Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
Want to learn more about Revolution in two days than you sometimes can in a week...or even a month...of laboring on your own? Want to spend some quality time in one of the world's great resort spots? A group of us are trying to determine if there's enough interest to expand our Monterey-based

Re: New article on Functions in Revolution

2005-02-17 Thread Malte Brill
http://www.inspiredlogic.com/articles/functions.html Great job Geoff! cheers, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Slow down in Script Editor

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi, We're trying to track down a pair of reported issues in the Script Editor. These are: 1) Slow down when typing in large scripts 2) Slow down setting and unsetting breakpoints on long scripts We've seen these demonstrated and had multiple reposts, so we know they are important issues, but we

Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. His AIM screen name is RunRevRo. Ro is available to discuss any ideas or concerns you may have, help promote your Revolution-built applications, and promote your products

Re: A Revolution beginner seeks advice...

2005-02-17 Thread Karen
Thanks very much to all those who replied - I can see that the Revolution user list is a good place to find help. I've been doing some further conversion of REALbasic programs to Revolution and I'll do a little more to check that my initial enthusiasm isn't misplaced, but so far I'm very happy

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Kevin, Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. His AIM screen name is RunRevRo. Ro is available to discuss any ideas or concerns you may have, help promote your Revolution-built applications, and promote your

Re: Linked text question

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Swindell
Thank you, Frank (and others), What is wrong with this expression? repeat for each line x in field WordList if the mouseText is among the items of line x of field WordList then answer HEY end if end repeat Rev doesn't like line 2, but I'm not able to understand why...

Re: Linked text question

2005-02-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
Thank you, Frank (and others), What is wrong with this expression? repeat for each line x in field WordList if the mouseText is among the items of line x of field WordList then answer HEY end if end repeat Rev doesn't like line 2, but I'm not able to understand why...

Re: Linked text question

2005-02-17 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, Thank you, Frank (and others), What is wrong with this expression? repeat for each line x in field WordList if the mouseText is among the items of line x of field WordList then answer HEY end if end repeat Rev doesn't like line 2, but I'm not able to

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Welcome Ro, This is good news. Thanks Tom On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. His AIM screen name is RunRevRo. Thomas J. McGrath III SCS 1000 Killarney Dr. Pittsburgh,

Re: New article on Functions in Revolution

2005-02-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Geoff Canyon wrote: I've written an essay called Hooray for Functions -- The Value of Returning a Value. It's available at: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/articles/functions.html In it I argue that functions are superior to handlers for most purposes, and that

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kevin Miller wrote: It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. For those of you who may not know Ro, he's an industry veteran who's worked intimately with just about every major xTalk environmment on the planet and a few

MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
I'm wondering if anyone else is successfully using a MySQL database with a Mac OS 9 client. I can't seem to make it work. I'm just using the revdb_connect function, but my standalone does not seem to recognize that function. The same code works fine on Windows and OS X. In looking more

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
Chris, I faced the same problem a few months ago, and nobody on this list was able to give me a clear answer. I solved the problem by using CGI requests, with Rev cgi on the server accessing mySQL. JB I'm wondering if anyone else is successfully using a MySQL database with a Mac OS 9

Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
Hi list, I'd like to use get URL http://www.thisdomain.com; inside a cgi script with Rev cgi 2.5, but it doesn't seem to work... I guess that's because libURL isn't installed in the cgi engine... So I guess I need to create a libURL.rev stack, install it at the same level of my cgi script and

Re: New article on Functions in Revolution

2005-02-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Geoff Canyon wrote: If anyone has questions or comments, feel free to contact me. Hi Geoff, Did you contact Dan Shafer, about colaborating with the books that he is publishing? Thanks again for taking the time to write this article about functions! :-) al = Visit my

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Stephen Barncard
Ro Nagey -- Heizer Software--- Royal...his name is on many stacks, and obviously writes code...and has been on this list in earlier times. I bought a lot of Heizer tools, and probably talked to him on the phone sometime in the early 90's. Could someone add more info about him? I know there's

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Marian Petrides
Unless I miss my guess, he is Heather (aka List Mom)'s spousal unit. On Feb 17, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Ro Nagey -- Heizer Software--- Royal...his name is on many stacks, and obviously writes code...and has been on this list in earlier times. I bought a lot of Heizer tools, and

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. Kevin I feel the power of the revolution!!! Great choice. Congratulations Ro. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I'm wondering if anyone else is successfully using a MySQL database with a Mac OS 9 client. I can't seem to make it work. I'm just using the revdb_connect function, but my standalone does not seem to recognize that function. The same code

RE: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
That's exactly the problem. I found out that the CODE resource is located in the license.rev file in the Revolution 2.5 folder. The resource contains the library for revdb among other things. Unfortunately, even after copying the resource to my standalone it still doesn't work. I get a type

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
This is one of the most encouraging moves I've seen RunRev make in the years I've been working with the product and the company. First, in recognizing the need for and value of an evangelist. Second, in hiring the perfect guy for the job. My book, Software at the Speed of Thought, would not

Pasting Formatted Text (was Re: A Revolution beginner seeks advice...)

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
Not sure what could be happening here, Karen. What platform are you on? And what specific types of formatting are you using and losing? When I copy a two-page Word document on OS X containing bold and italicized type and paste it into a scrolling field in Rev, all the formatting is retained.

Re: BBEdit Transcript Language Module

2005-02-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK, I've lost track of the original file... do you have it posted somewhere? thanks Sivakatirswami On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 14, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Yes, that's the place to put the file. Remember that BBEDIT allows only three additional

Re: CGI access to PostGreSQL

2005-02-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Mark: Still no go on Linux as a CGI...-- fixed the case as you said to: dbPostgresql.so one of our team put the file in /usr/local/lib/revolution/dbPostgresql.so and tried to run this script from the shell as root but it didn't work And I also tried putting it in the cgi bin of the

RE: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
Yep, all is well with the ID as far as I can tell. The revdb resource keeps the ID of 1209 when I copy it. Still getting 1010 error, though. Anyone have any other ideas? I'm going to e-mail Rev support if I can't get this worked out, as this is a show stopper for me. And the standalone builder

Re: [OT] Understanding Codecs

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
Trevor I've been diving deeply into QT technology since this exchange and wanted to let you know that I looked closely at the Ensharpen codec. Very nice. Easy to see why RR chose to use it for their movies. I'm going to buy the encoder and experiment with it. I need to find a cleaner way

RE: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
Okay, here's an even weirder twist to the whole issue. I decided to just try rebuilding my standalone, thinking that maybe there was just some weird glitch. Turns out the revdb CODE resource does in fact get copied to the standalone by the standalone builder. I think it didn't happen before

Re: [OT] Understanding Codecs

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Miller
On 17/2/05 7:41 pm, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor I've been diving deeply into QT technology since this exchange and wanted to let you know that I looked closely at the Ensharpen codec. Very nice. Easy to see why RR chose to use it for their movies. I'm going to buy the

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I don't think this is even necessarily specific to MySQL. Anyone else out there use any of the revdb calls in a Mac OS 9 application? Sorry, I haven't used RevDB on OS 9, just Valentina directly. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Understanding Codecs

2005-02-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: I've been diving deeply into QT technology since this exchange and wanted to let you know that I looked closely at the Ensharpen codec. Very nice. Easy to see why RR chose to use it for their movies. I'm going to buy the encoder and experiment

Re: Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
Hi again, So I've built a myLibUrl.rev stack on my Mac (OS9) according to the explanations given here : http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-April/015259.html and uploaded it to the Linux server running Rev 2.5 cgi. my cgi script doesn't return any execution error with the line

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Alister Pillow
I have a successful Standalone running on OS9 connected to MySQL on an OSX Server. The standalone needs to be in a folder with both the Valentina_Classic library and the MYSQL Library PPC. In the Standalone Application Settings, both MySQL and Valentina are selected in the Database Support

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Heather Nagey
Unless I miss my guess, he is Heather (aka List Mom)'s spousal unit. S'right. I wanted him so badly to work for the company, I married him... :) Heather -- ** For a faster response to all licensing, support, and technical issues, please now send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Heather Nagey ~

RE: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That worked. Still a bug in my opinion, since the standalone should not depend on the Valentina files. I'm going to write that up. Here's another interesting twist. Once I built the standalone with the options you recommended, I was able to remove the

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
Alister, That's really interesting : several months ago, when trying to have an OS9 standalone connected to mySQL, I remember installing the MYSQL library in the same folder as the standalone, but it didn't work... How did you come to the conclusion that the Valentina_Classic library should also

Re: BBEdit Transcript Language Module

2005-02-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
Thanks! On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: OK, I've lost track of the original file... do you have it posted somewhere? http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/ -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]

change label name

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have a button that copies a label from one stack to another stack. the code changes the name OK but I want to change the visible text in the label. the code is on mouseUp global tFileName copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set the name of field

change label name

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have a button that copies a label from one stack to another stack. the code changes the name OK but I want to change the visible text in the label. the code is on mouseUp global tFileName copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set the name of field

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Ro Nagey
Aloha, all! Thank you, Kevin, for the introduction. And thank you, Richard, Mark, Dan, for your very kind comments - the check is in the mail! ;) Seriously, I am incredibly excited to be your Evangelist. As Kevin pointed out, I'm here to help. I am here to help: Promote your Revolution-built

Re: Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/17/05 2:37 PM, jbv wrote: Hi again, So I've built a myLibUrl.rev stack on my Mac (OS9) according to the explanations given here : http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-April/015259.html and uploaded it to the Linux server running Rev 2.5 cgi. my cgi script doesn't return any

RE: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Sheffield
For anyone interested, I just added bug #2613 for this issue. Hopefully I explained it well. If anyone wants to add clarification or further comments I'd appreciate it. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread David Vaughan
On 18/02/2005, at 7:27, Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I miss my guess, he is Heather (aka List Mom)'s spousal unit. Her spousal unit? :-D :-D :-D At last, I really know my place. cheers David ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Pasting Formatted Text

2005-02-17 Thread Karen
Thanks very much Dan, you are correct - I went back and tried again with a document created in Word and it was all OK. It just seems to be Apple's Pages program that is the problem. Word retains the format when I paste from Pages into Word, but then pasting from Word into Revolution loses the

Re: Pasting Formatted Text

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Pages is using XML just like Keynote for all of the styles etc. The XML can be accessed and manipulated if needed. Tom On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Karen wrote: Similarly, pasting directly from Pages loses the formatting. I guess that Apple is doing something funny with Pages... Thomas J. McGrath

Re: Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
Check the result after issuing the start using command and see what you get. That may give you a clue. ___ the result is empty... Thanks, JB ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread jbv
one more detail : the following line : get URL http://www.google.fr; doesn't return anything... the script just run for about 10 secs and then returns an empty variable. BUT the following line : geturl http://www.google.fr; returns 1108665196 ... don't know if it makes any sense... JB

Re: change label name

2005-02-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bob Hartley wrote: Hi All. I have a button that copies a label from one stack to another stack. the code changes the name OK but I want to change the visible text in the label. the code is on mouseUp global tFileName copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set

Re: change label name

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
Just a SWAG and not tested, but have you tried changing the offending line to: set the label of field labelName of stack Armbase to the name of field labelName of stack Armbase? Since you've successfully changed its name, you should be able to use this to change the label, eh? Dan On Feb 17,

Re: Rev cgi Linux and get URL (libURL)

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Cragg
On 17 Feb 2005, at 23:34, jbv wrote: one more detail : the following line : get URL http://www.google.fr; doesn't return anything... the script just run for about 10 secs and then returns an empty variable. Did you check the result after the get URL line? It might give some useful information.

Re: Pasting Formatted Text

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Karen wrote: I guess that Apple is doing something funny with Pages... Now that would be a first! NOT Thanks for taking the time to reply, I think that I should buy your book now if/when I buy Revolution :-). I hope you decide to use Rev whether or not you buy my

Bug or feature?

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
When you ask for the long name of a control and the control's name is empty, you get the long ID of the control. That doesn't seem so bad, until you consider that this is true even is the card has a name -- you still get the card ID along with it. Is that a bug or a feature? -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He's also been an educator, successfully integrating HyperCard and other interactive media into the classroom, and has lent that experience to helping other educators do the same. At the Rev seminar in SF last year he held a breakout session

Re: MySQL and Mac OS 9

2005-02-17 Thread Brian Yennie
FWIW, this was documented in a MetaCard README around version 2.4.2 (I think). Hopefully it still exists somewhere, but the jist was that the ID number determined whether the code resource was to be loaded under 68K, PPC or Classic, or something along those lines. Hopefully this at least

OT: Keynote

2005-02-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
I just recently saw a presentation of Apple's Keynote and watched someone working inside it... kept thinking how wonderful it would be if Revolution were to move forward on the graphics integration side of things. Keynote's elegance and ease for development of a really classy graphical

Re: Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread Andre Garzia
On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: A group of us are trying to determine if there's enough interest to expand our Monterey-based Revolution developer gathering June 24-25 to encompass a second track for people who are beginning or intermediate developers. As you may know, we held

Re: OT: Keynote

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Shafer
I wonder how AppleScriptable Keynote is. Dan On Feb 17, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: I just recently saw a presentation of Apple's Keynote and watched someone working inside it... kept thinking how wonderful it would be if Revolution were to move forward on the graphics integration

Re: Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Yes Andre, It was a great time and hopefully will even be better this year! This time we're hoping for a great lineup including Mr. Gaskin, the infamous Ken Ray, Ms Jacque Landman Gay, Mr Quicktime himself- Trevor DeVore and the fabulous Scott Rossi (you didn't forget his amazing demos last

Re: Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: And we hope folks who couldn't make it last year will attend this year. (Dar that means you!) Dar needs to do a session on sockets. I'm on strike until he commits. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev

Re: Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread Chipp Walters
And from you sir, I would like to see the Message Path acted out as you did the ftp sockets one last year! Only if we can get it on tape :-) Richard Gaskin wrote: Chipp Walters wrote: And we hope folks who couldn't make it last year will attend this year. (Dar that means you!) Dar needs to do

Re: Bug or feature?

2005-02-17 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/17/05 8:58 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you ask for the long name of a control and the control's name is empty, you get the long ID of the control. That doesn't seem so bad, until you consider that this is true even is the card has a name -- you still get the card

Re: Bug or feature?

2005-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: On 2/17/05 8:58 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you ask for the long name of a control and the control's name is empty, you get the long ID of the control. That doesn't seem so bad, until you consider that this is true even is the card has a name -- you still get

Re: Join a Revolution in June in Monterey!

2005-02-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/17/05 11:57 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: This time we're hoping for a great lineup including Mr. Gaskin, the infamous Ken Ray, Ms Jacque Landman Gay, Mr Quicktime himself- Trevor DeVore and the fabulous Scott Rossi (you didn't forget his amazing demos last year?) and hopefully a team from