Re: weird standalone save behavior

2006-04-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard Lague wrote: On Apr 1, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard Lague wrote: In an effort to figure out what is going on I have been using the following script for saving: ON mouseUp save this stack IF the result is not empty THEN pu

Re: weird standalone save behavior

2006-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Lague wrote: On Apr 1, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard Lague wrote: In an effort to figure out what is going on I have been using the following script for saving: ON mouseUp save this stack IF the result is not empty THEN put the result into resul

Re: Emergency

2006-04-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
isn't the problem that Macs have a bundle and Windoze doesn't? Jan, Thanks this helps...here is what is happening...I have to hard code the absolute path for Mac and not for windows...Thus i do a platform check and pass a different path for each platform to copy...That fixed it...! Thanks,

Re: weird standalone save behavior

2006-04-02 Thread Richard Lague
On Apr 1, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard Lague wrote: In an effort to figure out what is going on I have been using the following script for saving: ON mouseUp save this stack IF the result is not empty THEN put the result into resultVar answer

Re: Emergency

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Kotthoff
Jan, Thanks this helps...here is what is happening...I have to hard code the absolute path for Mac and not for windows...Thus i do a platform check and pass a different path for each platform to copy...That fixed it...! Thanks, as a side note though...I think the revCopyFile should take

Re: What is the font used by Microsoft in their menubars?

2006-04-02 Thread Chipp Walters
For WinXP default theme, it's Tahoma 11 Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote: Does anyone know what font is used in Microsoft Windows menubars? Can I use that font for the menubars in Revolution standalones built for Windows? ___ use-revolution mailing list us

Re: Emergency

2006-04-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jonathan Kotthoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No matter what I do the revCopyFile command does not > work on Mac OS > X...I am feeding absolute paths...but on > WIndows...there is no > problem... > > I can only use revCopyFile as the put url command > does not allow me > to save the fil

Re: so long

2006-04-02 Thread Dan Shafer
The departure of a developer of Sean Shao's stature should raise some alarms in Edinburgh. Like Sarah and many others, I've basically simply ignored OS 9 for the past year or so; any clients still using it are on their own. But I can understand the need in some markets -- presumably especially educ

Emergency

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Kotthoff
No matter what I do the revCopyFile command does not work on Mac OS X...I am feeding absolute paths...but on WIndows...there is no problem... I can only use revCopyFile as the put url command does not allow me to save the files as big as mine are... Help... _

Re: revCopyFile problems

2006-04-02 Thread Scott Morrow
Sarah, I was having what I think was a similar problem a while back (trying to copy an AppleScriptExtension.osax from within a bundle to another folder) and Christian posted this shell script which, for me, worked like a charm. ---

Re: Shortcutting to screendump despite opened menus ?

2006-04-02 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Kresten, Kresten Bjerg wrote: Hi Phil The frontscript idea sounds good. But from the documentation it seems as if it is only objects which can be send to frontscript. So when it is a single handler in a very very long substackscript, .. is there a way to send a single handler to

Re: Shortcutting to screendump despite opened menus ?

2006-04-02 Thread Jim Ault
Yes.. In this case I will use a spare button. on openstack set the script of button "spare" to scriptText insert the script of button "spare" into front end openstack you can extract the handler from a larger script container, read in a url filelocation, or even the contents of a field. Hope thi

networking tutorial ?

2006-04-02 Thread Marty Billingsley
Hi all -- Sorry about a repeat query -- I'm sure this has come up before, but you know how it is: you skim over messages on the list that don't pertain to what you're currently working on. Anyway, is there a tutorial on networking using RunRev? I want to make two Macs talk to each other (using B

Shortcutting to screendump despite opened menus ?

2006-04-02 Thread Kresten Bjerg
Hi Phil The frontscript idea sounds good. But from the documentation it seems as if it is only objects which can be send to frontscript. So when it is a single handler in a very very long substackscript, .. is there a way to send a single handler to frontscript ? on commandKeyDown

Re: so long

2006-04-02 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 4/3/06, Sean Shao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well it's been fun but i can't keep wasting valuable resources trying to get > the database features of rev to work.. for all my bragging about rev and > it's ease of use and how it'll make this project so much better than doing > it as a web-based

revCopyFile problems

2006-04-02 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I've spent the last hour struggling with the revCopyFile command which works SOMETIMES! I am trying to copy an application bundle to a newly created folder. The folder gets made OK, but 3 out of 4 times, it will be empty and the result of the revCopyFole command is "execution error". Then

Re: so long

2006-04-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
Well, that's too bad. As far as I can tell, Rev is still committed to OS9, and are promising a 2.7 version. There was a problem with the old compiler or something that predicated more work on it than other platforms apparently. Certainly you're expecting a lot for that old system 9... well it

Re: OT: Important News

2006-04-02 Thread Stephen Barncard
I really fell for the AMD/X-Serve story... Too close to the possible truth. I mean a part of the strategy has to be the ability to second-source sqb I wonder whether April 1has the same meaning elsewhere as it does here. Perhaps we need to point out that April 1 = April Fools Day = a da

RE: so long

2006-04-02 Thread Scott Kane
Sean, > i've gone all the way back to rev 2.0.3 and have not been > able to get the > database stuff to work in compiled apps for mac os 9.. if > anyone has ever > gotten this to work, please contact me (offlist as i'm cancelling my > subscription after this goes through).. Sorry to see you

so long

2006-04-02 Thread Sean Shao
well it's been fun but i can't keep wasting valuable resources trying to get the database features of rev to work.. for all my bragging about rev and it's ease of use and how it'll make this project so much better than doing it as a web-based app, i've basically had enough.. rev.. do you guys

Re: OT: Important News

2006-04-02 Thread Marian Petrides
I wonder whether April 1has the same meaning elsewhere as it does here. Perhaps we need to point out that April 1 = April Fools Day = a day notorious for pranks similar to the one perpetuated by this issue of TidBITS--all of which is presumably an April Fool's joke and, thus, entirely unt

Re: OT: Important News

2006-04-02 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 4/2/06 12:50 PM, "Kurt Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-823.html The important news has an important dateline. -- Dick ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Nicholas Thieberger
Mark, Thanks. And, if it were all working normally I expect this would be the solution, but it seems that the field is selected regardless of the scripting, so it actually appears to be selected from the bottom of the field and up to the selected line. When I click on a line it just adds that

OT: Important News

2006-04-02 Thread Kurt Kaufman
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-823.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revo

The case of the vanishing image

2006-04-02 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
While tinkering with my "Imagedata Toolkit" - scheduled for release in May - I came across an interesting phenomenon unknown (at least) to me. After reducing the number of colors of an image with a specific algorithm to 512, 64, or 8 colors *and* duplicating the imagedata after that, the image

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread LunchnMeets
In a message dated 4/2/06 6:35:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem > with text selection. Apologies if this has been covered before but I > can't find a discussion of it in the archives. A stack that worked > fine before now has a

Re: ODBC connection to MS SQL 2000 help needed

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Jan- Sunday, April 2, 2006, 12:29:58 AM, you wrote: > It is now available as bugzilla #3479 for your voting > pleasures. Just sent five votes in that direction... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@list

Re: ANN: Hinduism Today Digital Edition -- Release Candidate 1.0

2006-04-02 Thread Ken Ray
> It's free and we need (begging for!) testers. Go to: > http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/ Worked almost perfectly for me (OS X 10.4.3)... here's what I found: - When I got the alert that the issue for June 2006 is not cached, there was no icon in the answer dialog. - I purposely cancelled

Re: ODBC connection to MS SQL 2000 help needed

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Jan- Sunday, April 2, 2006, 12:29:58 AM, you wrote: > The way I solve it right now, is to query the database > with: > SELECT * FROM > and append TOP or LIMIT clauses for databases that > support this. > Then I can use revdb_columnnames to fetch the > information and then call revdb_closecurso

Re: Apple at 30 - My Piece of the Big Fruit

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I'm woking on an ftp client for the Mac, exactly because the Finder doesn't deal with FTP too well. I thought Windows users wouldn't have much of an interest in a simple and easy-to-use yet feature- stuffed and good-looking FTP client ;-)

Re: Can't pass array function result as parameter

2006-04-02 Thread Jerry Daniels
Spence, It's been a while since I've had a Constellation bug like that one. It was kinda fun to fix. Jerry Buy Constellation from Runtime Revolution! http://revstudio.runrev.com/section/revselect/constellation/ On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:51 AM, James Spencer wrote: On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:33 A

Re: ANN: Hinduism Today Digital Edition -- Release Candidate 1.0

2006-04-02 Thread Rob Cozens
Aloha Sannyasin, It's free and we need (begging for!) testers. Go to: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/ My experience so far: * Went to the site the day you posted; but deferred downloading 38MB until last night. * Began a subscription application, branched off to read main license,

Re: Can't pass array function result as parameter

2006-04-02 Thread James Spencer
On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: In Constellation's var watcher I fastidiously check each temp var and global to see if they have keys...if they do, then they are shown as arrays with keys, etc. I neglected to do this with params! I'll get this fixed tomorrow and put the f

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
Nick, if you put 'select empty' anywhere in a script, it should make sure anything selected is de-selected. Best, Mark On 4/2/06, Nicholas Thieberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem > with text selection. Apologies if this has been

text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Nicholas Thieberger
I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem with text selection. Apologies if this has been covered before but I can't find a discussion of it in the archives. A stack that worked fine before now has a problem where the text of the main field is all selected even though t

Re: What is the font used by Microsoft in their menubars?

2006-04-02 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Garrett Hylltun wrote: Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote: Does anyone know what font is used in Microsoft Windows menubars? Can I use that font for the menubars in Revolution standalones built for Windows? It can vary depending on what theme they use in 95-ME/NT-2k and what Visual Style they use in X

Re: What is the font used by Microsoft in their menubars?

2006-04-02 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Dr. Robert E. Ball wrote: Does anyone know what font is used in Microsoft Windows menubars? Can I use that font for the menubars in Revolution standalones built for Windows? It can vary depending on what theme they use in 95-ME/NT-2k and what Visual Style they use in XP. By default in 95 thr