Setting a property on a different card
I have a little app that uses a setup stack (the main-stack) and an "ID Card" stack where I have a single card with the layout of an employee badge. If I load an image by hand, it works fine. I am now trying to to print a batch of these badges on one sheet. I can change the contents of the text fields that hold the name, title, etc. with no problem but I'm having trouble setting the file name for the image (they are stored in a separate folder on a shared drive. My code is: set the fileName of empPhoto of card 1 of stack "ID Card" to "I:/Photos/00677-180.jpg" This gives me an error with "no 'to'". This same approach works fine with "put" on the text fields (even going to a card on another stack). What am I missing? The documentation I've found doesn't seem to show how to do this across stacks - just the current stack. I'm having one additional problem with this little app when I start it up: As I said above, there is a main stack and a substack. There is a PRINT button on the main stack that causes the "ID Card" stack's single card to print. The problem I'm having is the first time I try this, I get an error saying the card has to be opened before I can print it. If I open the Application Browser and double click on the ID Card line (which displays it on the screen), then I can go back and press the PRINT button and all is fine. I have a preOpenStack handler on the main stack the has "start using stack "ID Card" on it but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas? Thanks in advance len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Font Issue
I know this is a simple issue but I'm pulling out what little hair I have left! I'm on Windows XP that has been set up for two languages (English, Russian - my wife is Ukrainian). When I was working on my other computer, everything was fine. I've moved my stack to this computer (both are XP by the way), every time I select a font, it uses the Russian one. What setting do I need to change to work in English? Note that anything I type EXCEPT the "Contents" in the property Inspector is in English. Thanks, Len ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing Question - Rephrased
I'm still having trouble printing and my last plea went unanswered so I'll try again. I know that there are 72 points to an inch when I print but I don't know how to scale this to dpi on a printer or dpi on the screen for that matter. I'm trying to print ID Badges with a photo on them and I've used the example from the video but it seems that trial and error is the only way I'm going to get things to fit properly. What I'd like to know is how to map pixels (which RR uses) to physical distances on the paper so I can, for example, put the photo in the upper right hand corner of a 2.125 x 3.375 inch plastic card. If I do the trial and error once (when my printer is set at 600 dpi, aren't the dimensions going to be 2 times (4 times?) bigger if I use a 300 dpi printer? Can I get to the printer attributes to determine the dpi the printer is going to use and then calculate some constants for scaling my card to fit? Any help would be greatly appreciated even if it was just a pointer to somewhere in the documentation. Thanks! Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Mapping Screen to Printer
I'd want to create a card that could be used as an ID Badge with a picture on it and the usual stuff like name, position, etc. When I'm creating this card, how can I relate the size in the Object Inspector (which is in pixels) to the 2 1/8" x 3 3/8" dimensions of the physical card? I guess to make the question even more general, how can I map from pixel dimensions to printer dimensions since I don't know (in advance) what the resolution of the printer is (or what it might be set to by the user). Thanks! len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Are there any "complicated" DB tutorials?
Are there any tutorials, sample stacks, etc. that demonstrate how to use the database functions OTHER THAN the simple connection/first/next/previous/last record examples? I need to read in blocks of records in many cases, not just one at a time. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks! Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 17, Issue 63
The "rope" is just below the graphic tools on the pallette (Rectangle, Circle, etc.). Thought this was the tool for grouping a bunch of things together. Maybe you're right and it's just implicit when you are in edit mode. Thanks, len Len Can you tell me what 'dotted rope' tool you're referring to? The right way to select a bunch of controls that aren't grouped, I think, is to use the select tool and draw a rectangle around the outsides of the controls. Unless I"m just dense, which is certainly possible. Dan On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Len Morgan wrote: I'm a (very) new user an I'm having a little trouble with the Studio IDE. I'm trying to layout a card with a few labels and the text fields to collect information from the user. I want to select a group of labels and move them around a little and I've used the dotted "rope" thingy before but I can't seem to make it work any more. I can't even get the "rope" to display as I try and draw it. What are the exact steps I need to take to select a group of controls to adjust their position together? Just to explain where my problem is, when I select the rope tool, the Run and Edit buttons BOTH come up. If I try and click on an area to start my selection process, I only get the first control that the mouse hits. If I click on the Edit button on the pallete, the rope tool gets unselected. I know this is a real bonehead mistake on my part (because I've done it before). Thanks, Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
More Newbie questions
I seem to have screwed my self into a problem. I was trying to create a function that was part of the OpenStack call that made a connection to a database, run a "SELECT *..." call, then position to the first record ready to go. Well, I made a typo on one of the lines but now I can't change anything because this executes when I open the stack and never closes because of the error. I can get to the script and I can TYPE the changes but RR refuses to save the changes because the script is still "running." Do I have to throw out everything else I've done and start over to get rid of this error? I hope not because I was following what I've been told is the "right" way to write RR stacks, namely, do the GUI first and then write the scripts for the controls. Any advise would be appreciated (like how do I stop the OpenStack from running in the first place? Thanks Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Almost too simple to ask...
I'm a (very) new user an I'm having a little trouble with the Studio IDE. I'm trying to layout a card with a few labels and the text fields to collect information from the user. I want to select a group of labels and move them around a little and I've used the dotted "rope" thingy before but I can't seem to make it work any more. I can't even get the "rope" to display as I try and draw it. What are the exact steps I need to take to select a group of controls to adjust their position together? Just to explain where my problem is, when I select the rope tool, the Run and Edit buttons BOTH come up. If I try and click on an area to start my selection process, I only get the first control that the mouse hits. If I click on the Edit button on the pallete, the rope tool gets unselected. I know this is a real bonehead mistake on my part (because I've done it before). Thanks, Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Ultra Beginner Question/Request
me a record clerk logged in, they would get the latest version of this card. The other alternative is to put the actual cards necessary on each profile stack and then if I made a change to the search card, I would have to copy it to all of the other profile stacks (since they ALL have the search card). That could work but the first way seems a lot more practical. It would be great if you could embed stack within another (like in a smaller window) but I don't think RR can do that. It would be a cool feature though with lots of possibilities. I still recommend an SQL engine for this kind of project, however, as it gives you multiuser support almost "for free" and it will be *much* faster at searching, and make it easier to enforce tighter security. As I said above, I'm already using a backend SQL database. One of my customers has over 22,000 inmates in file (current and past) and well over 1/2 a million commissary transactions. I have no idea how many commissary line items there are (I store every line item when an inmate makes a purchase in the commissary so I could tell you if an inmate bought a Snickers bar 3 years ago on a Wednesday in May (and do it in under a second). Go Postgres!!! Again, thanks for ALL the input from everyone. I hope others are benefiting from this exchange than just me! Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Mailing List Help
Can someone please tell me how (and where) I can search the archives of this mailing list? At one point I got to a page that looked like I could search but now it appears that I have to look at every message for every month to try and find if my problem has already been addressed. There HAS to be a better way that I'm missing. Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Ultra Beginner Question/Request
I have no doubt this is the right place to at least get started! The
project I'm trying to convert is large but I think it is also typical of
a lot of moderately complex application so I hope others can benefit
from this discussion. The program has a database on the backend and is
used to manage (private) prisons. The GUI consists of a menu at the top
of the screen, a toolbar that includes a combobox to select what the
user wants to do, a "current inmate" frame which is only a little taller
than the text and labels that are on it, a large "main area" where
different things go depending on what you select from the combobox, and
at the bottom a status/progess bar. In a prior version of this program,
the large main area had a tabset control to was used to select between
the various tasks that a user wanted to do. As the program grew, the
tabset had to be replaced with the combobox on the toolbar because it
gave me an (almost) unlimited number of tasks (RR equivalent to cards I
think). The tab control I had could not scroll if it got too big (which
it did). The tool bar also has 4 buttons on it that are used by all of
the tasks in the work area ("Add", "Delete", "Save" and "Cancel
Changes"). What routines are called when one of these buttons are pushed
depends on which task screen you're looking at when it is pressed. This
sounds a little confusing but once you teach a user that pressing the
"+" button adds one of whatever you're looking at (i.e., inmate, charge,
program review)), they pick it up pretty quick. Now, for an additional
wrinkle, in a prison environment (or really any other reasonably large
organization), you need to have different rights for different people.
In my program's case, no one but medical staff can look at an inmate's
medical information, and so on. When the program is first started up, I
get a username and password, and after authenticating them against my
database, I get a "profile" that has been assigned to that username
(from the same database). My tcl code has a script for each profile
(medical clerk, mailroom, records clerk, case manager, etc) that loads
("sources" in Tcl lingo) the scripts for each of the tasks they are
allowed to preform along with certain permissions on those tasks. By
that I mean, everyone is allowed to look at a certain screen of inmate
information but only records clerks are allowed to change it. There is
also a menu file that creates the top level menu structure also based on
the user's profile. Again, there are a set of menus that everyone gets
and then there are different ones added depending on the profile
selected. Ok, that's how I'm doing it now in Tcl/Tk. I'm not expecting
anyone to build this for me but I'd like a little direction on how to
attack this in RR. Can I get different cards (or would I use stacks)
depending on the profile or would I have a stack for each profile that
had the cards necessary on it already? If it's the latter, how would I
handle something like the "Search" task that everyone has but changes
from time to time? Would I have to make the changes on every profile
stack or can I say "use the Search card from ... on this stack?" I think
I've figured out that my toolbar, "current inmate" and statusbar will
endup being "groups" that I will just include on every card so that it
looks like only the main work area is changing when in fact (I think)
the whole screen is changing. I also think I've figured out that I'll
need a stack to handle all of the database needs that I'll pass queries
to and retrieve answers from. So there you have it. I'm staring at a
blank mainstack and don't even know where to begin the design process.
How do I partition things so that I'm doing things the "Revolution way."
Thanks in advance for any pointers you might be able to offer. Len Morgan
From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You may have come to the right place. You can consider this list a
working group for your personal success with learning Rev. :)
Tell us a bit about this Tcl project and perhaps some of the folks here
will chime in with suggestions on how to get started.
One of the tough things with learning a proprietary language is that
there are fewer third-party resources avaiable for learning.
But one of the upsides with Rev is that this mailing list is chock full
o' third parties ready and willing to offer personal assistance.
Len Morgan wrote:
Hello All,
I've been a programmer since the mid 70's. I've used and/or tinkered
with all of the "normal" procedural languages (C, Tcl, BASIC) and even
some "ab"normal ones like Forth. I consider myself a pretty good
programmer and have been told I&
Ultra Beginner Question/Request
Hello All, I've been a programmer since the mid 70's. I've used and/or tinkered with all of the "normal" procedural languages (C, Tcl, BASIC) and even some "ab"normal ones like Forth. I consider myself a pretty good programmer and have been told I'm fairly bright in general. I've had Revolution for a couple of weeks now, and I just can't seem to get my head around the "methodology" of using Revolution. I'm not worried about command syntax or what controls are available. My problem is how to go about DESIGNING a whole project. I am trying to convert a rather large application I have in Tcl/Tk to Revolution and just can't seem to get started. Are there any Revolution design documents, web pages, tutorials, etc that address this area? The one page about on the runrev.com site having information for C programmers was not nearly enough. I guess what I'd like to see is a step by step tutorial on how to start with a non-trivial project. Like I said, I don't need to know how to put a button on a card and fire a script when it's pressed - that is very well explained. Any information would be appreciated! Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Postgres problem
What version of Postgres are you using? Have you tried connecting with psql (i.e., at the command line?) You will need the -i flag (or setting the tcp/ip parameter in the postgresql.conf file and restarting). Also, is there any reason you aren't using pg_ctl to start the server? I'm new to Revolution but I've using Postgresql since it was Postgres95, so hopefully I've learned a little that could help you out. Len Morgan Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get my postgres to work on a network, I tried to mess around with the "pba_config" file host all all 0.0.0.0 trust started with "/usr/local/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i" as I use it locally with RR and was not able to get it work on a network. I then tried to change the postgresql.config file and removed the "# " and changed tcp/ip to true , didn't do it . Then I changed it back to the way it was and Š then if I started it without the -Iflag it starts but wouldn¹t accept any tcp/ip connections even locally so I started it with the I flag ,but wouldn¹t start "FATAL: postgresql.conf:1: syntax error, token="#"" . Now I can't start postgres with an -i flag at all. and how do I get the network working ? Mac 10.3. I really would appreciate the help. THANKS , A MILL. Hershel ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.5 - Release Date: 1/26/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Quartam Reports (was "Where IS Report Builder"
Count me in too! Len Morgan Dan Shafer wrote: Me, too! Me, too! Dan On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Alan Gayne wrote: Dan Shafer wrote Jan The FAQ on your site mentions a November target date. Is that an outdated reference to *last* November, or are you expecting it to take most of this year to get to a release? Just wondering. Dan, who will buy the pro version the day you release it! Me too, Jan! If it would help, I'll send you my check for the introductory price of $249 right NOW! Best regards, Alan Gayne ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.5 - Release Date: 1/26/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Disappearing Mouse!!??
I'm a (very) new Revolution user and I've got problem on Win XP. I've created a little stack and in the IDE it "works" ok. Right now it's just labels and textboxes - it doesn't actually DO anything yet. The problem is when I save it and then try and run the .rev file, it shows up ok on the screen but as soon as the mouse pointer moves into the program window, the mouse pointer disappears. It's still "there" because if I work at it, I can get the invisible over a button and then left click and have the button fire. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Beginner's List
Is there a "beginner's list" available? I've just purchased Revolution and I'm having some problems (on WinXP) but most of the questions I see on this list are way past where I'm at. I'm sure when my book arrives I'll be able to answer a lot of these questions myself but I'd like to get started. Thank you! Len Morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
