Re: RevCon West Tourist Activities

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Friday, April 15, 2005, 6:20:44 AM, you wrote: JH I hate to drive and so will be taking AMTRAK, probably to Salinas. JH Anyone know if there is bus service to Monterey from Salinas? http://www.montereyairbus.com/ -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problen with goto/try statements

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am trying to catch an error situation like so: try goto stack myStack catch myErrorText beep end try But I never get a beep? Is this correct behaviour? If the Stack/File myStack does not exist, surely either an IDE or error should be generated? I can't seem to find a way to check if a

Re: Problen with goto/try statements

2005-04-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
You just do it! if there is a file myStack then... assuming myStack is a valid pathName :-) Le 17 avr. 05, à 13:09, David Burgun a écrit : I can't seem to find a way to check if a file exists? Is there one, cos I could just put an if exists(file myStack) around the goto. Best regards, Eric

Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a Stack that has an error in the preOpenStack or preOpenCard sctipts. However when I try to load the stack and work on it in the IDE. I can't open any of the property inspector on any of the objects and other parts of the IDE hang. So eventually I quit RunRev and then as my stack

Re: Problen with goto/try statements

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Thanks! I found this just as your email came thru: if exists(stack myStack) then so it works now, Thanks again All the Best Dave You just do it! if there is a file myStack then... assuming myStack is a valid pathName :-) Le 17 avr. 05, à 13:09, David Burgun a écrit : I can't seem to find a way to

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Try this in the message box: answer file Where is my weird stack?;lock messages;go stack it Le 17 avr. 05, à 14:07, David Burgun a écrit : I have a Stack that has an error in the preOpenStack or preOpenCard sctipts. However when I try to load the stack and work on it in the IDE. I can't open any

Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Forgot to say that I am running this under MacOS 9.2.2. I now have a Stack that is in a state whereby I can't open the script of any object and if I load it it just hangs until I quit the IDE! Help! Thanks in Advance Dave Hi, I have a Stack that has an error in the preOpenStack or preOpenCard

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Well I tried that and it brought the Stack to the front but nothing else happened and I the only thing I can do is quite the IDE. Before I quit, I had attempted to open the Property Inspector of an object and before the IDE quits this window appears as well as the error window! I'm looking at the

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi David, If locking messages does not change anything, that means probably that your stack is corrupted :-( Don't have you any backup? See my free Backups Picker plugin on my web site or altArchive from Chipp Walters: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolutionl=en

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Ok, I found out how to do it! In the message box select the stacks in use and my stack was at the top. I then selected it and hit the remove button and now I can use the property inspector and edit scritps again! How can I stop this happening? I think that if the error window could just be

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi David, I suspect that you put this stack in use when the stack opens: check your code :-) You have probably a preOpenX, openX handler in the script of this stack. You try to open any property palette (i.e; another stack) and Rev tries to execute your handlers error It is a normal behaviour.

Alternate Editors

2005-04-17 Thread Len Morgan
I seem to remember reading somewhere here that you can use UltraEdit with RR scripts. I downloaded something a couple of days ago that was like a template file for UE (which I also just downloaded) that will highlight Transcript syntax). When I open a stack, I see the warning that it's NOT a

RE: Alternate Editors

2005-04-17 Thread MisterX
are you refering to http://monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=143 ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Morgan Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 15:08 To: Revolution Email List Subject: Alternate Editors I seem

Re: [ANN] altSQLite SHIPS!

2005-04-17 Thread docmann
Wow! altSQLite definitely looks one of those must have tools that I'll be adding to the tool box pretty quickly. ;) Chipp, the tutorial is absolutely first rate! ...I'm getting ready to make the second (or is it the third?) pass through. You don't need to know a thing about database building

Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-17 Thread Bill
I found a perl program called SQL - translator which you can down load from: http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/ It is supposed to help translate MySql to SQLite but it is a PERL program that has to be compiled (which I've never done before on OSX). I was hoping for an easy way to just make a

RE: Alternate Editors

2005-04-17 Thread Len Morgan
Yes, that's the template I saw. If you can't use UltraEdit to edit stack files, it seems kind of pointless to have a template so that's why I'm asking. It looks like at a minimum, I'd have to first create the stack perhaps with no scripts and then I could edit it from there. len From: MisterX

Re: Problen with goto/try statements

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 5:09 AM, David Burgun wrote: try goto stack myStack catch myErrorText beep end try But I never get a beep? Is this correct behaviour? A workaround has been suggested elsewhere. However, I think in general this is a problem. In my simplistic mind, a try-catch should catch

compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

2005-04-17 Thread jbv
Hi there, Has anybody succeeded in using the compress() function on PDF data stream using the FlateDecode filter ? According to both docs (PDF ref and Rev), both compress() and FlateDecode are built around the public domain zlib library, but I didn't manage to include compressed data in a pdf

Re: Problen with goto/try statements

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
On Apr 17, 2005, at 5:09 AM, David Burgun wrote: try goto stack myStack catch myErrorText beep end try But I never get a beep? Is this correct behaviour? A workaround has been suggested elsewhere. However, I think in general this is a problem. In my simplistic mind, a try-catch should catch

Re: Alternate Editors

2005-04-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
Len Morgan wrote: Yes, that's the template I saw. If you can't use UltraEdit to edit stack files, it seems kind of pointless to have a template so that's why I'm asking. It looks like at a minimum, I'd have to first create the stack perhaps with no scripts and then I could edit it from there.

Menubar Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a dummy stack that I use to hold the menubar called MainMenu. All work fine if the MainMenu stack is visible, but if I try to hide it, things start to go very wrong! Does the stack associated with the MenuBar have to be visible? I have this in the preOpenStack handler on

OT: colo space available in San Francisco

2005-04-17 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, I am moving my servers from San Jose to San Francisco, and I've rented a 1/4 cabinet at ColoServe (south of Market). I've got about 4U of space left over. If anyone on this list has a machine or two they'd like to share this space with, please let me know. Regards, -- Frank Leahy Web

Re: Menubar Problem

2005-04-17 Thread David Burgun
All I can say is the way in which RunRev handlles the menu bar on a mac at least is the pits! How anything as fundamental as this can cause sooo much trouble with the IDE is just beyond me! Bye for now Dave Hi, I have a dummy stack that I use to hold the menubar called MainMenu. All work

LZW compression and binaryEncode

2005-04-17 Thread jbv
Hi again, I have an acceptable transcript algorithm for LZW compression. But now I need to convert the output serie of index into binary data... Anyone familiar with this ? I guess I need to use binaryEncode, but how to set up parameters ? Thanks, JB

Re: compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:20 AM, jbv wrote: Has anybody succeeded in using the compress() function on PDF data stream using the FlateDecode filter ? According to both docs (PDF ref and Rev), both compress() and FlateDecode are built around the public domain zlib library, but I didn't manage to

Re: compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

2005-04-17 Thread jbv
Dar, The Revolution compress() creates gzip which has a wrapper around the zlib format. You can dig into the binary and do primitive zlib compression. And decompression IF you know the length of the result. Thanks for the reply. Could you please elaborate a bit on this, especially

Re: LZW compression and binaryEncode

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:38 PM, jbv wrote: But now I need to convert the output serie of index into binary data... Anyone familiar with this ? I guess I need to use binaryEncode, but how to set up parameters ? Normally, we think of a value in Transcript as a sequence of characters. When we work

Lists and Custom Properties

2005-04-17 Thread Kathy Jaqua
Hi Dick, Thank you. I am somewhat new at this myself. I figure out this Custom Prop script last week. This correction does help the script run faster, So you response is of great help to me:) I should do this more often, Kathy Graves Jaqua A Wildest Dream Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] --There's

Re: LZW compression and binaryEncode

2005-04-17 Thread jbv
Dar, Thanks again for the reply, but actually I know most of what you explained, as I've already fiddled with the binaryEncode function (for sound files other data manipulations)... Although, several issues still remain unclear : my serie of output indexes resulting from the LZW compression

RE: Alternate Editors

2005-04-17 Thread MisterX
Len It was just meant for editing scripts where the editor has performance trouble... Also there was a way to use a external editors that I tried... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Morgan Sent: Sunday, April 17,

Re: compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:53 PM, jbv wrote: The Revolution compress() creates gzip which has a wrapper around the zlib format. You can dig into the binary and do primitive zlib compression. And decompression IF you know the length of the result. Thanks for the reply. Could you please elaborate a bit

Re: LZW compression and binaryEncode

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 3:07 PM, jbv wrote: Thanks again for the reply, but actually I know most of what you explained, as I've already fiddled with the binaryEncode function (for sound files other data manipulations)... I apologize, I thought you were asking about binaryEncode and binary

Re: compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

2005-04-17 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 17, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Dar Scott wrote: If those deflate blocks are what you want, then this should do it. If you need zlib, then you need to wrap that. Dar -- ** DSC (Dar Scott Consulting Dar's Lab) http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ A Sponsor

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Eric- Sunday, April 17, 2005, 5:17:08 AM, you wrote: EC answer file Where is my weird stack?;lock messages;go stack it LOL. Can't help being amused by a language that allows go stack it -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Database access from NAT network

2005-04-17 Thread Devin Asay
Hi, I'm having trouble accessing a MySQL database. I'm on OS X 10.3.8 and Rev 2.5/2.5.1. I am not able to access either of my MySQL servers at work from my home network. They are both on MAC OS X servers on publc IP addresses. I can reach them from home via SSH, FTP, AFP, HTTP and others. For

Re: Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-17 Thread Bill
I also found a SQLite manager http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14140 It isn't as good as YourSQL but it is useable which is more than can be said for trying to get the SQL-translator to compile on Mac OSX without having so many errors when you: $ make test On 4/17/05 11:10 AM, Bill

Revolution and .swf

2005-04-17 Thread Yonnys Pablo Martin Olivera
Hello: I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had had experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would like to know if somebody could help on that relationship is between Revolution and the files .swf and if some form exists of linking them. Thank. Yonnys Pablo Martin

Re: Menubar Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have a dummy stack that I use to hold the menubar called MainMenu. All work fine if the MainMenu stack is visible, but if I try to hide it, things start to go very wrong! Does the stack associated with the MenuBar have to be visible? I have this in the preOpenStack handler on preOpenStack

Re: Revolution and .swf

2005-04-17 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Yonnys Pablo Martin Olivera wrote: I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had had experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would like to know if somebody could help on that relationship is between Revolution and the files .swf and if some form exists of linking

Re: Database access from NAT network

2005-04-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Devin, The problem shouldn't be your home router - it only blocks incoming stuff. It is very strange that your connection attempt worked a couple of times. I would suspect either the firewall settings on your OS X server, the firewall settings on the work router (if any) or the privileges

Re: Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-17 Thread Bill
I found a truly excellent SQLite browser/editor better than SQLite manager which is also not public domain like SQLite Browser. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/ But it requires SQLite 3.0 database files and it turns out the version of SQLite installed with altSQLite is SQLite 2.1

Dan Chipp Are Traveling

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Shafer
Just so those of you who are signed up for RevCon West (the LARGEST group of developers ever signed up for such a gathering already...and we have more than two months to go!) or have questions about it won't think Chipp and I have absconded with the funds never to be heard from again (there

Re: Converting mysql to SQLite

2005-04-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Bill wrote: But it requires SQLite 3.0 database files and it turns out the version of SQLite installed with altSQLite is SQLite 2.1 (when you look at the generated database file that is what it says) even though it says on the Altuit web site that the version used is

Re: Revolution and .swf

2005-04-17 Thread Derek Bump
I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had had experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would like to know if somebody could help on that relationship is between Revolution and thefiles.swf and if some form exists of linking them. You should check out the EnhancedQT external.

Re: Very annoying IDE Problem

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi David, If locking messages does not change anything, that means probably that your stack is corrupted :-( With all due respect, probably not. With HyperCard corruption was an ever-present risk, but it's very rare in Rev -- for background see:

RE: Database access from NAT network

2005-04-17 Thread Len Morgan
MySQL uses port 3306 by default so if you don't have that port open on the network you're trying to connect to, you're going to have problems. It's possible that the long delay is a DNS issue. I don't use mySQL myself but lots of programs (ssh, ftp, etc) get really slow if DNS isn't working

Re: Database access from NAT network

2005-04-17 Thread Devin Asay
I realized I neglected to include the error revdb was returning: Revdb Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query. Thanks, Sarah and Len, for your suggestions. I'll check those out. It may be that the university is blocking port 3306. (though that wouldn't explain why I was able to