Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

On Dec 21, 2003, at 2:58 AM, jbv wrote: I'm not 100% sure this is the best answer to your question, but if I wanted to use an "ask" dialog, I would either : 1) use "ask" in Rev and then pass the content of it as an argument in the external call, even if it forces my script to make multiple calls

Re: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

Hi Michael, Hi Klaus, Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately with our Logitech web-cam on Windows 2000, I couldn't get the build to work with it. I'm quite new to Revolution though so I may have missed something in the build process. I did check the "Use Video for Windows" option but none of

Graphics Problem RunRev and Terminal Server (Newbie)

I have an app that runs fine on PC and MAC, but we are porting it to run on Microsoft Terminal Server. The problem is thus: We display images on a welcome screen and they get corrupted (Like when you set your display resolution wrong) We preview an image that we wish to upload and the display

Re: Post , UrlDecode and Ampersand

At 6:57 pm -1000 20/12/03, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: Or, on the client side; setting up the stack that issues the posted string to strip the ampersand out or change it to the word "and." But something feels "off" about either of those options. So, before going down that road, since the amper

Re: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

Micheal, Video and Audio from within REV is one of the easier things I have encountered using REV. I was even able to access the video controls for an iSight camera which apple says is not meant to do and REV does it great. I use all of the REV builtin video controls and they access the USB c

Manuals - when available?

Hello Marian, I found your posted question in the RunRev archives. I, too, have been waiting for my manuals for over 6 months now. No word from RunRev. I didn't see any replies to your post. Did anyone reply offline? Steve --- Manuals - when available? Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlin

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

Alex, Yes, your solution makes sense (and should certainly works). And yes, the use of revclipsAsk makes sense if your external runs some task no matter if "it" is empty or not after the "ask" dialog. When reading your 1st email, I thought that things were happening as follows : external start

Re: Manuals - when available?

Actually they did--and said they are still working on them. Haven't heard anything further since but if no news in a month or so, I'll have to contact Heather again because I will be moving and don't want the manuals to go to the wrong address. Heather: If you are reading this, any word on th

Re: Moving more than one line in a listfield

Hi all, Hi friends, i'm feeling a bit lazy today ;-) Has someone eventually already written a smart handler to move more than one hilitedlines (non-/contigous) up and/or down a listfield? If yes, are you willing to share this cleverness? Thanks in advance... in case someone is interested, her

Re: Shell or Launch or HELP!!!!

Ken, see below On Dec 20, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Ken Ray wrote: How about something simple, like: open process for neither I generally use this approach whenever I just need to launch an app and don't need to pass it any command-line parameters. I saw this and thought the process was used mostly fo

Re: Shell or Launch or HELP!!!!

P.S I did see something I was doing 'wrong' that may matter. I was using an "if the environment" instead of an "if the platform". I changed that now bust haven't tested it yet. Before during debug it did step through the script OK even though I was using the "if the environment". So I don't kno

Re: XP doesn't read a custom property from an encrypted stack

In a message dated 20/12/03 5:46:36 PM, David Glasgow writes: << Hello folks, Its a long time since my last post. (Forgive me Father?) >> Very sorry for this double post. The second was the first sent, but was held up for moderation because I was deemed not to be a member of the list fro

Re: High-Order ASCII Alphabet & Other Keyboard Edits

I'm not sure what you are trying to restrict with key strokes. All I know is that the more you go exploring the more I seem to learn. Mark, et al: My purpose is to filter individual keystrokes as a user is typing in an input field. The filter intercepts keyDown messages and, if a field is defi

Re: High-Order ASCII Alphabet & Other Keyboard Edits

Rev will see the characters as numeric values and return the same list of numeric values; but will the first character always display as "Ù" and the last character as "ü" on all Rev platforms & all fonts? I checked the Rev Dictionary for "diacritical" but the three references (find, toLower, toUppe

Re: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

>Unfortunately with our Logitech web-cam on >Windows 2000, I couldn't get the build to work with it. Hi Michael, does it work in the IDE? Have you included the videograbber external in your build? (check "all others" in the Distribution builder) Regards, Malte _

Re: Visible Image

Thanks for your help, folks. The picture was too big. Thanks also Graham for your email. Is there an advantage in other development areas for increasing memory to a very large number? Jim on 12/21/03 1:05 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> I tried Importing As Control into the card. Then I tried creating

Re: High-Order ASCII Alphabet & Other Keyboard Edits

How about this: (untested code) -- set the font of (fld "convertToHTML" ) to the target field's font put " Ä Å Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â ä ã å ç é è ê ë í ì î ï ñ ó ò ô ö õ ú ù û ü † ° ¢ £ § • ¶ ß ® © ™ ´ ¨ Æ Ø ± ¥ µ ª º æ ø ¿ ¡ ¬ ƒ « » …   À Ã Õ Œ œ – — “ ” ‘ ’ ÷ ÿ Ÿ ¤ ‹ › ‡ ·

Re: Small Diversion - DeskZolo

Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Posted is a rough prototype for a "virtual toy" version of Zolo Amazing! How about saving the "characters" obtained? How about using other picts? That makes me remember of a "potato" man made with HyperCard I saw years ago... -- Digital photos (nature,

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

Alex- I would leave EvalExpr() out of this. How about something like (untested): AR> // the C SendMCMessage("put revClipsAsk() into clipsResult", &retval); actualResult = GetGlobal("clipsResult", &retval); AR> // the transcript global clipsResult AR> function revclipsAsk AR>ask info "Your in

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Alex Rice wrote: But the it variable contents disappears before I get fetch it. I've tried GetVariable, GetGlobal, EvalExpr, put it into tAnotherVar, etc. Sometimes I execute the command I want with EvalExpr with merge() and Dar Scott ___

Re: Post , UrlDecode and Ampersand

On Dec 21, 2003, at 3:35 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: The "correct" way exactly what we're looking for is to only urlEncode the field names and values and not the ampersands and "=" which separate them. Is that what a regular browser does? Of course, if you're in charge of the client and the serve

Re: OODB/Valentina-Revolution

On Friday, Dec 19, 2003, at 11:25 America/Denver, Chuck Pelto wrote: On Friday, Dec 19, 2003, at 11:13 America/Denver, Dar Scott wrote: Valentina has some features I like that are called OO in its docs IIRC, though they might not be what you are looking for or what others call OODB. It has a n

Re: OODB/Valentina-Revolution

On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote: I guess, by the silence from my earlier post (see above), that the likelihood of doing what I propose in the Revolution-Valentina environment is rather slim? Or maybe I'm just not explaining it correctly? What is the relationship b

Re: Small Diversion - DeskZolo

Can someone send the location of Zolo... I'm new to the list and must have missed it... Jim on 12/21/03 1:39 PM, Dom wrote: > Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Posted is a rough prototype for a "virtual toy" version of Zolo > > Amazing! > How about saving the "characters" obtained? >

Beveling edges on things

Can¹t seem to find any docs on beveling the edges of objects to give a 3d appearance. Can¹t seem to get the object inspector¹s colors and patterns section to show results when I select bevel edges. I can change colours, etc. in the same inspector. Any hints? Jim -- OYF is... Highly resourcefu

Re: Small Diversion - DeskZolo

>>> Posted is a rough prototype for a "virtual toy" version of Zolo >> >> Amazing! >> How about saving the "characters" obtained? >> How about using other picts? There's a slew of things missing from the demo, thus the term "rough prototype" :-) But glad you find it entertaining. The alternate

Re: OODB/Valentina-Revolution

Or maybe I'm just not explaining it correctly? Hi Chuck, I, for one, am unsure of your definition of OODB or the specific db structure you wish to support. I started a response to your original query re OODB; but trashed it because (a) I wasn't sure it was pertinent and (b) I could not find an

Re: Beveling edges on things

Can't seem to find any docs on beveling the edges of objects to give a 3d appearance. Can't seem to get the object inspector's colors and patterns section to show results when I select bevel edges. I can change colours, etc. in the same inspector. Any hints? Jim Jim: Select 3D borders AND make

Re: High-Order ASCII Alphabet & Other Keyboard Edits

How about this: (untested code) I'm saving your handlers in case I need to go that route, Mark; but as I said to Jacque, I can't believe someone programming an application in Germany, the Scandinavian countries, or other nations where high-order characters are part of the alphabet have to go to

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

Correcting my own post: tested: void RevClipsAsk(char *args[], int nargs, char **retstring, Bool *pass, Bool *error) { int retval; char*actualResult="test"; SendCardMessage("put revClipsAsk() into global clipsResult", &retval); actualResult = GetGlobal("cl

Re: OODB/Valentina-Revolution

On Sunday, Dec 21, 2003, at 12:40 America/Denver, Rob Cozens wrote: I, for one, am unsure of your definition of OODB or the specific db structure you wish to support. I started a response to your original query re OODB; but trashed it because (a) I wasn't sure it was pertinent and (b) I could

Button Labels

How do I put the button label on the left side of the button. The default is the right side. It would also be real cool if there was a smart glossary that would respond to ³What¹s a / Where¹s a / How do I ² for beginners to reference... Jim -- OYF is... Highly resourceful people workin

Re: OODB/Valentina-Revolution

Valentina is at and it looks interesting... Jim on 12/21/03 3:40 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: >> Or maybe I'm just not explaining it correctly? > > Hi Chuck, > > I, for one, am unsure of your definition of OODB or the specific db > structure you wish to suppor

Re: Beveling edges on things

That's cool, thanks, Rob. I'm looking for a more elegant curved, shaded beveling. How do I get that effect? Jim 12/21/03 3:41 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: >> Can't seem to find any docs on beveling the edges of objects to give a 3d >> appearance. Can't seem to get the object inspector's colors and

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

Of course you can send messages to Rev objects from within an external, and your example certainly works... But don't you think that, in this case, it's a bit too tricky (if not perverse), especially for a simple "ask" dialog which, above all, is called BEFORE the external ? Last but not least, suc

Re: Showing lines in a text field

Check out the Table section of the Inspector. It includes Text baselines and Horizontal grid, one of which will do what you want. Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/ On 21 Dec 2003, at 7:39 am, Jim Carwardine wrote: How do I show lines in a text field? The field properties

Re: High-Order ASCII Alphabet & Other Keyboard Edits

On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: How about this: (untested code) I'm saving your handlers in case I need to go that route, Mark; but as I said to Jacque, I can't believe someone programming an application in Germany, the Scandinavian countries, or other nations where

Re: Button Labels

I'm not sure quite what you are referring to, as for me, button labels are always centered, but to change them there are 2 basic methods: 1. in text formatting, change the alignment to left, center or right to move the button's text. 2. change the margins. Still in the Text formatting section of

Re: copy progress bar; windows

Revolution has a progress bar object - it is a variation of the scrollbar so you can get to it in the Tools palette by holding down the mouse button on the scrollbar button until the sub-menu pops out and offers you the progress bar. When you have made your progress bar, there are two propertie

Re: Apple script problems

Message: 3 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:32:13 -0800 From: Bruce Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Apple script problems To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I don't have FileMaker so I can't test this, but

Re: Navigation palette questions

On 20 Dec 2003, at 12:56 am, David Squance wrote: card switching doesn't happen. It would appear that the messages are stuck in the palette stack, and not going to the current stack. I would try something like: go to next card of the topStack I don't think the palette can automatically d

Re: Showing lines in a text field

Thanks, Sarah. I wasn't sure what the table section was for. Hadn't looked into it. I guess it makes a table field that would partner nicely with the array functions I've read about... Jim on 12/21/03 5:44 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Check out the Table section of the Inspector. It includes Te

Re: Button Labels

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant check box buttons, where the text is on the right side of the box icon by default. I'd like to put it on the left side... Jim on 12/21/03 5:56 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > I'm not sure quite what you are referring to, as for me, button labels > ar

Executable (distribution) can't be deleted in Window XP

I've been building apps (distributions) using my nice new laptop running Windows XP. No problem there - but when I want to rebuild, the DB doesn't seem to be able to delete (overwrite) the previous version of the app (which always has the same name). After running the app, I want to delete it:

RE: Executable (distribution) can't be deleted in Window XP

> I've been building apps (distributions) using my nice new laptop > running Windows XP. No problem there - but when I want to rebuild, > the DB doesn't seem to be able to delete (overwrite) the previous > version of the app (which always has the same name). After running > the app, I want to delet

Re: Apple script problems

> Actually, as I said earlier in this thread, this is an election > database and very large; there are 16,000 records with 25 fields per > record. OK. Missed that part. >> 2. You aren't describing the runrev end of things. What is the applescript >> in RR to make your new record? What data do yo

Re: Navigation palette questions

Yes, thank you Sarah. And a Merry Christmas to all. Dave >put the short name of the topStack into tStack >go to next card of stack tStack > >I don't know why the original doesn't work, but this one really does. > >Cheers, >Sarah ___ use-revolution mai

RE: Post , UrlDecode, and Ampersand

In this particular case they all are using Macs. However, iCal won't let multiple users modify the same calendar. I want all of the secretaries to be able to schedule the rooms. I also don't think iCal can do the notes that I'm thinking of. Bill Vlahos Okay, let me try to rephraze that rule: sy

Newbie Questions from a ToolBook Developer

Hi All, I've been developing courseware with ToolBook for about 7 years, but I'm a brand new user to Runtime Revolution. I'm excited about the cross-platform possiblities. I'm ultimatly looking for a second development tool and possibly something to switch to for full-time development. If anyone

RE: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

That's quite alright. You've given me the first step down the path and it is much appreciated. I'll keep trying with the sample stack. Peace, Michael -Original Message- From: Klaus Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:42 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject:

RE: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

Thank you for the feedback. This is good to know, too. Simplicity is what I am looking for. As I mentioned before the RealBasic app I have tried is tied to QuickTime. I love QT but if it can be avoided as an add-on download that would help things quite a bit. I'll be getting more familiar with R

RE: Capturing Audio and Video with RevRun

Ah this might be the missing piece... I was wondering about the build process and if I've included everything. I didn't consider including other components nor did I test it in the IDE. I'll have to check up on how to do that! Still learning the basics... Thanks again all for the help. It gives

Shrinking an image to a button icon

Does anyone have scripting to take an image selected by the user, shrink it to a thumbnail and place it as an icon on a button? When the button is clicked, I¹d like to show the picture snapshot size... Jim -- OYF is... Highly resourceful people working together.

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Das Update 20031220 für die "Serendipity Library" steht nun hier zum Download bereit: . Dieses Update enthält die erste Ausgabe der Client/Server Version der "Serendipity Database Binary" (SDB) und die "Interprocess Communication Library" (libI

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Re: Newbie Questions from a ToolBook Developer

> I've been developing courseware with ToolBook for about 7 years, but I'm a > brand new user to Runtime Revolution. Welcome, Jim! > I'm excited about the cross-platform possiblities. I'm ultimatly looking for > a second development tool and possibly something to switch to for full-time > develo

Re: Graphics Problem RunRev and Terminal Server (Newbie)

> I have an app that runs fine on PC and MAC, but we are porting it to run on > Microsoft Terminal Server. > > The problem is thus: > > We display images on a welcome screen and they get corrupted (Like when you > set your display resolution wrong) Do you know if the image is embedded or referen

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

On Dec 21, 2003, at 7:05 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: The "ask" dialog is called *from* the external. That's the function of the SendCardMessage() call. I don't like the idea of hardcoding the result variable, but that of course could be passed in an argument. This works as a proof of concept. Mark, tha

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

On Dec 21, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Dar Scott wrote: Sometimes I execute the command I want with EvalExpr with merge() and Unfortunately in the case of the ask command and several others that use the it variable- it evaluates to empty and the response is put into the it variable. Maybe I'm misunderst

Stack shift on 800X 600 Display on OSX

Again this is happening on stacks you can check out yourself at: http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/dws_youth/ Scenario is that I have a "home" splash screen stack that is 750 X 550 set to open at the screenloc on start up, which it does. Then, to open a substack I am using: open stack "d

Windows 2000 not responding to menu insert commands

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Standalone clipping Stack height on 800 X 600 display?

I finally pinned part of my stack height problem down to a repeatable behavior: set stack size to 750 X 550. build standalone for OSX open stack inside screen that is set to 1440 X 900 now change display to 800 X 600, drag stack into center of window, Result; the full 550 pixels of the stack ar

Re: evaluate the "it" variable in an external

Alex- Sorry - I thought you were having problems getting the "it" variable from your external, so I figured the easiest thing to do was to put the answer in a global variable and retrieve it that way. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. Obviously I don't see all the code context here, but I