Online Scripting Conference - Printing
Chip / Jacqueline Back in October, the Printing conference was canceled with plans to reschedule it. What is the time reschedule for this one. Are there any other plans for additional chats on different / more advanced topics? http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ Thanks, Dave Calkins ___ 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
Text Processing
On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couple that with the high productivity of Transcript's typelessness, chunk expressions, and merge function (just to name a few), Rev would seem a worthy contender for anything involving a lot of text processing, on the desktop or the server. True, Rev COULD be a worthy contender for anything involving text processing, but not until they add a few of the very basic text editing tools that end users need. Individual Paragraphs in Fields (BZ #2194) http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/votes.cgi? action=show_bugbug_id=2194 Centering Individual lines of Text Indented Paragraphs I just created a new BZ #3464 for this request http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3464 These three would open a whole host of new applications that could be built with Rev. These elementary text editing tools that simple word processors possess are required for end users to be able to use certain types of text based applications that can not be created with rev. I'm not trying to create a new word processor, but text based management systems are not realistically possible with Rev with it's present abilities without a tremendous amount of work and then the end users interface is not natural and intuative. End users need to modify and format text in these elementary ways. By end users, I mean those that use our software, not us programers. With the present tool set, we can't easily create these types of programs. What other types of text based features would you all find valuable? Tuviah posted on 9/16/04 in bugzilla 2194 that work was underway for improved paragraph styles, but that has been over a year and a half ago. Can anyone from Rev comment on the status of these enhancements? Dave Calkins ___ 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
: Ftp and cross platform issues..
On Mar 25, 2006, at 7:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Ftp and cross platform issues... To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Stephen Barncard wrote: Chipp wrote: I agree. I'm rewriting my MagicCarpet Auto-updating Architecture to take account for that-- and also allow for the creation of portable apps. http://portableapps.com/ Wait. Doesn't the term 'Portable Apps' imply some kind of cross-platformness? I mean, that's why Web based apps were created Shouldn't 'Portable' imply 'play anywhere'? In this case the play anywhere means you carry it with you wherever you go on your USB Flash drive. For us Rev folks the concept of portability may seem odd, since Rev apps are often self-contained anyway. But remember that a lot of Windows apps made with other tools require a small army of DLLs strewn all over the hard drive and a bunch of Registry entries to run. A portable app in this context is one which is simply self-contained, able to run entirely from a USB Flash drive leaving zero footprint on the system it's run on. Preferences, data files, and the app itself are all stored on the removable drive. And with Rev we can add a level of play anywhere most folks claiming to deliver portable apps can't: we can put Win, Mac, and even Linux executables on the drive, sharing a common data folder there, so the user can pop the USB device into nearly any computer on the planet and be able to run your app. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com Dave Calkins ___ 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
Paragraph Level Text Formatting :
This one element severely hampers many different types of applications that need these typical and basic text editing features. bugzilla # 2194 http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2194 Paragraph Level Text Formatting : Each paragraph can be left center right or justified alignment. This can't be done in rev. The whole field is justified one way. Also there are other text features found in MS Word that aren't found in the current text engine, I just can't recall. But justification is the big one. What is meant by paragraph-level formatting? Specifically, what things can one not do? Dave Calkins ___ 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
Typesetting functions
Sorry for the late post, I'm trying to catch up. I noticed that no-one posted an actual solution so here is mine. Don't hold your breath on getting these functions added to RR. I have been asking for this type of improvement to add simple text handling routines since RR 1.1 which would allow the generation of more text processing / reports applications. This is a routine that I use to generate a tabstop that will center a short line or title for each line that contains a char of my choosing in a card field called Other Data. Sorry I haven't completely commented it. Merry Christmas on doTabCenter --Align Center Command (Centers a short line or title on the field) put the lockscreen into tLockScreen lock screen put empty into fld Other Data put the tabstops of cd fld Other Data into tTabStops repeat while cd fld Other Data contains » -- This is the char I chose to indicate which lines to center put the cTabCenterLine of cd fld Other Data into tTabCenterLine --Tab location to center line / self generates put the cTabCenterLineText of cd fld Other Data into tTabCenterLineText --Tab location to center line / self generates put the item 1 of the loc of cd fld Other Data into tCenterTab put lineoffset (»,cd fld Other Data) into tLn put line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tLine put the HTMLtext of line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tmpLine put tmpLine into line tLn of tTabCenterLineText replace #9; with empty in tmpLine replace nbsp; with empty in tmpLine set the htmltext of line tLn of cd fld Other Data to tmpLine delete char offset (»,line tLn of cd fld Other Data) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data put line tLn of cd fld Other Datainto tText put the formattedWidth of line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tWidthOfTitle select word 1 of line tLn of cd fld Other Data put item 2 of the selectedLoc into tLocWordA put space » after line tLn of cd fld Other Data repeat put offset (tText, line tLn of cd fld Other Data) into tLocChar2 put before char tLocChar2 of line tLn of cd fld Other Data put offset (», line tLn of cd fld Other Data) into tLocChar3 select char (tLocChar3) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data put item 2 of the selectedLoc into tLocWordB if tLocWordA tLocWordB then exit repeat end repeat delete char (tLocChar3) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data subtract 1 from tLocChar3 put the formattedWidth of char 1 to (tLocChar3) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tWidthOfLine put number of chars of line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tLocChar3 delete char (tLocChar3) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data delete char 1 to ( offset (tText,line tLn of cd fld Other Data ) - 1) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data put round (tWidthOfLine / 2) into tCenterTab1 put round (tWidthOfTitle / 2) into tTabWidth1 subtract tTabWidth1 from tCenterTab1 put tCenterTab1 into line tLn of tTabCenterLine end repeat repeat for each line tCenterLine in tTabCenterLine if tCenterLine is empty then next repeat put true into tAddStop repeat with i = 1 to number of items of tTabStops -- i for each item tItem in tTabStops if item i of tTabStops = tCenterTab1 then put false into tAddStop exit repeat end if end repeat if tAddStop then if tTabStops is empty then put tCenterTab1 after tTabStops else put , tCenterTab1 after tTabStops end if sort items of tTabStops ascending numeric end repeat set the cTabCenterLine of cd fld Other Data to tTabCenterLine --Tab location to center line set the cTabCenterLineText of cd fld Other Data to tTabCenterLineText set the tabstops of cd fld Other Data to tTabStops repeat for each line tCenterTabLoc in tTabCenterLine put lineoffset (raquo;,tTabCenterLineText) into tLn if tLn = 0 then exit repeat put line tLn of tTabCenterLine into tCenterTabLoc put empty into line tLn of tTabCenterLineText if tCenterTabLoc is empty then next repeat repeat with i = 1 to number of items of tTabStops put tab before line tLn of cd fld Other Data --put the formattedWidth char 1 to ( offset (tText,line tLn of cd fld Other Data ) - 1) of line tLn of cd fld Other Data into tTextCenterAlign if item i of tTabStops = tCenterTabLoc then exit repeat end repeat end repeat set the lockscreen to tLockScreen end doTabCenter I also have a routine that will indent a wrapped line into an indented paragraph similar to the increase indent that I could post if you are interested. Dave Calkins On Dec 16, 2005, at 2:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Typesetting functions To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed As one who is spoiled by options for very
