Re: lineoffset and itemoffset alltogether

2003-12-11 Thread jbv
Rob Cozens a *crit : Is this what you want, JB? function lineItemOffset targetText,searchString get lineOffset(targetText,searchString) if it is empty then return empty return itcommaitemOffset(targetText,line it of searchString) end lineItemOffset Yes, thanks, but this is

[OT] Poll: installers

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sorry for the bandwidth, but this will become on-topic at some point in the future so bear with me: Which installer do you use for - Mac Classic: OS X: Win32: Linux: Please email me OFFLIST so we don't litter the discussion with this unless you feel it's truly relevant here. Thanks. --

Re: Bug# 38 baseConvert

2003-12-11 Thread Wouter
On 10 Dec 2003, at 21:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:14:39 -0700 From: Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug# 38 baseConvert To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;

Re: [OT] Poll: installers

2003-12-11 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Sorry for the bandwidth, but this will become on-topic at some point in the future so bear with me: Which installer do you use for - Mac Classic: OS X: Win32: Linux: Please email me OFFLIST so we don't litter the discussion with this unless you feel it's truly relevant here.

Newbie Help

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis F. Kahlbaum
As many newbie users have stated, the documentation for RR is lacking. If you go through the tutorials, there is a sudden jump form learning specific items to having to analyze an entire example project. This jump misses many common items found in GUI-based programs. As a newbie myself, I am

Re: Your Software

2003-12-11 Thread Andy Burns
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Re: Newbie Help

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dennis F. Kahlbaum wrote: As many newbie users have stated, the documentation for RR is lacking. With nearly 3,500 pages' worth of docs, it can be a bit daunting at first until you discover the search tool. If you go through the tutorials, there is a sudden jump form learning basic items to

Re: Newbie Help

2003-12-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Scrolling lists with checkboxes are not suppoted as ONE object... Means you will have to create this by combining a listfield and a group of checkboxes... I hope this will be supported in a later version of RR... Jan Schenkel has

menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
I know this topic has probably been dealt with before, but I'm having a big problem and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I'm working on an app for Mac and Windows, and dealing with the menu bar differences between the two has been a nightmare. First of all, on the Mac, is there any

Re: OSX Pinstripes and Modeless Mode

2003-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/10/03 11:40 PM, David Egbert wrote: I've been using modeless to open stacks so that they have the pinstripes seen in MacOS 10.1 10.2. Everything looks great in development, but when I build the stacks as standalones modeless shows a grey background instead of the pinstripes (I'm in

Re: menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/11/03 1:03 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I'm working on an app for Mac and Windows, and dealing with the menu bar differences between the two has been a nightmare. First of all, on the Mac, is there any way to keep the engine from shifting all my controls up automatically and resizing my

RE: menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Jacque. I was afraid of that. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon. Chris Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:19 PM To: How to use

Re: lineoffset and itemoffset alltogether

2003-12-11 Thread jbv
I actually meant a Rev built-in function... In that case, I venture to say there is none. -- Mmh.. that's what I thought... AFAIR there was a nice feature in OMO (associated with spreadsheets) : a function that returned the row col numbers of a searched string... I tried to find a

Re: OSX Pinstripes and Modeless Mode

2003-12-11 Thread Alex Rice
On Dec 11, 2003, at 12:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Interesting. Sounds a little like the same loss I experienced where the background pattern disappeared in standalones. I thought it was the Distribution Builder at fault, but maybe it is something else. Sorry, I don't have a clue what it

Re: lineoffset and itemoffset alltogether

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Cozens
I tried to find a workaround. I actually have a variable that contains a large number of lines, and each line contains the same number of items. I thought I could use itemoffset straight (instead of lineoffset) and then compute the # of the line with a simple calculation. But things aren't so

Re: lineoffset and itemoffset alltogether

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Cozens wrote: I tried to find a workaround. I actually have a variable that contains a large number of lines, and each line contains the same number of items. I thought I could use itemoffset straight (instead of lineoffset) and then compute the # of the line with a simple calculation.

delete an array?

2003-12-11 Thread Steve Ralston
Hi all, Back to Rev after being side-tracked for over a month, and glad to be coding in it again. I've looked through the docs, but I can't find a way to delete an entire array. I'm already cringing at how easy I expect it to be, but I have to ask. Thanks, Steve Ralston -- “I believe in

RE: menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread Ken Ray
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd greatly appreciate it. Actually, I have that happening in my stacks and I found a (albeit temporary) workaround. It turns out that if you manually switch to the pointer tool and click at the location where your buttons are, they will redraw properly. So I just

RE: menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Ken. Hopefully that will do the trick. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:36 PM To: 'How to use Revolution' Subject: RE: menus on

Re: delete an array?

2003-12-11 Thread David Kwinter
delete arrayName : ) On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 03:31 PM, Steve Ralston wrote: Hi all, Back to Rev after being side-tracked for over a month, and glad to be coding in it again. I've looked through the docs, but I can't find a way to delete an entire array. I'm already cringing at how

Re: OSX Pinstripes and Modeless Mode

2003-12-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/03 11:40 PM, David Egbert wrote: I've been using modeless to open stacks so that they have the pinstripes seen in MacOS 10.1 10.2. Everything looks great in development, but when I build the stacks as standalones modeless shows a

convert stacks from Mac to Windows?

2003-12-11 Thread erik hansen
went down to Kinkos blithely assuming they would be able to convert stacks from Mac to Windows. no luck. all of my handlers are in stack scripts saved to text files. these can be emailed. maybe it is a good idea to write code to create and position all of one's objects. makes quite a display

Re: convert stacks from Mac to Windows?

2003-12-11 Thread erik hansen
--- erik hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: went down to Kinkos blithely assuming they would be able to convert stacks from Mac to Windows. no luck. all of my handlers are in stack scripts saved to text files. these can be emailed. maybe it is a good idea to write code to create and

Re: convert stacks from Mac to Windows?

2003-12-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I don't see what the problem is as the stack format is identical and no conversion is necessary. Was the problem that Kinko's didn't have a copy of Revolution? Were you using a Mac standalone rather than stack files? Or did you have a problem with the format of the media? If you can give us a

Re: OSX Pinstripes and Modeless Mode

2003-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/11/03 5:52 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Did you check the box Apply default colors ? When the DB script was still open, I disected the source code, and remember that on some platforms, the DB will set the backgroundColor to certain values ; and when both a backgroundPattern and backgroundColor

Stack Size and loc for 800 X 600 displays

2003-12-11 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
I seem to have blundered in assumptions about what stack size will really work, practically speaking, on 800 X 600 displays. A stack size of 800 by 566 set to the screenloc on start up on OSX on a 800 X 600 display appears with it's title bar underneath the menu bar... and the bottom of the

Re: Stack Size and loc for 800 X 600 displays

2003-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
On 12/11/03 9:47 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for an optimum set of values that I can just use for everything. do we have to think about vertical toolbars on windows? if so, how many pixels is that off the max width of 800? i.e. should the optimum stack

Re: OSX Pinstripes and Modeless Mode

2003-12-11 Thread David Egbert
Jan, Thanks for the suggestion. Where do you find this check box? -- Dave Egbert On 12/11/03 4:52 PM, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you check the box Apply default colors ? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menus on the Mac

2003-12-11 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 11 déc. 03, à 23:41, Chris Sheffield a écrit : Thanks, Ken. Hopefully that will do the trick. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ray Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:36 PM To:

Setting IP-properties.

2003-12-11 Thread Gunnar Wallier
I want to create an application that can set the IP-adress, netmask and default gateway of my own computer. Can this be done with Revolution? /// Gunnar ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]