Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

2004-10-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:14 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/27/04 1:21 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible in transcript to have a function that supports the passing of multiple referenced variables and assigning values to those variables? Sorry, Trevor, the answer is "no"... in fac

Re: External Development Question

2004-10-27 Thread Mark Wieder
K- K> Okay, I have a interesting situation. I would like to read K> from a file and/or stdin from transcript directly or from my K> external (simular to using the 'with messages clause). However, I K> have implemented this on Win32 and XLib using C++ but I am unable K> to design such and animal

re: Video Out / DV Out External

2004-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmm as announced recently Revolution now does external development, (not only could the external possibly get integrated into the engine, but just having this sort of work on an ongoing basis can be used to retain additional engine developers) maybe ask them for a quote:-) Tuviah ___

Re: Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:18 AM, VHD wrote: Hi Andre, Thanks for the info. I installed liveHTTPheaders and you are right, the problem is "cookie" related. I copied the header from liveHTTPheaders into rev and I now get "Your session has timed out". However When I use a web browser the session is s

Re: Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

2004-10-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/27/04 1:21 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible in transcript to have a function that supports the > passing of multiple referenced variables and assigning values to those > variables? Sorry, Trevor, the answer is "no"... in fact, it's posted as an enhancement r

Re: Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread VHD
Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply. I didn't realise that libURL had libUrlSetLogField. Very nice. It does something very similar to liveHTTPHeaders for use with Firefox. The problem seems to be related to cookies, so I am not sure what the next step is. Ben P.S: Thanks for maintaining libURL. ***

Re: Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread VHD
Hi Andre, Thanks for the info. I installed liveHTTPheaders and you are right, the problem is "cookie" related. I copied the header from liveHTTPheaders into rev and I now get "Your session has timed out". However When I use a web browser the session is still active! (I noticed that the HTTP hea

External Development Question

2004-10-27 Thread K
Okay, I have a interesting situation. I would like to read from a file and/or stdin from transcript directly or from my external (simular to using the 'with messages clause). However, I have implemented this on Win32 and XLib using C++ but I am unable to design such and animal under Revoluti

Re: Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior

2004-10-27 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 27, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Dion McCormick wrote: I place a QuickTime Player object on my card. I point that at a Flash Document (.swf extension). The player just shows a blank square on the screen. Something I am doing wrong? Does the same SWF open and play in QuickTime outside of Rev? -- Troy

Printing query

2004-10-27 Thread David Squance
Hello Group, I've created a little app to print labels, and am trying to adapt it to do envelopes. I'm having trouble getting my head around the numbers. I have the rect of the fld to which the address info goes, and have the handler print the card from the first two numbers of the fld rect to th

Re: Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread Dave Cragg
On 27 Oct 2004, at 11:58, VHD wrote: I am trying to login to an internet email account I have (similar to Hotmail). I have tried POST, URL etc... commands without success. I think the first thing you should do is log the response from the server. (libUrlSetLogField) This should show you status

Video Out / DV Out External

2004-10-27 Thread william griffin
Apples developer site has the code http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SimpleVideoOut/SimpleVideoOut.html Whats lacking is an External Tutorial. If such a thing existed video out would be the project I would learn to make externals with. We wanted to add this a year ago, but Tobi has no DV came

Re: Rev cuts stack height at lower screen resolutions

2004-10-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
This is because the windowBoundingRect is shrunk to allow for the Dock. You can over-ride it by re-sizing the stack in a preOpenStack handler and it might also be a good idea to set the windowBoundingRect to reflect the complete screen size rather than just the pixels Rev thinks you should be u

Revolution 2.5, ASP.NET and security

2004-10-27 Thread Dion McCormick
Has anybody worked with ASP.NET and Revolution. Specifically calling .aspx pages from Revolution to grab information and process data on the .NET server. The key question I have is how to handle security for requests. Dion McCormick WinXP system Revolution 2.5 __

Flash and Revolution - Strange Behavior

2004-10-27 Thread Dion McCormick
I place a QuickTime Player object on my card. I point that at a Flash Document (.swf extension). The player just shows a blank square on the screen. Something I am doing wrong? WinXP system Revolution 2.5 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: custom externals ?

2004-10-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 03:21 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: for email i suggest you look at the libSMTP by shao sean: So, to keep track of the in and out , I must build an full email app.,"libSMTP" for out going and Sarah's "POP library" for incoming and build a database to store them

Re: QT effects

2004-10-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: Virtually anything that makes Rev crash is a bug (see previous posts from Rev). In a rare moment of honorable behavior from Microsoft, at a VB developer conference a few years ago they said something that should inspire any 4GL vendor: If you get an error dialog, th

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 13, Issue 66

2004-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
Aurellen, you can also just check the version of the os rev is playing under on startup and then if its windozs then set dontuseqt to true. this avoids creating different apps/players for separate platforms. i lothe to split code on a project as when you are in bug fixing stages you have to ver

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
K I don't know about this: On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:20, K wrote: Can the conditions be or'ed? Like so... read from file sPath at sPos until return in kTimeout milliseconds or numToChar(3) K You can of course just read a character at a time, accumulating into a buffer variable until the result is

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
You're Welcome K, On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:16, K wrote: I will test this in my situtation and post the results. Thanks! Please do let me know how it goes. One thing I would like to point out in particular: read from file sPath at sPos until return in kTimeoutMS milliseconds Be sure and keep tra

Re: custom externals ?

2004-10-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
for email i suggest you look at the libSMTP by shao sean: go to http://shaosean.tk/ click on "development" scroll down to the "libSMTP" click on the "libSMTP" link no idea about the faxing though On Oct 27 2004, at 21:06, Hershel Fisch wrote: I looking in to have a custom made external for mac & wi

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread K
Can the conditions be or'ed? Like so... read from file sPath at sPos until return in kTimeout milliseconds or numToChar(3) K -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are p

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Yes, from the Dreamcard Player (a free download). On Oct 27, 2004, at 3:04 PM, K wrote: Is the user space accessible with out the RR IDE? -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my windo

Re: revExternalLibrary and Standalones (???)

2004-10-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 03:10 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: I'm having problems with an app only after I build a standalone. I have a preOpenStack handler that isn't operating correctly. I put in an "Answer the short name of topstack" statement in the handler. Instead of showing the name o

SendMCMessage()

2004-10-27 Thread K
When you SendMCMessage from a external what stack receives the message? Should I have the user specify the object and message in the external call? K -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the

Re: FAQ wiki

2004-10-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Malte, The wiki looks great! I hope people start using it. I think it could be a fabulous resource :-) best, Chipp Malte Brill wrote: For those who want to put things there also: http://www.derbrill.com/faq/revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EM

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread K
I will test this in my situtation and post the results. Thanks! -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my

custom externals ?

2004-10-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
I looking in to have a custom made external for mac & win. to send emails directly from RR. in detail, from a contact db to take a given fld to put it into the "To" fld , another fld to the subject fld and so on to the default email program. Yes I am aware of Sarah's email stack , 1: thats only

revExternalLibrary and Standalones (???)

2004-10-27 Thread Howard Bornstein
I'm having problems with an app only after I build a standalone. I have a preOpenStack handler that isn't operating correctly. I put in an "Answer the short name of topstack" statement in the handler. Instead of showing the name of my stack, it lists revExternalLibrary as the top stack when my pre

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy K. On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:04, K wrote: Is the user space accessible with out the RR IDE? I think you may have to. Here is all of the stuff from the script file. --gordy constant kReadIntervalSecs = 2 constant kTimeoutMS = 1 local sPath, sDone, sPos on LogIt pMsg put pMsg & return after fi

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread K
Is the user space accessible with out the RR IDE? -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is n

Re: QT effects

2004-10-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Virtually anything that makes Rev crash is a bug (see previous posts from Rev). As for the effect not working, that sounds like a bug to me, but others might know more. Whatever is a bug (such as that crash), you should search Rev's Bugzilla for it, and if it has not been reported yet, report i

Re: Reshape Graphic

2004-10-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I pasted that script into a new stack, cleaned it up and played with it for a while. It seems to work fine for closed polys, but I need to support both open and closed polys, along with lines (and curves might be nice). I was hoping that someone from Rev would clarify whether or not their

Re: upDateField

2004-10-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
Thanks, Hershel On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 02:14 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Hershel, If you want to fire off a handler each time you 'put' text in a field, use the setProp handler. Here's how it works. Instead of putting data into a fld, set a customProp for the field: set the myText of f

QT effects

2004-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, thanx for your precious answers about my previous questions about PDF and mail protocols. I've noticed that on a PC cd-rom generated using rev, the visual dissolve effect is not correctly displayed (the cards are simply displayed without any transition) while QT is correctly ins

Re:use-revolution Digest, Vol 13, Issue 64

2004-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, thanx for your precious answers about my previous questions about PDF and mail protocols. I've noticed that on a PC cd-rom generated using rev, the visual dissolve effect is not correctly displayed (the cards are simply displayed without any transition) while QT is correctly ins

Re: GUI and Human Interface Design -- a short list?

2004-10-27 Thread FlexibleLearning
Thank you, Frank... A great site and an excellent resource link for my Scrapbook! /H > You might also be interested in the interface hall of fame: > > http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/ > mfame.htm > > And of course the interface hall of shame (link

Passing unknown number of referenced variables to a function

2004-10-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
Is it possible in transcript to have a function that supports the passing of multiple referenced variables and assigning values to those variables? The idea is that I could define a function like this: function myFunction @pData repeat with i = 1 to paramCount() put "som

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi K, On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:38, K wrote: Is there a way to read from stdin or any file and not hold the event loop hostage? The best I could do with file reads was to use the timeout feature. I uploaded a sample stack to illustrate this to my user space on rev online. username= "gordyt" It's

Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread K
Is there a way to read from stdin or any file and not hold the event loop hostage? K -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance betwe

[ANN] EnhancedQT 1.0 beta 2

2004-10-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
I just uploaded beta 2 of the external. It has a few modifications and some additions. * qtCanQuickTimeOpenFile is now qtCanOpenFile. * Documented alias qtsnap2file for qtSaveMovieSnapShotToFile. * Added qtGetMediaLevelMeter, qtSetMediaLevelMeterEnabled and qtGetMediaLevelMeterEnabled which all

Re: Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:58 AM, VHD wrote: When using a normal browser it seems that there are a few page redirections before I am able to view my emails. Also if I type "http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into my browser I can log in without a problem but this does not work with the URL command. Ben, p

Re: Using Externals

2004-10-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 27, 2004, at 5:04 AM, Tomas Franzén wrote: I wrote to this list a while ago about not getting my own externals to work in Rev. Now it seems that I can't get any externals to work, at all! I think some transparency would be nice, so I decided to try out the Window external from Blue Mango.

Rev cuts stack height at lower screen resolutions

2004-10-27 Thread RGould8
I've noticed that Revolution automatically cuts off the bottom of my stacks when they are run on Macs at 800x600 resolution. If I hide the dock, however, then the Revolution stack is normal size. Can this "auto-shrink" feature be disabled in Revolution? Even if the dock is in the way, I'd

Re: GUI and Human Interface Design -- a short list?

2004-10-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
You might also be interested in the interface hall of fame: http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/ mfame.htm And of course the interface hall of shame (linked to from that page). On Oct 26, 2004, at 9:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Erik Hansen wrote: GUI and Human Interf

Re: Using Externals

2004-10-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Try putting the DLL into your Revolution directory (with the IDE app, as opposed to your stack) and using just its name in the externals property (w/o the path). Then quit Rev if it is open before trying to use it. On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Tomas Franzén wrote: Hi, I wrote to this list a wh

Re: Over sized drawers question

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas McGrath III
When I did this the drawer came out on the right and everything worked OK no matter how many times I resized it. Then I set drawer to the right of and the drawer came out on the left. I resized it and it then detached itself from the main stack. On Oct 27, 2004, at 7:54 AM, rodney tamblyn wrote

Using Externals

2004-10-27 Thread Tomas Franzén
Hi, I wrote to this list a while ago about not getting my own externals to work in Rev. Now it seems that I can't get any externals to work, at all! I think some transparency would be nice, so I decided to try out the Window external from Blue Mango. 1. I downloaded Window, and placed the DLL in

Re: Over sized drawers question

2004-10-27 Thread rodney tamblyn
But if there are issues with drawers I imagine some folks are making OS X-specific apps who would appreciate those being posted to Bugzilla if they're not already. Well here's one I posted to the Improve list a while back (and which Troy confirmed for me) Try the following: Rev 2.5 Create a new

Re: FAQ wiki

2004-10-27 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Richard, >Thanks for putting that together. That was fun. :-) For those who want to put things there also: http://www.derbrill.com/faq/revolution >I was going to add a page about MDI in response to a recent post here >(it's become an FAQ), but I couldn't figure out how to create a new page >

Login to web mail - libUrlSetAuthCallback?

2004-10-27 Thread VHD
I am trying to login to an internet email account I have (similar to Hotmail). I have tried POST, URL etc... commands without success. When using a normal browser it seems that there are a few page redirections before I am able to view my emails. Also if I type "http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in

Re: Constraining multiple stack windows within one stack window

2004-10-27 Thread FlexibleLearning
Until (or unless) a Multiple Document Interface is supported, the only way I can think of is to use pseudo-windows by creating groups with draggable titlebar graphics and so forth. Whether the outcome is visually and/or functionally any better than multiple windows (given the multiplicity of

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-27 Thread Vikram Singh
Many thanks! Vikram Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vikram Singh wrote: > Bangalore actually... My second international misspelling today. I must be American. ;) > So happens that my inlaws stay there > and I get to visit that city once in a while. > > Any of you planning to come to

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-27 Thread Vikram Singh
Many thanks. Vikram Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vikram Singh wrote: > Bangalore actually... My second international misspelling today. I must be American. ;) > So happens that my inlaws stay there > and I get to visit that city once in a while. > > Any of you planning to come to

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Vikram Singh wrote: > Bangalore actually... My second international misspelling today. I must be American. ;) > So happens that my inlaws stay there > and I get to visit that city once in a while. > > Any of you planning to come to India, we can chat up in Mumbai. Wonderful invitation, Vikram. A

Re: GeekSpeak Cheat Sheet

2004-10-27 Thread Vikram Singh
Bangalore actually... So happens that my inlaws stay there and I get to visit that city once in a while. Any of you planning to come to India, we can chat up in Mumbai. Regards Vikram Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Judy Perry wrote: > And, FWIW, whenever I do hear back later fro