Re: Sorting Multiple Fields

2005-05-01 Thread Roger Guay
What a twit I am! I didn't even think of using 1 field with tabstops or that you could sort by word or items in a field. You guys are great!! Thanks to all that responded., I now have a lot of good ideas to consider. Cheers, Roger On May 1, 2005, at 12:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Roger Guay
Been using it for 2 days . . . no problems yet. And, I love it! On May 1, 2005, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 08:24:50 -0500 From: Burrton Wodruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anyone using Tiger Yet? To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL

Cannot get Rev to answer from Applescript app

2005-05-01 Thread Jim Ault
Hello from sunny Las Vegas, I have a script the runs from BBEdit, Script Editor, and also the OSX menu bar that used to work fine... tell application "Revolution221" do script "testt" end tell and now with Rev 2.5.1 nothing I try works... tell application "Revolution" do script "testt" end

Re: about Rev XML libs and XSLT files...

2005-05-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm wondering where you would need this, since most browsers to the job already as a matter of course... Sivakatirswami On Apr 30, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, trying not to reinvent the wheel here, can RevXML library transform a given XML using a XSLT file or I'll have to wri

Re: Split screen output for Presentations

2005-05-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Oops I think I actually forgot to ask my question: How do you do this in Revolution: Keynote can output one window to the channel that goes out to the projector -- > video port. i.e. it shows on the screen. and the second window is locked onto the personal PC's LCD screen, where the latter wind

Re: window in a window

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Hartley wrote: > I have an app that has a toolbar that does things to a window > (an independent rev file). However, I want to embed this > independent window into one stack and then save it back out. > > EG. Imagine a word processor like MS word without an open document. > You have a blank win

Re: Split screen output for Presentations

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dan, I agree especially since we are talking about Director and not so much about Flash. A sidegrade targeted to the "making a standalone application" side versus the "making an animation" side which can and will be taken up by Flash. The high selling point is that the move over does away with t

Re: revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Shafer
revGoURL is now working. NO idea why it broke, but now it's fine. Go figure. On May 1, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: OK, then it must be something here. Thanks for the reality check. I had a TERRIBLE time with the upgrade (mostly my fault) so I probably clobbered some

Re: revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: OK, then it must be something here. Thanks for the reality check. I had a TERRIBLE time with the upgrade (mostly my fault) so I probably clobbered some vital setting. Your initial reaction is completely understandable given Apple's history with such things. Remember GURLGURL?

Re: revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Shafer
OK, then it must be something here. Thanks for the reality check. I had a TERRIBLE time with the upgrade (mostly my fault) so I probably clobbered some vital setting. On May 1, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Hi Dan, No problems for me. I am running Rev 2.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.4 (upgrade in

Re: QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Pierre- Sunday, May 1, 2005, 12:52:17 PM, you wrote: PS> QT7 Pro woks there on both Panther and Tiger without any troubles, PS> Rev's Player features included. Apparently there are reports of crashes and incompatibilities with firewire devices. 10.3.9 only. YMMV. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Selecting a Variable name by Script

2005-05-01 Thread Dennis Brown
Alex, Thanks, I can make that work. Dennis On May 1, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dennis Brown wrote: I have been trying to get the example in the Rev documentation to work in my script: global gVariable1 on test put 1 into x put 50 into ("gVariable"&x) end test it won't "Apply". It

Re: Selecting a Variable name by Script

2005-05-01 Thread Dennis Brown
Mark, I can't, because the array variables I want to save are already multi-dimensional keyed arrays. Otherwise I would save them as custom properties somewhere. Dennis On May 1, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On May 1, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: global gVariable1 on test pu

Re: Selecting a Variable name by Script

2005-05-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dennis Brown wrote: I have been trying to get the example in the Rev documentation to work in my script: global gVariable1 on test put 1 into x put 50 into ("gVariable"&x) end test it won't "Apply". It gives me a bad destination error. it works fine with things like field names, but not varia

Re: window in a window

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Talluto
On May 1, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Bob Hartley wrote: Apart from that, there is the problem of the window focus. if the edit stack is clicked upon it would hide the other window behind it. would using the systemWindow command work? You could set the style of the document stack to: palette Mark Talluto

Re: Selecting a Variable name by Script

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Talluto
On May 1, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: global gVariable1 on test put 1 into x put 50 into ("gVariable"&x) end test How about: put 1 into x put 50 into gVariable[x] Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolu

Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Terry Judd
From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2 May 2005 8:47:13 AM To: Use Revolution List Subject: Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or... Reply-To: How to use Revolution Well... it can; what I'm trying to simulate is the "customize toolbar" sheet that drops down from a toolbar.

Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Talluto
On May 1, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Ken Ray wrote: (a) Prevent someone from dragging a window that is a toplevel window (without a "snapback" solution of resetting the window after the drag is complete); or Here is a crazy idea. Could you draw a stack over the drag bar when needed? Something like this

Selecting a Variable name by Script

2005-05-01 Thread Dennis Brown
I have been trying to get the example in the Rev documentation to work in my script: global gVariable1 on test put 1 into x put 50 into ("gVariable"&x) end test it won't "Apply". It gives me a bad destination error. it works fine with things like field names, but not variables. I have 10 butt

Re: revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

2005-05-01 Thread Todd Higgins
Hi Dan, No problems for me. I am running Rev 2.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.4 (upgrade install from 10.3.9) Todd On May 1, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: It may be peculiar to my setup, but can someone try revGoURL in Tiger and report back? I can't get it to work. Nothing happens at all. ~~

revGoURL Not Working in Tiger?

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Shafer
It may be peculiar to my setup, but can someone try revGoURL in Tiger and report back? I can't get it to work. Nothing happens at all. ~~ Dan Shafer, Co-Chair RevConWest '05 June 17-18, 2005, Monterey, California http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit/RevConWe

Re: Split screen output for Presentations

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Shafer
Maybe RR should consider a generous and widely publicized "sidegrade" deal for current owners of Director who are nervous. I've seen such campaigns pull in huge sales. On May 1, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Especially since a lot of people use Director/Flash for software devel

Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/1/05 4:50 PM, "Jan Schenkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks, Xavier, but the problem is that it doesn't >> work... remember this is >> for OS X, where the moveWindow message is only sent >> when you are done >> moving, not *while* you're moving (like it is in >> Windows). >> >> Any oth

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 1, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > > > Ah yes, but then I have to check the result myself > to > > throw an error, and that's what I wanted to avoid > ;-) > > My earlier suggestion is backwards-compatible but > > allows people who like t

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Dar Scott
On May 1, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Ah yes, but then I have to check the result myself to throw an error, and that's what I wanted to avoid ;-) My earlier suggestion is backwards-compatible but allows people who like try-throw-catch, to structure their code in a more readable way. But y

Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/1/05 3:16 AM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Ken > > > > you need to implement a movewindow frontscript in > a plugin stack that > > filters the windows to prevent or pass the > message. > > > > local blockedlist > > on movewindow >

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 1, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > > > I personally prefer the try-throw-catch trinity, > as it > > makes for cleaner code than indented if-then-else > > structures. > > If a library errors comes in only the result, then > you can do th

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Dar Scott
On May 1, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: I personally prefer the try-throw-catch trinity, as it makes for cleaner code than indented if-then-else structures. If a library errors comes in only the result, then you can do this: moveRobot robotName, plan get the result it it is not emp

Re: Split screen output for Presentations

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Sivakatirswami, Yes Keynote can split the output but only during full screen mode. There is a preference under Preferences/ Presenter Display that has a check box for "Use alternate display to view presenter information" with some neat options for a timer/clock etc.. You can also preview what

window in a window

2005-05-01 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I have an app that has a toolbar that does things to a window (an independent rev file). However, I want to embed this independent window into one stack and then save it back out. EG. Imagine a word processor like MS word without an open document. You have a blank window and a toolbar

Re: QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller

2005-05-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
QT7 Pro woks there on both Panther and Tiger without any troubles, Rev's Player features included. Le 1 mai 05, à 19:13, Mark Wieder a écrit : All- Apple has posted the QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller, which will uninstall QT7 from OSX 10.3.9 systems and reinstall the previous version. http://www.ap

Re: Rev & OOP

2005-05-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Rob, Le 1 mai 05, à 17:11, Rob Cozens a écrit : But when a programmer says, "Your programming platform isn't worth evaluating because it does not support [the latest concept] as taught at universities.", that gives me a strong indication the person doesn't know what he is talking about or isn't

Re: OT: SQL Expert Needed

2005-05-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
The employer might get a better deal and more offers if the programmer doesn't have to travel to Worchester, Wooster, wherever. At 11:19 AM -0400 5/1/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hello Rever's, OT: A friend of mine is looking for an MS SQL 'expert' that is willing to travel to Wooster, Ohio for

Re: Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Just installed for testing on an old IBook G3 800. Will let you know how it works with Rev 2.5.1 and PostgreSQL as soon as possible. Le 1 mai 05, à 15:24, Burrton Wodruff a écrit : Hi Folk, Anyone using Tiger with Rev yet? Any problems? Burt Woodruff RippleSoft ___

RE: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread MisterX
If there's no OSX solution, then you need to simulate a windowdrag... Hide the window's title bar and drag the window using mousedown like i posted not long ago... I'll try to release the MagicMG soon - it's "script ready" but there little gui for it still - I'll try... It has the fully featured

Re: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/1/05 3:16 AM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ken > > you need to implement a movewindow frontscript in a plugin stack that > filters the windows to prevent or pass the message. > > local blockedlist > on movewindow > if blockedlist is empty then updateblockedlist > if the def

DVD Decoder

2005-05-01 Thread Derek Bump
Is anyone aware of any add-ins for QuickTime (Windows) that will allow one to use QuickTime to show DVDs? I love the DVD player on Mac OS X and I can't stand the ones on Windows and I'd like to make a free custom DVD player using QuickTime and Revolution. Thanks! Derek Bump Dreamscape Software

Re: Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Eppich
Hi Burton, Rev 2.5.1 on Mac OS 10.4 working nicely here, no problems, glitches. Tiger feels slightly faster than Panther, but this might be because I used 'Archive and install' to get new clean system. Rob On May 1, 2005, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Mes

Split screen output for Presentations

2005-05-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Apple's new Keynote has an interesting new feature: It can make 2 separate windows! Wow! (grin) Ok, yes, REv can do that and a lot more though Rev's Graphic options are still a bit stone age compared to what iWorks offers now. [aside: humbly suggest that for Rev to move forward, that the back end

QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Apple has posted the QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller, which will uninstall QT7 from OSX 10.3.9 systems and reinstall the previous version. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652reinstallerformac.html -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Dar Scott
On May 1, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: I personally prefer the try-throw-catch trinity, as it makes for cleaner code than indented if-then-else structures. If this a switched by the user, then maybe something like this would work for a script library: The error mode of a stack library ca

Re: Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Bur, On May 1, 2005, at 08:24, Burrton Wodruff wrote: Hi Folk, Anyone using Tiger with Rev yet? Any problems? I haven't had any problems so far; however, Lars Brehmer just sent me screen shots of a very interesting issue he has seen with one of his applications running under Tiger. It

Re: Noob alert: front/back scripts

2005-05-01 Thread docmann
Thank you Richard, much appreciated! (I knew I had run across it somewhere, but couldn't remember where.) -Doc- On 5/1/05, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > docmann wrote: > > Hello all, > > Is there a clear example stack somewhere -or- can someone out there > > that can clairify exactl

Re: Rev & OOP

2005-05-01 Thread Rob Cozens
At 08:11 AM 5/1/2005, I wrote: I would be VERY leary of anyone who responds to a real-world situation with a classroom response. Likewise a military response. :{`) Rob ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.

OT: SQL Expert Needed

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello Rever's, OT: A friend of mine is looking for an MS SQL 'expert' that is willing to travel to Wooster, Ohio for a week to ten days to add/modify to a query system that is already in place. The front end is an open tool Dashboard. He is willing to pick up travel/hotel/rental car costs for t

Re: Rev & OOP

2005-05-01 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Dan, So I would agree that the programmer who rejected Revolution out of hand without digging more deeply into the advantages it offers and shares with OO environments was hasty and ill-advised (and probably, as you say, more interested in eliminating alternatives than in finding the correct

Re: Noob alert: front/back scripts

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
docmann wrote: Hello all, Is there a clear example stack somewhere -or- can someone out there that can clairify exactly what front & back scripts are? I see these terms used quite often on the list and want to make sure I (and other noobs) have a complete understanding... Extending the Runtime Rev

Noob alert: front/back scripts

2005-05-01 Thread docmann
Hello all, Is there a clear example stack somewhere -or- can someone out there that can clairify exactly what front & back scripts are? I see these terms used quite often on the list and want to make sure I (and other noobs) have a complete understanding... Thx, -Doc-

Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Burrton Wodruff
Hi Folk, Anyone using Tiger with Rev yet? Any problems? Burt Woodruff RippleSoft ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

windowShape in Tiger (again)

2005-05-01 Thread Lars Brehmer
Hi Gordy! Has anyone installed Tiger and looked at a revStack or standalone that uses a windowShape other than rectangular? one of my main Rev projects has three stacks with a shape that is basically rectangular with a small, round protrusion on the bottom (and slightly rounded corners). Both in

my email

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Haider
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Re: about Rev XML libs and XSLT files...

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > trying not to reinvent the wheel here, can RevXML > library transform a > given XML using a XSLT file or I'll have to write > code for that (or > maybe shell to some tool who can..) > > cheers > andre > Hi Andre, At some point I was

Re: Draw over existing objects

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > I'm creating a custom report layout editor to be > included with a commercial > software product, and would like to be able to > scroll larger report > layouts rather than splitting them into separate > windows. I am now > reali

Re: throw vs the result

2005-05-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what people prefer as far as "fatal" > errors in > executing a custom command, such as in a library. > > Should that be in a non-empty value returned by > result()? > > Or should that cause some error message to the > thrown? > > Or doe

Re: saving settings

2005-05-01 Thread FlexibleLearning
Paul, Without seeing your handler, it's hard to identify what you are doing exactly, but have you declared the globals? on saveSettings tFolderName global gData1,gData2,gData3,gData4,gData5 get quote&gData1"e&comma&\ quote&gData2"e&comma&\ quote&gData3"e&comma&\ quote&gData4"e&comma&\ quote&

RE: Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread MisterX
Hi Ken you need to implement a movewindow frontscript in a plugin stack that filters the windows to prevent or pass the message. local blockedlist on movewindow if blockedlist is empty then updateblockedlist if the defaultstack is not in blockedlist then pass movewindow end movewindow Cool

Prevent someone from dragging a toplevel window, or...

2005-05-01 Thread Ken Ray
Does anyone know of a way to either: (a) Prevent someone from dragging a window that is a toplevel window (without a "snapback" solution of resetting the window after the drag is complete); or (b) Move one stack smoothly at the same time as another stack is being dragged by its titlebar? This is

Re: Scripting conference transcript

2005-05-01 Thread Dom
J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you weren't there, you missed the tee shirt. :) Too bad -- i figured out that it was at 3:30 am (or 5:30 with daylight savings ;->) Too accustomed to the "military time" as you US people say ;-) Anyway, it was the very first hot day in Spring here,