Thank you Sarah, Eric, & Klaus

2006-02-04 Thread Ben Bock
Thank you Sarah, Eric, & Klaus. I found a simple solution using elements from each of your responses. Thank you for the help. Ben Bock ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Where and how to get the date and time from servers on the Internet

2006-02-04 Thread alex wu
Hello, I do not want the application to get the date from the computer clock of the user computers. I learned that the date and time can be got from some servers on the Internet. Where can I get that and what is the best and simple way I can put the date and time into a field of a c

Re: Populating groups with data

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
And if you didn't know, when a control is created (ie. cloned), rev put's whatever it's current name is into the 'it' variable, so you can immediately position and rename it, so you could do some thing like: put 10 into tTop -- will be the top of the new group put 10 into tLeft -- will be the

Re: This I would call a bug

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear David, Yes, since the long id includes a reference to the card, I would call it a bug. I'd post ot to Bugzilla if it hasn't been reported yet. Richars is right that there is some ambiguity in the way you refer to the field, but IMHO Revolution should be able to deal with that. Best r

Re: Populating groups with data

2006-02-04 Thread Josh Mellicker
Hi Sarah, Thanks so much for the reply! The groups have not been created, so I need to clone a group for each task... but your code certainly gives me a clear path to follow. Thanks! Josh On Feb 4, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I have data returned from a PHP script, like this:

Re: This I would call a bug

2006-02-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: Getting the text from a particular card? A background field on a particular card? That is you have a stack with several cards and a background shared by all the cards... put the long id of fld 1 of card 2 into someField put the text of someField answer the text

Re: This I would call a bug

2006-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: Getting the text from a particular card? A background field on a particular card? That is you have a stack with several cards and a background shared by all the cards... put the long id of fld 1 of card 2 into someField put the text of someField answer the tex

This I would call a bug

2006-02-04 Thread David Bovill
Getting the text from a particular card? A background field on a particular card? That is you have a stack with several cards and a background shared by all the cards... put the long id of fld 1 of card 2 into someField put the text of someField answer the text of fld 1 of card 2

Re: DreamCard Player and possible problems

2006-02-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/4/06 9:12 AM, "Rand Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks so much, Ken, that was very helpful. It didn't solve my > student's problem, but it did help me with another problem I wrote to > the list about awhile ago, namely that I couldn't get the DC Player > to start on my Windows

Re: Populating groups with data

2006-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> I have data returned from a PHP script, like this: > > total number of tasks: 4 > project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 47|get cookies|vanilla wafers, > oreos, choc chip|duncan|3| > project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 46|buy funny hats|all kinds of hats| > duncan|3| > project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 40|

Populating groups with data

2006-02-04 Thread Josh Mellicker
Hello all, I have data returned from a PHP script, like this: total number of tasks: 4 project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 47|get cookies|vanilla wafers, oreos, choc chip|duncan|3| project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 46|buy funny hats|all kinds of hats| duncan|3| project_id: 3|take trip|task_id: 4

Re: QT 7.0.4 failing in Rev Players on Windows

2006-02-04 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: One of my Windows users hit a H.264 file on the web and was prompted to go upgrade Quicktime, which he dutifully did... Now my Revolution players are failing to play .mp3 files on his hard drive: What error message is being returned after

Font size when crossing platforms

2006-02-04 Thread David Mendriski
I have just written an application using Dreamcard 6.5.1 which drills Italian verbs in all forms. I was very pleased with its appearance on my Imac G5. I gave it to a classmate in my Italian class with a copy of DreamCard Player for PCs. When it opened on her computer, the size of the ca

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread Jim Ault
It could be that an openStack/closeStack handler could do this make the delay virtually unnoticeable: on openStack > repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds >set the dontsearch of cd x to true > end repeat end openStack Then the handler doing the work could: on doFindWork > set the dontsearch

Re: Multiple instances of open stacks?

2006-02-04 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 1:39 AM -1000 2/4/2006, Sivakatirswami wrote: Is it normal to see multiple instances of open stack in the stack function? Yes, it is normal if there are substacks - the stack's filename will appear once for each main stack or substack in the file. Quote: "The file paths of substacks are in

Re: Multiple instances of open stacks?

2006-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sivakatirswami wrote: Is it normal to see multiple instances of open stack in the stack function? Yes. It's been like that forever. I asked Scott Raney about it once but I don't recall his answer. However, the "openstacks" function works fine, and is what you should use if possible. -- Jac

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
André.Bisseret wrote: Hi ! I have a background field that displays different texts on the different cards of the background. I need to find all the occurrences of one word (or string) on one card only, in order to highlight each occurrence (set the backgroundColor). So, when there is no more oc

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Le Saturday, 4 Feb 2006, à 16:59 Europe/Paris, Eric Chatonet a écrit : YES! As you know it the IDE is built with Rev. THIS is of great value: it means that you can modify it and first study it :-) To access all IDE scripts, check the "Contextual menus work in Revolution windows" in the Gene

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Re André, Le 4 févr. 06 à 16:45, André.Bisseret a écrit : Le Saturday, 4 Feb 2006, à 15:34 Europe/Paris, Eric Chatonet a écrit : Bonjour André, You could have a look at the way by which this problem is handled in the IDE (searching in a script): the answer is there :-) Bonjour Éric, I am

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Le Saturday, 4 Feb 2006, à 15:34 Europe/Paris, Eric Chatonet a écrit : Bonjour André, You could have a look at the way by which this problem is handled in the IDE (searching in a script): the answer is there :-) Bonjour Éric, I am really sorry, but I don't catch what you are suggesting to me

Printing parts of a card

2006-02-04 Thread arie van der Ent
Hi, I want to print five parts of a card resized to paper size A4. According to the documentation it seems simple. I made a test button on the card with the following script: ON mouseUp put "0,0,595,842" into tA4 -- paper size A4 open printing with dialog print this card from 232,

Re: DreamCard Player and possible problems

2006-02-04 Thread Rand Valentine
Rand, if you want a simpler method of distribution, you can check out StackRunner: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/ StackRunner.htm It is a stripped-down version of DreamCard Player that doesn't include RevOnline or any other "stuff", and has been adopted by a number

Re: handler troubles

2006-02-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Ben, Another tip: avoid to use a number to name a field. This can be confusing. If this is important in your code to refer to a field, just add a prefix: fld "data1" and retrieve what you need by using (with the above example) char 5 to -1 of the short name of the target (or what you

Re: How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour André, You could have a look at the way by which this problem is handled in the IDE (searching in a script): the answer is there :-) For your convenience: function FindNext pDoSelect -- returns a boolean according to a successful next find local tTerminators,tCaseSensitive,tFirs

How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

2006-02-04 Thread André . Bisseret
Hi ! I have a background field that displays different texts on the different cards of the background. I need to find all the occurrences of one word (or string) on one card only, in order to highlight each occurrence (set the backgroundColor). So, when there is no more occurrence of a word on t

Re: handler troubles

2006-02-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ben, I am going to make a standalone, that saves to a separate data stack. Right now I have 2 sample stacks to work out the kinks, "button sample" and "data sample". On the "button sample" stack I have a series of quiz items per card, each with yes or no responses. I used radio butt

Multiple instances of open stacks?

2006-02-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Is it normal to see multiple instances of open stack in the stack function? only have constellation open and three of my own stacks... but.eg. Natchintanai_Data_Base.rev is listed 5 times and constellation is listed 5 times? ?? Sivakatirswami /Applications/Revolution 2.6.1/components/tool

Re: Shell Function and $PATH?

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi David, How does the $PATH and the shell() function work? That is the path as you get from: put $PATH or put shell("echo $PATH") does not correspond with what you get if you try the same from the shell. This is presumably because these are set by various bash scripts when a te