Re: sockets and Windows behavior

2005-02-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Feb 12, 2005, at 8:36 AM, John Rule wrote: Maybe the problem is in doing broadcast messages in general on Windows (this same code works fine on OSX...Linux is another issue altogether). It doesn't work consistently (I do not always get the callback to my 'with' message, the average is 6 out

Re: does a group weigh 30K?

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Hansen
> New stack with no objects: 363 bytes > > New stack with empty group: 394 byes > > So this difference is about 30, but just bytes > instead of kilobytes. :) > > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > Developer of WebMerge: > Publish any database on any Web site classic Ga

Re: does a group weigh 30K?

2005-02-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/12/05 6:50 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: does a group weigh 30K? It depends on what's in it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revo

Re: does a group weigh 30K?

2005-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: does a group weigh 30K? i did check the docs... I'm not sure if object sizes are listed there, but I made two stacks and got these in the Finder's "Get Info": New stack with no objects: 363 bytes New stack with empty group: 394 byes So this difference is about 30, but just byt

does a group weigh 30K?

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Hansen
does a group weigh 30K? i did check the docs... thanks, Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___

Chipp's project thoughts: store icons on a card or inan unapplied group?

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some thoughts regarding > starting a Rev project: > the second card is used to store > icons and graphics and other parts > and is never seen. moving to Rev from HC, my dancer icons wound up in a group which i only found by way of the me

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
Alex Tweedly wrote: And now corrects himself ...) David Vaughan wrote: David, I may have missed something in the original problem description, but I think there's a problem with this scheme. If you take the case of put "1,2" into myArray[a,b] put "1,3" into myarray[c,d] I believe what Xavi

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
David Vaughan wrote: On 13/02/2005, at 4:00, MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Xavier I have not searched back to your original request, but if I understand it correctly then you wish to be able to de-merge columns from an array, and that these columns may be of the data or of the keys. Let us

RE: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread MisterX
Just sweet! I'll test it monday (or before) on my 2k lines tables ;) Surely will be shocking and you'll be famous! Gza > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Vaughan > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 00:46 > To: use-revolution@l

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread David Vaughan
Moron me! Doing some edits from my test script I omitted the line "add 1 to i" just before " end repeat" On 13/02/2005, at 10:43, David Vaughan wrote: Xavier This is the merge part Assume you have the following two variables: v1 contains "a" v2 contains "b" split v2 with return put 1 into i

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread David Vaughan
Xavier This is the merge part Assume you have the following two variables: v1 contains "a" v2 contains "b" split v2 with return put 1 into i repeat for each line x in v1 put v2[i] into myArray[x] end repeat combine myArray with return and comma myArray is now a list whose first line i

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread David Vaughan
On 13/02/2005, at 4:00, MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Xavier I have not searched back to your original request, but if I understand it correctly then you wish to be able to de-merge columns from an array, and that these columns may be of the data or of the keys. Let us assume you have an a

How to build nice repport with Revolution

2005-02-12 Thread P2M
Hi, I'm a new user of Revolution and it's a real pleasure to work with this soft. I was also an old user of Hypercard since version 1.0 to the last one. Revolution is nice, but I don't find à easy way to create nice repport. Of course, for printing a text or a list I use revPrintField, but I wan

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-12 Thread Bob Hartley
At 15:31 12/02/2005, you wrote: Hi Bob, Hi Klaus No luck with this. I used the method of Richard Gaskin's employee database to ask the user for a filename before starting. I had this working the old fashioned way but I think the pre-save is more elegant. Anyway I used this for them to make a n

RE: sockets and Windows behavior

2005-02-12 Thread John Rule
Maybe the problem is in doing broadcast messages in general on Windows (this same code works fine on OSX...Linux is another issue altogether). It doesn't work consistently (I do not always get the callback to my 'with' message, the average is 6 out of 10). Using a 'sniffer', I am ALWAYS gettin

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Bob, Hi All. I have a wee database designer app for my students "Armbase Database Designer". I would like to copy a field from my master database to the new database. The new database is named by the student so I don't know the name. Therefor I cant use on mouseUp copy field "TextField" of

copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-12 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have a wee database designer app for my students "Armbase Database Designer". I would like to copy a field from my master database to the new database. The new database is named by the student so I don't know the name. Therefor I cant use on mouseUp copy field "TextField" of stack "A

Re: ODBC database access

2005-02-12 Thread Steve Paris
Thanks Jan. It works! Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Steve, Welcome to Revolution -- you'll find it a great tool for interfacing with databases, even if it has a bit of a learning curve when you're used to doing this 'the hypercard way' with backgrounds and cards. Try using single quotes for the strings in

Re: ODBC database access

2005-02-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Steve Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been tinkering with Revolution and lurking on > this list for some > time. The willingness of many on this list to help > both new Rev users, > and suggest solutions to more complex issues > encounted by more > experienced Rev users, is truly impr

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: MisterX wrote: or (probably better) repeat with x = 1 to linecount repeat with y = 1 to xp put line x of param(y) comma after c end repeat delete last char of c put cr after c end repeat It would be worth experimenting with turning the loop inside out repeat

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
MisterX wrote: I can't see any radically different approach - but you can certainly optimize the details function MergeColumns local xp,y,linecount,z,c put the paramcount into xp put empty into y put empty into linecount repeat with x = 1 to xp put the number of lines in param(x) & comm

Re: Split, combine ok but where's extract?

2005-02-12 Thread Alex Tweedly
MisterX wrote: Mark, I did say I already wrote a function to extract these but is there no split combination that does this without a slow loop? Here's the two functions I used function MergeColumns end MergeColumns I'm still trying to understand just what that one does (in all cases) so I'll star

ODBC database access

2005-02-12 Thread Steve Paris
I have been tinkering with Revolution and lurking on this list for some time. The willingness of many on this list to help both new Rev users, and suggest solutions to more complex issues encounted by more experienced Rev users, is truly impressive. I did quite a bit of work in Supercard a few yea

re Ping timeout much longer with 10.3.7

2005-02-12 Thread Mr D Glasgow
Hmmm. Just a wild guess, but 10.3.8 claims to fix some very long launch latencies in iCal, Mail. that were a problem in 10.3.7 etc. Could be connected? On 10 Feb 2005, at 5:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:07:09 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Ping timeout