Re: Open from Context Menu

The simplest way to accomplish this is the following... global fileToOpen on startup put $1 into fileToOpen end startup on openStack if fileToOpen is not empty then -- Insert the code you are using -- to open the file end if en

Re: Mac Menubar Again...

Sarah Reichelt wrote: The Mac menus DO respond to the mouseDown, but they don't know which menu has been selected. If you have a mouseDown handler in the menubar's group, it will be triggered, but you will have to set ALL the menus at that point as you have no way of knowing which is going to be

Font engines and antialiased vector graphics

Hi Developers, Probably this message belongs to the improve-list, but anyway... As many of you have already noticed, one of the areas of interest for me in computer programming are vector graphics. If my memory serves well, RunRev is planning for a future version of the engine include antialiase

RE: Same-size chunk replacements (was RunRev vs RealBasic)

I am interested in creating a 3D object viewer - and I was planning to write it in transcript. I have been researching the equations, and thinking about everything I can do to minimize processor time, including some schemes that would increase memory usage, but reduce computations. If I had to, I

RE: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

It seems to me a more significant contest between the two systems would be to assign the same project to two very experienced developers with each development environment, and see who gets it finished quicker. I cannot imagine many situations where productivity is not of great significance. If a p

Offset with 'charstoskip' doesn't work? [was RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)]

I thought I would see if I could solve the RB/Rev/SC challenge and tried this as a first attempt: on mouseUp put fld 1 into sFld put fld 2 into tFld put "" into fld 3 -- put 0 into it --*1 put zero into t --*2 repeat with i= 1 to the number of lines in tFld repeat -- get off

Re: Offset with 'charstoskip' doesn't work? [was RunRev vsRealBasic (Richard Gaskin)]

Michael D Mays wrote: I thought I would see if I could solve the RB/Rev/SC challenge and tried this as a first attempt: on mouseUp put fld 1 into sFld put fld 2 into tFld put "" into fld 3 -- put 0 into it --*1 put zero into t --*2 repeat with i= 1 to the number of lines in tFld r

Re: Opening custom files by Drag and Drop in standalone application

Hi Developers, Before sending an attachment to bugzilla, i want to recap the whole issue, for your additions, confirmations and corrections: Begin Report Problem: When i drag and drop a Rev or MC stack to a Windows standalone i had created, it opens the application and the stack dropped over the

Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

Just wondering... Would it be helpful for RunRev (or someone who works outside of RunRev but is approved by them) to offer an online Runtime Revolution training course. Those who take the course, and make an A in it, would then be officially accredited. I can see benefits and disadvantages for su

Re: font engines

In a message dated 1/21/05 11:16:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > FreeType 2 is a GLP software font engine > small, efficient, highly customizable and portable. > -- I would love RR to support Freetype! Yes, a proper font engine is the tool to fix seve

Re: Mac Menubar Again...

Chipp, To each menubar group I add this function: on mouseDown UpdateMenus pass mouseDown end mouseDown where UpdateMenus is a handler that updates all the menus in the menubar group. And in each stack I have something similar to this (changing the stack name as needed), so that it updates t

Re: RAD contest...;-)

In a message dated 1/21/05 11:16:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It seems to me a more significant contest between the two systems would > be to assign the same project to two very experienced developers with > each development environment, and see who gets it finished quicker. > -- I think

Re: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Accreditation is normally based on a test or a series of tests, not on any particular class or course. Various courses and classes are typically available as a preparation step, to help someone gain the knowledge and/or skills required to pass the t

Credit card processing

Since posting a related question back in early December, we've signed up with Authorize.net to use their card processing payment gateway. We need to get credit card information from our Rev application to Authorize.net and retrieve the results of the transaction back to our app. (We do not have

Re: Offset with 'charstoskip' doesn't work? [was RunRev vsRealBasic (Richard Gaskin)]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Michael D Mays wrote: I thought I would see if I could solve the RB/Rev/SC challenge and tried this as a first attempt: on mouseUp put fld 1 into sFld put fld 2 into tFld put "" into fld 3 -- put 0 into it --*1 put zero into t --*2 rep

Mouse move command ???

I'm slowly converting from VB 6.0 to REV. Billy boy has gave me too much problems well enuff about that. I need to know if there is a way to have a mouse move command in Rev. Let me explain I have a foto of Einstein and when I put my mouse on the foto (without clicking) a label pops up with i

Re: Mouse move command ???

Hi Mr. Salyers, I'm slowly converting from VB 6.0 to REV. Billy boy has gave me too much problems well enuff about that. I need to know if there is a way to have a mouse move command in Rev. Let me explain I have a foto of Einstein and when I put my mouse on the foto (without clicking) a label p

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 64

I'm all for it. Sign me up! Cheers, Roger On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:30:18 -0500 From: "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course? To: "How to use Revolution" Message-ID:

Re: Mouse move command ???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You might also consider using a tooltip on the image object. On Jan 21, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Mr. Salyers, I'm slowly converting from VB 6.0 to REV. Billy boy has gave me too much problems well enuff about that. I need to know if the

File Read/Write

Strange (to me): when using the write & read to file the position for reading starts at 1.When using the 'open for update' I have to set it to 0 otherwise data cannot be written properly. Is this normal? Andre Rombauts on mouseUp put 1 into rec open file "test.txt" for binary write repeat 3 tim

Re: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

Hi Jonathan, Just wondering... Would it be helpful for RunRev (or someone who works outside of RunRev but is approved by them) to offer an online Runtime Revolution training course. Those who take the course, and make an A in it, would then be officially accredited. I can see benefits and disadvant

Re: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

Hi Klaus :-) Hi Jonathan, Just wondering... Would it be helpful for RunRev (or someone who works outside of RunRev but is approved by them) to offer an online Runtime Revolution training course. Those who take the course, and make an A in it, would then be officially accredited. I can see benefit

Re: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Just wondering... Would it be helpful for RunRev (or someone who works outside of RunRev but is approved by them) to offer an online Runtime Revolution training course. Those who take the course, and make an A in it, would then be officially accre

Re: Offset with 'charstoskip' doesn't work? [was RunRev vsRealBasic (Richard Gaskin)]

Michael D Mays wrote: But what is the advantage of returning the offset from the last offset rather than the offset from beginning? Don't know; I'd agree there are probably more cases where an "overall" answer would be more convenient, but I don't see that it makes any great difference. I can't

RE: RAD contest...;-)

I should think that creating a word processing program in RR should not be a problem - nor would creating an excel like program. I am not sure there would be much value to doing so - since those programs already exist - but I think pretty much all of the standard functionalities found in those pro

RE: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 64

How many RunRev users are there? Are there enough to make such a course practical? I would agree with Frank's comment - that it would make more sense to have the accreditation separate from the course. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger

RE: Should Runtime Revolution have an accreditation course?

Well - the accreditation would serve two purposes 1) excellent line on a resume 2) people seeking to achieve the accreditation would have to learn the program really well in order to get there. It would encourage them become knowledgable, and prove that they have done so. -Original Message--

Re: RAD contest...;-)

On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I am not sure there would be much value to doing so - since those programs already exist - simply, build a good editor for our supported platforms like HP-UX and AIX and all those strange unix flavours Some users might really enjoy this -- A

Re: Offset with 'charstoskip' doesn't work? [was RunRev vsRealBasic (Richard Gaskin)]

Michael D Mays wrote: Someday I will read the complete description in the documentation all by myself.:) Thanks. But what is the advantage of returning the offset from the last offset rather than the offset from beginning? I think I do need to insert put zero into t after the first repeat and

RE: RAD contest...;-)

I know nothing about Unix :( But, I just created a stack that is basically a primitive word processor - it lets me create multiple page reports with text fields and pictures. The fields are scripted so that, for any given series of fields, the text autoflows from one field to the next, allowing

SpecialFolderPath

the specialFolderPath of folderIdentifier specialFolderPath(folderIdentifier) specialFolderPath("Preferences") set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents") put specialFolderPath("asup") into appSupportFolder -- special constant I need help one last time. :) I found the above code on Rev

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 64

A couple of perhaps prejudiced observations here. First, accreditation generally isn't credible unless it is issued by an independent third party testing organization. Having RunRev "certify" Rev developers would, in almost all real-world cases, be meaningless. Second, as the world of Java certi

Re: SpecialFolderPath

Paul Salyers wrote: the specialFolderPath of folderIdentifier specialFolderPath(folderIdentifier) specialFolderPath("Preferences") set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents") put specialFolderPath("asup") into appSupportFolder -- special constant I need help one last time. :) I found t

Re: RAD contest...;-)

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > But - is there really value in reinventing the wheel? > Is there really enough Unix/Linux users to make such > an effort profitable? ...and who aren't already using Open Office, or Think Free Office, or any of the others? That Rev and other tools are used to develop profe

RE: SpecialFolderPath

Here is a script I use for a project I am working on... I commented out the part that sets the registry so that the progam runs automatically upon computer startup. Even still, you would probably need to tweak it a bit to work for your program. On Mouseup put the filename of this stack into th

Re: SpecialFolderPath

> For Windows systems, you can also specify a CSIDL number that identifies > a special folder. You can find a list of available CDISL values on the > Microsoft web site at > s/csidl.asp>. Even easier is to use my tip

xml demo not working

Hi all. I'm looking at sarah's xmldemo and when I click on load I get this error. executing at 8:29:00 PM TypeHandler: can't find handler Object Close LinerevDeleteAllXMLTrees HintrevDeleteAllXMLTrees Now when I look at the script for the load button I see -- load any XML file

Re: RAD contest...;-)

On 22/01/2005, at 4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me a more significant contest between the two systems would be to assign the same project to two very experienced developers with each development environment, and see who gets it finished quicker. -- I think after 20yrs...I should be a

Re: xml demo not working

At 20:42 21/01/2005, you wrote: Hi all. I'm looking at sarah's xmldemo and when I click on load I get this error. Ohhh this is getting weird It then started to work and not it doesn't. If I load the demo then hit the button to go to page 2 of the tutorial it will go to that page. MNote (1)

valentina and rev

HI all. OK here is a rant. I was on the apple store site the other day looking at a mac mini. I noticed that they sell realbasic but not rev. I have been looking at valentina and they mention real basic and lots of other scenarios where you can use valentina but not rev. Should this dev env not

some pre-shots on my new app...

Hi Folks, I am building a new version of my DataJr app which is used on the Marketing and Advertising Superior School of Rio De Janeiro (it's a university) to track their contacts and manage their projects. It's database independent, you can tie it to Valentina, MySQL, Oracle, whatever works wi

Office Software

Richard's earlier comment got me to wondering... My use of Rev is for a few specialized situations, and I am largely ignorant of the various office software programs out there. After he mentioned OpenOffice I went online to read about it. Apparently it is free for customers, although Sun paid lik

Re: some pre-shots on my new app...

Andre- (B (BThat looks fantastic! The only (very picky) suggestion I have is with the (Binstant messenger (http://homepage.mac.com/soapdog/DataJR/DataJr03.png). (BYou may want a space or two between the speaker and what is being said. (BNow it looks like "andre:hey hey hey!". Maybe have i

Re: valentina and rev

Yep, I agree. It's especially interesting when RR last year spent valuable resources sending R Gaskin and yours truly to man a booth at the Mac Developer conference at the bequest of Apple. And after arriving, finding no RB presence at all. --Chipp Bob Hartley wrote: HI all. OK here is a rant.

Re: Office Software

On Jan 21, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: 1) Is it really that difficult to create basic office software? 2) Why does it cost so much? Jonathan, to create a huge mammoth (is this how one spell big-prehistoric-elephant in english?) like an Office app is not a task for a single person

Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin)

Chipp Walters wrote: > Hi David, > > A quick Google shows you're the product manager for Real Basic. Guess > that sorta slipped your sig ;-) I certainly wasn't trying to hide my affiliation and I did use my REAL Software email address. I tend not to use a signature very often although it would

RE: Office Software

Yeah but... And again, I am not advocating that any of us bother creating a competitive word processor in Rev, because I see little point in re-inventing the wheel unless there is some sort of clear advantage the software can deliver... But... Using Rev, most of these types of programs would n

XML library

Could anybody tell me where the "XML library" is located in the Rev IDE? The "XMLRPC library" is right there in the "revlibrary" stack, but the "XML library"? Thanks in advance! Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.c

Re: Office Software

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > Using Rev, most of these types of programs would not be > that difficult. I understand that the reason for that > is because Rev does most of the hard stuff for you. > > A spreadsheet, for example, may be complex in terms of > defining the cells and such - but if you alread

Re: some pre-shots on my new app...

Bom dias, oh sorry buenos dias Andre ;-) Hi Folks, I am building a new version of my DataJr app which is used on the Marketing and Advertising Superior School of Rio De Janeiro (it's a university) to track their contacts and manage their projects. It's database independent, you can tie it to Val

Changing the contents of a custom property

I have a custom property called connectorName that currently has the following contents darpa nrl hsecurity I am trying to figure out how I can delete one or more than one of the contents via script. Also, how to add new content via script. Is there an example stack available? thanks, Glen __

Re: Changing the contents of a custom property

Hi Glen, put the connectorName of fld "myFld" into tList delete line 2 of tList put cr & "darpa2" after tList set the connectorName of fld "myFld" to tList Glen Bojsza wrote: I have a custom property called connectorName that currently has the following contents darpa nrl hsecurity I am trying to f

Re: Changing the contents of a custom property

Hi Glen, I have a custom property called connectorName that currently has the following contents darpa nrl hsecurity I am trying to figure out how I can delete one or more than one of the contents via script. No need for an extra stack ;-) on mouseup put the connectorName of xyz into tempCP d

Re: some pre-shots on my new app...

Very pretty Andre! Since I don't read Spanish (?Portugese?), it's a little hard for me to comment on the functionality of the interface, but the eye candy certainly is wonderful :-)) Marian On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, I am building a new version of my DataJr app w

Synchronization puzzle.

[ slightly OT - this is a "design / algorithm" question rather than a Rev/xtalk one, really ] [and it's a long, rambling email - so feel free to skip it] I am in the process of writing my own Address Book application. That may sound like an odd thing to do : aren't there already hundreds of pro

Re: some pre-shots on my new app...

Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, I am building a new version of my DataJr app which is used on the Marketing and Advertising Superior School of Rio De Janeiro (it's a university) to track their contacts and manage their projects. It's database independent, you can tie it to Valentina, MySQL, Oracle

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

Why bother with sync at all? That looks like a nightmare! Are all your workstations internet-connected? Why not create a MYSQL database and any number of clients made in Rev to talk to it. Most good ISPs offer it. All data will be real-time - no copies needed. Very simple. [ slightly OT - this i

Re: RAD contest...;-)

David Vaughan wrote: > As for Mr Grogono, a man who on my reading can deny and then admit the > same thing in a single paragraph, If you'd like me to clarify anything I said please contact me off list as I'd rather not add clutter here. If after contacting me off list you'd like me to also clari

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

Stephen Barncard wrote: Why bother with sync at all? That looks like a nightmare! Because I need it. Are all your workstations internet-connected? No. Some of them are some of the time, but in general they're not. And it's not acceptable to be unable to make edits when they're not connected. I th

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

I wrote: [ slightly OT - this is a "design / algorithm" question rather than a Rev/xtalk one, really ] [and it's a long, rambling email - so feel free to skip it] You just can't get good staff these days :-) My typist (that's me) missed a crucial sentence or two when transferring hand-written n

Re: XML Library

I think it's found as 'revXML.bundle' for MacOS and 'revXML.dll' for Windows in the 'components' folder inside the revolution folder... Is that what you mean? Cheers, Mark Could anybody tell me where the "XML library" is located in the Rev IDE? The "XMLRPC library" is right there in the "revli

Revdb and ODBC (a hint)

Hi All, As I was up early, I finally got around to reinstalling Office2K on my Win2K machine (in order to get MSQuery back in a working state), and decided to check why I couldn't connect to my Progress database from Revolution. (Bugzilla # 2438) After connecting from Excel to make sure that, ye

Send SMS with a mobile phone

I wrote a rev-application to send SMS . At the moment I send a post to a web-server and the server send the message. It works but I need an account on the server and an internet connection. I wonder how can I send SMS directly from my computer using a mobile phone (with an ordinary SIM) or so