Odd...
Not that I've ever done anything earth-shattering myself, but, about two
years ago when in the midst of composing a rather long (for me) article on
medieval genealogy, I'd take a few to do something *very* different.
Sometimes just freeing myself from the burden of the moment and looking
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote:
One of the things I found counterproductive about day jobs I've had is
how short their siesta, and how non-existing their napping facililities.
--Yuppers! This is true even, if not especially, of in-home day (at day
OR night) jobs...
@;-)
Judy
Great replies from all...I would have never thought that Andre or
Richard Gaskin ever need motivation. ;-)
Sometimes I go to the kitchen and start peeling garlic, after doing that I
need something to go with the garlic...I might get out the flour
and eggs, sheep cheese and start making raviolis.
I intend to learn more about Dreamcard by coding some games and so on.
I am not sure about the general framework you would use with a setup
like this though. Normally you end up with a main loop which runs
continuously, until you quit out of it, and lots of methods/subroutines
which do all the
Hello,
I have come across a strange occurance when pasting text from the clipboard of
Win XP to a field in Rev.
The text is pasted with a much larger font size than the properties of the
field, also it doesn't change when
you try setting the text size of the field after pasting the text. The
i wrote a bugzilla about this... There's more than one clipboard problem
in Rev...
In there cases, just try to put the clipboarddata into your field instead
of the usual paste.
But you will loose all the styles...
-=-
Xavier Bury
Clearstream Services
TNS
There's a lot of game frameworks for 2D, 3D games out there.
I suggest starting with a simple loop and evolving it to make your game.
Start with the simple loop with a question. Win or Loose. Then extend it
to add scores, replays, bonuses, etc...
One place to start is
http://www.gameai.com/
On 22 Feb 2005, at 23:29, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I have been having problems getting myself motivated. I have a
possible customer for a few ideas I have and he said as soon as I'm
ready that he will try and sell them for me. I even have a lot of
ideas for this project. But I can't seem to get
Hi Byron,
Le 23 févr. 05, à 11:07, Byron Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I've been experimenting drag and drop images (eric chatonet's wonderful
demo). When I drag an image in, clips a portion of any window that's
open over the image area or a portion of the Rev window where the image
resides.
Ian Leigh wrote:
I intend to learn more about Dreamcard by coding some games and so on.
I am not sure about the general framework you would use with a setup
like this though. Normally you end up with a main loop which runs
continuously, until you quit out of it, and lots of
methods/subroutines
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:56:05 -0500, Thomas McGrath III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello listers,
I hope this is not too far off topic.
I have been having problems getting myself motivated. I have a possible
customer for a few ideas I have and he said as soon as I'm ready that
he will try and sell
Hi Tom,
I use a whole range of different techniques depending on the circumstances.
Being really effective and productive is something you have to make a
priority and keep working on. The most important techniques for me:
* Am I sure that I want to be doing this now? Is it really in my best
On 23/2/05 4:00 am, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing
a tutorial section under help. I couldn't seem to find it in
the 2.5 version, so I just ordered Dan's book : )
Somehow the Getting Started stuff fell out of v2.5 --
Whenever I learn a new language I read the Language Guide cover to
cover. Well, that's a lie -- what I really do is skim it. But even just
skimming will give you the lay of the land, and you'd be surprised how
much you'll retain from that.
Wait - there's a Language Guide? Where the heck is
Rev Users -
I have to say I'm a little jealous ... a posting headed OT: Help with
motivation gives rise to a thread of over 20 messages, and I can't
even get a little nibble with an actual scripting question here [see
below]. (Not meaning to annoy anyone, really, just asking you to put
your
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You could also trap the paste request somehow and execute something
like this (untested code):
paste
set the textSize of char 1 to (the number of chars in field Field) of
field Field to empty
On Feb 23, 2005, at 4:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i
I have exactly the same problem - it sometimes takes me days or weeks
to really get going on a project. When I'm designing databases or
forms days can pass with nothing happening. In College I had the same
problem - I just could not get into studying for an exam. Ultimately
what I discovered is
Hi David...
What finally worked for you regarding Windows printing?
Regarding finding ideas - I encountered this issue frequently when I was
a producer at CNN. Basically, how do you become inspired when the
inspiration is not forthcoming on its own?
I used to teach new producers a few simple
Dear Rev Programmers,
Anyone know the legal mumble-jumble on taking a open VB source code than
you didn't write and converting it to Rev, and distributing. Is that legal
or not?
Paul Salyers
PS1 - Senior Rep.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org
Hi Paul,
Dear Rev Programmers,
Anyone know the legal mumble-jumble on taking a open VB source code
than you
didn't write and converting it to Rev, and distributing. Is that legal
or not?
I am no lawyer, but i would say yes, it's legal.
At least i would do it ;-)
Paul Salyers
PS1 - Senior Rep.
Hi Developers,
I've posted this bug report:
Bug# 2631
--
I could open any stack by dragging and droping
over an executable file.
Verified with many standalones build with
RR and MC.
Some standalones even let me copy a jpg file in the
hard disk and
It's not legal. But if you find more than one source with the
same algorightm - common use, then it's ok to replicate that
use with your own code.
Using the other's code to make it work for you should be done
with caution. It's been known to catch up in time some big
companies... And make some
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Right, it depends on the license under which the code was released.
If the code is in the public domain, anything goes. Otherwise, check
the license.
On Feb 23, 2005, at 11:44 AM, MisterX wrote:
It's not legal. But if you find more than one source
Thanks Sarah, Richard, Trevor, Bob, Ro, Stephen, Jacqueline, Dan, Jim,
Ken, David, Chipp, Paul, David, Andre, Judy, Dave, Graham, Kevin,
Mikey, and Jonathan.
I am completely overwhelmed by the responses I received to my
motivation problem. I don't know what to say...
I realize now that
Jerry,
I am not sure what it is exactly that you are asking. But have you
looked in the documentation under drag?
You said: no handlers in the other controls on the card will get
triggered (right?),
But: I think that you can trap and act upon a few things while doing a
drag:
dragDrop - Sent to
On 2/23/05 10:33 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
Hi Developers,
I've posted this bug report:
Bug# 2631
--
I could open any stack by dragging and droping
over an executable file.
Verified with many standalones build with
RR and MC.
Some standalones even let
On 2/23/05 9:04 AM, Jerry Balzano wrote:
Rev Users -
I have to say I'm a little jealous ... a posting headed OT: Help with
motivation gives rise to a thread of over 20 messages,
That's because we can write that stuff off the top of our heads without
having to look up anything, or even do any
Mikey wrote:
Whenever I learn a new language I read the Language Guide cover to
cover. Well, that's a lie -- what I really do is skim it. But even just
skimming will give you the lay of the land, and you'd be surprised how
much you'll retain from that.
Wait - there's a Language Guide? Where the
On 2/23/05 8:42 AM, Mikey wrote:
Whenever I learn a new language I read the Language Guide cover to
cover. Well, that's a lie -- what I really do is skim it. But even just
skimming will give you the lay of the land, and you'd be surprised how
much you'll retain from that.
Wait - there's a
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File associations are irrelevant for drag 'n drop of document/file
icons on an app's icon. That much is true for most operating systems.
On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Unless I am misunderstanding, this is not a bug. It has to
On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
The printed manuals, which are available for purchase separately, are
just printouts of the same material for those who prefer hard copy
they can read in the bathroom. ;) The printed version is not entirely
up to date at this point, so the
Jonathan,
I don't think we have a database_driver for firebird, but we have ODBC,
so you might be able to access this database from ODBC datasource, what
about this?
PS: I use postgreSQL, it's marvelous...
Andre
On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to learn
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You probably would do best to use an ODBC driver for Firebird, if you
are certain you want to use Firebird.
Meanwhile, you might consider PostgreSQL instead. The new version has
a native Windows build (for the first time), and it has a very long
Yo, if you're coming up to Erie to fish, let me know. I'll be happy
to...fish...you out when you fall through the bay.
--
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
and did
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
File associations are irrelevant for drag 'n drop of document/file icons
on an app's icon. That much is true for most operating systems.
I don't understand. This is what I need to do to get a document to be
droppable onto an app:
OS X: I need to add entries to the
Goodday
I am a newbie in Revolution, being in the trialperiod.
In themy resting 19 days I try to translate a Toolbook
application to Revolution language.
The TB-app is written by myself. I work with TB for 18 years
and have some experience with TB.
In my app there is a listfield, each line
Rob,
I never used Toolbook so I am guessing here. One thing you can use to
share scripts is grouping the controls and using a group script. Or if
you build a script library in a stack and want to add those scripts to
your stack, you can use start using to add the scripts to the message
path.
Hello,
As a long time Rev/PostgreSQL web apps developer, under both the Linux
and OSX platforms, just a word to say that when i choosed PG against
other ACID-DB possible choices (Firebird, SAPDB, OpenBase,...), the
difference went in about the very good documentation (books, web
sites,...) i
Rob Meijer wrote:
I am a newbie in Revolution, being in the trialperiod.
In themy resting 19 days I try to translate a Toolbook
application to Revolution language.
The TB-app is written by myself. I work with TB for 18 years
and have some experience with TB.
Welcome aboard. I've used ToolBook
It turns out that the upcoming Monterey Revolution Conference has to be
moved up a week to June 17-18. The weekend we'd selected conflicts with
the annual Monterey Blues Festival, which meant there were few rooms
available for people to stay in and they were all very expensive.
Sorry for the
Andre,
I cannot find the right syntax. 'Start using' did not match.
I am looking for something like:
insert script of button wijzigen into script of field content
but here I get an errormessage missing script ??
Thanks for your help
Rob
--
At 19:24 23/2/2005, Andre
Dan et Al,
I'll make the effort to go to both tracks if they happen! I learned so
much from the last RMS that I would be very happy to stay there for
both tracks!
The date change keeps one wondering about attending also to the WWDC
Andre
On Feb 23, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
It
Hi Rob,
Andre,
I cannot find the right syntax. 'Start using' did not match.
I am looking for something like:
insert script of button wijzigen into script of field content
but here I get an errormessage missing script
??
you can only insert script into bakc or front...
So
On Feb 23, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Rob Meijer wrote:
Andre,
I cannot find the right syntax. 'Start using' did not match.
I am looking for something like:
insert script of button wijzigen into script of field content
but here I get an errormessage missing script
??
Thanks for
Thanks to Tom, David, and Jacque for their responses to my query.
I'm not using standard drag and drop because I want the user to have
color-coded information about what s/he is dragging. If Rev supported
color cursors I would be able to live with that, but it doesn't, so I am
trying out the
Mikey,
You can download an RTF version of the documentation, but it's from RR
2.1 at my site:
bottom of page:
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Links.htm
Or, if you send a real nice message to Jerry Daniels he may let you beta
test his 'Transcript Gadget' which is an incredibly helpful
OK, on further review ...
The maneuver suggested by David Epstein, although it seemed promising at
first, won't work. The only way the mouseEnter message gets triggered by
the receiving object is (a) if the mouse button is up, and (b) if the
moving control is in a layer *beneath* the receiver
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And then, off the record, God Aunt Alice, the lesser known fourth
person in one God, set to work on this day of rest and created
dinosaur fossils.
Let them reconcile those fossils with creationism, She chuckled,
for She had
On 2/23/05 12:24 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
File associations are irrelevant for drag 'n drop of document/file icons
on an app's icon. That much is true for most operating systems.
Not on Macs, though I see now it can be different on Windows. I don't
know about the 'nixes.
I interpreted
On 2/23/05 1:09 PM, Rob Meijer wrote:
Goodday
I am a newbie in Revolution, being in the trialperiod.
I'm glad you came to the list. Welcome. :)
In themy resting 19 days I try to translate a Toolbook
application to Revolution language.
The TB-app is written by myself. I work with TB for 18 years
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On the Mac:
The creator code is likely ignored when determining which files can be
dropped, since you can drop an icon from a program other than the one
which created the file (thus the reason for drag-and-drop opening in
the first place, otherwise
I'm using Rev 2.0.3 and I was going to try out Rev 2.5, but it
crashes on OSX 10.1. This leads me to assume that there must be no
beta testers for Rev with 10.1--because the same thing happened with
Rev 2.1, I reported a crash and it was later fixed. But 10.1 is
officially supported, so it
I can't really try out 2.5 much because it crashes in too many
situations with OSX 10.1, but I see enough to raise some questions.
Does the RevOnline window always open when you open Revolution, or
will it stay shut next time if you close it and quit (without
crashing)?
I prefer selecting an
Thanks everyone for the suggestions and comments. I most certainly
will not hesitate to ask a questions as I journey down the road to
becoming a Revolution builder ;-)
Kevin, I agree that there is a lot of high quality introductory
material included with 2.5. Its just that right now I can
I'm using Rev 2.0.3 and I was going to try out Rev 2.5, but it crashes
on OSX 10.1.
Are you not even using 10.1.5? Man, you really need to at least move
to Jaguar (MacOSX 10.2.8). It is a highly regarded opinion that 10.1
had lots of problems that were finally fixed by 10.2. That's my two
i don't happen to be a creationist or
intelligent design advocate, but about
half of the people in this country
are. i am certain that some people on the
list are as well.
religion and politics are two areas where
we should agree to disagree and leave it
at that. this list is a community of
On Feb 23, 2005, at 7:59 PM, James Cass wrote:
I'm using Rev 2.0.3 and I was going to try out Rev 2.5, but it
crashes on OSX 10.1.
Are you not even using 10.1.5?
I have a 10.1.5 that I test Rev against when I feel inclined. Curry, I
guess you have to be the 10.1 beta tester. (Personally, I
Take a look at the official RunRev operating system requirements.
It's *supposed* to work with 10.1. You don't think it's any big deal
when the listed requirements don't match? Just upgrade as often as
necessary?
If I upgraded, then I wouldn't know the difference, wouldn't I? (And
apparently,
There is a discussion list for Christian xTalk users (Rev and other IDE's)
at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cxtalk/
This is offered for those who wish to talk about their faith,
projects, and xTalk IDEs with other users. (Not for pro/con religious
controversy and politics per se, sorry, can't
Hi Jaqueline, Andre and Klaus
Thanks to your hint to see Richards article,
I found such a large source of Revolutional knowledge,
That I use a lot of time to read through all that stuff.
I understood that back and front indicate the place in the hierarchy
and that messagepath is synonym for the
On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:22 PM, curry wrote:
I can't really try out 2.5 much because it crashes in too many
situations with OSX 10.1, but I see enough to raise some questions.
Yeah, you should upgrade to OSX 10.2 or 10.3. Lots of good, non-Rev
reasons to do so.
Does the RevOnline window always
Mark
To what was this a response?
Dan
On Feb 23, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Erik Hansen wrote:
i don't happen to be a creationist or
intelligent design advocate, but about
half of the people in this country
are. i am certain that some people on the
list are as well.
religion and politics are two areas
Hi Jaqueline, Andre and Klaus
Yes, I found a workaround.
In the script of the field I added
insert script of btn gocard into front
and in the card I put
on closecard; remove script of btn gocard from front.
I coudn't find a working start using.
But I am not pleased to have a lot of (invisible)
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