Re: Lists in Transcript

2005-05-24 Thread Dom
Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: function list local tList repeat with x = 1 to paramcount() put param(x) cr after tList end repeat delete char -1 of tList return tList end list on demoList pPrefix, pList repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in pList

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Ross Hansen
Thank you Jan. I did put the quote as in go stack url http://www.myserver.com/stack/test.rev; and the no such card reply was what i got. any other explanation or help? Thank you very much. Ross hansen Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ross, Have you tried putting quotes around the

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ross, The only explanation is that your path is not quite right :-) Check for uppercase and lowercase: Web urls are case sensitive... Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 24 mai 05 à 09:47, Ross Hansen a écrit : Thank you Jan. I did put the quote as in go stack url http://

Saving stacks

2005-05-24 Thread Lars Brehmer
Hi all! Is there something different in Rev 2.5.1 as far as saving changes to stacks in a standalone? When I made stanalones in 2.1.2, I could always save stacks when a splashscreen is the application. I've seen this countless times in posts and it always worked, but it won't work for

Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Cubist
I've just started to work on a suite of handlers for infinite-precision calculations. The core idea I shall exploit: Break up each calculation into a series of smaller operations which are within the machine's capability, and combine the results into an aggregate result which would otherwise

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread xbury . cs
Very nice! That's the easy part though ;) Divisions is where it gets harder and using arrays may be much more efficient than using strings or numbers... But items could work well too but wouldn't it be slower? cheers Xavier On 24.05.2005 11:02:36 use-revolution-bounces wrote: I've just

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Ross Hansen
hi eric, sorry to bother you again. i've checked all the uppercase and lowercase and all the quotes and the path. But still it returns no such card. any tips? thanks. Ross Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ross, The only explanation is that your path is not quite right :-) Check

Re: Saving stacks

2005-05-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Lars, Hi all! Is there something different in Rev 2.5.1 as far as saving changes to stacks in a standalone? When I made stanalones in 2.1.2, I could always save stacks when a splashscreen is the application. I've seen this countless times in posts and it always worked, but it

Re: convert questions

2005-05-24 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to populate a pulldown menu with choices from the user's font menu. I'm sure there's a one-line command to do this (that's what I love about RR) but I can't find it. Welcome aboard, and there is indeed a one-liner for what you want: put the fontNames into

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ross, Sorry for you too! Try to check another url as this one: go url http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/downloads/Managing% 20Tooltips.rev (copy it, paste it into the message box and press enter) If this one does not work it means an internet connexion issue otherwise, it's a problem with

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Dave Cragg
On 24 May 2005, at 05:45, Ross Hansen wrote: Hello, I am new to revolution and from the discussion archive, i saw that it's possible to run revolution stack on remote server by typing go stack url http://www.myserver.com/stack/test.rev into the message box. that's what i did, but the

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very nice! Thanks! That's the easy part though ;) [nods] Don't I know it! Divisions is where it gets harder... And square roots... and powers... and DIV and MOD... and... I've already come up with an infinite-precision algorithm for multiplication which looks

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread xbury . cs
If you want to tackle multiplications, you should do it via bases... 10 and 2 being the easiest but not the most efficient. Knowing the laws of power series and logs will be of great help as they can tell you what digit goes where... But Rev can't handle the sums so you need an array (or items)

Re: Saving stacks

2005-05-24 Thread Vjstbenz
HI Lars, Listen,i am TOTALLY brand newto REVOLUTION 2.5.1. i too...have downloaded the TRIAL DEMO version of 2.5.1 But lars, the REVOLUTION web site...clearly says...that the DEMO is FULLY FUNCTIONAL.. in other words... the DEMO of REVOLUTION is IDENTICAL to the $400

How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi everyone, I am finishing a plugin that imports web pages as .txt files. So it can search through the files any expression and display the corresponding web page in any browser. Very simple and efficient :-) But I wonder how to retrieve the effective text from framed pages? Any idea?

Re: # POSSIBLY SPAM #::How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread xbury . cs
Hi Eric, Either it's in between frame tags or iframe... Note some frames can be downloaded like frame src=thisfile.html Hope it's what you meant... cheers Xavier On 24.05.2005 13:39:34 use-revolution-bounces wrote: Hi everyone, I am finishing a plugin that imports web pages as .txt files. So

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Xavier, Le 24 mai 05 à 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Eric, Either it's in between frame tags or iframe... Note some frames can be downloaded like frame src=thisfile.html Hope it's what you meant... You are right about some frames that can be dowloaded by parsing the frame

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread xbury . cs
Eric, I wont give you the answer (too easy) but the discrete browser shows you how in terms of resolving links from the downloaded html to the right clickeable url... ;) Im sure you know where to find the discrete browser (now known as DeepCyberSpace under the TAOO agents section... ;)

Re: Lists in Transcript

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Brenstein
Or are you talking about something else? But this is pure work with strings, Robert. Well, I think Revolutioners are used to work with strings. Just for me as C++ developer this looks too overhead. But I see now that Transcript have many special commands to work with strings as with lists.

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/24/05 7:10 AM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right about some frames that can be dowloaded by parsing the frame src tag. But you are not sure to get the whole contents :-( I shall give you an example. The following url: http://www.major-k.de/revstart.html (BTW great

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ken, Your mail confirms without any doubt some steps made in this direction by testing with simple logic. As usual, absolutely clear :-) Many thanks! I have now to write a good function to parse the text and return the list of all found urls ;-) Best regards from Paris, Eric

Running as standalone

2005-05-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
How can you tell if you are running as a standalone vs running in the development environment? Peter T. Evensen http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com 24-hour recorded info hotline: 1-800-624-7671 ___ use-revolution mailing list

Nikon Clicks with Paradigma Software's Valentina

2005-05-24 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Nikon Clicks with Paradigma Software's Valentina ALL NEW DIGITAL CAMERAS SHIP WITH VALENTINA ENABLED PICTURE PROJECT May 24, 2005. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software, Inc, makers of the incredibly fast and robust Valentina 2 database, announce the selection of Valentina as the underlying

Re: Running as standalone

2005-05-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Peter, How can you tell if you are running as a standalone vs running in the development environment? you can check the environment! Will return standalone application if your stack is, well, you guess :-) See the docs for environment. Peter T. Evensen

Re: Running as standalone

2005-05-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I knew it had to be something simple, but sometimes it is just hard to find the simple things! Thanks! At 10:25 AM 5/24/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, How can you tell if you are running as a standalone vs running in the development environment? you can check the environment! Will return

Re: Saving stacks

2005-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/05 3:16 AM, Lars Brehmer wrote: Hi all! Is there something different in Rev 2.5.1 as far as saving changes to stacks in a standalone? When I made stanalones in 2.1.2, I could always save stacks when a splashscreen is the application. I've seen this countless times in posts and

Re: Lists in Transcript

2005-05-24 Thread Andre Garzia
On May 24, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Dom wrote: compiling at 8:12:03 AM TypeChunk: can't create a variable with that name (explicitVariables?) Object card id 1002 Lineput pPrefix line x of pList cr after tBuffer HinttBuffer The same error when I place all the scripts in a

Re: Nikon Clicks with Paradigma Software's Valentina

2005-05-24 Thread Andre Garzia
Nice! Keep up the good work! the more databases the better. andre On May 24, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Nikon Clicks with Paradigma Software's Valentina ALL NEW DIGITAL CAMERAS SHIP WITH VALENTINA ENABLED PICTURE PROJECT May 24, 2005. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software,

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Victor Eijkhout
On May 24, 2005, at 5:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started to work on a suite of handlers for infinite-precision calculations. Wouldn't it be easier to interface to an existing bigint library? Doesn't the Gnu Scientific Library have this stuff? V.

RE: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread MisterX
good point. the amount of calculation is exponential... If some are interested, i can send you a blog i just wrote but never would send to the list - lengthy, obscure and technical - but it's interesting, explains it in layman terms and has a slow solution to make it work in rev with hints for a

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread John Rule
If some are interested, i can send you a blog i just wrote but never would send to the list I would be interested! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Lists in Transcript

2005-05-24 Thread Dom
Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might have explicit variables turned on, try putting a local tBuffer after the handler declaration, just like the local tList OK, done -- that works, now :-) Anyway, don't remember why and for which reason I turned on explicit variables...

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Dar Scott
On May 24, 2005, at 3:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naturally, there's also the option of splitting N1 and N2 up into 7-character chunks, doing all the multiplies for the relevant chunk-pairs, and combining the results of said multiplies. That looks like it'd be a pain to code, so I am

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
I would look for the word frameset in a tag inside a page, then get all the valid URLS inside the frame. Then I would check each URL for size, and pick the largest file, or the number of lines. That will be where the main content is. At 2:10 PM +0200 5/24/05, Eric Chatonet wrote: You are

Icons

2005-05-24 Thread John Dixon
Could someone please help me... as this problem is driving me (insert a seven letter expletive) nuts!... If I was living in the USA, I would probably shoot my Mac... since I live in rural England, I am seriously thinking of taking my cricket bat to it !! I work on a Mac... I have made a

Setting the Cursor

2005-05-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello Everyone, Why doesn't the following handler in a field change the cursor to a hand when the field is moused over? I know that the field is receiving the message because the second line in the handler does work. on mouseEnter set the cursor to hand put Hello the long seconds end

Re: Lists in Transcript

2005-05-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:52:59 AM, you wrote: AG you might have explicit variables turned on, try putting a local AG tBuffer after the handler declaration, just like the local tList local x wouldn't hurt, either. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

create nested folders

2005-05-24 Thread Christian Langers
Hello, can anybody help me with this ? put Tutorial/Ladies/Bugs into test set itemdel to slash put the directory into oldDir put /Users/christ/Desktop/ into tLoc repeat with x=1 to the number of items of test set the directory to tLocitem (x-1) of test create folder (item x of test) end

absolute/relative path nightmare

2005-05-24 Thread Bob Hartley
Hi All. I am completely baffled by this. OK I have a script in an app that looks for three files in a folder. EG master folder called armbase with an app called armbase.exe in folder armbase ther eis a folder called components. Within the folder called components ar ethe three files I want to

Re: create nested folders

2005-05-24 Thread Christian Langers
Hi, I found the solution by myself ;-) put Tutorial/Ladies/Bugs into test set itemdel to slash put the directory into oldDir put /Users/christ/Desktop into tLoc set the directory to tLoc repeat with x=1 to the number of items of test put /item (x-1) of test after tPath if tPath = / then put

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Mikey
You probably can find a long list of ACM Programming Contest long math algorithms. At least when I was on our College's team, the ACM loved to put problems involving long math in the mix. As far as I know every team had ready-to-go source for long-math operations just for that reason. We only

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On May 24, 2005, at 5:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started to work on a suite of handlers for infinite-precision calculations. Wouldn't it be easier to interface to an existing bigint library? The whole point of what I'm doing with this is two-fold: (a)

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Dar Scott
On May 24, 2005, at 1:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to interface to an existing bigint library? The whole point of what I'm doing with this is two-fold: (a) To have a suite of functions with truly *infinite* precision -- not 15 places, not 45 places, but *as many

Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
One of my apps is not processing ShutDownRequest properly, but it's very complex, so I decided to build a simple test stack. I'm seeing the same thing with it. All my testing is done after building a standalone from the stack. I start out with a main stack. The main stack has this handler: on

Re: absolute/relative path nightmare

2005-05-24 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Bob, In each of your examples that don't work, what would happen if you prepended the content of 'mycommandline' with a 'cd' to the directory where the desired executable lives? Seems like that should make it work, since c:/ may not be the default directory from the Command Processor's

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Stephen Barncard
but... EVERY platform has limits...eventually - memory, speed. How can any tool be 'infinite'?? Better, bigger, faster, perhaps, but ... infinite? Aren't you instead trying to craft tools that are... scaleable? We're getting into theoretical physics, cosmology here whoa... Doesn't the

Re: How to get the text of web framed pages?

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Stephen, Thanks for your input. At the moment, I have 2 efficient functions with 2 different approaches for extracting all urls from the text of a framed page: The first one from Ken Ray uses regex with machText and another one I wrote uses items with quote as the item delimiter. Ken's

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Brenstein
One of my apps is not processing ShutDownRequest properly, but it's very complex, so I decided to build a simple test stack. I'm seeing the same thing with it. All my testing is done after building a standalone from the stack. I start out with a main stack. The main stack has this handler: on

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 5/24/05, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet that if you copy the shutdownrequest script from your main stack to the one created on the fly (and thus do not send), the problem will go away. Shutdownrequest seems to be context specific and I think that your sending it from one

Re: Icons

2005-05-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, please calm down at first! :-) Could someone please help me... as this problem is driving me (insert a seven letter expletive) nuts!... If I was living in the USA, I would probably shoot my Mac... since I live in rural England, I am seriously thinking of taking my cricket bat to it

Re: absolute/relative path nightmare

2005-05-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I am completely baffled by this. OK I have a script in an app that looks for three files in a folder. EG master folder called armbase with an app called armbase.exe in folder armbase ther eis a folder called components. Within the folder called components ar ethe three files I want to access.

revPutIntoXMLNode, revXMLNodeContents, and curly quotes

2005-05-24 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I am putting the htmlText of a filed into an XMLNode. When I retrieve it, the curl quotes are preceded by an A with a hat (Â). The date comes from the field as: #147;That#146;s quite an honor,#148; I do a revPutIntoXMLNode and a revGetXMLContect I get the following: “That’s quite an

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Dar Scott
On May 24, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: Now, I've put a button on the main stack that creates a new stack and places this handler in its stack script: on ShutDownRequest send ShutDownRequest to stack Quit Test -- my main stack end ShutDownRequest Is this the only thing in the

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Pat Trendler
I seem to remember having this problem awhile ago. I used closestackRequest in the stack being saved as a file/document.. HTH Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: go stack url

2005-05-24 Thread Ross Hansen
Thanks to everybody (Dave, Eric, Jan) who offered help with my question about the go stack url. I'll check the path of the stack on the server and will let you know what actually happened. Thank you again. The list is very helpful indeed. Ross Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 May

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 5/24/05, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the only thing in the stack script? Or are you adding to a long script already there? Yup, it's the only script. I'm trying to reduce this to its bare essentials. A standalone has limits on the new values of the script. Hmmm. I

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dar, What do you mean by this? I am having a small problem with an openCard handler not always loading and want to know if it could be related or not. Thanks tom On May 24, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Dar Scott wrote: A standalone has limits on the new values of the script. Thomas J McGrath III

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 5/24/05, Pat Trendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember having this problem awhile ago. I used closestackRequest in the stack being saved as a file/document.. I tried this in both the stack script and the card script and neither worked at all. Sigh. I think I'm going to have to

MetaCard IDE

2005-05-24 Thread Derek Bump
Since the MetaCard IDE is open source, does that mean that one could create their own open source version of the MetaCard IDE? Or does that violate the terms of the license, as far as creating competition for Revolution? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread John Vokey
I have always found binary coded decimal (BCD) the simplest for this purpose, as it is directly extensible to any length, with only a few lines of code. Please see any (low-level; i.e., machine-code) book on arithmetic algorithms. They may not teach BCD anymore, but back in the day...

Disappearing Field Borders

2005-05-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Why is it that the entire border or portions of it disappear in 3D list field's when they are clicked in OS X? Regards, Greg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Dar Scott
On May 24, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: A standalone has limits on the new values of the script. Hmmm. I don't know what this means. Sorry. In my attempts to minimize my contribution to the mail load because of recent babbling, I sometimes become cryptic. Check out

Re: Infinite-precision arithmetic

2005-05-24 Thread Dar Scott
On May 24, 2005, at 9:07 PM, John Vokey wrote: I have always found binary coded decimal (BCD) the simplest for this purpose, as it is directly extensible to any length, with only a few lines of code. Please see any (low-level; i.e., machine-code) book on arithmetic algorithms. They may not

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/05 8:50 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: On 5/24/05, Pat Trendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember having this problem awhile ago. I used closestackRequest in the stack being saved as a file/document.. I tried this in both the stack script and the card script and neither

Re: Icons

2005-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/24/05 1:29 PM, John Dixon wrote: Using Toast and the ISO 9660 settings I have burnt a CD... The CD contains the .app standalone as well as the .exe standalone... However, when I open the CD, the icon that was attached is replaced by the generic Mac application icon... Do you mean the Mac

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my apps is not processing ShutDownRequest properly, but it's very complex, so I decided to build a simple test stack. I'm seeing the same thing with it. All my testing is done after building a standalone from the stack. [snip] If I

Testers for PenTool v3.1.2

2005-05-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack PenTool v 3.1.2 from: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/penToolv312.zip and these adobe illustrator files for testing: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/Eps_Import_V04.zip i'm interested that many of you report me the time to execute the handlers for

Re: Problems with ShutDownRequest

2005-05-24 Thread Brian Yennie
Howard, Try this: 1) create a button shutdown with your script in it: on ShutDownRequest answer Really, Really Quit? with No or Quit if it is Quit then pass ShutDownRequest end ShutDownRequest 2) hide the button 3) add this to your standalone: on startup insert the script of btn