Background color of line in field
Hi Folks, Is it possible to specify a background color for an entire line of a multi-line text field? I want to set the background color of the entire "line" and not just the text of the line. For example, if line 3 has 20 less characters than lines 1 and 2 and I set the background color of line 3 the color should extend from the left margin of the field to the right margin of the field. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Brian ___ 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: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time
Dan, The company I work for tried this model (application service provider .. i.e. you rent the software) and it did not work well at all. The simple fact is that people will always want to "own" both their data and the app that manipulates it. Will some people use this? Yes. Will most use it? No. Personally, I see the world eventually moving to more desktop apps which use the internet (specifically http/htttps) as a transport protocol for data (think desktop app that talks http/htttps to apache which in turn invokes the requested cgi/servlet to process the sent data and send back a response). Brian ___ 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 submit enhancement request
Never mind. Finally found it in the faq. ___ 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
How to submit enhancement request
Hi Folks, How do you go about submitting an enhancement request to RunRev? Thanks, Brian ___ 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
alwaysBuffer property on OS X?
Hi Folks, I have noticed what when creating a new stack, the "Buffer Display" option on the "Basic Properties" section of the Property Inspector is turned on by default. Since OS X double buffers by default does having this option turned on mean the stack is double double buffering? Brian ___ 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 Connect to MySQL at Runtime
Hi Devin, I think you may just have hit upon the problem. I have a preOpenStack handler in the mainstack that connects to the database and I do not do a "pass preOpenStack". This may be causing the problem. I will check it out tonight after work and let you know. Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Can't Connect to MySQL at Runtime
Are you saving substacks as separate files? No. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Can't Connect to MySQL at Runtime
Hi Monte, Are you using 2.2 RC 2? If so then that's it ;-) Nope, I am using 2.1. I have found that by not including the database libraries the stack will open but will not open the substack that should get opened on open of the main stack (the main stack should be invisible but isn't). FYI .. this is on OS X 10.3.3. Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Interesting Utility for PDF Generation
Hi Chip, >First, I didn't see where you or he mentioned this actually works with >RunRev. In case you didn't already know, a DLL must be customized to work >correctly in RunRev. It isn't a DLL. It is a command line executable which means it will work with any language that can shell out and run another program. >The model which would work best, is (as I mentioned earlier) one which >allows developers to bundle it in with their apps for no per unit cost. The >idea (like altBrowser.dll) is once purchased, you can use it in anyway you >like, and include it in as many applications as you like with the only >stipulation you cannot resell the basic DLL to other developers for their >eventual distribution (they should buy their own!). This is also a model >used liberally for VB and other languages. I have already talked him into going that route. He still has to figure out what his support options will be. Cheers, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Interesting Utility for PDF Generation
Hi Andre, just found this article on devchannel http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/03/02/183211.shtml it's about XML to PDF translation. Didn't read it, but I think it has to do with the topic. My friend looked at this but decided that for his needs it just wouldn't work. The XML structure is too complex, it needs to many pieces to run and when you are printing hundreds to thousands of invoices per day the overhead of repeatedly loading java becomes too much of a performance hit. From his perspective the only advantage that has is that it is free. These reasons are why he paid some friends of his to create his utility. As his web site states, it was designed to replace preprinted forms. Cheers, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Interesting Utility for PDF Generation
Hi Chip, Yes, it is very sparse. He is not an HTML person so he had a friend of his create the site. I think it will flesh out over time. As far as the licensing model, right now it is modeled more for the enterprise market. He is an ISV/VAR of the company I work for (PROGRESS) and our product is a 4GL/RDBMS that is used to build everything from single user apps to large multi-million dollar apps so I believe his licensing model corresponds to that market. I am working with him to try to come up with the right model for the tool as a "generic, non-language specific report generation" tool. For your needs, what kind of licensing model / price point would work best? Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Interesting Utility for PDF Generation
Hi Folks, A buddy of mine has created an interesting utility that might fill a need for some folks. Basically, for producing reports his utility takes an xml file that you generate (which follows his specs), passes it thru a command line utility and produces a PDF file. This utility doesn't need the 'pdflib' utility (which I understand costs a lot of money). Check it out at http://www.x2p.us Please note that he is hoping that this fills a niche and does expect that if you use it you will license it (i.e. purchase it) so his demo does include a "demo" watermark. He wrote this when he needed to produce PDF documents for one of his customers where they wanted to replace custom preprinted forms (i.e. expensive forms) and the language he uses (PROGRESS .. I work for em) did not directly do what he needed to do. The docs are for PROGRESS (and I think VB) but generating an XML file should be a piece of cake for Transcript programmers. Right now it works (as far as I know) on Windows and maybe Unix. I am bugging him on getting it running on OS X as that is what I am using. Cheers, Brian Please note that I have nothing to do with this utility other than the fact that I like it, find it useful and want to help him get the word out. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Valentina Script Problem
Hi Folks,
As a test I have the following script to insert 1,000,000 records into
a Valentina database. The script works without error (although I had
to use revdb_commit since revCommitDatabase returns an error that the
command is not understood) but when I close the db in rev then open it
in the Valentina application there are no records in the database.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
Thanks, Brian
global theDB
on mouseUp
put the ticks into time1
repeat for 100 times
put the random of 10 into x
revExecuteSQL theDB, "INSERT INTO RandomTable (ID, StringData)
VALUES (" & x & "'String Value " & x & "')"
end repeat
revCommitDatabase theDB
put the ticks into time2
answer (time2 - time1)
end mouseUp
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Re: Valentina?
Hi Brian, Thanks for the info. I purchased my copy and already got my serial number so I am good to go. Cheers, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Valentina?
Hi Folks, If I wanted to use Valentina in a Revolution app on OS X what product would I need to purchase? They have a ton of them listed. Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password Field
Hi Dar, >I'd also look carefully at what might cause color changes. Yes, that is something I am keeping in the back of my mind for the future. For right now this will be an OS X only application so using white works perfectly. Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password Field
Hi Rob, This is part of a normal application login (i.e. enter user name & password) rather than asking for a password to open a stack or something. It seemed very unintuitive to the users to have to bring up two separate dialog boxes (one for user name and another for password). >1. Is it necessary that the password be entered in a field instead >of via the ask password dialog? Yes (see above). >2. Is there a reason why you need to know what keys the user pressed >(eg: the user is entering "secure" data instead of a predefined >password)? I don't need to know what keys the user pressed. I need to keep someone from swiping the password when the user is not looking (i.e. copy and paste). My initial thought was to do a password by internally tracking what they typed (i.e. the plain text) and putting some character (dots, asterisk, etc) on the screen so that if the user typed in the password and had to leave their desk for some emergency no one could come up, do a select all, copy, paste scenario and walk off with the password. The initial responses that helped with that work ok but don't really handle all of the things a user could possibly do within the field (backspace, select all & delete, select some & delete, select some & change, etc). The best solution was to simply make the contents of what the user is typing into the field invisible and disable the ability to copy the data out of the field. Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password Field
Hi Folks, Well, I ended up taking a different tack on the password field thing. Although the solutions given will work in most cases I decided to go the route of setting the foreground, background and hilite color of my password field to white then disallowing the "copy" function (Cmd-C, Ctrl-C) so that no one can select the entered text, copy it to the clipboard then paste it into something else in order to obtain the password. In the end this ended up being easier than trying to (1) figure out all the possible ways someone can "get" the password and (2) ensure that whatever someone does with the mouse or keyboard, the entered password is correct (i.e. what if they use the mouse to select some of the "dots" in the field and remove them ... it was just getting too complicated). Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password Field
Hi Mark, What two recipes in the docs did you use? I looked through those and didn't see anything that was applicable. Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Password Field
Hi Folks, Does anyone have code that they would be willing to share that allows a user to enter a password into a text field and visually what they enter appears as some other character (blanks, dots, ...)? Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How to tell if I am in the IDE?
Hi Folks, Is there any way (in a script) to tell if I am running in the IDE? In particular, I want to have a standard preOpenStack script that sets the style of the stack to modeless (to obtain the standard OS X background for the stack). Unfortunately just putting that statement into the stack flips it to modeless style when I open it in the IDE (and it is annoying to have to flip it to toplevel every time I want to edit it). Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Database - Update from Data Entry/Query form
Hi Melvin, You may want to send the entire trace log to the RunRev folks for analysis along with your sample stack. There is definitely a problem. Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Database - Update from Data Entry/Query form
Hi Melvin, Turn on ODBC tracing and see what SQL statement (and errors, if any) are being generated. Sincerely, Brian Maher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Design Question
Hi Folks, I have a design question and am looking for input on the best way to handle things. First, my app will be for OS X only so I want to do things the OS X way... My app will need to download and store a list of items from a web site (around 25,000 items) and although it will be likely that all users on a machine will access the same site it is possible that one or more of them will access a different site. My design question is this ... what is the best way to store this information? Going back to the web site each time is not a good solution (the info is very static). This data is going to be used to enable the downloading and reading of other information (think pointers) so I will need to have quick access to it. My thoughts so far are as follows: 1) The app goes into /Applications as normal and will be distributed as a .dmg file using a normal OS X .app bundle. 2) The downloaded data will be stored in a subfolder of each users ~/Library/Preferences folder (downside=duplicated data). 3) The data could be stored in an external stack (with custom file extension or no extension at all) for easy access. 4) The data could be stored in the standard user preferences file for the app (using the 'defaults' command to read/write). 5) The data could be stored in an external database of some kind (single user). The downside is the cost (i.e. this will be a very inexpensive application). Any other thoughts on how to store info? Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Software at the Speed of Thought - ebook imminent
Hi Judy, I believe the 'long-promised Rev. documentation' has been long-available: http://secure.runrev.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RROS&Category_Code=RM US$99. Orderable? Yes. Available? No. I just cancelled my order for the documentation as it has been a few days more than 3 months since I ordered it (and my credit card was charged) and it still has not shipped. Personally, I don't think they should be accepting orders for something that has not been available for that length of time. Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Panther Install Question
Hi Folks, I have installed OS X 10.3 on a newly formatted drive and am trying to use security properly (i.e. my account is a "normal" account and I have a separate "admin" account). I installed Rev 2.1 using the "admin" account and my personal account had no access to it. I changed that by going into "Get Info" on the Rev folder using the admin account and setting the correct permissions. I also cascaded those permissions down to subfiles within the folder. I can now get Rev to start but I immediately get the following message: There was an error saving your licensing key. Check file permissions. can't open stack backup file Obviously, I did not set the permissions as well as I thought I did. Can anyone give me the correct way to do this? Thanks, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
UI Question / Browse Type Object
Hi Folks, I am new to Revolution and have an application design question. I am developing database apps on OS X and was wondering what people do for the typical database scenario where the user needs the ability to scroll thru a list of records (I call it a "browse") to select a record to view/edit/delete? What about filtering the list? How do you go about creating something that (as close as possible) conforms to the OS X UI guidelines? Can anyone provide me (offline) some screen shots on what you have done (i.e. I am looking for ideas). Many Thanks, Brian Maher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How to properly format text in sheet on OS X?
Hi Toma, Here is what I got to work at home (and it displayed the correct font and point size)... answer warning "Message textInformative text" with "Continue" as sheet Cheers, Brian ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
