One more question about licensing.

2003-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Sorry folks because I know this been covered before, it's just that I cannot search the list because I am out my machine, I am using my neighbours machine just to send and receive email. Can someone explaing to me this: if I buy a studio license now, will 2.1 count as an upgrade? Cheers Andr

Users of 2.1rc and OS X 10.1.x

2003-08-25 Thread Ron
Hi If you are using the latest release of 2.1 on OS X 10.1, would you contact me offlist please. A couple of us have run into problems, we can't even get RR to open up, and we need to determine if it is some setting in our OS or a problem with 2.1 and 10.1. Thank you very much, Ron

The mouseControl function

2003-08-25 Thread Jim Hurley
_-- Message: 14 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:31:15 +0200 Subject: Re: Hiliting a listfield line as I type? From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi yoy, Rob, That's EXACTLY the behavior ("Scroll To") I want! But... how do I read the scripts? One

Way to insert text where cursor is in field?

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Gould
I'm sure I must be overlooking something simple - - - - What I'm trying to do is have a text field that detects when the user presses the character "*", and when they do, it replaces that "*" with a bitmap graphic.  (Using the imageSource call).  I've got the below code which _almost_ does th

Re: Way to insert text where cursor is in field?

2003-08-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 09:53 PM, Rob Gould wrote: on keydown theKey   if theKey = "*" then     refreshnotes   end if     pass keydown   end keydown I wonder if this would do what you want: -- Negative one day in ticks -- To run a message before others constant highPriority = "-1512000" on

Way to drag-drop from Rev to desktop?

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Gould
Can anyone tell me if it's technically possible to have a scrolling text field where a user could select multiple lines, and then drag-and-drop those lines onto their desktop?  And then, I'd be able to track what those text items are, and react accordingly?  (I'd have Rev ftp some files from an

Re: Way to insert text where cursor is in field?

2003-08-25 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:53 PM -0400 8/24/2003, Rob Gould wrote: I'm sure I must be overlooking something simple - - - - What I'm trying to do is have a text field that detects when the user presses the character "*", and when they do, it replaces that "*" with a bitmap graphic. (Using the imageSource call). I've

Re: Way to insert text where cursor is in field?

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Gould
That did the trick! Thanks for the simple solution! Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > Try using keyUp instead of keyDown. (keyDown runs before the > character is entered in the field.) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runre

Re: One more question about licensing.

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Can someone explaing to me this: if I buy a studio license now, will 2.1 count as an upgrade? You aren't the only one asking this question... so what's the deal RR? Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, In

Re: Way to insert text where cursor is in field?

2003-08-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/24/03 10:53 PM, Rob Gould wrote: I'm sure I must be overlooking something simple - - - - What I'm trying to do is have a text field that detects when the user presses the character "*", and when they do, it replaces that "*" with a bitmap graphic. (Using the imageSource call). I've got

Way to copy bitmap from one stack to another?

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Gould
If I have an image in stack A that gets it's bitmap data from an URL, and then I want to jump to another stack which displays that image in a larger size, is there a way I can have stack B reference the same image data, without having to force stack B to pull in the image from the URL from scra

Re: Revolution and fonts

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Fortunately it's also the easiest solution: you only need to set two properties in your mainstack, and you know the fonts are available. ;) And on most systems, merely setting the textfont to any invalif font name (I tend to ue "0")

Drawer in 2.1c

2003-08-25 Thread Benny Frödin
Hi! When I open the New drawer thing its size decrease for each time I open the drawer Why?? BF ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Way to drag-drop from Rev to desktop?

2003-08-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Navigator does this. It's in the plugins, and the scripts are available to examine. If you drag entries to the desktop, it creates a text clipping with their information. For the FTP solution, though, you'd probably just want to figure out where the user dropped, and then use the standard FTP c

Re: Drawer in 2.1c

2003-08-25 Thread Yves COPPE
Le lundi, 25 aoû 2003, à 08:26 Europe/Brussels, Benny Frödin a écrit : Hi! When I open the New drawer thing its size decrease for each time I open the drawer Why?? BF Set the height of the width of the stack before opening the stack and it will be allright. Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTE

Richmond comes out of the 'bin'

2003-08-25 Thread Mathewson
Yup..all my downloadables on my website were binhexedbut not anymore Thanks miscdas __ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.htmland http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributio

Re: AW: Linux double click

2003-08-25 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Aug 22, 2003, at 17:00 Europe/Vienna, Alex Rice wrote: On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 04:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do a "chmod 755 XXX" in the console, with XXX is your filename. This will make it readable and executable for anybody. That would be my guess too. But for learning

Re: HC to R question

2003-08-25 Thread wouter
Hi, If the amount of cards is considerable then you can gain some time by changeing the script to: on mouseUp put empty into field "IndexField" -- DON'T visit each card mark cards where fld "Card Name" <> empty repeat with x = 1 to the number of marked cds put (field "Card Name") of

repeat for each....

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Smith
This is driving me barmy...can any kind soul here explain why this works: on tryLoopWith put "a,b,c,d,e,f" into charList repeat with n = 1 to the number of items in charList put item n of charList into line n of newCharList end repeat put newCharList && "with" end tryLoopWith but this

Re: 2.1 beta doesn't open

2003-08-25 Thread wouter
Hi, As you are working in Mac OS X you can get an idea what is wrong by using the Console (you find this one in the utilities folder), open the crash log for Revolution and see where it is crashing or what is missing. Have a nice day, WA On zaterdag, aug 23, 2003, at 23:08 Europe/Brussels,

Paint Tools

2003-08-25 Thread Dale Pond
Hi, Is there a manual on using the Paint Tools? Can't find it referenced in the Documentation. Actually is there a Rev manual or how-to book that covers drawing graphics? I have a HC script that draws geometric patterns according to math calculations. Works great in HC but the pencil tool does

Re: repeat for each....

2003-08-25 Thread Ludovic Thébault
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:45:28 +0100, Mark Smith wrote: > I haven't yet been able to make the 'repeat for each...' structure > work at all, not even once, in any circumstance, in a year of trying > it from time to time. I can find nothing in the electronic docs to > help me. I am mystified. rep

Re: repeat for each....

2003-08-25 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark This is driving me barmy... Again i learned a useful english word ;-) can any kind soul here explain why this works: on tryLoopWith put "a,b,c,d,e,f" into charList repeat with n = 1 to the number of items in charList put item n of charList into line n of newCharList end repeat

Re: repeat for each....

2003-08-25 Thread Dave Cragg
At 1:45 pm +0100 25/8/03, Mark Smith wrote: This is driving me barmy...can any kind soul here explain why this works: on tryLoopWith put "a,b,c,d,e,f" into charList repeat with n = 1 to the number of items in charList put item n of charList into line n of newCharList end repeat put new

Re: HC to R question

2003-08-25 Thread Dale Pond
WA, You offer an interesting suggestion. Thanks. Every card fld "Card Name" has data so I don't know what might be gained by examining each card then marking it. There aren't that many cards in each stack. With HC anyway the restriction is 32k characters in the IndexField which lists all the c

Re: animated GIF

2003-08-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:24 AM, Klaus Major wrote: or should I do something to start and stop it? Not necessarily necessary :-) Thanks! Supporting evidence: When I hide it and then Show Invisible Objects, the animation is frozen. (This can be handy in itself.) Dar **

Re: repeat for each....

2003-08-25 Thread FlexibleLearning
on tryLoopFor   put "a,b,c,d,e,f" into charList   repeat for each item n in charList    put item n of charList into line n of newCharList ** put n of charList into...   end repeat   put newCharList &&"for" end tryLoopFor The variable n contains the item value, not the number of the item... Ech tim

Re: Paint Tools

2003-08-25 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 14 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:02:06 -0600 From: "Dale Pond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Paint Tools Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is there a manual on using the Paint Tools? Can't find it referenced in the Documentation. Actually is there a Rev manua

Re: Paint Tools

2003-08-25 Thread Dale Pond
Jim Hurley wrote: Dale, I chose some numbers for a,b,d,... etc. in your script and it worked for me. It drew two rectangle and a line. Is it possible that your line was masked by the rectangles? May I suggestion that you might find Turtle Graphics to be helpful for the pencil drawings you are

Re: Drawer in 2.1c (Benny Frodin)

2003-08-25 Thread Benny Frödin
To set the height and width doesent help have you tryed it? måndagen den 25 augusti 2003 kl 14.11 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le lundi, 25 aoû 2003, à 08:26 Europe/Brussels, Benny Frödin a écrit : Hi! When I open the New drawer thing its size decrease for each time I open the drawer Why?? BF Set

A Rev-Database used from different OSes

2003-08-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, I´m working with my co-workers in a mixed environment: Windows, OS9, OSX In former times (before Rev 2.0) I built some little databases using a splash screen as mainstack and a database in a substack. Building the standalones for Mac OS, Windows and OSX I crossed in the distributio

News from Mac OSX - The Solution of the Mysterious Serial Port -

2003-08-25 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, thank you all for your answers. In the meantime I used your tips, esp. waits between openPort, send, read, closePort. For testing I used a bridge from pin 2 to pin 3 (DB9 or DB25) to send _and_ receive with my serial device and had success. So I think, the main problem was using a

Launch command alternatives?

2003-08-25 Thread yoy
launch myDoc with myApp It fails if myApp is already open. Well that's kinda/sorta what my launch app needs to do often. Any ideas? Thanks, Andy ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

application browser: order of substacks?

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
Is it possible to change the order that the Application Browser displays substacks? The order created is not always the best sequence to display them in. I've got a lot of substacks and makes using the app browser more difficult. Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants,

Font size changes for no good reason

2003-08-25 Thread Barry Levine
I'm developing a Windows app. I have a field on each card for which I've specified Arial 24 point in the Property Inspector. I've done this on each card. When I build a distribution -for Windows- the font ends up Arial 18. I've tried building the distribution with the checkboxes for fonts & co

Re: Scrollbar oddity

2003-08-25 Thread Ray G. Miller
Listers, Have a possible bug in the scrollbars. I have a window which displays thumbnail-sized pix-- 2 columns by 3 rows-- that is, six pictures are displayed at one time. The user can "mark" any pix by a checkBox under each picture. He can then switch between the main database and the marked li

problem positioning a sub stack using globalLoc

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Sheffield
I have a sub stack that I want to open when a user clicks on a list of words. I'm trying to position the sub stack right over the top of this list of words, which are in a group called "Key Words". Obviously I can't use the location of that group, since it's relative to the main stack and not to

Re: A Rev-Database used from different OSes

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Cozens
Now with > Rev 2.0 there is a problem with OSX. If you build a standalone, the Distribution-builder builds a package with the database-substack inside. So I can´t use my method as written above. Hi Richard, All my distributions involving SDB expect a PlugIns folder for libraries & a Data folde

Re: Launch command alternatives?

2003-08-25 Thread Rob Cozens
launch myDoc with myApp It fails if myApp is already open. Hi Andy, What are the symptoms of failure? According to Transcript Dictionary, "If the application is already running, the launch command does nothing, and 'Process is already open.' is placed in the result function."; so you should b

custom property with empty key name.

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
I have a stack that has an empty line as it's first custom property name. The properties inspector won't let me rename or delete it. msg box: put the customKeys of stack "Administration Facility" importedCards isFacCalc revstack namespace clipsDriver (There is an empty line before importedCards)

Re: Launch command alternatives?

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: What are the symptoms of failure? According to Transcript Dictionary, "If the application is already running, the launch command does nothing, and 'Process is already open.' is placed in the result function."; It seems to me that the "

Re: custom property with empty key name.

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I have a stack that has an empty line as it's first custom property name. The properties inspector won't let me rename or delete it. ... How can a work around this annoyance? Stumbled upon a workaround right after sending this. Add a new

re: Font size changes for no good reason - Wrong

2003-08-25 Thread Barry Levine
D-oh! I was saving the distribution to one folder but checking what had been altered in another (older distribution) folder. The font (in the "right" distribution) was exactly as I had specified it during development. The first thing that goes is your memory and I forgot what the second thing

Reminder: SoCal Mini-RevDevCon Tuesday night

2003-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Just a reminder that the next Southern California RevDevCon will be on Tuesday, August 26, at 7pm here at the Fourth World Embassy in downtown Los Angeles. These RevDevCons are small informal gatherings of Revolution and MetaCard developers in which we talk code, solve problems, and enjoy the rare

Re: Reminder: SoCal Mini-RevDevCon Tuesday night

2003-08-25 Thread Judy Perry
Richard, If you ever do one in the San Diego area... Judy On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Just a reminder that the next Southern California RevDevCon will be on > Tuesday, August 26, at 7pm here at the Fourth World Embassy in downtown Los > Angeles. > > These RevDevCons are small i