RE: Message Box useage from scripts

2004-07-26 Thread MisterX
actually it's easier than that... put the time -- no need to put into msg but you can... put the date after msg put empty -- clear msg Im coming up with a stack soon that will let you record and save and reuse the msg history... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

if there is a...

2004-07-26 Thread Wouter
Hi, One of those undocumented features of the use of the if there is a ... operator. If used with stack and an explicit or stackfile path it checks by loading the stack in memory if it exists. It can save a line or 2 and is nice to know in those *memory light* situations. Greetings, WA

Re: Rev 2.5b Interface

2004-07-26 Thread Vikram Singh
Heather wrote- It's also worth noting that the Player is much more secure when run i SecureMode. Suggestion: Can we have a prominent button on the interface to turn this on? Feature request: If i remember, it cannot be reset- is it too tough for the rev engineers to make SecureMode an On-off

Re: Msg Box usage from scripts

2004-07-26 Thread JonathanC
Hi Jim, Here's a little script I use to partially emulate HyperCard's command-F Find (except that I use command-E): on commandKeyDown whichKey if whichKey E then pass commandKeyDown go stack Message Box put Find quote quote into fld Message Field of stack Message Box select char 7

[ANN] Web Photos Pro 1.0b8

2004-07-26 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi all, I've just released a new version of Web Photos Pro, written in Revolution. The product makes it easy to manage, annotate and upload 100's of albums and 1000's of photos to the web. It works with iPhoto on the Mac, or any photo cataloging program on the PC. It's available for both

Re: Rev 2.5b Interface

2004-07-26 Thread Dave Cragg
On 23 Jul 2004, at 15:48, Vikram Singh wrote: Suggestion: Can we have a prominent button on the interface to turn this on? Feature request: If i remember, it cannot be reset- is it too tough for the rev engineers to make SecureMode an On-off Switch type? For developers to make web enabled

Re: [ANN] Intuition 1.1a

2004-07-26 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, This is to announce the latest incarnation of the MTML browser experiments. This topical, relational, extensible and human readable text gathering markup language experiment has been going on for more than four years. It is in discovering just a few of the powerful features of Revolution

Re: Reading data from BLOB objects

2004-07-26 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
A bit more info on what I am doing here: I am trying to execute a query to the effect of: UPDATE name=value, name=value, ..., logo=:1, name=value WHERE id=anID Where :1 should be replaced by the binary data from the image, correct? I tried this: put image Logo into dbImage revExecuteSQL

Re: Rev 2.5b Interface

2004-07-26 Thread Vikram Singh
Yeah, without a fine grained message control system (like when only a 'mainstack' of an application can fire such a request) it could be risky. Very. Vikram Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jul 2004, at 15:48, Vikram Singh wrote: Suggestion: Can we have a prominent button on the

Re: Rev player

2004-07-26 Thread Kevin Miller
On 25/7/04 10:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if we want to distribute a stack such as a simple address stack where cards will be added and data will need to be saved by the enduser. We will have to create a standalone to run the stack. Therefore dreamcard will not do the

Re: Cancel socketTimeout? - never mind

2004-07-26 Thread John Rule
Actually, it was something else entirely...and it wasn't the engines fault! JR Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:53:09 -0400 From: Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cancel socketTimeout? To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Revplayer?

2004-07-26 Thread Kevin Miller
On 24/7/04 10:00 pm, Wilhelm Sanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is so special about the revplayer that is it password-protected? Is there such an excellent and superior scripting routine involved that cannot be shared with others? The Player application is part of the distribution

Combining two Stacks in HC Help

2004-07-26 Thread Dan Rennecker
Hi, A few posts ago, I had asked about combining two HyperCard stacks and how this could be done. A very generous person named Paul offered to help me out, however I have been unable to contact him and it seems my original post is gone (??) In any case, would anyone be willing to do this?

Quicktime playback

2004-07-26 Thread Barry Sieber
I am new to Revolution and I have a question to ask regarding scripts used with Quicktime movies. I have two movies that are the same content (both are imported into Rev), but have 2 different audio tracks (one in English, the other in German). The user can select either one to view. I had some

Re: Quicktime playback

2004-07-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Barry Sieber wrote: I am new to Revolution and I have a question to ask regarding scripts used with Quicktime movies. I have two movies that are the same content (both are imported into Rev), but have 2 different audio tracks (one in English, the other in German).

Re: Rev player

2004-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: The Player application is by default configured to have secureMode turned on. This makes it secure preventing a stack from destroying a users hard drive. However, the end user does have the option to turn of secureMode as a preference included

Re: Quicktime playback

2004-07-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Barry, I am new to Revolution and I have a question to ask regarding scripts used with Quicktime movies. I have two movies that are the same content (both are imported into Rev), but have 2 different audio tracks (one in English, the other in German). The user can select either one to view.

Re: Rev player

2004-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: The Player application is by default configured to have secureMode turned on. This makes it secure preventing a stack from destroying a users hard drive. However, the end user does have the option to turn of secureMode as a

RE: Acrobat is much more than a browser plug in

2004-07-26 Thread Dave LeYanna
If I understand correctly, this would be a very nice ability and I certainly could use it in projects that I am working on. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Rollins Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 5:47 PM To: How to use Revolution

Re: Rev 2.5b Interface

2004-07-26 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 3:51 PM +0100 7/26/2004, Dave Cragg wrote: On 23 Jul 2004, at 15:48, Vikram Singh wrote: Feature request: If i remember, it cannot be reset- is it too tough for the rev engineers to make SecureMode an On-off Switch type? For developers to make web enabled apps- this could be a welcome

Re: Rev player

2004-07-26 Thread Revinfo1155
Glad to hear we can select preferences in the rev player. Where are preferences choices located as I can't find them on my rev player? jack ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Rev player

2004-07-26 Thread Kevin Miller
On 26/7/04 7:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad to hear we can select preferences in the rev player. Where are preferences choices located as I can't find them on my rev player? They are located in the icon to the right of the navigation bar. We're aware of an issue with

libNNTP?

2004-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Have any of you crafted a library for NNTP? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: libNNTP?

2004-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Have any of you crafted a library for NNTP? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation 99 protocols on the wall, implemented one, now pass it around... 98 protocols on the wall, implemented one, now pass it around... and there goes the

some URLs (was Re: libNNTP?)

2004-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Have any of you crafted a library for NNTP? This is the spec for NNTP http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html This is a NNTP library for client/poster made with Python, so we can look and copy, I mean, implement:

RE: ftp dates

2004-07-26 Thread Jay Madren
I wanted to do this too, but there are some problems. One is the information and/or format of the listing can vary among different ftp servers, making a universal solution difficult. Another is when you upload or download a file via ftp, the file is assigned the current date/time, not the

Re: Acrobat is much more than a browser plug in

2004-07-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Dave LeYanna wrote: If I understand correctly, this would be a very nice ability and I certainly could use it in projects that I am working on. You understand it correctly. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net

Using datalinked controls MySQL

2004-07-26 Thread Bill
Jan (or someone) Can you give me an example of using this property: put the cREVGeneral[myDatabaseName] of fld myfield Or if the cREVGeneral[shipping_agency] of fld myfield is true then Bill ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Public ip address

2004-07-26 Thread Roger Amar
Thanks a lot for your numerous replies. This group is really great ! Owing to the fact that our customers use routers, in more from various manufacturers and that they are working on different platforms (MacOS 9, MacOS X and Windows), the only simple and reliable solution that I found at this

Can Rev call API functions?

2004-07-26 Thread Phil Davis
Simple question: Can Rev call Windows API functions? (That is, natively, without any help from externals.) I assume not. I'm pretty fuzzy on what makes an app able to do this. Some kind of binding with the APIs has to be established, right? Seems like I remember some of that from my VB days. Any

Re: Can Rev call API functions?

2004-07-26 Thread Phil Davis
I want to call HID driver functions. My HID device isn't a typical desktop device, but a specialized key panel whose keys light up when you press them and turn off when you release them. It's a fully HID-compliant device and enumerates correctly upon being plugged into the computer (via USB of

Revolution quiting on RegEx procedure...

2004-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, is there a limit on the size of the text to RegEx with matchText? I am trying to use RegEx to replace a tag in a very evil XML that cannot be well parsed by RevXML, I thought, well, if we can't parse it the good way, let's do the evil way. I removed all the cr, tabs, newlines and lf

Re: Can Rev call API functions?

2004-07-26 Thread Phil Davis
I forgot to mention - the Rev app that will control the key panel is multi-platform - Win32 MacOSX currently, and possibly a Linux version in the future. - Original Message - From: Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:54

RE: Public ip address

2004-07-26 Thread Roger Amar
OK, Andre, I agree with you, I used the wrong solution because I could not find better. If you can help with a more efficient solution, I would be happy. Thanks in advance. Roger; -Message d'origine- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Andre Garzia Envoy: lundi

Re: Public ip address

2004-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
Roger, Let's end this! here a little CGI for you... :-p you must setup Metacard Engine as CGI. You can refer to the CGI tutorial at http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/ or use my CGI-Tool palette to do this for you, you can fetch it on http://public.soapdog.org put this inside a cgi

HIG urls

2004-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
I just updated the URLs to the most popular Human Interface Guidelines documents for platforms Rev supports -- you'll find them in the upper-right of this page: http://www.fourthworld.com/resources/ There are links there to the Windows general UI specs, XP visual design specs, Mac OS X HIG,

Re: HIG urls

2004-07-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/26/04 5:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Question about Mac HIGs: While updating my links to Apple's Aqua HIG I came across these two versions: Aqua Human Interface Guidelines http://developer.apple.com/documentation/LegacyTechnologies/Conceptual/AquaHIGuidelines/index.html Apple Human

Re: HIG urls

2004-07-26 Thread Scott Rossi
On 7/26/04 5:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: While updating my links to Apple's Aqua HIG I came across these two versions: Aqua Human Interface Guidelines http://developer.apple.com/documentation/LegacyTechnologies/Conceptual/AquaHIGu idelines/index.html Last updated: 2002-06-01 Apple

Re: sudden quiting of 2.5beta1

2004-07-26 Thread Meitnik
I am finding this beta to just suddenly quit after doing a a click or editing in the IDE sometimes with no reason at all. Am I the only one having this problem?? This is rather scary for doing any work now. I am using 10.2.8. I need the bug fixes in beta1, but not the lost work. Any clues are

Re: sudden quiting of 2.5beta1

2004-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am finding this beta to just suddenly quit after doing a a click or editing in the IDE sometimes with no reason at all. Am I the only one having this problem?? This is rather scary for doing any work now. I am using 10.2.8. I need the bug fixes in beta1, but not the

Code for Dan's Book, Vol. 1

2004-07-26 Thread Dan Shafer
After a good bit of confusion about how this should get done, I finally decided just to bite the bullet and post the code (significant examples, all Lab exercises, and ToDoPlus) from Volume 1 of my book for all to download. If you bought the printed book, this file contains that portion of the

Re: sudden quiting of 2.5beta1

2004-07-26 Thread SimPLsol
Using the debugger seems to crash 2.5 frequently. Saving will cause a crash, but not always. Sometimes it just quits for no apparent reason. Such is betaware. PL ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 10, Issue 103

2004-07-26 Thread Bill
To tell if a control is linked to a database via transcript. The property is cREVGeneral[myDatabaseName] for that but I just don't know how to get a property true or false -- the documentation for runrev is great but I wish there were more examples. On 7/26/04 10:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: sudden quiting of 2.5beta1

2004-07-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/26/04 9:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the debugger seems to crash 2.5 frequently. Saving will cause a crash, but not always. Sometimes it just quits for no apparent reason. Such is betaware. Anyone who is crashing should include their crash logs in a Buzilla report. In OS X, look

RE: sudden quiting of 2.5beta1

2004-07-26 Thread MisterX
they are in eventvwr.exe in the applications errors. But the info is rather general and doesnt tell you what happened... Other wise there is a new log being saved in C:\Revolution 2.2\components\save\ messageboxerrorlog.txt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL