Re: OT Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Alex, lost a month? We had april fools day already. ;-) All the best, Malte Today is March 9th - but I want it to still be a weekend, I don't want to go back to Thursday :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
David Vaughan wrote: On 09/04/2006, at 9:26, Garrett Hylltun wrote: The intent of the code is far too obvious for you or anyone else here to say any different. Ah, the sweetness of certainty; the certainty of not knowing. You're just upset because your belief that bug free is impossible

Re: dogma

2006-04-08 Thread sims
At 4:12 PM -0700 4/8/06, Mark Wieder wrote: Come the Revolution, all handlers and functions must forthwith be named "Revolution". All controls must also be named "Revolution" in order to be recognized by the Revolution language in the Revolution environment. In addition, all custom properties mus

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
I started calling it "Ringy Dingy Park." That way, whatever telephone/telco conglomerate owns it, I'm right. :-) Dan On 4/8/06, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stephen- > > Saturday, April 8, 2006, 5:09:14 PM, you wrote: > > > Kinda like I can't say "SBC park". I always call it "PacBe

Re: Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread kee nethery
On Apr 8, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Kee, assuming I promise not to have our legions of defense attorney subpoena you to come to court to testify as an expert witness after we have carefully coached you under hot lights without sleep, food or water for three days... (smile).

Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-08 Thread Xeubie Tsu
Interesting, thank you. Do you know anything about "Software at the Speed of Thought" and could you recommend it for learning transcript? I'm looking for a comprehensive source for learning the language at the moment. Oakes From: "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Media word processor question

2006-04-08 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
I am happy to see Revolution making steady progress, and one sentence on the home page in particular did not fail to raise my spirits wildly: Straight out of the box, Revolution Media provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a movie player, a calculator and many more sta

War huh?

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
I came up with 2 sayings on the subject of war. I think them telling. 1) A friend is someone who has predetermined to be reconciled, even if war is declared. 2) An enemy is someone who has predetermined to war against any thought or course of action that would lead to reconciliation. I gues

RE: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Saturday, April 8, 2006, 3:03:13 PM, you wrote: > > >> !!! <-- Exclamation would actually be a pretty cool name > if you think > > ...it would probably just remind me of has-been bivalves... Painful, Mark, that certainly was ;-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Ru

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
There is a standing joke among locals on our island of Kauai, where with 2 hurricanes in 20 years, hotels have changed hands and names so many times that no one can ever remember what actual location anyone is talking about anymore. Since the hotels are also used as "landmarks" we have the

STOP THE PRESSES!

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
OKAY I JUST GOT IT! I didn't read far enough into the journal to see that Ruslan has answered my question. I need to add the V4REV_Macho in the External References of the stack! GOTCHA! Sorry for all the posts. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM

Re: Valentina

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
Okay I have this in the script of my stack: on init get Valentina_Init( 8 * 1024 * 1024 ) end init on closeStack get valentina_ShutDown end closeStack I have a button that has this in it's script: on mouseUp do init end mouseUp When I click the button I get a script error! Revolution do

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 3:54:53 PM, you wrote: > Well there's a thought - if musicians wrote code, what would they write in? Actually, I take offense at the idea that we don't... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing l

Re: How long does one put up with crashing

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
I would like to weigh in here on the save often issue. I was also having crashing and stability problems right out of the gate, but saving often has COMPLETELY CURED the problem. There is clearly a stability problem in the software, but as long as there is a workaround I am content. I just

Re: Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
Kee, assuming I promise not to have our legions of defense attorney subpoena you to come to court to testify as an expert witness after we have carefully coached you under hot lights without sleep, food or water for three days... (smile). Can you help clarify: On Apr 08, 2006, at 5:11 PM,

Re: Va;entina

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Sneidar
Thanks Stephen, this looks promising. I had a quick look at it. I will give this a go. My real problem now is that I cannot get the Valentina_Init() function to work in my stacks, even though it works fin in the example stack provided, and that after copying and pasting the function from th

Re: Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami wrote: Has anyone studied out carefully the issue of shipping Rev stacks to countries on the US state department embargo list? These being currently (found in many typical EULA's) "Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, military or police entities in South Afri

Proposal for a moratorium

2006-04-08 Thread Thomas McCarthy
Let's use the rest of this month in a purposeful way. I propose that for the next few weeks everyone excercise personal will-power and choose the "delete" button rather than the "reply" button to any post they find less than pleasing. Let's also extend this exercise to our minds by deleting neg

Re: Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread kee nethery
I'm no lawyer and I don't play one on TV and even if I was a lawyer, which I am not, I am not hired to be a lawyer for anyone on this list. That said ... In my humble opinion, the US state department embargo list applies to software produced in the USA. If you are in the USA, it makes no

Re: Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread Phil Davis
Sivakatirswami wrote: Has anyone studied out carefully the issue of shipping Rev stacks to countries on the US state department embargo list? These being currently (found in many typical EULA's) "Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, military or police entities in South Afr

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Len, Sorry to hear you're having problems. I've been running all versions of Rev since 1.0 and haven't seen it on XP, though I have no doubt it exists. Here's a suggestion you might try. It has to do with your video drivers. Turns out the Rev engine is very sensitive to outdated drivers.

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Hurray! I finally broke into the top ten!!! Champagne anyone? Though I do have to give credit to Jan Schenkel for slowing down his posts, as I'm sure he was the current leader before switching jobs. Heck, one year he even won the award for most helpful user on the list (bottle of scotch if I'm

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Geoff, I don't think anyone is attacking your programming prowess here. It's just that by providing a one line script and calling it a 'program' you invite questions. If it is in a button, and the cursor problem (where it disappears in XP, documented recently on this list), how does one 'cli

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Swindell
On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Kinda like I can't say "SBC park". I always call it "PacBell park". You're in luck. It's "ATT park" or something these days. I still find myself calling it Candlestick... No, Candlestick was re-christened Monster Park a couple of years ago,

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 3:03:13 PM, you wrote: >> !!! <-- Exclamation would actually be a pretty cool name if you think ...it would probably just remind me of has-been bivalves... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 5:09:14 PM, you wrote: > Kinda like I can't say "SBC park". I always call it "PacBell park". You're in luck. It's "ATT park" or something these days. I still find myself calling it Candlestick... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Björnke von Gierke wrote: You are looking at the index, but i am talking about this page: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=newposts which shows you all the newest posts. In a list. So far, that has always said "No topics or posts match your criteria", so I haven't yet s

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hi Robert, If I am running a process of 100 loops and my bar is 200 pixels, then I want to update for each step. However, if my process runs 1 loops, then updating for each step is pointless since the bar will not visibly move and updating every 50-100 steps will do. Maybe this is j

Revolution "software" to black listed nations

2006-04-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
Has anyone studied out carefully the issue of shipping Rev stacks to countries on the US state department embargo list? These being currently (found in many typical EULA's) "Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, military or police entities in South Africa, or any other countr

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Apr 09 2006, at 03:35, Alex Tweedly wrote: Björnke von Gierke wrote: ... And, I think the forum doesn't have any way to check for updates (new posts) while you are logged in, unless I've just missed it. Is there a way to do that ? just visit the link again, it'll update with each vi

[ANN] StackRunner 1.4 Released

2006-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
Just a note to let you all know that I released a new version of StackRunner today. Version 1.4 provides support for the new Revolution 2.7 file format and works on Mac OS X and Windows only (OS 9 and Linux to come when those engines have been made available. For more information, visit the StackR

OT Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
In the main index page of the forums, there is a box "Who is online", which says In total there are *2* users online :: 1 Registered, 1 Hidden and 0 Guests [ Administrator ] [ Moderator ] Most users ever online was *7* on Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:32 am Today is March 9th - but I want it to

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Björnke von Gierke wrote: ... And, I think the forum doesn't have any way to check for updates (new posts) while you are logged in, unless I've just missed it. Is there a way to do that ? just visit the link again, it'll update with each visit with the new entries, but the "old" and visi

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Rob Cozens wrote: Hi Robert, If I am running a process of 100 loops and my bar is 200 pixels, then I want to update for each step. However, if my process runs 1 loops, then updating for each step is pointless since the bar will not visibly move and updating every 50-100 steps will do.

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/8/06 11:03 AM, "Rob Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex & Geoff, > >> You don't need to know how many ticks it takes. > > OK, I'll bite: just how does one set the end value of the scrollBar if > one does not have an idea of how many loops or how many ticks the > entire process will

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Jim Ault
On 4/8/06 5:09 PM, "Stephen Barncard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny about things like that, though. Think about Dan and other > writers who have written about the language that are going to have to > decide to replace all references in works published... > > or steadfastly still use the term

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Apr 09 2006, at 02:08, Alex Tweedly wrote: Björnke von Gierke wrote: Also note this link: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=newposts ... ... And, I think the forum doesn't have any way to check for updates (new posts) while you are logged in, unless I've just missed i

RE: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
Funny about things like that, though. Think about Dan and other writers who have written about the language that are going to have to decide to replace all references in works published... or steadfastly still use the term "Transcript"? I think, among this bunch, this will be the case. Kinda

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: This is different from the disappearing Windows cursor, which I thought got fixed before the last release. Does it still happen in 2.7? Haven't yet upgraded to 2.7 (and probably won't until 2.7.1), so I can't answer that directly. But I would have to guess not, since

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Also note this link: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=newposts And this one: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=unanswered It's really not necessary to browse trough the whole forum, just to see the newest posts. (These links ar

Frequent posters

2006-04-08 Thread Stephen Barncard
Wow! I'm number 18 on the list. I'd better get a life. Stephen Barncard_ 351 ||| -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.c

OT Comes the Revolution

2006-04-08 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Comes the revolution! Everything is jake! Comes the revolution- We'll be eating cake! When the streets and rivers run with red, I'll be underneath the bed. And after all their capers Put the foe to rout, I will buy the papers To see how we came out. Comes the revolution- all is jake- And soon we'l

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread David Vaughan
On 09/04/2006, at 9:26, Garrett Hylltun wrote: The intent of the code is far too obvious for you or anyone else here to say any different. Ah, the sweetness of certainty; the certainty of not knowing. You're just upset because your belief that bug free is impossible was shown to be wro

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread David Vaughan
On 09/04/2006, at 6:23, Garrett Hylltun wrote: The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error in his code at all. The code works as it was intended. You could also claim that if a user in Japan downloaded the program and could not read it because it was in Englis

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Mark Wieder wrote: Garrett- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 1:23:55 PM, you wrote: The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error in his code at all. The code works as it was intended. That's just silly. How do *you* know what was intended? The entire requirements for this

dogma

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 11:10:30 AM, you wrote: > Wow. I was surprised to see your answer that the scripting language > Transcript is being renamed Revolution. How then will it be differentiated > from the product? Or won't it? Intriguing. Not criticizing, just wondering > and a bit bewilde

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Marielle, My name is on that list. Please do not include my comments or name in any of your emails. I know you don't mean anything derogatory by including my name but I still would prefer if you didn't. I know I'm about to probably stir up some real trouble now, but

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Garrett- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 1:23:55 PM, you wrote: > The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error > in his code at all. The code works as it was intended. That's just silly. How do *you* know what was intended? The entire requirements for this app seem to be def

RE: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> My end of the conversation dealt with that's already here: > Andre and others have server frameworks that run on a license > that's free. I mentioned repeatedly to you that the license > for faceless use had historically always been free, for more > than a decade before RunRev acquired the

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 12:24:12 PM, you wrote: > 1. The requirements simply say to display the date -- the date is > displayed. If non-modality is needed, that should be in the > requirements. ...and conversely if a modal display is desired then that should be spelled out... > Firs

Re: Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Sean Shao
As far as I can tell, Rev can't communicate directly with the hard disk without some form of external written to do so. On a slightly related note, I created a library that will create dynamically sized disk images that was to be used with Mark Schonewille's "Buttefly" project but a known bug

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Marielle, My name is on that list. Please do not include my comments or name in any of your emails. I know you don't mean anything derogatory by including my name but I still would prefer if you didn't. Thank you, Tom On Apr 8, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: Richard Gaskin, Apr

Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Xeubie Tsu wrote: Thanks, I'll take your advice and study transcript more deeply. Do you think the "Software at the Speed of Thought" book would help in this regard? Also, could you give specifics as to how one creates a palette in rev? Is it really like creating any other application? Pret

RE: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> > The language is now Revolution. > > !!! <-- Exclamation would actually be a pretty cool name if you think about it :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolut

RE: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Wow. I was surprised to see your answer that the scripting > language Transcript is being renamed Revolution. How then > will it be differentiated from the product? Or won't it? > Intriguing. Not criticizing, just wondering and a bit bewildered. This is one of those situations where the lack

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sat Apr 8, 2006, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: > > Not so long ago, I experimented with running my stacks as little > client apps with the engine in the bin folder of Mac OS X. This > allows me to run a stack like an application, without building

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Lynn What is the thinking behind this? I am a little put off by the change. Hypercard had hypertalk, supercard had supertalk, director had lingo and Revolution had Transcript. I love the name transcript. Thank you, P.S. Congratulations on the Rev Media release. Way to go. Tom On Apr 8

Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-08 Thread Xeubie Tsu
Thanks, I'll take your advice and study transcript more deeply. Do you think the "Software at the Speed of Thought" book would help in this regard? Also, could you give specifics as to how one creates a palette in rev? Is it really like creating any other application? Thanks, Oakes From: M

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: Richard, Not so long ago, I experimented with running my stacks as little client apps with the engine in the bin folder of Mac OS X. This allows me to run a stack like an application, without building a standalone. Very much like running a Python applet. Have you noti

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/8/06 3:15 PM, "Marielle Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you could free up some time by spending less time "correcting" > any user who makes valid criticisms on the list? ??? > For those interested, here is the list of the 100 most frequent > posters on the use-revolution list ove

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: > A lot of us MC users did. I had occasion to mention this very specifically to Lynn recently, more than once. Not sure why he said he wasn't familiar with it; maybe he just suffers from what Dan and I can call Rev List Subscriber Memory Disorder. ;) The substance of

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Marielle Lange wrote: Richard Gaskin, Apr 1 16:29:40 2005, wrote: with so much client work here I'm finding it increasingly challenging to spend time on Rev tools Maybe you could free up some time by spending less time "correcting" any user who makes valid criticisms on the list? For t

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Rob Cozens wrote: [snip] Must have been a spokesman for the building trades industry.:{`) There is no house of any size or complexity that is "bug" free. After first visiting my parents' new $80K home--which in the 1970s was a lot of $--my wife and I remarked to each other how shoddy the

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Also note this link: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=newposts And this one: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/search.php?search_id=unanswered It's really not necessary to browse trough the whole forum, just to see the newest posts. (These links are almost at the top of the fo

Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I want to access it in Revolution instead of using somebody else's hex editor software If a Hex editor can "see" it, then Revolution can as well. But if the data stored on the card is not entirely printable text you need to specify that the data is binary. (Forgive me if you know all thi

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
David Burgun wrote: On 8 Apr 2006, at 02:06, Bob Warren wrote: Garrett Hylltun wrote: >Have you ever dropped a stack of a thousand or so punch cards!? That was the last time I ever dropped a stack. Took me weeks to put the stack back in order before I could run it through the reader. Yes,

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Garrett Hylltun
David Vaughan wrote: So tell me what could go wrong? ;-) I realised while cooking the salmon this evening (crocodile being off the menu) that Geoff had inadvertently provided a wonderful case study on bugs. Any link to Geoff in the following is purely coincidental and nothing to do with him

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 31, Issue 20

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Bryan I appreciate your attempt to mend the fence here. But I am absolutely bewildered by your statement that I threatened to sic forum police on someone. First, I don't think there *are* any forum police! Second, I can't honestly remember threatening to *do* anything to *anyone*. Perhaps I di

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Marielle Lange
Richard Gaskin, Apr 1 16:29:40 2005, wrote: with so much client work here I'm finding it increasingly challenging to spend time on Rev tools Maybe you could free up some time by spending less time "correcting" any user who makes valid criticisms on the list? For those interested, here

Re: Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Karl Becker
The MMC card is hooked up via an internal memory card reader, and shows up an a drive to the computer. Is there a driver for Windows or Mac OS X that allows me to directly access a drive? Where is a place to find all the drivers installed on a system, and to find some documentation about

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread jeffrey reynolds
yes please me too, i third this! jeff reynolds On Apr 8, 2006, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hi all, There are a couple of forums that require registration in order to see them (many that currently do not, will also change). You are missing a couple of nu

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: I know the answer to that one, I think. It happens when you use the message box to show a file dialog (or when you have been typing into a field) and hit the return key to execute the command. When typing, the mouse pointer normally is hidden (replaced by the insertion po

Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Have you looked at the "open driver" and "read from driver" commands? ___ 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/mail

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Len Morgan wrote: I have had Rev for over a year now (Studio version) and I STILL cannot run a stack file (by double clicking on it OR using "Open With...") and have a cursor show up. As soon as the pointer enters anywhere in the stack window, it disappears. I't'

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Lynn Fredricks wrote: > There are a couple of forums that require registration in order to see them > (many that currently do not, will also change). You are missing a couple of > nuggets of goodness if you do not register. It's great to see Rev provide an outlet for communication that

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Rob Cozens
Moi: Maybe this is just a morning when I can't get it. One possibility: My reference is to a "thermometer" progress bar and you are using "barber pole" progress bars? Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the b

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Geoff Canyon
1. The requirements simply say to display the date -- the date is displayed. If non-modality is needed, that should be in the requirements. 2. It is certainly possible to put the code someplace inappropriate, but I think for the purposes of this assignment we can assume that isn't the case.

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Len Morgan wrote: > I have had Rev for over a year now (Studio version) and I STILL cannot > run a stack file (by double clicking on it OR using "Open With...") and > have a cursor show up. As soon as the pointer enters anywhere in the > stack window, it disappears. I't's still there b

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 31, Issue 20

2006-04-08 Thread bryan mccormick
Dan, Marielle At the risk of really opening the hornets nest, here is my 2 cents. Dan, I've actually known of you for multiple decades now -- way, way back in the dark days of HyperCard 1.0. The thing is this, I know you are a stand-up fellow and have done lots of great work for the community

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 8:18:17 AM, you wrote: >> Is Transcript now called Revolution as well or was it just a >> simplification for the press? > The language is now Revolution. !!! -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution maili

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Geoff, et al: I generally check the ticks and update based on that: How do you know in advance the total ticks to complete the operation? The ticks to complete the operation isn't used for anything. Suppose I have to process the elements in

Re: Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Karl Becker
We are using a small PIC processor (a cheap, inexpensive device for embedded systems work) to talk directly with the MMC card. We are communicating directly via a serial port to the MMC card, and the data is being written directly to the card in a strange method that only shows up in a hex

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 12:21:38 AM, you wrote: > So tell me what could go wrong? ;-) In addition to the "system" date already taken care of, 1. The date is displayed in a modal dialog, which makes further use of the app impossible until it's dismissed. 2. The mouseUp handler is never c

Re: Software at the Speed of Thought

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Tim. Thanks for the kind words. I'm sorry you had to pay double and I'll contact you offlist about that but I wanted to thank you for your comments. I have written three new eBooklets, one on CGI, one on Custom Properties and one most recently on Printing. You can buy them all for $5 each thr

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Lynn.. Wow. I was surprised to see your answer that the scripting language Transcript is being renamed Revolution. How then will it be differentiated from the product? Or won't it? Intriguing. Not criticizing, just wondering and a bit bewildered. On 4/8/06, Lynn Fredricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Robert, If I am running a process of 100 loops and my bar is 200 pixels, then I want to update for each step. However, if my process runs 1 loops, then updating for each step is pointless since the bar will not visibly move and updating every 50-100 steps will do. Maybe this is just

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Lynn There will be several sessions at RevCon West 2006 in Monterey June 16-17 on Rev and the Internet. In fact, it is emerging as one of our primary focal points of the conference. On 4/8/06, Lynn Fredricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since RevConWest 2006 is coming up, it might be a good

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Marielle... That was one of the strangest posts I've ever gotten on a mailing list. I went back and read my original message and for the life of me I can't figure out what you're trying to tell me. The only point I made was that sometimes -- stress that word -- what one person sees as a bug o

Re: Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Jim Ault
I am confused. How does the data get written to a hard drive and " not in a file of any sort" Please explain a little better. I am sure that you will find that Rev can access anything the operating system can access Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/8/06 10:32 AM, "Karl Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Brenstein
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hi all, There are a couple of forums that require registration in order to see them (many that currently do not, will also change). You are missing a couple of nuggets of goodness if you do not register. It is likely that the next step with the forum will be to get up the

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Rob Cozens
Moi: I was more venting emotions built up after reading previous posts on this thread Apparently being rude to Geoff did not complete the catharsis, as I feel the need to offer these thoughts as well: * Just so we're sure we're comparing apples to apples: My closest contact on Microfinanc

Re: bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Wieder
David- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 4:26:49 AM, you wrote: > In a way, yes, but on the other hand, I worked at one place that had > around 5 imaging products and they all used a couple of common > libraries. It made sense in this case for QA to track which versions > of the libraries were used in t

Can I read a disk's raw data, like in a hex editor?

2006-04-08 Thread Karl Becker
I have a formatted FAT32 or NTFS (I can change the file format) MMC card from which I would like to read data. However, the data stored to the card is not written into a tradition file, but rather directly to the disk and not in a file of any sort. Is there anyway to read the raw contents

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jacque, Yes, it is possible to install an addition to the forum that lets use choose whether to use the web based interface, mail only, or both. Thanks for bringing this up. I hope that RunRev will quickly install this addition, which is readily available from

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hi all, There are a couple of forums that require registration in order to see them (many that currently do not, will also change). You are missing a couple of nuggets of goodness if you do not register. It is likely that the next step with the forum will be to get up the

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Brenstein
Alex & Geoff, You don't need to know how many ticks it takes. OK, I'll bite: just how does one set the end value of the scrollBar if one does not have an idea of how many loops or how many ticks the entire process will take? Suppose, for example, one is downloading a file. Changing the t

Re: Software at the Speed of Thought

2006-04-08 Thread thulme
Same here. Basically paid double for it. Ended up getting it directly from Dan after ordering thru RunRev. But still very happy with the ebook, in particular the step by step application at the end of the book. It's one of the best tutorials I've read and I've read many. What made it so good in my

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Dave, I really don't think you understand the ISM concept and think it's some strange thing that is somehow going against the way Xtalk's work. It's really not. It's really just a convenient and flexible way of allowing an object to communicate with other objects without having to explicit

Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-08 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi all, There are a couple of forums that require registration in order to see them (many that currently do not, will also change). You are missing a couple of nuggets of goodness if you do not register. It is likely that the next step with the forum will be to get up the RSS support so its reada

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-08 Thread Bob Warren
The last thing I want to do today, particularly after my personal experiences of yesterday not connected with this list, is to get mixed up in psychological analyses. But in view of the fact that certain analyses have been made based my recent posts and the List's reactions to them, I would jus

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