Re: Stackrunner
The IDE and the standalones it builds know about the image library, but StackRunner does not. That's right - the list of things that are built in to StackRunner are listed under the Using StackRunner section of the web page: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/StackRunner.htm Although a lot of libraries and externals are provided with SR, images are not. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0
Frankly, distributing a stack with a stackrunner as a commercial package doesn't look that good; especially as anybody who can get their paws (sweaty or otherwise) on a copy of RR/LC can merrily start mucking around with your stack. Agree with that. That's one of the reasons I've never liked using a secondary stack file as a solution to the problem of not being able to store data in a standalone. You *can* of course password protect your stack, and on OS X you can put the stack inside the StackRunner bundle. And of course you can change the name of the StackRunner app and even modify its info.plist file on OS X to customize it even more - the only thing you can't do is eliminate the Get Info information since that's embedded in the resources of the executable. Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Is it possible to access or set individual pixels of an image?
Is it possible to read and set the color of individual pixels in an image? ImageData is a little incomprehensible. Maybe this will clear things up a bit: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/imag003.htm It's dated, but still applicable... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Indenting Challenge
And the thing that really makes this difficult is the fact that the text needs to be directly editable by users (cannot be in a locked field). Any suggestions on how I might tackle this? Can it be restricted to only editing one bullet at a time, or does the user need the ability to click in one bullet's text and drag up or down and select the text from other bullets as well? The reason I ask is that you might be able to get away with a highly customized datagrid - since each row is its own field, you could apply the margins/indents you want - plus you could have the expand/collapse toggle available as well. I haven't done this myself, but maybe it's a possible direction to try. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Paging Shao Sean
I'm looking for the latest version of your libSMTP library. Could you post it somewhere for us? Uploading to (the new) RevOnline would be a community service and even better if you're willing. BTW, your stuff is so useful, I wish you had links on your web site. Ken Ray has a link to a newish 2.5.something libSMTP on his site but the URL doesn't resolve. :( I have a copy of 1.20 I can send you if Sean doesn't have a newer one... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: delete chunk.
Just tossing this out there, but I *love* this behavior. I'm sure there are situations where it's undesirable, but are easily compensated for by just adding another delimiter. Begin able to do the following is very handy and makes the code clean: put foo cr after fld x put bar cr after fld x put the number of lines of fld x Having that return 2 is extremely convenient. Agreed, but sometimes it's not convenient when you want to get the last item of a line; for example, if you have a container that holds columns for First Name (tab) Last Name (tab) Notes, and some lines have a note and some don't, you can't just set the itemDelimiter to tab and run through the container and get the last item or item -1 of the line to check if the person entered a note; if they didn't provide one, then check the last item will give you their Last Name instead. It would be great if there was a global setting that you could toggle it on in these circumstances, something like: put item -1 of Ken,Ray, == returns Ray set the dontIgnoreTrailingDelimiter to true put item -1 of Ken,Ray, == returns :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: delete chunk.
I agree it would be great to be able to say set the payAttentionToTrailingDelimiters to true But in the meantime you can use the fact that doubling a trailing delimiter will be ignored. repeat for each line L in tData if the last item of (L the itemDel) is empty then -- deal with an empty one else -- use the last item of L which is not empty end if Thanks, Alex... that's something I do when I need to, but it seems like more of a workaround to me, which is why I'd rather have some kind of global setting I could turn on when I needed it. In some ways it's like like the wholematches... I don't believe we had that in HyperCard, so if you were trying to see if a whole something matched, you had to do slap the delimiters in front of and after everything, like: -- imagine field 1 has a CR-delimited list of different kinds of fruit if offset((cr pears cr),(cr tFruit cr)) 0 then... It's so much easier to say: set the wholeMatches to true if lineOffset(pear,tFruit) 0 then... Maybe we should call it the wholeChunks ? set the wholeChunks to true put item -1 of Ken,Ray, == returns ?? :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Complex menu shortcut
I run Revolution 2.7.2. I just see Command+... in the menu builder. New/Nalways give New Cmd+N I have lostt something ? No, but you're running a really old version of Revolution. The latest is 4.5 (now called LiveCode); the additional options to menu shortcuts were added in 3.5 (I believe). So you'd have to upgrade to take advantage of them. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Building array from list
If you want to factor the code out so it's more reusable but a bit more code, you could do this: repeat for each line tLine in fld 1 appendArray tDataA,(item 2 of tLine),(item 1 of tLine) end repeat command appendArray @pArray,pKey,pValue if pArray[pKey] is empty then put pValue into pArray[pKey] else put , pValue after pArray[pKey] end if end appendArray If you *really* wanted to genericize 'appendArray', you could pass in an optional delimiter: command appendArray @pArray,pKey,pValue,pOpt_Delim if pOpt_Delim is empty then put , into tDelim else put pOpt_Delim into tDelim if pArray[pKey] is empty then put pValue into pArray[pKey] else put tDelim pValue after pArray[pKey] end if end appendArray Hope this helps, Ken On 11/1/10 7:55 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Can also do it as follows: repeat for each line tLine in field 1 put the number of items in tdataA[(item 2 of tLine)] + 1 into tItemNum put item 1 of tLine into item tItemNum of tDataA[(item 2 of tLine)] end repeat Can most likely combine the 2 lines of the repeat into a 1 liner, but this way works fine. On 11/1/10, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.ca wrote: Hello William, This will give you an array with four keys corresponding to [1] fruit, [2] dances, [3] colours, and [4] animals. repeat for each line thisLine in theList put the first item of thisLine comma after myArray[the second item of thisLine] end repeat The contents of each has a trailing comma, which can be removed by following with repeat for each key thisKey in myArray if the last character of myArray[thisKey] is comma \ then delete the last character of myArray[thisKey] end repeat Regards, Gregory On Mon, Nov 1, 2010, at 8:15 AM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: I was wondering. If you have a list: apple,1 orange,1 grapefruit,1 tango,2 blue,3 green,3 yellow,3 zebra,9 And you want to convert it into an array: (apple,orange,grapefruit[1]) (tango[2]) (blue,green,yellow[3]) (zebra,[9]) What would be the easiest way. I'm always a little confused by arrays but it seems to me this should be a very simple and fast conversion. The array is intentionally a string apple,orange,grapefruit that results from key [1] ___ 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 Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Underscore in script for windows?
I am using the following script to open a text file for both windows and Macintosh. My question is do I need two separate scripts one for the Mac and one for for Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) with a space instead of an underscore? For example /S504_Student for /S504 Student for Windows. if the_selection is 1 then answer file Open Student file: with specialFolderPath(documents) /S504 Student No, that should work on all platforms you mentioned. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Best practice for creating a custom control
I'm looking for a kind of best practice for creating custom controls. For example, how to access the data of the custom control ? Do we have to use custom properties or a setProp or getProp handlers or both ? Is it preferable to use a prefix for naming a command ? And for custom properties, do we have to use a set of properties ? With a standard name ? Etc. You might want to take a look at the budding standards document that is in development over at the revInterop user group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop/ There's a bunch of info there about naming conventions, etc. As far as accessing the data is concerned, there isn't really a best practice yet; getprop/setprop works well in *some* instances, but not in others, as does actually using custom properties. For example, I tend to use custom properties to store data relative to custom controls I've created, and only use getProp/setProp when I want to trigger some kind of visual feedback. For example, I have a custom control which is a prompt field (it's a field that shows a custom text string in gray; when the field gets the focus, the text goes away so the user can type what they want, and when the field loses the focus if there's no text in the field it shows the prompt again). To specify what text should be shown as the prompt text, I set the uSTSPromptText of the field to a value. If the field is currently showing a text prompt, I'd like to change that to the value I'm setting for uSTSPromptText, so I have a getProp handler that is triggered to make that happen. Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: OT: SheepSaver
I have some personal experience setting up SheepShaver and documented it here with a set of instructions: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm Granted it was several years ago, but SheepShaver hasn't had a recent upgrade AFAIK... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: fun with elevated processes
I can now easily restart Apache from a LC handler: on mouseUp constant kRestartApache = apachectl -k graceful open elevated process kRestartApache for neither if the result empty then answer Could not restart server. close process kRestartApache end if -- process will normally close itself when finished end mouseUp That's cool, Phil! What did you have to do before 'open elevated process'? Does this take the place of trying to pass an admin password on the command line? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: determining if user has shell access
You might be able to use the environment variable $ComSpec ... I see it here on my Win7 machine, and If you can, it returns (for me): c:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe Of course there's the shellcommand, but that just returns command.com or cmd.exe depending on your flavor of Windows. The correct way to determine if you have permissions to execute shell scripts then is probably to find out if you have execute access to %WINDIR%\system32\cmd.exe. Unfortunately without access to the *shell*, we can't use attrib the equivalent, so that leaves launching apps or using a custom-built DLL (or maybe executing VBScript). Monte, if the user doesn't have shell access do you think they also wouldn't be able to execute a VBScript? Because if they *can* do VBScript, I'm sure there's a VBS way to find out shell access permissons. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Unable to open file using shell or process
on mouseUp put /home/Bill/Desktop/report/nr.php -f tt.conf into promysql open process promysql for update read from process promysql for 500 put it into fld tout write quit to process promysql close process promysql end mouseUp Error: Unable to open tt.conf Glen, Not that it should make a difference, but it appears there's a space after your command. I haven't used 'open process' to run a php script, so I may just be shooting blanks here, but just thought I'd pass that along. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Constant command
In the case of scripts, local variables have to be set at some point before they will have a value, so I use those for things that are specific to the user setup (file paths I'll need repeatedly, for example.) Constant values are permanent until you change the script, so they're good for things that rarely change, like version numbers, lists of related objects you need to loop through often, and other script-related uses. I almost never use constants inside a handler, but that's just personal style. On other difference - constants can't be changed (an error is produced), so it kind of acts like a protected script local. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: determining if user has shell access
You can use the entire line that you would use in the appropriate command window, even changing the command process if need be, even changing priority. You can also elevate the process with 'open process elevated' which might get past the blocks (presumably asking for a password if needed). The latter might be good in that the solution is not so much to find if it works but to make it work. Well, if that works. I haven't tried it, but I assume you can do the command line string and elevated process at the same time. Right, Phil Davis posted an example of this today: on mouseUp constant kRestartApache = apachectl -k graceful open elevated process kRestartApache for neither If the result empty then answer Could not restart server. close process kRestartApache end if -- process will normally close itself when finished end mouseUp Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Constant command
Just noticed, in reading the dictionary on constant -- CR = return = LF = linefeed = numtochar(10) but CRLF is listed as Equivalent to a carriage return (ASCII 13, Control-M) followed by a line feed (ASCII 10, Control-J), implying that carriage return = numtochar(13) linefeed. Apparently, carriage return CR ... WTF? I know it's a bit confusing, but CR is ASCII 10 (same as LF) *inside* LiveCode; when you create a text file on disk, LiveCode will convert the line endings *inside* LiveCode to the appropriate line endings for the platform you're on. The difference for the dictionary entry is that CRLF actually *is* ASCII 13 + ASCII 10, whereas CR = ASCII 10 and LF = ASCII 10. Try: answer charToNum(CR) / charToNum(LF) answer charToNum(char 1 of CRLF) / charToNum(char 2 of CRLF) You should see 10/10 in the first dialog, and 13/10 in the second. Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: selectedChunk always empty?
Whatever I do, tSelectedChunk is empty. Is there any reason, Am I doing something wrong? Turn off the 'traversalOn' property for the button. When you click it it's getting the focus and removing it from the field before you can get the selectedChunk. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: LiveCode Cocoa via Applescriptobjc
Bonjour, LiveCode can understand AppleScript via the command do. Applescriptobjc can use Cocoa methods (?) Is it possible to use Cocoa methods with Applescriptobjc inside LiveCode via the command do ? If yes, how ? I don't think so... it appears to me that ApplescriptObjC allows you to use AppleScript (mostly) within Xcode to create applications instead of using Objective C through the use of a custom application framework. It doesn't appear that executing special applescript from LiveCode is going to be able to make use of that framework - at best you'd still be trying to control/communicate with another app - just one build with AppleScript instead of Objective C. But that's just my initial take on it... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: RevBrowser bug
I'm just curious, I guess... is it only during dev in the IDE that you are toggling the resizable of a stack? Or if you do it at runtime, I'd be curious to find how you're applying this functionality... In my current project I need to toggle this according to some META TAGs inside of the html source. That's what I was looking for... thanks! Ken, I was not born yesterday (LiveCode-wise) :-D Don't I know it! ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: RevBrowser bug
On 10/6/10 9:58 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Andre, can someone confirm this is a regression? Did it happen in 4.0 or 3.x ? I also tested this on Rev 3.4 and 4.0, same problem. But isn't this just when you turn the resizable of a stack on and off? I mean if the stack is meant to be resizable, wouldn't you just leave it resizable? I have several resizable revBrowser stacks with no problems (at least, not as far as resizing goes :-)... I'm just curious, I guess... is it only during dev in the IDE that you are toggling the resizable of a stack? Or if you do it at runtime, I'd be curious to find how you're applying this functionality... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: HTML Text and Images
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: If worse comes to worse I can always just keep the image I create to get the dimensions, resize it and use it instead. I think this is the only way. If you'd go with RevBrowser you could set image attribute such as height and width in the img tag but HTMLText does not work like that. Heck, I wish it was not called HTMLText but SGMLText or something like FancyTaggedText Actually you can do it this way: 1) Retrieve the image from the web into an image object. 2) Change the size of the image object itself, making sure to keep the dimensions consistent so you don't get stretching/skewing. 3) Lock the image object (set the lockLoc of image to true) 4) In your field, instead of setting the htmlText to the image with the ID of the image object in img src. Here's a simple example (I had to add a couple of returns before the text so you could see the bird - watch linewraps): on mouseUp set the lockLoc of img testImage to false set the filename of img testImage to set the filename of image testImage to http://linkit.com/Schools/ETS%20Items/ETS%20Item%20Bank/ETS10Q1/01%20Full%2 0Bank/04%20ELA%20QTI%20with%20GUIDs/Grade%20KLanguage%20Arts-95/images/38228 .jpg set the width of img testimage to (the width of img testimage/4) set the height of img testimage to (the height of img testimage/4) set the lockLoc of img testImage to true set the htmlText of fld 1 to (PPPHere's the bird img src= quote (the id of img testImage) quote ) end mouseUp Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: adding new object to background group
Mark, I'd like to add a button to an existing background group, but RR/LC is telling me if I do that I am going to loose the background with that group on it from all previous cards. And it does. I think you're confusing ungrouping with editing a group. You get this warning if you try to ungroup a group that is shared among multiple cards, but you can do what you want by: 1) Select the group you want to add the button to with the pointer tool. 2) Click Edit Group on the toolbar (NOT Ungroup). This will go into the group, and anything outside of that group will be temporarily hidden. 3) Add your button to the card like normal. 4) Click the Edit Group button again on the toolbar to get out of the group. You'll see the rest of the card objects show up at that time. This will add the button to any cards that have the group you edited on it (i.e. all the previous cards). HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Storing an Array as a Custom Property
Instead the simplest I've found is this: on mouseUp put gaskin into tPropSet put richard into tProp set the customPropertySet of me to tPropSet set the tProp of me to Howdy! end mouseUp Is there a way to make that a one-liner using array notation? The only way I can see to do it is with do; and maybe use merge to make it a bit cleaner: on mouseUp put gaskin into tPropSet put richard into tProp put Howdy! into tVal do merge(set the [[tPropSet]][ [[tProp]] ] of me to tVal) end mouseUp Note that you need to have a spaces around [[tProp]] otherwise you get an error... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Online Snippets library
Thanks Thomas, Well what can I say. I've just downloaded the trial version and well...job done! The last update to the app was June 24 2010 so far from dead. Very impressive product, made with Rev. We should all be supporting this great product. I will be! Also Scripter's Scrapbook has an online sharing component that's part of the package that lets users post snippets for others to use that they can then download into their own copy of Scripter's Scrapbook. It doesn't get a lot of activity, but that's probably because most people just don't know about it... I use it for all of my code snippets, info on programming, and even to store links to various resources. It's a great product! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Mac OS X - how to darken screen?
if you are using the external ssMacWindows you can use the command ssDisplayFadeOut to let the system handle fading the screen to black.. I totally forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [OT] The lessons of Ion
On 9/17/10 5:17 PM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have to tell you, this is an experience to make you think and scratch your head and think some more. If Apple were right, it should not work. If Gnome were right, it should not work. And on day 1 it does not. But on day n, it not only works, it feels just perfectly right and automatic, your fingers just do things, and you forget you are using Ion, its just how things are done here. Try it. You will never feel the same about HIGs and that guy and his silly law again. Fitts he might have been. And you will never again confuse being easy to use on day 1 for the ignorant with being easy to use when you know it well and are experienced. No, they are completely different things. Thanks for the insight, Peter... sometimes turning the UI inside out is just what's needed to work with it more efficiently. It reminds me of the once-useful and now-not-so-much-so utility for Mac OS X called Quicksilver... it allowed you to do much of the same kind of thing - hit a keystroke, type a few characters, hit Enter, and you're there - having launched an app, or invoked a process, or even run a service like web searches or text parsing. Sometimes less really IS more... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Mac OS X - how to darken screen?
I want to darken my Mac screen (not just a stack window) the way a slide presentation would do it at its beginning, and then bring it up again to reveal what has been changed. Does anyone have an AppleScript or a shell() command for this that can be run from Rev? There are a couple of AppleScripts to do this, but both of these are messy: http://www.mactipper.com/2008/03/change-monitor-brightness-using.html http://macosx.com/forums/unix-x11/293662-screen-brightness-through-terminal. html Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Slow launch times on Windows 7
I am going to throw out one more time that I thought someone relatively recently had said on one of the runrev lists that they had an app that was taking a long time to launch and by updating the graphics driver the problem vanished. It seemed relatively unusual to me at the time that that could make a difference. I kind of expected that whoever it was might chime in by now. I tried finding this reference using the google but no luck there. I thought it might be one of the Mark's or Malte but I guess not, and perhaps I dreamed the whole thing. Nope! It's right there in the Rev Forums: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=9t=5654p=25597hilit=video +driver#p25597 You weren't dreaming... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: News on Rev/Linux
Those look great, Richard! I'm glad this is getting attention... Ken On 7/26/10 10:39 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: I've been corresponding with Kevin on some Linux issues, and he just sent me these two screen shots with permission to share them with the Linux fans here: http://fourthworldlabs.com/rev/prelinuxlove_day1.PNG http://fourthworldlabs.com/rev/postlinuxloveday_1.PNG The first is from prior to a recent round of bug fixes, the second from after. Note that in addition to the improved appearance of the default button as I'd noted here earlier, the team has also cleaned up field border rendering. While modest enhancements, they go a long way to make our stuff look good on Linux, and demonstrate some of the effort the team is putting in on that goal. Kevin tells me he still doesn't have a definitive word on the printPaperOrientation issue in Linux, and given that this has also been cited as an issue with other dev tools I can't predict how it'll go in Rev 4.5, but I'll report back here as I learn more. In the meantime at least there's some healthy progress being made there, and in conjunction with the diagnostic work we're doing on this list the Rev/Linux situation is looking better every week. -- 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 Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: File lists
-- get a list of all OS X files in a folder function getFiles pFolder put revMacFromUnixPath(pFolder) into pFolder put tell application quote Finder quote cr files of folder \ quote pFolder quote cr end tell into tScript do tScript as applescript put the result into tFiles replace comma with cr in tFiles repeat for each line l in tFiles get the number of words in char 1 to offset(quote,l) of l put word it of l cr after tList end repeat replace quote with empty in tList return tList end getFiles The only suggestion I have is to be careful of the replace comma with cr in tFiles line - if there's a comma in the file name you'll get a wrong result. Also you get a bunch of extra crap when you have the full paths to the files when using files of folder folder. Try this instead (watch the line wraps): function getFiles pFolder put revMacFromUnixPath(pFolder) into pFolder put replaceText(tell app `Finder` cr \ the name of every file of folder ` pFolder ` cr \ end tell,`,quote) into tScript do tScript as AppleScript put replaceText(char 3 to -3 of the result,(quote , quote),CR) into tList return tList end getFiles Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] ssImageThingy
Looks interesting, but how do you get it set up? (I DL'ed It and everything looks blank ATM. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ On 6/30/10 1:32 AM, Shao Sean shaos...@wehostmacs.com wrote: Give your Rev-based applications an iPhoto-like live resizing image thumbnail viewer.. This is being released free (Public Domain) and unlocked so if you feel like having features added you can (or send them back to share them with everyone else).. What : live resizing image thumbnail viewer Where : http://shaosean.tk/ When : now :-) Who : thanks to Simon Lord for the fun; mad props to Malte Pfaff- Brill for assistance Set the margins on the group to control the internal padding of the main group.. Set the text font/size/etc on the main group to change the label appearance.. Speed is okay on my G4 and smooth on Intel-based Macs, but live resizing lots of images can slow it right down.. This is implemented as a behavior.. ___ 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: Getting ALL screen resolutions from 1 screen
Mark,
You can do this with VBScript - here's a script that gets all possible video
controller resolutions:
' List All Possible Video Controller Resolutions
On Error Resume Next
strComputer = .
Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _
{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
(Select * from CIM_VideoControllerResolution)
For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo Horizontal Resolution: objItem.HorizontalResolution
Wscript.Echo Number Of Colors: objItem.NumberOfColors
Wscript.Echo Refresh Rate: objItem.RefreshRate
Wscript.Echo Scan Mode: objItem.ScanMode
Wscript.Echo Setting ID: objItem.SettingID
Wscript.Echo Vertical Resolution: objItem.VerticalResolution
Wscript.Echo
Next
Have fun!
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
On 6/29/10 10:36 AM, Mark Stuart mstu...@adaptcrm.com wrote:
Hi all,
Platform: WinXP
Rev: revStudio 4.0
I'm wanting to get all possible screen resolutions from a Windows
computer.
I know the screenRects gets the current resolution from all attached
screens, but I want to get all possible screen resolution range settings
from only 1 of the screens.
Eg: on my computer screen, the range goes from 800x600 all the way to
1280x1024.
I want to get each of the settings in this range.
Anyone know if revStudio has this function or do I have to get it with a
VBScript, or something?
Regards,
Mark Stuart
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Re: Need Help with Geometry
Not quite sure how to set the Geometry manager to get the results I want. I have two fields that are the exactly same size with one siting above the other and their left edges aligned. I'd like them to scale proportionately both width-wise and length-wise to the lower right, keeping the vertical distance between them constant. In other words, I want the two fields to get bigger or smaller together and keep the same distance apart. Thought it would be easy, but I've tried many different combinations of settings in the Geometry manager with no luck. Any advice would be most appreciated. So should the topLeft of the topmost field stay in the same place as you resize? Just trying to understand... For example, if you start with two fields that are 100 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall with 10 pixels between them, and 10 pixels from the right edge of the fields to the right side of the card, and 10 pixels from the bottom edge of the bottom field to the bottom of the card, and the starting height of the card is 500, and the starting width of the card was 400, that means that the topleft of the topmost field would be at (400-110),(500-(50+50+10+10)) or 290,380 and the topleft of the bottom field would be at (400-110),(500-(50+10)) or 290,440. If you then resize the stack to make it 100 pixels wider and 100 pixels taller, then that would leave the top field's topleft at 290,390, both fields would be 50 pixels taller (splitting the difference between the two of them and maintaining the 10 pixel gap), so the bottom field's topleft would be 290,(600-(100+10)) or 290,490... is that right? Just checking... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Call to all you one-liners !
Actually that doesn't solve the original issue - you can set the color to numbers that are greater than 256 and it will still work (try it with 1000,1000,1000 and you'll see what I mean). I don't see that as a problem. The numbers are modded down to 255 and setting the color of the button does exactly what I'd expect it to in that case. Well that's where you and I differ - if I accidentally passed 2555 instead of 255 for one of the integers in a color value, I'd want to be told that that's an error. This is especially true when the docs for all the color tokens state The RGBColor consists of three comma-separated integers between zero and 255... So if it's either not an integer or outside that range, I'd assume I'd receive an error. So in my eyes, this is a bug in the is a color function. BTW: This is along with the already existing bug with the function that returns true if you just pass a zero to it. And similarly, you can set the backcolor (or any other color property) of an object to 0 and not get an error... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Sorting lines by variable directions and types
Is there some slight of hand I can perform on the variables tDirection and tType to make my one-liner functional, i.e. sort lines of tList MagicOperator(tDirection) MagicOperator(tType) by word 1 of each You should be able to use do for this: do sort lines of tList tDirection tType by word 1 of each Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Call to all you one-liners !
Depends on your objective. If the aim of the isAColor function is to determine whether the passed parameter can be used as a parameter in setting one of the color properties, then I think the function performs as designed. My issue isn't with *your* isAColor function - it's with the built-in is a color function (or is it statement?)... I meant that this: put 1000,1000,1000 is a color should return false instead of true. Well, I beg to differ on describing this as a bug. Many things are colors in rev, not only RGB values. Any color name is, HTML Color definitions are and also revs own representations (effective backpixel is a single number for example) are. Is a color needs to be able to parse all of those. Oh, I agree with you Malte - my only focus at the moment is on the RGB form of a color. IMHO either the docs need to be amended to say that the RGB values that can be used for *setting* a color can be any three integers (and values over 255 will be modded) or can be just the single integer zero, but that if you *get* the color you will always get three comma delimited integers from 0-255... OR it should be treated as a bug and only accept a 0-255 integer triplet for the RGB form of color values. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Call to all you one-liners !
FYI: ugly though it is, here's the regex (it's long, so I broke it up into multiple statements): function isAColor pRGB put ^([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]), \ ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]), \ ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$ into tRegEx return matchText(pRGB,tRegEx) end isAColor Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ On 6/26/10 2:10 PM, Jim Ault jimaultw...@yahoo.com wrote: The sum() function error could do this, but it will also work with real numbers, not just integers. On Jun 26, 2010, at 10:36 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Francis, put (fld 1 is a color and the number of items of fld 1 is 3) into myIsRGB As mentioned, this is okay for a quick check but isn't very reliable in general. Is a color seems to return true for any comma-delimited list of integers, regardless of whether the numbers are within a valid color range. I meant to add: it could be a quick way to check for any valid list of item-delimited integers though. It's sort of a non-intuitive approach, but faster than iterating through the list looking for non- integer entries. 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 ___ 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: Call to all you one-liners !
FYI: ugly though it is, here's the regex (it's long, so I broke it up into multiple statements): That's a lot of work. I go for the easy way: function isAColor pColor local tIsColor put true into tIsColor create invisible button try set the backcolor of the last button to pColor catch e put false into tIsColor end try delete the last button return tIsColor end isAColor Actually that doesn't solve the original issue - you can set the color to numbers that are greater than 256 and it will still work (try it with 1000,1000,1000 and you'll see what I mean). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Help with drill-down script
Anyway, there's one feature: the first card is an index of all the cards in the stack. In HC, all you need to do is start typing and as you add letters, the selected line changes to reflect what you've typed. When you get to what you want, you hit return and that takes you to the respective card. Anyway, it's not working in Rev. One thing to remember when coming from HC is that in Rev you have true list fields, so you don't need to fake it with selecting a chunk of text in a locked field. As Jacque posted, all you need to do is (1) make your index field into a list field by setting its listBehavior to true, (2) make sure the 'traversalOn' of the list field is true (otherwise you can't get the keystroke), and (3) use a script like Jacque provided to grab the user's keystroke with the 'keydown handler. To activate what is currently highlighted, you can trap for the returnInField and enterInField messages, grab the currently highlited line and then do what you want: on returnInField put the hilitedText of me into tItemSelected -- Now do something with it (tItemSelected will -- contain the text of the line that has the highlight) end returnInField Thanks for reading this far. And since you did, I can't resist mentioning some of the features of this stack: 1) Smart synchronization: if the copy at the office gets a new email address and the same person at home gets a new cell phone number, both are kept and the card is flagged and put in a list. You can deal with it later, like when you next go to that card which shows the dates of both new entries, or go through the list if you want 2) Parsing of clipboard data, from v-cards, email signatures and the like, when making new entries. 3) A Business checkbox which then alphabetizes business names phone-book style, ignoring and initial The etc. 4) Auto-capitalization; you don't have to hit the shift key when entering names. It's smart, knows about de and von etc. 5) One-click or keystroke phone dialing, via a modem, Skype out, or Skype-to-Skype (if there's a Skype name in the Notes field). 6) Envelope printing of 4 different custom styles (size, return address) 7) Sifting to create subsets (Christmas card lists, European contacts, email addresses, etc.) for export in CSV or tab-delimited format 8) Smart printing of Filofax-style pages (no entry broken over a page; print one side, turn the stack over and print again, all comes out in proper order) 9) Ability to change the spelling or capitalization of a name, then automatically moved to where it belongs as needed, and have the corresponding Yellow or White pages version auto-updated. 10) Hidden Filed as field to override the default alphabetization, useful for names like van Beethoven - filed under v or b? 11) URL launching (grabs the first or selected email or web address) and file/app launching such as Word templates, with the appropriate info (name and address) in the clipboard 12) Unlimited delete and restore of cards (until you quit). 13) Name conflict resolution: If you have a John Smith entry, and make a new John Smith card, you get an alert that he's there already. You can delete the new one, the old one, or keep both 14) A database of national and international area codes so if you have an unknown phone number you can see where it's probably located 15) And of course it relies on HC/Rev's brilliant Find so you can for example type a first name and a state abbreviation or city name to find someone whose last name you don't remember, but you know where they live 16) Customizable abbreviations expanded on address data entry: ny expands to New York, NY and de expands to Germany, but only if followed by a space (or nothing) and must be the first characters of the last line in the address field. 17) Phone numbers corrected to be in a standard form (dots parentheses replaced by dashes). US numbers get 1- in front, other countries get their country code - you can use the abbreviations used in the Address field such as de for Germany to enter the proper country code so you don't have to remember it. There's more but I'll stop now... Sounds great! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Shell command return 255
How to know from where the command is executed. In terminal put which command, and we get the entire path to the command. To test from the shell /bin/sh into the Terminal. Put /bin/sh and press enter. Now we are in the same shell that is called from shell and from Rev. Test your command here, if here is ok, copy the commandline and exec from Rev. Put exit to return to your normal shell into the Terminal. That's great to know, Josep... thanks! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: rev media and the player, question
Does rev Player play stacks written in Media? Or if you want to run them, do you have to have media installed on any machine you want to run them on? I know Stackrunner won't play media generated stacks. Pity. Well, StackRunner *may* play Media-generated stacks... I've gotten a couple of reports from people that it worked, but I haven't tried it myself. Originally I know that SR didn't run them, but there have been several versions of Rev since then, so give it a shot! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Listing available MYSQL databases
Actually, it's even easier than that: put /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u username -p password --execute='show databases' into tCmd put shell(tCmd) The only minor downside is to get the TRUE list, you need to clean up the result a bit (the first line just says Database and the last line is empty). So you can simply do this in one statement (indented here for clarity): put line 2 to -1 of shell(/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u username -p password --execute='show databases') into tDBList Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ On 5/25/10 10:42 PM, Bob Cole bobc...@earthlink.net wrote: If you put SHOW DATABASES; in a text file on the target machine then you can execute the following statements (watch for line breaks): put /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u username -ppassword '/usr/local/ShowDatabases.txt' into myCommand put shell(myCommand) into message box That works for me on my Mac with OS X 10.6.3 Bob Tue, 25 May 2010 11:41:21 -0700, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: HI Joe, You are correct and this has help solve my problem. regards, Glen On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Joe F. jo...@mac.com wrote: This script would make promysql evaluate to mysqlshow - u nrl -pnrl1 On May 23, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: Hello, Has anyone successfully used either open process or get shell() to list the databases available on a machine. [...snip...] ___ 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: Windows 7 question
Mark Schonewille (off forum) came up with the best answer (I think), not requiring a shell command. put item 1 of specialfolderpath(system) into x and strip off the /WINDOWS text ! And this works for all Windows systems that I know. Sorry for coming late to the party here, but there's a gotcha you need to know about: Although the specialFolderPath() approach will give you a path, you can't count on /WINDOWS being in the path - you can give the main Windows directory any name you like during the install of ANY version of Windows (so far). However since most people don't install Windows but just get it preloaded on PCs they purchase, it is almost always WINDOWS. For example, I used to have a PC which dual-booted Windows ME or Windows XP (yes, this was a long time ago), and I had one directory named WINDOWS and the other WINXP, and based on the boot choice it would pick the proper folder. So if I booted in XP and got the specialFolderPath(system), it returned C:/WINXP. So to truly make it work, you need to not assume anything other than the specialFolderPath will give you a path that you can delete the last /-delimited item from to get what *should* be (until Microsoft changes it) the system volume: set the itemDel to / put item 1 to -2 of specialFolderPath(system) into tSysDrive Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
ANN: RevZilla 2.2
Hey everyone... I was forced to move away from my previous ISP, and in doing so the CGIs I was using to post bugs for RevZilla were replaced with .irev files. This means that any version of RevZilla prior to this one will fail when attempting to send in RevZilla feedback, bug reports, or even checking for a new version of RevZilla (since there are no CGIs to process the requests anymore). It is strongly recommended that if you're a RevZilla user that you upgrade to the new build. You can find it here: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/RevZilla2.htm Thanks! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software ___ 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: Regular expression
on mouseUp local mySource,myStart,myEnd,TESTO,myStart2,myEnd2 put xx src='HTTPWEB' width='3845' height='334' src='HTTPWEB' x into TESTO put empty into mySource put empty into myStart put empty into myEnd put matchChunk(TESTO,src='([^']*)',myStart,myEnd,myStart2,myEnd2) put myStart comma myEnd comma myStart2 comma myEnd2 end mouseUp This script returns 13,19,, . I exprected something like 13,19,57,63 , because now I have two strings matching src='([^']*)' . Sorry, Paolo, that's not how matchChunk works. You only get a single match on a given capture region (what's inside the parentheses). Normally this match is greedy - that is, it will give you the *largest* match it can in the string you're evaluating. You can modify that by providing the ? and turn it non-greedy, which will give you the *shortest* match. So with a string of: The hot dog in the hotel was hotter than usual. get matchText(tString,(h.*t),tMatch) put tMatch -- he hot dog in the hotel was hotter t get matchText(tString,(h.*?t),tMatch) put tMatch -- he hot get matchChunk(tString,(hot),tStart,tEnd) put tStart,tEnd -- 5,7 Of course, you can provide multiple capture regions if you know how many regions there will be in the string, but note that the greediness applies here too, so watch when you use ? and when you don't: get matchChunk(tString,(hot).*(hot),tStart,tEnd,tStart2,tEnd2) put tStart,tEnd,tStart2,tEnd2 -- 5,7,30,32 -- matched first hot, and hot in hotter get matchChunk(tString,(hot).*?(hot),tStart,tEnd,tStart2,tEnd2) put tStart,tEnd,tStart2,tEnd2 -- 5,7,20,22 -- matched first hot, and hot in hotel If you don't know the number of possible capture regions, you'll have to use a repeat loop and limit the string by deleting up to what has matched the last time for each iteration: on mouseUp put The hot dog in the hotel was hotter than usual. into tString put into tMatches put 0 into tAdder repeat if matchChunk(tString,(hot),tStart,tEnd) then put (tStart + tAdder) , (tEnd + tAdder) cr after tMatches add tEnd to tAdder delete char 1 to tEnd of tString else exit repeat end if end repeat put tMatches end mouseUp -- 5,7 20,22 30,32 Anyway, you get the idea... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Keyboard Menu Control Blocked?
Any thoughts on how I can track down what is preventing my menu buttons from firing when triggered from the keyboard? One thing that Richard told me that I didn't know was that the defaultMenuBar actually works on Windows... not the same as on Mac, but it solved a similar problem I had: my app had a toplevel stack and a palette - the user would click on the palette to change a property and then the next time they hit a keystroke to trigger a menu in the menubar on my toplevel stack, it didn't trigger. As it turns out, if you set the defaultMenuBar to the menubar of your topStack, it will be the recipient of all menu key accelerators, regardless of whether someone clicks on a non-toplevel stack or not. So my suggestion would be to check if the defaultMenubar is being set, and if not, to try setting it... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Regular expression
Actually, Paolo, you *almost* had it right... if you change .* to .*? you are telling the regEx to limit it to the first match. So this would work: if matchText(tString,src='(.*?)',tVal) then put tVal -- puts HTTPWEB end if Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ On 3/10/10 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: regex should be if matchText(tInputString, src='([^']*)', tSourceMatched) is true then put tSourceMatched end if Of course, many of the other suggestions posed by others w/o using regex are fine, too. Just letting you know how to do this with regex as well. Jeff M. On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:30 AM, paolo mazza wrote: To me regular expressions are tricky! I need to extract the string HTTPWEB from the string xx src='HTTPWEB' width='3845' height='334' x If I use the regular expression (src='.*') and the matchChunk command, I get this string : src='HTTPWEB' width='3845' height='334'(see the following RevTalk script) Which is the regular expression to get just the argument of the src variable ( HTTPWEB in this example)? Thanks a lot Paolo Mazza SAMPLE CODE on mouseUp local TESTO,STRINGA,VAR1,VAR2 put xx src='HTTPWEB' width='3845' height='334' x into TESTO put (src='.*') into STRINGA put matchText(TESTO,STRINGA) return into message if matchChunk(TESTO,STRINGA,VAR1,VAR2) then PUT char VAR1 to VAR2 of TESTO into message else put not found! into message end if end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ 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: reading and converting web page HTML text
Apparently numbers less than 8 are interpreted as HTML relative size and larger numbers specify point size. Could this have something to do with the recently mentioned problems with font sizes on Unix platforms? If somehow the rev unix engine is mixing these up, then something intended to be size 14 could display at size 4. But I know very little about this stuff, it's just a thought. Actually it's the way web browsers handled it a long time ago when real font sizes were introduced; they had to remain backwards compatible with the previous method but also adopt the new one. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?
I have some large files (100MB +) that I need to FTP to a customer's server. I have tried to use libURL to do the uploading, but I get odd results/random timeouts/errant status messages when the file I'm uploading is over 40MB. I've tried many different workarounds to this, but none have been consistent/acceptable so for this project I'm seeing if I can use curl. The pain is that there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve the progress of an FTP upload so I can display a custom upload box. If I redirect it to dev/null, I get control back after the upload starts, but I can't get any progress data: curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress /dev/null 21 If I redirect to stdin, it's blocking and I only get anything when the upload is complete: curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin I've also tried: curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin 21 Is there any way to make a non-blocking call to curl, but then to get back the progress text that would normally be displayed in the Terminal? Any help would be appreciated... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: popup command cross-platform
On 3/4/10 4:59 PM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: So, I'm seeing different functionality w/ the popup command on OS X and Win32, wondering if I should mark this as a bug, and also wondering if anyone has a work-around? -- in a field's script on mouseUp set the backgroundColor of me to black popup btn some menu set the backgroundColor of me to white end mouseUp On Mac OS X this will set the backgruond color black, popup the menu, and wait for me to cancel the popup or click a menu item in it, and then set the background color back to white. On Win32 the field goes black - white instantly and the popup is still there. I much prefer the OS X implementation (given this single context and what I want to have happen), but I understand the advantages of the Win32 implementation. So if it's a bug, I could care less which version was considered correct by RunRev, but them being different I consider incorrect behavior. Well, I don't know if it's a *bug*, but it is certainly inconsistent. Oh, and you should do this on mouseDown instead of mouseUp. That said, anyone have a workaround for me? All I can suggest is what I ended up having to do... make sure that the popup command was the last thing encountered in the mouseDown handler, and then have the menuPick of the btn being popped handle what happens when they release the mouse button. If you need to pass data between the button calling the popup command and the button being popped, you can use custom properties or globals, etc. Example: -- Main button on mouseDown set the backgroundColor of me to black set the uCaller of btn some menu to (the long id of me) popup btn some menu end mouseDown -- btn some menu on menuPick pItem -- do whatever you want to do set the backgroundColor of (the uCaller of me) to white end menuPick HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?
Thanks, Phil! Josh sent me his code as well so having both will let me get
this done!
Thanks again...
Ken
On 3/4/10 2:16 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote:
Hi Ken,
If you open curl as a process, you can then read the status info one
line at a time. Would that work?
Here's one way (courtesy of Josh Mellicker, with some mods):
-- a button script --
local vCurlProcess
on mouseUp
put empty into fld output
put formattedForCurl(fld filename) into tFiles
put (curl -T tFiles fld server -C -) into vCurlProcess
open process vCurlProcess for read
get the result
if it = empty
then send getCurlReport to me in 12 ticks
else answer it
end mouseUp
on getCurlReport
read from process vCurlProcess for 1 line
put it after fld output
if it = empty
then closeCurl
else send getCurlReport to me in 12 ticks
end getCurlReport
on closeCurl
close process vCurlProcess
answer Done.
end closeCurl
function formattedForCurl pFileList
-- handle single file selection
if the number of lines in pFileList = 1 then return quote
pFileList quote
-- handle multi file selections
replace CR with , in pFileList
put quote { pFileList } quote into tList
return tList
end formattedForCurl
There you have it!
Phil
On 3/4/10 10:28 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
I have some large files (100MB +) that I need to FTP to a customer's server.
I have tried to use libURL to do the uploading, but I get odd results/random
timeouts/errant status messages when the file I'm uploading is over 40MB.
I've tried many different workarounds to this, but none have been
consistent/acceptable so for this project I'm seeing if I can use curl.
The pain is that there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve the progress of
an FTP upload so I can display a custom upload box. If I redirect it to
dev/null, I get control back after the upload starts, but I can't get any
progress data:
curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress /dev/null 21
If I redirect to stdin, it's blocking and I only get anything when the
upload is complete:
curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin
I've also tried:
curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin
curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress stdin 21
Is there any way to make a non-blocking call to curl, but then to get back
the progress text that would normally be displayed in the Terminal?
Any help would be appreciated...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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Re: Custom tab controls
On 3/2/10 3:38 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: How odd. This showed up with a .mc extension, and opened in something called TestAETE, and worked! When I changed the extension to .rev, it opened in Revolution and worked there too! What in the world is TestAETE? It was in my Revcon Downloads folder. TestAETE was an app distributed after my talk at RevCon about creating your own custom AppleScript dictionary for Rev apps. The TestAETE application had a couple of examples in it. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: ANN: Newsfeeder - an RSS reader
Well, this is really a half announcement. I've been working on this in my spare time now for about a month, and have it somewhere - I'd guess - around 80% ready for release. I'm posting a couple screenshots here, telling you about a few of the features, and (for have those of you who use RSS readers) hoping you'll give me what your general impressions, etc. Looks really good and clean, Jeff... congrats! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: ANN: StackRunner 2.0 Now Available
On 2/16/10 8:13 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Ken, Congrats! Thanks for doing this! Can I include StackRunner in that Linux distribution that I am building? Absolutely! I'd be honored... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
ANN: StackRunner 2.0 Now Available
After a LOOONNG time, I finally was able to update StackRunner to use the 4.0 engine. It includes the Data Grid library by default, and the StackRunner app now sports a new icon! :-) For those of you who came to Rev after the last version of SR came out (over 1.5 years ago!) and don't know what it is, StackRunner is a simple way to deploy your Rev stacks without having to build standalones; it's a Player app that will run your stacks simply and easily and without any interface to get in your way! To find out more, see the download page at: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/StackRunner.htm Enjoy! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: ANN: StackRunner 2.0 Now Available
Now, i could test the engine 4.0 in different Linux distributions without installing RevMedia. Why do you need to install RevMedia? StackRunner works on Linux as well (or at least it *should*... :-) Keep up this useful application! Thanks! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: revXML... issue
For example: ?xml version=1.0? testThis is #1039; a test/test The above tree - upon being parsed - will convert #1039; into 2 bytes instead of leaving it encoded. The result is a blob of text that's composed of both single-byte characters and double-byte characters. This is no good. So, is there a way to get the XML parser in Rev to not touch the data in the tags and let me do it? Or better yet, how about making revXML adhere to the useUnicode global, so either all the returned data is single-byte or it's all double-byte? Another alternative would be to use my XML Library - it's all Rev code and it doesn't mess with your data. It's great for small-to-medium sized XML docs (if it's big it can really slow down though). If you're interested, take a look: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: making a thumbnail from a snapshot
What I get is not a properly sized thumbnail -- I get an image that looks the size of the whole new (cloned) group, and it's not a miniature of the big image, it's a crop of the big image. I can't remember how to miniaturize an imported snapshot down to thumbnail size. I know this has been discussed before but can't find it in the gmane archives. Any help appreciated. Here's a simple example of taking an existing image and making a 1/4 sized thumbnail: export snapshot from img 1 to tPictData as PNG create image put it into tImg set the text of tImg to tPictData set the width of tImg to (the width of tImg/4) set the height of tImg to (the height of tImg/4) set the lockLoc of tImg to true set the imageData of tImg to the imageData of tImg Hope this puts you on the right track... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] Data Tree 0.9.9 RC beta
Just a quick post to let everybody know that I've just uploaded a new beta of my tree library to my site. There's a blog post on my site that goes into detail about what's new or been fixed but in short, the big news is that this version adds support for tabbing to and from a tree. Thanks to everybody who has provided feedback, both to me directly and on the mailing list. You can obtain the beta download from my site, www.theworcestersource.com Very nice, Steve! I really like the platform-specific accuracy you went to the trouble of duplicating. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: How to get a return value from a vbs file?
Where I now stuck is, that I don't know how to get back any return value from the vbs script file back into my rev, e.g the result of calling icacls. I can't just say return in vbs. You use Wscript.Echo stuffYouWantToReturn at the end of the VBS file. When you run the script file with the shell command, whatever is in stuffYouWantToReturn is returned from the shell() call. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] Multi-platform tree control library (in beta)
Over the past couple of months, I've been working on a tree control for RunRev that produces great looking controls that look like they belong on the platform that you're running. For example: Tree in Mac OSX mode http://theworcestersource.com/Portals/0/Blog%20Images/tease%20macosx.png Same tree in Windows mode http://theworcestersource.com/Portals/0/Blog%20Images/tease%20winxp.png Sweet! That's great, Steve, I'm really looking forward to it! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] MacWindows external 1.0.0 (005)
MacWindows 1.0.0 (005) External to give Revolution applications a more Mac-like experience. The name comes from the Carbon header file that the majority of the features are called from. Sweet! Thanks, Sean... I'll be sending you a donation ASAP... :-D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] Sona Vocabulary Assistant 1.0
I'm pleased to announce the release of Sona Vocabulary Assistant, an internet-aware, media-friendly product for language students. There are lots of vocabulary apps out there but none with the features I wanted, so I made one myself. : ) Very nice! Congratulations on the product launch... it looks great! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
Detecting UTF-8 Encoded Files
I recently had a need to be able to detect whether a vCard was UTF-8 encoded or not so that I could run the proper decoding on it... after a healthy web search, I found an article on Instructables for how to walk through the text of a file and be able to determine this: http://www.instructables.com/id/SYGL47RFDYPTCVC/ I wrote a function based on it and so far it's worked for me, but if anyone sees any problems with it, let me know: function GetFileData answer file Select a file: put it into tFile if tFile is not then if isUTF8Encoded(tFile) then put url (file: tFile) into tData return unidecode(uniencode(tData,utf8)) else return tdata end if end if end GetFileData function isUTF8Encoded pPath put url (file: pPath) into tData -- Look for patterns of: -- 110x, 10yy (2 bytes) -- 1110, 10yy, 10zz (3 bytes) -- 0xxx,10yy, 10zz, 10ww (4 bytes) put into tMatchHolder repeat for each char tChar in tData put format(%08d,baseConvert(charToNum(tChar),10,2)) into tVal if tMatchHolder = then switch case (char 1 to 3 of tVal = 110) put 20 into tMatchHolder break case (char 1 to 4 of tVal = 1110) put 30 into tMatchHolder break case (char 1 to 5 of tVal = 0) put 40 into tMatchHolder break default next repeat end switch else if (char 1 to 2 of tVal = 10) then if char 2 of tMatchHolder = (char 1 of tMatchHolder - 2) then return true else add 1 to char 2 of tMatchHolder end if else put into tMatchHolder next repeat end if end if end repeat return false end isUTF8Encoded HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Rending HTML Entities in HTMLtext in fields
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Sivakatirswamika...@hindu.org wrote: Is there a way to get htmlEntities #8220;Kanwar#8221; The rest of their lifestyle #8212; names, marriage rituals, dressing styles #8212; continued to be the same to appear correctly in a field where such enties are part of the html used to set the htmltext of a field? I had to wrestle with this recently and after numerous attempts with uniencode, unidecode, macToISO etc., I ended up writing my own function to do it: That's awesome, Sarah! I've been needing something like this... Thanks! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: OT: Any VBS, VBA, Excel specialist out there who might help?
as i already said, i am not very familiar with vbs. My script is from a book. So i am not sure, how and where in the script i should pass this parameter. Regards Matthias Oh geez, Matthias I haven't had a chance to read the list for a while and just caught this, so I hope I can still help after all this time has passed. Anyway, here's what you need to do: Instead of this line of code that you have right now: .Workbooks.OpenText sInPath, , , ,xlTextQualifierNone,,,True ,Array(Array(1, 2), Array(2,2), Array(3,2), Array(4,2), Array(5,2), Array(6,1), Array(7,1), Array(8,1), Array(9,1), Array(10,1), Array(11,1), Array(12,2)) pass this one instead (watch the line breaks): .Workbooks.OpenText sInPath, , , xlDelimited,xlTextQualifierNone,,, True,Array(Array(1, 2), Array(2,2), Array(3,2), Array(4,2), Array(5,2), Array(6,1), Array(7,1), Array(8,1), Array(9,1), Array(10,1), Array(11,1), Array(12,2)) Let me know if this works for you, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: OT: Any VBS, VBA, Excel specialist out there who might help?
My csv file is structured like this: ArtNr;ShortDescription;LongDescription;ManufactureNo;EAN;Manufacturer;Stock 010002;Epson LQ300; Epson LQ 300 Matrixdrucker;C11C63800;8715946316949;Epson;2 It looks to me like the problem may be in the Workbooks.OpenText call. Here's the params according to Microsoft: Workbooks.OpenText(Filename, Origin, StartRow, DataType, TextQualifier, ConsecutiveDelimiter, Tab, Semicolon, Comma, Space, Other, OtherChar, FieldInfo, TextVisualLayout, DecimalSeparator, ThousandsSeparator, TrailingMinusNumbers, Local) Here's how your current parameters map to this: FileName -- sInPath Origin -- (empty) StartRow -- (empty) DataType -- (empty) TextQualifier -- xlTextQualifierNone ConsecutiiveDelimiter -- (empty) Tab -- (empty) Semicolon -- True Comma -- (empty) Space -- (empty) Other -- (empty) OtherChar -- (empty) FieldInfo -- Array(Array(1, 2), Array(2,2), Array(3,2), Array(4,2), Array(5,2),Array(6,1), Array(7,1), Array(8,1), Array(9,1), Array(10,1), Array(11,1), Array(12,2)) TextVisualLayout -- (empty) DecimalSeparator -- (empty) ThousandsSeparator -- (empty) TrailingMinusNumber -- (empty) Local -- (empty) Notice that the DataType parameter is empty. If you do it this way, Excel is left to try and figure out the column format (and it ignores your True in Semicolon, but apparently up until now was able to figure things out properly). Try passing xlDelimited in the DataType parameter, which will tell Excel that the data is definitely delimited, and force it to look at the Semicolon parameter to tell it that it's semicolon-delimited. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Getting a Rev App to have an icon on the Apple Menu bar
How does one get and icon for one's application to appear on the Menu Bar of OS X? Actually, I wrote a little how to guide on this... they're called StatusItem Menus BTW: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tutorials/StatusMenu.html It describes how to use Xcode to create one, and how to have the item you select call AppleScript that can either communicate with your Rev app directly, or you could use AppleScript to write out data to file(s) that your app polls for. Either way, hope this helps... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
Escaping slashes in Windows for menus?
Up until 3.5 (I think), if you had a popup menu or option menu and you wanted to display a / in it, you had to escape it with a preceding \, but only on Macs. This was (I assume) to differentiate it from a / that preceded an accelerator key. So for example, I have a status popup that lists IN, IN/LW, OUT, OUT/LW, etc., and to make it appear properly on Macs, I had to do IN, IN\/LW, OUT, OUT\LW, etc. but I didn't have to do it on Windows. Now I'm seeing this same need on Windows, but only while running the 3.5 engine... is this intentional (in which case I'll change the underlying code) or a bug? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Hiding an app under Windows
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Ken Rayk...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On the Mac, I use AppleScript to hide an application when I need to. Is there a way to do this under Windows. Is this a Rev app you're trying to hide, or someone else's 3rd party app? It's actually iTunes. I have written a music recognition quiz app for my son that uses iTunes. His friends want it on Windows, but iTunes has to be hidden or they can see what music is playing and cheat, so I have to be able to make it disappear. OK, so it sounds like you could have it minimized instead of hidden and that would work, right? If so, this VB Script will work (although since it uses Wscript.Shell, you can't run it with do as VBScript, but instead need to write it to a .vbs file and execute the file): ' Assumes iTunes is already open Set Shell = CreateObject(Wscript.Shell) Shell.AppActivate iTunes Shell.SendKeys % n (BTW: that's a space between the '%' and the 'n') HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Hiding an app under Windows
On the Mac, I use AppleScript to hide an application when I need to. Is there a way to do this under Windows. Is this a Rev app you're trying to hide, or someone else's 3rd party app? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: 4.0 Webinar Invite - Its Today!
I'm connected, but Bill's voice sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks! :-( Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: 4.0 Webinar Invite - Its Today!
On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I'm connected, but Bill's voice sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks! He typed a note to say to use speakers and not a USB headset, though my one is working fine. Yeah, discovered that one a few minutes go... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Hide Screen Furniture
On Mac OS systems, the systemWindow property has no effect. Blast! My initial posting largely referred to Linux and Windows faux docks (obviously, even if nothing else, the Dock.app in Mac OS is something that everyone wants to imitate). Be careful here... when the docs say Mac OS, they mean OS 9 and earlier (Classic). SystemWindow works perfectly fine in OS X... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Weather reporting in Rev
Anyone have any ideas on how to import (from a web site) a simple text-based weather report for the current day into a Rev application based on zip code? I'd probably use screen scraping techniques; for example, my zip code is 54701, so I go to weather.com and enter my zip. That takes me to a page which is this URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54701?lswe=54701lwsa=WeatherLocalUndec laredfrom=searchbox_localwx I can then use put url url into variable and then I have all the HTML code for that page in a variable: put http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54701?lswe=54701; \ lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclaredfrom=searchbox_localwx into tURL put url tURL into tHTML Then you can parse the HTML looking for the tags that surround the temp, wind speed, etc. Of course if Weather.com ever changes their format you'd have to change yours as well, but it's a good starting point. If this is for something commercial, better yet would be to subscribe to an XML feed that would be in a consistent format. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: TextWrangler
Although enough time has passed now that it could probably be renamed if someone wants to suggest something. SoTeX :) :-D Although it sounds like some kind of protective fabric... ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: experience with VBScript on Vista needed
Hi Ken, After you gave this answer to Tiemo about a week or so ago, I decided to play with running some vbscript out of rev 2.9+. The only thing I get is execution error. I tried your above script and get the error and then reduced it down to two hard coded lines: put format(set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\WScript.Shell\)) into tVBS put tVBS CR format(WshShell.AppActivate \Internet Explorer\)) into tVBS do tVBS as VBScript I tried CRLF instead of CR (thinking maybe it was a line ending issue), put one at the end of the second line, etc. No matter what I do I get the execution error. IE is running and, of course, clicking on a file with these same two lines and .vbs extension runs without error and brings IE to front. What's the trick? ;-) Testing on Vista. Hmm... it turns out that there must be something related to working with the WshShell that isn't supported *inside* Rev for the do as command. You'll have to use the older (pre-2.9) version of the script instead (which *does* work, althought there's a slight pause as it has to write out the file and execute it first). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: TextWrangler
http://sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads.htm Quirky name but I assume it stands for Sons of Thunder Software / MindLube games eXternal Editor. Right; it was originally MLXEditor, but Alex Rice had stopped doing anything with Rev and it kind of laid dormant. I spoke with him and asked if I could revive it and add to it and he gave me the green light. But I felt I should keep the MLXEditor in the name... Although enough time has passed now that it could probably be renamed if someone wants to suggest something. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: TextWrangler
Which will direct you to the talented Trevor DeVore's Blue Mango website and his excellent Language Module: http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/ Can't say enough thanks to Trevor for producing it and updating it when necessary. There's also a direct download link for this module as well as modules that link to TextMate, SubEthaEdit, and UltraEdit-32 at the STS/MLXEditor page: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm Enjoy! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: experience with VBScript on Vista needed
Hey, Tiemo... My questions are not going to my code, but to some principles with calling the shell wscript.exe Are you using Rev 2.9 or later? If so, you don't need to call the shell() command for VBScript; you can do script as VBScript. 1. I tried to catch any error from the get shell() command with the result, the syserror, try -catch, but got never any error back from the shell, even if I have a wrong syntax in the VB, where the VB fails, the rev doesn't gets noticed. Which is the correct way to catch an error from a VBScript on the shell? It should come back from the shell command. Here's an (old) example of activating an application and trapping the result: on VBS_AppActivate pTitle put format(set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\WScript.Shell\)) into tVBS put tVBS cr WshShell.AppActivate quote pTitle quote into tVBS put C:\vbs_temp.vbs into tVBSPath put tVBS into url (file: tVBSPath) set the hideConsoleWindows to true get shell(cscript.exe //nologo tVBSPath) put it into tResult if there is a file tVBSPath then send delete file quote tVBSPath quote to me in 1 second end if if tResult then return Error: tResult end VBS_AppActivate Here's how it would be done in Rev 2.9+: on VBS_AppActivate pTitle put format(set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\WScript.Shell\)) into tVBS put tVBS cr WshShell.AppActivate quote pTitle quote into tVBS put tVBS cr result = Err.number into tVBS do tVBS as VBScript put the result into tResult if there is a file tVBSPath then send delete file quote tVBSPath quote to me in 1 second end if if tResult then return Error: tResult end VBS_AppActivate 2. Do I have to return explicity any error from the script back to rev, or will they passed to rev anyway? If yes, how and where? See above... 4. Are there any experiences of windows installations without the scripting host? Perhaps the Home edition? If yes, how to check for that? Well, according to my informaton, some form of Windows Script Host has been included on all versions of Windows since Windows 98. You should check to make sure that the VBScript you're calling is supported in the various versions of Windows you need to support. 5. If every Vista version should have the windows scripting host, can it somehow be deactivated, so that my updater runs without result? If yes, how? Not AFAIK. 6. If the user clicks cancel while Vista is asking to allow this process, how can I get aware of this cancel in my rev app? Is there a chance to catch a cancel down from Vista level in my rev app? I don't know, but I'd assume that the request happens *before* the script is actually run, so you'd need to find a way to determine if your VBScript runs or not. One way to do this might be for your Rev app to create a file and have the VBScript change its contents or delete it. That way you could detect after the script has run if the original file was still there/unchanged. If so, the VBScript didn't run. 7. Are you aware of any other VBScript gotchas? Yes - Some anti-virus software will bring up an alert dialog to the user letting them know of a potential malicious activity if you try to manipulate the file system with VBScript (basically any use of the FileSystemObject), so that may make #6 above even more difficult. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Stykz
For example, on quitting you're asked if you want to save. That's probably because the default document that opened was dirty when you quit (if you *didn't* do anything and it still asked you to save, let me know and I'll fix that). In all applications out there, command-D is the same as clicking the Don't Save button, but in Stykz it duplicates the selected item on the stage. Good catch! I'll get that fixed right away. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Stykz
Fantastic! Thanks, Richmond (and Mark, and ... :-) ! I'm just getting ready to release 1.0 in a week or so, but the response to the public betas have been fantastic. There have been many thousands of downloads and it's been a real eye-opener (development-wise) that I'll write a report on when I'm done. ;-) Although it will be released with the 3.5 engine, it was developed using 3.0, so there are no behaviors implemented yet. But when I update it I'll be switching over to use behaviors and I can't wait to get started! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Stykz
For example, on quitting you're asked if you want to save. That's probably because the default document that opened was dirty when you quit (if you *didn't* do anything and it still asked you to save, let me know and I'll fix that). I wasn't commenting on the Save part, that is correct. I was just setting the scene, so you knew which Don't Save I was referring to. Whoops! Sorry about that... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Text variable problem
I've used put to write the 17th element, ,, g_reg, and another comma, and the output was Texas,Texas, so it looks like 17th element and g_reg are the same. Is this proving the same thing you suggested? Not exactly; if you have anywhitespace before the 17th element you won't see it... try writing out a , before the 17th element and see if you have anything. The other way is to put length(the 17th element) and length(g_reg) and see if the two lengths are the same. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: [ANN] InfoWallet 1.0
I'm happy to finally announce the release of InfoWallet 1.0. http://www.infowallet.com Sorry if I'm late to the party, but I want to chime in as well... Congrats, Bill! I know how much effort you've put into this, and it looks like it paid off! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Vista folder path
On 5/22/09 10:41 AM, Lars Brehmer larsbreh...@mac.com wrote: I'm just now trying to get an old project working in Vista, and need to deposit a folder in the equivalent of the Application Data folder in XP. What must I add to the following? I know absolutely nothing about Visa, so I don't even know if there is an Application Data folder like the one in XP or where it is, and if there isn't one, where should this folder go (complete file path and specialFolderPath, if there is one.) if word 1 of the systemversion = NT then put specialFolderPath(35) into fPath else put specialfolderpath(system) into fPath end if Here's the full info: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file010.htm Scroll to the bottom and all the Vista folder paths are there. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: How to prevent a stack from loading twice (in Linux)
How to do this? I have tried to use onreloadStack, just trapping it in the stack script, but this seems to do nothing. Even if the command is to close the stack on reloadStack, it opens anyway. The other one would be relaunch, but it seems to be Win only. There was a thread and -- was it Richard Gaskin? someone talked about how he always did this in the preliminaries to his stack opening. Can't seem to find it. Sorry, Peter, but I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do... are you trying to open a stack with open stack and it's opening twice? Or are you talking about the mainstack of a standalone... ? or something else? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: New groups bugaBoo
Yeah, apparently referencing the last group is still not reliable. If you need to use this approach in your scripts, one option is to name the templateGroup, rather than using last, as mentioned here: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-am-I-right-with-select-and-group--p10972065.html If you can create the group *first* before moving the objects into the group, you can get the long id right after creation: on mouseUp create group Test put it into tLongIDOfGroupIJustCreated end mouseUp But if you're trying to group selected objects, that doesn't work because nothing comes back in it (or the result for that matter). Personally I think the group command should return the long id of the group that was created in the result... The other way to do what you want is to trap the newGroup message either in a frontscript or somewhere in the hierarchy that makes sense. Set a property or global you can check and then move on. Something like: stack script global gLastGroupID on newGroup put the long id of the targte into gLastGroupID pass newGroup end newGroup button script global gLastGroupID on mouseUp group grc 1 and grc 2 and grp B put gLastGroupID into tGroupID -- continue on using tGroupID end mouseUp NOTE: Make sure you PASS the newGroup message; I had Rev freeze on me if it wasn't passed... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: What is the platform on Win64?
On 5/21/09 10:06 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: The Dictionary lists these values for the platform: MacOS any Mac OS, OS X, or Darwin system Linux Linux for Intel or PowerPC architecture BSD BSD UNIX (BSDI, FreeBSD) HP-9000/700 HP-UX SGI IRISSilicon Graphics IRIX IBM RS/6000 AIX Intel SCO SCO Open DeskTop Intel SVR4 Solaris for x86 architecture SPARC SPARC SunOS SPARC Solaris SPARC Solaris Win32 Windows (any version post-3.1) What does the platform return on 64-bit Windows systems? Win32 Although I'm sure there should be some way to determine you're on a 64-bit system... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: arrays
The filter command is one of those things that you can stare at for a while, but it doesn't really click until you have a use for it. Then whole new worlds open up. On major caveat on filter though, and that is that the closer to the left edge of a line the filter is acting on (or the less complex the filter), the faster it will run. For example, let's say you have 2000 lines of data that's formatted into 10 columns (tab-separated). If you want to search for the string test in the first column, the filter is something like: *test* If you want to look to see if it's in the second column, it would be: .* tab *test* and the third column would be: .* tab .* tab *test* etc. Using this approach, filtering in column 10 is WAY slower than filtering in column 1. Anyway, just wanted to bring up that filter can be really fast, but when it gets slow you'll want to pick another method. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: What is the platform on Win64?
Win32 Although I'm sure there should be some way to determine you're on a 64-bit system... Actually I think it's a combination of problems. The platform shouldn't include the processor speed; it should just be Windows. But the processor needs to be fixed so it doesn't return x86 when running in a 64-bit system (which it does now). So my recommendation would be to add Windows as a platform that is the same as Win32 and deprecate Win32, and then fix the processor to return a proper processor value for 64-bit processors. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
It will be interesting to use the app and see what's happening. I'm starting to track this down a bit... today when I launched the program, it didn't get all the way through it's load process, but got all the windows up. When I switched between windows, it was pretty fast. Once I got the bug fixed and it managed to load properly, it was slow again. It now looks like there's definitely something in the code I'm using because when I have the System Monitor running I see the CPU at about 5%, but when I click on the main stage window where there's a default stick figure drawn, it cranks up to 100% CPU for a few seconds, so there's something going on during the resumeStack sequence on this stack that's cranking the CPU way high. Now that I have a clue, I don't think I need to send you a copy Peter (unless you really want one)... if so, let me know. In any event, I'll keep everyone posted, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
OK, loaded Puppy 4.2, with the copy to memory option and using Xorg not VESA. Ran the IDE 3.5, and it seemed fine. Fired up a few stacks and they were fine, positively snappy. I couldn't even get *that* far... I'm using 4.2, and Xorg (not sure if I have copy to memory on - where would I check?) and downloaded Rev 3.5. Went to launch it and nothing happened. When I tried to launch it in from the console I got all sorts of GDK error messages, starting with Unable to get 32-bit visual, not using XFT. Not sure what to do about that... Does anyone have a seriously display intensive stack they can post somewhere? It would be nice to have one that definitely does show the problem. Or, Ken, if you want to mail me a compiled version of yours that is causing the problem, I'd be happy to see if I can reproduce and/or do something to eliminate it. Sure, I can send it to you; I'll do that so you can see what I'm seeing (hopefully). It occurs to me that it might be worth trying Slitaz, a true minimalist distro, 30MB or so. If the problemstill happens with Slitaz, its really at a basic level with Linux rather than some dispensable extra bit. OK, I'll try that when I get a chance. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
On 5/9/09 5:03 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Ken- Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2:10:04 PM, you wrote: I couldn't even get *that* far... I'm using 4.2, and Xorg (not sure if I have copy to memory on - where would I check?) and downloaded Rev 3.5. Went to launch it and nothing happened. When I tried to launch it in from the console I got all sorts of GDK error messages, starting with Unable to get 32-bit visual, not using XFT. Not sure what to do about that... Anything like BZ #5382? No, thse are all related to colormaps and screen updating, like: (unknown:8601): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gdk_colormap_new: assertion `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual) failed Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: Getting the name for a Windows Users 'home'
Thanks to all for the advice about Mac Users/home. The short version was successful: /Users/~/Library/Fonts I now need to delete files from Windows Users/home. Is there an equivalent short version path for Windows or is 'specialFolderPath' used to get this? If so, how may I use it? On VISTA for examplethe path appears to be: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Start Menu\ Programs \MyFileToBeDeleted Is the specialFolderPath uses differently in XP and Vista? Any clues would be a great help, As Sarah mentioned below, check out this reference: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file010.htm Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
ok, it should be very easy to test this. Boot Puppy and pick the VESA option. Won't that tell you at least if its down to Xorg? I DL'ed puppy, but I can't get Rev to run in it - it looks like it's launching but never does; what do I need to do? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
Could be a CPU architecture problem? Any info in the logs? Which logs are you talking about - where would I look? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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: App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?
OK, I was able to test under Mandriva Live One 2009 running KDE 4.04, and the performance was a little better, but still *very* slow. For example, in Stykz you can click on a node (or handle) to one of the segments of a stick figure to pivot it around the point on the other side of the segment. If I mouseDown on the node, and then drag upwards, Windows and OS X follow immediately. Under Ubuntu 8.04 it took a good 5 seconds before the line segment started moving; Mandriva took about 3 seconds. But that is still way too slow for any user to use, and other than the redrawing of the line, everything else was done in code with no additional display elements or anything else going on. I'm going to try and get a higher end machine to test on and see how much the hardward mitigates the problem, and I'll report back. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
