Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Bump
> Derek, > > thats really smart, you could create a CGI to handle that with XML-RPC > in python in maybe 30 lines, you could call it from Rev Thanks, but you can do it in PHP with 1 line of code. If anyone's interested, just email me. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software _

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Thursday, January 27, 2005, 9:47:12 PM, you wrote: DS> If I thought they could do that, I'd handle it that way. Problem is, DS> I'm dismayed to find that most users know very little if anything about DS> how their systems work or how they're configured. On this same project, DS> I posted a Q

Re: post an image

2005-01-27 Thread paolo
Thank you for you help. I will make a try and then I will let you know. Paolo Mazza Giovedì, 27 Gen 2005, alle 23:14 Europe/Rome, Jan Schenkel ha scritto: --- paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you know how can I post an image to a revCGI stack and have this image to be saved on the cgi-bin folde

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:45 AM, sims wrote: Habib! Add Maltese to that list so you will know a hobz from a ras ta gidra for the 2006 European revolution Conference! Sahha! sims Sims my friend, my maltese is far superior than my spanish, I know that hobz is bread and ras ta gidra is how you politell

Re: external trouble with missing getStatus();

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Sounds like you're not including XCmdGlue.c. That's where the getstatus() function is defined. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revol

Re: modal question

2005-01-27 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 27 janv. 05, à 21:36, Paul Kocsis a écrit : Thank you for responding Yves. I know that I can set something (global variable, custom property, etc.) to allow another handler to know which stack opened the modal...but...this is not the intent of the question. I'm trying to work around a subtle

Re: Of standalones, bundles and files

2005-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm using RR2.1.2 on OSX, and would like to avoid using the standalone builder, as it takes 30 to 40 minutes doing something with a particular substack. Is there a reason why I shouldn't just build the splashscreen stack and put the 'real' rev file in the same folder and avoid having it in the

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread sims
On Jan 28, 2005, Andre wrote: my spanish is evil Now my parents really want me to learn spanish after a scene where a tourist from south america tried to speak spanish with me and I ended clueless about what was the damn person speaking about, I said to him: "can you speak english, french,

Re: external trouble with missing getStatus();

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Yennie
Andre, In the past I've had to add a prefix file to define some things that aren't always there depending on your system. For example, if you look in the headers you'll see a lot of #ifdef __stdc__ (or something like it) If your system headers haven't defined it, the function prototypes may not

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 91

2005-01-27 Thread D.Rothe
THANX TO ALL WHO REPLIED! Jim definately has the solution for chosing one solution, but i thought I'd add a bit to it ;?) if tHairInKeyboard > 1 then > put "all solutions" into x > sort items of "all ten solutions" by random(1) > return item 1 of x else put tStrongCoffee & tSugar into tCup

Of standalones, bundles and files

2005-01-27 Thread David Squance
I'm using RR2.1.2 on OSX, and would like to avoid using the standalone builder, as it takes 30 to 40 minutes doing something with a particular substack. Is there a reason why I shouldn't just build the splashscreen stack and put the 'real' rev file in the same folder and avoid having it in the

Re: external trouble with missing getStatus();

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:05 AM, Paul Kocsis wrote: Hello Andre, That function is in XCmdGlue.c Don't know what environment you're in, but I don't explicitly include XCmdFunc.c in my projects. I include XCmdGlue.c since XCmdFunc.c is '#Include'd in the final line of XCmdGlue.c Hope that helps! thank

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:58 AM, Derek Bump wrote: You could try encoding the message with attachments and bounce it off a php script on your web site. That's the workaround I found that works. It doesn't require any mailserver on the part of the user, just you. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Der

external trouble with missing getStatus();

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Kocsis
Hello Andre, That function is in XCmdGlue.c Don't know what environment you're in, but I don't explicitly include XCmdFunc.c in my projects. I include XCmdGlue.c since XCmdFunc.c is '#Include'd in the final line of XCmdGlue.c Hope that helps! Paul Kocsis _

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Bump
You could try encoding the message with attachments and bounce it off a php script on your web site. That's the workaround I found that works. It doesn't require any mailserver on the part of the user, just you. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Comp

Re: Printing using altBrowser

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Bump
> One thing that would be really nice to be able to do is to print the > contents of the browser window. Not just as a flat image using the standard > rev print functions but as rendered text as if you were printing from IE or > Safari. I looked through the docs and it didn't look to me like this i

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Shafer
If I thought they could do that, I'd handle it that way. Problem is, I'm dismayed to find that most users know very little if anything about how their systems work or how they're configured. On this same project, I posted a QuickTime movie on the Web. Five of the first seven customers who tried

Re: baseConvert help

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/27/05 9:26 PM, "Paul Salyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm converting a hexadecimal number to decimal. the below code works and > placed it in my label called myNumber > >put baseConvert(tmpVar,16,10) into field myNumber > > The problem is I now need to use myNumber to do some

Re: baseConvert help

2005-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm converting a hexadecimal number to decimal. the below code works and placed it in my label called myNumber put baseConvert(tmpVar,16,10) into field myNumber The problem is I now need to use myNumber to do some calculations with and place it in a field called myAnswer Hi Paul, Try something

external trouble with missing getStatus();

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, I get a undefined symbol for getStatus() inside XcmdFunc.c line 365, it reads as follow: char *GetMCStatus() { return getstatus(); } where should this getstatus() be? what it is? am I forgeting to link agains some lib? andre -- Andre Alves Garzia  2004 Soap Dog Studios - BRAZIL htt

Re: externals kit

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Ben Fisher, I would very much like to see a guide like that but I would be most pleased if it showed way to mix Objective-C/Cocoa calls with the plain C++ external SDK... Andre On Jan 28, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Ben Fisher wrote: Thanks for the response, everyone. I'll get started with the externals

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Thursday, January 27, 2005, 4:43:38 PM, you wrote: DS> Yeah, revMail won't do the job here because we need to be able to send DS> HTML mail and attachments. Shao Sean's libEmail/libSmtp combo works DS> great and does exactly what I need but requires the user's SMTP info to DS> send the email

externals kit

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Fisher
Thanks for the response, everyone. I'll get started with the externals kit as soon as possible. Unfortunately, as far as porting existing dlls into rev use is a little beyond me at the moment. I learned C++ on a mac system don't really know how to reference a dll. I'm not actually as experience

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
AG> There are many email users that do not know their email settings, a CD AG> given by the ISP will set the thing up. Indeed. I have a meeting with a client on Saturday and I have to sort out her email system. Something like "I just got a cable modem - how come my email doesn't work properly anym

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Fisher
> 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? > > Just curious, > > Jonathan I learned Hypercard when I was in 3rd grade. I made all sorts of animations, I.e. "Copy Card, Paste Card, move

Re: .Mac SDK (was Re: trouble with RevCopyFolder...)

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Thursday, January 27, 2005, 6:56:17 PM, you wrote: AG> Thanks for the tip man!!! I am also an ADC member so I probably AG> received some notes regarding this release but forgot to look. Would a AG> external wraping this be usefull? The ADC message showed up in my inbox not long after your

Re: print without choosing printer

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 8:10 PM, Paul Kocsis wrote: I can't print (on XP) without the printer being chosen via the printer dialog (either using answer printer or utilizing revShowPrintDialog). The plain old "print card" command used to do this. Don't open printing first, just issue a "print card" command witho

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: PS: There's no cultural shock in hiring me, I like guinness, the liverpool, hamburgers, know at least 12 types of cheese and can speak up to four consectuvie consonants (that should please americans, english, irish, germans and french people on

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: PS: There's no cultural shock in hiring me, I like guinness, the liverpool, hamburgers, know at least 12 types of cheese and can speak up to four consectuvie consonants (that should please americans, english, irish, germans and french people on the list) But will clients need

baseConvert help

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Salyers
I'm converting a hexadecimal number to decimal. the below code works and placed it in my label called myNumber put baseConvert(tmpVar,16,10) into field myNumber The problem is I now need to use myNumber to do some calculations with and place it in a field called myAnswer Please help Paul Sal

print without choosing printer

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Kocsis
>> My app relies on pseudo-threading schemes, and thus, doing anything >> that >> makes the engine stop and wait will not work for this app as it must >> continue to process many ongoing events. >> >> I can't print (on XP) without the printer being chosen via the printer >> dialog (either using an

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I came in a little late in this thread, but here's another word list: I've used it in several projects. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, There are many email users that do not know their email settings, a CD given by the ISP will set the thing up. Dan, I know how to retrieve user info on OS X, I did it sometime ago, there are more than one way to do it. What settings are you looking for? The easiest way to find your way

.Mac SDK (was Re: trouble with RevCopyFolder...)

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, Thanks for the tip man!!! I am also an ADC member so I probably received some notes regarding this release but forgot to look. Would a external wraping this be usefull? Cheer andre On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Andre- By coincidence, I just received this from ADC. --

Re: print without choosing printer

2005-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
My app relies on pseudo-threading schemes, and thus, doing anything that makes the engine stop and wait will not work for this app as it must continue to process many ongoing events. I can't print (on XP) without the printer being chosen via the printer dialog (either using answer printer or util

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lower cost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
Well, Jonathan, I am the one that sometimes receives this outsourcing projects. Since I live in Brazil, I can charge lower than americans and till today my clients are happy, there are some delayied projects but that's because I'll never ship something that I do not fully trust (I am a debuggin

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: My cursor still regularly disappears. (OSX) I thought it was my stack (objects on top of the text field) but, it still happens not infrequently in the script editor... Could an errant image object have wound up in your copy of the script editor

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread David Squance
On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: My cursor still regularly disappears. (OSX) I thought it was my stack (objects on top of the text field) but, it still happens not infrequently in the script editor... the text cursor *is* there but just not visible.. if you type you get char

print without choosing printer

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Kocsis
My app relies on pseudo-threading schemes, and thus, doing anything that makes the engine stop and wait will not work for this app as it must continue to process many ongoing events. I can't print (on XP) without the printer being chosen via the printer dialog (either using answer printer or utili

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to Andre, Jonathan, Alex, and Jim!!! Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I will probably post further questions for optimizing the speed of word comparisons. If you have ideas or a script that wor

RE: Rev and Windows XP Embedded

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Hadlington
HI Ben, I can comfirm what everyone else has said. I have previously run RR built applications on an evaluation version of XP Embedded as an expermiment. Worked fine here but I did build an XPE image with all the Normal components included. Cheers Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: Ouch. I was afraid of that. Oh, well, back to the drawing board. Yeah, revMail won't do the job here because we need to be able to send HTML mail and attachments. Shao Sean's libEmail/libSmtp combo works great and does exactly what I need but requires the user's SMTP info to se

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 17 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:21:09 -0700 From: Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Random #'s To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:31 AM, D.Rothe wrote: How can I include only uniq

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
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? Just curious, Jonathan Like a lot of people here, I started off with HyperCard (well, I started long before HyperCard and have used Basic, C, even Fo

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Shafer
Ouch. I was afraid of that. Oh, well, back to the drawing board. Yeah, revMail won't do the job here because we need to be able to send HTML mail and attachments. Shao Sean's libEmail/libSmtp combo works great and does exactly what I need but requires the user's SMTP info to send the email. So

Re: Windows settings: volume & front app

2005-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
is it possible to read &/or set the system volume in Windows XP? Are you talking about the master volume? Yes, I have an alarm that really has to attract attention, so on the Mac, I make sure the mute is off, set the volume to 100% and play my audioclip. It really works well. After the alarm clip

Re: modal question

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 1:29 PM, Paul Kocsis wrote: Finally my question...is there a property or some way for me to query/examine the opened sub2 stack to determine which stack it is currently blocking? I know this is info that my scripts can know if they need toafter all, I can simply set a variable before

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: - no time zone difference (or smaller difference) - shared cultural background (so fewer misunderstandings) - contributions beyond "mere" programming (e.g. 'users won't like ...') - shared cultural background with end-users (to allow previous exampl

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Thank you to Andre, Jonathan, Alex, and Jim!!! Your great suggestions and word lists have provided me the necessary ingredients to achieve my goal. I will probably post further questions for optimizing the speed of word comparisons. If you have ideas or a script that works well, please post it

RE: Tabstops Question

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, you could accomplish this same concept with > separate fields in a > group, could you not? > Of course, but that becomes rather complicated if you want to show the field borders ; not to mention that it's just not practical to have to create

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lower cost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just read a few articles on this... > > How do you guys who make your living as freelance > programmers deal with > this problem? If a company in a third world country > can charge a sixth > of the price that a company in a developed country

Re: Components and Toolbars

2005-01-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Jonathan (and Jan: nice to see you back on the list:-) The app starter kit should work fine, but IMO is a bit more complicated than it should be. I now put this in the script each of my toolbar buttons (though I know I could write a library for it:-) on mouseEnter set the showBorder of me to

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:31 AM, D.Rothe wrote: How can I include only unique numbers? Here is an interesting variation: on mouseUp put rlist() end mouseUp function rlist put "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" into x sort items of x by random(1) return item 1 to 6 of x end rlist Dar ***

Re: Where IS the Report Builder?

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ... > Thanks for sharing the link with

Re: post an image

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know how can I post an image to a revCGI > stack and have this > image to be saved on the cgi-bin folder? > > Ciao Paolo Mazza > Hi Paolo, One option is to send the image data in base64 encoding ; and then base64 decode it again on the other side.

Re: hexadecimal calculations

2005-01-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Paul Salyers wrote: will the computer (REV) do math calculations with hexadecimal without converting it to decimal? Internally Revolution uses a standard floating point representation with a binary point. When math is presented with a value that is the result of ari

Re: Components and Toolbars

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jonathan Buckland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am currently evaluating Runtime Revolution as I > need to develop an > application that runs on both windows and Mac. I am > a full time > developer using VB6 and VB.NET currently. > > The one aspect of Rev is that it does not have m

RE: Tabstops Question

2005-01-27 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
But, you could accomplish this same concept with separate fields in a group, could you not? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Schenkel Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:05 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Tabstops Question ---

Re: Tabstops Question

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- John Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All, > > Is there a way to set a tabstop in a field and then > enter a numerical > value so that the decimal point lines up with the > tabstop? > > I am working in a regular text field that needs to > be printed, and we > don't want vertica

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 10:59:40 PM, you wrote: DS> Is there a way in Rev to retrieve from the user's settings files DS> somewhere the name or IP address of the user's default SMTP server? I DS> need a solution for both Windows and Mac (OS9 and OS X). DS> On OS X, I am looking further

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Martin Baxter
>I have a question for you guys: > >What do you do? > I am what you might call a micro-business, making websites and "whatever you want, sir", one foot in graphics and the other in coding. I have so far used RR to re-create the software I use in my business to generate websites. This is now a com

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 10 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:58:50 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel) To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created

Re: trouble with RevCopyFolder...

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- By coincidence, I just received this from ADC. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apple Developer Connection Innovate with .Mac Create more powerful applications with .Mac technology. http://insideapple.apple.com/redir/99660/LEARN/048e35609bbaca2f87a74f1423be5966 Supercharge your

Re: Getting User Email Settings

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/27/05 12:59 AM, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way in Rev to retrieve from the user's settings files > somewhere the name or IP address of the user's default SMTP server? I > need a solution for both Windows and Mac (OS9 and OS X). Well, for the Mail app in OS X, you ca

modal question

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Kocsis
Thank you for responding Yves. I know that I can set something (global variable, custom property, etc.) to allow another handler to know which stack opened the modal...but...this is not the intent of the question. I'm trying to work around a subtle engine bug...and in doing so, I need to examine

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
On 1/26/05 1:42 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/26/05 10:56 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > >> I have a question for you guys: >> >> What do you do? I do commercial database development. I started out with FileMaker pro. And ran into short comings when it came to heavy databa

Re: Windows settings: volume & front app

2005-01-27 Thread Scott Rossi
> is it possible to read &/or set the system volume in Windows XP? Are you talking about the master volume? Otherwise, the playLoudness setting as mentioned already can be used (looks like it actually sets the wave volume level on Windows). What are you trying to accomplish? Regards, Scott Ros

Printing using altBrowser

2005-01-27 Thread Dave
Hi, Quick altBrowser question. One thing that would be really nice to be able to do is to print the contents of the browser window. Not just as a flat image using the standard rev print functions but as rendered text as if you were printing from IE or Safari. I looked through the docs and it di

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lower cost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread kee nethery
From what I understand from others who outsource, the big dividing line is a detailed spec and detailed testing and intellectual property security. If you know exactly what you want and it is pure coding, zero design, and you can test the code when you get it to make sure it actually does exact

Re: Components and Toolbars

2005-01-27 Thread Judy Perry
Didn't somebody put together a demo on this a while ago? I seem to recall an example stack somewhere... Judy On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I haven't really bothered much with toolbars for what I am doing, but > depending on

Re: modal question

2005-01-27 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 27-janv.-05, à 20:29, Paul Kocsis a écrit : If I have a mainstack with 2 substacks (for example, Stacks "main1", "sub1" and "sub2") and main1 is opened normally and in turn opens sub1 as a palette...sub2 is left unopened... There is a button on stack main1 that opens stack sub2 as a modal Ther

modal question

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Kocsis
If I have a mainstack with 2 substacks (for example, Stacks "main1", "sub1" and "sub2") and main1 is opened normally and in turn opens sub1 as a palette...sub2 is left unopened... There is a button on stack main1 that opens stack sub2 as a modal There is a similar button on stack sub1 (currently

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/27/05 11:54 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > The recipe is "every stack I've tried does this" - but that's already in > the report. > > If you have a recipe that doesn't exhibit this behaviour on WinXP, > please let me know and we can try to eliminate differences. The key I

Re: Having RunRev Standalone accept and reply to AppleEvents?

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 12:01 AM, kee nethery wrote: OK, this seems to be working. Here's what I did. I'm looking at the card id before I try to interact with the card. Then, if I am not on that card I go there. I don't push and pop so that I end up back to where ever I started from. I just go there if I am n

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 11:54 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> I thought it might be hard to reproduce because I couldn't get it to >> happen when I tried it. But I've seen enough reports about the problem >> that I'm positive it occurs. If you have a recipe that isn't in the >> report alrea

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread Sivakatirswami
My cursor still regularly disappears. (OSX) I thought it was my stack (objects on top of the text field) but, it still happens not infrequently in the script editor... the text cursor *is* there but just not visible.. if you type you get characters . intermittent, no recipe at all. I alread

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own Q&A list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do you include a word list, or

Re: Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lowercost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I just read a few articles on this... How do you guys who make your living as freelance programmers deal with this problem? If a company in a third world country can charge a sixth of the price that a company in a developed country can charge - then how do you guys ever manag

RE: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I made one for an app at work - The word list is 174,000 words! I am sorry that I cannot remember the website where I found it - but, I can tell you that it is out there, and that you can find it online with a bit of searching. If you have no luck, let me know - maybe I could email it to you dir

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own Q&A list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do yo

SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

2005-01-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
During the course of helping my son prepare for a test at school, I created an educational FlashCard stack that allows him to input his own Q&A list. Does someone perhaps have a library stack that can spellcheck user input of a text field? Do you include a word list, or do you know of one that

Outsourcing of programming work to countries with lower cost-of-living expenses

2005-01-27 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I just read a few articles on this... How do you guys who make your living as freelance programmers deal with this problem? If a company in a third world country can charge a sixth of the price that a company in a developed country can charge - then how do you guys ever manage to find clients? I

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: I thought it might be hard to reproduce because I couldn't get it to happen when I tried it. But I've seen enough reports about the problem that I'm positive it occurs. If you have a recipe that isn't in the report already, please do add it. The recipe is "every stack I've

Re: Bloody Beginner Questions

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Shafer
On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:06 AM, Armin Butterer wrote: Hallo out there, I would like to click on an editable field to just set a cursor or select text to edit it. Do I need a mouseUp handler to do this ? I am only able to edit the field via Tabkey and ArrowKeys. that is weired. For a field to accept

Re: post an image

2005-01-27 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:12 PM, paolo wrote: Do you know how can I post an image to a revCGI stack and have this image to be saved on the cgi-bin folder? Ciao Paolo Mazza Paolo, for this you must implement some multipart form data handler, it's not trivial but it's not impossible either. I think t

Re: What do most Rev developers do

2005-01-27 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What do you do? Hi Jonathan, I am a very old retired programmer that has been programming computers since 1962. I use RR for my own use now, mostly redoing old hypercard stacks that I have written for various reasons over the years. I started

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/26/05 12:42 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 t

Re: hexadecimal calculations

2005-01-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/26/05 11:00 PM, "Paul Salyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > will the computer (REV) do math calculations with hexadecimal without > converting it to decimal? I don't think so... you'd need to use baseConvert to convert the numbers to decimal, do your math, then convert them back. I may be w

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Friedman
Dwayne, I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but how about this... function makeRandomNumberList maxNumber put 0 into i repeat put random(10) into thisNum if thisNum is among the items of fNumbers then next repeat end if add 1 to i put thisNum into item i of fNumb

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 7:55 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: I can confirm the disappearing cursor problem, within the IDE on Windows 2000. If you double-click a .rev file on Windows 2000, which then launches the IDE (Rev 2.2 or 2.2.1), the cursor disappears whenever the cursor is inside any Rev window. Thanks. I've

Re: Using an index field

2005-01-27 Thread David Squance
On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: 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

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

2005-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/05 4:27 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > J. Landman Gay wrote: >> I just found the bug report on this I submitted: >> >> >> >> Also still marked as "unconfirmed". >> > Cool - that looks like the same as 2138, so now I don't need to find

post an image

2005-01-27 Thread paolo
Do you know how can I post an image to a revCGI stack and have this image to be saved on the cgi-bin folder? Ciao Paolo Mazza ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Components and Toolbars

2005-01-27 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't really bothered much with toolbars for what I am doing, but depending on your needs, you could always just put a bunch of buttons at the top of the window, hide the names and assign icons to them. If you want the more toolbar-like look, yo

Re: Windows settings: volume & front app

2005-01-27 Thread curry
To H: I made something to handle MIDI volume--let me dig it out and put a demo stack together. To Sarah: In the same stack, I'll demo a way to let the user change the system volume. If you need to read and set it directly, though, I believe it'll need an external. Curry -- > Sarah Reichelt wr

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-27 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi Dwayne, put GenerateRandom(6,10) -- the right parameters in your case function GenerateRandom pHowMuchNumbers,pRange local tRangeList - repeat until the number of lines of tRangeList = pHowMuchNumbers set the randomSeed to random(10) put random(pRange) into pNum if pNum

ANN: Collide - Pixel collisions

2005-01-27 Thread curry
When rearranging my website a while ago, the Collide demo file got left out accidentally. Someone just asked after it, and it's back up now, on the page linked below. (What is Collide 1.0? Pixel collision detection for Revolution--move sprites with precise results. The demo lets you see this in

Re: Random #'s

2005-01-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 19 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:31:39 +1000 From: "D.Rothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Random #'s To: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All, I am using the following code to generate a field of 6 random numbers. repeat 5 times --generat

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 87

2005-01-27 Thread Cubist
In a message dated 1/27/05 4:46:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Message: 19 >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:31:39 +1000 >From: "D.Rothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Random #'s >To: >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi All, >I am using the fol

Re: help assemble documents quick

2005-01-27 Thread cory richter
do you have a program helper give me one - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mai

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