Re: Rev WIKI offline browsing

I think the easiest way would be to write a script to just grab it all. The pages are numbered starting from 1. The first page of the book is at: http://www.mathfieldday.com:8080/revdocs/2382 On Jan 25, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: How could i download the whole contents of this wik

Re: len(right(number, 3))

>I searched "len" and got > >put char (length(it) - 3) to (length(it)) of it into myExtension > >but don't understand what it means. 1. A negative char means counting from the end, so char -3 means the third char from the end. 2. Len is short for 'length", or the total number of chars in

Simple tutorial on linktext and clicking list text

Folks: I'm new to Revolution and I'd like basic, step-by-step instructions on making text in a field clickable. I've gone through the Rev docs but can't seem to get anything to work. Please note that I have never attempted this type of thing before so some things that may be obvious aren't for me

Re: Simple tutorial on linktext and clicking list text

it's quite simple. Make a field with some text. If you want the text to look like a web clickeable url make the text "link" style (text menu). In the field's script (or the card's) put in the handler on linkclicked w if w =... end linkclicked Other alternatives without linked text are: o

Re: ANN: Online FAQ Server and a Plugin

on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 Andre Garzia wrote: > I just created a silly as hell online FAQ Server. > It's a simple stack that will connect to a online > database and allow user to browse, search > and view common FAQs. Any user is also encouraged > to upload as many Questions as he can... > the da

Re: OT -- Mac OSX or Classic?

Nicolas, Apple has not shipped a computer that will boot into OS 9 for over a year. At some point in the not too distant future they will no longer support the use of OS 9 Classic inside of OS X. All of the new Apple applications (iTunes, iPhoto, Pages, Keynote, etc.) are OS X only.

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 81

The two length expressions evaluate to numbers - so you're actually saying (using your example of 12345678): put char 5 to 8 of it into myExtension However, transcript can count backwards as well as forwards, so simpler would be: put char -3 to -1 of it into myExtension negative numbers in this

Re: Simple tutorial on linktext and clicking list text

One way that I know of (and apologies if this explanation is overly simple): (B (B1) create a field object and type some text into it (B (B2) double-click on that field object to open up its Properties window (B (B3) in that Properties window, check "lock text" (B (B4) still on that Propert

Beginner's List

Is there a "beginner's list" available? I've just purchased Revolution and I'm having some problems (on WinXP) but most of the questions I see on this list are way past where I'm at. I'm sure when my book arrives I'll be able to answer a lot of these questions myself but I'd like to get start

Re: Beginner's List

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not a separate one, but if you ask, I'm sure someone can help you with some answers. We take beginners' questions on this list too! On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Len Morgan wrote: Is there a "beginner's list" available? I've just purchased Revoluti

RE: Beginner's List

Don't forget you can search the archives of this list for answers to questions you may have. I have found the archives invaluable. http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/ Jonathan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@list

Analyzing News Stories

Hello everyone, I'm starting a research project that will relate the flow of information, in the form of news reports from Reuters and Canada NewsWire, to activity in capital markets, namely, the volume and volatility of trade on the stock market. The Canadian news sample will consist of about

Question regarding the clipboard

Hello... I have a problem that occurs about one in ten times. I have a long string, like around 60 - 70 thousand characters. It is necessary to remove all of the linefeeds from this string. After I remove the linefeeds, I put the string into the clipboard. Usually, it works just fine. But occassi

RE: Analyzing News Stories

Most news outlets are moving to RSS feeds... You could probably set up Rev to continuously monitor an RSS feed, and pull out, save, and categorieze those stories that you need. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Lypny Sent: Wednesday

Re: Question regarding the clipboard

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Hello... I have a problem that occurs about one in ten times. I have a long string, like around 60 - 70 thousand characters. It is necessary to remove all of the linefeeds from this string. After I remove the linefeeds, I put the string into the clipboard. Usually, it works j

Re: Analyzing News Stories

Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I'm starting a research project that will relate the flow of information, in the form of news reports from Reuters and Canada NewsWire, to activity in capital markets, namely, the volume and volatility of trade on the stock market. The Canadian news sample

RE: Question regarding the clipboard

But then, why would it stop around 2 or 3 K - and why would it only do it occassionally? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:09 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Question regarding the c

Printrotated

Judging from the lack of response to my question earlier, no one knows what I was talking about or hasn't had that experience with using printrotated. Can anyone tell me just how it works to do what it does? The problem is on XP. and the app that won't hold the portrait mode is an online app

RE: Analyzing News Stories

Greg, Part of my XOS project is to do with knowledge management or data mining (both have overlapping zones of usage). But basically it allows me to regroup disparate data and reorganize it nearly automatically - the keywords and links are automatically detected and the exceptions are already quit

Where IS the Report Builder?

The recent discussions about printing in Rev have come along at a propitious time for me. I have a data stack with about five fields per record, only a couple hundred records. The data eventually gets exported to a page layout program in RTF, but I was trying to make it easy for users to get ch

Re: len(right(number, 3))

Paul Salyers wrote: How is this statement wrote in Rev, len(right(number, 3) this in VB will take the number ex: number = "12345678" and cut it down to number = "678" starting at the right and give you the first 3 numbers. I need to do this in Rev. I searched "len" and got put char (length(it) - 3)

RE: Printrotated

In IE, you can look in file --> page setup - and in the bottom left you will find a couple radio buttons for setting portrait/landscape mode. Does that help? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailma

RE: Analyzing News Stories

Thanks for your replies, Jonathan and Alex. Jonathan, I don't know what an RSS feed is, but if it refers to new stories or accessing news in real time, that's not what I'm doing. I want to tap into complete archives. Most news outlets are moving to RSS feeds... You could probably set up Rev to

Re: Question regarding the clipboard

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: But then, why would it stop around 2 or 3 K - and why would it only do it occassionally? You said the string is 60 - 70 thousand chars. So I figured maybe up to 65536 works OK, and over that you are getting some kind of field-wrapping effect, and getting only the amount

Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Saving a large stack can be time consuming - especially across a network. Would it be possible to have some sort of write-to-file scheme that just changes the stored data for single card, but not the entire stack? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-r

Re: externals kit

Ben Fisher wrote: Hi Revolutionaries, I'm planning on making a kit/instructions on how to create externals for rev (in c++). I would include a detailed pdf on C++ and have examples of common tasks for externals. This would all use a free compiler such as Dev-C++. Would anyone be interested in pay

Re: Where IS the Report Builder?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Correct, as of Rev 2.5, the Report Builder no longer exists. I never found it to be all that useful anyway, so I suppose it's just as well. Printing tutorials can also be found in Rev Online, if you purchased the tutorials or the Studio/Enterprise

Re: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You might do best to split the data onto separate stacks and save them independently. When the data is needed, you can retrieve it from the appropriate stack; when you change it, you copy it back to the data stack it belongs in and, at an appropriat

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

> Saving a large stack can be time consuming - especially > across a network. I've complained about this. But the problem was in the way I worked. OK, the stacks are not rewritten in the same way as they did in HyperCard - but it's unlikely that's going to change anytime. Even though most of m

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Thanks Frank, That sounds most practical. For my purpose, I could have it save a separate stack for every month's worth of articles. I will do that. Still - how do database programs do it? Is each record a separate file or something? If it were possible to use a single stack as a huge database,

Re: len(right(number, 3))

Being on the digest version of the list, I am coming in late on this one. The thing that confused me in the beginning about Run Rev and numbers is that they treated in a manner which depends on the context. For example if you write: put chars 1 to 4 of 123456 into theResult Then theResul

What do most Rev developers do?

I have a question for you guys: What do you do? I am a writer/editor for an online publication at the U.S. CDC, and I use Rev to help with compiling news reports, and to help with editing submissions from our contributors, and a few other things as well. I am also using it for an online publishi

RE: Question regarding the clipboard

Hi Alex, >You said the string is 60 - 70 thousand chars. So I figured maybe up to >65536 works OK, and over that you are getting some kind of >field-wrapping effect, and getting only the amount BEYOND the 65536 limit. >But it was only a guess :-) >There are some other limits (see docs / Topi

Re: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Hi Jonathan, On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:01, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Still - how do database programs do it? Is each record a separate file or something? If it were possible to use a single stack as a huge database, it would be very convenient. The big problem of course is that opening a stack loads the

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Thanks MisterX, It sounds like you have really thought this through. Much food for thought. I will have to do some mental digesting before I decide for sure which way I want to go. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://li

Re: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Hi All, Saving a large stack can be time consuming - especially across a network. One alternative is a client-server setup. The entire stack is in RAM on the server side; but client stacks only deal with one record at a time. Thus the stack is always saved locally at the server, never over the ne

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

How huge is "huge", Jonathan? If it were possible to use a single stack as a huge database, it would be very convenient. I've worked with 43K-record, 43MB, database stacks in SDB. Rob Cozens "We are living on a dying planet. We're killing everything that's alive

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

I guess huge is relative to the speed of one's system and network. The stack I am dealing with is only 4.74mb - yet, it still takes a couple minutes to save across the network. That's no big deal - but a year from now the same stack will be 20meg, and will take 8 minutes to save. I am planning on

Re: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Hi Jonathan, I guess huge is relative to the speed of one's system and network. The stack I am dealing with is only 4.74mb - yet, it still takes a couple minutes to save across the network. That's no big deal - but a year from now the same stack will be 20meg, and will take 8 minutes to save. I am

Re: Beginner's List

Quoting Len Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a "beginner's list" available? I've just purchased Revolution > and I'm having some problems (on WinXP) but most of the questions I see > on this list are way past where I'm at. I'm sure when my book arrives > I'll be able to answer a lot of the

Re: Beginner's List

On 1/26/05 8:18 AM, Len Morgan wrote: Is there a "beginner's list" available? I've just purchased Revolution and I'm having some problems (on WinXP) but most of the questions I see on this list are way past where I'm at. I'm sure when my book arrives I'll be able to answer a lot of these quest

Re: bad RevNet link (was Where IS the Report Builder?)

Jim Lyons wrote: > I found out that the Search-the-List stack, which is still > referenced in RevNet, is no longer available. Which one? I'll have that URL updated. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://ww

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

I haven't tried that! I think someone else suggested something similar - but with all the suggestions you guys have had, I haven't sorted through them yet. I will try that - thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaus Major Sent: Wedne

get in on it!

Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1916218&tid=198&tid=95&tid=126&t id=1 I found many parallels between xos and xanadu in the original wired article and many of us in the list have touched bases with hypertext as much as many others have (ms, apple, acroba

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

i bought runrev to script for fun! Graphics, games, and Utilities for RunRev. Also for personal research and document management - im overloaded with them projects! Then at work, I get rid of all the command lines with nice GUIs with MetaCard to manage a mega enterprise data pool - I migrate 100

RE: Beginner's List

As a newcomer to Rev... I love this list. The searchable archive of this list - http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/ - has been an exceedingly useful resource for me. In payback for the good advice given by the pros on this list, I try to field some of the very basic

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

At 10:56 AM 1/26/2005, you wrote: I have a question for you guys: What do you do? I don't know about most, but this one is busy at converting VB programs to Rev. Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___ use-revoluti

Re: Having RunRev Standalone accept and reply to AppleEvents?

Kee, It sounds like you are getting trapped in Revolution's backscript, which has its own appleEvent handler. This should not be happening -- your own appleEvent handler should be blocking the one in the backscript, unless you pass it on. The clue was that enabling the "answer" lines causes you

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Why not just use a SQL database to store the data and use Rev to gather and display your data? This will give you the best performance and flexibility. sqb Thanks Frank, That sounds most practical. For my purpose, I could have it save a separate stack for every month's worth of articles. I will

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I have a question for you guys: What do you do? As little as possible :-) Are most of you using it for educational software, or to help with projects at a large company, or for independent programming for small businesses? Using a programming language is like running a

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

Hi again, Jonathan, I suspect the short, general answer is "anything and everything". My particulars: I began my programming career as in house IS expert for the Oakland, CA police department in the 1970's. In the 1980's and 1990's, most of my income came from customizing an accounting package,

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What do you do? I have the pleasure of coding Transcript nearly full-time, crafting vertical market products for myself and my clients, with the balance spent assisting with the marketing of those products. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

Jonathan, Maybe for Rev 3.0 they will work out such a thing If they don't, I have--if you're ready to go client/serer. Rob Cozens, Staff Conservator Mendonoma Marine Life Conservancy "Thirty years ago, our fisheries seemed inexhaustible. Today we know they are not. The fault lies in large measur

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

I think the answer would be 'whatever people use computers for" - really. There are Rev users that range from hobbyists to the enterprise and 'shrink wrap' application developers. Rev is nothing less than a very organized toolkit into the inner mojo of all the major operating systems, a passpor

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

What is a vertical market? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:22 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: What do most Rev developers do? Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > What do you do? I have th

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

On 1/26/05 10:56 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I have a question for you guys: What do you do? I am a commercial software developer. I started with x-talk in 1987 using HyperCard and some SuperCard, then moved on to MetaCard, and now Revolution. I develop software for anyone who needs it: large cor

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

> What is a vertical market? > Unless I got my axii inverted again, vertical market is a market like car accessories is to cars. horizontal is like car accessories to office accessories... You haven't heard of diagonal or 3D markets but they are well present in financial markets as indirect fa

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: >>What do you do? > > I have the pleasure of coding Transcript nearly full-time, crafting > vertical market products for myself and my clients, with the balance > spent assisting with the marketing of those products. > > What is a vertical market? A market that stands on its

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

I am using RunRev to develop a scrapbook/diary application. The app will be shareware. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question for you guys: What do you do? I am a writer/editor for an online publication at the U.S. CDC, and I use Rev to help with compiling news reports, and to help with

Using an index field

I've built a help stack for an app which consists mostly of two fields, one the content and the other an index. Clicking on a line in the index takes the user to the appropriate section of the help contents. It works fine when going 'down' the contents, but I'm wondering if there is a simple

Rev and Windows XP Embedded

Has anyone used Rev (used IDE, or deployed standalones) on Windows XP Embedded? Does it work? Are there any gotchas, tips or other things I should be aware of? TIA, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://w

trouble with RevCopyFolder...

Hi folks, I am trying to make a simple mirroing stack to use with my .Mac account iDisk. it's like this put "/Volumes/iDisk/studio/blog" into tDestination put "/Users/andregar/QuickBlog/Root" into tSource revCopyFolder tSource, tDestination pretty simple ain't it? no bundle inside the folder, no

Re: Using an index field

David Squance wrote: I've built a help stack for an app which consists mostly of two fields, one the content and the other an index. Clicking on a line in the index takes the user to the appropriate section of the help contents. It works fine when going 'down' the contents, but I'm wondering i

Re: Printing Hell

On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin wrote: "It is perfectly possible to print anything you may want to, including complex reports." Where do we find the recipe for multi-page reports based on a source stack with scrolling fields? Headers? Footers? Jacque mentioned revPrintT

Re: Question regarding the clipboard

On 27 Jan 2005, at 12:57 am, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Hello... I have a problem that occurs about one in ten times. I have a long string, like around 60 - 70 thousand characters. It is necessary to remove all of the linefeeds from this string. After I remove the linefeeds, I put the string into the c

Re: Rev and Windows XP Embedded

On 26/1/05 8:57 pm, "Ben Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone used Rev (used IDE, or deployed standalones) on Windows XP > Embedded? Does it work? Are there any gotchas, tips or other things I > should be aware of? To the best of my knowledge, this should work fine. Of course yo

Re: Simple tutorial on linktext and clicking list text

Hi Steve, Nicholas supplied you with the info for using clickChunks, but here is some additional stuff on using linktext. - enter your text in a field - select a chunk that you want to make into a link - go to the Text menu and set it's style to "Link" - if you are using the default settings, the

Re: trouble with RevCopyFolder...

Hi Andre, Try using "answer folder" to get the full paths to the two folders. There may be something weird about the path specification for an iDisk. Cheers, Sarah On 27 Jan 2005, at 7:05 am, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to make a simple mirroing stack to use with my .Mac account iD

Re: Where IS the Report Builder?

check out ... http://www.quartam.com/reports/tour/index.htm I think RunRev was expecting a simultaneous release with 2.5 but I recall that the author Jan Schenkel had to delay completion for personal reasons ... http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/msg45366.html ___

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Rob Cozens replied: (B (B> Hi again, Jonathan, (B> (B> I suspect the short, general answer is "anything and everything". (B (BDitto for myself. (B (BMetacard was what I first used for years. And though I've mostly switched to (BRev, I still have the MC engine on my webserver (B(http://kwe

Re: Revolution Hypercard cellophane color

Hi Fred, Sorry I'm so terribly late answering this question. You can obtain the cellophane effect by blending objects in Rev. Best, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I wish I could get Revolution's color to work the way Hypercard does. Hypercard's color is like cellophane, except for one really

Re: Simple tutorial on linktext and clicking list text

Sarah, Nicholas, Xavier: Thanks very much for your help. I finally got it to work. The main problem appeared to be that "Link" was applied to all the text in the field rather than just one line at a time. All seems to be well...until the next question, of course. Steve --- Sarah Reichelt <[EMA

Re: trouble with RevCopyFolder...

On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi Andre, Try using "answer folder" to get the full paths to the two folders. There may be something weird about the path specification for an iDisk. Cheers, Sarah Sarah, thanks but that was just what I did! :D I used answer folder and assigned

Disappearing Mouse!!??

I'm a (very) new Revolution user and I've got problem on Win XP. I've created a little stack and in the IDE it "works" ok. Right now it's just labels and textboxes - it doesn't actually DO anything yet. The problem is when I save it and then try and run the .rev file, it shows up ok on the sc

Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

"...In that case you could copy the file onto your HD temporarily, edit and then copy it back to the server..." Would something like this work? There would be two versions of the splash-stack, one for User-A, and another for User-B, C, etc. User-A opens splash-stack and data-stack.

RE: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

For me it would work, because, although the stack may be used by different people on different computers - it would never be used by different people at the same time. Only one of us would compose the Media Tracking Report on any given day. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

I use it (well, Metacard) to run all the experiments in my lab, handle the data, and often the data analyses; essentially, it replaced hypercard that formerly did exactly the same thing for me (and, before that, I used FutureBasic (and sometimes still do), which used to be known as ZBasic). It

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What do you do? Hi Jonathan, My company creates educational software tools and medical software. We focus on vertical market applications. The belief is that even though these markets are smaller, 50-70% of a given vertical market with super

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

Len Morgan wrote: I'm a (very) new Revolution user and I've got problem on Win XP. I've created a little stack and in the IDE it "works" ok. Right now it's just labels and textboxes - it doesn't actually DO anything yet. The problem is when I save it and then try and run the .rev file, it sho

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

I use Rev to develop a free Cherokee Language dictionary and learning tool. I also plan to use it in future for developing helper apps for my non-profit work. Duane Poncy visit elohi gadugi: poetry, software, Cherokee culture and Native American rights. http://elohigadugi.org/ --

Windows settings: volume & front app

Dear All, There have been some threads in the past about these Windows settings and I can't find that a good solution has been found for either of them: System volume: is it possible to read &/or set the system volume in Windows XP? Bringing an application to the front: Has anyone worked out ho

Re: Windows settings: volume & front app

Sarah Reichelt wrote: There have been some threads in the past about these Windows settings and I can't find that a good solution has been found for either of them: System volume: is it possible to read &/or set the system volume in Windows XP? Bringing an application to the front: Has anyone wo

RE: What do most Rev developers do?

Hi Jonathan, I belong to a UI Design group here at Qualcomm; my day-in/day-out job consists of designing the user-interface for applications on cell phones. I never touch code; all of our backgrounds in the group are related to the cognitive sciences. We recently purchased Revolution at Qualcom

Bugzilla URL?

I've changed computers a few too many times recently and have lost many bookmarks on which I so heavily rely. Can someone please tell me where to find Rev's Bugzilla site? Thanks. Phil Davis ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.c

Re: Bugzilla URL?

Hi Phil, On Jan 26, 2005, at 20:05, Phil Davis wrote: I've changed computers a few too many times recently and have lost many bookmarks on which I so heavily rely. Can someone please tell me where to find Rev's Bugzilla site? http://support.runrev.com/bugzilla/ --gordy __

Re: Bugzilla URL?

Hey Phil -- Good to see you here again: I've changed computers a few too many times recently and have lost many bookmarks on which I so heavily rely. Can someone please tell me where to find Rev's Bugzilla site? The URL is: -- Richard Gaskin Fou

Re: Windows settings: volume & front app

On 27 Jan 2005, at 11:45 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: There have been some threads in the past about these Windows settings and I can't find that a good solution has been found for either of them: System volume: is it possible to read &/or set the system volume in Windows XP?

Re: Rev and Windows XP Embedded

I worked with Rev a great deal under XP Embedded. No particular issues. Worked fine. Richard On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 26/1/05 8:57 pm, "Ben Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone used Rev (used IDE, or deployed standalones) on Windows XP Embedded? Does it wo

Newbie question: use of fields for mobile phone sim

Hello everyone, Now that our company has bought Revolution, I have much more motivation to use this product! Anyways, I had a question on the best way to set up text and images in fields. Without further ado... Since I'm creating a prototype of a mobile phone application in Revolution, the boss

Re: Newbie question: use of fields for mobile phone sim

Since I'm creating a prototype of a mobile phone application in Revolution, the boss would like it to be "as close as possible" to the real thing. To give some context, take a look at this picture: http://img93.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img93&image=generic8gy.jpg Each line must be 29 pixels high, and the

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

I do not do professional development but use it in a couple of main areas. I have applications written to support my life. Examples include manage my Super Fund, look after contacts, do backups, provide a small multi-entry RPN calculator, calculate optimal gearing for model racing cars, calcula

Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

First, let me thank Heather for being kind enough to get me squared away on my not having licensed the copy of 1.1.1 I got on the MacWorld ``Total Panther'' DVD from almost two years ago. I've managed to code up a basic little app (a numeric version of a graphic design ``proportion wheel''), bu

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Hi Jonathan, I use metacard and revolution to produce educational multimedia exhibits and CD-ROMs. Its a wonderful evolution from Hypercard that i used for years to produce educational multimedia projects. I have used Metacard/rev to produce multimedia exhibits for places like the Monterey Bay

Re: Using an index field

On Jan 26, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Squance wrote: I've built a help stack for an app which consists mostly of two fields, one the content and the other an index. Clicking on a line in the index takes the user to the appropriate section of the help contents. It works fine

Re: Getting up-to-date w/ RunRev 1.1.1 and Mac OS X Panther

Building the Windows version (I also bought a copy of PC Pro UK way back when which also had 1.1.1 for Windows ;) went fine. Build options for the Mac version are kind of limited though, and while the built app works okay in Mac OS X 10.2 ``Jaguar'' in 10.3 ``Panther'' it opens up in Classic mod

Re: Using an index field

Thanks for the reply. The contents are a single field. There's only one card, and the index field and contents field are about all there is. Just a title and a 'put away' button. The script for the index field is: on mouseup put the value of the clickline into tFindText if tFindText co

hexadecimal calculations

will the computer (REV) do math calculations with hexadecimal without converting it to decimal? Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runre

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

On 1/26/05 6:19 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Len Morgan wrote: I'm a (very) new Revolution user and I've got problem on Win XP. I've created a little stack and in the IDE it "works" ok. Right now it's just labels and textboxes - it doesn't actually DO anything yet. The problem is when I save it and

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

On 1/26/05 6:19 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I think you're doing nothing wrong. I believe you have encountered Bug 2138 (see http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2138 ) I just found the bug report on this I submitted: Also s

Re: Having RunRev Standalone accept and reply to AppleEvents?

First, thank you for the most excellent examination of my script. On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:16 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Kee, It sounds like you are getting trapped in Revolution's backscript, which has its own appleEvent handler. This should not be happening -- your own appleEvent handler should be

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