newbie question: type 3 error

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Ryan
I just recently purchased downloaded Revolution Studio 2.1 with the intent of converting Hypercard stacks to Revolution and then to Windows. Whenever I try to convert a stack, I get to the last step (build distribution) and Revolution unexpectedly quits with a type 3 error. The new stack appears

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread xbury . cs
On 12/11/2003 07:18:29 use-revolution-bounces wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:44 PM, MisterX wrote: Save often, pick up a good book on C. That C code is hellish! Doing the advanced stuff like the Life game or the imagine stuff on the tutorial is impressive! But should be easy with practice and

RE: Multiple-Choice Problems...

2003-11-12 Thread Jason Rippetoe
Thanks for the advice, Ken. It's an excellent suggestion and I'll give it a try. Trying to think three-dimensionally, -Jason On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 02:21 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Jason, The problem is (IMHO) that you're removing the correct answers from the list so that you eat away

MacOS 9/X Questions

2003-11-12 Thread David Burgun
Hi, If I Build a Distrobution as MacOS PPC, will this also run under MacOS X? e.g. is it a Carbon App? If I have some external C/C++ code that is called from MacOS 9, will the same C/C++ code be callable from X? Thanks in advance Dave ___

Re: Database Query Builder: workaround please

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le mer 12/11/2003 06:35, Alex Rice a crit : The same difficulties under Linux and Jaguar there... On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I can't believe I'm the only one being hassled by this bug, so is there a workaround I am missing? And I mean other than *not using the

RunRev Documentation

2003-11-12 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Is there any Documentation available for RunRev in PDF format? I would like to be able to print off a couple of chapters at a time and have a good read away from the computer! All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Questions about experiences

2003-11-12 Thread T. R. Ponn
Oops...I guess I should have included an address with the invitation! I wonder if this is why nobody ever showed up for my high school graduation in '65?? ;-) Anyway, the url is: http://www.alptex.com/products/emulators/alptex16bie/16bieupdates.html We have it set up to gather some info

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread xbury . cs
Hi everyone, I've posted a bug regarding the plug-in message RevEditScript not being handled, So far it's just verified. Has anyone managed to make it work? If so how??? Im working on the new script editor to replace RR's ;) Yes, I tried putting the msg handler in the cd and stack scritps...

Rev Bug: revDatabaseColumnNamed missing...

2003-11-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, I've got a little script here that opens a database connection, query data, close the connection... revOpenDatabase works and return a valid ID. revQueryDatabase works and return a valid ID. revMoveToFirstRecord works. revDatabaseColumnNamed does not work Rev IDE pops up a Can't

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I've posted a bug regarding the plug-in message RevEditScript not being handled, So far it's just verified. Has anyone managed to make it work? If so how??? Im working on the new script editor to replace RR's ;) Yes, I tried putting the

Re: string cleaning

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Cozens
Rob here is the same function, but 32% faster! These performance hits will populate my scripts for some time to come, Alex...at least until I learn (and find readable) regular expression syntax. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm And I, which was two

Re: Questions about experiences

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Canyon
create button test in group 1 -- works for me regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:45 AM, tuviah snyder wrote: - You cannot interactively create objects within a group unless the editBg of the group is on, but while in that mode the scroll bars and anything

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread xbury . cs
Hi Xavier, In the Rev IDE, look at the frontScript aptly named 'revFrontScript' ; there you'll find the message 'editScript' is trapped for their own purposes. So you'll basically have to find a way to beat them to it :-D Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. Jan! My man! Too bad we can't edit the

RE: revDatabaseColumnNamed and revDatabaseColumnByNumber missing...

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
Andre, I think it's revDatabaseColumnNumbered, not revDatabaseColumnByNumber. You could also try using the counterparts revdb_columnbyname() and revdb_columnbynumber(). I've had a similar problem in the past, and have gotten around it by using these other functions. They do the same thing,

Re: string cleaning

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 12, 2003, at 7:04 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: These performance hits will populate my scripts for some time to come, Alex...at least until I learn (and find readable) regular expression syntax. I understand. regex is kind of bizarre sometimes. I'll break it down for you- I am assuming that's

editScript, revEditScript

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there seems to be no support for the plug-in message in that frontscript. Either it's not there, or still be be scripted! Here is what I'm doing for my MLXEditor plugin. Not sure why I used editScript instead of revEditScript. This was

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted a bug regarding the plug-in message RevEditScript not being handled, I couldn't find the revEditScript message in the Transcript Dictionary. Where is it documented? I'm curious why the messages exists, seemingly mirroring the built-in editScript

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted a bug regarding the plug-in message RevEditScript not being handled, I couldn't find the revEditScript message in the Transcript Dictionary. Where is it documented? I'm curious why the messages exists,

bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2 - Should it be a bug? May you help? Richard.

Menu

2003-11-12 Thread Robert Presender
Is it possible to have a group menu show in the menubar when the stack is hidden? Using OS 10.2.8. When the stack is hidden or moved off screen, the menubar goes with it. Suggestion(s) will be appreciated. Regards ... Bob ___ use-revolution mailing

URL Bookmarks

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Guay
Hello Folks. What I would like to do is to enable the user to open an Internet browser from within a RunRev app, navigate to a site and store a bookmark to that site in the RunRev app (like in a List Field.) Can anyone help with this? TIA, Roger

Re: RunRev Documentation

2003-11-12 Thread Ken Norris
Hi David, Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:17 + From: David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RunRev Documentation Hi, Is there any Documentation available for RunRev in PDF format? I would like to be able to print off a couple of chapters at a time and have a good read away from the

Re: bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2

Re: URL Bookmarks

2003-11-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Roger, Hello Folks. What I would like to do is to enable the user to open an Internet browser from within a RunRev app, navigate to a site and store a bookmark to that site in the RunRev app (like in a List Field.) Can anyone help with this? What about the new window decoration systemwindow

Re: Questions about experiences

2003-11-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tim, Oops...I guess I should have included an address with the invitation! I wonder if this is why nobody ever showed up for my high school graduation in '65?? ;-) Probably, if you also used a redirect-to-www.alptex.co-javascript in your invitations-page ;-) Anyway, the url is:

Problems with copy text

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have a list field which I populate with data and search. When a search entry is found in the field I set the hilitedline of it so that the user sees a line found in addition to the outlined word. This looks fine but when I try to copy it nothing gets to the clipboard. If I click on the line

Re: Problems with copy text

2003-11-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Bill, I have a list field which I populate with data and search. When a search entry is found in the field I set the hilitedline of it so that the user sees a line found in addition to the outlined word. This looks fine but when I try to copy it nothing gets to the clipboard. If I click on

RE: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread MisterX
Richard kindly asked I couldn't find the revEditScript message in the Transcript Dictionary. Where is it documented? It's in the plugin settings... NOT documented naturally! I also tried edit script but Alex hit the nail on the spot! I forgot about the usage of frontscripts! So basically, we

Re: Rendezvous, event loops, and why I need SDK docs

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
MisterX wrote: Richard kindly asked I couldn't find the revEditScript message in the Transcript Dictionary. Where is it documented? It's in the plugin settings... NOT documented naturally! I also tried edit script but Alex hit the nail on the spot! I forgot about the usage of

Re: Problems with copy text

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thanks Klaus. That did it. I modified the script to be able to do multiple lines. put empty into tCopy -- initialize tCopy repeat for each item tItem in (the hilitedLines of fld Directory) put line tItem of field Directory return after tCopy end repeat set

Re: bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread R. Hillen
--- R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2 - Should it be a bug?

REVTOOLS - MAJOR HEADACHE!

2003-11-12 Thread Mathewson
Dear RR afficionados, my apologies: scrambled-egg attack at my website recently! Now descrambled! Totally outrageous new version of revTools! Be there or be square - and don't forget to send me a postcard. Love, Richmond __ See Mathewson's

Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
System Mac OSX 10.3.1, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB DDR SDRAM Revolution 2.1.2 Rev that doesn't work as expected: Paint tools Stacks that don't work or at least as expected: EasyTransparency - No transparency custom cursor - white box instead of graphic Calendar - Both English date and System date

waaaay OT Scots

2003-11-12 Thread erik hansen
there is a book about how the Irish saved civilization. does anyone know the companion volume about how the Scots defined civilization? thanks, Erik the bookish = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with

Re: bug in formatted prompt?

2003-11-12 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le mer 12/11/2003 18:20, R. Hillen a crit : Hello list, On Mac, OSX 10.2.8, Revolution 2.1 I wrote: on mouseup answer text1 p text2 with ok end mouseup and got - text1 text2 - The same script with Revolution 2.1.2 results in: - text1 ptext2

Path to Application AppleScript

2003-11-12 Thread RGould8
Does anyone know if there's a way via Applescript to find the path to an application in Mac OS X? Something like find app with creatorID MSIE or something like that? What I'm trying to avoid is having the user try to find out where their apps are located. I'd like Revolution to figure that

RE: PreNewbie database question

2003-11-12 Thread Jay Madren
If by can't get to first base you mean once you opened the query builder, you didn't know what to do, then I can relate. It took some digging in the online docs for me to figure out that you've got to create a new query first, by pressing the + button. Then you can fill in the connection

Re: URL Bookmarks

2003-11-12 Thread Roger Guay
That's real kool, Klaus . . . thanks very much. I'll give it a try Message: 7 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:30:38 +0100 From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: URL Bookmarks To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;

Re: Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread Sarah
Picking out the stacks that I recognise as mine :-) On 13 Nov 2003, at 7:42 am, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Calendar - Both English date and System date are the same This works for me - maybe you need to check your system settings. e.g. today is 13th November, when I select that in Calendar, I

Re: Path to Application AppleScript

2003-11-12 Thread Sarah
This is going to give horrible line wrap problems :-) but it works (Mac OS 10.3.1). Set the creator ID in the second line (you could have Revolution insert a variable in there). Then there is a blank line, a comment line to show the format of the result, then the line that actually does the

Re: URL Bookmarks

2003-11-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Roger, That's real kool, Klaus . . . thanks very much. I'll give it a try fine you like it :-) Little mistake here, my fault... See below: ... on mousedoubleup ### revgourl the hilitedlines of me ## SO BAD ;-) revgourl line (the hilitedlines of me) of me end mousedoubleup Au

Re: Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Sarah, I guess I didn't get the point of Calendar when I first tested it, I'm in the US and both dates show up the same for me, I don't know what setting I might change to see different dates except maybe to another time zone, etc. But they are both the same here in the US. I had a problem

Re: Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Sarah, I changed my date format and it works as expected. :-) Sorry, TOM On Nov 12, 2003, at 6:06 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Sarah, I guess I didn't get the point of Calendar when I first tested it, I'm in the US and both dates show up the same for me, I don't know what setting I

Re: Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/03 3:42 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: System Mac OSX 10.3.1, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB DDR SDRAM Revolution 2.1.2 Rev that doesn't work as expected: Paint tools I had a little trouble with the shape chooser at first but then it kicked in. Not sure what the glitch was. Other than

Re: Stacks that now do not work

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Paint tools has a button on it that does nothing and is missing the divider line between tools. I have a brand new 2 months old 15 inch 1.25GHz PB G4 so I don't think it is the graphics card. I will try it on my other 500 MHz PB 15 inch and see what it used to look like. I can take a screen

Re: revDatabaseColumnNamed and revDatabaseColumnByNumber missing...

2003-11-12 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 12, 2003, at 1:46 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Andre, I think it's revDatabaseColumnNumbered, not revDatabaseColumnByNumber. You could also try using the counterparts revdb_columnbyname() and revdb_columnbynumber(). I've had a similar problem in the past, and have gotten around it by

Re: waaaay OT Scots

2003-11-12 Thread FlexibleLearning
Sorry, I only have volume III of how the English invented civilization. /H there is a book about how the Irish saved civilization. does anyone know the companion volume about how the Scots defined civilization? thanks, Erik the bookish ___