Re: put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString -- staggeringly simple

--- Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString -- staggeringly simple. Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

Damn, two mails now that Ken has "hijacked" over my previous answers to this list... Am i wasting my time writing answers to see others rewrite them over again? Dan, See the first response to your mail, it resolves this issue one handed... Why mess with the rest? In addition, if you want to

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

I wrote a nice mail to respond to all this but again, i got censured/waiting for approval... grrr you'll have to wait until Heather gets to it if she does in time... in brief, i have such an engine... cheers Xav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/08/2005 07:42:17: > > On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:31

Re: New project

Ben, If you wait a week i might have "all that" wrapped up... For Rev and MC... cheers -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/08/2005 07:02:17: > On 8/11/05 11:54 PM, "Ben Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Revolution community, > > I w

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Well, I was sort of designing on the back of a napkin there, but my idea was that the first entry in each line is a command, the second line is the name of the function that command calls, everything else on the line is a parameter to that function/method call. On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:04 PM,

Re: New project

That syntax is in Transcript's future, according to Rev CTO Mark Waddingham. Full prototype-based OO with dot syntax a la JavaScript. No ETA. On Aug 11, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Ben Fisher wrote: Also it would be nice to do things like "myButton.customProp = 4." ~

[OT] Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday

So I spent a good bit of time today with Ruby. I can see how people who are working in Java might find Ruby to be "simple, elegant, fun" programming. But for those of us coming out of Rev, I have to say I thought the Ruby syntax was...well...sorry...ugly. There were @ and @@ and : and < and

[FR] [EN] Mighty mouse and Scroll

Bonjour / hello Heureux possesseur d'une mighty mouse d'Apple, je constate que la molette n'a aucun effet sur le défilement d'un groupe d'objet possédant un ascenceur. Happy owner of the mighty mouse of Apple, i discover that the scroll doesn't work with the scroll ball on a group. Comment fa

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: But, short of that, does anyone have any other suggestions? I had thought of creating something like this as well in the past, and had come to the conclusion that if I were doing it, I wouldn't try to implement the rules. Instead, I'd

Re: New project

On 8/11/05 11:54 PM, "Ben Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Revolution community, > I was wondering if there would be any interest for a new utility I'm > writing in Revolution. > It would include a variable watcher (that can view arrays), property > watcher, much-improved message box, perf

New project

Hi Revolution community, I was wondering if there would be any interest for a new utility I'm writing in Revolution. It would include a variable watcher (that can view arrays), property watcher, much-improved message box, perform operations on files/folders, script editor, command-line prompt,

RE: Windows Event run Rev app ?

Michael not that i know other than watching for events via the event viewer or writing an vbs monitor to do so... There's also specialized apps for this (sysload comes to mind) but there's many others... cheers Xavier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Rodney Somerstein wrote: I will never implement every possibility, which is why I want developers to have access to a full-featured language if possible. When the developer wants to go beyond using simple logic to hook these pieces together, then they would need a license for DreamCard, etc. t

Re: Problem: Stack unexpectedly resizes itself

Thanks Sarah - I was unaware of the windowBoundingRect. Phil Sarah Reichelt wrote: I've created a stack (using Mac OS X, Revolution 2.5.1, Panther) with dimensions of 1024x768 with the expectation that it will fit on a screen with resolution of 1024x768. However, when moving the stack (bui

Re: Selecting a field in a List Field

Hi Alexandre, Welcome to the Revolution! I'm a very beginner with Revolution and I want to do the following : From a List Field, when I click on a field, another List Field replaces the first one I want to do something like this -- "Home" List field :

Re: Problem: Stack unexpectedly resizes itself

I've created a stack (using Mac OS X, Revolution 2.5.1, Panther) with dimensions of 1024x768 with the expectation that it will fit on a screen with resolution of 1024x768. However, when moving the stack (built as standalone or as unbuilt stack) to another Mac with 1024x768 screen resolution,

Re: For each item

On 8/11/05 7:34 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, got it Hershel > Hershel Fisch wrote: > >> On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hershel Fisch wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Cubist writes, sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems to me that as the language grows it will get progressively slower if I'm just continually adding IF-THEN statements or adding to one large CASE statement. Exactly how many language-tokens are you going to *need* for this thing? Hmmm... in no pa

Windows Event run Rev app ?

Hello Any one know if there's a function in Rev to detect a Windows event ? detect a error log event or a registry change. What I mean by this is the Windows event executing the rev app ? MichaelD ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Rodney Somerstein wrote: Another consideration is that if I switch away from Rev, I will need to switch to a language other than my scripting language being used to write the base application. Unfortunately neither Python or Ruby seem to offer any easy way to write standalone applications wi

Re: For each item

Hershel Fisch wrote: On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hershel Fisch wrote: That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine it with the first tab and an the last "c" is not combined with the previous tab,and In-between every tab is an item?

RE: For each item

Think of each tab as an End Of Line char with an implied EOL char at the end of string. Bottom line is you have 7 data elements. If it returned 9 and you put this into a repeat loop with a count of 9, you would end up trying to process two extra empty data elements at the end. > -Original Mess

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Can you provide a built-in library of commands, functions, and properties for game scripters? With this, your users could do powerful things - say, change the color of all pieces, or set the permissible moves for a piece - without having to use lengthy scripts. Most of the scripting would alrea

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks for the input, Dan. Can you tell me a little more about the table driven approach you were mentioning? Are doplay and playTheGame two different commands, both of which take the same arguments? Or is doplay the user command and playTheGame is the script that I would call after determini

Re: For each item

Hershel Fisch wrote: On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hershel Fisch wrote: That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine it with the first tab and an the last "c" is not combined with the previous tab,and In-between every tab is an item? It m

Re: For each item

On 8/11/05 6:12 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hershel Fisch wrote: > That's exactly my question, why at the letter "a" you combine it with the first tab and an the last "c" is not combined with the previous tab,and In-between every tab is an item? Now if you say that every secon

Re: For each item

On 11 Aug 2005, at 22:54, Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering why the following returns 7, shouldn't it return 9 ? On ,, put "a" & tab & tab & tab & tab & "b" & tab & tab & "c" into tV set the itemDelimiter to tab put the number of items in tv End , This seem

Re: For each item

Hershel Fisch wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering why the following returns 7, shouldn't it return 9 ? On ,, put "a" & tab & tab & tab & tab & "b" & tab & tab & "c" into tV set the itemDelimiter to tab put the number of items in tv End , I count it to be 7. put "a" & tab & ta

For each item

Hi all, I'm wondering why the following returns 7, shouldn't it return 9 ? On ,, put "a" & tab & tab & tab & tab & "b" & tab & tab & "c" into tV set the itemDelimiter to tab put the number of items in tv End , Hershel ___ use-re

Re: Bugzilla REALLY works !!

On 8/11/05 3:14 PM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter said I'm wondering, bug # 1619 was opened on may,18,04 and is still "unconfirmed" and is a major issue. Hershel > >> I was delighted to see some of my bugs had feedback, >> including one that was my misunderstanding of how >> rev

Re: Problem: Stack unexpectedly resizes itself

Hi Stephen - good to see your name! I have a similar problem in the app I've been building. I don't know what causes the problem, but there's a solid workaround you can use (as I do) until we do know. That is: set the width and height of the stack when you open it. Like this: on preOpenStac

Problem: Stack unexpectedly resizes itself

I've created a stack (using Mac OS X, Revolution 2.5.1, Panther) with dimensions of 1024x768 with the expectation that it will fit on a screen with resolution of 1024x768. However, when moving the stack (built as standalone or as unbuilt stack) to another Mac with 1024x768 screen resolution,

using the "PasteKey" message

I am having some difficulties using the "PasteKey" message. In the documentation dictionary it states a problem with this in the development environment: "The Revolution development environment traps the pasteKey message, unless "Suspend Revolution UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This me

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

On 8/11/05 1:01 PM, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting, Ken. > > When I don't use a script in this particular stack, nothing has the > focus when the card opens. (Or at least it appears nothing does. I > have two fields and a button. The button's traversalOn property is > false

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >It seems to me that as the language grows it will get >progressively slower if I'm just continually adding IF-THEN >statements or adding to one large CASE statement. Exactly how many language-tokens are you going to *need* for this thing? Hmmm... in no particular order

RE: Looking for suggestions/advice

> Second, if you do decide to do an interpreter, check out YACC > (Yet Another Compiler Compiler) at http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/ > yacc/ . The tool may or may not be useful to help you > generate what you need here but I bet it'll help you think > about your needs in a more structured w

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

At 2:55 PM -0400 8/10/2005, Rodney Somerstein wrote: This application is going to require a scripting language. My understanding is that Transcript isn't a viable scripting language for this purpose (correct me if I'm wrong, please) because there are limits as to how much can be done on the fly

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Yes, by all means write an interpreter! It's not that hard and fun too, with no script limits. I did this in Hypercard once. I needed to munge huge text files for translation between databases, so I created an 'action processor' with a simple language that could save its code as a resource in t

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Being the Resident Curmudgeon (self-described and not universally acclaimed), I figured I'd jump in with another viewpoint or two. First, let me say I think this project could definitely be done well in Rev. I haven't seen anything in your requirements or this discussion that leads me to be

RE: Bugzilla REALLY works !!

Peter said > I was delighted to see some of my bugs had feedback, > including one that was my misunderstanding of how > revSetStackFileProfile works with the modal command. i applaud Rev for taking care of this "feedback" issue! How did who manage to convince Kevin? I know it happened at RevC

Unix engines

Could someone on the RunRev staff please let us know what is the status of the 2.6 UNIX engines? > We will next update the Unix engines in July, 2005. In the meantime, the > latest Unix engines are at version 2.2.1, and you should continue to use these. http://downloads.runrev.com/revolution/

Re: Disable the Home and End keys on a Mac

Klaus, Your script (set the navigationarrows to false) worked fine. Thank you! As for the confusion about the keys - I apologize. I'm using a 17" Aluminum PowerBook and on my keyboard the Home and End keys are the arrows forward and backward. My Chemistry students quickly figured out they could b

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. Robert's suggestion about requiring anyone who wants to create game modules to purchase a Dreamcard license won't work. This is an open source/free project I'm embarking on. Using Revolution makes the open source aspects less so as fewer people wil

Re: Revolution on Linux: launching issue

Hello, I would suspect that the rev engine permissions are not set to executable. Common trouble after just untar the soft under Suse too... If you run in troubles with copy/paste tasks, be sure that there are no "deadlock" conflicts between the Rev internal clipboard and the KDE's, Gnome

Re: Cool External load unLoad libary stack handler Script

I just wanted to point a small modification to this script. The handler I posted early will change your default stack to the externals stack. This modified handler will not change the defaultStack. I also changed the logic so that if the externals stack has already been loaded it won't b

Re: AppleScript issue with returns in database (FMP) fields

On 8/11/05 7:53 AM, "Daniel Wenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AppleScript script in a Revolution stack. The script, when > tested via the (AppleScript) Script Editor, gets records from a File > Maker Pro (ver. 5) database without problem. Some fields in the FMP > database have ret

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

Interesting, Ken. When I don't use a script in this particular stack, nothing has the focus when the card opens. (Or at least it appears nothing does. I have two fields and a button. The button's traversalOn property is false. When I open the stack, the first field gets the focus. Thereaf

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

Yeah, I agree. But this discussion is in a part of the book where I'm talking about the type command which otherwise has little value. :-D On Aug 11, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Better advice would be to use the focus command (like "focus field 1") or something, I would think.

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

But, short of that, does anyone have any other suggestions? -Rodney Yes, by all means write an interpreter! It's not that hard and fun too, with no script limits. I did this in Hypercard once. I needed to munge huge text files for translation between databases, so I created an 'action proce

Re: Bugzilla REALLY works !!

I was delighted to see some of my bugs had feedback, including one that was my misunderstanding of how revSetStackFileProfile works with the modal command. Way to go RunRev! At 11:59 AM 8/11/2005, you wrote: I just thought I'd let the sceptics know that Bugzilla (aka Rev engineering & support)

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

On 8/11/05 11:46 AM, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken > > While "type tabKey" doesn't generate an error, it also doesn't do > what I think it should. Whoop! My bad... it should be "type tab", not "type tabkey". Keep in mind that the first focusable object on the card will alrea

Bugzilla REALLY works !!

I just thought I'd let the sceptics know that Bugzilla (aka Rev engineering & support) REALLY works!! Now saying that may indicate that I was a sceptic too, well maybe ;-) After posting [Bug 2931] "Wrong/Omitted Revolution version number" a very short time time ago, I was pleasantly surprised

OT: Bug reports

on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:18:36 -0700 Mark Wieder wrote: > The next time you feel like griping about Bugzilla Look, this website is a classic on bug report, The Page of Computer Stupidities... :-D Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/

Revolution on Linux: launching issue

Hello, I am new to the Revolution world, and trying to install it on a Gentoo Linux x86 PC. The installation process is quite simple (just untar and launch), so I can not find where is the problem: When I launch revolution, nothing happens. The shell keeps waiting (it does not return to th

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

Ken While "type tabKey" doesn't generate an error, it also doesn't do what I think it should. In my book, I had a script: on openCard type tabKey end openCard I suggested that if you did this, you could force the first field (in tab order, of course) on a card to be active when a ne

Re: Bug 2722 on Windoze

Dan, Both "word" and "words" seem to work on WinXP, however "words" only seems to work in the find, sort, search and numbers functions. best, Bob... PS, Rev is definitely quirky, that's why you love it ;-) ~~~` I just updated BZ#2722 which deals with OS X's lack of

RE: Why can't I send tabKey?

i already bz it long ago... what of resizestack? is that something you can "type"? hmmm funny i thought i had bugzillaed that before... im pretty sure... but i found a way around of it so im not too concerned anymore... probably lost in the GM fury days. Hence the resizestack... cheers Xavier

Re: AppleScript issue with returns in database (FMP) fields

On 8/11/05 7:53 AM, "Daniel Wenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an AppleScript script in a Revolution stack. The script, when > tested via the (AppleScript) Script Editor, gets records from a File > Maker Pro (ver. 5) database without problem. Some fields in the FMP > database have returns

Re: Disable the Home and End keys on a Mac

On 8/11/05 5:01 AM, "Douglas Gilliland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to disable the Home and End keys on a Mac? I have > authored stacks for my high school students and don't want them to > bypass my questions by hitting these keys to go forward or backward in > the stack. Searched

Re: Disable the Home and End keys on a Mac

Douglas Gilliland wrote: Is there a way to disable the Home and End keys on a Mac? I have authored stacks for my high school students and don't want them to bypass my questions by hitting these keys to go forward or backward in the stack. Searched the Documentation (use the disable command?) and

Re: Help with Windows Registry

On 8/11/05 6:59 AM, "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I've run into getting the hexadecimal data from the windows registry. I > need to pull the Value Data from a Dword Value but I just get a "0". I'm > trying this: > put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControSet\Control > \I

Re: Why can't I send tabKey?

On 8/11/05 1:37 AM, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if I try to send tabKey, with or without quotation marks and with > or without a target, I always get a "can't find handler" error. That's because 'tabKey' isn't treated as a handler... it's treated as a keystroke. You need to "typ

Selecting a field in a List Field

Hello everyone, I'm a very beginner with Revolution and I want to do the following : >From a List Field, when I click on a field, another List Field replaces the first one I want to do something like this -- "Home" List field : 1 GoTo menu 1 2 GoTo

2 Week Reminder Notice

I have been searching the archives for information and haven't really found an answer. I am new to Rev and have only posted a few times. Basically, I have stand-alone app for Windows (the .exe is encrypted) and I want to implement a two week reminder notice to the user to check a website for info

AppleScript issue with returns in database (FMP) fields

I have an AppleScript script in a Revolution stack. The script, when tested via the (AppleScript) Script Editor, gets records from a File Maker Pro (ver. 5) database without problem. Some fields in the FMP database have returns separating lines of text. The Script Editor brings the returns

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Some big question here Rodney. I could do with another day or two to mull it all over before replying - but I know this weekend is going to be very busy, so I'll reply now - and maybe correct myself a bit on Monday or Tuesday. btw - I don't know what you mean by European-style modern games. I'

Re: Help with Windows Registry

Michael it is in hex so you have to read it as a hex (if the value is larger than 9, a-f will not make sense in decimal notation... so yes, you need to read it, convert it to hex (via baseconvert for example)and then put it into the field for editing. Reverse the line above to write it...

Help with Windows Registry

Hello I've run into getting the hexadecimal data from the windows registry. I need to pull the Value Data from a Dword Value but I just get a "0". I'm trying this: put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControSet\Control \IDConfigDB\Alias\0001\ProfileNumber\")into field tNum Do I need to co

Re: Disable the Home and End keys on a Mac

Hi Doug, Is there a way to disable the Home and End keys on a Mac? I have authored stacks for my high school students and don't want them to bypass my questions by hitting these keys to go forward or backward in the stack. Searched the Documentation (use the disable command?) and Shafer's book b

Disable the Home and End keys on a Mac

Is there a way to disable the Home and End keys on a Mac? I have authored stacks for my high school students and don't want them to bypass my questions by hitting these keys to go forward or backward in the stack. Searched the Documentation (use the disable command?) and Shafer's book but none of

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Rodney, One way to go around this limitation is to build an interpreter for the users. What the users could do is work on a list of instructions that your script interpreter would execute for them. This way you dont have the 10 line limit... However you have to wrap into handlers all the instr

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

By far the easiest way to handle this would be by exposing Transcript to your users. Send an email to the rev crew directly regarding your needs. The ten-line limit in executables is an artificial limit designed to prevent you from creating your own development environment in Rev and distributi

Upcoming features

Does anyone know of a place where likely future enhancements and features are listed. I love Rev and, naturally, I'm curious as to what's coming down the road. For example, after browsing through the archives I noticed some talk of anti-aliased vector graphics and perhaps faster arrays through

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

By far the easiest way to handle this would be by exposing Transcript to your users. Send an email to the rev crew directly regarding your needs. The ten-line limit in executables is an artificial limit designed to prevent you from creating your own development environment in Rev and distributi

Re: Repeat until (0r "while") not working

Others have answered the question of why your code might not be working. As to (possible) better methods, I like this one: put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString Note that this will also remove any leading whitespace on the first line that contains text, and any trailing whitespace on the

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: This application is going to require a scripting language. My understanding is that Transcript isn't a viable scripting language for this purpose (correct me if I'm wrong, please) because there are limits as to how much can be done on

Re: # POSSIBLY SPAM #::Why can't I send tabKey?

> Unless I'm losing it -- a distinct possibility -- there's an > intriguing bug in Rev. > > I can use the "send" command to send all kinds of system messages to > various objects. > > But if I try to send tabKey, with or without quotation marks and with > or without a target, I always get a "c