RE: Kudos

> I wanted to send some praise your way. :-) > > I just took a look at RevZilla and wow, this is just the > coolest thing. Now I can see why you responded to my post > regarding specialized browsers - birds of a feather... Thanks, Scott! > Not only does RevZilla provide the info we want in a

about field list

Hi everybody, 1) I want to put long sentences as elements of a list field. When I type a sentence in the "content" window of the object inspector, the text wrap (if the small left button is hilited) but my sentence stays on one line in the field list object. Can I have list elements that wrap

Re: about field list

--- Eric Rognard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > 1) I want to put long sentences as elements of a > list field. > > When I type a sentence in the "content" window of > the object inspector, > the text wrap (if the small left button is hilited) > but my sentence > stays on one l

Re: [OT] aspiring game developers

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 01:24 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Geoff Canyon has also done some phenomenal (and I do mean phenomenal) game stuff with vectors. I'm hoping he'll post his experiments and formulas sometime. With a plug like that, how can I resist? I've posted the stack "Star Battle.

Mac OSX standalone voice record problem

Hi everyone, I am once again trying to get a voice recording application to work appropriately in an OSX standalone. I develop on a G4 dual 1.42 Ghz, Rev 2.02, OSX 10.2.6 and deploy on both 700Mzh G4 eMacs and 500Mhz G3 iBooks, same OS. In the development environment, everything works just fin

Re: array on card

> On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 10:11 PM, Michael Young wrote: > > > How can I put an expandable indexed array as an object on a card. For > > those few who have heard of LabVIEW I am looking for something > > equivalent to how it handles array display. > > I know what you mean. At one time al

Re: 'bout Revolution and FireBird]

> ODBC can be used with remote databases. When creating the DSN you > specify the hostname or IP address of the server. > That's the point... I didn't found this option... It only permits create DSN for local databases =( In VB, we use connection string, not DSN... I know it's not a Revolution iss

Re: 'bout Revolution and FireBird]

Julio, >> In ODBC with DSN, I can't declare host, thus, only local databases can be used =( << I have connected Windows clients to remote Firebird databases via ODBC. Can you provide me with - the server name where your remote Firebird db is located - the port being used (if other than that us

Re: 'bout Revolution and FireBird]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 07:37 AM, Júlio César Ködel wrote: That's the point... I didn't found this option... It only permits create DSN for local databases =( In VB, we use connection string, not DSN... I know it's not a Revolution issue, but could you give-me more information about remo

Re: [OT] aspiring game developers

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 04:10 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: With a plug like that, how can I resist? I've posted the stack "Star Battle." Type this in the message box and press return to try it out: go stack url "http://www.inspiredlogic.com/rev/starbattle.rev"; That's cool thanks Geoff. Good

Re: 'bout Revolution and FireBird]

I get it! The database name CONTAINS the hostname =\ host:c:\databasename.ext This works with 2 ODBC drivers that I get... Only in the second driver there was a minimal tip of achieving this... People are a little lazy 'bout documentation =( Thanx for the help of all of you, now I can start to pr

Re: [OT] aspiring game developers

On 10/3/03 3:10 AM, "Geoff Canyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've posted the stack "Star Battle." > Type this in the message box and press return to try it out: > > go stack url "http://www.inspiredlogic.com/rev/starbattle.rev"; > ... > Let me know what you think. I think "this is really cool

Re: [OT] aspiring game developers

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 04:10 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: There the similarities end. And unfortunately it doesn't have the "trails" effect caused by the slow old monochrome vector display in the Asteroids console game. :-) Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.

specialFolderPath("Temporary") on OS X

specialFolderPath("Temporary") works on Mac OS X, most of the time. It returns a path like /tmp/xxx/temporary items/ where xxx is the UID. However, on my OS X box, it has recently started cleaning out /tmp on reboot, and after that specialFolderPath("Temporary") returns empty. After some time h

Re: Window's Icon

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:23 AM, Chipp wrote: snip btw, if you install the altPlugins toolbar, it will put the version, engine and build info in the message box each time you open RR. You can find it at: Thanks Chipp. Regards

Re: specialFolderPath("Temporary") on OS X

Recently, "Alex Rice" wrote: > specialFolderPath("Temporary") works on Mac OS X, most of the time. It > returns a path like /tmp/xxx/temporary items/ where xxx is the UID. > However, on my OS X box, it has recently started cleaning out /tmp on > reboot, and after that specialFolderPath("Temporary

Sculley on lost opportunity with HyperCard

Interesting comment from John Scully on lost opportunity with HyperCard at http://news.com.com/2008-7351-5085423.html?tag=nefd_gutspro Interview with John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Computer, October 2, 2003, 4:00 AM PDT, By Dawn Kawamoto, Staff Writer, CNET News.com Any missed opportunities t

Re: specialFolderPath("Temporary") on OS X

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Not sure why you see this but what happens if you do: put the tempName Good idea- I'll try that next reboot. Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make ma

Re: Mac OSX standalone voice record problem

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 05:05 AM, Dan Soneson wrote: Hi everyone, I am once again trying to get a voice recording application to work appropriately in an OSX standalone. I develop on a G4 dual 1.42 Ghz, Rev 2.02, OSX 10.2.6 and deploy on both 700Mzh G4 eMacs and 500Mhz G3 iBooks, same O

Decompress cross platform

This has come up on the list before, but I didn't find a solution in the archives. I have a field with a lot of data in it. To save disk space, I run it through compress() and put the compressed data back into the field before saving the stack. When the stack opens, it uses decompress() to ext

Re: specialFolderPath("Temporary") on OS X

Hi Alex, I had a similar problem on one of my iMac, that didn't have the temporary folder, and specialFolderPath("Temporary") returned empty. Worst, if I created this folder, it was removed when the system is restarted. The solution was to add in the script the command "put the tempName" that

cRevgeneral["script"]

While using my MLXEditor plugin, I noticed that old copies of the scripts, in HTML markup!, were stored in cRevgeneral["script"]. Is it safe to set that property to empty? I assume it's something that the IDE's script editor stack writes, but I don't use it for MLXEditor. Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Decompress cross platform

At 2:14 PM -0500 10/3/2003, J. Landman Gay wrote: The data decompresses fine on whatever platform did the compression. But when the data is compressed on Windows, it won't decompress when the stack is copied to a Mac. When the data is compressed on a Mac, it won't decompress when the stack is co

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't want to maintain separate stacks for each platform. Any idea how to get around this problem? I thought compression was supposed to work the same way on all plaforms. Me, too. There is a decompression bug for OS X & Revolutio

JDBC instead of ODBC

Hello, All this talk about Rev and Firebird has got me wishing again for JDBC instead of ODBC. Does anyone know if there are any plans for JDBC in Rev's future. Is it particular hard to build this kind of driver? I know some underemployed java programmers who might be interested in giving it go.

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: To save disk space, I run it through compress() and put the compressed data back into the field before saving the stack. A field can lose data that contains a null or has "lines" too long. ...and what Jeanne said. Dar Scott ___

Re: cRevgeneral["script"]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Alex Rice wrote: While using my MLXEditor plugin, I noticed that old copies of the scripts, in HTML markup!, were stored in cRevgeneral["script"]. Is it safe to set that property to empty? I assume it's something that the IDE's script editor stack writes

Re: JDBC instead of ODBC

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Todd Geist wrote: Is it particular hard to build this kind of driver? If you are programming in Java it's not hard, I would imagine. But JDBC makes no sense for Rev because it's not related to Java in any way. Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Sof

Re: cRevgeneral["script"]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to use it? It's the script marked up as HTML! That's not in MLXEditor's purview, nor do I want it to be. If MLXEditor touches it, it's only going to be for getting rid of it purposes. Suppose someone switched back

Re: Decompress cross platform

On 10/3/03 3:13 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 2:14 PM -0500 10/3/2003, J. Landman Gay wrote: The data decompresses fine on whatever platform did the compression. But when the data is compressed on Windows, it won't decompress when the stack is copied to a Mac. When the data is compressed on

Re: JDBC instead of ODBC

Those links that I passed in my messages are both for open source ODBC engines (for both Windows and Linux). I think would not be hard to make a MacOS X version, but, for MacOS, I don't know (therefore, I hate macs ;-] ) - Original Message - From: "Alex Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAI

Re: cRevgeneral["script"]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:34 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to use it? It's the script marked up as HTML! That's not in MLXEditor's purview, nor do I want it to be. If MLXEditor touches it, it's only going to be for

Re: Decompress cross platform

On 10/3/03 3:13 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 2:14 PM -0500 10/3/2003, J. Landman Gay wrote: The data decompresses fine on whatever platform did the compression. But when the data is compressed on Windows, it won't decompress when the stack is copied to a Mac. When the data is compressed on

Re: Decompress cross platform

On 10/3/03 3:20 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't want to maintain separate stacks for each platform. Any idea how to get around this problem? I thought compression was supposed to work the same way on all plaforms. Me, too. There is

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I may be mis-remembering, but I thought character conversions were now done on custom properties as well as on fields. Or was I dreaming > that? Yikes! Does this mean all binary data in a stack will have to be base64 or hex? This i

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I may be mis-remembering, but I thought character conversions were now done on custom properties as well as on fields. Or was I dreaming > that? From the dictionary entry for ISOToMac(): Revolution automatically translates text in fi

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: It won't work for me. In re: your other note, there are no nulls and the lines are not long; it is just plain ascii. So I don't think the problem is with the source text, especially since I can reproduce the problem no matter what I

Do Proxies Interfere With Sockets?

Hello, I have a program which works great on Mac and PCs which are either directly connected to the internet or behind a router, not a proxy. On openStack my program gets the IP address of the host computer via the URL http://www.sofaking.tv/w.txt It then does its communication via sockets. I u

Re: Decompress cross platform

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I may be mis-remembering, but I thought character conversions were now done on custom properties as well as on fields. Or was I dreaming > that? I hope that's not the case- then there would be no safe place to put binary data in sta

Re: cRevgeneral["script"]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Dar Scott wrote: My mind had gone down some bunny trail and started wandering into to thinking a script editor edits a source that is processed to become a script. If I put fancy formatting and tabular data and math and color and multiple languages in m

Re: JDBC instead of ODBC

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Júlio César Ködel wrote: Those links that I passed in my messages are both for open source ODBC engines (for both Windows and Linux). I think would not be hard to make a MacOS X version, but, for MacOS, I don't know (therefore, I hate macs ;-] ) I once t

Re: Do Proxies Interfere With Sockets?

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:40 PM, David Kwinter wrote: On openStack my program gets the IP address of the host computer via the URL http://www.sofaking.tv/w.txt Currently 137.186.182:8080 It then does its communication via sockets. Do you mean via tcp using "open socket"? One might infer

Accessing Multidimensional Arrays

I am interested in creating several large, multidimensional arrays within my stack (I’m creating a diagnostic testing program).  What I want to do is add info to and remove info from these arrays during the use of the program, and then, when the user completes the test, pipe the information

Re: cRevgeneral["script"]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Alex Rice wrote: MLXEditor gets and sets the script property of objects. It assumes the script property is just a long string, and it writes the script to a file and launches an external editor on the file. Then when the file has been modified, MLXEditor

RE: Do Proxies Interfere With Sockets? [RevNet?]

There are many different kinds of Proxy servers, and many different authentication schemes. At some point, RR will want to support as many different authentication schemes as possible -- though it may take a bit of 'expert' programming. Altuit, and Daniels-Mara are hoping to work on this problem i

no binary keys for arrays

Recently, I mentioned on some list or maybe in private that arrays can have binary keys and binary elements. I was sure I ran the test. I must have been thinking of my element test. Well, I ran into a bug in my code and learned that nulls break keys. So, what I said is not true. Dar Scott

Re: Do Proxies Interfere With Sockets? [RevNet?]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 05:27 PM, David Kwinter wrote: Geez, I really hope there's a way to make sockets work. I'd hate to redo everything using HTTP and a webserver to sidestep the proxies & firewalls. Here is an approach. Have a few lines in the doc describe exactly what is needed. So