Re: Several Text issues

2005-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: If the subject ever does come up again, I vote for Message Board. This is the 21st century -- isn't there listserver software that also provides a Web interface? This was already set up some time ago, thanks to Ben Rubinstein:

Re: Sending Objects to other Objects in different stacks?

2005-04-23 Thread Bob Hartley
At 23:44 22/04/2005, you wrote: Hi, Hi DAve Is it possible to send an object to another object? What if the object that is being sent to is on a different stack? I'd like to be able to do something like this: send AddMenu button xyz to Group MainMenu Here is a script I use for exactly that

Re: Some advice about Dreamcard player

2005-04-23 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/22/05 8:23 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: I have had no experience with the Player. Does it run just Dreamcard stacks or any Run Rev stack? There are some glitches to be aware of, but I don't use player enough to know what they all are. The main thing people complain about is

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 19, Issue 84

2005-04-23 Thread David Glasgow
Well, there you go folks. Rev at its best and worst - (too many ways to do the same thing), and this list at its best. Many thanks Cubist and Wouter. Slightly embarrassed now at how pleased I was to use 'case' instead of a mess of 'if thens' in my original script. I haven't tested

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Tom, Once the mouse is down, the engine stops sending any message until the mouse is up. Then some retroactive messages are sent (as mouseleave). You can check this in the message watcher (where mouseStillDown is not shown). So, the only way I see to do that would be using a pending message

Re: Rev as server immune to buffer overflow?

2005-04-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 23 avr. 05, à 01:16, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Pierre Sahores wrote: Hello Richard, If you avoid the use of GET calls to access from a client app to your rev sockets driven server = if you only use POST procs, the server will never wake up if he recieve a request witch is not listed in its

Re: Initial Caps in Table Fields

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dan, Macintosh PowerBook G-4 OSX 10.3.9, OS 9.2.2, 1.25 GHz, 512MB RAM, Rev 2.5.1 Was the word Left initial capped when you opened it? It was here. But, When I copy the table field to another stack and type into that first square the problem goes away. meaning if I type with lower case it

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thanks Eric, So my trapping the mouseDown message will break what I want to do while the mouse is down?!! BUT when you mouseDown on a menu and then with it still down you nav down to a sub menu it seems to still highlight text items. And the same works in paint tools where you mouseDown a tool

Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Glen Bojsza
I would like to limit the number of characters a user can input on any line in a scrolling field. In the field script on keydown theKey if theKey is not in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - . then beep exit keydown else if (the length of me) 4 then beep exit keydown end if

alt mouseDown

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello all, Does anyone know of an alternative to the mouseDown? Or of a way to exit the mouseDown even though the user is still holding the mouse down? Or of a way to keep the highlight feature but force rev to ignore or trap a mouseDown? Thanks Revers, Tom Thomas J. McGrath III SCS 1000

Re: Recovery of a corrupted stack

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, If you need to save the scripts then try this: With a fresh load of RunRev (making sure there are no Stacks in memory), open the message box and type: answer file Which Stack?;edit script script of stack it. This will prompt you for a file, select the Stack in question. Which will open the

Re: Recovery of a corrupted stack

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, If you need to save the scripts then try this: With a fresh load of RunRev (making sure there are no Stacks in memory), open the message box and type: answer file Which Stack?;edit script script of stack it. This will prompt you for a file, select the Stack in question. Which will open the

Re: Recovery of a corrupted stack

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Opps! Typeo, that should be: open the message box and type: answer file Which Stack?;edit script of stack it. All the Best Dave Hi, If you need to save the scripts then try this: With a fresh load of RunRev (making sure there are no Stacks in memory), open the message box and type: answer file

Re: Several Text issues

2005-04-23 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Michael and Dan, Am 23.04.2005 um 00:24 schrieb Dan Shafer: On Apr 22, 2005, at 10:42 AM, michael parent wrote: ,,, 3. The revgourl seems to open the file, I don't want to open the file, I want to open the Explorer Window to that file location so then the user has access to the file to attach

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Tom, Menus are handled by the engine and unfortunately are not transcript statements :-( or :-) Something like that (non tested) in the card script: on mouseDown if button is in the target then CheckOtherButtons -- end if end mouseDown --- on

Getting Handler Name?

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Is it possible to get the name of the current Function or Handler? I'd like to be able to say: answer name of this function or name of this handler Is this possible? Thanks Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Getting Handler Name?

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, Check the params function. Best regards from Paris, Le 23 avr. 05, à 14:08, David Burgun a écrit : Hi, Is it possible to get the name of the current Function or Handler? I'd like to be able to say: answer name of this function or name of this handler Is this possible? Amicalement, Eric

Re: Getting Handler Name?

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Thanks Eric. I looked up Handler in the Rev Dictionary and nada! Cheers Dave Hi Dave, Check the params function. Best regards from Paris, Le 23 avr. 05, à 14:08, David Burgun a écrit : Hi, Is it possible to get the name of the current Function or Handler? I'd like to be able to say: answer name

How do I get the menubar to change?

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a menubar that I have changed dynamically, however, it doesn't display as the main menu unless I save the stack first? I have tried setting the menubar property, showing the menu bar and hiding and then showing the menubar! How do I get it to refresh with the current menubar object?

mouseDown in menu bar

2005-04-23 Thread Frank Leahy
I have a mouseDown handler in the menubar object in each stack. I just noticed that the menubar's mouseDown handler was being called on *every* mouseDown anywhere in the stack, not just in the menubar itself. Is that correct? Is the menubar always in the message hierarchy? -- Frank Web

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Pat Trendler
Just another thought, you can use - if the mouse is down for example as in the following (a bit sloppy scripting but it does work OK) on mouseMove if the mouse is down then repeat with i = 1 to 4 if the mouseLoc is within the rect of btn i then set the backgroundcolor of btn i to

Design Advice on Menubar Handling

2005-04-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice on the best way to acheive the following: I have a MainMenu Stack which the default menu for the app. When the App first starts up it and no Stacks are open. The Deisgn I have followed is that each Stack is in fact a main stack in it's

PPP--Peculiar Printing Problem

2005-04-23 Thread Jim Hurley
I am trying to print labels. I have set up 20 fields, one for each label (1x4) When printed they should just about cover an 8.5'x11 sheet. Standard Avery 5161 labels. I have included them in a scrolling group. If the stack size is sufficient to view the whole group, the print is fine--shows

Re: Design Advice on Menubar Handling

2005-04-23 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Dave, if there are no other open active stacks then the MainMenu will need a default menubar. This is not a problem initially. The problem comes when I call StackX in response to (say) a Open command and then StackX wants to use one of the Menu Button already being used by MainMenu, which

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Eric, I tried your script for a while and it will need a bit more work to work for me. Thank you though. As far as the 'good ergonomics' , what I am trying to do in Rev works in our Director project and also works in our pda prototype. You see, on a PDA you don't have a mouseHover type of

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Pat, Thanks, this is one of the ways I have been trying. Two things are wrong: 1. If the mouse is down then messages are still sent to the original control that took the mouseDown and it tries to highlight 2. This only highlights the button or sets the color to blue when moved within it but

Re: Getting Handler Name?

2005-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Burgun wrote: I looked up Handler in the Rev Dictionary and nada! That's understandable, as I don't think handler is a keyword. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev

Re: mouseDown in menu bar

2005-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank Leahy wrote: I have a mouseDown handler in the menubar object in each stack. I just noticed that the menubar's mouseDown handler was being called on *every* mouseDown anywhere in the stack, not just in the menubar itself. Is that correct? Is the menubar always in the message hierarchy?

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Tom, I did not know you were working on a PDA interface: So, I apologize :-) The problem is very different indeed. I take the opportunity to say that Pat's solution seems a better approach since mousemove is an IDE pending message. If you want the button hilited when the mouse is down and the

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Eric, Thanks, Yeah I didn't specify the PDA simulation aspect before. No apology is needed of course. I appreciate the advice always. So here is what I have so far (adapted to my needs of course). AND it works. Sort of. The problem is still two fold: 1. If I release the mouse over another

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Tom, Could not you send the mouseUp message by yourself? ;-) Simplified here: on CheckOtherButtons repeat with i = 1 to the number of btns if the mouse is down then set the hilite of btn i to the mouseLoc is within the rect of btn i else if the mouseLoc is within the rect of

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hey Eric and others, HELP, I am so damn close. With the adjusted script below I can pretend to trap a mouseUp even though the actual mouseUp handler in my script doesn't receive it. (This is because of the mouseDown issue bug, sort of, at least to me it is!). Any way the check if the mouse is

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Eric, I just posted another response before I saw this one. In the other the mouse up is faked a little bit. Tom On Apr 23, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Tom, Could not you send the mouseUp message by yourself? ;-) Simplified here: on CheckOtherButtons repeat with i = 1 to the

Re: Some advice about Dreamcard player

2005-04-23 Thread Judy Perry
;-) On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mark Wieder wrote: Judy- Friday, April 22, 2005, 9:59:41 AM, you wrote: JP All I personally know about the player is that it crashes our OS 9 Macs in JP the lab whenever it is accidentally launched. There's a valuable lesson to be learned here - always launch the

Re: Several Text issues

2005-04-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: If the subject ever does come up again, I vote for Message Board. This is the 21st century -- isn't there listserver software that also provides a Web interface? This was already set up some time ago, thanks to Ben Rubinstein:

Re: CSS

2005-04-23 Thread Dan Shafer
Thanks. That's always been my perception of my forte: I try to explain difficult concepts and techniques in simple terms. I'm doing the same thing with my new career as a spiritual teacher/writer. Dan On Apr 22, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: You probably get panned by wizards for

Re: Initial Caps in Table Fields

2005-04-23 Thread Dan Shafer
No, the initial letter in the first cell was not capped when I opened it. Dan On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Dan, Macintosh PowerBook G-4 OSX 10.3.9, OS 9.2.2, 1.25 GHz, 512MB RAM, Rev 2.5.1 Was the word Left initial capped when you opened it? It was here. But, When I

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to limit the number of characters a user can input on any line in a scrolling field. In the field script on keydown theKey if theKey is not in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - . then beep exit keydown else if (the length of me) 4 then beep exit

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, this is one of the ways I have been trying. Two things are wrong: 1. If the mouse is down then messages are still sent to the original control that took the mouseDown and it tries to highlight 2. This only highlights the button or sets the color to blue when moved

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Glen, One liner handler in the script of your field (if you please) : on keyDown pKey if (pKey is an integer) and (the number of chars of the selectedLine 5) then pass keyDown end keyDown Best regards from Paris, PS. My ears don't like beep ;-) Le 23 avr. 05, à 12:50, Glen Bojsza a écrit :

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: send CheckMe to me in 10 milliseconds Or send Checkme to me in -10 seconds Without the time-travel external, that queues it up to execute right after the current goings-on, but after really high priority stuff that was queued for

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hey Eric and others, HELP, I am so damn close. With the adjusted script below I can pretend to trap a mouseUp even though the actual mouseUp handler in my script doesn't receive it. (This is because of the mouseDown issue bug, sort of, at least to me it is!). Any way

Re: RunRev and Cookies

2005-04-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Apr 23 2005, at 03:25, Björnke von Gierke wrote: I want to make a standalone app with rev that replaces a web page. Ideally nothing on the server side should be changed, thus I would need to accept, store and send a cookie. Anyone done this before and able to shed some light on this? I

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 23, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: on keyDown pKey if (pKey is an integer) and (the number of chars of the selectedLine 5) then pass keyDown end keyDown Will this let in the occasional accented character? Dar -- ** DSC (Dar Scott

Re: Initial Caps in Table Fields

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Now that's weird. I copied the table field to another stack and back again and now it acts normally. I just don't know. Thanks for looking at it though. Tom On Apr 23, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: No, the initial letter in the first cell was not capped when I opened it. Dan Thomas J.

Re: mouseDown and within

2005-04-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Alex, Thanks for responding. I spent all day trying things out but now I need a break. I am going out to eat and tonight or tomorrow I will revisit your code. It looks interesting. So far, I have a hover solution. I also have a mouse down and up while the mouse is down that sends messages to

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Glen Bojsza
This seems to do the trick but now I have to ask... What's an accented character? On 4/23/05, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 23, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: on keyDown pKey if (pKey is an integer) and (the number of chars of the selectedLine 5) then pass

Re: mouseDown in menu bar

2005-04-23 Thread Frank Leahy
Well, that would do it. Yes, the backgroundBehavior is set to true...it must be the default setting as I never changed it. Thanks, -- Frank Web Photos Pro: Software for Photo Bloggers and Other Photo Power Users See us on the web at http://www.webphotospro.com/ On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:00 PM,

Re: Limiting the number of characters per line in a scrolling field?

2005-04-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 23, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: This seems to do the trick but now I have to ask... What's an accented character? I'm thinking of umlaut and such. Maybe I'm using the wrong word. On OS X when I type in option-u u, the key message handlers are bypassed. Maybe that's been fixed?

delete registry do no work

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Salyers
I'mm trying to get a button to delete a registry, but it gives an error: TypeHandler: can't find handler Object Button LinedeleteRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\123\UserName\) HintdeleteRegistry this is my command to save the registry: put HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\123\UserName