Re: repeat for each in reverse order ?

2005-06-28 Thread jbv
Hi guys, Thanks for spending so much time on my question. I sent a couple of posts during last week end, but they never went through... So here's a short reminder of what I had originally in mind : I only wanted to know if there was a way to benefit the speed of repeat for each item i in myVar

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answer Are you finished with the last one? If so, shall I clear the header info? with No or Yes This would confuse the hell out of me, I am afraid. What if I want to finish and NOT clear the header? The questions are not mutually exclusive. It also assumes

Re: Test

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Monday, June 27, 2005, 9:41:04 PM, you wrote: SR Is this coming through? Is anyone else having trouble posting to the list? Ever since the server migration it takes me two or three tries to get a message posted. I keep getting 554: relaying denied messages. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL

Re: Test

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Chatonet
The same for me and all of us I assume. Seems to be fixed now. Le 28 juin 05 à 08:22, Mark Wieder a écrit : Is anyone else having trouble posting to the list? Ever since the server migration it takes me two or three tries to get a message posted. I keep getting 554: relaying denied messages.

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Sivakatirswami- Monday, June 27, 2005, 6:31:36 PM, you wrote: S drive. Point: these kinds of users are very easily confused and will S just stop in their tracks if things don't seem obvious. Yes. As should we all, I think. If things are ambiguous it's time to stop and take stock. S How about

Re: returnInField doesn't work

2005-06-28 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
Kenji, Stephen and Ron, Thanks for all your input and suggestions. As a matter of fact, I tried things like find string the text of me and find words the text of me before, to no avail. As I mentioned in my first message, even the beep command didn't work with returnInField, so something more

Fwd: Tiger and HC

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, Here is a mail that I received from Chris: it can interest all of them who want to run HC with Tiger but, unfortunately, don't have two drives. Début du message réexpédié : I posted this about three weeks ago but the recent round of questions suggests that it would be good to

[bug reason found] Re: Failing building Standalone on MacOSX 10.3.9 and Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Joel Guillod
Thanks all folks for the advices. I have now been able to build a standalone by commenting the savingStandalone in the main stack. In the IDE this handler works properly without error but when executed by the standalone builder it unexpected quits Rev. I am going to update the bug in this

Re: Sucess compiling Alex Tweedly DLL!

2005-06-28 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 thierry wrote: Was quite funny when i saw your emails yesterday; because i've decided to play a bit with the externals during last week-end.. and after having download whatever was existing on the subject, plus DevC++, plus lot of scans on this list... i did

Re: Sucess compiling Alex Tweedly DLL!

2005-06-28 Thread thierry
Ok, i'll send you a HowTo explaining how i did manage, with all the details for the C compiler and linkers... which was the essentials information i didn't have, or partly HTH, thierry Just now, i've been able to compile and link one external. If you so desire i can send you the makefile

Re: repeat for each in reverse order ?

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Brenstein
On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: repeat for each element x in y descending Now, is that with keys in descending order or elements in descending order? Dar Sorry, Dar, I used element in the loose sense and really meant chunk types: char, word, item, line. When it

Re: Test

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Mark: Me, too! Jon Mark Wieder wrote: Scott- Monday, June 27, 2005, 9:41:04 PM, you wrote: SR Is this coming through? Is anyone else having trouble posting to the list? Ever since the server migration it takes me two or three tries to get a message posted. I keep getting 554: relaying

Re: repeat for each in reverse order ?

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Brenstein
When it comes to the 'each element' form, you are right that it is ambiguous at first glance, but would seem reasonable that sorting applies to the elements themselves since keys are not explicitly entering the picture. To get sorting on keys we would need to say repeat for each line tKey

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-06-28 Thread Jerry Daniels
Maybe there was one better than Mark's! GRIN On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jerry Daniels wrote: I thought Tom Pittman did a very good job of maintaining the purity of HyperTalk when he did CompileIt! Any future efforts could stand on his shoulders in that regard. Just

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-06-28 Thread Todd Higgins
This is true. New machines do not ship with the Classic System Folder. But If you have an existing Macintosh you can just copy the System Folder over. Todd On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: I had heard, from a distance source, that a new Mac with Tiger installed will not

RE: returnInfield

2005-06-28 Thread Lars Brehmer
Friedrich I faced the exact same thing when I set all my fields to unicode textFont, which Chinese obviously is. I am uncertain whether you can somehow use unicode in the simple returnInfield \ find handler, because at the same time I decided to put the text of all card fields into

RE: returnInfield

2005-06-28 Thread Lars Brehmer
Friedrich I faced the exact same thing when I set all my fields to unicode textFont, which Chinese obviously is. I am uncertain whether you can somehow use unicode in the simple returnInfield \ find handler, because at the same time I decided to put the text of all card fields into

Revolution home page??

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph R. Forehand
What's happening??? I've unable to open the Revolution Home Page or Scripting Conference page the last couple days!! I keep getting Connection refused message. Anyone else having the same problem and/or know what the problem is?? Thanks in Advance and TAKE CARE, Ralph \

Re: Revolution home page??

2005-06-28 Thread rev
Quoting Ralph R. Forehand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What's happening??? I've unable to open the Revolution Home Page or Scripting Conference page the last couple days!! I keep getting Connection refused message. Anyone else having the same problem and/or know what the problem is?? I cant get

Re: Revolution home page??

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph R. Forehand
Problem gone!! I'm finally getting the Revolution home page again. Ralph --- Quoting Ralph R. Forehand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What's happening??? I've unable to open the Revolution Home Page or Scripting Conference page the last couple days!! I keep getting Connection

Re: images

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 14 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:22:11 -0400 From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: images To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jim: Thanks so much for the handler, but 1) it

Re: repeat for each in reverse order ?

2005-06-28 Thread Dennis Brown
What I would like to see is a way to access the next or previous element in a list independent of the repeat structure. We have something similar in the offset function --offset (findString,searchString,skipChars). The key is to have a concept for a pointer of sorts. The pointer in the

Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:49:35 -0700 From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN Daily Crytoquote--my misspelling To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Marielle- Thursday, June 23,

Re: Revolution home page??

2005-06-28 Thread rev
Quoting Ralph R. Forehand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem gone!! I'm finally getting the Revolution home page again. Ahh good, because I misread your post and thought you meant revonline via the IDE. Cheers bob Ralph --- Quoting Ralph R. Forehand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Todd and Jim, To be more precise, I was told that you can't install an OS 9.2.2 system folder on any partition where Tiger (or any OS X system) is already installed. It does not work: OS 9 must be installed first or installed on another disk or partition... At the very worst you have to

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Monday, June 27, 2005, 11:15:23 PM, you wrote: RG Do you can to clear the header? I figured you were maybe speaking a patois here, so I tried various translations in Google: English to German and back again: Do you preserve, in order to delete the heading? English to Spanish and

koan: how do uninstallers uninstall themselves?

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
When an uninstaller (such as those commonly included with Win installations made with InstallShield or WiseInstall) run, it can copy itself to the user's Temp folder and run from there, so that it can do a complete deletion of the items in the application's folder. But can I delete it from

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Monday, June 27, 2005, 11:15:23 PM, you wrote: RG Do you can to clear the header? I figured you were maybe speaking a patois here, so I tried various translations in Google: English to German and back again: Do you preserve, in order to delete the heading?

Re: koan: how do uninstallers uninstall themselves?

2005-06-28 Thread Phil Davis
On Windows, hmmm... maybe the uninstaller could create a 'delete file xyz' .bat file that runs shortly after the uninstaller closes? But offhand I don't know how to schedule a task on Windows. HTH - Phil Davis Richard Gaskin wrote: When an uninstaller (such as those commonly included with

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-06-28 Thread Dan Shafer
I can't say what the general case might be, but I *can* report that I merely copied an old System Folder from a Classic install on OS X 10.3 to my Tiger drive after installation and it seems to work fine. I don't use it often and I surely don't push it around much, but it hasn't crashed,

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Paul, Thanks for your feedback. The problem with describing a set of very simple manual operations is that when you write the details down, it seems very complicated. We have all had the experience of trying to learn how to operate a new VCR for example using the manual! In fact, my

SQLite external

2005-06-28 Thread Hershel Fisch
Hi all, can anybody point me to the sqlite external site? Hershel Fisch ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dan, I did not try it myself. This assertion came from authorised Apple Computer France guys I know since many years. So, they may be wrong or too careful :-) Le 28 juin 05 à 18:52, Dan Shafer a écrit : I can't say what the general case might be, but I *can* report that I merely copied

Re: repeat for each in reverse order ?

2005-06-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 28, 2005, at 12:20 AM, jbv wrote: So here's a short reminder of what I had originally in mind : I only wanted to know if there was a way to benefit the speed of repeat for each item i in myVar (or each line or each char...) while reading items in reverse order... Looks like I took the

Re: Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

2005-06-28 Thread Dar Scott
Since this seems to have changed, can we get a new subject on this? -- Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

called stack does not come to top in standalone

2005-06-28 Thread Emilio Gagliardi
Greetings runrev gurusIt seems I'm finding lots of little *nuances* lately and I appreciate your patience with my emails. I've been using the following code to open a stack from within a another stack: go to stack /substack as topLevel and the code has worked as expected in

Re: koan: how do uninstallers uninstall themselves?

2005-06-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: In my readings 'round the Net it seems acceptable to just leave the old uninstaller in the Temp folder until the next time the user cleans that folder out, but that doesn't feel proper to me. Is there a way for an app to delete itself? Or to use some

[ANN] Property List Table version 4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Dennis Brown
All, Properties of Objects Version 4.1 is a quick reference guide for both showing which built-in properties are returned by the properties property for each type of object and quickly indexing into the Revolution Transcript Dictionary stack to display the definitions. You can download

Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Eric Chatonet wrote: This assertion came from authorised Apple Computer France guys A little industry humor: Q: What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman? A: The car salesman knows when he's lying. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: SQLite external

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altSQLiteCover/default.htm Hi Hershel, FYI, The sale's supposed to be over, but I'll let it go one more day. It's off tomorrow. best, Chipp Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi all, can anybody point me to the sqlite external site? Hershel Fisch

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Warren
Dear All, My original e-mail suggesting how the Rev editor could be reviewed is obviously open to misinterpretation, so I think a summary of a few points would help. 1. Obviously, debugging the existing Rev editor is important. It gets confused far too often. 2. It could well be simplified by

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bob, Thanks for your thoughts. As one who used to use the VBscript editor, I can offer these observations: 1) Ever since HyperCard first was released, the script editor 'auto-formatted' the scripts. Users are used to this. In fact, when I first started using VBscript, I saw where the

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
I agree with Bob. The editor that comes with Delphi has worked correctly for years and years, and functions more or less as he described the VB editor to work. There is no reason why we should have to work with an editor with the current set of bugs. Jon Bob Warren wrote: Dear Paul,

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread SimPLsol
Jon, There are actually two issues here: 1. I agree that there are significant bugs in the debugger/script editor/variable watcher; these should be fixed. 2. I disagree with changes to the interface of the script editor. It works quickly and intuitively. Paul Looney

Re: Note to self: ALWAYS apply script changes

2005-06-28 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 6/27/05, Ron Noice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've run into a problem in 2.6 that caused me to lose everything since the= previous save. Twice! Which just goes to show ya -- it takes repetition to= teach an old dog new tricks. Very likely I'm the only twit who would= actually follow the

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Chipp: See comments embedded below Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for your thoughts. As one who used to use the VBscript editor, I can offer these observations: 1) Ever since HyperCard first was released, the script editor 'auto-formatted' the scripts. Users are used to this. In

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Paul: Total disagreement. The manual auto-indent features (that work while entering text, not the feature that re-formats an entire handler) are horribly buggy, when compared with the VB and Delphi editors. The UI for the editor does not need to change: it can remain quick and intuitive.

File forward/ back\ slashes

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
This is a resend... Don't think the first one went through. Maybe this is a known issue, but just in case... On WinXP, Rev 2.51, if you do an if there is a file c:/somedirectory/somefile then... it returns false, even if the file does exist. Change it to if there is a file

Large stack size - One cause?

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
This is a resend... I don't think the first one went through. I haven't thoroughly tested this yet, but it appears that, if from your main stack, you go to another main stack on disk and delete cards on the stack you opened, then copy the same cards back, then save and close, the file size of the

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Chipp, When I made my suggestion, I asked myself a question: What's better, a simple system that is reliable or a more complex system that often fails? Just try the example I cited in my first e-mail: 1) Type IFTHEN [enter] 2) Type ENTER again to make a blank line 3) Type END IF e.g.

Re: koan: how do uninstallers uninstall themselves?

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: In my readings 'round the Net it seems acceptable to just leave the old uninstaller in the Temp folder until the next time the user cleans that folder out, but that doesn't feel proper to me. Is there a way for an app to delete itself? Or

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/28/05 3:27 PM, Bob Warren wrote: I think that what is involved here is the old story that those who have used Rev for a long time have unconsciously learned to avoid its potholes. Less experienced users suffer more. Why shouldn't I be able to do an if-then as I described above? I didn't

Re: koan: how do uninstallers uninstall themselves?

2005-06-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jun 28, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Now on to the last one: How can I script OS X's Disk Utility to automate making DMGs with custom backgrounds, window rects, etc.? Perhaps FileStorm http://www.mindvision.com/filestorm.asp could help you here. I just browsed the dictionary

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Dennis Brown
Jacqueline, I have not seen the script editor mess up the formatting with this simple example, but it does mess up horribly in some situations. I actually have to rewrite my scripts differently because it gets confused at times. The main problem is when you have a situation like this:

RE: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
As a newcomer, I may as well add my 2-cents here. 1. A global (not global variables but across the main stack and sub-stacks or, at least, one stack) find/search/replace function would be extremely useful, given that script can be in objects, cards, libraries, the stack, etc. As a newcomer

RE: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
Oh, one more thing. How do you turn on line numbers in the script editor? Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread SimPLsol
In a message dated 6/28/05 2:25:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if a then      if b then get c else get d else      doSomethingElse end if It generates: if a then      if b then get c else get d      else      doSomethingElse      end if I get the same response (OS X 10.4.1, Rev 2.5.1)

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Jim Bufalini wrote: As a newcomer, I may as well add my 2-cents here. 1. A global (not global variables but across the main stack and sub-stacks or, at least, one stack) find/search/replace function would be extremely useful, given that script can be in objects, cards, libraries, the stack,

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could argue all month about style but, for the benefit of anyone interested, here's how I do it: OK, so, here is how I would like code to be formatted (not that I expect it to change, just FYI). if [short statement] then [short statement] if [long statement]

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
J. Landman Gay wrote: I am very used to unaligned scripts until I hit the tab key; that's been the standard in all xtalks for almost 20 years. I think the point is that it is technically possible to have editors that provide the auto-format AND also allow one to only rarely have

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
1. A global (not global variables but across the main stack and sub- stacks or, at least, one stack) find/search/replace function would be extremely useful, given that script can be in objects, cards, libraries, the stack, etc. Find Replace in the Edit menu allows you to specify where you

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Oh, one more thing. How do you turn on line numbers in the script editor? I don;t think you can, but you can go to a specific line. There is a btton in the bottom left corner of the script editor window, just above the Apply button. Clicking this cycles through 3 different states:

Re: copy of bounced message

2005-06-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: Alex: Thanks for your interest. Rather than bothering the Rev folks, I think you should bother the Rev folks - it's poor for RevOnline to have dangling links to non-available stacks. just try www.jonbondy.com/jlbimage.rev Are you sure that's the latest version of your

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Jon wrote: OK, so, here is how I would like code to be formatted (not that I expect it to change, just FYI). snip if [statement] then [statements] end if -- note I always line my ENDs up with the internal statements There is a reason for this: if I want to clip the final line out, I

Re: Note to self: ALWAYS apply script changes

2005-06-28 Thread Jerry Daniels
Howard, not to hawk my own product, but you can set Constellation Script Editor (www.daniels-mara.com/products/constellation.htm) to auto save and auto archive every so many compiles (appy). Once every 5 compiles for each mainStack you're working on, for instance. You set the frequency.

Post comand

2005-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay asked me to post this for him, as he is having trouble sending to the list (I suspect the new IP hasn't propagated to his provider yet.) He can read your responses, so fire away. = From Devin: = I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread SimPLsol
In a message dated 6/28/05 3:24:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We could argue all month about style but As I said We could argue all month about style and, knowing this list, we will. Putting end in line with the statements is inconsistent with the standard xTalk way of handling

Re: Post comand

2005-06-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jun 28, 2005, at 4:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short string like abc2. I've read all I can find on the post command in the documentation, but can't figure out how to format the data so the php script will read it. Take a

Re: copy of bounced message

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Alex Tweedly wrote: just try www.jonbondy.com/jlbimage.rev Are you sure that's the latest version of your stack ? It has a number of errors - resizeStack has a number of incomplete references to the image ( image instead of img image), some variables are inconsistently used in

RE: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
Thanks Sara! That's good to know. Where are these kinds of features of the Script Editor documented? -Jim -Original Message- From: Sarah Reichelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Suggestion for

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Jon
Alex Tweedly wrote: Jon wrote: OK, so, here is how I would like code to be formatted (not that I expect it to change, just FYI). snip if [statement] then [statements] end if -- note I always line my ENDs up with the internal statements There is a reason for this: if I want to clip

Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Timothy Miller
For reasons I should not disclose, I am accustomed to do a simple Find-in-fields-in-this-stack with command-F, rather than command-M followed by keyboard input of 'find whatever' Okay, it's not *way* different, but it's a little different. Several times in the last few days, I have typed

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Brenstein
We could argue all month about style but As I said We could argue all month about style and, knowing this list, we will. Putting end in line with the statements is inconsistent with the standard xTalk way of handling handlers: Well, not much to argue really. In C, there are at least 3

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Several times in the last few days, I have typed command-f, the word I want to search for, and return, before I realized that I was unintentionally using the find and replace window. A couple of other checkboxes were checked off, in addition to field text, and the stack was not small. I

RE: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
Sara or Chipp, The link to the patch .../2005-February/050697.html is broken. Is there a new link? By the way, that a GREAT search function. I was using the one in the script editor and was having to memorize which scripts to search. Big time and human memory saver! Now if I could just learn the

about mp3 tags and Rev...

2005-06-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Does anyone here knows where to find the old Shao Sean libs for reading mp3 metadata? I have a simple podcasting app here that would benefit from that. Or any other way to retrieve the data. Cheers andre ___ use-revolution mailing list

How to View Rev Scripts

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Swindell
How can I view the scripts Rev uses to do what it does? I want to check out the Find and Replace All for example... can I get in to see those scripts or am I locked out? Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Warren
I can sum up a little on what I object to in the script editor by saying that I expect an editor to do what I want it to do, not what IT wants ME to do. Automatic formatting may well be an advantage in a number of respects, but at what cost? What's the good of it if it makes the most simple

Re: How to View Rev Scripts

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Swindell wrote: How can I view the scripts Rev uses to do what it does? I want to check out the Find and Replace All for example... can I get in to see those scripts or am I locked out? Nearly everything in the Rev IDE is open for your perusal. You can turn on an option in Prefs to

Re: How to View Rev Scripts

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Swindell
Perfect. Thank you. Mark On Jun 28, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: How can I view the scripts Rev uses to do what it does? I want to check out the Find and Replace All for example... can I get in to see those scripts or am I locked out? Nearly everything in

resume rev backdrop on top bug?

2005-06-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
OSX: I've been testing mp4 compressions with a rev stack to view multiple movies on the same interface... setting the backdrop to black... to ease distraction with QT Pro running on the side... OK so if I activate QT Pro my movie appears on top of the black back drop in the QT

Long Filename Problem is Ubiquitous

2005-06-28 Thread Sivakatirswami
See other thread on long file names for player refs... two days I upped the ante on a stack file name (disk file name) HPI-Daily-Generator_June-23-2005.rev Now, when my managing editor finishes his work and tries to save this, Rev responds that it is unable to create the temp back up file

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
It works for me, but you may still be experiencing problems due to the Rev server change. Anyway, here is the direct link. Paste this into your message box and press Enter. go URL http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altRevSearchFix.rev; Cheers, Sarah On 29/06/2005, at 10:47 AM, Jim

post command example?

2005-06-28 Thread Devin Asay
I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short string like abc2. I've read all I can find on the post command in the documentation, but can't figure out how to format the data so the php script will read it. My stack: contents of fld uid: abc2 (I also tried [

post command example?

2005-06-28 Thread Devin Asay
I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short string like abc2. I've read all I can find on the post command in the documentation, but can't figure out how to format the data so the php script will read it. My stack: contents of fld uid: abc2 (I also tried [

post command example?

2005-06-28 Thread Devin Asay
Sorry if you're getting multiple posts from me. I seem to be having the same problem others are having getting my posts to the list. I have notified [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNA --original message I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a short string like abc2.

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread David Squance
I should probably just stay out of this, but a few comments have my dander up. First, distinguish more clearly between bugs and style. To those of you from other backgrounds, x-talk is different. Many of us like it this way. There are more important things for the developers to be doing

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Timothy Miller
There is a bug in the Find Replace when used on fields. Chipp has posted a fix and you can find the details here: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-February/050697.html It really doesn't take long and normally the Find button becomes a Stop button when searching, but I

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Sarah and Jim, I believe the bug has been fixed in the latest version of the IDE. Sarah is correct, the usual Find is VERY VERY fast and shouldn't take much time at all. -Chipp Sarah Reichelt wrote: It works for me, but you may still be experiencing problems due to the Rev server change.

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Barncard
Any downside to the patch if applied to 2.6, as I just did? Sarah and Jim, I believe the bug has been fixed in the latest version of the IDE. Sarah is correct, the usual Find is VERY VERY fast and shouldn't take much time at all. -Chipp ___

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Actually you sound very annoying and you seem to blatantly want to attack everyone on the list with rude comments. It is getting quite old by now. I for one read the docs and saw that tab forces the formatting. So maybe instead of constantly bitching you should read the docs. tom On Jun

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Bob, I understand both you and Jon are frustrated by the indenting of the script editor and it's duly noted. It's difficult to switch paradigms. In a quick search of all the back use-revolution posts, I could only find 6 references to indent + script + editor in over 262,000 posts, and none

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Timothy! Timothy Miller wrote: In spite of the welcome patch, find in the message box searches all the field text in the stack almost instantaneously. The find in the find-and-replace window, searching for field text only, in this stack only, takes 100 to 1000 times as long. That just

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Timothy- Tuesday, June 28, 2005, 8:39:04 PM, you wrote: TM It still seems to me that a stop searching button on this window TM would be a welcome addition, unless it can be made to work so fast TM that none would be necessary. TM Is there something I'm not getting? I can't imagine how you're

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/28/05 5:54 PM, Jon wrote: And, BTW, I NEVER would have guessed that the tab key did ANYTHING other than enter tab characters into the text. This is a great example of a totally bizarre UI that you folks have become so used to that you can't see the strangeness of it. Not an excuse,

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/28/05 7:47 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: Now if I could just learn the best ways to use the debugging features... Hmmm, what will I do with all the extra time! We will be having a scripting conference on the debugger, though it is quite a ways into the future (fall, I think). Still, keep an

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I don't know Jacqueline, I found it right away since I wanted to become proficient with Rev and naturally looked up the shortcuts. tab seemed natural to me coming from SC and HC before that. Tom On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:06 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/28/05 5:54 PM, Jon wrote: And, BTW, I

Re: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thomas McGrath III wrote: I don't know Jacqueline, I found it right away since I wanted to become proficient with Rev and naturally looked up the shortcuts. tab seemed natural to me coming from SC and HC before that. I've seen tab used for indentint in a lot of editors. In fact, most of

Re: Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

2005-06-28 Thread Chipp Walters
No problem, it's the exact same script fix as the original. You just patched it to be the same as it was. -Chipp Stephen Barncard wrote: Any downside to the patch if applied to 2.6, as I just did? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 /

Properties scripting conference log

2005-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
I forgot to announce that the log for the scripting conference on Properties has been edited and inserted into its conference stack. You can re-download the Properties stack to get the log at: http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences Sorry about the late notice; the server was down over

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