I downloaded the Darwin engine and I can do this:
./mc helloworld.txt
In this form, the text file does not seem to need #!.
This engine seems bloated; it is well over 2MB. X11?
I seem to have forgotten most of what I know of unix from a quarter
century ago.
I don't need cgi (yet). I just
Runrev, here is your release history. Under the current licensing model
which of these would have been called maintenance releases and which
would have been called feature releases? 2.1 and 1.1 are the
non-obvious ones. 2.0 clearly was a feature release.
Version 2.1: August 25, 2003
Hi Monte,
set the icon to 1003
I don't think it is a global icon, but is a stack icon. Or was that
fixed?
From the docs:
icon global,button,stack property
set the icon of this stack to 974
set the icon of button Help to Question Mark
set the icon to the myAppIcon of stack
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:
Alex, Wolfgang, et al:
I have never tried this; but I think it will do the job...without
changing the AB.
on orderSubs mainStack
get the substacks of stack mainStack
sort it
set the substacks of stack mainStack
Hi Dar,
If you are looking for a simple and basic text editor from the command
line, try pico...
pico myfile.txt
The commands inside are self explanatory.
You can also execute stacks from the commandline. Eg Make a Revolution
stack, in the stack script put an on libraryStack handler. The
At 3:09 PM -0600 8/26/2003, Alex Rice wrote:
Runrev, here is your release history. Under the current licensing
model which of these would have been called maintenance releases and
which would have been called feature releases?
Releases of the form X.0 and X.Y are feature releases (major and
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
pico myfile.txt
Pico is also the text editor used by Pine, if you've ever used that.
Beware if you are editing system files with pico- it will do a hard
wrap of long lines, which can cause unfortunate results on config files
and
hi,
When I use the Transcript dictionary and select an item from the Show:
combo it selects the item before the one i've selected.. eg. if I select
'show contants' it actually shows the list of commands (which is the item
prior to constants)
again only tested this on the pc version...
Hi Monte,
From: Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Picture this
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:43:05 +0930
Hi Ken
Not a similar solution but what's wrong with using another field with larget
font and putting the central line into it in each scroll loop?
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Well, I wanted
Not sure, but I don't think it's currently possible; someone would have
to write an external to use the SQLite client API or write a new
database driver for RR.
Your welcome to have the author of the database contact me and I will send
him the revdb headers...so he can compile a revdb driver.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
#!/usr/local/bin/revolution (or whereever your revolution is)
Is this the Darwin engine or the OS X engine? Not realizing that the
command-line engine was also the Darwin X11 engine I got it from MC.
Would the regular OS X engine
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
put hello world
I've been using this:
write hello world to stdout
Are these exactly the same or does put right to something else?
Dar Scott
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Standard Icons has several indeterminate progress bars and a chasing
arrows. I set one of those icons in a button, and I'm trying to get it
to animate while I'm in a long repeat loop. I tried wait with
messages, but that killed performance, and didn't seem to animate it
either. What's the
It is possible to access SQLite from Rev in two ways:
1) via odbc (requires installing odbc drivers with your standalone)
2) via shelling out to a command line, running the SQLite SQL client processing the
result.
I believe that Pierre mentioned that someone (Andu?) on the Metacard list has
Le mer 27/08/2003 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit :
It is possible to access SQLite from Rev in two ways:
1) via odbc (requires installing odbc drivers with your standalone)
2) via shelling out to a command line, running the SQLite SQL client processing
the result.
I believe that Pierre
Dar,
I downloaded Revolution CGI from ftp://ftp.runrev.com ... navigate down
to the engines/2.0/cgi folder. The 2.1 CGIs aren't posted yet.
Regards,
Rodney
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
Runrev, here is your release history. Under the current licensing model
which of these would have been called maintenance releases and which
would have been called feature releases? 2.1 and 1.1 are the
non-obvious ones. 2.0 clearly was a feature release.
Version 2.1: August 25, 2003
Thanks for the responses to my enquiry, I feel more confident now about
looking at Revolution as a way forward.
On Myst and Manhole - not sure any download of Manhole out on the web is
legitimate. I'd heard that Myst and I think Riven were developed in
Hypercard.
Regards, Peter Smith.
Are there any websites out there that have tutorials on how to use
revolution. I'm fairly new to developing and I am finding it hard to use the
features I want as the online documentation does not describe all the
features in depth. I have gone through the tutorials supplied with
revolution but
is it possible to create an app in revolution that allows you to drag
applications icon onto it to create a link, like the launcher in Mac OS9.
I'm asking as I don't know much about what revolution can do and I am
interested in how it handles drag and drop.
Martin Pilkington
--- Pierre Sahores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List,
How many of us could be interesting in using Rev
under Linux-PPC ?
Thanks for the statistics ;-)
Bests, Pierre
Well that's why I still have a copy of all the version
1.1.1 distributions around : to make sure I have
something to
I haven't checked 2.1 yet but, in 2.0.1, I've found something a little
strange. I can eMail the stack if you're interested as it's very small
(8K).
I was testing that wonderful little dragdrop example provided by
Klaus. (Yes, your script works perfectly! Thank you.)
The stack has a field
This isn't a Rev problem except to say that it can manifest itself in
Rev.
There are utilities that can provide double-arrows at both ends of a
scrollbar in OSX (Cocktail, for one); there's an AppleScript called
dub-dub that can do this in OS9. Don't do this. It renders the little
double
RR seems to always be running my code, I don't see a way to stop
execution, while developing. Anyone know a way to do this?
Occasionally I get stupid loops and it can be difficult to get things to
stop while I fix it. Usually RR sprays error boxes and croaks, but when
I restart and load the
(answering my own question...)
Using the hilitedLines instead of the selectedLines returns accurate
information with a list field containing a noncontinguous selection of
lines. Apparently, selectedLines only works for contiguous selections.
Barry
Hi Barry,
I haven't checked 2.1 yet but, in 2.0.1, I've found something a little
strange.
I can eMail the stack if you're interested as it's very small (8K).
I was testing that wonderful little dragdrop example provided by
Klaus.
(Yes, your script works perfectly! Thank you.)
Thank YOU ;-)
Hi Steve,
RR seems to always be running my code, I don't see a way to stop
execution,
while developing. Anyone know a way to do this?
looks like you mean some openstack, preopenstack, opencard and
preopencard handler
that will of course be executed when you open these stacks...
In this case
In some critical debuging state cases, it can be usefull to insert a ...
if the shiftkey is down then exit repeat
directly inside the repeat loop.
Regards,
Le mer 27/08/2003 17:36, Steve Gehlbach a crit :
RR seems to always be running my code, I don't see a way to stop
execution, while
On Myst and Manhole - not sure any download of Manhole out on the web is
legitimate.I'd heard that Myst and I think Riven were developed in
Hypercard.
Regards, Peter Smith.
~~
Myst was, as noted by others, created with a special version of HyperCard.
Special color
Steve,
You can also select Script/Debug Mode under the Development menu. It will
stop at the error so you can open the script to where the problem is.
All the best,
Andy
- Original Message -
From: Steve Gehlbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Klaus Major wrote:
looks like you mean some openstack, preopenstack, opencard and
preopencard handler
that will of course be executed when you open these stacks...
In this case you can type in the messagebox:
lock messages; go stack the one you want to edit
Yes, the openstack handler. Your
On Myst and Manhole - not sure any download of Manhole out on the web is
legitimate. I'd heard that Myst and I think Riven were developed in
Hypercard.
Even before Manhole, the very first Hypercard game the Rand brothers created
was Cosmic Osmo I believe. Originally on disk, it later came out
Cosmic Osmo came out after Myst by around a year or so. The Manhole was originally
offered by Cyan directly through mail order on, I believe, 12 800K disks, and that led
to Activision picking it up (I think this was just before they went insane and became
MediaVision - Dan Shafer probably has
i have been reading old posts to the list to try and figure out as much as
I can about using custom properties and custom property sets to store arrays
of data. But there is some indeterminancy in the list posts, as one might
expect, since they almost always address very specific needs. So, could
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:47 AM, rand valentine wrote:
i have been reading old posts to the list to try and figure out as
much as
I can about using custom properties and custom property sets to store
arrays
of data. But there is some indeterminancy in the list posts, as one
might
2.1 would not open with my OS 10.1.5
same message in Council
But I discovered a workaround
I Double click on the file licence.rev in the new Revolution 2.1 file.
and
It opened!
Paul
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On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 11:01 AM, Alex Rice wrote:
set the set1[value] of this stack to something -- into set 1
get the setx[value] of this stack -- from set x
get the sety[value] of this stack --- from set y
Oops, key, not value. better written as
set the set1[uPropName] of this stack
Anyone marketing through one of the on-line stores? If so, any
recommendations or pitfalls?
I'm particularly interested in the education market, K-12 and college.
Peace,
John
Flowing Thought Educational Solutions
503-508-3398
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Speaking of drag and drop, I have a stack where I want the entire window
to accept drops, not just the controls. The card doesn't seem to get a
dragEnter message, so nothing happens unless I drop directly onto one
of the controls on the card. Does anyone have a solution, or do I have
to resort
On 8/27/03 12:22 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
put hello world
I've been using this:
write hello world to stdout
Are these exactly the same or does put right to something else?
They are the same. When running faceless, all commands to put
I've been using cdstreet.com for years - they take about 25% cut, but
are prompt and give phone support. They also let you imbed code to
call their servers in your pages so it looks like it's all on your
site. They sell anything that's legal not just CDs.
sqb
Anyone marketing through one of
Hi Jaqueline,
Speaking of drag and drop, I have a stack where I want the entire
window to accept drops, not just the controls. The card doesn't seem
to get a dragEnter message, so nothing happens unless I drop
directly onto one of the controls on the card. Does anyone have a
solution, or do I
Hello everyone,
Are their examples of Revolution CGI's. I like to create something
that processes form data, save it to files or stacks, perhaps with the
clients using Rev stand-alones to post to the forms.
Greg
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On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 11:16 AM, John Tenny wrote:
Anyone marketing through one of the on-line stores? If so, any
recommendations or pitfalls?
I'm particularly interested in the education market, K-12 and college.
Are you asking about marketing, or just ecommerce solutions?
I have a
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
RR seems to always be running my code, I don't see a way to stop
execution, while developing. Anyone know a way to do this?
You got some good advice on blocking this immediate situation.
I wonder what folks do in general
Hi Dar,
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
RR seems to always be running my code, I don't see a way to stop
execution, while developing. Anyone know a way to do this?
You got some good advice on blocking this immediate situation.
I wonder what folks do in
I must be missing
something obvious, but is there a command that provides the user's IP
address (whether Mac or PC).
According to the documentation on the "hostAddress" function:
"Use the hostAddress function to find the IP address of the computer
that Revolution is running on."
I thought
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:17:28 -0500 curry wrote
I bugged it (number 450) and from what Tuviah said it sounds like
it's fixable. (Which is great!)
I had the same trouble (also OS X 10.1.3) but stupidly emailed it as a
support issue before checking the list!
I look forward to the fix. Does my
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 06:49 PM, Alan S. Golub wrote:
I just tried to install v. 2.1 on two separate Macs running OS X, v.
10.2.6. I entered my license info when prompted, but got the message:
Invalid License. Error 8.
I am about to do this and I want to avoid the trouble.
Folks who
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:16 AM, John Tenny wrote:
Anyone marketing through one of the on-line stores? If so, any
recommendations or pitfalls?
I'm particularly interested in the education market, K-12 and college.
We work with DigiBuy. They are owned by DigitalRiver. They just
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 01:38 PM, Rob Gould wrote:
I must be missing something obvious, but is there a command that
provides the user's IP address (whether Mac or PC).
I'm collecting ways to do this, so I'd be pleased to see answers.
I think Ken Ray has some shell() solutions at his
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 01:38 PM, Rob Gould wrote:
I must be missing something obvious, but is there a command that
provides the user's IP address (whether Mac or PC).
There is hostNameToAddress()
put hostNameToAddress(localhost) -- always 127.0.0.1 on UNIX, the
loopback interface
With regard to the spate of recent Rev 2.1 installation error problems:
It may be that some people are confused about whether or not they are
entitled to a free upgrade to 2.1. A couple of days ago, Heather
Williams wrote:
Ok, it seems that certain of the replacement license codes were not
Uh, sorry, make that:
If you purchased a license for Rev 2.0.x after 26th August *2002*, and
your unlock code does NOT work with Rev 2.1, then you need to contact
Heather off-list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for a new unlock code.
I guess it IS too complicated for me.
-KK
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
Sorry I know this doesn't really answer the question. I am speculating
here that it's not possible to do just in transcript.
Some time in the middle of last year I suggested an adaptors() function
(need better name) that would provide
On 8/27/03 12:50 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
I worked around this inconvenience by having a grouped graphic on each cd
which resized with the stack...
No dropping on cards otherwise...
I was afraid of that. But okay, I just put an empty image object into
the stack as layer 1 and it works. Using an
I have a small sockets stack that listens on a UDP port (accept) and
sends datagrams to that port on an IP address. If the address is
broadcast, the behavior is not consistent among platforms tested. This
applies whether the broadcast is general (255.255.255.255) or subnet
specific (for
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
One that should work but is blocked by a bug is to open datagram to
some bogus but syntactically valid address. Then check hostAddress.
This does not work on OS X. I think I tested this on Windows, but I
forgot the result. I don't
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I worked around this inconvenience by having a grouped graphic on
each cd
which resized with the stack...
No dropping on cards otherwise...
I was afraid of that. But okay, I just put an empty image object into
the stack as layer
I must be missing something obvious, but is there a command that provides
the user's IP address (whether Mac or PC).
I'm collecting ways to do this, so I'd be pleased to see answers.
Here's a script I have that does this:
set the itemdel to :
get HostNameToAddress(item 1 of the address)
The
Dar --
Below I've tried to answer all your questions. But I should make clear
up front that this problem fixed itself on at least one of my Macs. See
below in response to your request for workarounds for more details...
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 03:52 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
Folks who
Ah, yes, Cosmic Osmo - game with no violence. What an idea! Another
gaming idea -- what about a game where you save people and small
animals instead of blowing them to bits?
John
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On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Scott Slaugh wrote:
I must be missing something obvious, but is there a command that
provides the user's IP address (whether Mac or PC).
I'm collecting ways to do this, so I'd be pleased to see answers.
Here's a script I have that does this:
set the
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
FWIW, Manhole predated Cosmic Osmo.
But I was sure my daughter got him on the phone from Manhole. It must
be memory faults in my brain. My daughter wanted to make Manhole like
games and now that Revolution is out she is into
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas?
1.
Use the box char property.
2.
You can make a rectangle. Place it around the line (or word). Find
the rectangle for the line (or word) and then put a space around that
to make the rectangle.
Now
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
The broadcast works for other computers and I don't get an error, so
this does not seem to be exactly the problem. However, I have been
wondering about some other, more obscure, flag that we never heard of.
At this point I don't
Hello All...
I haven't had the need to use an external Revolution, such as libSMTP...
In the past with SuperCard, I could just use ResEdit to move an external
into a new project.
How do I use externals now with Revolution? Is it just a matter of moving a
project with an external into a certain
It's possible that happened.
I believe that there was eventually a CD-ROM version of Manhole which I think came out
after Cosmic Osmo, that had new features. There were also two version of Cosmic Osmo -
a disc and a CD-Rom version. As I recall the CD-Rom had three extra planets on it.
I
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Scott Slaugh wrote:
The address function should work without a connection to the
internet. However, the hostNameToAddress() function does a DNS
lookup, and as such requires an internet
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