Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- with MC I am able to open a single file, without launching the > > development environment... With rev I cannot do that; unless there is > > some parameter which rules that? > > Yes, hold down control (Windows) or command (Mac) during start up. Than

Re: Rev to cannibalize MC ;-)

Dom wrote: > I tempted to copy some data from a MC stack to a Rev stack... > > It appears that Rev considers that the MC doc was one of his docs, and > it changed it to a Rev one -- the extension staying "mc" ! If you hadn't saved your MC stack I'd flag that as a bug. -- Richard Gaskin Four

Rev to cannibalize MC ;-)

I tempted to copy some data from a MC stack to a Rev stack... It appears that Rev considers that the MC doc was one of his docs, and it changed it to a Rev one -- the extension staying "mc" ! -- ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 01:59 AM, wouter wrote: That is true but the amount of recursion is not equal to the depth of the directories. It is equal to the total amount of directories. And this number can easily surpass 1000. Again, sorry for the delayed response, but I just realized t

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 01:03 AM, wouter wrote: Btw I pushed the experiment a little further and can run it safely with the "send to me time" set to 0.0001 millisecs. Setting values like .0001 milliseconds doesn't help; the internal timer doesn't slice that finely (nowhere near, in fa

Re: externals

> I can't seem to find any information on writing externals. I want to adapt > SQLite for use in Revolution 2.1. Can anyone give me pointers or hints on > where to start? > > BTW, SQLite is a free database engine that uses a subset of SQL. You can contact me off-list for some header files which you

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:57 PM, Dar Scott wrote: It seems if the defaultFolder cannot be set, it is unchanged. From the TD: If you set the defaultFolder to a folder that doesn't exist, the result is set to“"can't open directory"”and the value of the defaultFolder does not change. C

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

minor update On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:57 PM, Dar Scott wrote: put the folders into folderList if char -1 of path is "/" then delete char -1 of path repeat for each line f in folderList if char 1 of f is not "." then put indent & f & LF after field "Log" set th

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 03:52 PM, David Vaughan wrote: Dar, I have had time only for a preliminary test but it appeared that the apparent depth blew up past a relatively low limit, so, even though no error is declared until later, there is a problem perhaps as low as 20-50 leading to

Re: Externals

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Tim Malloroy wrote: Thanks Dar, that is exactly the start I needed. I will be creating an external for OS X, Linux, and Windows. When finished, I plan to submit it as a user contribution for all to use. On OS X, I build with the dev system that comes w

Re: Externals

Thanks Dar, that is exactly the start I needed. I will be creating an external for OS X, Linux, and Windows. When finished, I plan to submit it as a user contribution for all to use. Tim Malloroy --__--__-- Message: 14 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:58:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Externals From: Dar Scott <

Re: Encrypted stack doesn't behave properly - oops; yes it does.

Recently, "Robert Brenstein" wrote: > But is it possible to unlock the stack for the duration of a given > script only? Assume a handler that needs to do sth that requires a > stack to be unlocked. It sets the passkey and does its business. > However, it seems that this unlocks the stack until it

re: unicode rtf support

> A client supplies RTF-files saved from MS-Word (Mac & PC) with all kind of > special characters in it. > I'm able to import this RTF in my app, getting all specs and all special > chars are maintained in this text. > > When editing this text and exporting it as an RTF-file, all special chars > ar

Questions on the Drawers feature

Been experimenting with the drawers feature on rev 2.1-osx. Question 1- couldn't get the message box to find text in a scrolling field on the drawer stack. It searched on the parent stack only. Any way to resolve this. Question 2- Couldn't control the size of the drawer stack. It resized the sta

Re: Encrypted stack doesn't behave properly - oops; yes it does.

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: On 9/2/03 9:42 PM, "Mark Talluto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All I want to do is protect my code from view if someone tries to examine my stacks with Rev or with TextEdit. How can I do this? Obviously, this is not the application but

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 01:05 Australia/Brisbane, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then I am concerned. From looking at that code and similar code, the handler calls itself only 19 times. That should not hit the recursion limit. Something else is wrong. What Rev version and OS are you

Re: Directory Walker revisited

On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 21:44 Australia/Brisbane, wouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip I appreciate your interest in the topic but not the mis-statements about recursion or my code. It were no mis-statements only a mis-url-ment caused by burning to much midnight oil : That is, your comment

windows conversion

Group: I have need of someone talented on the Windows side of rev to do some finishing touches on a pre-commercial/research tool stack of mine. I've done my work with Studio on a Mac, and know nearly nothing about the problems with distributing on Windows; and I'm running out of time. Not

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

On 4/9/03 4:40 pm, Dom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am looking for my unlocking key since there... > > I got it today :-) Sorry for the delay, everyone is overloaded - lots of people waited until the last minute on the offer - and we have a number of people on holiday (not Heather, fortunatel

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

Got mine this morning (or maybe late last night). Am a very happy camper... Judy On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got mine yesterday around 13h00. Bought it Sunday afternoon... > > > -=- > Xavier Bury > TNS NT LAN Server > ext 6465 > > > >

survey: improving the script editor

I have a couple of ideas for plugins to enhance the Rev IDE. I can't decide which direction I want to go myself, so thought I could solicit some feedback. 2 ideas: a) An external + plugin that would enable external editor apps (Emacs, Vi, BBEdit, Notepad, etc.) to be used for script editing in

RE: [OT] was Re: Metal OS X

> check out this fun Mac ad parody: > > ROFLOL! Thanks, Alex! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: Metal OS X

Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Meanwhile we still don't have native appearances for the OS most widely >> used, XP. > > Perhaps this might need to be qualified a bit? I don't have any statistics > handy but I would guess the above statement is probably more true for >

Re: Metal OS X

Alex Rice wrote: > Now off to google for IMNSHO "in my not-so-humble opinion" (I realize I get curmudgeonly at times ) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___ [

correction: shutDownRequest HANDLER fails to work

I'm re-posting this because of an inaccuracy in the subject -AND- add'l information. I have an OSX (10.2.6, Rev 2.0.2) stack that, when part of an app, is using the following handler in the stack script to intercept the Quit command: on shutDownRequest if the platform is "MacOS" then ans

[OT] was Re: Metal OS X

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way you humans have grown emotionally attached to your favorite OS' amuses me. ;-) Roger Eller (Amiga owner/fanatic back in the early 90's) That's me. It's always a surprise when I run across a MS Windows user that is fa

shutDownRequest fails to work?

I have an OSX stack that, when part of an app, is using the following handler in the stack script to intercept the Quit command: on shutDownRequest if the platform is "MacOS" then answer information "Are you sure you want to quit?" \ with "Quit" or "Don't Quit" if it is "Quit" then

Re: Metal OS X

Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Meanwhile we still don't have native appearances for the OS most widely > used, XP. Perhaps this might need to be qualified a bit? I don't have any statistics handy but I would guess the above statement is probably more true for business and professional users;

Re: Metal OS X

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Rev's support for Aqua looks great. IMNSHO, it's time to address native appearances for the other 97.5% of the people who ultimately pay the rent for all of us including RunRev, our end-users. I totally agree. As an OS X user I

Re: Metal OS X

> By why are you posting this? Just couldn't resist an opportunity to > bash OS X? The way you humans have grown emotionally attached to your favorite OS' amuses me. ;-) Roger Eller (Amiga owner/fanatic back in the early 90's) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ u

Re: distribution builder

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased the studio license a few days ago. I downloaded Version 2.1. The only Mac build distribution that's active for me is for MAC OS X. I would like to be able to use the other Mac versions as well. Can someon

Re: Metal OS X

Alex Rice wrote: > By why are you posting this? Just couldn't resist an opportunity to > bash OS X? > > That's kinda funny because there are numerous OS X users on this list, > and if you look at runrev.com, all the screenshots are of OS X. Go > figure! Yeah it must really suck. Actually, aside

RE: Valentina - can mix direct cmds with Rev support

You can, Rodney, but you can't use the same reference number retrieved when opening a database. You'd need to make two separate "open database" calls, one for Valentina and one for Rev. I've done it and it works. Personally, though, since I manipulate and repost the contents of cursors a lot, I ju

Re: Recursive Handlers/Functions

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:31 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: I'm coming late to the party (I haven't read everything in the directory walker thread) but this isn't recursive code: Yeah. He was showing a recursive-like alternative that avoided the recursion problems. BTW, I noticed that Tuv

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

Le jeu 04/09/2003 à 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I got mine yesterday around 13h00. Bought it Sunday afternoon... > > > -=- > Xavier Bury > TNS NT LAN Server > ext 6465 > > Look like there were lots of last time buyers. Cool ;-) Pierre _

Re: Metal OS X

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:48 AM, Alex Rice wrote: and if you look at runrev.com, all the screenshots are of OS X. Oops, not any more. They've updated the site and apparently doing screenshots of the various supported platforms. Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | ht

distribution builder

I just purchased the studio license a few days ago. I downloaded Version 2.1. The only Mac build distribution that's active for me is for MAC OS X. I would like to be able to use the other Mac versions as well. Can someone help me with this? ___ us

Unicode RTF export

A client supplies RTF-files saved from MS-Word (Mac & PC) with all kind of special characters in it. I'm able to import this RTF in my app, getting all specs and all special chars are maintained in this text. When editing this text and exporting it as an RTF-file, all special chars are gone when r

Re: Externals

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Tim Malloroy wrote: I can't seem to find any information on writing externals. I want to adapt SQLite for use in Revolution 2.1. Can anyone give me pointers or hints on where to start? Windows or Linux? Or are you adapting SQLite for OS X? Some plac

Re: Metal OS X

Tuviah Snyder wrote: >> wouldn't a simple template background pattern do? >> Anything is faster than Aqua, even a Mac128K! > Possibly for Windows, and Unix. However the way a brushed metal window looks > depends on it's size (play around with resizing a metal window). It's like > trying to simulat

Re: Metal OS X

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wouldn't a simple template background pattern do?  ;)) Anything is faster than Aqua, even a Mac128K! There is absolutely no point in trying to run a "metal" background on Windows. It's a Mac OS feature that people try to em

Re: OS X standalones: 2 questions

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:09 AM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: I've just started doing the release builds so I may need to adjust the compiler settings or sync the project settings with Scotts. Tuviah- just a guess: debug symbols are turned on, and/or you are statically linking with something

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

Dom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for my unlocking key since there... I got it today :-) Tested immediately with a MC stack "Tables". "Tables" is a multiplication tables test for kids. It runs with no modification under Rev. Sure, it has no "rev" function/handler ;-) You can get

Re: Recursive Handlers/Functions

I'm coming late to the party (I haven't read everything in the directory walker thread) but this isn't recursive code: On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 06:13 AM, wouter wrote: on doTheRecursiveDance add 1 to lCount put lCount if lCount < 1 then send "doTheRecursiveDance" to me in 0.

Re: undo broken in script editor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully, now that I got a RR license, I will be able to furnish a good editor that does all this! ;) I already undoes the search-replace functions which most editors dont... Do you also have a problem with loosing the selection and the scrollvalue changing when switchi

Re: OS X standalones: 2 questions

Tuviah Snyder wrote: >>> I always expect OS X apps to be larger, but there are >>> only a dozen files in this app bundle - which doesn't explain the 2 MB+ >>> difference. >> >> Nor do the new features; as impressive as they are, I can't imagine > they've >> doubled the code size. Bad compiler se

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

I got mine yesterday around 13h00. Bought it Sunday afternoon... -=- Xavier Bury TNS NT LAN Server ext 6465 "Wolfgang M. Bereuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/03 14:03 Please respond to use-revolution                 To:  

Re: Workaround for adding Unicode text to a field

>This is how a group of the three first letters of the Cyrillic >alphabet, repeated four times ("abv abv abv abv") comes out: Yep we use russian because you need to specify a language and there is no code for cyrillic. >lang="ru">абвlang="ja"> 〄㄄㈠абв 〄㄄㈠face="Lucida Grande" lang="ru">абв Looks lik

Re: Metal OS X

>I tried the metal texture today for the first time and was dismayed that all buttons, fields, and even the minimize & close btns (everything!) became non-functional! When I unchecked the metal texture all went back to working order. Works here. What kind of stack is it? Can you send me a sample o

Re: Metal OS X

>Didn't do nothing on Winblows even though it's enabled! ;)) Well it's not impossible to support, but we would have to write our own code to draw brushed metal. Wouldn't be surprised if it is faster than OSXs:-) Tuviah Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Runtime Revolution Limited

Re: Metal OS X

Default buttons are only supported on modal dialogs. Metal is not supported for modal dialogs (OS limitation not ours). Still please file this as a bug report...I was off most of the week but plan to go bug fixing first thing next week and resolve any issues. >and when I use a btn as "default btn"

Re: Metal OS X

>I tried the metal texture today for the first time and was dismayed >that all buttons, fields, and even the minimize & close btns >(everything!) became >non-functional! When I unchecked the metal texture all went back to >working order. Works here. What kind of stack is it? Can you send me a sam

Re: OS X standalones: 2 questions

> > I always expect OS X apps to be larger, but there are > > only a dozen files in this app bundle - which doesn't explain the 2 MB+ > > difference. > > Nor do the new features; as impressive as they are, I can't imagine they've > doubled the code size. Bad compiler settings? Tuv? Scott? I've j

Re: New Rev Buyers, did you receive your unlocking key?

On Mittwoch, Sep 3, 2003, at 23:00 Europe/Vienna, Judy Perry wrote: I'm still waiting patiently. I figure a bunch of us waited until the last minute (but not, unfortunately, my students, whom I wish to beat with a large stick...) Me too I m wainting for a new license, because the one I got was w

variables by reference - script style suggestion

I find it useful to indicate in the handler name (by appending "V") when it uses variables by reference. Alternatively you could prepend/append the "v" to the variable name if you prefer. My eye scans the handler names faster than the variables so I find it better this way. Eg: on mouseUp

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On donderdag, sep 4, 2003, at 00:55 Europe/Brussels, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 14 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:34:33 +1000 From: David Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1865 - 13 msgs snip I appreciate your interest in the topic but not the mis-statement

Re: Radio buttons as indicator lights

Thanks to all who replied on this one - talk about a quick response! Not all the solutions offered solved my specific problem, which is to allow the radioBehavior of a group of buttons (seen by the user as a row of indicator lights) to be used by the scripter (me) but not to be affected by the u

subject matter

A plea to all: please, please don't change the subject when replaying in the same thread. It's not easy to follow the discussion or archive some interesting things. Change only when you start a new discussion thread. Robert ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Metal OS X

Didn't do nothing on Winblows even though it's enabled!  ;)) -=- Xavier Bury TNS NT LAN Server ext 6465 sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/03 11:21 Please respond to use-revolution                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Metal OS X

Le jeudi, 4 sep 2003, à 11:21 Europe/Brussels, sims a écrit : Using Rev 2.1 on a Mac 10.2.1 with 384 MB RAM I tried the metal texture today for the first time and was dismayed that all buttons, fields, and even the minimize & close btns (everything!) became non-functional! When I unchecked the

Metal OS X

Using Rev 2.1 on a Mac 10.2.1 with 384 MB RAM I tried the metal texture today for the first time and was dismayed that all buttons, fields, and even the minimize & close btns (everything!) became non-functional! When I unchecked the metal texture all went back to working order. Is there some

Re: Workaround for adding Unicode text to a field

At 16:00 +0900 04-09-03, Ron wrote: Hi Kjetil I do a similar thing with Japanese text, viz add words to a list to build vocabularies, etc. [...] Have you tried simply 'copy' instead of 'put the selectedtext into stuff' and then 'set the clipboarddata["unicode"]'? Never thought of that simple so

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On donderdag, sep 4, 2003, at 00:55 Europe/Brussels, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 14 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:34:33 +1000 From: David Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1865 - 13 msgs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Your comments

Re: The Directory Walker revisited

On donderdag, sep 4, 2003, at 00:55 Europe/Brussels, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:19:16 -0600 Subject: Re: The Directory Walker revisited From: Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 03:52

Re: Workaround for adding Unicode text to a field

Hi Kjetil I do a similar thing with Japanese text, viz add words to a list to build vocabularies, etc. > The problem of adding Unicode text to a field was discussed by > several exasperated list members this summer. I have now found a > partial workaround that solves at least my particular proble