Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: 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

Re: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/28/03 4:57 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem. Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: drop-down list. Does the correct category listing display? Mine doesn't. Mine does (OS X) but someone else on the list said

Re: Scripters Scrapbook

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Thanks very kindly for taking the time to answer my question and make such a long list of style suggestions. It will probably take me a while to absorb the full meaning of these, but coming from someone experienced, I intend to give them a great deal of consideration. You mention SC and MC,

Re: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Gehlbach
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/28/03 4:57 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem. Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: drop-down list. Does the correct category listing display? Mine doesn't. Mine does (OS X) but

RE: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Monte Goulding
On 8/27/2003 at 10:15PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi All I just uploaded a new plugin called Democratic Revolution. The idea is you create feature requests and vote on them to give the RunRev team a good idea of what we want. You can vote as many times as you want but try and be

Re: Revolution and fonts

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: And on most systems, merely setting the textfont to any invalif font name (I tend to ue 0) will force it to use the default system font, so really the only platform-specific setting is the textSize. On Monday, August 25, 2003,

Re: Revolution and fonts

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Rev 2.1 on Windows, putting 0 for the textFont property in the inspector causes it to ignore the textSize property- it will revert to 10 or 11 pt. On OS X with Rev 2.1 a 0 textFont with a textSize properties behaves as expected:

External: Throw

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
Is there a way to throw from an external and have it caught in Transcript? Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ Programming Services ___

visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi All Is it possible to get smooth transitions and visual effects between stacks? I've been mucking around with this for a while now and it seems that lock screen just doen't work if you are opening or showing a new stack between lock and unlock. Any hints? Cheers Monte

External: Are any callbacks designed to be threadsafe?

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
Anybody know if the external callbacks are threadsafe or are intended to be threadsafe? I am assuming that all callbacks are safe from the external idle handler. Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ Programming Services

Re: External: Throw

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 06:36 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Is there a way to throw from an external and have it caught in Transcript? Didn't I ask that a few weeks ago and you said that you would have a transcript interface to the external that would throw errors. Very likely. Now that I

Re: Scripters Scrapbook

2003-08-29 Thread yoy
Hugh, Revolution should implement your list into it's script debugger!? - Collect all the data first, then operate on it rather than collect, operate, collect, operate. Snipped for brevity Many thanks, Andy ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: no subject

2003-08-29 Thread Shao Sean
libSMTP is a library stack built completely in transcript... my 'alwaysOnTop' DLL is a windows external.. written in C/C++ -Sean - Original Message Follows - Oh... I thought they were. Are the calls made in that project built into Revolution now? Or if not, what would you call the

Re: External: Throw

2003-08-29 Thread Brian Yennie
Externals have both pass and error arguments passed to their functions. Try setting one (or both) to true- I haven't experimented with them myself, but I assume that one passes the message and the other throws an error. Most of my externals look something like: void magicExternal(char *args[],

Re: visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Monte Goulding wrote: Is it possible to get smooth transitions and visual effects between stacks? I've been mucking around with this for a while now and it seems that lock screen just doen't work if you are opening or showing a new stack between lock and unlock. The built-in visual

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
function offsetsOf pSearch,pString -- returns a list of the offsets of pSearch in pString put empty into tReturn put 0 into tOffset repeat put offset(pSearch,pString,tOffset) + tOffset into tNewOffset if tNewOffset is tOffset then exit repeat put tNewOffset space after tReturn

Re: External: Throw

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: Externals have both pass and error arguments passed to their functions. Try setting one (or both) to true- I haven't experimented with them myself, but I assume that one passes the message and the other throws an error. Setting

Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 05:09 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I'm still not sure. Can anyone confirm that this is a routing problem? Dar, I don't know. I would ask on the macosx-admin mailing list at omnigroup.com. Someone would probably answer definitively there. Alex Rice, Software Developer

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: function offsetsOf pSearch,pString -- returns a list of the offsets of pSearch in pString put empty into tReturn put 0 into tOffset repeat put offset(pSearch,pString,tOffset) + tOffset into tNewOffset if tNewOffset is

Re: External: Throw

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I sure don't see anything in XCmdGlue.h about throw. Dar how about this? EvalExpr(throw reallyBadExternalCondition, retvalue); /* untested */ Good idea. I was thinking of SendMCMessage(). I'll experiment with both. Dar Scott

RE: visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hey... it seems the in window modifier for go cd supports visual efects between stacks. Not so easy ;-( I've got heaps going on to generate each screen. It's a git tricky but I should be able to get it right in the end. Monte: You might try having a white card in each stack. To transition

textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Rev 2.1 on Windows, putting 0 for the textFont property in the inspector causes it to ignore the textSize property- it will revert to 10 or 11 pt. On OS X with Rev 2.1 a 0 textFont with a textSize properties behaves as expected:

maxiMin (was: here's a challenge)

2003-08-29 Thread FlexibleLearning
In a message dated 28/08/2003 10:19:35 PM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to Dar, Sarah, and Monte for a solution to this. I was able to use a combination of your suggestions to make it work. If anyone is interested, here's my final script for this: on mouseMove pMouseH,

Re: visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Monte, From: Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: visual effect between stacks Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:48:13 +0930 . Is it possible to get smooth transitions and visual effects between stacks? I've been mucking around with this for a while now and it seems that lock screen just

Re: CGI

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
Usefull to have an eye to the Metacard's cgi documentation and the echo.mt example script, about this task. Le jeu 28/08/2003 17:40, Gregory Lypny a crit : Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there's step-by-step documentation and perhaps an example for using Rev as a CGI in OS X.

RE: visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey... it seems the in window modifier for go cd supports visual efects between stacks. Not so easy ;-( I've got heaps going on to generate each screen. It's a git tricky but I should be able to get it right in the end. * Monte: You might try having a white card in each stack. To

Something Screwy With File Creation in OS X?

2003-08-29 Thread Dan Shafer
OK, I know it's late and I suspect this is something stupid I'm overlooking but I've bashed my head about enough tonight. I have a script: on mouseUp global someVar put someVar into URL file:foo.txt end mouseUp Works fine. Returns empty result. From the message box, I can type: get url

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: This Xtra was coded using C or C++ to add speed to string searches. It has a feature findAll() and creates an array in half the time as the transcript loop. Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: you're saying that the

Re: Something Screwy With File Creation in OS X?

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:46 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: But Finder is completely unable to locate the file. Searches for the file name by every possible criterion come up empty. I want to use a text editor to examine the file for instructional purposes but I can't find the darned thing.

Acrobat Reader is present?

2003-08-29 Thread ecu
Amigos: Many times you want to check if certain sw is installed in the users computer, this is true for Quicktime (in order to run QT files like QTVR etc), inthat case it is easily tetsted with the result of the function QTVersion(). But what if you want to know if Acrobat is installed? I

docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Is anyone else seeing this? Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: menu. Does the correct category listing display? It doesn't for me. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Golub
I tried about six different selections from the Show: menu, and they all seem to work for me on Mac OS X 10.2.6 running Rev 2.1. On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 05:49 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Is anyone else seeing this? Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the

Re: Something Screwy With File Creation in OS X?

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Cragg
At 12:46 am -0700 29/8/03, Dan Shafer wrote: OK, I know it's late and I suspect this is something stupid I'm overlooking but I've bashed my head about enough tonight. I have a script: on mouseUp global someVar put someVar into URL file:foo.txt end mouseUp Works fine. Returns empty result.

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Cragg
At 12:46 am -0600 29/8/03, Alex Rice wrote: So you are looking at a 9pt font with 32 pt leading when you should be seeing a 24 pt font with 32 pt leading. The nonexistent textFont name seems to muck up the font rendering on Windows but not on OS X. Is it not just that the system font on

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 12:55 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: This Xtra was coded using C or C++ to add speed to string searches. It has a feature findAll() and creates an array in half the time as the transcript loop. Just want

RE: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Apparently this is only a bug in the Windows version. I tried on OS X as well and it works just fine. Thanks. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Golub Sent:

Need your help! Plans on promotion Plug In

2003-08-29 Thread Malte Brill
Hi List, I want to create a Software Promotion plugIn for rev. and need your help. I´m considering writing a stack that helps promoting new software releases. It should have an expandable stackbased Database containing all email adds one would like to send a press release to. I´d like a simple

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 12:46 AM, Alex Rice wrote: Dar you are perhaps thinking of #66, emptying the textFont also empties textSize and textStyle. It was closed as a feature. What Raney said in bug #66 makes sense. I was not convinced. I guess the dataflow guy in me was expecting a

Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Dar Scott wrote: After looking at 'route get' and netstat and ifconfig, I suspect this may be a routing problem (and perhaps involves politics, philosophy, pragmatics and literacy). Maybe it is routing, I don't know, but one other thing that you might check that affects networks is kernel

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: At 12:46 am -0600 29/8/03, Alex Rice wrote: So you are looking at a 9pt font with 32 pt leading when you should be seeing a 24 pt font with 32 pt leading. The nonexistent textFont name seems to muck up the font rendering on Windows

Hidden Rev?

2003-08-29 Thread John Tenny
I have Rev Studio 2.0.2 I downloaded the 2.1 beta I opened my stack in 2.1 beta I closed stack and restarted computer I trashed the 2.1 beta I double clicked on my stack It opens in 2.1 I've searched for Revolution and it only shows one application - 2.0.2 How could that be? The answer? (just

Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Maybe it is routing, I don't know, but one other thing that you might check that affects networks is kernel firewalling. I think on BSD it is ipfw and ipfw show will list any firewall settings. Something like that, anyway. I

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 07:34 AM, Mark Brownell wrote: I might be able to speed the transcript parallel numerical array builder by converting it to a single loop process. Yep. As a single looping function it builds an array of elements-found about 33% faster. If I were to get what I'm

Libraries, Transcript and Externals cont.

2003-08-29 Thread John Patten
Hi All... Sorry about the missing subject previously So the libSMTP stack was written in Transcript. I handn't realized that the Transcript was what the autoring script is called in Revolution. So Transcript is equivalent to what hypertalk was/is to Hypercard and Supertalk was/is to

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Dar Scott wrote: Dar you are perhaps thinking of #66, emptying the textFont also empties textSize and textStyle. It was closed as a feature. What Raney said in bug #66 makes sense. I was not convinced. I guess the dataflow guy in me was expecting a

Re: Something Screwy With File Creation in OS X? (SOLVED)

2003-08-29 Thread Dan Shafer
This was a good one for me to learn. Because I was having trouble with the licensing code in RR2.1 for some reason, I decided to re-install it. So I moved the old version to the trash, reinstalled, and launched. But because I was launching from the Dock, I inadvertently launched the

Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-29 Thread Keith Martin
Sometime around 29/8/03 (at 10:31 am -0600) Alex Rice said: On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Maybe it is routing, I don't know, but one other thing that you might check that affects networks is kernel firewalling. I think on BSD it is ipfw and ipfw show will list

New Mainstack item of menu File bug report (Rev 2.1 - Linux x86

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
New Mainstack don't work in all cases (Rev 2.1 - Suse Linux 8.2) 1.1. - Start Revolution 1.2. - Select New Mainstack from menu File -- nothing happen and no new stack window open... 2.1. - Start Revolution 2.2. - Select Open Stack from menu File -- the right selected stack is opened 2.3. - Close

Licensing Renewal ?'s

2003-08-29 Thread Barry Levine
I'll ask this on the list in hopes that someone has already found the answer and wants to eMail me off-list: I don't see any renewal costs listed in the -new- pricing schedule on the web. For example: Studio is normally $399 but, for the moment, is $199. I have the SBE license so I can

Can Rev mimic http forms submit?

2003-08-29 Thread Rob Gould
Can anyone tell me if the Revolution "post" command does the same thing as what a web-browser does when it has a "form.submit()" action? For instance, let's say I have a form on a web-page that contains a form with some input fields (I've eliminated the tag characters in hopes that email

I need to unsubscribe but don't see where to do it

2003-08-29 Thread rebolask
Hello, Although it is very interesting I don't have time to follow so I need to unsubscribe for a time (I will come back later for sure :) ) : can someone tell me how to do that I don't see any link to do so on the website. Thanks. ___

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:51 AM, Alex Rice wrote: Changing one property changes the other instead of letting the functional relationships bubble up. I agree. But if Scott thinks there was good reason for implementing it the way he did then. OK! There is merit in that. I try to strike

Re: New Mainstack item of menu File bug report (Rev 2.1 - Linux x86

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Reproductibility : 100% Pierre , I believe RRev has stated, bug reports can possibly just get lost in the noise on this list. Open a bugzilla report on it as well if you haven't. Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural

heads up: distribution builder now creating different folder names

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
If you are scripting or automating the use of what Distribution Builder produces, be aware that the folder names it's producing seem to have changed. In pre 2.1, it was using folder names of the form: Standalone_PLATFORM_APPNAME, e.g. Standalone_MacOSX_FacilityCa apparently 2.1 is producing

converting HyperCard stacks on OSX

2003-08-29 Thread Mike Harland
Hi everybody, Finally managed to afford a real copy of Revolution and not just the Try Out version. As an old HyperCard guy, I have been wanting to revive some of my old stacks and deploy on Windows as well, and Revolution is certainly the solution to all my problems. One thing I am noticing

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Dar Scott wrote: There is merit in that. I try to strike a balance between respecting another's style and tradition, especially one who's been there and is on the scene, and making a little suggestion now and then. I've gone beyond just making a little

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Alex Rice wrote: textFont and textHeight definitely are - as they should be. Otherwise we would have to compute the leading on their own each time. There's got to be other examples. Sorry, I meant textSize and textHeight. This one is discussed in the

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Alex Rice wrote: RR: it's not that I try to be annoying or have anything against any one of you. You all are great. I simply want the best care and feeding of the product. Same here. I think the noisy of us should get out and push in the hilly and

Re: visual effect between stacks

2003-08-29 Thread Ray G. Miller
From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently, Monte Goulding wrote: Is it possible to get smooth transitions and visual effects between stacks? I've been mucking around with this for a while now and it seems that lock screen just doen't work if you are opening or showing a new stack between lock

Re: Can Rev mimic http forms submit?

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le ven 29/08/2003 19:21, Rob Gould a crit : Can anyone tell me if the Revolution post command does the same thing as what a web-browser does when it has a form.submit() action? For instance, let's say I have a form on a web-page that contains a form with some input fields (I've eliminated

Re: textFont inheritance bug on Windows

2003-08-29 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 02:10 PM, Alex Rice wrote: textFont and textHeight definitely are - as they should be. Otherwise we would have to compute the leading on their own each time. There's got to be other examples. Sorry, I meant textSize and textHeight. This one is discussed in the

Re: New Mainstack item of menu File bug report (Rev 2.1 - Linux x86

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Alex, I did it too. Bests, Pierre Le ven 29/08/2003 21:27, Alex Rice a crit : On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Reproductibility : 100% Pierre , I believe RRev has stated, bug reports can possibly just get lost in the noise on this list. Open a

Can't open application: Error -43 (newbie)

2003-08-29 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
Title: Can't open application: Error -43 (newbie) I can't open an application. Here is the code in a pop-up menu: on menupick theItem set the defaultFolder to /Applications launch Mail put defaultFolder Error: the result end menupick and here is the result: /Applications Error: error

Re: converting HyperCard stacks on OSX

2003-08-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/29/03 2:41 PM, Mike Harland wrote: One thing I am noticing as I do the conversion is that there seems to be a hitch (possibly memory) with importing larger stacks (I am on OSX): the first stack that is opened converts OK and can be saved as a REV - but close it and import another and

Re: converting HyperCard stacks on OSX

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 04:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: When Rev closes a stack, it doesn't remove it from memory unless you have set the destroystack property to true. After importing your HC stack, open the Stack Inspector (from the Objects menu) and click the checkbox called purge

RE: Hidden Rev?

2003-08-29 Thread Monte Goulding
I have Rev Studio 2.0.2 I downloaded the 2.1 beta I opened my stack in 2.1 beta I closed stack and restarted computer I trashed the 2.1 beta I double clicked on my stack It opens in 2.1 I've searched for Revolution and it only shows one application - 2.0.2 How could that be? The