Re: repeating a string

2005-03-20 Thread xbury . cs
On 21.03.2005 05:18:39 use-revolution-bounces wrote: >Sorry about the partial repeat - lappie issues... > >I can't for the life of me remember how to repeat a string, and of >course I can't find anything in the docs either. > >I could do "a"&"a"&"a", but I thought there was something like "A"*3 >or

Re: SelectedChunk

2005-03-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/20/05 10:38 PM, "Mikey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. Per previous discussion, in an attempt to determine where the > cursor was when the user hit a key (in this case a tab key), I > generated the following script for the field in question > > on tabKey >get the selectedChunk >a

Re: Problem with 'filter' on large lists

2005-03-20 Thread Terry Judd
Actually the problem seems much wider than that. I'm seeing 'dodgy' returned data for some (but not all) smaller chunks of my data as well (<25000 lines). Good thing that repeat for each constructs are so fast. I'll stick with a custom filter routine based around that for the moment and see if

RE: revDatabase

2005-03-20 Thread Harvey Toyama
Hi, MySQL 4.1 was my first encounter with the database. The original complaint is due to 16 vs 41 byte passwords. Since Revolution is the only client application I have, and since it only support old passwords, my solution was to add "old-passwords" in the [mysqld] section of the my.cnf file. Yo

RE: Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?

2005-03-20 Thread MisterX
Douglas, I tried a year ago to make a nice Mickey hand cursor 16x16 but - colored cursors didn't seem supported - colors didn't dispay correctly - transparency masks not supported on non-bitmap images. No one ever helped so Im stuck as you are... I think there's a bugzilla for this too... cheer

RE: undoing an object delete

2005-03-20 Thread MisterX
Mikey, It could have been undone with my HotKeyN2O plugin but the plugin is in finishing status limbo... Some speed performance issues to deal with that might require a revamp of the object database... Hopefully ready this month or the next - im not really motivated to get dirty and greasy to fin

Re: Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?

2005-03-20 Thread Douglas Westbrook
Try mousewithin On mousemove is a better way to set a graphic to the mouseloc but it sounds like mousewithin is what you need. On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a beginner I'm really finding this forum extremely helpful. Perhaps someone can help with this question: Altho

curioser and curioser

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
This is really fascinating - if I have debug checkpoints on and I run the script that I'm trying to use that intercepts the tab key and processes it things malfunction. However, if I remove the checkpoints things seem to work more according to plan... -- On the first day, God created the heavens

Problem with 'filter' on large lists

2005-03-20 Thread Terry Judd
The filter command seems to be 'dodgy' when working with large lists (>10) lines - ie gives different results to when the same data is broken up into a number of chunks. Has anyone else seen this or is it just me? All I'm doing is some simple filtering of long lists of urls as in - filter

undoing an object delete

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
Somehow I've managed to select and delete several objects tonight accidentally. There appears to be no way to undo this, right? -- 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, a

Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?

2005-03-20 Thread Stgoldberg
As a beginner I'm really finding this forum extremely helpful. Perhaps someone can help with this question: Although the instructions say that a cursor has to be in black and white and not larger than 16x16, I'm wondering if there is a way around this. Many games, for instance, have large c

SelectedChunk

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
Hmm. Per previous discussion, in an attempt to determine where the cursor was when the user hit a key (in this case a tab key), I generated the following script for the field in question on tabKey get the selectedChunk answer it end tabKey the variable watcher reports that IT is empty. In

repeating a string

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
Sorry about the partial repeat - lappie issues... I can't for the life of me remember how to repeat a string, and of course I can't find anything in the docs either. I could do "a"&"a"&"a", but I thought there was something like "A"*3 or such available. -- On the first day, God created the heave

repeating a string

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
For the life of me I can't remember if there's a command (and I can't find one in the docs) to repeat a string. For example, to generate "aaa", I could write "a"&"a& -- 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

constant list

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
supposedly there's a list of constants available in the documentation window by selecting dictionary, then constants off the menu. Uh, ok, but I don't see constants in the list. I see constant, but not constatnts. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God

Re: Creating MySQL Databases

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Here's what I do (extract) to create MySQL databases from within runrev. Send the commands to a text file, then execute the MySQL client using the text file as a command script: on CreateDatabase local strFileName, myError -- CreateDatabase asks for a name for the temporary output fil

red background

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Robinson
Why does the background of some text fields turn red? (and no the background color is not red) thanks mike ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Characters in names

2005-03-20 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 12:44 AM + 3/21/05, Graham Samuel wrote: I can't find a list in the RR docs of legal characters for variable names. Obviously letters of the alphabet (at least the ascii version) and the numerals are OK, plus hyphen and underscore - but what else? Clearly no character used as an operator,

Re: Location of the insertion point in a field

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
> From the docs (search Topics) > Hmm. When I type "inse" I get the "No entries match your filter criteria" (that's as far as I get toward typing "insertion point" Thanks for the tip, though. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. O

Re: Search Rev docs "at the speed of thought" Bad Language alert!

2005-03-20 Thread Pat Trendler
Just looked at your new screenshot - absolutely bleeding fabulous! All manual style ebooks should have a search function like this. It just gets better and better. Could we be able to select and copy please? Pat And the new version - available during the next days - can be placed either into the m

Re: Who do I have to pay?

2005-03-20 Thread Howard Bornstein
> > We need some image manipulation externals. I'll talk to Chris and see > if he can whip something up. > > If you have any specific requests, let me know. > Brightness and contrast would be nice. -- Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com _

Re: Creating MySQL Databases

2005-03-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm just starting a project using MySQL for the first time. Having looked at the Rev 2.5.1 documentation, I'm happy enough that I can access and update MySQL databases as required. However, what I can't see is how I can create and carry out basic administration of NEW databases. Hi Peter, He

Re: Can a Revolution standalone application save data?

2005-03-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
You can save information in a standalone to a substack of the standalone, just not to the mainstack. For example, you could make make your opening splash screen your main stack, and have any number of substacks affiliated with that main stack. This is how you save information without writing it

Re: Characters in names

2005-03-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/20/05 6:59 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Samuel wrote: > >> I can't find a list in the RR docs of legal characters for variable >> names. Obviously letters of the alphabet (at least the ascii version) >> and the numerals are OK, plus hyphen and underscore - but what

Re: Location of the insertion point in a field

2005-03-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Mikey, Check out the selectedChunk function. Mikey wrote: Well, I tried searching the docs. How do I figure out where the cursor (insertion point) is in a field? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailm

Re: Characters in names

2005-03-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Graham Samuel wrote: > I can't find a list in the RR docs of legal characters for variable > names. Obviously letters of the alphabet (at least the ascii version) > and the numerals are OK, plus hyphen and underscore - but what else? > Clearly no character used as an operator, like \ or

Re: Location of the insertion point in a field

2005-03-20 Thread Pat Trendler
Mikey, From the docs (search Topics) How do I find out where the insertion point is? You use the selectedChunk function to find out the location of the insertion point. When there is an insertion point but no text is selected, the selectedChunk function returns an expression of the form char nex

Re: Opening Sockets on localhost

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
Also, socket behavior is generally well-understood and well-explained elsewhere on the net. Don't forget, if your're using a packet sniffer and examining the traffic you're sending to yourself you won't see anything on Windows. That's because on Windows if the traffic doesn't hit the NIC the snif

Location of the insertion point in a field

2005-03-20 Thread Mikey
Well, I tried searching the docs. How do I figure out where the cursor (insertion point) is in a field? -- 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 a little diving. A

Re: Characters in names

2005-03-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
Graham Samuel wrote: I can't find a list in the RR docs of legal characters for variable names. Obviously letters of the alphabet (at least the ascii version) and the numerals are OK, plus hyphen and underscore - but what else? Clearly no character used as an operator, like \ or +, can be leg

Characters in names

2005-03-20 Thread Graham Samuel
I can't find a list in the RR docs of legal characters for variable names. Obviously letters of the alphabet (at least the ascii version) and the numerals are OK, plus hyphen and underscore - but what else? Clearly no character used as an operator, like \ or +, can be legal, but maybe some

Re: Creating MySQL Databases

2005-03-20 Thread Peter Reid
Peter, I recommend that you check your SQL database documentation for there are SQL function for creating databases and stuff like that. phpMyAdmin does nothing but serve as front-end for the MySQL system, all it does is to pipe commands to the server. I'll sum some URLs below that point to goo

Re: Creating MySQL Databases

2005-03-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Peter, I recommend that you check your SQL database documentation for there are SQL function for creating databases and stuff like that. phpMyAdmin does nothing but serve as front-end for the MySQL system, all it does is to pipe commands to the server. I'll sum some URLs below that point to goo

Re: Search Rev docs "at the speed of thought"

2005-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jonathan Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Wilhelm, Looks like an impressively useful stack, but it doesn't quite work as described, for me. I get the results displayed in the field on the right. However,clicking on a file link produces nothing in the left field (except the

Re: Stack saving clarification

2005-03-20 Thread Thomas McGrath III
LOL That list is perfect. Maybe now we can answer questions via the numbers. "6" Tom On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Len- Sunday, March 20, 2005, 5:32:13 AM, you wrote: LM> WOW! I sent the first e-mail with this question and at the same time LM> the digest version came in WITH A

Re: Stack saving clarification

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Len- Sunday, March 20, 2005, 5:32:13 AM, you wrote: LM> WOW! I sent the first e-mail with this question and at the same time LM> the digest version came in WITH AN ANSWER BEFORE I THOUGHT OF THE LM> QUESTION! How great is that?! You not only provide answers, you LM> anticipate my questions be

Buttons, Fields & Columns

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Mandaville
Sarah, This was extremely helpful. I followed your instructions and it worked just great. BTW, you were the one who was so kind to give me your opinion on Revolution which convinced me to move forward!I had to figure out that you used Radio Buttons and then put them into a group, but then g

Re: Opening Sockets on localhost

2005-03-20 Thread Till Bandi
so Dan, don't forget, that is one of the subjects we are waiting for good explanations from someone that can well explain (and some of us - I think - even already paid for it?) ;-) Till Am 16.03.2005 um 12:13 schrieb Alex Tweedly: Dan Shafer wrote: Alex. I got it. IOW, opening a socket does

Part border on image

2005-03-20 Thread Beat Cornaz
I use images (in a rectangle form) as sliders to get a minimum and maximum value. I want to get a border at the bottom of the image (or at the top). I use images because of the blend property. The 3D border won't do, as it is bottom and right side. Of course I can introduce a separate line obj

Creating MySQL Databases

2005-03-20 Thread Peter Reid
I'm just starting a project using MySQL for the first time. Having looked at the Rev 2.5.1 documentation, I'm happy enough that I can access and update MySQL databases as required. However, what I can't see is how I can create and carry out basic administration of NEW databases. My project i

Re: How do I turn off autostart?

2005-03-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/20/05 10:15 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> It seems that when ever I load a stack into the IDE to work on it, it >> runs the preOpenStack handler but I would like to turn off that feature >> while I'm developing (so I don't accidently code an in

Re: How do I turn off autostart?

2005-03-20 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >It seems that when ever I load a stack into the IDE to work on it, it >runs the preOpenStack handler but I would like to turn off that feature >while I'm developing (so I don't accidently code an infinite loop in the >handler). It would be ok if going from edit to run had

Re: [ANN] #011 How-To stack: Managing user waiting

2005-03-20 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi Alejandro, Le 20 mars 05, à 14:38, Alejandro Tejada a écrit : Hi Eric, You are creating a great series of small "How-To" for this development platform.!!! This is a great service for beginners and a nice organized reference for experienced developers. A welcome addition would be to include ref

Re: How do I turn off autostart?

2005-03-20 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Len, It seems that when ever I load a stack into the IDE to work on it, it runs the preOpenStack handler but I would like to turn off that feature while I'm developing (so I don't accidently code an infinite loop in the handler). It would be ok if going from edit to run had this behavior.

Re: How do I turn off autostart?

2005-03-20 Thread T. R. Ponn
Len, This should do it: on preOpenStack if the environment<>"development" then -- do the stuff here that's getting you in trouble when you're in the IDE else -- do stuff here that's "safe" for IDE or standalone end if end preOpenStack Best Regards, Tim Ponn Len Morgan wrote: It seems

Re: Can a Revolution standalone application save data?

2005-03-20 Thread T. R. Ponn
Steve, I would save it to a text or binary file upon quitting. Then either automatically open it during startup (ie cfg file)...or provide the user with a "open file" scheme in your app. You can tamper-proof (to a good degree) by building an encode/decode function with a checksum. All fairly

RE: Stack saving clarification

2005-03-20 Thread Len Morgan
WOW! I sent the first e-mail with this question and at the same time the digest version came in WITH AN ANSWER BEFORE I THOUGHT OF THE QUESTION! How great is that?! You not only provide answers, you anticipate my questions before I do Len Morgan ___

Stack saving clarification

2005-03-20 Thread Len Morgan
I read somewhere here in the last couple of weeks that if you use a card in a stack for preferences or something like that, you can't have that stack INSIDE of a standalone? Is that true? If that is so, why would I want to use cards/stacks to hold information that is subject to change? What

How do I turn off autostart?

2005-03-20 Thread Len Morgan
It seems that when ever I load a stack into the IDE to work on it, it runs the preOpenStack handler but I would like to turn off that feature while I'm developing (so I don't accidently code an infinite loop in the handler). It would be ok if going from edit to run had this behavior. Is there

Unix engines

2005-03-20 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi Everyone, There have been some questions about when we update the Unix engines. Most of our Unix users tend to upgrade more slowly, running server systems or other mission-critical installations. Its quite common for there to be a multi-year gap for these users in deciding to upgrade. The OS

Re: Can a Revolution standalone application save data?

2005-03-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/19/05 7:17 PM, "Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can save information in a standalone to a substack of the > standalone, just not to the mainstack. For example, you could make > make your opening splash screen your main stack, and have any number > of substacks affiliated wit