Re: # POSSIBLY SPAM #::Win vs Mac text hilite

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 07.03.2005 08:40:28 use-revolution-bounces wrote: > >> On Mac OS and OS X, hilited text in a field is drawn as >> normal, hilited with the hiliteColor. >> >> But on Windows, the hilitedColor is honored but the foreColor >> of the hilitedText is reversed. >> >> I have a

Re: Identifying the caller

2005-03-07 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi Graham, Le 7 mars 05, à 09:04, graham samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Folks, I really should know this by now, but when a handler is called, can its script identify its caller and if so how? I guess there is some context description available but I don't know how to find it in the docs. A

Re: # POSSIBLY SPAM #::Win vs Mac text hilite

2005-03-07 Thread xbury . cs
I haven't entered one yet! ;) On 07.03.2005 09:01:06 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 07.03.2005 08:40:28 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >> >>> On Mac OS and OS X, hilited text in a field is drawn as >>> normal, hilited with the hiliteColor. >>> >>> But on Windows, the

Re: Win vs Mac text hilite

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mac OS and OS X, hilited text in a field is drawn as normal, hilited with the hiliteColor. But on Windows, the hilitedColor is honored but the foreColor of the hilitedText is reversed. Anyone know of a way to prevent the inversion of hi

Re: Win vs Mac text hilite

2005-03-07 Thread xbury . cs
And 5 from me! Thanks for finding that! I was about to enter one... cheers Xavier On 07.03.2005 09:20:50 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mac OS and OS X, hilited text in a field is drawn as > normal, hilited with the hiliteColor. > > But on Windows, th

Re: Identifying the caller

2005-03-07 Thread thierry
Hi, gs> when a handler is called, gs> can its script identify its caller and if so how? I guess there is some gs> context description available but I don't know how to find it in the gs> docs. gs> Obviously the engine does know this information - it's just a question gs> of if and how it's

Re: Identifying the caller

2005-03-07 Thread graham samuel
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:09:33 -0600, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can check the executionContexts... the long id of the object that sent the message is in there, right above the long id of the object that is processing the message. Thanks Ken, that was just what I was looking for. BTW, I

Re: Identifying the caller

2005-03-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/7/05 3:46 AM, "graham samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:09:33 -0600, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> You can check the executionContexts... the long id of the object that >> sent >> the message is in there, right above the long id of the object that is >>

Building standalones from command line

2005-03-07 Thread N
I have looking through the on-line documentation and found nothing. Is it possible to pass make file/script through RR compiler/RAD to build standalones? ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___

Re: more rawkeydown problems

2005-03-07 Thread Wouter
On 06 Mar 2005, at 20:04, J. Landman Gay wrote: snip I'm not sure it is a bug, it is just the differences between operating systems. The Rev engine just passes on the key codes that the operating system sends. If you have the MC IDE, see the "Character Chooser" in the MetaCard "Tools" menu for e

Re: OT: Wisconsin Rev Users/Midwest Rev User Group (Was Re:altBrowser application)

2005-03-07 Thread Paul
I am also in Wisconsin (Glendale, Milwaukee). I have not done much with RunRev recently as I'm working on a LabVIEW project. It is nice to know that there are other Wisconsinites. Cheers, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/6/05 7:38 PM, "Derek Bump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I have to del

2 new "How-to" stacks available

2005-03-07 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi everyone, I put 2 new "How-to" stacks on RevOnLine and Super RevOnLine (i.e. RevNet from Richard Gaskin :-): #009 How to fix the decorations (titlebar appearance) Shows all the different title bars a window can display with Rev 2.1 or later. In the Stack Property Inspector, a dialog lets you

Re: Arithmetic operations on dates ?

2005-03-07 Thread Michael D Mays
Are we talking about the fact that when we do something like: get the date convert it to dateItems The result is: "2005,3,7,2,0,0,2" instead of perhaps: "2005,3,7,0,0,0,2" ?? Michael On Mar 6, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I believe it is 2am. Bill Vlahos

HowTo Question?

2005-03-07 Thread N
How do I move a control from on card to another (the cards are not visable and are used only for data storage)? -==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coinci

Re: Identifying the caller

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Sunday, March 6, 2005, 2:09:33 PM, you wrote: KR> You can check the executionContexts... the long id of the object that sent KR> the message is in there, right above the long id of the object that is KR> processing the message. ...although the usual caveats about using undocumented function

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if pre-X.3). IS there a way to save as a pdf b

Re: Left/Right Shift?

2005-03-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't think there is any such beast built-in to Rev, but this *should* have equivalent functionality (though granted somewhat slower): function shift_left num, byBits return num * (2 ^ byBits) end shift_left function shift_right num, byBits ret

Re: Building standalones from command line

2005-03-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look up the "savingStandalone" and "standaloneSaved" messages in the docs; perhaps you can use one or both of those to accomplish what you need to do? On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:09 AM, N wrote: I have looking through the on-line documentation and found n

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Mikey- Sunday, March 6, 2005, 12:02:00 PM, you wrote: M> I'll reiterate: I was surprised, because RR is the only development M> tool I can remember that lacks a static text tool. It doesn't really ...and once again, HC never had a "static text" tool - you could simply paint a bitmap on the scr

RE: HowTo Question?

2005-03-07 Thread MisterX
> How do I move a control from on card to another (the cards > are not visable and are used only for data storage)? you must first create cards to move things to. a new stack has only card 1. create card now you have 2 cards copy button 1 to card 2 - and voila! you can use background behavio

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Mikey
> M> I'll reiterate my call for a set of manuals. > > I take it you have some objection to ordering them? > >http://secure.runrev.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MANLPRNT&Category_Code=REVNBOOK&Store_Code=SDREBWLP The "objection" I have is to paying for access to basic refe

saving information.

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Salyers
Dear Rev Programers I need to know how to save field information from within a stack. I have a button "save" when I click it I want safe the information in the fields on a text file. I want it to add not replace. Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___

RE: Midi Comunications

2005-03-07 Thread MisterX
Any midi device should have a clock to synch to. The computers, the soundcard (preferred if you use computer effects), sound mixer (if you can afford that kind of mixer) (best), the midi keyboard too (best for performers without need of effects). I maybe wrong regarding the best clock but I think

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Mikey- Monday, March 7, 2005, 8:42:50 AM, you wrote: M> The "objection" I have is to paying for access to basic reference M> material. I'm not asking for printed manuals. I'm not aware of any M> products that have printed docs included any more. However, they have M> electronic docs included.

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 7:09 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print > the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" > from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if > pre-X.3). > >>>

Re: saving information.

2005-03-07 Thread Phil Davis
Here's one button script that would do it (assuming you pre-set the value in 'gMyTextFile'): on mouseUp global gMyTextFile -- contains the full pathname of your text file put "--1---" & cr & fld "first" & cr \ & "--2---" & cr & fld "second" & cr \ & "--3---" & cr & f

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Judy Perry
Do you not have a "Documentation" button on your toolbar? Judy On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Mikey wrote: > The "objection" I have is to paying for access to basic reference > material. I'm not asking for printed manuals. I'm not aware of any > products that have printed docs included any more. However

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Mikey
> The printed docs are just what you get in the IDE under documentation, > so obviously the online docs will be more current. In there, under > "How do I display text on a card?" I see what I believe is the answer > to your original question: > > The runrev IDE has a finite learning curve. Granted

ftp puzzler.

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
humpf, I have a script that ftp's a few files up to my anonymous ftp space. This works OK on my Mac G3, but the same script and destination path fails under WinXP with a 'socket not open' error message. My script uses LibURLFtpUpload, but I've also tried that and put and get from the message box w

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You might want to look into the Ghostscript project. If you can generate the needed PostScript source text, Ghostscript can convert that to a PDF. PostScript is just another computer language, but one specifically designed for handling the layout o

Re: Arithmetic operations on dates ?

2005-03-07 Thread SimPLsol
Michael, In Revolution days start at 2 am - except for days that start daylight savings time or end daylight savings time, which start at 3 am or 1 am. If you are using seconds, these days have one hour more or less seconds than regular days. In a previous post you said Rev. converted

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 10:11 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to look into the Ghostscript project. If you can > generate the needed PostScript source text, Ghostscript can convert > that to a PDF. PostScript is just another computer language, but one > specifically desig

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 18, Issue 24

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Smith
But the online docs that are present (as far as I know) in every distribution of Revolution and Dreamcard are the manuals... Many people, including me have had trouble finding what they were looking for, but then it's a big language. Familiarising myself with the various sections of the docs

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
>On 3/7/05 7:09 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print >> the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" >> from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if >> pre-X.3).

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 11:44 AM, "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would look into PHP, which can create a pdf from a script. You could post > data from rev to a PHP script, which could then output or return a pdf, or > something along those lines. > > Martin Baxter Cool. Thanks Martin Marty K

Rev Packaged App hanging

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Bonham
REVers, Using Revolution, I've created a main stack that reads from and writes to an external preferences text file entitled "TJsettings.txt". In the stack script (on openstack) starts with: put the filename of this stack into MyPathWay repeat until the last char of myPathWay is "/" delete

Re: Rev Packaged App hanging

2005-03-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Steve Bonham wrote: REVers, Using Revolution, I've created a main stack that reads from and writes to an external preferences text file entitled "TJsettings.txt". In the stack script (on openstack) starts with: put the filename of this stack into MyPathWay repeat until the last char of myPathWa

Re: Rev Packaged App hanging

2005-03-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I suggest this as an alternative to your way, have no clue why it doesn't work for you the other way. put the filename of this stack into MyPathWay set the itemdelimiter to "/" put "TJsettings.txt" into item -1 of MyPathWay put URL ("file:" & MyPathWay) into field "settings" -- official ChatRev p

Suggestions?

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Miller
Looking for suggestions on how to best handle the following scenario. Imagine a number of computers spread out across the country (some PC's, some Mac's) running a custom Rev application. On each computer, the application continually (every 30-60 seconds) sends a small file (just a few character

Re: Arithmetic operations on dates ?

2005-03-07 Thread Michael D Mays
Paul, I don't see that days start a 2 am. If I have a list of dateItems 2005,3,8,23,59,59,0 (Tue March 8, 2005, one minute until midnight) and I add 2 to item six, convert the resulting list to dateItems, the list is 2005,3,8,0,0,1,4 (Wed March 9, 2005, one minute after midnight) What are the

Re: Suggestions?

2005-03-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/7/05 4:11 PM, "Richard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggestions on how to do this. I've quite a number of ideas, but I'm > not sure of the fastest and most stable (and perhaps easiest) way. One > concern is with multiple users (the ones supplying data) trying to > check in at the sa

Re: ftp puzzler.

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Martin- Monday, March 7, 2005, 10:23:42 AM, you wrote: MB> Any ideas what might be wrong ? Do you have the WinXP firewall running? Best thing is to turn it off. Are you using active or passive mode ftp? Make sure neither you nor the ftp server are trying to switch to passive mode. -- -Mark Wie

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if pre-X.3). IS there a way to save as a pdf by chance? I was hoping there was a way to do it wi

Re: Arithmetic operations on dates ?

2005-03-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I don't see that days start a 2 am. If I have a list of dateItems 2005,3,8,23,59,59,0 (Tue March 8, 2005, one minute until midnight) and I add 2 to item six, convert the resulting list to dateItems, the list is 2005,3,8,0,0,1,4 (Wed March 9, 2005, one minute after midnight) You have specified a

Re: Suggestions?

2005-03-07 Thread Richard K. Herz
Richard Miller asked: I've got a dedicated Mac server available, on which I want to place a Rev application to gather and disseminate the required information. The first 100 computers will continually inform that central application of their status, and the other 100 will continually ask this appli

Re: Suggestions?

2005-03-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Miller wrote: Looking for suggestions on how to best handle the following scenario. Imagine a number of computers spread out across the country (some PC's, some Mac's) running a custom Rev application. On each computer, the application continually (every 30-60 seconds) sends a small file

Re: Rev Packaged App hanging

2005-03-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, it should be "/Users/steve/Desktop/JeopardyQs/TJsettings.txt" -- note the leading '/' character. Like the other posters, however, I do think it would be much easier if you just used the "put URL" method. Consider something like: function prefsFi

Re: [noob again]static text

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mikey wrote: In the case of a tool like RR, the docs need to be better because the paradigm is very different and often it's difficult to match the vocabulary, even for people familiar with cousins of it. I agree. While I feel Rev offers an unusually strong ROI over the long term, that ROI is the

The Wisconsin Connection

2005-03-07 Thread Dave Calkins
On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Im here in Oak Creek Wisconsin, whats your location Wis also ? I grew up 20 miles west of Madison; my parents still live there. Dave Calkins ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.ru

Re: Suggestions?

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Miller
This is most similar to the way I was imagining doing it. It does appear to be simple. And yes, the users are not very numerous (no more than 100 for the next six months) and they are all unique (one user per computer reporting their availability). Thanks. Richard On Mar 7, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Al

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 3:25 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IS there a way to save as a pdf by chance? >>> >>> I was hoping there was a way to do it without user intervention. What >>> I'm >>> putting together is an app that will pick up email orders from my Miva >>> Merchant store, gen

Web browser kind of thing

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen
Ok how hard would it be to make the window display and interact with a web site? I just want it to bring up a logon page, let them log and and edit info. using forms on the site. Not sure if this is a hard thing to do or not but if anybody could push in in the right directions I would be greatfu

Re: Web browser kind of thing

2005-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Ok how hard would it be to make the window display and interact with a web site? I just want it to bring up a logon page, let them log and and edit info. using forms on the site. Not sure if this is a hard thing to do or not but if anybody could push in in the right directions I would be greatfu

revCopyFile problems on OSX , shell or Applescript solution best?

2005-03-07 Thread Terry Judd
Ello - I've run into the occasionally/often? bemoaned problem where revCopyFile fails under OSX. It seems to be particularly flakey in my case as I'm copying the same set of files in and out of various folders during testing of an app I'm developing. Searching the archive revealed suggestions a

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/7/05 5:25 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if pre-X.3).

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Actually, if you only care about OS X, this will create a PDF for you: function stsMakePDF pSrcPath,pDestPath switch (the platform) case "MacOS" if isOSX() then set the cursor to watch put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp get shell(tConvertApp && "-

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 8:52 PM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, if you only care about OS X, this will create a PDF for you: > > function stsMakePDF pSrcPath,pDestPath > switch (the platform) > case "MacOS" > if isOSX() then > set the cursor to watch > put "/System/Library/Printers/

Re: Export snapshot

2005-03-07 Thread Marty Knapp
On 3/7/05 9:04 PM, "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm coming in late on the thread. What's the source file here? HTML? If so I > think Chipp uses a command line HTML to PDF converter on windows which could > fit into this function nicely ;-) Hey Monte, The source file is a jpeg (o

Re: revCopyFile problems on OSX

2005-03-07 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 3/7/05 8:41 PM, "Terry Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone who's already 'been there' suggest the best solution? Well, I can't say it's the best solution, but it's working for me: on copyFile pFile1,pFile2 delete file pFile2 switch the platform case "win32" revCopyFile pF