Re: Czech text
Just for the archives in case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem. The issue is a matter of display. The output field requires mixed font settings. If you set the textfont to a polish variant, it sort of works, howwever you end up with some japanese characters for certain character combinations (e.g. éá). So you somehow need to mix the fonts. A brute force method can be this (assuming you know the output is in an east european language): on mouseUp local tArray if numToChar(0) is in field output or numToChar(1) is in field output then repeat with i=1 to the number of chars of fld output -- CZ special chars are UNICODE. 2 bytes. Second Byte appears to be either 0 or 1 in charToNum if charTonum(char i+1 of fld output)10 and i+1 the number of chars of fld output then put true into tArray[i] end if end repeat repeat for each key theKey in tArray set the textfont of char theKey to theKey +1 of fld output to ,po end repeat end if end mouseUp Not necessariely pretty, nor really optimal, however, the only solution I found until now. All the best, Malte___ 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: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video
was meant to be a private post, sorry about that. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Rodeo-IDE-preview-video-tp2234453p2244992.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: To keep the selection of a textfield visible while the focus is onanother control?
Rather than simulating text highlighting, try simulating the change in focus. The actual focus would always stay on the field. However, you could use a custom prop to define a pseudofocus. When that property is set to a different object, like the combo box, then text gets diverted (using key down handler) to that object. It would be tricky, including the need to simulate the blinking text cursor, but it should be doable. Good luck, J Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: G. Wolfgang Gaich gwolfg...@gaich.de Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:02:57 To: How to use Revolutionuse-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: To keep the selection of a textfield visible while the focus is on another control? Hi all, I don't know how to manage this: On a card I have a field with text and a combo box. With the combobox the user can change the textsize of the selected text of the textfield. That works good when I set the traversalOn of the combobox to false. The User then can use the menu of the combobox while the selection in the textfield keeps visible. But when I set the traversalOn of the combobox to true, so that the user can manually enter a textsize in the field part of the combobox, the selection in the textfield disappears because the textfield lost its focus. One way I tested was to store the selectedChunk in a custom property on selectionchanged and when the user has entered the textsize in the combobox and presses return or enter the textsize and the selection for the selectedchunk (I stored in the custom property) of the field is set. But there is a period of time the user doesn't see his selection in the textfield. Is there a way to keep the selection of a textfield visible while the focus is on another control? I hope you understand my request despite my poor english. Thank you very much in advance. Wolfgang ___ 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: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93
Robert Earp wrote: I'm concerned that readers of the article, especially new people to Rev and scripting, will now stay away from global variables, which would be a shame as they are extremely valuable. I believe the crux of the Olivers concerns about global variables is one of scripting practices and project documentation, rather than global variables themselves. There's absolutely nothing wrong with global variables, in fact I much prefer them to other means of storing data especially when wishing to access that data across multiple stacks and/or locations. Global variables are truly global, and as such save an awful lot of addressing problems which ends up in simpler script. But I do agree in using custom properties of objects, or groups, when the data truly refers to something associated with the object/group. Thank you for that, Bob. There is indeed a stigma against global variables, and while a good many programmers continue to argue against their use nearly every language they use supports them. I doubt the designers of programming languages are all so wrong. Like you noted, there's a place for globals, and it's also true that globals can be abused, just as custom props and other containers can be abused. Rather than lead newcomers down the dogma road of avoiding globals altogether, it would be more helpful to assist them in distinguishing when they are useful. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ 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: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93
Global variables are far from bad. Ages ago, back in the 8-bit and 16-bit CPU days, global variables were cursed because they required crossing segment boundaries (64K each), which causes numerous performance hitches. No such problem exists today. In fact, global variables can actually be a performance boost when accessed properly because if you use them in lock-step they may all end up being in L1/2 cache. Then academia became involved and global variables were stigmatized due to a thought that they lead to poor programming practices. Yes, there are those who use them inappropriately (read: for everything). But without global variables we wouldn't have dynamic extent or scope, which are incredibly powerful tools at our disposal as programmers. The rule of thumb is simple: don't let data extend outside the scope in which it is intended. If you have a loop variable, it's local to the function that contains it. If you have a function, it's extent is likely the module it's contained in (in Rev's case, keep functions that act on multiple controls at the card level... and functions that act on cards at the stack level, etc). As Richard noted: dogma is a bad thing. Understand the problem, understand the solution. Don't complicate the solution... instead, try and simplify the problem. Use the tool that best helps you to get the job done. Make it work, then go back and make it right. Then go back again and make it fast. Jeff M. ___ 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
Changing environment variables
Is there a way for me to change the environment variables my Rev app is running with? Note: shell() doesn't work because it will only modify the environment for that spawned shell process. If there is no way to do this, *please* let this be a feature in 4.5 or 5.0. It's very useful. ;-) Jeff M. ___ 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: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93
My experience with people who are new to a language or new to programming tend to simplify or round off their efforts and produce the following: Use globals as a short cut to passing parameters because it is simpler Develop programming patterns that mean they use the same global names Forget that globals are owned by Rev, not the stack(s) Lose track of how many script containers touch and change the same global Try to reuse globals, thinking that they will just keep track of clearing the global variable when they need to. I used to be leader of the Advance Hypercard Special Interest Group back in the day. The global naming was particularly problematic when a school teacher decided to jump in and do their own grade book and used: global mySelectedStudent -- as one declaration, without the 'g' prefix -- then in field scripts, etc used put Tom Jones into mySelectedStudent -- forgetting to declare the global at the top of the script container -- or forgetting they had declared it and it already had a value -- or forgetting that the global value was supposed to be line 5 of field studentList -- and defined it as the string Tommy Smith -- thus dueling data formats This became worse when they tried to employ stacks in use, which meant that many globals became hidden library instances. Now the globals were not even in the same stack or logical project. They had a fighting chance if they were the authors of the 'stacks in use', but not when they acquired the stacks of others. Our Hypercard group actually designed some scripts to map the globals and look for duplicate locals or missing global declarations. Script locals were not a feature of Hypercard. If the 'g' prefix were not used, mapping was essential for finding 'cross-wiring' (as we called it). Hypercard was designed to run across hard drives and computers, so now globals became more difficult. You had a choice to navigate and use the remote environment or keep using your own. Remember the days of Go Recent, Pop Card ? On an AppleTalk network, like a classroom, this could lead to significant degrees of anarchy. The students would use the same global names as the instructor, but for different tasks. I found that most new programmers, including me, had challenges with the scope of variables. Certainly experienced programmers have mastered the use of global variables and developed work patterns to use them wisely, thus they have become a valuable tool. To the new programmer, they create extra bugs that are more difficult to find and fix. There was one programming student who could not understand that globals were persistent, even if he closed his stack. He would leave Hypercard running all the time, no matter which stacks he was developing or exploring. Opening someone else's stack created variables you did not know about. You can imagine at the end of 4 weeks how many globals were safely nestled into his application memory. It was a clan of somewhat- related variables, most were of his own creation. After all, part of the thrill of Hypercard was seeing all the wonderful stacks built by others. Our Hypercard group rule was if your stacks were for distribution, sharing, and fun, don't use globals (or use unique names). Hope this adds to the discussion by looking back to the beginning of the Hypercard-space-time continuum and the universal nature of globals and their nebulae. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ 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: Changing environment variables
Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to change the environment variables my Rev app is running with? Note: shell() doesn't work because it will only modify the environment for that spawned shell process. I'm not sure if this will help or not, but you can define any new environment variable if you include the $ as the first character. For example: put foo into $VAR That gives a new environment variable named $VAR. I'm assuming you can change the content of any existing environment variable the same way, by just putting something new into the variable. I haven't worked with this much though. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
I have a series of marked cards that have many checkboxes. I want to reset the checkboxes to true when the user before an user enters new data. Any scripting suggestions about how to reset checkboxes on marked cards to true? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Resetting-checkboxes-to-true-on-marked-cards-tp2245212p2245212.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Charles, I didn't test it but what you need should look like this: repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards set the hilite of btn foo of marked cd x to false end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.html Download Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com and share the clipboard of your computer over the local network. On 6 jun 2010, at 21:12, charles61 wrote: I have a series of marked cards that have many checkboxes. I want to reset the checkboxes to true when the user before an user enters new data. Any scripting suggestions about how to reset checkboxes on marked cards to true? ___ 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
[ANN] Rodeo pre-released; has its own list now!
Dudes and Dudettes... I promised we'd get our own list so we wouldn't harsh any Zen here in revLand, so you'll see a link to our discussion list below. We've also officially pre-released Rodeo via our completely re-vamped site! Check out the links directly below for the deets. http://rodeoapps.com/what-is-rodeo http://rodeoapps.com/limited-pre-release-offer Feel free to groove about the cabin and tweet us at will. Best, Jerry, Sarah MJ Rodeo discussion: http://rodeoapps.com/rodeo-discuss-among-yourselves ___ 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: REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann)
Thanks for all the input. As usual, sounds like it comes down to a matter of the application and personal preferences. I've spent perhaps 30 minutes looking over Real Studio and what has caught my eye so far is the report writer, as previously mentioned, what looks like very well organised documentation (which for me is a major problem area in Revolution), and IDE that feels more comfortable to me, and at first glance, functionality that is at least equivalent to Revolution. Small things catch my eye, like placing controls on a tabbed control automatically makes them visible/invisible when a tab is clicked on without having to mess with groups as in Revolution. Lynn, you mentioned several third party report writers for Rev. I'm aware of Quartum but could you point me to any others? The lack of built-in report writing capabilities in Rev is a major issue for me. Once again, thanks to all for the valuable input. I'm probably not going to switch to Real Studio at this point, I've got too many development hours invested in my Revolution app, but when I start my next app I think I will try Real Studio out to see what it can do. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Jun 6, 2010, at 6:42 AM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Re: REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann) ___ 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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Hi Mark! Thanks! I used your suggestion to come up with the following to loop through the cards and buttons: on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards repeat with y = 1 to number of buttons if the hilite of button y is true then set the hilite of btn y to false end if end repeat end repeat It works on one card. I am testing it on multiple cards now. Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jun 6, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Mark Schonewille-3 [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: Charles, I didn't test it but what you need should look like this: repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards set the hilite of btn foo of marked cd x to false end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.html Download Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com and share the clipboard of your computer over the local network. On 6 jun 2010, at 21:12, charles61 wrote: I have a series of marked cards that have many checkboxes. I want to reset the checkboxes to true when the user before an user enters new data. Any scripting suggestions about how to reset checkboxes on marked cards to true? ___ use-revolution mailing list [hidden email] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution View message @ http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Resetting-checkboxes-to-true-on-marked-cards-tp2245212p2245216.html To unsubscribe from Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards, click here. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Resetting-checkboxes-to-true-on-marked-cards-tp2245212p2245237.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Mark probably missed the fact you have many checkboxes on each card. repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cds repeat with u = 1 to the number of btns of marked cd y if the style of btn u of marked cd y = checkBox then set the hilite of btn u of marked cd y to false end repeat end repeat Not tested, but the idea is sound. ___ 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: REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann)
Thanks for all the input. As usual, sounds like it comes down to a matter of the application and personal preferences. I've spent perhaps 30 minutes looking over Real Studio and what has caught my eye so far is the report writer, as previously mentioned, what looks like very well organised documentation (which for me is a major problem area in Revolution), and IDE that feels more comfortable to me, and at first glance, functionality that is at least equivalent to Revolution. Small things catch my eye, like placing controls on a tabbed control automatically makes them visible/invisible when a tab is clicked on without having to mess with groups as in Revolution. Lynn, you mentioned several third party report writers for Rev. I'm aware of Quartum but could you point me to any others? The lack of built-in report writing capabilities in Rev is a major issue for me. Paradigma Software sells Valentina for Revolution, and Valentina Reports for Revolution (we also sell versions for REALbasic as well) - http://www.valentina-db.com. You build reports in Valentina Studio Pro, then save the reports as projects. Those projects can work with the Reports runtime. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server ___ 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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Charles, You can simply delete that if-then structure. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.html Download Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com and share the clipboard of your computer over the local network. On 6 jun 2010, at 21:54, charles61 wrote: Hi Mark! Thanks! I used your suggestion to come up with the following to loop through the cards and buttons: on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards repeat with y = 1 to number of buttons if the hilite of button y is true then set the hilite of btn y to false end if end repeat end repeat It works on one card. I am testing it on multiple cards now. Charles Szasz csz...@mac.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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Dunbarx Thanks! Your suggestion is better than the one I posted a few moments ago. My script only work on one card because I did not add clarity for the buttons being on the marked cards. Thanks Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jun 6, 2010, at 3:55 PM, dunbarx [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: Mark probably missed the fact you have many checkboxes on each card. repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cds repeat with u = 1 to the number of btns of marked cd y if the style of btn u of marked cd y = checkBox then set the hilite of btn u of marked cd y to false end repeat end repeat Not tested, but the idea is sound. ___ use-revolution mailing list [hidden email] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution View message @ http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Resetting-checkboxes-to-true-on-marked-cards-tp2245212p2245239.html To unsubscribe from Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards, click here. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Resetting-checkboxes-to-true-on-marked-cards-tp2245212p2245246.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Changing environment variables
Jacque, that's perfect. Thanks. Sadly, it doesn't fix my problem, but it's a closer step. ;-) Jeff M. ___ 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
Saving Data in Standalones
Not again, I can hear some people saying! I've just run into this long standing issue in the context of needing to save the filepath to my database across runs of Revolution and also various other settings I need to save which are currently in custom properties. I'm not concerned about saving my applications data across runs because I'm using an sqlite database for that. The stuff I need to preserve is more in the way of internal settings. I'd prefer to leave them in custom properties if I can because storing them elsewhere will entail a substantial amount of work to find all the places in my code where I set and get custom properties and replace the logic with something else. I've searched the list archives and the discussion forums and also read Sarah Reicheldt's revJournal article and Mark Wieders Conference presentation and still somewhat confused by the solutions to this. The most common solution seems to be to create a single stack .rev file that does nothing except invoke the real .rev file and use it as the basis for the build of the standalone app. But then I see mentions of that being a problem because of the lack of write access to the Applications folder (I'm primarily concerned with Macs) so I look at the permission on my Applications folder and I have full read and write access to it and the standalone Rev app so am I missing something? Then there's the issue of how to implement that solution. I see that Sarah's article recommends using the Move substacks into individual files option which Mark also describes but then advises against because of message passing hierarchy problems. So should use that option or not? And if I do, how do I open the mainstack of my real .rev file? go stack URL or can I just go stack? I'm also concerned about what seems to be a huge support issue. If I understand this method correctly, the .rev file containing the real application will be just that, a .rev file not a compiled application. If that's true what's to stop a user of my application who owns Revolution from changing my application code? And then I ran across a post on the forum concerning a complication with this approach related to how to get the datagrid library included in the app. There's a fairly simple workaround for it but now I'm wondering what other issues of that nature there might be. How about the database library for example? And right now, I insert a couple of front scripts into my app - should that logic stay in the real application or be moved to the single stack application? So pity this poor unsuspecting user that thought the IDE might perhaps warn him if he tried to do something that absolutely would not work in a standalone application, or perhaps expected that an attempt to save something that couldn't be saved would at least throw an error in a standalone application, and believed the user guide section on building standalones which states All of Revolution's feature set is available in a standalone application, followed by a couple of exceptions which don't include the fact that you can't save data in them, and the section on global variables that notes that you can't save them across runs and recommends, amongst other things, saving them in a custom property if you need to do that. Help! Pete Haworth ___ 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: Saving Data in Standalones
Peter, Just make sure that you write to a directory for which you have permissions. Not the system directory or the application directory, but preferably the documents directory or the preferences directory. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.html Download Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com and share the clipboard of your computer over the local network. On 6 jun 2010, at 23:53, Peter Haworth wrote: Not again, I can hear some people saying! ___ 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: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards
Also, I believe you can write: unhilite btn foo Instead of: set the hilite of btn foo to false Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jun 6, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Charles, I didn't test it but what you need should look like this: repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards set the hilite of btn foo of marked cd x to false end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.html Download Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com and share the clipboard of your computer over the local network. On 6 jun 2010, at 21:12, charles61 wrote: I have a series of marked cards that have many checkboxes. I want to reset the checkboxes to true when the user before an user enters new data. Any scripting suggestions about how to reset checkboxes on marked cards to true? ___ 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: Abysmal Sound on Windows?
What format are the original audio files? I use mp3 that I import as videoclips instead of audio clips But I have not tested this on vista... Some windows platform might not treat aiff files as naturally as wave. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Abysmal-Sound-on-Windows-tp2243899p2245382.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Abysmal Sound on Windows?
As far as I know, Rev will not be able to play those imported files unless QuickTime is installed. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jun 6, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Robert Mann r...@free.fr wrote: What format are the original audio files? I use mp3 that I import as videoclips instead of audio clips But I have not tested this on vista... Some windows platform might not treat aiff files as naturally as wave. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Abysmal-Sound-on-Windows-tp2243899p2245382.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
A problem with clearing fields on marked cards
I have the following script to clear fields on marked cards: on mouseUp repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cards repeat with u = 1 to the number of fields of marked card y if the short name of field u CONTAINS field then put empty into field u end repeat end repeat end mouseUp The script clears the empty fields on the marked card that has the Clear button but it will not clear the fields on the next marked card. This sample stack consists of two cards. This is weird! I am using Rev Enterprise 4.0. Any suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/A-problem-with-clearing-fields-on-marked-cards-tp2245427p2245427.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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
AUTO: Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus. ( Rückkehr am 02.07.2010)
Ich bin bis 02.07.2010 abwesend Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an meinen Kollegen Horst Strohkirch, email: horst.strohki...@pdap.de Hinweis: Dies ist eine automatische Antwort auf Ihre Nachricht Re: Saving Data in Standalones gesendet am 06.06.2010 23:00:25. Diese ist die einzige Benachrichtigung, die Sie empfangen werden, während diese Person abwesend ist. ___ 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: A problem with clearing fields on marked cards
I think you just need to specify the card that the target field is on: if the short name of field u of marked card y CONTAINS field then put empty into field u of marked card y Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com office 1-800-360-734-4701 -- On Jun 6, 2010, at 7:55 PM, charles61 wrote: I have the following script to clear fields on marked cards: on mouseUp repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cards repeat with u = 1 to the number of fields of marked card y if the short name of field u CONTAINS field then put empty into field u end repeat end repeat end mouseUp The script clears the empty fields on the marked card that has the Clear button but it will not clear the fields on the next marked card. This sample stack consists of two cards. This is weird! I am using Rev Enterprise 4.0. Any suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/A-problem-with-clearing-fields-on-marked-cards-tp2245427p2245427.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Saving Data in Standalones
Pete- Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:53:37 PM, you wrote: Help! You covered a lot of issues there. I see Mark S. has addressed one of them already. Here's some more. One of these is easy: if you want to prevent a rev script from being loaded, poked into, and modified then set a password on the stack before distributing it. I don't recommend doing this during normal development work because it's a PITA to have to enter a password every time you want to look at a script. But doing that before sending it out into the world will keep it from prying eyes. You can't save a running application. This isn't a limitation of rev, but of the OS. There's no modern OS that will let you modify a running app. I realize you've internalized that already, so here are some ramifications of that concept: you can modify global and local variables and save custom properties all you want, but you can't save them to disk because they're part of your application; if your app is resizeable you can resize it but the changes aren't sticky - the next time you launch it will be the same size as the previous launch. If you want to make changes that are persistent for the next launch of the app you have some options. You can save the preferences to a text file and read them back in at launch time. This is easy to do (remember to save the file somewhere you have write permissions for) and allows for editing the preferences file with a text editor outside the IDE if the need arises. You could also save the preferences in any other format you wanted (xml, xls, etc): it's just a file. For Windows and OSX systems you can use specialFolderPath(Preferences) to find a safe place to store preferences. You can save custom properties in a substack *as long as that substack is a separate file from your mainstack*. This gets around the OS limitation of modifying the running application because you're not; you're modifying a different file. If your substack is part of your mainstack and not a separate file then your changes won't be permanent. I use both of these approaches (saving a prefs text file and saving a prefs stack) in different situations. As far as I know, there's no Best Practices pattern for one over the other. You *can* tell the standalone builder to make the substacks separate files in the build phase. This will get around the problem sometimes. You do have to remember to load the substack into memory in order to have access to it. And that's why I don't recommend that approach. A better approach would be to have the substacks separate files to begin with - in that case the way you use substacks during development is the same as the way you use them in your standalone. You don't have the situation of a stack/substack system working fine in the IDE and then failing in a standalone because you haven't loaded the substacks properly. I do think it's a good idea to try to avoid surprises when you deploy a standalone application, and having a stack in the IDE behave like a stack in a standalone is one way to stay out of trouble. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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
Silly Problem
Hey folks, I know that I can center my application stack like this: set the loc of me to the screenLoc ...but what's the proper way of centering a sub stack (about box, preference stack, etc) to the position of my main stack, wherever it may be on the screen? I'm pretty sure I've been down this path before but the answer, however simple it may be, somehow eludes me. Best regards, David C. ___ 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: Silly Problem
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David C. davidoco...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I know that I can center my application stack like this: set the loc of me to the screenLoc ...but what's the proper way of centering a sub stack (about box, preference stack, etc) to the position of my main stack, wherever it may be on the screen? I'm pretty sure I've been down this path before but the answer, however simple it may be, somehow eludes me. set the loc of me to the loc of stack Main Cheers, Sarah Rodeo discussion: http://rodeoapps.com/rodeo-discuss-among-yourselves ___ 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: Saving Data in Standalones
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.comwrote: I'm not concerned about saving my applications data across runs because I'm using an sqlite database for that. The stuff I need to preserve is more in the way of internal settings. I'd prefer to leave them in custom properties if I can because storing them elsewhere will entail a substantial amount of work to find all the places in my code where I set and get custom properties and replace the logic with something else. Have you considered using sqlite to do the same? Create a separate table that contains the internal settings you need to save then on preOpenCard/preOpenStack pull this data first, stuff it into your customProps and then proceed with the normal start-up process of your app. You could* use setProp handlers to catch every time a custom property is changed, and issue an UPDATE myPrefTable SET myCustProp = purple people eater to sqlite via an revExecuteSQL command to ensure the db was synced to the customProps. It's a pity we can't use wild card characters in setProp calls; imagine how easy it would be to set up a generic: setProp (*+), newValue --assuming *+ is captured and put into it put it into myCustProp revExecuteSQL myDBid, UPDATE myPrefTable SET myCustProp = quote newValue quote pass setProp end setProp (*+) Some bright spark here will hopefully point out you can already do that, but as far as I'm aware you'll have to write a setProp handler for every customProp you want to save into sqlite. *Other options are to do a global search for all instances of set the and go through and add the extra revExecuteSQL command inline with your other statements, or, if you are not worried about keeping the apps state if it crashes, you could just once save the customProps to your sqlite db on closeStack. Just a thought. HTH ___ 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
