libEmail help!

Does any one have an example stack or notes on using libEmail? I would like to send a htmlText field & Image attachment using the default mail client (using revMail). I have been playing around with libEmail but can't implement it properly, so If anyone could chime in with some nice suggestions,

formatForPrinting bug?

Hi All, Using the formatForPrinting handler in Win 9x/ME cause the app to quit. Other Win OS are ok. If I comment out "set formatForPrinting of this stack to TRUE" all works fine on all Win OS. The handler I am using is written below: on printIt set

Re: Opening Sockets on localhost

Alex. I got it. IOW, opening a socket doesn't work unilaterally. The "server" has to have a listener on that port first. Right? I'm going to figure out this server stuff one of these days. Dan On Mar 15, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: If I open socket to "localhost" a

Re: mouseDown/mouseUp problem

JS, It could be something in your cleanup code. But I'd try a mouseStillDown handler to see if that gets better results. PL ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: true newbie

Thanks for all the responses. I appreciate the offers to help me learn Revolution and guide me through the educational process. I will be taking y'all up on the offers. When I become competent enough I promise to reciprocate and help others. Thanks again. - John Smiley New Orleans - Origin

mouseDown/mouseUp problem

I've got a button which, when it is pressed and held, I want to do some things (brief and repetitive) and then do some other things once it is released. I've got handlers in the button script: on mouseDown repeat while the mouse is down -- do stuff repeatedly while mouse

Re: true newbie

On 3/15/05 4:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Ken- Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 10:28:19 AM, you wrote: KN> co-authors) Hmmm... while the HC mailing list looks interesting, the subscribe links don't work. "lists.best.com" doesn't seem to exist. Looks like that page hasn't

Re: Opening Sockets on localhost

Dan Shafer wrote: If I open socket to "localhost" and look at the result, it's empty, which means the socket got created. If I subsequently use close socket "localhost", that works, too. If, before I close the socket I try to open it again, I get the expected error indicating the socket is alre

Opening Sockets on localhost

If I open socket to "localhost" and look at the result, it's empty, which means the socket got created. If I subsequently use close socket "localhost", that works, too. If, before I close the socket I try to open it again, I get the expected error indicating the socket is already open. So far,

Re: Checking the disabled of a menu item

In the course of an attempt to find the best way to detect whether a menu item is disabled or not, I have been putting lines like: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:03:55 -0500, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: put (line 1 of button "File" of group "Main_Menu" of cd "Store" of stack "Mai

Re: true newbie

Hello, All links on the iHUG website work, as far as I can see. Only some links on the Stacks page are broken. The subscription address for the HC Mail List is If there is a problem, I suggest you write the list owner at . These and other a

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

On 16/03/2005, at 5:57, various people wrote on: Subject: Re: Poll: the sum(7,9) Reply-To: How to use Revolution It's this: How do you mentally process simple addition/subtraction facts? What actually happens in your brain to elicit 16 when you hear 7+9? (for example) It depends a bit on how co

Re: Problems placed grouped groups

> Ken, aren't you thinking of normal groups? Isn't it normally the other way around that background (bg group) gets messages after the card? Wouldn't it follow that in both cases the sub-background should get them all? But then should it get them also when message was sent to another backgrou

Re: error saving standalones in 2.5.1

Errr. 'DOES' the stack... (be a nice idea if I read it before posting it) The last time I tried debugging a 'can't build standalone' problem, THAT was the hangup. -Chipp Chipp Walters wrote: Is the stack you're building the standalone have a .rev extension? ___

Re: error saving standalones in 2.5.1

Is the stack you're building the standalone have a .rev extension? If not, it won't build. -Chipp Stephen McNutt wrote: I've verified that there's no folder--or anything at all, in the folder in which I'm trying to build the standalone to. I don't have any suspicious characters in any of the fil

Re: true newbie

Ken- Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 10:28:19 AM, you wrote: KN> co-authors) Hmmm... while the HC mailing list looks interesting, the subscribe links don't work. "lists.best.com" doesn't seem to exist. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: error saving standalones in 2.5.1

I've verified that there's no folder--or anything at all, in the folder in which I'm trying to build the standalone to. I don't have any suspicious characters in any of the file names. Again, 2.2.1 built the standalone with no problem, but 2.5.1 immediately gives me the error dialog after I t

Re: Printing MICR font

Because formatForPrinting only works with Windows.. Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Sean, I assume you're printing on WinXP. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Strange Bug in Windows Version

Karen, Chances are you've somehow changed the textColor for the menu btn. Try this in the message box: (assuming you have a btn 'File') put the effective textColor of btn "File" Make sure it is the color you want to display in your pulldown menu. As properties like textColor are 'inherited' from pa

Re: Printing MICR font

Hi Sean, Couple things to be aware of. 1) If you're doing *anything* w/ fields, in the stack you want to print and even though 'formatForPrinting' is true, you need to save then close (delete from memory) then open the stack again. If you don't you can run into problems. 2) Make sure your field

Re[2]: More Printing Questions

Hi, i've just finished to make the printing of a field working on Windows... quite a lot of struggles too :-( Anyway, you could find below the script. What is interesting is the lasts parameters of the revPrintText ( found in the Doc ). In the second line, i've put in comments what was really coo

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:09 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: To clarify: 7 and 9 were arbitrary numbers. It could have been any two single digit addends. I didn't mean to focus on the manipulating the 9 factor. 3 and 5, 6 and 8, what process do you use to instantly know, or are there calculations invo

RE:

Yes, it appears to be working now. So is this the new classic engine for 2.5.1 or still the older one that shipped with 2.5? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:40 AM To: How to use Revolu

Re: More Printing Questions

Frank, Thanks very much for this - I see what you mean about the difference between the text and the field. However, my printing still seems to have a life of its own - the printout still resolutely refuses to use Courier font when using revPrintText (on the Mac or PC). Under Windows the old pro

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

Thanks to all who have responded so far. Very interesting answers. I'm primarily interested in how the "answers" to single-digit addition/subtraction combinations "pop" in to our mind... how these discreet "facts" are stored and retrieved. The other, more complex, strategies involve problem-

Re: Re Nintendo big boy Satoru Iwata has announced his firm's next generation console, codenamed "Revolution".

I know, I know. It was tongue-in-cheek. Satire doesn't do well online. Sigh Dan On Mar 15, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Mikey wrote: Using the same name doesn't mean anything since there isn't any potential confusion in the mind of the buyer nor is there any potential competition between the products. -- On t

Re: 2.5.1 and HTTPS or SSL (was The Best just got Better)

On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Jim Ault wrote: I do not have the Enterprise license. ... I think I will do all the https pinging on a Mac using applescript and put the results in a MacShare folder my network. You might be interested in the Revolution function shell(). You might be able to do what

Re: Changing ID numbers

On 15/3/05 5:35 pm, "Jim Hurley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that 2.5 no longer includes the ID numbers in the > Application Browser. > > I don't suppose the Application Browser is editable, able to show the > ID number? > > I've got 15 buttons whose Icon ID numbers I want to set to 1

Re: Checking the disabled of a menu item

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 put (line 1 of button "File" of group "Main_Menu" of cd "Store" of stack "Main_Display" contains "[") into theDisabledStatus On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Although you can enable and disable a menu item, as in disable menuItem 1 o

Printing and MICR font (2)

my bad i'm using Mac OS X.3.8 and RunRev 2.0.3 MICR font won't print the special code characters ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Checking the disabled of a menu item

Although you can enable and disable a menu item, as in disable menuItem 1 of menu "myMenu" of grp "MyMenuGrp" of cd 1 of stack "myStack" you can't check the disabled property because menuItems don't have one - this is explained in the docs (via the IDE's Help menu as discussed in another thr

Re: true newbie

John - My suggestion, for what it's worth, is to practice getting up to speed by developing simple "game"-like projects. One I like to use for newbies that come my way, for instance, might be called "Coordinate Game". Display a pair of x,y coordinates. Have a graphic (or image or icon-ed but

Re: Problems placed grouped groups

Wait a minute, say that again? ;) What is this saying, I mean what can I learn from this? Tom On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Those would bypass the objects in the embedded group and the embedded group itself. Messages sent to the parent group (what I called the "main group") woul

Re: Problems placed grouped groups

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think you missed one: Background behavior is ignored if the group is inside another group. At least, your test case would seem to imply that... I did a little test of my own: group "Outer" field group "Inner" button With both groups set to act

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

I actually think of the numbers as "characters" (agent-based computation?), so "9" has its own characteristic "9-behavior", "8" has its own "8-behavior", and so on. Everybody, I would claim, learns "10-behavior", for example. So the interesting question becomes, how many integers have "charac

Re: Mac OS Classic Engine (was: Re:)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mine lets me download the Classic engine now, so this must be fixed. The UNIX engines, of course, still give the error (except for Linux). On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: I'm not sure if someone simply missed it and its just been done,

Re: Table field

On 3/15/05 8:38 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > set the itemdelimiter to tab > > put 56 into item 3 of line 4 > > ;)) > Xavier > > On 15.03.2005 14:27:46 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >> How do I use the table field ? What is the syntax to but say 56 into > column >> 3 row

Re: Question for the Mailing List

Recently, Michael Mandaville wrote: > I am a new Revolutionary - a whole two weeks - but very excited. I am > trying to primarily work with text and data. If anybody knows of any useful > examples (like Jan Schenkel's stack) for > -drag and drop Not sure what kind of drag and drop you're looki

Re: true newbie

Hi John, Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:15:06 -0600 From: "John Smiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: true newbie I am a true newbie, not just to revolution, but to programming. I was looking into having a somewhat simple ( I think ) software application developed and thought maybe instead I should t

Printing MICR font

I'm trying to print with the MICR font and am running into some problems. 1. The special code characters (ABCD) only show up on screen at 10pt [not that big of a deal] 2. The special code characters do not print regardless of font size [big huge freakin' deal ;-) ] The MICR font prints fine fro

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

On 3/15/05 11:19 AM, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I'm one of those odd ducks who just memorized all this crap in > school. It never occurs to me to DO anything to solve this kind of math > problem. The answer just appears in my mind. I think I'm a mixture of what most people

Re: Problems placed grouped groups

>> Those would bypass the objects in the embedded group and the embedded group >> itself. Messages sent to the parent group (what I called the "main group") >> would be: >> >> (message) -> main group -> card >> >> Ken Ray > > Ken, aren't you thinking of normal groups? Isn't it normally the > o

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

Mark, Indeed, this is an interesting and important question. I usually just retrieve the 'fact', but occasionally I count for certain sums that don't quickly come to mind, like 8+5 where I sometimes visualize five shapes, arranged like they are on a playing card, which I count up from 8. I reme

Re:

On 14/3/05 7:51 pm, "Chris Sheffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RunRev was supposed to make 2.5.1 link to the older engine automatically > (that's what they told me they would do), but apparently that didn't get > done, thus the error when trying to download it. But I'm sure you could > contac

Changing ID numbers

I noticed that 2.5 no longer includes the ID numbers in the Application Browser. I don't suppose the Application Browser is editable, able to show the ID number? I've got 15 buttons whose Icon ID numbers I want to set to 15 image ID numbers. It was a lot easier to do this in 2.2 with the App

Question for the Mailing List

Here is my question for the Revolution User List TOPIC: Buttons,Fields & Columns I am a new Revolutionary - a whole two weeks - but very excited. I am trying to primarily work with text and data. If anybody knows of any useful examples (like Jan Schenkel's stack) for -drag and drop -text ma

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

> It's this: How do you mentally process simple addition/subtraction > facts? What actually happens in your brain to elicit 16 when you hear > 7+9? (for example) Great thread I find I use a variety of strategies depending in large part on my "mood" and how much sleep I've gotten. Simple p

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

I guess I'm one of those odd ducks who just memorized all this crap in school. It never occurs to me to DO anything to solve this kind of math problem. The answer just appears in my mind. Dan the Mysterious On Mar 15, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: What a fascinating question! I had to thin

Re: Re Nintendo big boy Satoru Iwata has announced his firm's next generation console, codenamed "Revolution".

Yeah. Sigh. OH, well, maybe some other scheme will work. Dan On Mar 15, 2005, at 6:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don I can't help thinking that the get-out will probably be the "codename" tag It'll probably be released under another tradename - just Rev's luck for it to then infringe someo

Re: Re Nintendo big boy Satoru Iwata has announced his firm's next generation console, codenamed "Revolution".

Using the same name doesn't mean anything since there isn't any potential confusion in the mind of the buyer nor is there any potential competition between the products. -- 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

Re Nintendo big boy Satoru Iwata has announced his firm's next generation console, codenamed "Revolution".

Don I can't help thinking that the get-out will probably be the "codename" tag It'll probably be released under another tradename - just Rev's luck for it to then infringe someone else's... Kevin ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.ru

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

What a fascinating question! I had to think for a minute to try and analyze how I do that sort of mental arithmetic, but in the end I realized what I do. I seem to have a visual stack that goes up to 10, so I put the 9 into stack, then move 1 from the 7 to fill the stack, leaving me with 10 in the

Re: More Printing Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 revPrintText prints the text, not a field. You assigned the font, etc. to the field, not the text. Since the font was not specified in the text, it inherits it from the field, but when you use revPrintText, there is no field to inherit the font fro

Re: true newbie

No Yes see Dan's book. Absolutely YES, Right here Right now on this list we will all help tutor you. And remember once your up and flying to pass on what was given to you back here on the list. That way what goes around comes around... Tom On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:15 AM, John Smiley wrote: I h

More Printing Questions

Hi, Thanks to Cubist's help I've got printing working (on the Mac anyway - I've still to test it in Windows). I can print quite happily with formatted text using revPrintField: set the formatForPrinting of stack "Stock Portfolio" to false set the htmlText of field "PrintLayout" to the htmlT

Re: true newbie

>I am a true newbie, not just to revolution, but to programming. I was looking >into having a somewhat simple ( I think ) software application developed >and thought maybe instead I should take the time to learn how to do it >myself. Especially since I have more time than money and enjoy learning >

Re: 2.5.1 and HTTPS or SSL (was The Best just got Better)

I do not have the Enterprise license. Spending $200 just to be able to ping a server using https is not worth that. Also, I am not sure what else I would need for the cross-platform version. I am doing Revolution for my own multimedia projects, not to sell or distribute robust apps. Thanks for t

Re: Table field

set the itemdelimiter to tab put 56 into item 3 of line 4 ;)) Xavier On 15.03.2005 14:27:46 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >How do I use the table field ? What is the syntax to but say 56 into column >3 row 4 ? > >Regards, > >John Dixon >___ >use-revol

Table field

How do I use the table field ? What is the syntax to but say 56 into column 3 row 4 ? Regards, John Dixon ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: true newbie

Sarah wrote: 3. Would someone like to help tutor me? We all will. That's what the list is for and there are some amazingly knowledgeable people who can explain things very clearly. Ask your questions and someone here will always know answer. I think John has a righ idea asking someone to be his p

Re: tab stops and printing

sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >set the tabStops of field "PrintLayout" to 160,220,290,360,430,500 One thing you may want to know about the tabStops property is that it *implicitly* provides for an *infinite* number of tab stops in a field. After the N tab stops you specify, it takes the difference b

Re: Using sockets

Kevin, note that I create a new variable 'nVar' in the loop, so you shouldn't be doubling anything up. My repeat loop obviously assumes that the extra char is at the beginning of every line, not just some of them. An alternative would be to use the replace function, as others have noted, but if

Re: Problems placed grouped groups

On 3/14/05 9:12 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/14/05 6:38 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the logic of having a background within a background? Is this supported? What would be the message passing? Well, technically speaking, having a "backgro

Re: logic of having a background within a background: radio buttons

On Mar 14, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: logic of having a background within a background: radio buttons require grouping Perhaps, it's best to think of only the outer group as the background. Dar Indeed, a group of radio buttons does not have to be, and probably should not be, a background

Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)

>To clarify: 7 and 9 were arbitrary numbers. It could have been any >two single digit addends. I didn't mean to focus on the manipulating >the 9 factor. 3 and 5, 6 and 8, what process do you use to instantly >know, or are there calculations involved? > >Mark > >On Mar 14, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Mark