RE: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-09 Thread Ken Ray
Sure! That would be great... having a really fast ISP that supports Rev is a great thing... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Rice

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: If the script I'm looking at is the one you're talking about, it's parsing through the contents of the field one bit at a time, and setting the style of text (text color) bit by bit. For speed, you need to get the contents of the field, work on that (paying special

Re: revOpenDatabase question.

2003-08-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, i am using de 30-day-trial edition and revOpenDatabase is returning: revdberr, restricted under current license what does that mean? I can try to use this command? cheers Andre Garzia  2003 imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira

Re: I speak German, so I think that I can't use Revolution, merde:-)

2003-08-09 Thread François Cuneo
Hello Ron, You are right. I have used Bugzilla now. But if I didn't do it before, it's because in my experience, all this databases are never efficient. You submit a bug, and you have never answer. The bug is open, in the database and maybe two years later, you have a chance to find the bug

Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.

2003-08-09 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Bonjour François, Après avoir lu ton article sur Revolution je suis à deux doigts de l'acheter. Malheureusement je vois plusieurs points négatifs: - absence de documentation en français - absence d'une version française du programme (je ne parle pas de Transcript) - mes recherches sur le net

Is a forum necessary? (was Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.)

2003-08-09 Thread Andre Rombauts
A list is much more easier to manage on the user side than a forum!!! The only point is that each participant has to write cleary the subject and the subject has to be changed each time the discussion inside it is running out the intial subject... (but this is also true for forums...) -

Re: Preview screen button

2003-08-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, Hello all, I am trying to set up a button as a preview screen in the corner of a window, so that when the cursor passes over an area of a map in the window, a picture of the item that is represented in that area of the map appears on the preview screen button. I have made an

Re: DLL Absence

2003-08-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: re: your choices. I know C, Objective-C, (some) C++ and Java but my productivity is just off-the-scale when I'm using Revolution as opposed to those other languages! For this reason I envy one feature from ToolBook: the ability to make direct system API calls right in the

control browser groups

2003-08-09 Thread Leston Drake
Hi all, I'm new to Rev, been with MC for a while. While there are a lot of things about the Rev GUI that I like, I am missing the functionality MetaCard had via its Control Browser to list the objects in a group. I can't see this functionality in the Application Browser. Can anyone enlighted

Re: User Contributions reopened

2003-08-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Magic Triangle is a computerized card-board game - an example of materials used in so-called progressive education for individualized instruction - originally used for faster third graders (as it were, college-bound third graders),

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-09 Thread Howard Bornstein
I'm not an expert in this area; but in my humble opinion you're doing as well as you ever will running in a multi-user operating system (5/3600 = a 0.14 % error). I've got other timer-based programs that actually show a countdown in seconds, but I don't think I've tested it against a separate

Re: Blobs and PostgreSQL

2003-08-09 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
Quick followup to my last message I have still been unable to get BLOBs working with PostgreSQL, including by using the built in Query Manager and following the simple instructions Jan Schenkel posted. So - if anyone out there has successfully added BLOBs to a PostgreSQL database using RR

Re: Using numbers to access elements in arrays

2003-08-09 Thread Trevor DeVore
On 8/7/03 Martin Baxter wrote If you have to modify the data and also need to read the data out in numeric order as if the keys were integers in sequence, you can: put the keys of theArray into akeys sort numeric lines of akeys repeat for each line i in akeys put theArray[i] into something end

Preview screen button

2003-08-09 Thread John R. Brauer
Klaus, Try: on mouseenter set the icon of button PreviewButton to 1392 ### You only need the naked id number ;-) set showIcon of button PreviewButton to true end mouseenter Thank you. It works beautifully. Ideally, I would like this button in the corner of the window to show a different

Re: I speak German, so I think that I can't use Revolution, merde:-)

2003-08-09 Thread Ron
Hi all Same with MetaCard so this is definitively a HEAVY BUG in the engine. Big fun... Please bug-report this to bugzilla... Until this will get fixed, the only workaround will be to not use accents and umlauts and special chars... :-( Is reported already and is being fixed. The

Re: Best way to repeat on a timer?

2003-08-09 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 08:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on checkstatus put shell(unixcallgoeshere) into field status result send checkstatus to this stack in 3 seconds end checkstatus The unix call I'm using spits back it's result instantaneously, so there shouldn't be a

Re: I speak German, so I think that I can't use Revolution, merde :-)

2003-08-09 Thread Tuviah Snyder
I create a new stack, save it as äÃÃoüÃ-öÃYÃY.rev and it will be written to a file with this name WITOUT PROBLEM: aÌ^AÌ^uÌ^UÌ^oÌ^OÌ^ÃYÃYÃY.rev BUT any attempt to save this file again will end in an error and an empty file called:

Re: Blobs and PostgreSQL

2003-08-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Rodney Tamblyn wrote: Quick question (probably already covered somewhere on this list...) Can someone post a simple example illustrating adding a blob to a PostgreSQL database from RR? I have worked my way through the simple examples, but before launching into Revolution database scripting I

Re: For true beginners

2003-08-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Samstag, Aug 9, 2003, at 19:13 Europe/Zurich, Ken Norris wrote: ... So, in order to get new beginners truly interested in this venue, I was thinking there should be a set of well written, simple, ready-to-use, useful, and modifiable stacks, and also puposefully geared to breaking them down

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-09 Thread Howard Bornstein
have you tried using a player object instead of an audioclip? I prefer the audio clip because I can embed it within the App. The Player object requires an external file (correct me if I'm wrong). Do you think the audioclip could be causing the timer to pause while it's played? Regards,

Is it possible to forbid a Backup File

2003-08-09 Thread François Cuneo
Hello! Is it possible to forbid that Revolution create a Backup File when we use the save command? Here is the problem with the Files with French chars. So, if I prevent that, my problem is solved. Thank you François -- François Cuneo Site Web dédié au Macintosh http://www.cuk.ch

Marketing Rev in Other Worlds (was Re: Script Limits and solid IDE evolution!)

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Shafer
This discussion of the need for the RunRev folks to market not just the product but the underlying xtalk/xcard paradigm to the world of Windows in particular raises for me another issue that I think prevents the product from achieving the kind of brilliant Aha! success it richly deserves. I

Http proxy

2003-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For some reason leaving the http-proxy empty prevents RR to use the default-settings of explorer on my XP pc. So I looked into the registry and found the entry containing the proxy-settings: put queryRegistry (HKEY_CURRENT_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Internet

Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.

2003-08-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Bonjour Franois, J'ai, moi-aussi, lu et apprci l'article de premire classe que tu as consacr Revolution 2.0.1. Ne te dcourage pas pour ces quelques retards tes demandes d'explications. Les listes Revolution et Metacard sont en pleine bulition, ces derniers temps et beaucoup de ceux qui,

RE: Passing cookies in URL?

2003-08-09 Thread Ken Ray
Never mind; I need to set the httpheaders. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:51 PM To: 'Use

RE: For true beginners

2003-08-09 Thread Ken Ray
Ken, I think your suggestions are wonderful, and would fill a gap that is in real need. In fact the whole issue of getting started in Rev needs some work, IMHO. Sample stacks are good and will help new users get going. I remember developing a couple of stacks for SuperCard that helped people

Re: Marketing Rev in Other Worlds

2003-08-09 Thread Barry Levine
Ken, There is a Chinese proverb that goes something like this: The journey difficulty lies not in the distant mountains but in the grains of sand in your shoe. It is the same with Rev. I'm sure we've all run into the small impediments that, in total, dissuade many who try Rev from adopting

Re: For true beginners

2003-08-09 Thread HyperChris
You know what is needed ? The silly little home stack that came with HC. It would simply link the user to the various example projects and other resources. That alone would get so many people started. It could be emphasized in the entry level version along with docs that gave people tips on how

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know there are still background processes running, but they should have been minimal. Howard, et al: I consider a 0.14% error (5 seconds/hour) to be minimal; but I'm not calculating longitude for a sailing ship at sea. :{`) What are you using to calculate the exact timing? Have you tried

[ANN] New website with Revolution files

2003-08-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Stacks and Pieces of Code for Runtime Revolution by Alejandro Tejada Capellan Download these experiments with the Polygon graphics of Revolution from this website: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ BezierLine1_1.zip CurvedDrawingPen_v01.zip ScreenArtv1.zip SVGfiles.zip

Reading cookies?

2003-08-09 Thread Ken Ray
I know how to get cookies from a server-side app, but if I have a client standalone that needs to read a cookie from the local machine in order to send it via get url() and set the httpheaders, how doe I get the values to pass? On OS X I know I can read the /Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist file,

Re: New Users

2003-08-09 Thread Barry Levine
I just wanted to amplify a bit on what I wrote earlier this evening. Rev's deficiencies stand out only because the rest of the IDE (99%) is insanely great stuff. So when I make comments that may seem somewhat less than congratulatory (?) about Rev, it's only because these grains of sand are so