Re: passwords in fields?

2002-01-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:19 PM -0800 1/21/2002, Chipp Walters wrote: > Not sure how to create a field where typing a password is >automatically replaced with * during the typing? Is this not a >property of a field? Like set the password of fld 1 to true? Any ideas? > thx, Chipp It's not a field pr

Re:hiding Data

2002-01-21 Thread John Cuccio
>I believe the maximum per field is 64k. That would take very many fields >(over 100), and I think too long to read into memory initially. I thought Rev had not limits. Just how big the hard drive space was. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread David Vaughan
Ken wrote: "I posted what should be the right solution. Check it out." referring to on mouseEnter -- you can put the rest of this in an offscreen handler repeat until the mouseClick if the mouseLoc is within the rect of the target then set the hilite of the target to true else set the hilite of the

passwords in fields?

2002-01-21 Thread Chipp Walters
  Not sure how to create a field where typing a password is automatically replaced with * during the typing? Is this not a property  of a field? Like set the password of fld 1 to true? Any ideas?   thx, Chipp

Re: Global Names sans Rev Globals?

2002-01-21 Thread Shao Sean
try this function: function getGlobalNames local vTempGlobals, vTempSortedGlobals, vGlobalItem put the globalNames into vTempGlobals repeat for each item vGlobalItem in vTempGlobals if ((char 1 of vGlobalItem = "$") or (char 1 to 3 of vGlobalItem = "rev")) then next repeat els

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/21/02 4:40 PM, Philip Usher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 1/21/02 5:34 PM, "Michael J. Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How can I get the other buttons to hilight without requiring the user >> to click each individually? > > Michael, try this in the card script > > on mouseDown > r

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 1/21/02 2:50 PM, Michael J. Lew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of > buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already > down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin > messages are only sent to

Re: Hiding data

2002-01-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 3:26 PM -0800 1/21/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'd appreciate suggestions on how to hide a data file. I've got a 7 mb >primary data file (1650 rows and 130 columns) that's read into memory >at startup. I'd like to make it more difficult for prying users to get at >that >data. Right now it's

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:59 PM -0800 1/20/2002, Klaus wrote: >i can just give some general hints on how to create multilingual projects. > >A good way is to store all the strings in text-files and reading them in >e.g. after the user chose his favoutie language. Easier I think to create a custom property set for ea

Re: sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here a list of date (european format). > I've asked : > > sort lines of fld "whatever" dateTime > that's the result !! > > 25/01/2001 > 19/04/2001 > 15/05/2001 > 13/08/2002 > 27/07/2001 > 02/03/2001 > 05/01/2001 > 12/02/2001 > 12/06/2

Re:sort Date

2002-01-21 Thread John Cuccio
Try changeing the itemdelimiter to "/" then sort each item the may you want it. Day: item 1 Month: item 2 Year:item3 on Handler set the Itemdelimiter to "/" sort lines of field 1 ascending numeric by item 1 of each sort lines of field 1 ascending numeric by item 2 of each sort lines of field 1

Re: Re Hiding Data

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
Scott: > Another option is continue using the source file externally but either > 1) encoding it, such as using base 64 or some other encoding scheme How would I do that? And would it be possible to un-encode it in, say, 10 seconds when the program is starting up? > and/or compression It seems i

Re: Re Hiding Data

2002-01-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Another option is continue using the source file externally but either 1) encoding it, such as using base 64 or some other encoding scheme and/or compression, or 2) placing the data within a user property of a stack, and password protecting the stack. FWIW, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tact

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread David Vaughan
True, but the mouseDown handler will capture any mouseDown passed, not only those you want, so different approaches have their own advantages. I will post my stuff later anyway. cheers David On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 11:45 , Terry Judd wrote: >> Terry's suggested use of the idle handle

Re: Re Hiding Data

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
John: > Do you need to save and access the data file. I need to read it into memory at startup. I don't need to write to it. >You could put the data file > into another rev stack.That way it can not be access by other. Place a field > on one card then put the data in that field. If the data is t

Re: Window Standalone.

2002-01-21 Thread John Cuccio
Mac OS 8.1 Rev 1.1 I think I got it working. The file does not come with rev that you download from the site. Rev has to download the file. Do not know why. When the builder ask do you want to down load the windows engine you need to say yes. It downloaded the file. _

Re: How to Window Standalone

2002-01-21 Thread Philip Usher
On 20/1/02 12:52 am, John Cuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mac OS 8.1 rev 1.1 >> >> I tried to build a windows standalone. It said can not find engine. >> >> What file do I need & where can I get them. To build a windows standalone on >> Mac. John, did you check the 'Auto-download any r

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Terry Judd
>Terry's suggested use of the idle handler will probably draw another >response about 'avoid idle" but there are times like these when it >is useful. What is needed is a better way to handle it. Under >HyperCard I wrote a set of XCMDs/XFCNs to manage a "task space" >efficiently and make it eas

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Philip Usher
on 1/21/02 5:34 PM, "Michael J. Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get the other buttons to hilight without requiring the user > to click each individually? Michael, try this in the card script on mouseDown repeat while the mouse is down get the mouseLoc repeat with n = 1 to

Re Hiding Data

2002-01-21 Thread John Cuccio
Do you need to save and access the data file. You could put the data file into another rev stack.That way it can not be access by other. Place a field on one card then put the data in that field. If the data is to big maybe different cards. Then when you need the data call it from your main stack.

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread David Vaughan
Terry's suggested use of the idle handler will probably draw another response about 'avoid idle" but there are times like these when it is useful. What is needed is a better way to handle it. Under HyperCard I wrote a set of XCMDs/XFCNs to manage a "task space" efficiently and make it easy to

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Scott Rossi
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 02:50 PM, Michael J. Lew wrote: > I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of > buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already down) > passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin messages > are only sen

Hiding data

2002-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd appreciate suggestions on how to hide a data file. I've got a 7 mb primary data file (1650 rows and 130 columns) that's read into memory at startup. I'd like to make it more difficult for prying users to get at that data. Right now it's just sitting on the CD. I can't think of any ways to p

Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Terry Judd
>I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of >buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already >down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin >messages are only sent to the first button because that button >receives the mouseDown eve

messages to buttons when the mouse is already down

2002-01-21 Thread Michael J. Lew
I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin messages are only sent to the first button because that button receives the mouseDown event an

Re: Serial Ports and RR

2002-01-21 Thread David Vaughan
Gene Thanks for that. So far I have failed to get the Script Editor to compile and use even the sample scripts provided with the Serac additions but then I am not an Applescript user anyway. I was sold a Taiwanese thingy as a functional equivalent of the Keyspan. It is recognised by the syst

Global Names sans Rev Globals?

2002-01-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
when in development you query the message box put the globalNames it returns All of revs globals... how can we contrain this to return only the globals of the stack we are creating/working on? Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread William T. Simmons
Yves, I'm sorry - I misread your dates the first time - that's what I get for trying to do an all-nighter... :-( Tommy Simmons Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc. www.employmentlawadvisors.com - Original Message - From: yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday

Re: Font menu

2002-01-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
Richard: this may get you part way there: "hack" the REV UI. Go to preferences check "Revolution Stack appear in Stack Lists" Then go to the application overview, click on "revMenuBar.rev" then on the card "revmenubar" then you will see among the controls revolution's own text tools menu button

Re: checking if a path is relative?

2002-01-21 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/1/02 11:41 am, Almesjö Niklas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to check if a path is relative or > absolute? On windows I think an absolute path always > contain a ":", and a relative can not contain ":". But on > Mac.. an absolute path does not contain ":". Anything else > you

Re: How to Window Standalone

2002-01-21 Thread Kevin Miller
On 20/1/02 12:52 am, John Cuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mac OS 8.1 rev 1.1 > > I tried to build a windows standalone. It said can not find engine. > > What file do I need & where can I get them. To build a windows standalone on > Mac. It should download the engine automatically. Does

Re: sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread yves COPPE
>Yves, >Did you want those dates in a different order, or is that the order you were >looking for? >Tommy Simmons >Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc. >www.employmentlawadvisors.com I'd like the dates are sorted in the good order that's the result the command gives but it isn't the order I wan

RE: sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread Nelson Zink
Yves, >sort lines of fld "whatever" dateTime >that's the result !! If all else fails, covert to seconds, sort, covert back to date. Nelson ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Read serial data + Kagi?

2002-01-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 3:59 AM -0800 1/21/02, Niklas "Almesj–" wrote: >On a related note, has anyone sold shareware through Kagi? >if so: >- Does it work well? >- Have you used pregenerated codes? >thanks, >/Niklas I do. They were a little rough in the beginning, but now that everything's set up, it's been fine for

Re: "remove from memory" doesn't

2002-01-21 Thread Victor Eijkhout
> > I have a stack in file "foo.rev". Revolution is open; I save the > > stack and do "close and remove from memory". >> >> In the finder I copy foo.rev => foo copy.rev; I drag this stack onto >> Revolution. >> >> Now if I click a button for editing I get a message "A stack with the >> same

Re: Serial Ports and RR

2002-01-21 Thread Gene Kennedy
Hi David, Yes it is possible to use RR to control/communicate with devices over serial porst using a USB-only Mac. You need to buy a KeySpan USB to Serial adapter (or some other competing device). If you buy a new one you can configure the adapter to emulate both the "Printer" and Modem" ports

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #130 - 17 msgs

2002-01-21 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
am 21.01.2002 11:05 Uhr schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What means "GUI-based" ? > > I don't understand "GUI" > Graphical User Interface regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter Learn easy with trainingsmaps and outliner INTERNETTRAINER Wolfgang M. Bereuter Edelhofg. 17/11, A-1180 W

FileMaker replacement?

2002-01-21 Thread Tom Raddemann
Do any of you have experience using Revolution to replace FileMaker? I'm a (frustrated) FileMaker developer of 8 years. I look for something from time to time which can replace FileMaker. I have looked ant other database tools and find the learning curve too steep for my tastes (and smartness quo

Re: Recommended Windows location for a text file

2002-01-21 Thread Klaus
Hi Richard, > Where is the recommended location to place a very small "preferences" text > file on a Windows box? I'd prefer not to ask the user about it. It contains > only their CD drive letter and a serial number. > > Richard Miller i would suggest some subfolder of the windows folder. e.g

Re: sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread William T. Simmons
Yves, Did you want those dates in a different order, or is that the order you were looking for? Tommy Simmons Employment Law Advisory Network, Inc. www.employmentlawadvisors.com - Original Message - From: yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 200

Recommended Windows location for a text file

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
Where is the recommended location to place a very small "preferences" text file on a Windows box? I'd prefer not to ask the user about it. It contains only their CD drive letter and a serial number. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Font menu

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
Thanks, but I wish it were just that simple. It's text font, size, style, and alignment...and then creating the appropriate buttons to accommodate those four under one menu. Takes a bit of time that is better spent elsewhere... So be it. Richard > Richard D. Miller wrote: >> Do we really have to

Re: Database and standalone

2002-01-21 Thread cowhead
Yves wrote: > I have a stack with many filled flds full of data I've built the stack in a standalone Now I'd like to change the program. How can I modify (update) my standalone without loosing the data ? I have worked on the scripts in a .rev file but how can I recover the data from th

Re: Font menu

2002-01-21 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Richard D. Miller wrote: >Do we really have to writing the coding to include a Font menu in our >program? Anyone done that yet? Sure would appreciate the best coding for >that... just : put the fontnames into theMenu ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Font menu

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
Never mind that last request. I just went ahead and did it. Certainly not very difficult. But it seems like it would be helpful to have some of the basic menus already coded...maybe available inside the Menu Manager. It's still taking me time to think of menus as just buttons! It's an interesting

Font menu

2002-01-21 Thread Richard D. Miller
Do we really have to writing the coding to include a Font menu in our program? Anyone done that yet? Sure would appreciate the best coding for that... Thanks. Richard Miller ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mail

Re: Read serial data + Kagi?

2002-01-21 Thread Almesjö
On a related note, has anyone sold shareware through Kagi? if so: - Does it work well? - Have you used pregenerated codes? thanks, /Niklas __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ___

sort dateTime

2002-01-21 Thread yves COPPE
Hello, Here a list of date (european format). I've asked : sort lines of fld "whatever" dateTime that's the result !! 25/01/2001 19/04/2001 15/05/2001 13/08/2002 27/07/2001 02/03/2001 05/01/2001 12/02/2001 12/06/2001 01/08/2002 04/05/2002 12/05/2002 11/05/2003 What is the solution ?? -- _

Re: Printing field text

2002-01-21 Thread Klaus
Bonjour Yves, >> >> Its more that you have to script them than that they are that limited. >> Watch out for better GUI-based report printing soon... >> >> Kevin >> >> > > > What means "GUI-based" ? > > I don't understand "GUI" > > Thanks GUI stands for "graphical user interface". Someti

Re: Printing field text

2002-01-21 Thread yves COPPE
> >Its more that you have to script them than that they are that limited. >Watch out for better GUI-based report printing soon... > >Kevin > > What means "GUI-based" ? I don't understand "GUI" Thanks -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "remove from memory" doesn't

2002-01-21 Thread M.D.
I have experienced the same thing numerous times and never figured out what the underlying problem is. And I agree it is a major source of discomfort to me not understanding. Marian On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:37 AM, Victor Eijkhout wrote: > I have a stack in file "foo.rev". Revolutio

Re: Printing field text

2002-01-21 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/1/02 11:10 am, yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I find that the print possibilities of revolution are limited. > I used "PrintReport" XCMD in hypercard with much more formating possibilities. > I hope it comes soonŠ! Its more that you have to script them than that they are that