Is there any way to make a scrolling table field have column widths
that vary? If not, is it possible to add object types so I can write
my own, or has someone else already done this?
This is a good feature request I think. Trying to show 50 character
fields next to fields with 2 or 3 and h
I don't know what the heck is going on here, but I know it's making me a
wee bit testy. (I don't like needless local variables, what can I say...)
Here's the code that works just fine. Please note that I've confirmed
the value of x, it is not the problem here. The function returns an Array.
Holy Batcrap, Dan!
Like, is it a full moon? Are the planets in alignment?? Did I miss a
supernova somewhere obvious???
:-)
You know, I have always held that rumours of our supposedly concrete
disagreement status are greatly exaggerated.
Yeah, I've seen something very like what you are talking
Jacque-
>> The best solution I've come up with for removing block comments is
>>
>> put the script of SomeObject into tScript
>> put token 1 to -1 of tScript into tScript
>>
> This sounded really cool, but I can't get it to work. :(
Really? What isn't it doing? For me it removes all comments t
I'd forgotten until this evening that Ward Cunningham wrote the first
wikiwiki in HyperCard. I remember him telling me that way back when I was at
CNET but I somehow forgot it.
Here's an article that elucidates:
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=173863,00.asp
--
~
Ever the metaphorical thinker, this reminds me of good gun safety
practices (aka ways NOT to shoot yourself in the foot) - it's all in
knowing how to control a powerful tool.
Phil Davis
(meant in a lighthearted way and limited strictly to the parallel
observed - not intended to engender discu
On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
I think the point is that when a variable is passed to a function/
handler 'normally', the data in it is duplicated, and if the data
is big, this is not as efficient as passing it by reference -
obviously, if you need to change the data in the
I've tried building the application on two different Mac OS 9.2.2 machines
(an old iMac and an old UMax ;-) but, as mentioned previously, the
application crashes with an error of Type 1001 unless I switch the MySQL
libraries then I get a "unsupported database type"..
So as it stands, I'm boned
I think the point is that when a variable is passed to a function/
handler 'normally', the data in it is duplicated, and if the data is
big, this is not as efficient as passing it by reference - obviously,
if you need to change the data in the called function/handler, this
may have unwanted
On 3/21/06, Iden Rosenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just installed Dreamcard 2.7 and tried to open some Hypercard
> Stacks to convert them. They are unrecognized (grayed) in the file
> open dialog. Is there something I've missed? The stacks will run in
> Hypercard Player under Classic mo
Well I think you are right - there would be better ways to split out
segments of the script, and if I find more than one routine neededing
to do the same things, I go to the effort of doing it. However at the
moment, I am mainly concerned with converting HyperCard scripts to
Rev, and so I like to c
On 3/21/06, Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> G'day Sarah,
>
> > In my experience, it's probably due to never passing values by
> > reference.
>
> I'm curious as to why you eschew passing by reference.
>
> If one needs to pass large variables, why incur the overhead of
> duplicating the val
On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote:
Dan and Mark -- thank you so much. The selectionChanged was exactly
what I
needed, but with the backgroundColor changed to yellow, not the
foregroundColor (which makes the text yellow, not the background).
Give this a try:
on selectio
On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote:
Dan and Mark -- thank you so much. The selectionChanged was exactly
what I
needed, but with the backgroundColor changed to yellow, not the
foregroundColor (which makes the text yellow, not the background).
Yup...the backgroundColor is a
On Mar 18, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
For fun and games with rolling you may want to look at:
go url " http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/Rolling.rev";
This took away a lot of my productivity when I first saw this.
Incredible stuff indeed!
Run Rev has expressed an interest
Dan and Mark -- thank you so much. The selectionChanged was exactly what I
needed, but with the backgroundColor changed to yellow, not the
foregroundColor (which makes the text yellow, not the background).
On 3/20/06 4:16 PM, "Mark Talluto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:4
Actually, that should be backColor, not foreColor. Sorry for the confusion.
On 3/20/06, Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:43 PM Mar 20, 2006, Robert E. Ball wrote:
>
> > I want the user of my program to be able to hilite portions of a
> > text field on a given c
On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:43 PM Mar 20, 2006, Robert E. Ball wrote:
I want the user of my program to be able to hilite portions of a
text field on a given card (similar to using a yellow hilite pen on
a book page -- I have set hiliteColor to yellow) and then to have
the hilited text show up
Robert
Sure. Just set the foreColor of the selectedText to the hiliteColor. That
makes the change sticky.
On 3/20/06, Robert E. Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want the user of my program to be able to hilite portions of a text
> field on a given card (similar to using a yellow hilite
OMG, Judy, two things we can agree on in, what?, less than a month? Perhaps
the end of the cycle is imminent!
:-)
I spent two years once trying to sell a product into the "education market."
(I use quotation marks because in my experience -- which may well have been
unique for all I know -- there
Thanks, Ken. Nice bit of work.
On 3/19/06, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey, everyone!
>
> The long-awaited, and long-promised STS XML Library 2.0 has finally been
> released, adding node path support, search and array methods, conditional
> validation and plugin support to the all-Tra
Sean,
Yep, I did, and didn't get the classic version to work unless I
created the classic standalone from RR 2.5 running in classic mode...
I could create the Windows and OS X version from my OS X Revolution,
but never got the classic version to run.
Lazy as I am, I didn't spend much time on
Hi Sivakatirswami,
Never did hear how you guys did in that horrible flood last week. Hope
all is OK!
Regrading what I think you did and the subsequent results:
First, when describing importing an image, it's a good idea to give
pixel dimenstions and not inches. So, I assume at 72dpi an 3 x 5
I want the user of my program to be able to hilite portions of a text
field on a given card (similar to using a yellow hilite pen on a book
page -- I have set hiliteColor to yellow) and then to have the
hilited text show up when the user returns to the card.
When I first double click on a w
Cal Horner wrote:
Back in the good ol' days, those of 2.6, 2.5 and earlier, there was a very
effective tool (for me) in the Revolution on-line documentation. It even had
its own button. It was called OBJECTS.
It seems to have gone the way of the Dodo or have the Dodos simply left it
out of 2.7
Jim-
Sunday, March 19, 2006, 9:48:38 PM, you wrote:
> Thanks for the great snippet.
> One of my clients will be thrilled Monday when he sees it!
Well, your client will probably like the new version better. I just
uploaded a v1.1 version, which can handle command line arguments if
it's made into
Mark Wieder wrote:
Geoff-
Sunday, March 19, 2006, 5:12:04 PM, you wrote:
This would still be subject to failure if, anywhere in the script, /*
or */ appeared _not_ as block comment delimiters, but as part of a
string.
The best solution I've come up with for removing block comments is
pu
Sivakatirswami wrote:
This is a spin off from my earlier thread on DRM for images in stacks.
In experiments with putting compressed imageData into a custom prop I
discovered it bloated the size of the stack. I then tested "recovery"
of that data to an original jpeg size, with some very int
Back in the good ol' days, those of 2.6, 2.5 and earlier, there was a very
effective tool (for me) in the Revolution on-line documentation. It even had
its own button. It was called OBJECTS.
It seems to have gone the way of the Dodo or have the Dodos simply left it
out of 2.7?
My question is si
On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:39 AM Mar 18, 2006, Sivakatirswami wrote:
if the environment is "development" then quit
does that not prevent someone from opening it up in the IDE?
mmm. I'm reviewing all the memos to date on this and see you
already mentioned this.
OK yes, I think this is "doab
Sean,
This is a strange one. I've seen this before, and if I remember
correctly, the problem is that database applications, for whatever
reason, are linked to the Valentina external on Mac Classic. Whether
you're building for Valentina or not. There is a bug report on it,
though I don'
Iden Rosenthal wrote:
I have just installed Dreamcard 2.7 and tried to open some Hypercard
Stacks to convert them. They are unrecognized (grayed) in the file open
dialog. Is there something I've missed? The stacks will run in
Hypercard Player under Classic mode in OS X 10.4.5. They won't ope
On 3/20/06 10:25 AM, "Sumner,Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anybody else having these problems?
>
> 1.
> Mac OS X:
> Run a script with a breakpoint.
> Open the message watcher at the breakpoint.
> Open the variable watcher after opening the message watcher.
> Variable watcher echos variable
On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
It's probably my forth background, but I'm mildly allergic to routines
that don't fit in their entirety onto my screen.
--
-Mark Wieder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah, I just realized why I'm writing overly complex handlers and not
using function
I'm working on a small project that needs to run on Mac OS X, Mac Classic
(9.2.2) and Windows and that uses the database library to connect to a MySQL
server. Everything runs fine on OS X and Windows, and it runs fine in the
IDE on Mac Classic.
When I compile a Classic application from the IDE
On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I anticipate that the web apps would be VERY simple, and it
might even be possible to push the date into something like PHP-
Fusion or Joomla!
Joomla = NO
WordPress = YES
e107 = YES
: )
from one who has done way too much experimen
Marielle,
I believe this response to Chipp is a unfair.
The post you cite regarding Jerry was apologized for almost immediately
after he realized that he sent it to the list and not to Jerry personally.
And I seem to recall Jerry being nearly abusive in the posts sent around
that time. I don't h
On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Josh,
Very strong statements. Wow! If I may ask for further
clarification... I have two questions I'd love you expound upon.
1) RealBasic -- that's the main rival, as I see it. I haven't
written big enough apps to test, but it seem
Rob-
Monday, March 20, 2006, 10:04:01 AM, you wrote:
> Thanks for getting me to revisit the handler, Geoff: "fieldBelimiter"
> was a bug waiting to bite me.
...and that's why I'm such a stickler for declaring variables. If the
compiler can find your bugs for you, why not let it do the work?
--
Hi Jim,
I suppose you also have a
"SerendipityDo_Library.rev"
It's still a work in process; but will be released as
"SerendipityDoDa_Library.rev" so folks won't think it's
SerendipityDoDo. :{`)
Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow thr
This is a spin off from my earlier thread on DRM for images in
stacks. In experiments with putting compressed imageData into a
custom prop I discovered it bloated the size of the stack. I then
tested "recovery" of that data to an original jpeg size, with some
very interesting results, poss
Geoff-
Sunday, March 19, 2006, 5:12:04 PM, you wrote:
> This would still be subject to failure if, anywhere in the script, /*
> or */ appeared _not_ as block comment delimiters, but as part of a
> string.
The best solution I've come up with for removing block comments is
put the script of Som
Anybody else having these problems?
1.
Mac OS X:
Run a script with a breakpoint.
Open the message watcher at the breakpoint.
Open the variable watcher after opening the message watcher.
Variable watcher echos variable names, refuses to display variable values.
Close message watcher.
Step forwar
Sarah, your suggestion to use the parameters of the resizeStack
message works perfectly. Indeed, I was using the stack's properties
before they were updated. Thanks for the help, that one was driving
me crazy!
Jon
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Moi:
if itemNumber = 0 then put recordKey&fieldBelimiter after
returnRecord
Thanks for getting me to revisit the handler, Geoff: "fieldBelimiter"
was a bug waiting to bite me.
Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a
I have just installed Dreamcard 2.7 and tried to open some Hypercard
Stacks to convert them. They are unrecognized (grayed) in the file
open dialog. Is there something I've missed? The stacks will run in
Hypercard Player under Classic mode in OS X 10.4.5. They won't open
in either Oracle Ca
On 3/20/06 9:28 AM, "Rob Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on mouseTrapOn -- 3 Mar 04:RCC
>insert the script of field "Mouse Trap" of card 1 of stack
> "Serendipity_Library.rev" into front
> end mouseTrapOn
I suppose you also have a
"SerendipityDo_Library.rev"
for those calls that need ex
Hi Geoff,
Out of curiosity, do you have an example handy of a long handler that
you think makes more sense to keep together than to break up? Or one
that you think can't be broken up without significant effort to do it?
on findSDBRecord
@sdbBuffer,exactKey,fieldDelimiter,itemList,setPo
Hi Jan,
on keyDown pKey
if pKey is an integer then pass keyDown
end keyDown
This will allow to type numbers only and use the delete key.
No more :-)
Make that _whole_ numbers only: no decimal separator is allowed.
Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
"And I, which
G'day Sarah,
In my experience, it's probably due to never passing values by
reference.
I'm curious as to why you eschew passing by reference.
If one needs to pass large variables, why incur the overhead of
duplicating the value of the variable before passing it? And if a
variable value ne
Do you have an example? I agree that if you end up passing in a
handful of arguments by reference, you haven't accomplished much by
breaking out the routine. The question is if there isn't a better way
to slice the routine, where that wouldn't be necessary.
On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:29 AM, Sara
This sounds like a bunch of small handlers masquerading as a large
handler ;-)
Nothing wrong with that, I just think it means that you're really on
my side of the big/small question, except that you don't like the
surplus of handler names it leads to. I can certainly agree with
that. Ever
On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
put the executioncontexts
Thanks, Chipp! Now we have a puzzle (I think)
I have a button with this script:
on mouseUp
set the canInterrupt of this stack to true
repeat with i = 1 to 1000
wait 0 ticks with messages
put i
end repe
A little update.
And beware of the mail wraps
On 20 Mar 2006, at 10:50, Wouter wrote:
-snip-
/* this is a comment
#as is this */function removeBlockComments pText --toggle the #
put true into tFlag
repeat for each line i in pText
if char 1 to 2 of word 1 of i = "/*" then
put false int
How does one refer to the results window of RR's built-in search tool (e.g. put
it's contents into a window in a different stack)? Thanks.
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David Burgun wrote:
Hi,
Yes, this really is the problem. In order to parse and identify a
function/handler 100% correctly you need to do most (if not all) of the
work of the TranScript Parser in the Script Compiler. In the past I've
written any number of language parsers and I know it is non-
On 3/20/06, Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you have an example handy of a long handler that
> you think makes more sense to keep together than to break up? Or one
> that you think can't be broken up without significant effort to do it?
>
> When you think of a long ha
Hi,
Yes, this really is the problem. In order to parse and identify a
function/handler 100% correctly you need to do most (if not all) of
the work of the TranScript Parser in the Script Compiler. In the past
I've written any number of language parsers and I know it is non-
trivial to get i
Hi,
I think the original poster wanted to copy a function/handler from
one Script to another. I was taking the more general case of wanting
to know if a function/handler is defined in a script so it can be
called and not cause an error if it is not defined.
All the Best
Dave
On 20 Mar 20
On 20 Mar 2006, at 02:12, Geoff Canyon wrote:
I feel like the harbinger of doom here (with Alex as my able
partner in doomsaying) but:
This would still be subject to failure if, anywhere in the script, /
* or */ appeared _not_ as block comment delimiters, but as part of
a string.
gc
OOPS.. I mean
put the executioncontexts
(no parens)
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Geoff Canyon wrote:
Does anyone remember what the property
containing the callstack is offhand to check this?
put the executioncontexts()
(i think!)
-c
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
In fact, I tested this, and it works. Though it'd still be cleaner,
somehow, to be able to test for the exit condition within the loop.
Wow, you are so correct. I had thought exit to top would exit the
handler it is in and all handlers in the
Hi Geoff,
One does come to mind, it's the startup handler(s) of my splash stack,
and they are broken down serially into 7 or 8 different handlers, each
numbered sequentially with a handler name.
And because I want to be able to read them one after the other, I ended
up programming them seria
Are you the new listmom?
sqb
Hey gang,
Im not naming names but Im feeling some heat when it's about time I enjoy a
nice Sunday evening with my family - lets leave the past in the past and
kill this thread. If you want to continue on an individual basis on this
topic, then please email each oth
Out of curiosity, do you have an example handy of a long handler that
you think makes more sense to keep together than to break up? Or one
that you think can't be broken up without significant effort to do it?
When you think of a long handler, do you generally think of it as
having a single
I don't think so -- the same problems with strangely placed block
comments apply, and you'll still have to establish whether the
handler name (with or without on, function, getprop, setprop and end)
occurs as part of a comment, or as a recursive call to itself
Mark
On 20 Mar 2006, at
In fact, I tested this, and it works. Though it'd still be cleaner,
somehow, to be able to test for the exit condition within the loop.
Mark
On 20 Mar 2006, at 01:08, Geoff Canyon wrote:
Close, but I don't think this will work. The exit to top in the
escapeKey handler will exit that handler
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