Re: Contents of use-revolution digest...

2004-10-11 Thread jean-Luc Faure
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Scripter's Scrapbook, language reviewers

2004-10-11 Thread FlexibleLearning
The next version of the Scripter's Scrapbook will include script colorization for at least 6 further languages. Along with those already available, the options will include... - VisualBasic, VB.net, VBScript, REALBasic - JavaScript - Toolbook - Flash - AppleScript - Director - HTM

Re: Bit torrent for RunRev?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
weren't one thing: It uses SHA1 hashes, which runrev can't do natively. In other words you need to implement that too for it to work. Im mathematically disadvantaged, so someone else has to comment on the simplicity of SHA1. (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html for the SHA1 rfc) Doesn't

cmd.exe and command.com in Windows

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
I have a customer who's using my company's application that called our tech support with a problem where it would just suddenly quit under Windows without an error or anything. It turns out they are running a security program (Visual CASEL) on their Windows workstations. When logged on as an

Re: Smoothest way to play a series of movies?

2004-10-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 10, 2004, at 10:28 PM, iMP wrote: What's the smoothest way to play a series of QT-compatible movie files? I've tried a few ways, like putting a player on each card, one per file, but the transition is very noticeable, and the players don't behave as expected. I have about 20 12mb movs to

RE: cmd.exe and command.com in Windows

2004-10-11 Thread MisterX
Chris, First, if the customer gets pissed off by this problem, note well that it's his fault for limiting things whether needed or not... With Windows Policy you can today finegrain any access to any part of the pc for any kind of user. Even without active directory which goes even further down

Can't save from dreamcard player

2004-10-11 Thread Axel
Newbie question: Sorry, I am testing Dreamcard at the moment and maybe i still don't quite understand some of the basic concepts behind this. Problem: I created a stack which is supposed to serve me as a kind of address-list. I added a menu that let's the user save the stack. This works fine when

Re: RTF text

2004-10-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
Mr. X, I can do this if Revolution doesn't. I used to do it for the high ISO characters in a similar HyperCard program in about 1990. But sometime, like about 1992, someone brought out an XCMD that would recognize the high ISO characters properly. I think Rinaldi also had one. I haven't checked if

Re: Detect Gateway IP address in windows

2004-10-11 Thread Mark Wieder
MisterX- Friday, October 8, 2004, 10:36:47 PM, you wrote: M Mark M Although correct this assumes you only have one network card (NIC), M which I've seen becoming rare lately... ;) Well, I did point that out, but your addition of the /all flag is the missing part of my quick post and allows the

How to STOP accepting connections?

2004-10-11 Thread Gordon Tillman
Greetings All, Sorry if this has been asked before...I couldn't find anything in the archives. Given a RR app that is accepting socket connections as follows: accept connections on port 1234 with message ConnectionRequest If at some time in the future the application wants to stop accepting

Re: Can't save from dreamcard player

2004-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/04 9:44 AM, Axel wrote: Is it generally not possible to save changes from Dreamcard Player? Do I have to create a stand-alone Application to achieve this? Player ships with secure mode turned on, to protect your hard drive from malicious stacks. You can turn it off in the Player

Re: Detect Gateway IP address in windows

2004-10-11 Thread RGould8
why do you need to know the gateway address ? or, if you prefer, what do you want to use it for ? I need to know the gateway address because I'm writing software to configure routers for use over fiber-optic systems for an ISP. In order to do the configuration, I take the gateway address and

Re: RTF text

2004-10-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Lots of text about problems with RTF text I just wanted to ask if you tried to get the data as binary. Maybe rev's text file conversations are meddling with the RTF file? set the rtftext of field field to url (binfile: theURL) ()()()()()()()()()() Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack

Re: cmd.exe and command.com in Windows

2004-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/04 9:24 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: So does specialFolderPath use cmd.exe and/or command.com? If so, why isn't this documented? Our user was not happy at all that they had to allow access to these executables because they could potentially be used to format one's hard drive or perform

RE: RTF text

2004-10-11 Thread MisterX
Robert, I've complained enough about it, what else can you do? Before you complain further you should try pasting HTML text into a RunRev Field ;) Goodbye returns! You have to go to ultraedit to paste first and then to RR... Usually all the styles are jumbled because of bad html or the

RE: Detect Gateway IP address in windows

2004-10-11 Thread MisterX
Did Bush outlaw gateway info gathering lately? ;)) Cisco routers? GW for VLANs? I might have some interested colleagues send me more info... Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October

RE: cmd.exe and command.com in Windows

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Jacque. I am making a possible call to revDeleteFolder, so maybe that's the culprit. I'll do some more investigating. Shouldn't be too hard to rewrite that since the folder only contains files. I'll just try using the files function and then the delete folder command. Chris Sheffield

Re: How to STOP accepting connections?

2004-10-11 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 11, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote: accept connections on port 1234 with message ConnectionRequest If at some time in the future the application wants to stop accepting connections, how might that be accomplished? close socket 1234 Note: If you have both a UDP listener and a TCP

Re: How to STOP accepting connections?

2004-10-11 Thread Gordon Tillman
Thanks Dar! On Oct 11, 2004, at 14:03, Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 11, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote: accept connections on port 1234 with message ConnectionRequest If at some time in the future the application wants to stop accepting connections, how might that be accomplished? close

Re: Can't save from dreamcard player

2004-10-11 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it generally not possible to save changes from Dreamcard Player? Do I have to create a stand-alone Application to achieve this? By default, DreamCard does indeed refuse to save changes -- something about secure mode. The good news: You can tell DC that yes, I *do*

'put URL' fails if previous 'put URL' call hasn't finished

2004-10-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
Hi, I have been doing some tests with web connected apps in Revolution and came across an interesting behavior with the put URL command. It seems that if you call 'put URL' once and then issue another 'put URL' command before the first one finishes then the second one will not complete but

Menu on French Mac OS X

2004-10-11 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi, I'd like to have a menu Préférences (in FRENCH) under the application menu I have a btn Edit and give the french name as label edition the forelast item is a - and the last item is Préférences (in FRENCH) but the item is not placed in the applicaiton menu and the script of the btn is NOT

Re: Menu on French Mac OS X

2004-10-11 Thread Klaus Major
Bon soir Yves, Hi, I'd like to have a menu Préférences (in FRENCH) under the application menu I have a btn Edit and give the french name as label edition the forelast item is a - and the last item is Préférences (in FRENCH) but the item is not placed in the applicaiton menu and the script of

Re: 'put URL' fails if previous 'put URL' call hasn't finished

2004-10-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Trevor, I did a silly as hell semaphore function called SafePut which is just a wrapper for put but it checks for a global prior to putting, if the global is set then it waits and loop, when the global is unset, it does the put url and sets the

Re: Accessing the modem

2004-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/04 10:57 PM, Darby Lee Darrow wrote: Hello all, I am new to programming and new to Revolution and have a question for the group. I am creating a stack that I hope will allow me to send pages through my modem to our paging system. I need to dial a phone number, enter a password, pager

Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I am trying to set up a dialog box/sheet to be used for editing rich text (htmlText property of a selected field). As part of the dialog, I am trying to include options to change the font, size, style, and color of selected portions of the text. The option to change the color uses a buttion

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
set the traversalOn of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking focus with keyboard on the inspector. On Oct 11 2004, at 23:13, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: ... Is there any way to keep a popup menu from deselecting text in a field on the same card stack as the popup menu itself? ...

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I don't see a focus with keyboard option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! Thank you. On Oct 11, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: set the traversalOn of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking focus with keyboard on the inspector. On Oct 11

Displaying Generating PDF

2004-10-11 Thread Jesse Sng
Is there a way to Display PDF in Revolution? I'm ok if this is only on OS X but I'm looking for a way for this to be done. I would eventually like to be able to manipulate the PDF document and then rearrange the page order, flip things around before saving the final output. Jesse Sng

Re: Printing to multiple printers

2004-10-11 Thread SimPLsol
Jesse, What kind of labels? If you are doing mailing labels it will probably be better for your client to design the invoices and statements so that they can be mailed with window envelopes. This will be faster, easier and less expensive. Just a thought. Paul Looney

Re: Displaying Generating PDF

2004-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/04 7:27 PM, Jesse Sng wrote: Is there a way to Display PDF in Revolution? I'm ok if this is only on OS X but I'm looking for a way for this to be done. You can display a PDF in OS X by putting it into a player object and letting QuickTime handle it. This will be read-only. I would

Re: Printing to multiple printers

2004-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/04 8:11 PM, I wrote: In OS X the printer is chosen from the print dialog rather than from the Page Setup dialog. So issue your print command like this: print this card with dialog That will allow the user to choose a printer. There is no way in either OS 9 or OS X to choose a printer

Re: Smoothest way to play a series of movies?

2004-10-11 Thread Kurt Kaufman
What's the smoothest way to play a series of QT-compatible movie files? ... I'm not sure if the method used here: http://www.shopperturnpike.com/usefulsoftware/cliplinkviewer.html -would suit your needs, but if it does, let me know and I'll send you the file in stack form. You can then rearrange

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see a focus with keyboard option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! in Edit Preferences you can choose between using actual Transcript terms like traversalOn and descriptive phrases like focus with

Re: Printing to multiple printers

2004-10-11 Thread Jesse Sng
In OS X the printer is chosen from the print dialog rather than from the Page Setup dialog. So issue your print command like this: print this card with dialog That will allow the user to choose a printer. There is no way in either OS 9 or OS X to choose a printer without user intervention.

Re: Accessing the modem

2004-10-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hello all, I am new to programming and new to Revolution and have a question for the group. I am creating a stack that I hope will allow me to send pages through my modem to our paging system. I need to dial a phone number, enter a password, pager id number and message all at the appropriate

Re: Educational uses of Rev

2004-10-11 Thread Marian Petrides
On Oct 10, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: i got an Adobe download at this library computer and was unable to walk through the calculation These were just selected screenshots. There would have been too many to include an entire case. looks like fun, though! Thanks.

Re: Printing to multiple printers

2004-10-11 Thread kee nethery
On Oct 11, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Jesse Sng wrote: In OS X the printer is chosen from the print dialog rather than from the Page Setup dialog. So issue your print command like this: print this card with dialog That will allow the user to choose a printer. There is no way in either OS 9 or OS X to

Installing an older copy of Rev on RH Linux?

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Ray
I've already got a copy of Rev 2.5 on my Red Hat Linux box, but I wanted to install 2.2.1 also. However when I run the .rpm it tells me that revolution is already installed. Any suggestions on getting these two to coexist peacefully? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: