Hi Marielle and Sivakatirswami,
Well known...
Entered as a bug by Klaus on 2001! Assigned to Tuviah Snyder.
Noted as major :-) and I am the only one who voted for...
In fact, as Rev is used by many educators who often need to contain
their students, this feature might appear to be more
Hi Tim,
http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/pages/development.htm
Le 1 juil. 05 à 03:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I'm trying to get to grips with using Shao Sean's libSMTP to send
an e-mail.
I've so far had limited success, in that I can send a message, but
all of
the
Le 1 juil. 05 à 01:20, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
I see no harm in making lists specifically for other languages,
other than the overhead of maintaining them.
In the meantime, there are already Japanese and German discussion
boards for Rev, included in the Links page at revJournal:
Thanks a lot Eric!
Tim.
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From: Eric Chatonet
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: Using libSMTP to send an e-mail
Hi Tim,
http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/pages/development.htm
Le 1 juil.
Ludovic THEBAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you start a French list/discussion board I'll happily add it to
that page.
The french list exists, but there is only one message by month !
here : http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionfr/
elle serait plus visible si elle était hebergée
Hi,
I'm a french revolution user (not a professionnal programmer), just an
hobby (coming from Hypercard).
My english is bad, I have to do all my best so that my questions are
understood.
I've asked many questions on the list in english language.
Everybody who answered me was very kind
Hello Marielle,
I'm always reading all what you are posting to the lists with great
interest and this post is surely one of the best resumes Yhann could
get about Rev. I'm (as always !) to busy to take time to initiate a
french spoken Rev dedicated site but if Yhann or others are going
Hello Richard,
Thanks for your friendly proposal. See the Marielle's post comment i
send you in cc. Will be happy to send you french spoken material as
soon as i will get time to begin with this.
Kind Regards from Nemours,
Pierre Sahores wrote:
I have been for years speaking on the
Hi All
I have a stanalone that clones a stack (in the standalone). The user injects
buttons into it with predetermined function.
Now the number of buttons and windows is getting larger as the functions are
increased.
I'd like to have just one button injector and a system to customise the
Can we go back to where it all started?
Although I made contact with Rev some time ago, I have only taken it more
seriously recently. This is not so much because I didn't think it was worth
taking seriously as the fact that finally, Microsoft have made it abundantly
clear that do do not intend to
Hi Bob,
As usual with Rev docs, it's somewhere but you are rarely able to
find it...
I'm finishing a plugin that finds the following when you enter
indent as a search keyword:
Might be useful ;-)
From the Docs FAQs:
How do I pretty print a script?
Pretty printing is the use of indenting to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to have just one button injector and a system to customise the function
of the button. What I envisage is a drop down list that enters a script into the
button.
Have you considered using a custom property instead?
For example, one way to assign behaviors to
Quoting Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to have just one button injector and a system to customise the
function
of the button. What I envisage is a drop down list that enters a script
into the
button.
Have you considered using a custom
Yves:
Your English is perfect! No wonder nobody has made any negative remarks!
:)
Jon
Yves COPPE wrote:
Hi,
I'm a french revolution user (not a professionnal programmer), just an
hobby (coming from Hypercard).
My english is bad, I have to do all my best so that my questions are
The Revolution script editor automatically pretty-prints the current
handler when you place the insertion point somewhere in the handler and
press Return or Tab.
I agree that tab works in this way, but I use return all of the
time, and the formatting is often incorrect. Am I missing
I'm not sure if what's being talked about here is the same thing, but if in
the IDE, if you turn backdrop on (not even sure where in Edit - Preferences
I did that), it covers everything, even the taskbar and the only way to get
to any other program or your desktop is to minimize Rev. Is this the
Dear list members,
It's been some time since I made the usual listmom remarks here, its
probably time for a reminder. Also there have been a couple of threads
recently that could do with addressing.
Our list settings are set to protect your email addresses. These should
be obscured when
Bob,
A very reasonable post. As a PC programmer, the Tab key was news to me also.
In the interest of discussion here's another idea:
Over the years, I have found that editors (and word processors) are like
religions. Everyone likes the one they are used to and are willing to go to
war over it.
Hi Jon,
I tested the following:
on toto
if there is a fld toto then
go to cd 1
end if
end toto
1. I typed on toto and press return: end toto has been
automatically set and the insertion point blinked at the right place
(with the right indentation)
2. I typed if there is a fld toto
Jim, Bob,
I agree with you. However remember that you can use anything to edit the
script...
put the script of the selobj into fld 1 of stack myeditor
and
set the script of the selobj to fld 1 of stack Myeditor
Note that the plugin architecture of RunRev permits to trap the
RevEditScript
Sometime around 30/6/05 (at 08:02 -0400) Charles Hartman said:
I'm finding that when I close and reopen my stack, the spacing of
the upper (scansion) line is sometimes off -- too condensed or too
spaced out. I set the Font for the whole stack file to Palatino.
Are you saying the type changes
Sometime around 30/6/05 (at 20:47 -0500) Stephen Barncard said:
Keith;
Are you sure the resources aren't already available at the ISP the
office already uses for its web site (assuming it has one)?
It is a political issue rather than a financial one I'm afraid. [sigh]
Actually, it is also a
Eric:
Excellent post. This points out, specifically, how the two keys (tab
and return) behave differently, which is part of what has been
frustrating me. The closer these two keys function, the better off we
all will be, I think.
Thanks!
Jon
Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Jon,
I tested the
Dennis,
You are right! I am trying to turn it down four notches. Thanks for the
calm post.
I just threw your comments on top of a rather large pile (IMO) and
after reading your post again, I see that that was not fair to do.
Thanks for being on this list and offering your professional and
Revolution with simple scripting and stack structure, yes; MySQL,
no. Not yet, anyway. :-)
I was under the assumption that this was a shared database project.
If it's just the same app on the same machine, then a card-metaphor
thing would work. If it goes on the network like that, one user
Bob,
I have been using Rev for 1 year now and although I have my frustrating
moments with bugs, as do others, I am confident in Rev's pursuit of
fixing the bugs that bother us all. They are releasing fixes in a much
faster time frame and plan on continuing to do so.
I believe they are
Eric,
Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
translation thing?
It just sounds a little funny.
Curious Tom
On Jul 1, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Bob,
As usual with Rev docs, it's somewhere but you are rarely able to find
it...
I'm finishing a
Richard,
Thanks for the tip. I haven't run into that problem yet, because I
have only created one card stacks. I do all the stuff that one might
do with multiple cards, with multiple invisible groups, and keeping
different data sets in custom properties. I like the additional
control
Jim,
The backdrop feature is found under the view menu as a convenience when
working in Rev. You can also script it in the IDE and a Standalone.
set the backdrop to black
set the backdrop to lightblue
set the backdrop to none
Use colorNames to get a list of colors that can be used with
Good idea Jim. I don't know if it will get done but I've seen this
before and it works. I've seen it in using applescript and frontier
runtime etc.
(or maybe that was one editor with multiple language choices?!?!?!)
Thanks
Tom
On Jul 1, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Jim Bufalini wrote:
So, maybe
Hi Stephen - thanks for the further comments!
Revolution with simple scripting and stack structure, yes; MySQL,
no. Not yet, anyway. :-)
I was under the assumption that this was a shared database project.
That's something that she's hoping to be able to do. I'm rapidly
coming to the
Hi curious Tom :-)
How could you think that I would change a single word from the
Official Revolution Documentation ;-)
No, I just copied/pasted it.
At the time, seems that Rev guys were very happy with this function...
Now, I wonder ;-)
But stay curious: it's a good disease!
Le 1 juil. 05 à
It is the case. It's the spaces, not the visible characters, whose
representation seems to depend on unknown (inaccessible?) contextual
factors.
It looks like I'm settling on using (ugly!) Courier for the spacing-
critical text within fields.
On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:27 AM, keith wrote:
Le 1 juil. 05 à 16:17, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :
The backdrop feature is found under the view menu as a convenience
when working in Rev. You can also script it in the IDE and a
Standalone.
set the backdrop to black
set the backdrop to lightblue
set the backdrop to none
And set the
Also, this is a fun way to set the random backdrop to different colors:
set the backdrop to line (random(the number of lines of the
colorNames)) of the colorNames
putting that into a repeat loop in a button will drive you nuts. ;-0
set the 300 down to 30 and it is very fast
on mouseUp
I have seen patterns used before but did not realize we could use
images of our own. Very cool
Tom
On Jul 1, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Le 1 juil. 05 à 16:17, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :
The backdrop feature is found under the view menu as a convenience
when working in Rev.
Hi Tom,
I jast tryed itt with 10 miliSecondes: naow I ame blnd and cannt
type No Maure ;-(
Le 1 juil. 05 à 16:48, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :
Also, this is a fun way to set the random backdrop to different
colors:
set the backdrop to line (random(the number of lines of the
LOL - what a hoot.
thanks
Tom
On Jul 1, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Tom,
I jast tryed itt with 10 miliSecondes: naow I ame blnd and cannt
type No Maure ;-(
Le 1 juil. 05 à 16:48, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :
Also, this is a fun way to set the random backdrop to
Hi all,
I have got a stack, that show some group. In these group, the user must write
information (in field), I want to know how I can select the field, for when
the user show the group, I can directly write the text.
Pour les français (si vous comprenez pas ce que je veux dire en anglais :D )
Hi everybody,
it seems that you can't download anything from runrev.com, so you
can't download the engines neither :-)
Could anybody send me the windows-engine of Revoluiton 2.6. ? (off-list)
Thanks in advance,
Christian
iMacG4 , Powerbook G4, Mac Os X 10.4
Hi Damien,
As I regained one's sight (see a previous post) and if I understand
correctly (here, I'm not sure) the select command with one of these
forms should help you:
select text of fld field name -- but not select fld field name
which would select the field object
select before text
I've had GREAT luck with the new version of Shao Sean's libSMTP, and
dealt with the Subject issue recently.
For the Subject, just put SUBJECT: xxx yyy return as the first
line of your message, and things will work well. I think the other
entities (e.g., CC:) work the same way.
Your mail
On Jul 1, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Bob Warren wrote:
Can we go back to where it all started?
Ok, I deleted everything before this post in my mail.
Now, if we can discuss this on the List and arrive at some kind of
consensus
about it, then perhaps we would earn sufficient respect on the part
of
Grettings Yves,
Yves COPPE wrote:
Hi,
I'm a french revolution user (not a professionnal programmer), just
an hobby (coming from Hypercard).
My english is bad, I have to do all my best so that my questions
are understood.
I've asked many questions on the list in english language.
Sorry - this was sent yesterday, and has been held up by problems
contacting RunRev site - trying again
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:38:50 +0100
From: Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compileIt for revolution?
Jon wrote:
Derek:
Let's put it differently. My real interest is
There's probably a simple way to do this but I'm missing it. I want to prevent
the end user from being able to use Ctrl+1 ... Ctrl+4 to navigate through the
cards in the stack. This would happen more by accident than on purpose but
would be very confusing to the user.
Everything in this
Hello,
For massive distribution (cd-rom), applications create with Revolution is it a
good choice (in comparison with Director's applications) ? Fiability on
multiple configurations for the general public ?
And what is the minimal configuration for an application compiled with
Revolution ?
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Eric,
Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
translation thing?
It just sounds a little funny.
It's really called that.
I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s certainly
it was in common use by the time I got
Hi Ron,
Have a look at the commandKeyDown message.
This message has a parameter which corresponds to the key pressed:
on commandKeyDown pKey
if pKey id not an integer then pass commandKeyDown
end commandKeyDown
This one will trap all numeric keys.
There is no cross-platform difference to
(apologies it this is duplicate post - access problems after the server
upgrade?)
Thanks, Ken- you're right, of course. Transcript seems not to penalise
sloppiness, so it's easy not to notice that one has left out parentheses.
Wouldn't it be better if the IDE tightened up on this sort of thing?
Thanks Eric,
I use that :
select the text of field name
And this work very fine :)
Girard Damien
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Le vendredi 01 juillet 2005 à 17:23 +0200, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
Hi Damien,
As I regained one's sight (see a previous post) and if I understand
correctly (here,
Before Apple made WYSIWYG (what you see (on the screen) is what you
get (on the printer)) the norm, and even before that when displays
were monospaced character (not graphics) oriented, and printers were
also monospaced with just one character set, straight printing was an
ugly unformatted
Timothy-
Thursday, June 30, 2005, 7:25:30 PM, you wrote:
TM I never knew Google had the capacity to do this sort of thing. It's
TM really troubling. I always thought an email list was equivalent to
TM private email sent from one person to a bunch of others. Apparently
TM it's not.
Listservs
Aha! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Eric.
Also, thanks for the great tutorials, plugins, etc. on your web site -- very
helpful and useful!
... Ron
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Le 1 juil. 05 à 16:09, Yhann a écrit :
Hello,
For massive distribution (cd-rom), applications create with
Revolution is it a good choice (in comparison with Director's
applications) ? Fiability on multiple configurations for the
general public ?
Yes
And what is the minimal
The server upgrade cut me off for a while, which is just as well. In the
interval, I have realised that my post claiming that I had found an
inconsistency in Transcript between IDE and standalones was... well,
actually, I was totally and embarrassingly WRONG.
So please accept my apologies for
Hello,
what could this be ?
When using this handler in a field's script :
on rawKeyUp
set the cText of this stack to rtftext of me
pass rawKeyUp
end rawKeyUp
then Revolution (i'm with 2.6) crashes after about 10 lines (just by
holding down the enter key)...
What am I doing wrong
Thanks, Ken- you're right, of course. Transcript seems not to penalise
sloppiness, so it's easy not to notice that one has left out parentheses.
Wouldn't it be better if the IDE tightened up on this sort of thing? It's
worrying that code can work in the IDE but quietly fail in a standalone.
I
Hi Christian,
You could prefer to check this at closeField and not each time a key
is pressed and *only* if necessary (by using a conditional structure
to compare first).
Good programming does not waste programmer energy neither CPU :-)
Le 1 juil. 05 à 19:28, Christian Langers a écrit :
Hi Yhann,
sorry, had my mom wake me up on Skype+VNC for a little scanner help... And
brought me back to cyber world ;)
Desoled my Mom m'a retenu sur Skype+VNC pour un probs scanner ... Donc me
revoila...
Oui you can use rev on a cdrom just like Director. No problems on windows at
all - that
Bonsoir du Luxembourg, Eric !
Ok, I'll try that energy-saving little thing ;-)
Christian
Le 1 juil. 05 à 19:49, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
Hi Christian,
You could prefer to check this at closeField and not each time a
key is pressed and *only* if necessary (by using a conditional
At 10:02 AM -0400 7/1/2005, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
translation thing?
It just sounds a little funny.
It's an old programming term. (There was - well, still is - a Unix
shell program named pp for pretty-print, which takes a C
Thanks all,
(Mark, I haven't switched to rev 2.6 yet which may explain why
SpankUser doesn't work here. : )
-Scott Morrow
Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web http://elementarysoftware.com/
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/1/05 5:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read a lot about custom properties but I don't know of any simple examples.
Our last scripting conference was all about properties -- both built-in
properties and custom properties. You can download the stack from the
regular place:
Dear All,
In order for people to become better friends, they have to go through hard
times together. Although previously I was amazed for different reasons, I am
now amazed at how quickly this discussion List can heal itself! I don't have
enough energy to participate this weekend as much as I
Alex:
An excellent post, explaining the theory, showing actual results, and
summarizing pros and cons. Thank you!
Jon
===
Jon wrote:
Let's put it differently. My real interest is in seeing how to optimize
Rev code to access arrays in general, and image data in specific, as
rapidly as
Hi Keith,
I designed a simple application to keep track of payments to ca. 1000
accounts. Originally I went with a single text file, parsed for the
individual account data which was then loaded into fields in a single
stack, but I had troubles getting the formatting to work equally well
on
On 7/1/05 4:20 AM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we go back to where it all started?
You post was well said, Bob. I've been using xTalk for decades (ouch!) as
well as VB up through VB 6, and I know exactly what you mean (including the
.NET disenfranchisement).
So here is the
I'm new to Revolution and can't find a spell check built into the
program. Any suggestions other than purchasing a spell check program?
I'm working on a G4 PowerBook, and Tiger's built-in spell check
doesn't work.
Thanks,
Doug Gilliland
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a scripted Save does not compact?
--- Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard,
Thanks for the tip. I haven't run into that
problem yet, because I
have only created one card stacks. I do all
the stuff that one might
do with multiple cards, with
Doug,
Yup, don't waste your money. I purchased a spelling checker program
that runs fine in Tiger, but is incompatible with DreamCard IDE. I
have already BZ'd it. I would really like to see the built-in
checker work in the IDE, I hate misspelling my comments.
Are you looking to spell
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on our Internet:
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violating the U.S. CAN-SPAM
Yes
Erik Hansen wrote:
is it true that
a scripted Save does not compact?
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Douglas Gilliland wrote:
I'm new to Revolution and can't find a spell check built into the
program. Any suggestions other than purchasing a spell check program?
I'm working on a G4 PowerBook, and Tiger's built-in spell check
doesn't work.
Doug,
At the moment I am working on a Spell Checker
On 7/1/05 3:39 PM, Douglas Gilliland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to Revolution and can't find a spell check built into the
program. Any suggestions other than purchasing a spell check program?
I'm working on a G4 PowerBook, and Tiger's built-in spell check
doesn't work.
You might want
On Behalf Of
Pierre Sahores
PS : who working with Revolution on Windows system ?
In beetwin others, see MisterX, alias Xavier Bury, as one of ours
best geeks in about windows (and M3's or speedways passioned.. ;-)
You're too kind Pierre ;) Im sure my mom will be happy to hear i've
I'm using a Logitech mouse with a scroll-wheel in OSX. In a scrolling
field, it works as usual. In a scrolling group (which contains
several fields and buttons), it doesn't. It _almost_ does nothing in
that case, except that it may jigger _one_ of the fields up and down
a little.
Anyone
Recently, Charles Hartman wrote:
I'm using a Logitech mouse with a scroll-wheel in OSX. In a scrolling
field, it works as usual. In a scrolling group (which contains
several fields and buttons), it doesn't. It _almost_ does nothing in
that case, except that it may jigger _one_ of the fields
Hi Sarah and thanks,
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 Sarah Reichelt wrote
snip
I don't see the need for this amount of code. Why do you not want to
use the English date? I like it because it is a consistent format no
matter what system settings are in place.
I had assumed from reading the internet
I need to ship a CD with a number of QuickTime movie files, and the
client would like to find a way to protect the files if possible.
Since wired sprites seem to have a lot of capability and we have
callbacks in Rev, I'm wondering if we could add a sprite track to the
movie which makes a
Doug there was a discussion a little while ago on the list about spell
checkers. Search the google with spell checker and you should turn up a
couple of freebies.
Here is the link that I use:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com
It will produce 45 results about spell
test
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At 8:13 PM -0700 7/1/05, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I need to ship a CD with a number of QuickTime movie files, and the
client would like to find a way to protect the files if possible.
Have you seen:
QT Movie Data Security: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2038.html
QuickTime access
On Jul 1, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I need to ship a CD with a number of QuickTime movie files, and the
client would like to find a way to protect the files if possible.
Since wired sprites seem to have a lot of capability and we have
callbacks in Rev, I'm wondering if we could
just checking...posts have not been appearing
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That's just what we've been doing: copying over an old system folder.
Seems to work just fine; every classic app I've tried (admittedly, haven't
launched HC since installing Tiger) has worked well.
cheers,
- marty
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The University of Chicago Laboratory
Tom,
I agree, the backdrop in the IDE falls into the category of an annoyance.
However, there is something that happened to me twice recently that would
only take a few lines of code in the IDE to change and I think is much more
important. There is no confirm, on delete of objects.
Twice I had
Hi,
It seems like Mac used to dim menus that had no active/relevant
menuitems but I don't see that happening anymore. Is that since OS X?
Menuitems dim but not the menus themselves. See TextEdit, TextWrangler
our own Rev.
Typically this is occurs when to a Windows or Format menu when no
Jim Bufalini wrote:
Twice I had a group of objects selected, with settings, positioning and
script. I thought I had clicked into an email and hit the delete key.
Unfortunately, the Rev IDE was still the active window and poof everything
was gone. And, as we all know, there is no Undo (at least
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to have just one button injector and a system to customise
the function of the button. What I envisage is a drop down list that
enters a script into the button.
Have you considered using a custom property instead?
I hadn't really considered this for one
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