Thoughts on screed about HC and Applescript

2004-04-10 Thread Jim Witte
Hi, A couple days ago, I submitted a long screed to Apple's Bugreporter (probably not the best place) as a feature request for Applescript. Then I posted it to the "Applescript Users" mailing list. The reactions were not exactly pretty. I'm wondering what people here think, since Rev is c

Re: NumberFormat in field

2004-04-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 05:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote: The global numberFormat property comes into play whenever the result of a math operation or math function application is used as a string, as in the case when it is put into a field, used as an array key, or used with the '&' operator.

Re: stackFiles BUG?

2004-04-10 Thread Kevin
I agree in the dialog is looks correct I thought the same thing. However, when I retrieved the "stackFiles" property (after setting it from the dialog the) format was , not ,,,...,. In fact may code encountered a error in 2.2. Orginal Code example: try if thePackage is not among the

Re: Talking to a GPS unit over USB

2004-04-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 10, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Rats, it looks like it isn't going to work . driverNames() returns empty. There is a serial connection cable that I can get for it. I have a Keyspan serial->USB converter so I think I will pick that up and give it a try. Rats. I am surprised; the

Re: Talking to a GPS unit over USB

2004-04-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 05:51 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I would expect that a GPS unit with a USB interface is set up to look just like serial. If that is not the case, you will not be able to establish communications without something special. Rats, it looks like it isn't going to work

Re: Typing in field grinds to near halt

2004-04-10 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Could be... with OSX... what should I tell me beta user to do to test this? I'm a bit spoiled with a G4 with 1 gig RAM, so hard to emulate.. On Apr 10, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Could it be a memory issue? regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Talking to a GPS unit over USB

2004-04-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 10, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I have this shiny new GPS unit with a USB interface and wanted to play around with communication between it and a Rev application on OS X. I would love to be able to download waypoints.

Re: NumberFormat in field

2004-04-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Gray Steifel wrote: Converted a Hcard accounting program to Rev., where I use extensively the “set numberFormat to 0.00” for all fields with numbers and/or the data sent to the field. How, if possible, does this work in Revolution? The global numberForm

Re: Talking to a GPS unit over USB

2004-04-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I have this shiny new GPS unit with a USB interface and wanted to play around with communication between it and a Rev application on OS X. I would love to be able to download waypoints. I've never worked with USB connections (or s

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 10, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: I'm looking into this. Of course, I saw Tuviah's response two minutes after sending this. Klaus, for me it was the incriminating pictures. If my parents ever found out... ;-) regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Typing in field grinds to near halt

2004-04-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
Could it be a memory issue? regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 10, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: I have an "Audio_transcriber.rev" tool that a) plays an audio file from the local hard drive with a QT player and various buttons to stop resume back up etc b)

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm looking into this. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 10, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Bon jour Yves, just checked Godzilla :-) I (surprise :-) reported this bug #534 in September 2003, which is still marked as NEW. No further comment... P.S. Is the french version of RR

NumberFormat in field

2004-04-10 Thread Gray Steifel
Hello, Converted a Hcard accounting program to Rev., where I use extensively the ³set numberFormat to 0.00² for all fields with numbers and/or the data sent to the field. How, if possible, does this work in Revolution? Thanks, Gray in Greensboro ___ use

Typing in field grinds to near halt

2004-04-10 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
I have an "Audio_transcriber.rev" tool that a) plays an audio file from the local hard drive with a QT player and various buttons to stop resume back up etc b) a field below for transcribing the talk... I created a stand alone player which drive this tool and a user is now saying: " I was

Re: 2.2 WARNING - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2004-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
MisterX wrote: Xavier wrote - Well, since 2.2, the GM crashed RR, has completely resized my fields in the wrong place (162 controls in the discrete browser I dont wish to script in a resizestack handler!) Just curious: how long did it take you to assign the >>Geometry Manager properties for thos

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation

2004-04-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks, Tuviah :) Pierre Le 10 avr. 04, à 16:34, tuviah snyder a écrit : OK just fixed this, don't panic. Support for long files names from 'answer file' was added in 2.2 as per request (so you can now choose files which are really, really long on OSX). we needed to convert from UTF8 to ASCII

Talking to a GPS unit over USB

2004-04-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
Hi, I have this shiny new GPS unit with a USB interface and wanted to play around with communication between it and a Rev application on OS X. I would love to be able to download waypoints. I've never worked with USB connections (or serial) before and wondered if anyone has any experience in

Re: Floating window on Windows

2004-04-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Thomas- Saturday, April 10, 2004, 5:15:13 AM, you wrote: TMI> I am looking at a new project. On the Mac I will have a floating tool TMI> pallet using applescript to control other apps with. Can some one TMI> provide general information on what I can do on the Windows side to TMI> allow REV in a f

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation

2004-04-10 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi Klaus, happy to see I'm not alone with the problem, but NOT happy of the bug... BUT I'm very astonished because the previous versions of Rev gave me no any problem with diacriticals chars in the pathway to a file it causes a bug for me since Rev 2.2??? Can you insist to have this bug f

Re: long file names fixed! Yippie

2004-04-10 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/10/2004 12:01:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > so you can now choose files which are > really, really long on OSX > -- thank you Tuviah! I am scrambling to get funds for 2.2 as I type. I assume this fix works for answer file, ask file as well as URL file names?? Andrew _

RE: RegEx question

2004-04-10 Thread Ken Ray
Yves, As Brian pointed out, you just need to copy what you are doing with the month for the day... that is, take what Dar suggested: (0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]) and just take out the ?: (0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]) This will enforce the need for leading zeroes. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software

Re: Help with paste...

2004-04-10 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Something is happening for sure and it does point to Rev. The curly quote for the font I'm in shows clearly in the InDesign gliphs palette as assigned GID 210, This is the same ASCII code one will get if you actually type a curly quote in a Rev field itself and query for its ASCII code. but

Re: Reproducable Crashing Bug in MacOS 9

2004-04-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 10, 2004, at 7:24 AM, David Burgun wrote: Not sure how to report bugs and not sure if I report this one. http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/ regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation

2004-04-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tuviah, OK just fixed this, don't panic. Support for long files names from 'answer file' was added in 2.2 as per request (so you can now choose files which are really, really long on OSX). we needed to convert from UTF8 to ASCII. I've posted a quick update, should be available shortly. This

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation

2004-04-10 Thread tuviah snyder
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:06:35 +0200 > From: Yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation > of tx and REV 2.2 > To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;

Reproducable Crashing Bug in MacOS 9

2004-04-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Not sure how to report bugs and not sure if I report this one. I have found a reproducable crashing bug in MacOS 9 version of RunRev. Just copy any object to the clipboard, then create a new Stack then Appempt to Paste the Clipboard into the Name Field for the Stack in the Stack Inspector!

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Klaus Major
Bon jour Yves, just checked Godzilla :-) I (surprise :-) reported this bug #534 in September 2003, which is still marked as NEW. No further comment... P.S. Is the french version of RR already available? :-D Hi Klaus, happy to see I'm not alone with the problem, but NOT happy of the bug... BUT

Building reports - NTF reports features wanted!

2004-04-10 Thread Bill Humphrey
The existing report builder in rev 2.2 is basically a label maker or card printer. It does not have any design tools. If you want to print a PDF form or even print some data on top of an existing form it would be very difficult (no positioning tools for field outputs). There is also no way to add a

Floating window on Windows

2004-04-10 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello All Rev-bunnies, I am looking at a new project. On the Mac I will have a floating tool pallet using applescript to control other apps with. Can some one provide general information on what I can do on the Windows side to allow REV in a floating window to control other apps. By control I m

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-10 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi Dar Maybe this will work: function CheckDate pDateToCheck return matchText(pDateToCheck,"\A(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/ ([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])\z") end CheckDate It is not consistent yet as to whether the leading zero is optional. It is optional for the day of the month

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Yves COPPE
just checked Godzilla :-) I (surprise :-) reported this bug #534 in September 2003, which is still marked as NEW. No further comment... P.S. Is the french version of RR already available? :-D ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://l

Re: UMLAUT/ACCENTS probs on X, was:Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, ... OR set the filename of img 1 to "/Users/klaus/Desktop/été/mess_path2.gif" without problems... In the latter case, the filename-field in the Inspector will contain the diacritical characters!? put url"binfile:/Users/klaus/Desktop/été/mess_path2.gif" into img 1 -> can't open file What g

Re: Panic with incorporation of tx and REV 2.2

2004-04-10 Thread Klaus Major
Bon jour Yves, Le 10 avr. 04, à 08:31, Yves COPPE a écrit : Hi, I'm in a great panic : Since Rev 2.2 on MAC OS X 10.3.3, my script doesn't run : answer file "Choisissez un courrier" if (it = "") or (the result = "cancel") then exit to top end if put it into tfilename put URL("file:"&tf

Re: Bugs in Bugzilla Was Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade (Geoff Canyon)

2004-04-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sorry, the joke went right past me. I was drawing the distinction between a crashing bug in something that you build and give/sell to others, which is as bad as it gets, and a crashing bug that causes the IDE to die while you're developing software. That's bad too, but not nearly as bad. Better