Re: IDE Interference - the bottom line (that's it!)

2004-05-28 Thread Brian Yennie
First I want to say that even though my tone is not apparently RR friendly, im only trying to point out the obvious in a rudimentary way... Im not upset or raving to get RR aknowledge a bug, just trying to point out a flaw in design within the IDE and seeing if others have seen this and why it's

Re: getting a CD drive under Windows

2004-05-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Chris- Friday, May 28, 2004, 9:25:31 AM, you wrote: CS> I know I can use the Volumes() function to get a list of available drives, CS> but how can I determine which drives are actually CD-ROM drives? Well, there are two "standard" ways to do this, neither of which can be done natively from runre

Re: 1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread David Vaughan
Judy It is easily proven that the problem is in your "do something"s rather than interpretation of the waits or integers, by changing each "do" to "put ", or, if you like, you can "do" the "put". Since I do not know what what your "do"s do, I can not help further here. regards David On 29/05/20

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why not just check to see if you're in the dev environment or not?? if (the environment is not "development") then doMySaveStuff end if -Sean ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: 1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, I triggered it twice and the error did change; the third trigger sent me back to a bad integer and so forth. Thanks to all for reassuring my sanity @;-) Judy On Fri, 28 May 2004, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Try triggering the error twice in a row without doing anything else in > between except

RE: IDE Interference - the bottom line (that's it!)

2004-05-28 Thread Monte Goulding
>Again I didn't expect that changing an object property or picking >the button >tool >would engender a suspendstack event... This was a left over >message I forgot >about... I think the point that people are trying to get through is that if you read the documentation on suspendStack you would have

Re: Can Rev get corrupted?

2004-05-28 Thread Marty Billingsley
>Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks > >Rev's getting wonky on me. > >I think I recall that the Home stack in Hypercard could become corrupted. >Can Rev become corrupted? > >I ask because a perfectly usable stack a day ago now crashes whenever I >try to open the animation builder/manager. > >I have

RE: IDE Interference - the bottom line (that's it!)

2004-05-28 Thread MisterX
Brian, Dont get me wrong. I think you have... First I want to say that even though my tone is not apparently RR friendly, im only trying to point out the obvious in a rudimentary way... Im not upset or raving to get RR aknowledge a bug, just trying to point out a flaw in design within the IDE and

Re: 1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/28/04 6:48 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Thanks, Brian, but it's really a plain-vanilla show or hide some field which I've checked does exist at with the name specified in the script. Try triggering the error twice in a row without doing anything else in between except dismissing the error dialog. Do

RE: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread Monte Goulding
I missed your post to me somehow so am responding to what I can see in Brian's messaage. >> Monte, I saw that MC was also afflicted with thi issue. But IMOHO the >> Rev >> messaging >> should not interfere with applications in development - As I developped >> XOS, I used >> extensively the HC mes

Re: 1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Brian, but it's really a plain-vanilla show or hide some field which I've checked does exist at with the name specified in the script. I tried watching the Message Watcher for the crashing animation builder and it looks like it hangs about 5 seconds after launching it. I can launch it e

Re: 1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread Brian Yennie
Judy, Most likely it's the error message itself which is in error- I would take a look at any other code you added just before you started getting the error message, in particular the last "do something"... HTH... Exact error message from running a script that executes wait 12 secs do somethin

1 is not an integer???

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Exact error message from running a script that executes wait 12 secs do something wait 1 sec do something wait 15 ticks do something wait 1 sec -- but here it chokes claiming 1 is not an integer. No, it's not the letter "l". Getting wonkier all the time... Judy ___

Can Rev get corrupted?

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Rev's getting wonky on me. I think I recall that the Home stack in Hypercard could become corrupted. Can Rev become corrupted? I ask because a perfectly usable stack a day ago now crashes whenever I try to open the animation builder/manager. I have just had to force-quit it twice in the space of

How to set modality within IDE

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, After testing out my Rev Tour stack on a bunch of Master's Candidates in Reading (well, okay, 5 or 6 of them), it became apparent that they (and, presumably, other novice programmers) have problems with modality. That is to say, the Rev interface interferes with their ability to peruse the st

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread Chipp Walters
One way could be popping up a small browser window which was hooked into PayPal or your E-Commerce of choice. If you needed credit card swiping, I'm sure there's an existing activeX control out there which works with IE to do what you want. You can then close the browser when finished. -Chipp M

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Interesting thought! I hadn't really noticed a peformance issue on my machine (dual 800 MHz G4), but this brings up another question I have for PC Rev users: What do you consider the minimum acceptable machine specs for Rev creations? I ask this because on university roll-out machines (PII or P

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, "Klaus Major" wrote: >> on mouseMove >> get the mouseText >> if the mouseText = "objects" then >> show field "Objects" >> end if >> if the mouseText <=> "objects" then -- not equals sign >> if the visible of field "Objects" is true then >> set the visible of field

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 11:54 AM, tzvi wrote: You'll need to use SSL and an information transfer process that a credit card company would be willing to let you connect into. Rev 2.2 does not support SSL encryption at this time. You might start searching for a bank that is willing to accept

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread tzvi
On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 01:30 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 10:20 AM, tzvi wrote: I need it for a Kiosk app. at a "Kiosk" (Take out). I'd like to imitate those little card swipe machines or however you might call it , ring up an order swipe the card if it is approved i

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Should the suspendstack be sent to the stack each time you edit an >>>object causing a save? One missing feature (no blame anywhere) is >>>the function stackwaschangedsincelastsave()=true|false... The other >>>is that the suspendstack should be ignored while in the GUI d

Revolution Masters Summit, Monterey, July 2004

2004-05-28 Thread Dan Shafer
Hi everyone, How'd you like to hang out in beautiful Monterey, California, at an ocean-front bed-and-breakfast hotel for a couple of days of intense but fun digging into Revolution with a couple dozen other talented and experienced developers? That's the purpose of the First Annual Monterey Rev

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Jim! I will try this out! Judy On Fri, 28 May 2004, Jim Hurley wrote: > If you think this would be helpful, try this in the msg box > > go url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/PointerTool.rev"; > > To see the pointer in action, click the "Help" button in the Pointer > plug-in and p

Here's a market to penetrate!

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Hot off the ZDNet presses... a story about a conference that occured in March ;-) http://www.techedevents.org/ I'd post the ZDNet link but it's all about MS's presence there. It's apparently an annual "international conference & exposition" regarding technology in education (but seemingly always

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Klaus, Thank you... but I don't understand it (I trust it works, but would like to understand things). I think I need to look into the mouseText when everything is done and I have time. Viele danke! Judy On Fri, 28 May 2004, Klaus Major wrote: > you can save 8 lines, if you like ;-) > > on

Re: Application Icons in Mac classic

2004-05-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Mark Brownell wrote: I discovered this: I'm on to it now, check this out: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/268e.htm Files Appear with Generic Icons in the Finder Troubleshooting Guide Just need to find a virgin mac classic... (Jokes start here) I'm too

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 10:20 AM, tzvi wrote: I need it for a Kiosk app. at a "Kiosk" (Take out). I'd like to imitate those little card swipe machines or however you might call it , ring up an order swipe the card if it is approved it should go in a payment into the db. and my app. should p

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread tzvi
I need it for a Kiosk app. at a "Kiosk" (Take out). I'd like to imitate those little card swipe machines or however you might call it , ring up an order swipe the card if it is approved it should go in a payment into the db. and my app. should print out a receipt. I assume that Kagi would be to

Re: Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 09:12 AM, tzvi wrote: Hi all. Does any body have an idea how to have a credit card charge processed direct from RR either thru via web or direct dial (preferred direct Dial) ? Thanks Kagi is working on a KRM module that will open up a credit card processing window in

Re: Disappearing Stacks! Help!

2004-05-28 Thread Bill
I agree with the learning curve thing. I also second you on the greatness of this list. It is the main thing keeping me from file maker pro. I had the same learning curve in discovering the decidedly unintuitive method of editing a pallete. Turning it back into a stack by running a command in the m

getting a CD drive under Windows

2004-05-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Does anybody have a good method for determining the CD-ROM drives that are available on a Windows machine? I'd prefer a method that doesn't require an external, but since I only need it for Windows, I'll take any ideas I can get. I know I can use the Volumes() function to get a list of available

Credit Card

2004-05-28 Thread tzvi
Hi all. Does any body have an idea how to have a credit card charge processed direct from RR either thru via web or direct dial (preferred direct Dial) ? Thanks ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread Brian Yennie
Xavier, Monte, I saw that MC was also afflicted with thi issue. But IMOHO the Rev messaging should not interfere with applications in development - As I developped XOS, I used extensively the HC messaging to intercept all stack events from the hierarchy top - much like frontscritps would and will

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 6 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:46:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I've just discovered mouseText an

Re: Script not accepting empty line

2004-05-28 Thread Rob Cozens
Can you show us the handler that empties a line... Jeremy, I believe from your description of the problem (no matter what line is emptied the new text goes into line 10) that your logic is deleting the line instead of emptying it. If one starts with a 10-line variable, "delete line x of myVariab

Serial Modem data break problems

2004-05-28 Thread CEIENG
I'm developing a test fixture for an embedded modem product and am having some problems breaking out of data mode. Here's the protocol in a nutshell: Open COM port -> works Send "AT" -> works Look for "OK" -> works Send "AT&T1" -> works (enter internal loopback) Send "ABCD" -> works Look fo

curious behavior...

2004-05-28 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm trying to programatically set the numberFormat property. on mouseUp repeat 4 times put "#" after t end repeat put "set the numberFormat to " "e& t "e into tDo do tDo put 5+1 end mouseUp puts just "6" in the msg now if I try: on mouseUp set the numberFormat to "" put 5+1 en

Re: mouseWithin vs. ??? w/mouseText

2004-05-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Judy, Hi Klaus, Thanks... I think I figured out an alternate solution, but at the field level as you suggested: on mouseMove get the mouseText if the mouseText = "objects" then show field "Objects" end if if the mouseText <=> "objects" then -- not equals sign if the visible of fi

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread xbury . cs
Jan, Well put and said... the solution is quite simple after all... on suspendstack if the topstack is not the long name of me -- optional : AND "app/Revolution/components/" is not in the effective filename of the topstack then save this stack end if pass suspendstack end susp

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread xbury . cs
On 28.05.2004 10:42:15 use-revolution-bounces wrote: [] >>How else would you intercept certain events in palette >>stacks, to do preparation work _before_ the mouse hits >>the button ? [] Jan, On mouseenter will work _before_ the mouse hits the button. It's what I use for my palettes... By th

Re: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > >> Should the suspendstack be sent to the stack each > time you edit an > >> object causing a save? One missing feature (no > blame anywhere) is > >> the function > stackwaschangedsincelastsave()=true|false... The > other > >> is that the suspendstack should

RE: IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

2004-05-28 Thread Monte Goulding
>You didn't get my point. But if I want a suspendstack event, it's my >business >to have one as it is a feature. The point is that when you are in an IDE, >the IDE >messaging should NOT interfere with your applications' events. When I >choose a different tool, go to the message or to set an object