Save problem

2004-04-11 Thread Robert Presender
Hope someone can unravel this one. In all cases, the same development file is used which consists of a main stack and 5 substacks. 1. Using V2.2 for OSX (10.2.8), when Save is selected from the file menu the following appears: Can't save stack (name) due to error: Can't open stack file. When

Save problem

2004-04-11 Thread Robert Presender
Hope someone can unravel this one. The same development file is used which consists of a main stack and 5 substacks. 1. Using V2.2 for OSX (10.2.8), when Save is selected from the file menu the following appears: Can't save stack (name) due to error: Can't open stack file. When OK is

Re: NumberFormat in field

2004-04-11 Thread Dom
Gray Steifel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How, if possible, does this work in Revolution? There is nothing as practical in RR ;-) Though, you use the format function, as below: In a budget stack, I have two sets of flds the first one to note the expenses by category, one by line the second set

Re: Typing in field grinds to near halt

2004-04-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Can you try the same task on your machine? If the situation is otherwise similar, then memory is a likely culprit (although not certainly). regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 10, 2004, at 5:33 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: Could be... with OSX... what should I tell me beta

RE: 2.2 WARNING - AATCHAAAAAAAA

2004-04-11 Thread MisterX
Richard, I made a button in 2 minutes to clear all GM props took 10 seconds per object to reset the props and voila, now it works ok... This was not so hard... but why did it happen in the first place? Anyway, when the GM does work, it's a great time saver. It's fast and it is consistent. It

empty selectedChunks fails to return insertion Point values

2004-04-11 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
I have a palette of html mark up tools that operate on the top window. I am unable to get the insertion point for an empty cursor from the selectedChunk function (it used to work!). A test button in the palette with its traversalOn set to false (so as not to deselect text in the top Stack).

RE: empty selectedChunks fails to return insertion Point values

2004-04-11 Thread Ken Ray
Sannyasin, Same problem coming from a palette, but if the button is on the same stack, it works (OS 10.3.3, Rev 2.2)... Sounds like a bug to me. In fact it seems like it might have been posted before, so you might want to check Bugzilla. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Typing in field grinds to near halt

2004-04-11 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Well I have yet to do a long typing test, but if the player is set to a QT movie, as soon as I open the stack my CPU activity monitor peaks out completely... and this is on a G4 with 1Gig Ram. It drops back to about half, but then as asoon as I start typing in the field with a fairly normal

Re: empty selectedChunks fails to return insertion Point values

2004-04-11 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Yes indeed, Bugzilla Bug 1085 still unresolved.. On Apr 11, 2004, at 7:01 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Sounds like a bug to me. In fact it seems like it might have been posted before, so you might want to check Bugzilla. Ken Ray ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: xml book...

2004-04-11 Thread Meitnik
If I had to buy a book that would work well with the xml lib in rr, which book would it be to master xml tech tools? TIA, Andrew ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Telnet with RR

2004-04-11 Thread Dreamscape Software Webmaster
I'm interested in being able to telnet into a mail server and do such things as list the messages, download and delete messages. I'm a little clueless on how to do such a thing in Revolution 2.2. I know how to do it in Telnet though. Can anyone help me get started? Derek Bump Dreamscape

Re: Save problem

2004-04-11 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:23 PM -0700 4/10/2004, Robert Presender wrote: 1. Using V2.2 for OSX (10.2.8), when Save is selected from the file menu the following appears: Can't save stack (name) due to error: Can't open stack file. When OK is clicked, the save routine takes over and for each of the other substacks

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-11 Thread Dom
Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a function to check if a string is a date in European format : DD/MM/ Date problems are daunting ;-) First, are you sure that the user's system date follows the DD/MM/ scheme? Second, in this sort of problem, I tend to do a convert, such as:

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-11 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 11-avr.-04, à 22:06, Dom a écrit : Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a function to check if a string is a date in European format : DD/MM/ Date problems are daunting ;-) First, are you sure that the user's system date follows the DD/MM/ scheme? Second, in this sort of

How do I make a large scrolling window?

2004-04-11 Thread Graham Samuel
Looking at the TD, it seems that to get a window to scroll, you make a group of all the objects in it, make it the same size as the stack (iw. the same size as the window the user sees), and give the group a scrollbar. The TD and the cookbook remain silent on the question of how you get

Re: xml docs from rr

2004-04-11 Thread Meitnik
from docs: Example Code -- on revStartXMLTree -- prepare a stack to hold a data subset ask Get XML data for which publisher? --[this i get if it is empty then exit to top -- stop parsing --[this i get set the currPublisher of this stack to myPublisher -- store value --[this i

Re: xml book...

2004-04-11 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 10:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had to buy a book that would work well with the xml lib in rr, which book would it be to master xml tech tools? TIA, Andrew Andrew, It depends on what you might mean by xml tech-tools. Some application developers have used

Re: How do I make a large scrolling window?

2004-04-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The group does not need to be bigger then the window, infact, in this case, you want the group to be exactly as big as the stack. Then you set the scrollbar. Very important is to set the lockLoc of the group to true (on Size Position in the inspector check Lock Position and Size). Now to get

Variables

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, I am having trouble with stuff If I say: put button ID 1004 into gVar it appears to be accepted. So why can't I use the variable in the same way I use the button? Why do I want to do this? I am hoping to have a two-dimensional array of buttons so that, instead of referring to each

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 7, Issue 55

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
Reason numero uno: A rational number *is* a real number -- the former is a subset of the latter Is 1/3 the same as 0.333. (0.333 recurring)? Squaring 1/3 = 1/9. What does squaring 0.. give? It is a long while since I did my mathematical studies, so I could be wrong. However, my memory is

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, As the person originating this thread and considering moving from Filemaker to RR I am aware that I must recreate my interface and set about choosing, learning an SQL type database system. My concerns in contemplating this move are: 1. Can I reproduce enough of my interface to satisfy my

RE: Telnet with RR

2004-04-11 Thread Monte Goulding
I'm interested in being able to telnet into a mail server and do such things as list the messages, download and delete messages. I'm a little clueless on how to do such a thing in Revolution 2.2. I know how to do it in Telnet though. There's a pop library at http://www.troz.net/Rev/ that

Re: Command-click in a field

2004-04-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/11/04 3:10 PM, Bruce Lewis wrote: Hi all, Command-click in an unlocked field seems to send a mouseup message to the field. This happens whether traversal is on or off. This does not seem to be documented. Is there any reason not to use it? It is standard behavior that has been around since

Re: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-11 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/11/2004 08:34:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are so many uses for XML that if you have a specific need you might want to learn about XML by the topic or area of interest best suited to your needs. -- Since custom props can't have arrays (and using prop sets

Re: xml uses and books to read

2004-04-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are so many uses for XML that if you have a specific need you might want to learn about XML by the topic or area of interest best suited to your needs. -- Since custom props can't have arrays (and using prop sets are a hack from my pov) -- yet, I am using xml as a

RE: Revolution Threaded Message Board

2004-04-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Is anyone interested in using a Threaded Message Board for discussing Revolution? I have the Web Space and I'd like to build one. I just want to make sure people will use it. There was a discussion some time ago on having a web based interface to this list. I prefer to use email and rules

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Norman Winn wrote: As the person originating this thread and considering moving from Filemaker to RR I am aware that I must recreate my interface and set about choosing, learning an SQL type database system. My concerns in contemplating this move are: 1. Can I reproduce enough of my interface

Re: precision and reals

2004-04-11 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason numero uno: A rational number *is* a real number -- the former is a subset of the latter Is 1/3 the same as 0.333. (0.333 recurring)? Yes, it is. Squaring 1/3 = 1/9. What does squaring 0.. give? If you square the infinitely recurring decimal ..

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 7, Issue 66

2004-04-11 Thread Jim Lyons
On Apr 11, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Graham wrote: Looking at the TD, it seems that to get a window to scroll, you make a group of all the objects in it, make it the same size as the stack (iw. the same size as the window the user sees), and give the group a scrollbar. The TD and the cookbook remain

RE: Save problem

2004-04-11 Thread Robert Presender
Hi Jeanne. Thank you for your response. Names are short and no diacritical characters. Put all stacks into a new folder without success. Finally created a new main stack and new substacks to mimic the original. Then I copied the cards of all the original stacks to their new respective

Re: How do I make a large scrolling window?

2004-04-11 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Graham, Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:58:13 +0200 From: Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I make a large scrolling window? What is not clear is what happens if you want to have the scroll distance a lot larger (let's say higher) than the available screen size: how do you get

Re: xml kinds

2004-04-11 Thread Meitnik
In a message dated 04/11/2004 09:57:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you like, you can look at my XML Library, which is done totally in Transcript. The docs are really clear about XML and how the library is used. -- before I study using your flavor of xml, how is better or different from

[no subject]

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Messimer
Looking at the TD, it seems that to get a window to scroll, you make a group of all the objects in it, make it the same size as the stack (iw. the same size as the window the user sees), and give the group a scrollbar. The TD and the cookbook remain silent on the question of how you get

RE: xml kinds

2004-04-11 Thread Ken Ray
If you like, you can look at my XML Library, which is done totally in Transcript. The docs are really clear about XML and how the library is used. -- before I study using your flavor of xml, how is better or different from rrxml? RR's XML is done with a DLL, was written in C++

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-11 Thread Bruce Robertson
In a way, Rev could be said to be far closer to 4D than to FMP, as 4D provides a rich programming language and event-driven UIs. But even then, IMNSHO comparisons favor Rev's simpler language and greater variety of supported platforms, not to mention the strength of relying on MySQL for

Re: empty selectedChunks fails to return insertion Point values

2004-04-11 Thread FlexibleLearning
I have a palette of html mark up tools that operate on the top window. I am unable to get the insertion point for an empty cursor from the selectedChunk function (it used to work!). A test button in the palette with its traversalOn set to false (so as not to deselect text in the top Stack).

Re: RegEx question

2004-04-11 Thread FlexibleLearning
Date problems are daunting ;-) First, are you sure that the user's system date follows the DD/MM/ scheme? Second, in this sort of problem, I tend to do a convert, such as: convert tDate from system date to english date then do a simple test: if tDate is a date then dosomething else

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 12 avr. 04, à 01:43, Norman Winn a écrit : Hi, As the person originating this thread and considering moving from Filemaker to RR I am aware that I must recreate my interface and set about choosing, learning an SQL type database system. My concerns in contemplating this move are: 1. Can I

Command-A not working in OSX Standalones

2004-04-11 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
OS X 10.3.3 rev 2.2 Please try this and confirm or tell me you can get it workging: I have this button contents in pulldown button menu named Edit Select All/A Cut/X Copy/C Paste/P and this in the script: on menuPick pWhich switch pWhich case Cut cut break case Copy copy