Re: Upgrade versus update

2004-03-14 Thread A.C.T.
Hi, Doug, Of course, after a certain amount of time, expecting bug-fixes on older versions wouldn't be reasonable either. Every software product has a supported lifetime. I agree. For example, if you found a bug in Windows 95, Microsoft would hardly be expected to provide a fix a this point in

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread A.C.T.
Moin, Geoff, Where did you read this? On this page it says Next feature update included: I quoted the sentence from the license eMail I got from Runrev, so I consider it official, no matter what the website says ;-) Marc Albrecht A.C.T. / level-2 Glinder Str. 2 27432 Ebersdorf Deutschland Tel.

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 89

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen King
Geoff, This is all good of course but what about those windows media issues raised many times on the list. Here in the UK, the windows/mac balance is probably 95%/5%. Certainly everything I build for school use and club use is Windows. I bought my Rev partly on its multimedia and cross platform

Re: Saving substacks in stand alones

2004-03-14 Thread James Spencer
On Mar 13, 2004, at 10:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/13/04 2:40 PM, James Spencer wrote: What I don't get and hope that some kind soul will tell me is: a) Considering that the data stack is not a substack of the main stack but rather is a completely separate entity in its own file, why

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
Never having purchased a copy of studio, I hadn't seen that email ;-) regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:45 AM, A.C.T. wrote: Moin, Geoff, Where did you read this? On this page it says Next feature update included: I quoted the sentence from the license eMail I got

Re: Saving substacks in stand alones

2004-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/04 8:43 AM, James Spencer wrote: (I would suggest that this is counterintuitive in this context: at least for me, I expect this to be the stack in which the script is found but now I'm whining.) After working for a while with multiple windows at once, it starts to make more sense. For

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before

2004-03-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Stephen King wrote: many things about media support on Windows Make sure these are entered into bugzilla, which has an ever-growing influence on my life ;-) regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution

Re: Saving substacks in stand alones

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Wieder
James- Sunday, March 14, 2004, 6:43:54 AM, you wrote: JS ...and my going back to reading the Transcript Dictionary entry for the JS default stack property makes this even clearer. Thank you again. (I JS would suggest that this is counterintuitive in this context: at least JS for me, I expect

visited icons

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Messimer
Hi I am working with icons in OSX. I have created a series of graphics that I store in the stack and I use them to represent the enabled disabled and hilited states of buttons. In OSX when I set the hilite icon of a button to a specified icon the button shows the appropriate appearance and

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/04 1:17 AM, j wrote: If the third place number indicates bug fixes or minor changes (2.1.x), shouldn't anyone who purchased 2.1.2 receive 2.1.4even up to 2.1.9for free? The numbering scheme would indicate they are all bug fix updates. One would think that my included free upgrade

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread A.C.T.
Moin, Jacqueline, One question to consider, though, is how many free updates the company can provide and still expect to stay afloat financially. Demanding unlimited free updates may not work to our advantage in the long run. If you have followed the discussion you may have noticed that updates

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 12:19 PM, A.C.T. wrote: If you have followed the discussion you may have noticed that updates are considered bug fixes by most participiants within this discussion, while upgrades are considered feature enhancements (meaning NEW features). Bugfixes have to be free

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Marian Petrides
Yes. So long as customers are still using 9.1.1, there is an implicit obligation to fix bugs therein. Once a product is purchased, the manufacturer has an implicit obligation to the purchaser to ensure that it functions as advertised. Simply releasing a new version does not relieve one of

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread A.C.T.
Moin, Dar, Are you suggesting that there be versions branch for every upgrade, that is, that bugs found for 9.1.1 be fixed even after the company has released 10.0.0? I am afraid this is leading into a dead cycle. I am not Runrev. I cannot tell Runrev how to handle their versioning. All I can

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/04 1:53 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Yes. So long as customers are still using 9.1.1, there is an implicit obligation to fix bugs therein. Once a product is purchased, the manufacturer has an implicit obligation to the purchaser to ensure that it functions as advertised. Simply

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Marian Petrides
If, in fact, 8.6 still has bugs which prevent it from functioning _as advertised_, probably yes. But at this point, this is pretty unlikely since the people who continue to use it are likely doing so because it has proved stable enough and full-featured enough to meet their needs. I think the

Building Standalones revProfileBack revCommon problems

2004-03-14 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi I'm having some problems getting a standalone version of my rev program working. The problem only presents in the standalone version. The problem occurs when I use my program and click a button to stop. Results are displayed. I click the button again to reset the screen. Because this

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mar 14, 2004, at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/14/04 1:53 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Yes. So long as customers are still using 9.1.1, there is an implicit obligation to fix bugs therein. Once a product is purchased, the manufacturer has an implicit obligation to the purchaser to

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Marian, Using your logic, I should be able to demand Adobe fix my unresolved bugs in Photoshop 5,6, and 7? I would rather them fixed than upgrade to the latest version. Frankly, I'm not aware of any small software company who continues to release bug fixes for older versions of their

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 3/14/04 1:53 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Yes. So long as customers are still using 9.1.1, there is an implicit obligation to fix bugs therein. Once a product is purchased, the manufacturer has an implicit obligation to the purchaser to ensure that it functions as advertised. Simply

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Are you suggesting that if I buy 9.1.1 today and you release 10.0 tomorrow that you have no obligation whatsoever to me to ensure that 9.1.1 meets the specifications you set out for it , specifications upon which I based my

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 12:19 PM, A.C.T. wrote: If you have followed the discussion you may have noticed that updates are considered bug fixes by most participiants within this discussion, while upgrades are considered feature enhancements (meaning NEW features). Bugfixes have to be free

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead [OT]

2004-03-14 Thread Marian Petrides
Ayup. It happens but that isn't necessarily the right way to do things. For example, contractors fail to fix warranty items on new homes all the time, claiming they are not defects and knowing that most people will not take the time to pursue them. It's a fact of life, but that doesn't make

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Yennie
A better comparison is to other applications. For how long after Office 2003 or Office 2004 for Mac came out did Microsoft continue to release bug fixes for the previous versions? In my experience, the answer has been, about ten seconds. I'm cringing at jumping into this thread, because I DO

Re: SoCal RevDevCon - March 24

2004-03-14 Thread James Cass
Richard - When it comes to organizing a get together like this, you may want to consider this website: http://www.meetup.com/ I saw a bit about it on TechTV about a Month ago. From the website: Meetup is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere. - James On

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread James Spencer
On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: I'm cringing at jumping into this thread, because I DO NOT think RunRev has exactly been guilty of poor support or response to bugs. HOWEVER, I can't quite agree with the Office OR OS comparisons. Both are consumer products, not developer

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Yennie
I agree with you about RunRev's support and also cringe about jumping in but I think the second comment deserves response because I think this is somewhat behind some of the carping: You may wish they were more bug free but in fact developer products are more complicated and function at lower

deleting multiple Var's

2004-03-14 Thread hershrev
Hi, all my emails got deleted , can you please repost how to delete multiple Var's ? Thanks , hershrev ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: visited icons

2004-03-14 Thread Ken Ray
When I change the appearance to windows the icon changes appropriately but then a black rectangle appears bounding the button. This rectangle remains even if the hilite icon is removed from the button ( ie the button's icon is changed to its enabled appearance ). The rectangle can

RE: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before

2004-03-14 Thread Monte Goulding
-- Going native WinXP appearance -- bug fix. How is this a bugfix? This is major new functionality in the engine that has been requested by many users for a long time and something I'd be happy to pay for if it were a release on it's own. -- More OSX appearance support -- either a bug

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead [OT]

2004-03-14 Thread David Vaughan
On 15/03/2004, at 8:55, someone whom I am not attacking personally wrote: Ayup. It happens but that isn't necessarily the right way to do things. For example, contractors fail to fix warranty items on new homes all the time, claiming they are not defects and knowing that most people will not

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead [OT]

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Yennie
The industry practice and RunRev policy of three-part changes (bug/minor/major) and associated pricing policies (none/small/large) is well established and of minor interest unless someone has a unique and commercially viable proposal which they should then put straight to Kevin Miller anyway.

Manipulating PLAIN text on the clipboard (trying again)

2004-03-14 Thread JonathanC
Hi. About a week ago I asked a question about plain text on the clipboard. I had one reply (from Jacque - thanks) but the suggestion, while helpful, didn't solve the problem. I wrote this back to the list but it seems to have been lost in the mountains of other list emails. (Incidentally, does

Re: Fix Fielded Data Files?

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin
Thanks, I appreciate the help! -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic.

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread j
So, by this logic, Apple should still be releasing bug fixes for OS 8.6? Lots of people still use it. If Apple hasn't squashed all the bugs in 8.6 by now, then shame on them! Bugs need to be fixed ASAP, and once they are fixed, they are fixed. It is not as if new 8.6 bugs would begin to

RE: Manipulating PLAIN text on the clipboard (trying again)

2004-03-14 Thread Ken Ray
Jonathan, In order to keep the text font, style, etc. information, you need to manipulate the clipboardData[html], not the clipboardData[text]. (Note: For those of you who get list mail in HTML, I'm wrapping the rest in PRE tags so it will display properly.) PRE However in your case, you need

Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before moving ahead

2004-03-14 Thread j
We may be straying to far from the topic at hand here (RR)... Most software licenses these days do not have 'bug-free' clauses. Typically, you purchase the software 'as is.' But developers must be very careful about this, or be left to the mercies of the judiciary. Suppose I sell a product

Re: Manipulating PLAIN text on the clipboard (trying again)

2004-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/04 8:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. About a week ago I asked a question about plain text on the clipboard. I had one reply (from Jacque - thanks) but the suggestion, while helpful, didn't solve the problem. I wrote this back to the list but it seems to have been lost in the

Re: Manipulating PLAIN text on the clipboard (trying again)

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Yennie
I think we've bounced back and forth on this one... 7. The text should be duplicated (i.e. to be sure becomes to be sure to be sure - Happy St Patrick's Day by the way!) ** in the same font, size and style as the original text. *** On my system* the pasted text ALWAYS ends up as Lucida