URL path to Windows server?

2005-07-25 Thread keith
If I use the 'get URL' and 'put x into URL' command to get and put data from and into a file:path/data.txt file... how do I do that when the data is to be held on a network server? This'll be a Windows server; in one instance a steam-driven Win98 thing, in the other instance something far more

Re: # PROBABLY SPAM #::URL path to Windows server?

2005-07-25 Thread xbury . cs
K all you need is to mount the drive and copy. use the net use command. It has all the parameters you speak of. (type net help use for instructions on how to use it) Another way, assuming you have administrator priviledges is to use a simple shell copy command... the put url will only work

Re: Deep-mask feature revisited and snapshots

2005-07-25 Thread Martin Baxter
SnagIt is pretty useful, but in Win you can grab a shot of the active window by doing alt-PrintScreenKey. maybe that would work? Martin Baxter MisterX wrote: well, there's plenty of screen grabbers i tried a utility called SnagIt and it worked fine grabbing just the window region as square

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Timothy, All good points. I agree. When I was just starting, many times the 'terse explanation' in the docs just didn't go far enough-- I wanted a few more examples of how the transcript term was used. I talked with Jeanne DeVoto about it (she *was* the author of most the documentation,

Re: URL path to Windows server?

2005-07-25 Thread keith
Sometime around 25/7/05 (at 08:56 +0200) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: all you need is to mount the drive and copy. use the net use command. It has all the parameters you speak of. (type net help use for instructions on how to use it) Another way, assuming you have administrator priviledges is to

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Todd Geist
It was me who made this statement at RevCon so let me elaborate and chime in On 7/25/05 12:30 AM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe someone at the RevCon West conference stood up and said what was really needed was a sort of 'application framework guide.' A

[WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, Lately Bob Earp asked for some 32*32 pixels icons in order to insert non Chipp's plugins into AltPluginToolbar. At first, I did not realised what it could mean... To be inserted in the (great :-) AltPluginToolbar, other plugins have to be compliant with Chipp's architecture. Plugins

Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Stgoldberg
Hi Sarah, I appreciate your comment about different learning styles. In my own case, I prefer to read a manual cover to cover to gain a more complete understanding. While I have started to use Revolution quite a lot, and am more impressed with it every day, I don't think I would be using

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Bill
Will your ebook on printing talk about how to feed information (such as number of pages to print) to printing dialogues? On 7/25/05 1:17 AM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not too far off the mark, Timothy, but a little. When I started my Rev book series the idea was that i would

Who is doing what with Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread Gary Thompson
Hi All, I have recently purchased Runtime Revolution having been a fan of Hypercard/SuperCard and Multimediia Toolbook on Windows. I've basically been teaching myself by doing (the documentation being somewhat limited) and now I'm wondering: What are the possibilities of Revolution? Are

Re: Who is doing what with Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Gary, Welcome to the revolution! I (not announced yet) am launching into my own business based completely on Revolution starting August 1st. I have been a consultant for some time for a number of companies and decided that I need to start doing my own designs and work. I have a few ideas to

Re: Squarified Treemaps

2005-07-25 Thread david bovill
No, but very interested. I have code for directed / undirected graphing of relationships and am looking at Tree maps for a current project. So lets keep in touch? On 24 Jul 2005, at 22:02, Mike Doub wrote: I am doing some experimentation with data visualization and was wondering if anyone

Unicode confusion

2005-07-25 Thread Brad Borch
Ok, I'm thoroughly confused. I've built an application for creating a Greek dictionary. I'd like to use Bitstream Vera as the base font for the application. However, the rev documentation says: If you set the unicodeText of a field to a unicodeString that contains multiple languages,

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 9 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:19:16 -0400 From: Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Tim, Judy, To be

Re: Deep-mask feature revisited and snapshots

2005-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:22 +0100 From: Martin Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SnagIt is pretty useful, but in Win you can grab a shot of the active window by doing alt-PrintScreenKey. maybe that would work? Martin Baxter Thanks Martin and Xavier for the hints. SnagIt works as does

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Shafer
Bill.. That tidbit is not in the current draft. I did look into it but as far as I can tell, it's not possible to do this. At least if it is, documentation for how to do it is definitely buried or missing. Dan On Jul 25, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Bill wrote: Will your ebook on printing

Feeding information to print dialogues with runrev

2005-07-25 Thread Bill
I couldn't find it in the documentation either. I was hoping someone knew how to do it as it is beyond my ability. I think it will require a short call to applescript. Please leave a link to buy your latest e-chapter when it is finished. I'm looking forward to reading it. On 7/25/05 11:29 AM,

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Charles Hartman
It's not going to make me any more popular, but I have to say that this seems like an example of the basic problem. It's a pretty glaring bug -- as someone else pointed out, if you make the print dialog available, you probably need to pay attention to what it says. Some of the unicode and

array info request (was: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread keith
Sometime around 25/7/05 (at 01:19 -0400) Thomas McGrath III said: I always learn best by example. Absolutely! Speaking of learning by example (or any other method, I'm not fussy! ;-) is there anything around that could help me get my head around arrays? Some kind of simple guide that

Print Dialog Interaction (was Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Shafer
I have a bit of trouble envisioning why it would be important for me to hard-code into an application the number of copies of a document to be printed. If the application requires that 3 copies of the report be generated, can we not trust the user to enter 3 into the number of copies field

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
Eric, Why not make your plugs compatible with Chipp's Alt Bar, since you don't have a 'bar' of your own? He's described what's needed for that to happen online and invites other developers and it appears really easy. The auto-update feature works great and many of us have gotten used to the

Re: Print Dialog Interaction (was Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
Well, HUG aside, in some workflows triplicates and duplicates are sometimes needed...and entering the number every time one makes a sale, etc could get tedious. I have a bit of trouble envisioning why it would be important for me to hard-code into an application the number of copies of a

Re: I need help with custom cursors

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hi Mark, Sorry I've taken so long to respond. I've been out of town for the last few days. I'm not really sure what the problem would be. I had a pre-existing jpg image that I started with. I had to edit that image so that it only used three colors (some color very close to black

How to select the next clickLine of a scrolling list field

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello everyone, Does anyone know how to select the next line of a scrolling list field? Thanks ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

RE: array info request (was: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
In simplest terms: In Revolution, an array is a container that holds keys, and each key is a variable. An array can be thought of as a box containing a number of smaller boxes. myArray[1] would be a box named 1 that is contained within the larger box named myArray. The inner boxes do not have to

Re: How to select the next clickLine of a scrolling list field

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/25/05 11:43 AM, Ban Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone know how to select the next line of a scrolling list field? put the hilitedLines of fld MyListFld into tLine set the hilitedLines of fld MyListFld to (tLine+1) OR (more compact): set the hilitedLines of

Re: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
keith wrote: is there anything around that could help me get my head around arrays? This may help get you started: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/039018.html -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___

Turtle Graphics

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Jim, Could you make an option to draw the Turtle Graphics with vectors graphics, not only bitmaps? In this way, they could be exported and edited in vector drawing applications like Flash, FreeHand, Ilustrator, etc. Thanks in advance, al on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 Jim Hurley wrote: I have in

RE: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:00 PM, keith wrote: Sometime around 25/7/05 (at 01:19 -0400) Thomas McGrath III said: I always learn best by example. Absolutely! Speaking of learning by example (or any other method, I'm not fussy! ;-) is there anything around that could help me get my head

Re: Print Dialog Interaction (was Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Bill
I print government forms. Some of them require 5 copies. Some require 2 copies. Some just one. It would be very nice if I could press one button print all the stupid government forms and then it would go to each form and print the number of copies each form requires. In hypercard days this was

Re: Print Dialog Interaction (was Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Bill
Also the present release of Tiger has a bug (only evident in runrev) that requires an extra step in the print dialogue. To change the number of copies to be printed you have to choose another printer first and then go back and choose the right printer then the field where you put the number of

RE: array info request (was: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread keith
Sometime around 25/7/05 (at 12:55 -0400) Lynch, Jonathan said: In simplest terms: In Revolution, an array is a container that holds keys, and each key is a variable. [very helpful information snipped reluctantly!] I would suggest reading the docs about custom property sets very

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Judy Perry
But, Dan, consider the audience: How many of those who really NEED the intro to the IDE booklet are going to fork over $200 cash of their own money (plus transportation, plus lodging: even for a California resident I think it ran me close to $1,000 for the whole kit'n'kaboodle) for a product

RE: array info request (was: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Custom properties and custom property sets should have 1-word names. Somewhere in the docs it says otherwise, but having a space in the name of a custom property caused me trouble at one point, which was fixed when I made sure it just had a single-word name. Another one that comes to mind is

Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Talluto
Dear fellow Revers, I use Rev every day like many of you and got stuck on something. I have a registration screen that works perfectly when the stack is modal. When the stack is toplevel, things fall apart. I looked up the modal command in the Rev Docs and found an answer to my

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: Why not make your plugs compatible with Chipp's Alt Bar, since you don't have a 'bar' of your own? ... There really is no 'architecture'. they're still just plugins. Yet they require modification to work there. And that would be the case with devolution too, if you

Re: Squarified Treemaps

2005-07-25 Thread Marielle Lange
Dear David, I am interested in this as well. I would appreciate if you could kindly add me to your to: list when you advertise any new development on this, as I don't have time to follow all threads on the use-revolution list. In case this can be useful, I have recently traced papers

Re: Who is doing what with Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Gary Thompson wrote: What are the possibilities of Revolution? Endless. Are there any (or many) commercial apps built with it? Hundreds, if not thousands. Many are used in-house in corporations and don't make their way out into the world at large, but a large and growing number do.

Open with?

2005-07-25 Thread Lars Brehmer
I just downloaded 2.6 for a test drive, but now all of my rev files try to open with 2.6, even when it's in the trash. On the open with contextual menu, 2.5 isn't one of the options even though it is installed and has been for a while, and when I click get info it isn't an option in the

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Timothy Miller
Tim, I too disagree with your request/demand that the reference guide be a tutorial as well. Hi Sarah, and others who share the quoted sentiment. Well, it's not a demand. I want Rev to succeed, and I think better and more extensive documentation will help them do that. It could be

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Timothy Miller
Not too far off the mark, Timothy, but a little. When I started my Rev book series the idea was that i would simply port my HT book to Rev and be done with it. A number of users on the list at that time ensured me that if I did that, I'd be doing the community a huge service. It seemed like a

Re: External for running one instance on windows

2005-07-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
Anyone who downloaded the EnhancedWin DLL should download it again. I had an incorrect configuration option when I compiled the DLL and it was requiring msvcr71.dll which isn't necessary. You can download the DLL at : http://www.mangomultimedia.com/download/revolution/enhancedwin/

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
Then Richard, we're in good hands and trust the main IDE plugin developers will come up with the standards. And yes I lurk in that group.. and I like what you are doing. sqb Chipp has made contributions to the group, and Eric, Ken, Paul, myself, and others are in the process of updating

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Timothy Miller
Dear fellow Revers, I use Rev every day like many of you and got stuck on something. I have a registration screen that works perfectly when the stack is modal. When the stack is toplevel, things fall apart. I looked up the modal command in the Rev Docs and found an answer to my question.

how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello, Does anyone know how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack. When I create a new card in a stack, the card is the same size as the stack. I want its size smaller I have a main stack: In this stack I have 5 cards On the first card I have all graphics set up like

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Brown
Jonathan, This is interesting about the 1-word names. I have been using multiword names without any problems. Do you recall exactly what the problem was? Was it that the array did not work as advertized, or that you had problems with sorting keys or making the key unique? Of course

Re: how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack

2005-07-25 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ban Nguyen wrote: Does anyone know how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack. When I create a new card in a stack, the card is the same size as the stack. I want its size smaller If the card was smaller than the stack, what would you expect to see beyond

RE: how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
You cannot adjust the size of the card - but you also do not need to do this. Try creating your stack with just one card at first. Put together everything you need on that first card, then group all those objects together. Then, set the backgroundbehavior of that group to true. From this point,

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Shafer
Speaking as someone who's written a few words of documentation over the decades It is a LOT harder and more expensive than you think to make it a whole lot better. RR has to decide where to put resources. And despite a lot of periodic and sporadic complaining about the docs, several

RE: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I have never had a problem with multiple item arrays: myArray[1,2,3] However, I did have a problem with a custom property set named Scheduled Items - but the problem cleared up when I named it ScheduledItems - I cannot remember what exactly the problem was, but I do remember that it was not real

RE: how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of thestack

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Does anyone know how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack. When I create a new card in a stack, the card is the same size as the stack. I want its size smaller If the card was smaller than the stack, what would you expect to see beyond the borders of the card?

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Brown
Tim, I have also posted in the past about the Docs merits and shortfalls and also suggested a wiki like you did. A wiki would be great for fleshing out the docs in depth. The built-in docs are great if you already know most stuff and just need a cheat sheet. Like others have said the

RE: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I just tested this again, and the same problem shows up... Try clicking a button with this script: On mouseup Set the custompropertyset of this stack to my Set Set the myProp of this stack to hello End mouseup Then go look at the custom properties of the stack. When I do this, I have a

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Monday, July 25, 2005, 10:45:07 AM, you wrote: RG The initial draft of ECMI is available in the Files section of that RG group. Tools for authors to help set up and manage those properties are RG in development by Eric, Ken, and myself, and should be available before RG the draft is

RE: how to set the size of the card smaller than the size ofthestack

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
The new card does not have to be a complete copy. Those control you want copied can show up from the group with backgroundbehavior set to true. Other controls can be placed on whatever cards you want, and as long as they are not part of a background group, they will be just on that card.

altPlugIns Icons

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Earp
For anybody interested, I have uploaded a tiny stack to my user space (Bob Earp) that has 32 x 32 pixel icons for use with Chip's great altPlugIns tool for Flexible Learning's Scripters Scrapbook, Richard's RevNet and Eric's Color Picker and Resource Picker. It's called altPlugIns_icons.rev

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: It still seems to me that it just wouldn't be that hard or expensive to make it a whole lot better Speaking as someone who's written a few words of documentation over the decades It is a LOT harder and more

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Monday, July 25, 2005, 10:45:07 AM, you wrote: RG The initial draft of ECMI is available in the Files section of that RG group. Tools for authors to help set up and manage those properties are RG in development by Eric, Ken, and myself, and should be available

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Shafer
Back in early 2002, Geoff Canyon (who hasn't been seen around these parts in a while) started a Rev Docs Wiki. He exported all the docs to an XML format as I recall and populated the Wiki with them as starting points. It was met with a resounding thud. I'm sending Geoff a note to see if

RE: array info request (was: Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation)

2005-07-25 Thread keith
Sometime around 25/7/05 (at 13:40 -0400) Lynch, Jonathan said: Custom properties and custom property sets should have 1-word names. Somewhere in the docs it says otherwise, but having a space in the name of a custom property caused me trouble at one point, which was fixed when I made sure it

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richard and Stephen, I agree Stephen wishes: a fully interoperability between all tools. I agree Richard meaningful remarks. I work with all for that happens... Just wait a moment... It's a hard work... which combines specs, psychology and a perceptive crystal ball :-) Best Regards from

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Brown
Jonathan, I can see why I have not had a problem. I only set the customPropertySet in order to create a set or play with the keys. I always set it back to empty immediately after (default) Then I access the custom property only using array notation mySet [this and that words] I continue to

Re: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
keith wrote: The internal order in which keys are stored in a custom prop is not sorted alphabetically Oh boy... It's often not so bad. Associative arrays are often addressed by the key name, so sequential order wouldn't affect that one way or another. If you need sequential access you

ECMI

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Monday, July 25, 2005, 12:26:14 PM, you wrote: RG I agree wholeheartedly. While we have no control over the requirements RG Yahoo Groups has for file access, as I've written before we will have a That's interesting. In the past Yahoo allowed this control to the list owner. Has that

Re: Re: Rev CGI argumets for ISP

2005-07-25 Thread Malte Brill
Thanks for your replies. That is a good starting point. What I am exactly after is some kind of pros and cons list that goes into detail on stability and security. Maybe some ISPs experiences things that went good or wrong. Perhaps a list with succesfull uses of revCGI. Jaque wrote: The

Re: Why choose Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread David Grogono
On Jul 23, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, understand my comments about RealBASIC apply to Version 5.5. I have not looked at RB2005. I spent a fair amount of time looking at RB vs. Rev before I made the commitment to Rev about two years ago now. That said, I

Re: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread keith
The internal order in which keys are stored in a custom prop is not sorted alphabetically Oh boy... It's often not so bad. Associative arrays are often addressed by the key name, so sequential order wouldn't affect that one way or another. If you need sequential access you can use

Re: how to set the size of the card smaller than the size of the stack

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ban, You might be interested in Managing card dimensions, a simple tutorial available trough Tutorials Picker. Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. PS. Tutorials Picker can be downloaded from my website below. Le 25 juil. 05 à 20:38, Ban Nguyen a écrit : Does anyone know how to

RE: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
In my opinion, the easiest way to do what you want is to have a separate customproperty set for each column. You can access the records as: Record[1], title[1], ISBN[1] etc... You can also do something like: myRecords[Record,1] myRecords[title,1] etc... if you want to think of it as a

Re: Rev CGI argumets for ISP

2005-07-25 Thread Wally Rodriguez
Could someone point me in the direction of these getting started pages? I've been working on a project that will require CGI's and rev might just be the easiest way for me to get this done. Thanks!! On Jul 23, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi list, I´ve talked to my ISP if it was

Re: Why choose Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Shafer
Hey, David Thanks for jumping in with the correction. Sorry I misstated the case vis a vis Windows platform debugging and deployment. Dan On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:55 PM, David Grogono wrote: On Jul 23, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, understand my

cannot import a MS word file into field

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello everyone, I have a document MS word The document has text and several images. How can I import this doc into the field? I used the property inspector but it did not work Thank you ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: ECMI

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Monday, July 25, 2005, 12:26:14 PM, you wrote: RG I agree wholeheartedly. While we have no control over the requirements RG Yahoo Groups has for file access, as I've written before we will have a That's interesting. In the past Yahoo allowed this control to the

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hello Todd - Well said , copied in its entirely below as I feel it's worth a second read. In addition to all of the good points you mention, a focus on pros makes both tools more desirable. But the reverse is not true, and often results in the opposite effect of having each less desirable to

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
I've found it's better to have one-word names for EVERYTHING as a general rule and use underscores and dashes to separate words. I do it by habit now. Jonathan, This is interesting about the 1-word names. I have been using multiword names without any problems. Dennis Somewhere in the

Re: Turtle Graphics

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:13:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Turtle Graphics To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Jim, Could you make an option to draw the Turtle Graphics

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: I've found it's better to have one-word names for EVERYTHING as a general rule and use underscores and dashes to separate words. I do it Generally good advice, and easy to follow since Rev provides a label property for most objects in addition to its name. Extra

RE: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Dashes are dangerous too... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Barncard Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:24 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: array info request (new thread) I've found it's better to have one-word names for

revPrintField problem

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello everyone, I am having a problem with revPrintField Here is the problem: I create a stack On the card, I create a text field (has a many lines of text), 5 images, then I group them and make scroll bar so user can scroll up and down to see the text and images (name the group as myField)

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Eric, Why don't you ping me offline and let me know what issues you are having. Even Constellation, Daniels Mara's rewrite of an object browser and script editor, with all it's goings on, are altPlugin compatible, so I'd like to understand what you may be doing to create

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Stepen, Le 25 juil. 05 à 23:24, Stephen Barncard a écrit : I've found it's better to have one-word names for EVERYTHING as a general rule and use underscores and dashes to separate words. I do it by habit now. You are a good developer who always makes his work easier each day :-)

Re: Why choose Revolution

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hello Jose - Richard, thanks for your help. Another question related to your article Extending Message Path. You talk about Script Limits, could these limits be changed? and if is not possible, what it means in terms of the application size/complexity? As has been written before, the script

Re: revPrintField problem

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ban Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a problem with revPrintField [snip] on mouseUp revPrintField the name of field myField end mouseUp This is the error I got when I click on print: executing at 2:32:48 PM Type Chunk: no such object

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Chipp Walters
I just 'roll my own' print dialog boxes, which are cross-platform, have built in high quality 'Print Preview' and can print selected page ranges...so, IMO it's not a too 'glaring bug.' Dan and I have talked about creating an 'advanced printing ebook' with a library which would show how this

RE: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Hi Chipp, Do you include printer selection in your print dialog? If so, did this require an external, or using Cscript.exe, or something like that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chipp Walters Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:43 PM To: How

RE: revPrintField problem

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello everyone, I am having a problem with revPrintField [snip] on mouseUp revPrintField the name of field myField end mouseUp This is the error I got when I click on print: executing at 2:32:48 PM Type Chunk: no such object ObjectButton Line revPrintField

Re: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, in my state of blissful ignorance I had assumed that arrays were effectively arranged in a spreadsheet-like manner. The array name is the spreadsheet (in this way of thinking), the keys are like a set of column headings, and the elements are the

Re: [WARN] Inserting Any Plugin in the AltPluginToolbar

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/25/05 2:12 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard- Monday, July 25, 2005, 10:45:07 AM, you wrote: RG The initial draft of ECMI is available in the Files section of that RG group. Tools for authors to help set up and manage those properties are RG in development by Eric,

RE: revPrintField problem

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ban Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a problem with revPrintField [snip] on mouseUp revPrintField the name of field myField end mouseUp This is the error I got when I click on print: executing at 2:32:48 PM Type

RE: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
The array name is the spreadsheet (in this way of thinking), the keys are like a set of column headings, and the elements are the bits of data in each cell. Actually - the keys of a custom property set are like the elements of an array A custom property set can be thought of as the

Re: cannot import a MS word file into field

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ban Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I have a document MS word The document has text and several images. How can I import this doc into the field? I used the property inspector but it did not work Thank you Hi Ban, While Revolution fields have a solid

RE: revPrintField problem

2005-07-25 Thread Ban Nguyen
Hello everyone, I am having a problem with revPrintField [snip] on mouseUp revPrintField the name of field myField end mouseUp This is the error I got when I click on print: executing at 2:32:48 PM TypeChunk: no such object Object

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Dennis Brown
I only use multiword names as keys when I want to have a multi- dimensional array for a custom property. In essence I am just substituting a space for a comma because it is much easier to read the notation: customPropArray[varXcommavarY] vs customPropArray[varXvarY] The names are not

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan Shafer wrote: Designing and writing good docs is nearly as hard as designing and writing good software. I beg to differ! How many software products/code libraries do you know of which don't even have documentation. Poor Xavier and his TAOO project is a great example, while he has told

Re: array info request

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Wieder
keith- Monday, July 25, 2005, 1:15:38 PM, you wrote: k Ermm... :-) k Okay, in my state of blissful ignorance I had assumed that arrays k were effectively arranged in a spreadsheet-like manner. The array k name is the spreadsheet (in this way of thinking), the keys are like k a set of column

Re: Rev CGI argumets for ISP

2005-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Malte Brill wrote: Thanks for your replies. That is a good starting point. What I am exactly after is some kind of pros and cons list that goes into detail on stability and security. Maybe some ISPs experiences things that went good or wrong. Perhaps a list with succesfull uses of revCGI. In

Re: Rev CGI argumets for ISP

2005-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Wally Rodriguez wrote: Could someone point me in the direction of these getting started pages? I've been working on a project that will require CGI's and rev might just be the easiest way for me to get this done. Here you go: http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/index.html --

PRINT DIALOGUES

2005-07-25 Thread Bill
Chip: Do you have examples of how to roll your own print dialogues? I could perhaps take them apart and figure how to do what I want to do which is print without print dilogues but with custom and different settings for each print request. Thanks in advance! Bill On 7/25/05 5:45 PM, Lynch,

Re: array info request (new thread)

2005-07-25 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Stephen Barncard wrote: I've found it's better to have one-word names for EVERYTHING as a general rule and use underscores and dashes to separate words. I do it by habit now. Don't get in the habit of using dashes (as opposed to underscores) -- Rev will often try evaluate a dash as

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dan and Chipp and... As you might know it, all my plugins come with a bilingual help stack (between 200 KB and 1 MB each) I shall only say that writing these stacks is a very hard job... often longer than writing the first attempt of the plugin. But this *always* gives me the opportunity

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