CDROM disk serial number

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas McCarthy
A year or two ago there was a thread about this. There was a solution for Windows machines (Thanks Ken!) and a possible solution for Macs, using the system profiler. My Mac 10.3 does not list the cd's serial number (just a blank line) Also the system profiler is slow, is there a shell command

toolTip dlg and XP shutdown

2004-05-24 Thread Paul Kocsis
I have a client running a standalone application on XP. The app is working great, but more times than not, when that user shuts down their system (long after they've closed my standalone app), they get the windows dialog box that appears when an app is not responding...that dialog that asks

Re: grouping multiple buttons

2004-05-24 Thread Alain Bois
I think that there are few errors: 1) in mVar you must write this : put the name of btn ml and after mVar 2) after repeat you must write delete last word of mVar else you have and and at the end of mVar 3) and after you must write do group mVar Regards Alain Le 23 mai 04, 23:33, tzvi a crit :

Re: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-24 Thread Mark Talluto
On May 21, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Springer, Paul wrote: Thanks to all for the suggestions. Of course my original problem was how to get out of a situation like this when you inadvertently coded it. Changing the script to provide an escape hatch is easily done after the fact but I'm afraid I don't

Hack to make a modal dialog

2004-05-24 Thread Frank Leahy
I wrote last week asking if anyone had a way to make a dialog modal without actually using the modal keyword (as doing so stops whatever process is currently running). After a day of playing around with different solutions here's what I came up with. I hope someone else finds it useful as

group strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi folks, can someone eventually shed some light on this strange thing? (I often noticed some kind of strangeness with groups, especially with nested groups...) I have 640 images (80*60 pixel max., 5 in a row) in a scrollable group bilder... Now when i use this script to initialize all of

Re: group strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
On May 24, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Totally out of order/misplaced and thus completely useless... Would it help if you explicitly set the lockLoc of the images to true? Regards, Howard Bornstein --- D E S I G N E Q www.designeq.com

Re: QuickTime capabilities question (naive response)

2004-05-24 Thread Cteno4
One thing to think about including the quicktime installer is the Apple legal stuff. They force you to have your product only use the most current version of quicktime (ie if someone has an older version your product should not run with it, but force the installation of the newer version of

Font of popup menu

2004-05-24 Thread Douglas Ivers
I'm using Rev 2.0.3 on Mac OS X. I can't figure out how to control the font of a button's popup menu. I've assigned a special font for the button, for the card, and for the stack. The popup appears when I click in a field, and I've assigned my special font for the field too. But the font of the

Re: group strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Howard, On May 24, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Totally out of order/misplaced and thus completely useless... Would it help if you explicitly set the lockLoc of the images to true? Not tested yet... But right now it is more comfortable for me to not use lockloc ;-) It works fine with

RE: CDROM disk serial number

2004-05-24 Thread Ken Ray
Tom, You can do: put shell(system_profiler SPIDEDataType) into tData and then parse tData for the serial number. HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

counting empty items

2004-05-24 Thread rand valentine
If I do this: set the itemDelimiter to tab put the number of items of tab tab tab tab 1 is returned. why not 4? I don't get it. -- if I do this: set the itemDelimiter to tab put empty into item 4 of testVariable put the number of items of testVariable 3 is returned. why? rand

Re: Hack to make a modal dialog

2004-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/04 8:15 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: 5. While the progress dialog is open, if the user clicks in any stack the mouseDown handler in the transparent button gets called, which forces the progress dialog back to the front. Do you get a window flash, or does it look like nothing changed? --

Re: grouping multiple buttons

2004-05-24 Thread tzvi
Thanks. On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 04:56 AM, Alain Bois wrote: I think that there are few errors: 1) in mVar you must write this : put the name of btn ml and after mVar 2) after repeat you must write delete last word of mVar else you have and and at the end of mVar 3) and after you must write

Re: counting empty items

2004-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/04 12:09 PM, rand valentine wrote: If I do this: set the itemDelimiter to tab put the number of items of tab tab tab tab 1 is returned. why not 4? I don't get it. -- if I do this: set the itemDelimiter to tab put empty into item 4 of testVariable put the number of items of

Standalone not fully exiting on windows

2004-05-24 Thread Paul Kocsis
Don't know if this is related to my toolTip dlg post, but, on windows 98 AND XP, my standalone is not fully exiting. I am using quit in a closeStackRequest handler of the mainstack script. It does not show up in the process list when doing a ctrl+alt+del, BUT, other programs reporting on

Re: counting empty items

2004-05-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello There, and..., even without parentheses, tabtabtabtaba will return 4, just because the non empty fourth item will force its evaluation... Best Regards, Le 24 mai 04, à 19:46, J. Landman Gay a écrit : On 5/24/04 12:09 PM, rand valentine wrote: If I do this: set the itemDelimiter to tab put

Re: Font of popup menu

2004-05-24 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 6:44 AM -0700 5/24/2004, Douglas Ivers wrote: Can I control the font of a popup menu in Rev 2.0.3? Not if you are using the Appearance Manager setting for the lookAndFeel. In this case, the operating system draws the menu and controls the font. If you change the lookAndFeel to any of the

[OT] If you're into Apple memorabilia...

2004-05-24 Thread Cubist
I've put a poster up for sale on eBay. It's an Apple Computer poster, advertising the Life Savers iMacs, and you can check it out at [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=4133651790]. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standalone not fully exiting on windows

2004-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/04 1:20 PM, Paul Kocsis wrote: Don't know if this is related to my toolTip dlg post, but, on windows 98 AND XP, my standalone is not fully exiting. I am using quit in a closeStackRequest handler of the mainstack script. It does not show up in the process list when doing a

set RTFtext

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Monos
Help! I have no idea what I am doing, and after searching through the archives of the mailing lists without finding an answer, I thought I would try to get an answer via a post here... with a button on anyCard, with the script (OS X): on mouseup set the rtftext of field text to URL

Re: set RTFtext

2004-05-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Michael Monos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I have no idea what I am doing, and after searching through the archives of the mailing lists without finding an answer, I thought I would try to get an answer via a post here... with a button on anyCard, with the script (OS X): on

menu shortcuts menubar property

2004-05-24 Thread Martin Baxter
I've hit a vexing problem here with menu shortcuts in rr2.1.2. In windows XP the keyboard shortcuts for a menu don't work unless I set the stack's menubar property. I had got the impression from the docs that this property only affected mac, (UNIX and win symbols are crossed out) but, if it is

Re: what makes a file installed?

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: Mark Talluto wrote: On May 21, 2004, at 10:17 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: is there any way to automate the whole deal and put it in a button Install Me! along the lines of Alice in the Looking Glass? You can put the whole installer into a custom property and spit it out, run the

Re: what makes a file installed?

2004-05-24 Thread Erik Hansen
what makes a file installed as opposed to loaded or copied to the desktop? For the most part they're the same thing. What an installer can do for you is copy files to specific locations if needed, and on Win make any neessary registry entries (such as those needed to associate a

RE: what makes a file installed?

2004-05-24 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey Folks Short answer to this question is InstallGadget, my made with Rev and soon to be released nifty tool for quickly creating installers on Windows and OS X. Check it out the sneak preview at: http://www.sweattechnologies.com/InstallGadget Cheers -- Monte Goulding B.App.Sc. (Hons.)

system dates speed

2004-05-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I was writing a charting routine today and after I had added a section that converted seconds to dates or times for display purposes, the handler became much slower. After a series of timing tests, I found that for 200 lines of data, Rev was taking nearly 20 milliseconds to convert one item