Re: Chunk Expressions (see if my solutions is bad)

2003-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/12/03 12:46 AM, Stephen Quinn Barncard wrote: I don't see why 'seeing' ascii 11 is bad anyway, it helps troubleshooting. It's not meant to be displayed, just a way to substitute returns A little off the subject, but still related: my most favorite invisible delimiter is ascii 8, which

[ANN] MLXEditor - runrev plugin for script editing with ANY external editor app

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Rice
Danger! BETA! Do not proceed unless you live dangerously and debugging other's code is a pleasure ! ! ! Actually it's not that bad. But this is kind of a tricky plugin. Does anyone want to look at what I've written so far? I could use someone knowledgeable of the IDE rev* internal scripts who

Re: survey: improving the script editor

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Alex Rice wrote: a) An external + plugin that would enable external editor apps b) A plugin for enhancing the existing IDE script editor. An update on this I learned from Geoff that Runrev has a slew of impressive features planned for their builtin I

Re: Chunk Expressions (see if my solutions is bad)

2003-09-11 Thread Stephen Quinn Barncard
I don't see why 'seeing' ascii 11 is bad anyway, it helps troubleshooting. It's not meant to be displayed, just a way to substitute returns sqb Rev on OS X displays a character for ASCII 11 that looks like a curved arrow. ASCII 29 doesn't display any character in a field (I tried several

Re: problems decompressing files

2003-09-11 Thread Robert Eppich
I think something more is at play here: I put 13 "@"s in an SDB record field, backed up the db--which includes gzip compression, and then restored from the (decompressed) backup. I then add a line of approx 30 "*"s with the same (error-free) result. What are we doing differently? I ran my tests

Re: problems decompressing files

2003-09-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 06:06 AM, T. R. Ponn wrote: Tim Ponn...the guy who thought turning 1 file into 1,000,000 files was a good approach. :-[ But, if one is interested in compression and not in making standard file, your idea of breaking up the file might have merit. Break it up.

Re: Print with dialog?

2003-09-11 Thread Sarah
Thanks, Jan. I tried what you suggested (I think): on mouseup answer printer open printing with dialog print card into 36,36,550,610 end mouseup The first time I got both dialogs: paper size # number of copies But then, nothing printed. Subsequent clicks of the sam

Re: problems decompressing files

2003-09-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I had one test file that was only 6 bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine. One thing I did notice, however, is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up being larger. I think in this case it was

Re: problems decompressing files

2003-09-11 Thread Dar Scott
I may have found a training string that avoids compression that trips up decompression on OS X, Revolution 2.1. Maybe. Here is my test button script: // on mouseUp get field "Input" get xCompress(it) get xDecompress(it) put "[" & it & "]" & LF into field "Log" end

Unicode matchChunk (was multiple-word phrases, links)

2003-09-11 Thread Toma Tasovac
Thanks to Kjeti, Chris and Ken. Chris, your script works great with English, but I can't get it to work with Unicode text. I tried to unidecode both the text field and thePhrases and thus deal with two one-byte chars per one Unicode two-byte character, preform the matchChunk function with one-

RE: multiple-word phrases, links

2003-09-11 Thread Ken Ray
> Here's a bit of code I use to do just that. > > repeat for each line tPhrase in thePhrases] > if matchChunk(fld "MyText", "(" & tPhrase & ")", > tStartChar, tEndChar) then > set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld > "MyText" to link > end if > end repeat Good sug

RE: Icons and scope

2003-09-11 Thread Ken Ray
> I tried using 'owner' but i could not use the returned reference. > > Basically, how do you read the data from a field on another > card with only > the field's ID number? Get the "long id" of the field and us it. "owner" returns effectively the "name" of the owner of the object, and "long ow

Re: Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.

2003-09-11 Thread Martin Baxter
Hi Andy, FWIW, When I did this some years ago, I made 2 custom fonts for it, however I didn't bother roatating anything but simply made 12 hour hands, 60 minute hands and 60 second hands (plus one clock face) as individual characters. This seemed good enough for my purpose at the time. One font wa

Vertical & Horizontal revtools hacks

2003-09-11 Thread Mathewson
Dear RunRev Afficionados, I have just uploaded updates to my RR revtool hacks. Unfortunately the vertical variant got fatter (wider) to accommodate all the widgets and small window sizes: if you feel a desperate need for a 'long and thin' one contact me off list and I will knock one up (although

Re: Stack script problem

2003-09-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le jeu 11/09/2003 à 09:52, Rolf Kocherhans a écrit : > I made a stack script which would delete the contents of a field in a > substack > which I open as sheet. > > The script goes like this and is in the main stack: > > on openStack > put empty into field "fldLog" of stack "Log" > end openStack

Re: How to change cards without go...

2003-09-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I would like clicking on a card in the list to select that card in the other window without bringing that window to the front. I can think of some brute force ways to accomplish this, but I haven't found any "smooth" way of doing it. Is there (yet another) cool Rev command I am missing that does th

Re: Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.

2003-09-11 Thread Rob Cozens
Would it be best to create each "step" of each arm in Photoshop and show each in succession as time goes by??? Hi Andy, That's basically what Serendipity Library's ClickClock does...except the hands are hands instead of numbers. If you go this route, it makes sense to me to make the images .gif

Re: problems decompressing files

2003-09-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I would think encountering 13 identical and contiguous bytes would be a very common occurrence I think that would depend on the type of data being compressed, Tom...I believe the original file in question is a .wav. As I noted yesterday 20+MB of ASCII text apparently has no such contiguous iden

RE: Icons and scope

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Shaw
At 07:38 PM 10/09/2003 -0400, you wrote: Actually, Graham, the image needs to have a unique ID vs. a unique name (AFAIK). So if you say: set the icon of btn "myButton" to (the id of img "ImageForIcon" of cd "MyIcons" of stack "myStuff") it should work so long as the ID number is unique. Ken Ra

RE: multiple-word phrases, links

2003-09-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
Toma, Here's a bit of code I use to do just that. repeat for each line tPhrase in thePhrases] if matchChunk(fld "MyText", "(" & tPhrase & ")", tStartChar, tEndChar) then set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld "MyText" to link end if end repeat Of course, you only h

Re: New Stacks: careful with if/else statements

2003-09-11 Thread Revinfo1155
Richard I like your system info stack is it possible to add hard drive space and amount of memory and processor speed etc? jack

Re: Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.

2003-09-11 Thread Dale Pond
yoy wrote: My new project is an analog clock but instead of using circle arcs, I want to use text as the hour and minute arms. The problem I'm running into is the text rotates around it's midpoint. Is there a way to rotate the text's x,y point that represent the left,"mid-Y" of the textheight arou

Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.

2003-09-11 Thread yoy
My new project is an analog clock but instead of using circle arcs, I want to use text as the hour and minute arms. The problem I'm running into is the text rotates around it's midpoint. Is there a way to rotate the text's x,y point that represent the left,"mid-Y" of the textheight around the cloc

Drag-and-drop ghost

2003-09-11 Thread Jim Lyons
I am trying to use drag-and-drop in a Rev app, both within one stack window, and from one stack window to another. I noticed in Klaus' demo stack that when you drag from, say, the Finder, a ghost of the drag content in some form comes along with you. In Rev, a little dotted box around the arrow sho

How to change cards without go...

2003-09-11 Thread Jim Lyons
The user is working in one window with a list of cards and controls. Another window, showing off to the side, is the one with the cards listed. I would like clicking on a card in the list to select that card in the other window without bringing that window to the front. I can think of some brute fo

Re: ANN: Punctuation Invaders Beta

2003-09-11 Thread curry
Scott Rossi wrote: Speaking as nitpicky someone who has an itchy trigger finger from years of arcade games, I would say the firing system feels a bit sluggish. Perhaps this is intentional (and perhaps I'm just old) but the delay between shots caused a minor bit of frustration when trying to hit t

Re: Stack script problem

2003-09-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Rolf Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a stack script which would delete the > contents of a field in a > substack > which I open as sheet. > > The script goes like this and is in the main stack: > > on openStack > put empty into field "fldLog" of stack "Log" > end openStack >

Re: Printing OS X Buttons ?

2003-09-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Rolf Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it, that when I print a card containing > Buttons (under OSX) > these buttons > are not printed, only the text on the buttons ? > > I would like to have a card printed the way it looks > on screen, is it > possible ? > > Cheers > Rolf >

Stack script problem

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
I made a stack script which would delete the contents of a field in a substack which I open as sheet. The script goes like this and is in the main stack: on openStack put empty into field "fldLog" of stack "Log" end openStack Now, my field gets emptied every time I open the Stack "Log" as shee

Printing OS X Buttons ?

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Why is it, that when I print a card containing Buttons (under OSX) these buttons are not printed, only the text on the buttons ? I would like to have a card printed the way it looks on screen, is it possible ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-revolution mailing li