RE: docs vs. experience - 'start using'

> Is it a bug, or an undocumented feature? More precisely, is > it likely to go away once discovered by the Rev Dev Team, or > be documented, or be left unaddressed? It's a feature; whether or not it's undocumented, I don't know (I haven't read every page in the online help)... :-) Ken Ray Son

RE: Word wrap broken?

No, it works just fine so long as there is whitespace (spaces, etc.) to allow it to wrap. That is, if you have a field that can display 50 characters and you have a string that is 75 characters long (no spaces), it will not wrap the last 25 chars to the next line. HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Sof

Re: Drawer and Mac OS X

Le vendredi, 17 oct 2003, à 23:17 Europe/Brussels, Wilhelm Sanke a écrit : Hi Yves, I remember dimly somebody had found out you cannot do this. But you can use my own solution of the problem where you can attach drawer stacks or substacks with any number of cards that can be accessed directly

Printing a file

Hi All Is there a way to print a file that is outside of Rev? Sort of like this - which doesn't work! print URL "myPicture.jpg" Thanks Greg ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: Welcome back!

Thanks, Heather! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Heather Williams > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Search and Replace

> he him himself his he's boy guy He Him Himself His He's Boy Guy > > I get: > > he her herself her she's girl gal He Him Himself His He's Boy Guy > > There seems to be a problem if a replaceable word is the > first word of a sentence, and obviously, capitalization seems > to be an issue. > >

docs vs. experience - 'start using' (Phil Davis)

> From: "Phil Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I notice that the Rev docs about the 'start using' command describe only the > script library aspects of the command. They say nothing about how 'start > using' also gives the 'using' stack access to images stored in the 'used' > stack. > > Example: > -

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

>In previous versions of Revolution if you used a command like: > delete line 3 of fld "test" the entire line would be deleted (if there were 10 lines, now there would be 9 lines). In version 2.1, if I use the same command, the contents of line 3 are deleted, but the empty line remains (the

Re: POST variables to CGI via URL with URLencoded string fails??

Aloha from Hawaii, "wonderful Dave!" OK, that works great... can we depend on the order of the environment variables? i.e This works: put urlDecode (value(item 3 of the globals)) into tRemit and delivers the $QUERY_STRING value.. but if the order changed the cgi would break (depends on $QUER

Re: functions to return properties?

--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > erik hansen wrote: > > > is there any reason NOT to use: > > > > function myVar > > return (the uMyVar of this stack) > > end return > > > > in scripts? > > it sure saves script space. > > It sure does, with many benefits. > > Such functions are

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I am confused by everyone's responses. I am experiencing the same thing >> as >>> John. But that is the way it has always been -- in Hypercard, in Metacard >> and >>> in >>> all versions I've used of Revolution. If you have 10 lines in

Re: functions to return properties?

erik hansen wrote: > is there any reason NOT to use: > > function myVar > return (the uMyVar of this stack) > end return > > in scripts? > it sure saves script space. It sure does, with many benefits. Such functions are generically referred to as "accessors", and can be a very smart way to han

functions to return properties?

is there any reason NOT to use: function myVar return (the uMyVar of this stack) end return in scripts? it sure saves script space. thanks, Erik = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved pr

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

> >Message: 5 >Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:48:04 -0700 >From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Deleting lines in a field... >To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I

RE: Default path in answer file

> I think I've found a bug, since this acts as if there was no > defaultPath: > >answer file "Get a File" with scgTheTestFolder&"/" Can you try: answer file "Get a File" with (scgTheTestFolder&"/") Sometimes it's all in the parentheses... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL

Lingo BBEdit Language Module - Useful with Transcript

For anyone who likes to edit their transcript outside of the script editor I found a Lingo Language Module for BBEdit that works pretty well for Transcript. It recognizes all commands in the function drop-down (unfortunately not functions) and does a good job of hiliting strings, etc.

docs vs. experience - 'start using'

I notice that the Rev docs about the 'start using' command describe only the script library aspects of the command. They say nothing about how 'start using' also gives the 'using' stack access to images stored in the 'used' stack. Example: - Stack B contains image ID - Stack A contains no ima

Re: Drawer and Mac OS X

On Fri Oct 17 Yves COPPE wrote: > Hi list > > Happy to hear you again after the down period > > Is it possible to have something like > > > go to cd 3 of stack "B" as drawer at bottom in stack "A" > > I can't find the way. > > Thanks. > > Greetings. > Yves COPPE > Hi Yves, I remember dimly someb

Re: centering ask & answer dialogs

Wilhelm Sanke wrote: > I have also hacked the > answer and ask dialogs and provided a version that can place the dialogs > anywhere on the screen. I needed to center the ask and answer fialogs once, but rather than alter the code every time I copied those stacks into my stack file I just added a

RE: centering ask & answer dialogs

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 , "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a work around, what I've done is hacked the revAsk and revAnswer > > stacks and in the preOpen stack handler added "set the loc of me to > > the screenLoc", since that seems to me to be as good a place as any > > to display dialog

Re: Default path in answer file

I wrote: I've set up a default path for an answer file command (on Windows XP) and RunRev seems to be ignoring the path specification. In a desperate attempt to understand what's happening, I executed this script: answer "about to request file from"&&scgTheFolder&"/" answer file scgFile

Re: MAc / PC Scripting Issues

Dar et al Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue. Dang I love this group. :-) On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 02:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might help: It did indeed this is a great reference. I repost it here just in case anyone else might want to take a look. http://www

Re: Linux PPC 1.1.1 found! - never mind.

I found the link to the 1.1.1 DL's. Never mind. Barry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: YDL Linux support

Jan, Thanks for the info. I do have a Studio license and I'd like to try the Linux version (for PPC). Do you (or anyone, for that matter) have an unlicensed installer for 1.1.1 for Linux that they'd like to make available for DL? Thanks, Barry On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 13:36 America/Denver,

Drawer and Mac OS X

Hi list Happy to hear you again after the down period Is it possible to have something like go to cd 3 of stack "B" as drawer at bottom in stack "A" I can't find the way. Thanks. Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing li

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

Stephen Messimer wrote: > I think I understand what you mean by low ASCII. Not having memorized > either the Mac or PC character sets this becomes an issue when I am > using a particular character. It would be nice to have a simple list > that points out areas where the two character sets diverge.

must restart in OS X after install ?? - re: Monks

My Revolution CD, If Monks had Macs, is being beta tested now -- and several people on the list are testing it. By far the most reported bug is that under Mac OS 10.2 the program doesn't launch right after an install . Everyone has got it to launch -- some people after restarting the computer.

Re: Installing REV in Linux - how?

Le ven 17/10/2003 à 20:56, Barry Levine a écrit : > I DL'd the v2.0.3 Rev but the .tgz file (when I double-click it to open > it in KDE) appears to be missing much of what needs to be there; the > "engines" folder is empty, for example. I'm running YDL (Yellow Dog > Linux) on my PowerBook. > >

Re:

Le ven 17/10/2003 à 19:00, Pierre a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm trying to call a function which is defined in a card, from another card of the > same stack. I've been tryinng with the "get" and "call" keyword but each time, > revolution tells me "can't find handler". > Does anyone can give me the r

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

Le ven 17/10/2003 à 17:52, Stephen Messimer a écrit : > Richard, > > I think I understand what you mean by low ASCII. Not having memorized > either the Mac or PC character sets this becomes an issue when I am > using a particular character. It would be nice to have a simple list > that points

RE: centering ask & answer dialogs

> As a work around, what I've done is hacked the revAsk and revAnswer > stacks and in the preOpen stack handler added "set the loc of me to > the screenLoc", since that seems to me to be as good a place as any > to display dialog boxes. Seemed to work fine both using the rev GUI > and when I c

RE: Problem locating functions

Is it possible that the functions are named with reserved words in Rev? Can you provide an example of a function that Rev doesn't seem to be able to locate and where it is? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message---

Re: Installing REV in Linux - how?

--- Barry Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I DL'd the v2.0.3 Rev but the .tgz file (when I > double-click it to open > it in KDE) appears to be missing much of what needs > to be there; the > "engines" folder is empty, for example. I'm running > YDL (Yellow Dog > Linux) on my PowerBook. > >

Installing REV in Linux - how?

I DL'd the v2.0.3 Rev but the .tgz file (when I double-click it to open it in KDE) appears to be missing much of what needs to be there; the "engines" folder is empty, for example. I'm running YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) on my PowerBook. Taking into account I'm a Mac guy (obvious by my eMail) who ex

Re:

Pierre wrote: > I'm trying to call a function which is defined in a > card, from another card of the same stack. I've > been tryinng with the "get" and "call" keyword but > each time, revolution tells me "can't find handler". > Does anyone can give me the right syntax to call a > function ? > D

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Richard, > I think I understand what you mean by low ASCII. Not having memorized >either the Mac or PC character sets this becomes an issue when I am >using a particular character. It would be nice to have a simple list >that points out areas where the two character sets

Re: Bugzilla down

Dar, I filed the bug report before Bugzilla went down as I can't even get back there now. Barry On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 12:30 America/Denver, Dar wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Barry Levine wrote: I've filed a Bugzilla report (#794) How'd you do that? I can't see bugzil

Search and Replace

Hello all! I'm having a problem with a function that Ken Ray helped me with. I tried to fix it myself, but I don't really understand the matchChunk function. The goal is to pass searchAndReplaceMaleToFemale() whatText and return a female version of whatText. But it's not quite working correctly

Re:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:00:50 +0200, Pierre wrote: > I'm trying to call a function which is defined in a card, from > another card of the same stack. I've been tryinng with the "get" and > "call" keyword but each time, revolution tells me "can't find > handler". > Does anyone can give me the righ

Word wrap broken?

I can't seem to get word wrap to work...even in older version of the engine. Has this been broken for a while? This is in Windows XP... JR ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Fonts in Linux

How exactly does RunRev look for fonts in Linux? It seems like it is not using the X11 folders, and TrueType fonts hardly work (there is a trick, but it is rediculous). It also seems like the RunRev engine only likes PostScript Type 1 fonts... Thanks for any info, JR _

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Hello, I'm trying to call a function which is defined in a card, from another card of the same stack. I've been tryinng with the "get" and "call" keyword but each time, revolution tells me "can't find handler". Does anyone can give me the right syntax to call a function ? Do I need to define thi

RE: Mailing lists back up + where is Bugzilla?

Yup, it's down alright... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Graham Samuel > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:54 AM > To: RunRev Users

RE: Selecting text using REGEX

> > function Trim what > > local tText > > get matchText(what,"(?s)\s*(\S.*\S)\s*",tText) > > return tText > > end Trim > > Beware this function fails for > single-character-with-whitespace strings > like " s" and " 9 ". By changing the regex to > "(?s)\s*(\S.*\S?)\s*" and > checking the

Re: target(), mouseControl(), etc. when mouse button is down

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 08:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to find out which control the mouse is over when the mouse button is depressed? Functions such as target() within a mouseMove handler and mouseControl() placed in the group script always return the control

Re: target(), mouseControl(), etc. when mouse button is down

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 03:18 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: Trevor, Some variation of this script in your stack or card script might do what you want. I find it works the same whether the mouse button is up or down. I use a version of this as a development utility so I can get the name of

Re: Rev2.1 Bug on a Dell Inspiron and some Dell Desktops - bugzilla #794

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Barry Levine wrote: I've filed a Bugzilla report (#794) How'd you do that? I can't see bugzilla. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolut

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

It would be nice to have a simple list that points out areas where the two character sets diverge. This might help: http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/charsets.html I don't know whether the automatic mac/windows code translation used by Revolution when you open a stack on a different platform matches

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Stephen Messimer wrote: I think I understand what you mean by low ASCII. This is redundant, of course! The ASCII codes are 7-bit codes. That means in a byte there is an additional 128 values, that are used as character codes in some environments. Ric

centering ask & answer dialogs

I've run into problems on the Win32 platform getting ask & answer dialog boxes to display completely on the screen. As a work around, what I've done is hacked the revAsk and revAnswer stacks and in the preOpen stack handler added "set the loc of me to the screenLoc", since that seems to me to b

Rev2.1 Bug on a Dell Inspiron and some Dell Desktops - bugzilla #794

(This is a re-post compilation of three messages that didn't get to the list while it was down.) After much teeth-gnashing and hair-pulling, I've narrowed down the cause of the bizarre display of text fields on a Dell Inspiron (and some Dell desktop models, #'s unknown at this moment). Rev 2.1

Re: Mac / PC Scripting issues

Richard, I think I understand what you mean by low ASCII. Not having memorized either the Mac or PC character sets this becomes an issue when I am using a particular character. It would be nice to have a simple list that points out areas where the two character sets diverge. Thanks for your r

revMail (got HTML?)

(Apologies if this is duplicated. Have been afflicted with bounce-back or system problems) Have any Outlook users out there written revMail (or any other) handlers that generate anything other than plain text mail? I direly need to be able to generate HTML-formatted memos to my department. Thank

Re: Q for Regexperts

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Ivers, Doug E wrote: This may be a common need... I want to parse text into a list of words. I don't know how to pull out an arbitrary number of captures in a Revolution regex. I use a regex that gets me the first capture and the string after that. I

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

>> delete line 3 of fld "test" >> >> the entire line would be deleted (if there were 10 lines, now there >> would be 9 lines). >> >> In version 2.1, if I use the same command, the contents of line 3 are >> deleted, but the empty line remains (there are still 10 lines in the >> field). >> >> Anyb

Re: scrolling groups and graphic border

Hello and thanks, Thomas, Like you, I was not on revolution when I discovered the list was back, so I rewrote my message from memory (not a very good one) and I was a bit sloppy. Scrolling deals with formattedwidth, not mere width... and formattedwidth is read only. I put again my message with

Re: cross platform scripting

Stephen Messimer wrote: > Are these all the cross platform scripting cautions you need to be > aware of when developing for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms? > Having a complete set of information on this subject in one place would > be most helpful. Stay with low-ASCII and you're fine.

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am confused by everyone's responses. I am experiencing the same thing as > John. But that is the way it has always been -- in Hypercard, in Metacard and > in > all versions I've used of Revolution. If you have 10 lines in fld "test" and > type > delete line 3 of fld

Viruses and Revolution

I'm writing an application that could be exposed to file system based viruses due to the nature of how it will be used. I'd like to minimize the risk to users. I doubt there is any way I can prevent the standalone or stacks from being infected because that is a function of the cleanliness of th

RE: Deleting lines in a field...

John, I'm not seeing this on Rev 2.1 Windows and 2.1.1 Mac. It is possible that it is a Mac-only 2.1 issue, but since Bugzilla is down I can't check it. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL P

Problem locating functions

In some of my HC stacks which I have converted to Rev, Rev is unable to locate any functions whether they are within the stack script or the card script. These are not externals just functions. The message is unable to locate (function). help! Ed Mccabe __

cross platform scripting

Hi, I am creating an application for use on both Macs and PCs. I know that to ensure cross platform compatibility between Mac and Windows OS the following characters need to be used when scripting. "< > " should be used instead of "≠" " >= " should be used instead of " ≥ " " =< " should

Welcome back!

Greetings again, list members! Great to see you all again. My sincere apologies for not having warned you all that the lists were about to go down - they went offline a day earlier than scheduled and my message informing you never got through. The good news is the server upgrade includes some gre

Q for Regexperts

This may be a common need... I want to parse text into a list of words. What is particularly troublesome is the apostrophe: He said, "Don't ever say 'never' 'til you're sure." The desired result is: He said Don't ever say never t

Re: Deleting lines in a field...

In a message dated 10/17/03 2:01:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi All, > >In previous versions of Revolution if you used a command like: > >delete line 3 of fld "test" > >the entire line would be deleted (if there were 10 lines, now there >would be 9 lines). > >In version 2.1, if I use the

target(), mouseControl(), etc. with mouse button depressed

What is the best way to find out which control the mouse is over when the mouse button is depressed? Functions such as target() within a mouseMove handler and mouseControl() placed in the group script always return the control the user clicked on rather than the control the mouse is currently

Re: scrolling groups and graphic border

Hi Jaques, I'm not into revolution yet but The 16 pixel difference is the width of the scrollbar. Can you set the width of the groups? Or, otherwise -if the width of the group is determined by its largest element- maybe you could set the width of one field to the width you want to achieve. Th

scrolling groups and graphic border

Hello, Nice to see the list alive again! But it seems my last message was lost in the process, so I repeat it. I have a scrolling group of fields (say group A) which scroll also a second group (B). Both groups are created by script, and have the same width. But group A (with the scrollbar) ca

Re: target(), mouseControl(), etc. when mouse button is down

Trevor, Some variation of this script in your stack or card script might do what you want. I find it works the same whether the mouse button is up or down. I use a version of this as a development utility so I can get the name of objects just by pointing at them, i.e. without recourse to the prope

Re: POST variables to CGI via URL with URLencoded string fails??

At 2:07 pm -1000 16/10/03, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: I have a simple CGI running that receives subscription requests to our Hindu Press International mailing list. Odd thing is... if I post the name and email address (only two fields in this form) to the CGI from a web form.. it works.. but

Re: Mailing lists back up + where is Bugzilla?

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:22:33 +0100, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The mailing lists are now back up, running with updated software on our new, higher capacity server. Sorry for the inconvenience while they were down. I wrote at least one message that hasn't appeared in either of the dig

Default path in answer file

I find I can set the default path in an 'ask file' command but I am not having any success with 'answer file' I've set up a default path for an answer file command (on Windows XP) and RunRev seems to be ignoring the path specification. In a desperate attempt to understand what's happening, I ex

Several newbie questions & a documentation request

Hi Folks, I am new to the list, having received Revolution 1.1.1 on a cover Cd and immediately realised that I can now make my AppleScript project into a cross-platform app! Revolution 1.1.1 on OS X 10.2.1, 1GB RAM. An application that opens a QTVR cubic pano, takes start and end points then