Re: OT: Mentoring Mac NewBies

2005-02-05 Thread Dan Shafer
I can second the recommendation of Pogue's book as the mentor of two people very much like the one you describe. Dan On Feb 5, 2005, at 5:33 PM, JOHN RUSSELL wrote: I think David Pogue's Mac OS X: Panther Edition, the Missing Manual (O'Reilly) might be a help to you. It's over 700 pages in leng

Re: Success with Sending email without a SMTP Server!!!!

2005-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Shao Sean also worked quite hard to come up with an auth capability. i actually had a working version of this, but lost my brand new SanDisk mini cruzer that had it on it =( am feeling up to re-writing it again ___ use-revolution mailing list use-r

Re: Success with Sending email without a SMTP Server!!!!

2005-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just a note to this thread (sorry, i'm a little behind with my life).. some networks will not allow you to use an external smtp server (in canada, sympatico restricts smtp usage to only their smtp server).. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revoluti

group-al cmds like "set the highlitedButtonName to 0" for propserties?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Hansen
for colorblind users, a selected control has: the width = the width +8 the borderWidth = 2 some groups have multiple hilites so before selecting a new control in the group: on standDown pGroup,pWidth set the highlitedButtonName of grp pGroup to 0 -- 1 line of code put (the number of contro

Re: OT: Mentoring Mac NewBies

2005-02-05 Thread JOHN RUSSELL
I think David Pogue's Mac OS X: Panther Edition, the Missing Manual (O'Reilly) might be a help to you. It's over 700 pages in length, but quoting from the back cover, here's how it starts: "Getting started: The early chapters demystify the Dock, windows, and the unfamilar Mac OS X folder struct

Re: Printing Crashes Rev in OSX

2005-02-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha to all from Hawaii, where we don't have any native clover leafs. OK, I get it! Thanks. "Mahalo" as we say here. I was under the misconception that Switch was some kind of alternate way of doing a series of "ifs" one after the other. Actually, now that I understand it correctly, I could put

Re: SubStacks with Same Name in Different apps

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Smith
On 6 Feb 2005, at 00:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often use the same name for generic substacks e.g. "Prefs" "Dev Notes" I've done the same, but now, for exactly this reason, prepend the name of the main stack or app to the substack names: 'myAppPrefs', or whatever. Cheers, Mark __

Re: Download Problem

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Smith
On 6 Feb 2005, at 00:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem with downloading from a particular type of URL using Rev. It is a PDF document from the European Patent Office. One example of this type of URL is the following: https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer

OT: Mentoring Mac NewBies

2005-02-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
Mac OS X: Imagine a lady who never did any IT work in her whole life, but is a fully competent person, excellent typist, very good with language, very intelligent, successful human being, is just a bit challenged by being told to "make a new folder on your desktop and then move that into your U

Re: Problem! Inaccessible substack

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Jerry Balzano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Richard, Chipp, and Alex for their > responses to my plea for > assistance. > > It turned out that Richard's suggested script > (below) fixed the problem > just fine — what a life saver! just curious, did you use the "Application Br

Re: Notepad can't...interpret the code parts of a stack?

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Paul Salyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's true that you can't copy from a stack > to notepad never tried it the other way. > Wordpad works ok. --- Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not talking about cutting/pasting > the script from a stack into Notepad > - that works fine

Re: Searchable archives?

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Saturday, February 5, 2005, 1:47:43 PM, you wrote: KR> One thing, though: Sorry to have you upgrade it again, but you need to trap KR> for return/enter kens in the top fields... right now they just go to the KR> next line and scroll the current line out of sight (unless that was KR> intended

Re: Change absolute link to relative link

2005-02-05 Thread Stephen Van Esch
Chipp: FInally found the time to give this a whirl. Seems to work just fine. Thanks. Steve --- Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I suppose you have a number of QT players which have > absolute link paths. > > Put all the QT Mov files in the same folder as your > applic

Re: Notepad can't...interpret the code parts of a stack?

2005-02-05 Thread Chipp Walters
This is a know bug when transferring unicode text via the clipboard and will be fixed in the next release. In the meantime, you can use my convertClipboard plugin at" http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginDownload/Downloads.htm best, Chipp Paul Salyers wrote: It's true that you can't copy

Listing all files on a ftp server

2005-02-05 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi, I saw a few days ago questions and right answers about a script that would look at 1 directory and provide a complete hierarchial list of all files within all folders and subfolders. Here is a complementary function for tracking all files within all folders and subfolders on a FTP server. I

Re: shareware/demoware

2005-02-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/5/05 4:14 PM, "Paul Salyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if there is a reverse command in Rev. I used to use this in VB > 6.0. Not built-in, but it's pretty easy to write one: function ReverseIt pString put "" into tResult repeat for each char tChar in pString put tCh

Re: Download problem

2005-02-05 Thread Derek Bump
I just did some tests and I'm getting the same thing. I also tried a number of other URL's to find that Rev downloads them just fine. One thing I did do was check to see how well I could download from a Secure (https://) server, and discovered that I am also having the same problems. I believ

Re: shareware/demoware

2005-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Salyers wrote: So you have your shareware code to save in the registry or do you save it on a file? Something you might consider is get the hard drive serial number of "C:" this number to register it with. This will be different with every computer and can not be pirated to other computers.

Re: shareware/demoware

2005-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Salyers wrote: So you have your shareware code to save in the registry or do you save it on a file? Something you might consider is get the hard drive serial number of "C:" this number to register it with. This will be different with every computer and can not be pirated to other computers.

shareware/demoware

2005-02-05 Thread Paul Salyers
So you have your shareware code to save in the registry or do you save it on a file? Something you might consider is get the hard drive serial number of "C:" this number to register it with. This will be different with every computer and can not be pirated to other computers. Ex. hard drive num

adding field to stack with unknown name

2005-02-05 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have a stack with a script that puts a field on another stack. I had this scripted fine using. on mouseUp copy field "TextField" of stack "Fields" to card 1 of stack "ExperimentDatabase.abd" end mouseUp Then I had a save button that saved ExperimentDatabase.abd and prompted for anot

Re: Searchable archives?

2005-02-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/5/05 12:56 PM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry- > > Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10:52:47 AM, you wrote: > > JB> I downloaded this plugin and I really like it. For some reason, > JB> though, Mark, when I click on a message and then hit the "by date" > JB> button, I (almost)

Re: Searchable archives?

2005-02-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Mark Thanks. Nice plugin. EMinently useful and usable. Dan On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jerry- Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10:52:47 AM, you wrote: JB> I downloaded this plugin and I really like it. For some reason, JB> though, Mark, when I click on a message and then hit the

SubStacks with Same Name in Different apps

2005-02-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
I often use the same name for generic substacks e.g. "Prefs" "Dev Notes" etc. It's just easier... I don't have to remember different, odd, stack names when the actual function of these substacks in different applications is virtually the same. But I *always* use a unique name for any given app

Re: Problem! Inaccessible substack

2005-02-05 Thread Jerry Balzano
Thanks to Richard, Chipp, and Alex for their responses to my plea for assistance. It turned out that Richard's suggested script (below) fixed the problem just fine — what a life saver! The feeling was like having a set of keys sitting on the floor inside a jail cell (behind the bars), and a

Re: Searchable archives?

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10:52:47 AM, you wrote: JB> I downloaded this plugin and I really like it. For some reason, JB> though, Mark, when I click on a message and then hit the "by date" JB> button, I (almost) always seem to get the "August 2002" archives by JB> date, regardless of w

Re: Problem! Inaccessible substack

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, February 4, 2005, 8:24:34 PM, you wrote: RG> But even better than repair is prevention, so I just entered a feature RG> request in Bugzilla to have the IDE prevent purely numeric strings when RG> naming stacks: RG> ...

Re: Download problem

2005-02-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
https:// indicates a secure site... perhaps altBrowser could make this work. I am having a problem with downloading from a particular type of URL using Rev. It is a PDF document from the European Patent Office. One example of this type of URL is the following: https://publications.european-paten

Re: Save reg information

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Paul- Saturday, February 5, 2005, 5:40:00 AM, you wrote: PS> I need to know if it's possible to save software registry information on a PS> floppy disk and move it to a different computer in a file with a format PS> that if it's copied or saved over it will become scrambled and un-useable ? If y

Download problem

2005-02-05 Thread Bruce A. Pokras
I am having a problem with downloading from a particular type of URL using Rev. It is a PDF document from the European Patent Office. One example of this type of URL is the following: https://publications.european-patent-office.org/PublicationServer/documentpdf.jsp?iDocId=228969&sDummyParam=.pdf

Re: Formatting in XML?

2005-02-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/5/05 9:23 AM, "Terry Vogelaar (de Mare)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op 5-feb-05 om 7:38 heeft Ken Ray het volgende geschreven: > >> On 2/5/05 12:19 AM, "Terry Vogelaar (de Mare)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> This fantastic card >>> >>> This needs to be

Re: Formatting in XML?

2005-02-05 Thread de Mare
Op 5-feb-05 om 7:38 heeft Ken Ray het volgende geschreven: On 2/5/05 12:19 AM, "Terry Vogelaar (de Mare)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This fantastic card This needs to be displayed formatted just like HTML; it should be in one field. If I try revXMLNodeConten

Re: Rev 2.5 on WinXP: Issues with multiple monitors

2005-02-05 Thread Éric Chatonet
Le 5 févr. 05, à 15:00, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Perhaps a right-click menu item in the app browser could be used to move a window to the primary screen. (Or when Revolution figure out multiple monitors, to the closest one.) That would be a good idea - though in this case, the pr

Re: Notepad can't...interpret the code parts of a stack?

2005-02-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Erik Hansen wrote: --- Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...use a basic text editor and just copy the script code out and paste into a new stack. (Notepad can't do it, but Emacs has no problem finding and sensibly interpreting the code parts of a stack). this sounds ominous, could y

Re: Notepad can't...interpret the code parts of a stack?

2005-02-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Erik Hansen wrote: --- Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...use a basic text editor and just copy the script code out and paste into a new stack. (Notepad can't do it, but Emacs has no problem finding and sensibly interpreting the code parts of a stack). this sounds ominous, could y

Re: Save reg information

2005-02-05 Thread Derek Bump
Check out the Encrypt abilities in the Documentation. If that doesn't work, compressing it will also do. You can knock out at least 50% of users who don't know how to recogonize different binary file types. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress I

Re: Notepad can't...interpret the code parts of a stack?

2005-02-05 Thread Paul Salyers
At 07:50 PM 2/4/2005, you wrote: --- Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...use a basic text editor and just copy the > script code out and paste into a new stack. > (Notepad can't do it, but Emacs has no problem > finding and sensibly > interpreting the code parts of a stack). this sounds om

Save reg information

2005-02-05 Thread Paul Salyers
I need to know if it's possible to save software registry information on a floppy disk and move it to a different computer in a file with a format that if it's copied or saved over it will become scrambled and un-useable ? Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.or

Re: Mailing List Help

2005-02-05 Thread Derek Bump
So when are we going to get the "Frequently Asked Questions" site up? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing lis

Re: Open Directory reminder

2005-02-05 Thread Dom
Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H... seems that there is NO "Transcript" category in French! And there is no link to submit a new category -- unless you are an editor.. I have one or two web sites to submit -- but the

Open Directory reminder

2005-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
This is your quarterly Open Directory reminder: Open Directory maintains a category for Transcript: Of the many dozens of web sites offering Transcript-based plugins, tutorials, tools, and more, only 18 have yet been posted there. Open