RE: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-16 Thread MisterX
> > - I sometimes have the impression that Revolution as a company > > doesn't really exist. They are hardly ever seen in this list, > > it's hard to get responses from them. I think that one of the > > secrets of the success for RB was (and is) their presence and > > visibility in the devel

Re: employee database tutorial

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
At 00:47 16/01/2005, you wrote: Bob- Hi Mark Thanks for the tip, however, I have already seen the contact manager. I also found it very usefull when originally designing the "basic database primer" series. I now need some more functionality and would like to get the other one for the searching

RE: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi all. Here is an alternative perspective on rev vs realbasic. Nothing to do with the product usabliity. Go to these links on the apple store (I use windows myself) Runtime revolution search http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71502/wo/NqzSeidBmxYv2IKanzr7Wtb2d1e/1.3.

Re: Prograph (was Re: MacWorld part 2)

2005-01-16 Thread Paul
Thanks Dar. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Paul wrote: I see. I am re-writing my Buzz-o-sonic program (frequency analyzer for measuring impulse-excited materials) in LabVIEW. I have not done much with RunRev yet - except a diary app I hope to release when I get the time. A

Re: MacWorld part 2

2005-01-16 Thread Mark Talluto
Roger, Ahhhyes! That was it. I really enjoyed using that tool almost as much as I enjoyed all the Amigas I owned. I don't mean to take this in another direction, but that OS was truly ahead of its time. I remember switching to the Mac after I felt like I was the last one to still use th

Re: Problem with open file command

2005-01-16 Thread James Cass
Stephen - Sounds like maybe you need to use the "launch" command. Check it out in the Rev Documentation. --snip-- launch command Platform support: Win, MacOSX, MacOS Classic, Linux Introduced in version 1.0 (Changed in version 1.1.1) Starts up an application, optionally opening a document in

Graphics question

2005-01-16 Thread Paul Salyers
This is a non Rev question, but: I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in the program. Any one know anything about this? Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org __

Re: Trouble with graphics display in OS X

2005-01-16 Thread James Hurley
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:46:19 -0800 From: Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Trouble with graphics display in OS X To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Recently, James Hurley wrote: I need to know whether my

Re: Graphics question

2005-01-16 Thread Thomas Gutzmann
I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in the program. Any one know anything about this? a) not too earnest: look at virus construction kits; this is exactly what you have to do if you want to do someth

Re: Graphics question

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
At 14:19 16/01/2005, you wrote: This is a non Rev question, but: I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in the program. Any one know anything about this? I think jpeg 2000 could do this. see http://po

Re: Trouble with graphics display in OS X

2005-01-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, James Hurley wrote: > I have a scripted solution for OS X. But it is not very good. You can > see this best in Turtle Graphics applied to controls: > > In the message box: go url > "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ControlTurtles.rev"; James, I get: "stack is corrupted, check for ~

Re: employee database tutorial

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
At 11:02 16/01/2005, you wrote: At 00:47 16/01/2005, you wrote: Bob- Hi Mark Thanks for the tip, however, I have already seen the contact manager. I also found it very usefull when originally designing the "basic database primer" series. I now need some more functionality and would like to get

Re: Graphics question

2005-01-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Paul Salyers wrote: This is a non Rev question, but: I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in the program. Any one know anything about this? You can do this with "exif" data. I wrote a library to extrac

screenshot sharpening

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I thought I'd put this wee tip your way. I have seen some blurred screenshots on a website recently and there were some suggestions on how to sharpen them. Some suggestions were to use "sharpen" in an image manipulation package. (I use photoshop) However my best tip is to use an "Unshar

open file versus launch commands

2005-01-16 Thread Stgoldberg
Thanks to James for the advice to try to use the "launch" command rather than the "open file" command to open a file in the same folder as the Revolution application. The launch command does work on opening an application but only after the Revolution program has been built as a standalone.

Re: open file versus launch commands

2005-01-16 Thread James Cass
Stephen - "launch" should work within the IDE without having to build the standalone. You can put the following code in a button as a test. It even works in a multiline message box, using just the 5 lines of code within the mouseup handler. on mouseUp answer file "Choose a text file to open

Re: open file versus launch commands

2005-01-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/16/05 2:23 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to James for the advice to try to use the "launch" command rather than > the "open file" command to open a file in the same folder as the Revolution > application. The launch command does work on opening an applicatio

Re: gestalt options

2005-01-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 16 Jan 2005, at 7:39 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm in the process of updating my Gestalt function (see the Gestalt stack in RevNet), which I use to automatically include a brief system profile in user reports. Currently the report includes the stuff shown below, things I've found useful thus

Re: employee database tutorial

2005-01-16 Thread Pat Trendler
Bob, You could go to: ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/distributions/ and download Rev 2.2.1 and get the employee database from there. (unfortunately you'd have to download the whole 11mb) Failing that, I could email you the stacks or put them on the revonline space? Just let me k

Re: employee database tutorial

2005-01-16 Thread Pat Trendler
Bob, I uploaded (I hope) the stacks (4) to my user space: "Pat" or category general: EmpDB EmpDB splash empDB about empDB DocTemplate. Pat - Original Message - From: "Pat Trendler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: Re: employ

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 39

2005-01-16 Thread Matt Denton
Hi Ben Many many thanks! Great help, pointed me in the right direction. Spent a lot of time looking at the DOS tools, found a few issues with ASPI drivers etc. Emailed off to GoldenHawk. Also looked at native burning under XP, pretty lame, no real session control from what I can see. I'll

jpg graphics

2005-01-16 Thread Ben Fisher
> I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the > computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in > the program. Any one know anything about this? Paul, You know how ID3 tags can reside in an mp3 file and store info about title and artist? There are s

hostName and hostNameToAddress on OS9

2005-01-16 Thread John Rule
Have 'hostName' and 'hostNameToAddress' always been non-functional in OS9? I can get these using Applescript, but that is defeating the purpose... Thanks, JR ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailm

Re: Revolution Birthday Present

2005-01-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Trolling through old emails, I came across this! What happened to last year's award, Heather. You know we all only subscribe to this list in the hope of getting a bottle of whisky :-) Cheers, Sarah On 7 Jun 2003, at 1:02 am, Heather Williams wrote: Dear list members, Revolution's anniversary is f

substack behavior

2005-01-16 Thread Byron Turner
I was under the impression that a mainstack cannot be modified, but that substacks could be. Is there some process involved for text changes in fields of substacks to be retained? Byron "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the

Re: substack behavior

2005-01-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Byron Turner wrote: > I was under the impression that a mainstack cannot be modified, but > that substacks could be. Is there some process involved for text > changes in fields of substacks to be retained? Any stacks that are *not* part of a standalone can be modified and saved. Stacks

Re: crash recipe for htmlText?

2005-01-16 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 9:58 AM -0800 1/12/05, Scott Rossi wrote: > This is an image:. It seems that doing something like this would prevent the display of images from HTML source. Not necessarily, if it were done sanely (for example, if no char attribute is found when setting HTMLtext, assume "char=space" or some

Re: gestalt options

2005-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 16 Jan 2005, at 7:39 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm in the process of updating my Gestalt function (see the Gestalt stack in RevNet), which I use to automatically include a brief system profile in user reports. Currently the report includes the stuff shown below, things I

Re: employee database tutorial

2005-01-16 Thread Bob Hartley
At 23:50 16/01/2005, you wrote: Bob, Hi All Thanks for all the help (2 mailed it to me and this post) I now have the fiel adn can add bits to the "basic database primer" on revonline. All the ebst Bob You could go to: ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/distributions/ and download Rev

Re: pdf icon

2005-01-16 Thread dicod
Something similar: Instead of getting the first page of a document how to procees bay scripting to extract the icon of a related file. Is this woring on both Mac and Window using Quicktime? Thanks Jean-Jacques Wagner On 1/14/05 6:31 AM, "bassamnaji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >