Thierry

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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin

Thierry wrote:


Le 19 sept. 09 à 15:19, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

Thierry wrote:

Great news from France :-)
This morning, reading a french magazine about Opensource ,
found a short article about RevMedia, RevStudio and Reventerprise !
not very often we can read about Revolution in France and in  
French


...and even rarer to read about Rev in a venue that focuses on open  
source.


:-)


Good to hear - is there an online version of the article?


No.

but , really, was only few lines to present mostly revMedia,
a link to runrev.com, and finish with
Rev Studio and Enterprise being not free
for standalone applications...

If you want to practise some open-french, here is the source :
 http://pdf.opensource-magazine.com/


My girlfriend is fluent, but my own French is currently quite horrible; 
I can barely read it and can't speak more than a few words (and those 
still come out with that American twang).


But I like to read what I can in Le Monde now and then to practice, and 
reading this open source mag will help my learning a lot.  Thanks for 
the link.


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F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson

As rawKeyDown doesn't pick up
keydowns such as SHIFT on Macintosh
I am thinking of using F keys (specifically F1 and F2)
to state-change in the Beta 2 version of my
Sanskrit typewriter and wonder if using these
2 keys will make things go all wobbly on
Windows?
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RE: F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-19 Thread Jim Bufalini
Richmond Mathewson:

 As rawKeyDown doesn't pick up
 keydowns such as SHIFT on Macintosh
 I am thinking of using F keys (specifically F1 and F2)
 to state-change in the Beta 2 version of my
 Sanskrit typewriter and wonder if using these
 2 keys will make things go all wobbly on
 Windows?


F1 is universally used by all programs on PC as the Help key, so I wouldn't
use it for any other purpose than to launch your help, as a typical Windows
user would expect this. Other raw function keys have different meanings
depending on keyboard or program. However, to the best of my knowledge,
keystrokes are only sent to the top window. So if your application is the
top window, you can interpret the key any way you want. If your app is not
on top, it won't receive the keystroke.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini

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Re: RevMedia: ca va demenager ( will rock ! )

2009-09-19 Thread Thierry

Le 19 sept. 09 à 17:11, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

My girlfriend is fluent, but my own French is currently quite  
horrible;

I can barely read it and can't speak more than a few words
(and those still come out with that American twang).


I know what you mean
I had 2 weeks ago, a very powerful experience of talking
your English language in front of mainly  english audiance.
I didn't tell them I was french, but I'm sure they all  knew after my  
first sentence.
Luckily, thery were all nice,  which help me a lot... And don't tell  
them,

but few had a very strong Scottish accent...  :-)


But I like to read what I can in Le Monde now and then to practice,
and reading this open source mag will help my learning a lot.


May be one day, we could organize a  meeting
in Paris, called RevParle Francais  ?


Thanks for the link.


lurking on their site, I found something which could interest you.
In the main menu on top of page, select GRATUIT,
then you can download one free magazine,
then send a request to redact...@opensource-magazine.com
to receive  a key to be able to read it ( protected pdf )

Bonne lecture :-)

Cordialement,
Thierry

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Re: Difference between tRev and GLX2?

2009-09-19 Thread Jerry Daniels

Todd,

Runtime Revolution had an upgrade coupon for GLX2ers when the product  
was released. It has expired by now.


tRev retail is half the GLX2 license. That's a nice upgrade path.

Best,

Jerry Daniels
Watch tRev - The Movie
http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie

On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Todd Higgins wrote:

I am seeing a lot of traffic on the list in regards to tRev.  Does  
that mean the GLX (like Galaxy before it) is now a defunct product?   
What if any difference is there between the 2 products?  Is there  
any kind of reasonable upgrade path for a former GLX license holder?


Thanks,

Todd

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Re: Support for SQL Server in SQL Yoga

2009-09-19 Thread Trevor DeVore

On Sep 19, 2009, at 8:56 AM, George C Brackett wrote:

The 'download demo' is listed on the page as 1.0.0 build 3 -- is  
that just a typo?  Is this the page purchasers should look at to  
find out about new versions?  I'm eager to keep up to date...


I forgot to update the main SQL Yoga page but the download is the  
latest. I usually update the version number of that page but I list  
the change log and any additional comments in the Latest Version  
post in the forums (very first post):


http://www.bluemangolearning.com/forums/viewforum.php?id=15

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Re: Difference between tRev and GLX2?

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin

Todd Higgins wrote:
I am seeing a lot of traffic on the list in regards to tRev.  Does  
that mean the GLX (like Galaxy before it) is now a defunct product?   
What if any difference is there between the 2 products?  Is there any  
kind of reasonable upgrade path for a former GLX license holder?


Jerry discusses the differences between the two and a whole lot more in 
this new interview at revJournal we just posted:


http://www.revjournal.com/interviews/rev-jerry-daniels.html

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Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Graham Samuel
I suppose it's just finger trouble, but I'm having great difficulty  
using import snapshot and export snapshot - the RunRev docs seem not  
to be completely specific on this. For example, while apparently I can  
take a snapshot of something that isn't open and isn't visible (the  
docs say so!), I don't seem to be able to take a snapshot of an object  
whose loc is outside the visible area. For example I have an image  
which I've placed out of site at 2000,2000 based on a quite small  
stack, say 800 by 600 pixels. I'm used to this technique for hiding  
stuff from the user, and also for working with objects larger than the  
visible area - in this case, I am doing both of these. Now I want to  
tinker with the image. The statement


import snapshot from rect 1375,2592,1749,2625 of this stack

compiles OK but results in an execution error. Experiments seem to  
show that a statement of the same form restricted to the bounds of the  
stack's window work OK.


What I'm actually trying to do is to create a composite image at  
screen resolution, by overlaying images on top of one another and then  
taking a snapshot of the resultant screen area, but all without the  
user seeing anything. My experiments appear to show that I can do it  
while the various objects are visible (in the visible area) but not  
otherwise. Can anyone explain how this could be done?


TIA

Graham
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Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin

Graham Samuel wrote:
I suppose it's just finger trouble, but I'm having great difficulty  
using import snapshot and export snapshot - the RunRev docs seem not  
to be completely specific on this. For example, while apparently I can  
take a snapshot of something that isn't open and isn't visible (the  
docs say so!), I don't seem to be able to take a snapshot of an object  
whose loc is outside the visible area. For example I have an image  
which I've placed out of site at 2000,2000 based on a quite small  
stack, say 800 by 600 pixels. I'm used to this technique for hiding  
stuff from the user, and also for working with objects larger than the  
visible area - in this case, I am doing both of these. Now I want to  
tinker with the image. The statement


import snapshot from rect 1375,2592,1749,2625 of this stack

compiles OK but results in an execution error. Experiments seem to  
show that a statement of the same form restricted to the bounds of the  
stack's window work OK.


What I'm actually trying to do is to create a composite image at  
screen resolution, by overlaying images on top of one another and then  
taking a snapshot of the resultant screen area, but all without the  
user seeing anything. My experiments appear to show that I can do it  
while the various objects are visible (in the visible area) but not  
otherwise. Can anyone explain how this could be done?


The rect option can be useful at times, but since v2.7 we've had a much 
easier and more robust method of exporting images of objects by 
specifying the object itself rather than a rect:


  import snapshot from img MyImage

The object needn't be an image; it can be anything other than a stack 
(referencing the card will work for those), even groups.


The big difference is how the image is generated:

Using the rect option  cips a portion of the display buffer, so if your 
image is out of bounds there won't be anything to get.


But using an object reference causes the engine to render the object 
into a private buffer for you, much like it would do when rendering the 
image on a card, and then hands that buffer back to you in the resulting 
image.


In my experience using object references is reliable under a much wider 
range of circumstances than using rects, even with objects on cards that 
aren't open.


This extension to the snapshot syntax was a by-product of the massive 
rendering overhaul Mark Waddingham did for v2.7, and one that's done 
wonders here for making screenshots very easily.


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Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
I forgot to mention another cool feature of using import snapshot from 
object:  because it uses the engine's native object rendering scheme 
rather than merely clipping the display buffer, it renders with 
transparent areas as transparent.


For example, if you import a snapshot of a group of objects, any areas 
between the objects are transparent in the resulting image.


Many cool things can be done with this new option, and it's so much 
simpler to use than keeping track of rects


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Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread dunbarx
Can you lock the screen, place the stack back inside, take the snapshot, and 
then put the stack outside again?

Craig Newman

On Sep 19, 2009, at 2:57:09 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote:
From:   Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com
Subject:Snapshot problems
Date:   September 19, 2009 2:57:09 PM EDT
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
I suppose it's just finger trouble, but I'm having great difficulty 
using import snapshot and export snapshot - the RunRev docs seem not 
to be completely specific on this. For example, while apparently I can 
take a snapshot of something that isn't open and isn't visible (the 
docs say so!), I don't seem to be able to take a snapshot of an object 
whose loc is outside the visible area. For example I have an image 
which I've placed out of site at 2000,2000 based on a quite small 
stack, say 800 by 600 pixels. I'm used to this technique for hiding 
stuff from the user, and also for working with objects larger than the 
visible area - in this case, I am doing both of these. Now I want to 
tinker with the image. The statement

import snapshot from rect 1375,2592,1749,2625 of this stack

compiles OK but results in an execution error. Experiments seem to 
show that a statement of the same form restricted to the bounds of the 
stack's window work OK.

What I'm actually trying to do is to create a composite image at 
screen resolution, by overlaying images on top of one another and then 
taking a snapshot of the resultant screen area, but all without the 
user seeing anything. My experiments appear to show that I can do it 
while the various objects are visible (in the visible area) but not 
otherwise. Can anyone explain how this could be done?

TIA

Graham
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connect Oracle DB

2009-09-19 Thread Sakari Ruoho

Hi people,

just upgraded studio to enterprise so I could develop a GUI for Oracle 
DB. Now I'm having troubles connecting to it. When I use 
revOpenDatabase(oracle, localhost, ORCL, sakari, test) ORCL 
being the SID I get the following error: 'revdberr,invalid database 
type'. Anyone ever managed to connect Oracle with Rev, since I did not 
find any decent article about it and the documentation is real bad when 
it comes to connecting Oracle?


Sakari Ruoho
Software Engineer
sakari.ru...@neurocard.fi

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How to use socket commands and function in a .irev script

2009-09-19 Thread Jérôme Rosat

Hi all,

Is it possible to use socket commands and functions in a .irev script  
on a on-rev serveur ?


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Re: How to use socket commands and function in a .irev script

2009-09-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Jérôme Rosat jro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 Is it possible to use socket commands and functions in a .irev script on a
 on-rev serveur ?


I just tested it and you can see the script  the result at
http://www.troz.net/onrev/samples/various.irev.
Trying to open a socket doesn't give an error but it doesn't seem to
do anything.
Trying with a callback doesn't trigger the callback either, it's like
the open socket command just disappears.
The docs list open socket as being available for desktop, server 
web, but the functionality isn't there. Maybe this is temporary.

Cheers,
Sarah
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