Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Dan Shafer
Javier, Keep in mind that MySQL is not free for commercial applications and that the licensing involved is at least confusing (at least it was to me and I have a law degree!). That said, the Rev solution can look any number of ways. Perhaps the most common usage is to design a Revolution

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/26/06 11:58 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put quote into q put merge(tell app [[q]]TextEdit[[q]] to get the text of the front document) into cmd Note that you can do this a little easier with: put format(tell app \TextEdit\ to get the text of the front document) into cmd

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Hiya, Any ideas what the storage capacity is for Valentina? I did a little research on FM Pro, apparently it can handle a few Terabytes (although I only managed to test it with a 3GB database, performance not being too bad). I've been curious about Valentina, especially the fact that you can

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Hiya again, If you do decide to go the browser route you could also try Dataface http://fas.sfu.ca/dataface/ Check out the video demo. Cheers, Luis. Dan Shafer wrote: Javier, Keep in mind that MySQL is not free for commercial applications and that the licensing involved is at least

edit xmp metadata: developers needed

2006-09-27 Thread Henk van der Velden
Good day all, Can anyone help me with editing XMP metadata in image files (JPEG)? I've searched the archives and I've found some messages about EXIF data and IPTC metadata. But it looks like no one has done XMP reading / editing yet. It wouldn't perhaps be too difficult, since XMP data is

Re: Classic Emulators...

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Carwardine
Thanks, Ken... Jim on 9/26/06 10:40 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 9/26/06 7:42 PM, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I need some SheepShaver advice. When I went to download it, it seemed to say that it only runs under BeOS and Linux. No, it runs on Macs as well - I'm running it on my

Re: edit xmp metadata: developers needed

2006-09-27 Thread Ian Wood
I'm primarily a photographer, so know *a bit* about XMP, although not enough to do the actual work... One thing that would be MUCH easier would be to use XMP sidecar files - instead of embedding the data in the actual image file, you have a bog-standard XML file sitting next to it in the

Re: edit xmp metadata: developers needed

2006-09-27 Thread Ian Wood
P.S. A good place to start investigating XMP is probably http:// www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/. Ian On 27 Sep 2006, at 10:22, Ian Wood wrote: I'm primarily a photographer, so know *a bit* about XMP, although not enough to do the actual work... One thing that would be MUCH easier would be to use

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/27/06 11:23 AM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis, Any ideas what the storage capacity is for Valentina? I did a little research on FM Pro, apparently it can handle a few Terabytes (although I only managed to test it with a 3GB database, performance not being too bad). Well,

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Hiya, Thanks for the info. I have been looking at the site, off and on, and it looks like I might be investing in it, although I need to get over the initial learning Revolution hurdle... Cheers, Luis. Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: On 9/27/06 11:23 AM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis,

Re: edit xmp metadata: developers needed

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Smith
Henk, at http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/51844.htm it describes a typical xmp packet as: ?xpacket begin='x' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'? ... 700 bytes of XML data text ... ... 500 bytes of XML whitespace as padding ... ?xpacket end='w'? so if I understand this right,

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/27/06 1:01 PM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luis, Thanks for the info. I have been looking at the site, off and on, and it looks like I might be investing in it, although I need to get over the initial learning Revolution hurdle... Actually you can at first download and play with

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dan said: Javier, Keep in mind that MySQL is not free for commercial applications and that the licensing involved is at least confusing (at least it was to me and I have a law degree!). I should follow up to say that, yes if you want to host your own MYSQL server there are fees involved,

runtime revolution player 2.7.4

2006-09-27 Thread rumraket
hello as a developer i am very pleased with the bugs slashed from the quite buggy release 2.7.1 rather than creating stadalones we use the revolution player. but it seems that it has not been updated along with the ide? does anyone out there have a way of making one's own player straight out

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Aside from the usual suspects there are two others that I know of: SQLite http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html Firebird http://www.firebirdsql.org/ Decisions, decisions... Insofar as I can tell both of these are free to use for whatever. Cheers, Luis. Stephen Barncard wrote: Dan

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/27/06 3:37 PM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aside from the usual suspects there are two others that I know of: SQLite http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html Firebird http://www.firebirdsql.org/ Decisions, decisions... Insofar as I can tell both of these are free to use for

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Ault
On 9/26/06 11:11 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put format(tell app \TextEdit\ to get the text of the front document) into cmd Thanks for the reminder, Ken. Usually I am merging variables in the string (like SQL) so I have gotten into the merge syntax habit since it is very compact and

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: But SQLLite external for Revolution is sold it seems for $150 How much is the Valentina external for Revolution? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more:

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Well, there's plenty of wrappers and drivers for SQLite: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=SqliteWrappers And Firebird also has a few drivers. Sure, the 'integration' is not there, I was suggesting them as options. I for one found the earlier Firebird hard to deal with, but still

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-27 Thread Bill
I've noticed cmd c/v problems when going between system 9, system X and virtual PC emulator but I figured that I was asking a lot. Manually using the menu for copy and paste usually works though. On 9/26/06 12:12 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think -- but I'm not 100% certain --

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: FireBird - it seems there is no way to use with Rev. One might guess ODBC or a custom external might allow use. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just posted a bug relating to Rev not noticing updates made to the clipboard by other applications under certain scenarios. I have a vague memory (from just this past month or so) of reading on the clipboard API (maybe for OS X) that it

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just posted a bug relating to Rev not noticing updates made to the clipboard by other applications under certain scenarios. I have a vague memory (from just this past month or so) of reading

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Chipp Walters
And besides, isn't SQLite already embedded into OS X in CoreData? Might be an idea to latch onto that. Yes, SQLite is embedded into OSX, but there's not a ready connector for Rev to access it. We (Altuit) makes such a connector, complete with embedded database, and Ruslan is correct, it sells

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Javier Miranda V.
Uhmmm! I really shake the list with my inquiry, not bad for my first post!, In vegeance you give me a lot of homework. Thank you very much, it seems that the effort would be well compensated, the question now is which way to follow, continue using FM via Instant Publish although aminorates

Re: Clipboard and Rev (was Re: about Galaxy)

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just posted a bug relating to Rev not noticing updates made to the clipboard by other applications under certain scenarios. I have a vague memory (from just this past month or so) of reading on the clipboard API (maybe for OS X) that

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Sneidar
Hi all thanks for the reply. In the original code it WAS eof and was not working then. To reiterate, before I moved from the G4 laptop (that I later dropped) to the Intel laptop, all was well. NO coding changes took place. I migrated to the Intel machine using Apple's Migration Assistant

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Hershel Fisch
On 9/26/06 8:21 PM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops! Forgot: FM Pro allows you to create standalone DB front-ends for the clients to access the data, so if you want a 'rich' client experience that could be the way to go (again, limited to 5 connections for an FM Pro 'server'). I don't

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Sneidar
Okay I went back and checked the permissions thing. I have read and write to it and I copied the file to my desktop to make sure. Permissions are not the issue. But I am getting empty when I read from the file now, whereas before it never changed when I read from a file. BTW I AM running

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Sneidar
Hi Chipp. For this example put URL works fine. (I have both methods in the script now to test each one). But I also have a program that opens a Foxpro table and reads the header bits at a time, and this is dependent on the ability to read from file recursively. The bottom line is, it

Re: Classic Emulators...

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Sneidar
Hi Ken. I was going to install Sheepshaver, but could not get it running. Do I have to have to OS 9 already installed? If it's not, how do I go about installing a fresh version of OS9? Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM Now I need some SheepShaver advice. When I went

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-27 Thread Wone Barnwell
Hello, Now if they can make a new version for Linux, here is one improvement that I can think of. Make RevSpeak work for Linux, Linux is past due for a text to speech engine. Chipp Walters wrote: Congratulations RR on the latest release! I also say a hearty Thanks for your responsiveness

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Sneidar
The happy client will be the one who gets what he wants in a timely manner without a lot of fuss. Valentina is extremely fast. So is a jet plane. Filemaker gets up and running quickly without the steep learning curve. So does a Volkswagen. I would not like to fly a jet plane back and forth

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Devin Asay
Bob, I'm curious. Try this change and see what happens. On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Okay I went back and checked the permissions thing. I have read and write to it and I copied the file to my desktop to make sure. Permissions are not the issue. But I am getting empty

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/28/06 1:58 AM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The happy client will be the one who gets what he wants in a timely manner without a lot of fuss. Valentina is extremely fast. So is a jet plane. Filemaker gets up and running quickly without the steep learning curve. So does a

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
Yep, does. This was on FM Pro 8. Cheers, Luis. On 27 Sep 2006, at 23:33, Hershel Fisch wrote: On 9/26/06 8:21 PM, Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops! Forgot: FM Pro allows you to create standalone DB front-ends for the clients to access the data, so if you want a 'rich' client experience

Re: Classic Emulators...

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Carwardine
Actually, I'm having trouble understanding how to install SheepShaver as well. The web site assumes a certain level of technical savvy I don't have. Ken, can you give us a 6 line primer on how to find such things as the OS ROMs, etc?... Jim on 9/27/06 7:50 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Hi Ken. I

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker - Part II

2006-09-27 Thread Luis
On 28 Sep 2006, at 0:34, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: On 9/28/06 1:58 AM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The happy client will be the one who gets what he wants in a timely manner without a lot of fuss. Valentina is extremely fast. So is a jet plane. Filemaker gets up and running quickly

Re: Classic Emulators...

2006-09-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/27/06 5:50 PM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ken. I was going to install Sheepshaver, but could not get it running. Do I have to have to OS 9 already installed? If it's not, how do I go about installing a fresh version of OS9? No, you don't need to have OS 9 already

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: open file mfile put the result into mres -- mres is empty here indicating a successful open I guess you put it in the message box or something? read from file mfile at 1 until eof Check the name of the file mfile. If you

[OT] Installing SheepShaver (was Re: Classic Emulators)

2006-09-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/27/06 6:53 PM, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm having trouble understanding how to install SheepShaver as well. The web site assumes a certain level of technical savvy I don't have. Ken, can you give us a 6 line primer on how to find such things as the OS ROMs,

Re: [OT] Installing SheepShaver (was Re: Classic Emulators)

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Carwardine
Thanks, Ken... I'll give it a shot... Jim on 9/27/06 9:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 9/27/06 6:53 PM, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm having trouble understanding how to install SheepShaver as well. The web site assumes a certain level of technical savvy I don't have.

Re: [OT] Installing SheepShaver (was Re: Classic Emulators)

2006-09-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/27/06 7:27 PM, Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Ken... I'll give it a shot... Jim And TomeViewer here: http://www.macresource.com/mrp/software/tomeviewer-13d3.sit Whoops! Made a mistake on this one - the link is broken. A working link is:

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Smith
Robert, not that this should make a difference, but have you tried 'open file mfile for read'? Maybe it's a bit pickier on Intel... best, Mark On 27 Sep 2006, at 23:47, Robert Sneidar wrote: Hi Chipp. For this example put URL works fine. (I have both methods in the script now to test each

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/28/06, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I went back and checked the permissions thing. I have read and write to it and I copied the file to my desktop to make sure. Permissions are not the issue. But I am getting empty when I read from the file now, whereas before it never

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Josh Mellicker
I am writing a fairly heavy-duty application in Rev that interfaces with a MySQL database on our server in Texas. Five people have been using this app (Rev standalones) heavily day and night for 6 weeks, our company has been running on it, and despite the stream of expected (and some

Re: OpenStack : surprise

2006-09-27 Thread Éric Miclo
Hello Mark, Le 27 sept. 06 à 23:48, Mark Wieder a écrit : OK- I just checked this out in OSX in 2.7.2, 2.7.3. and 2.7.4, and the behavior is the same in all versions. But different from the Windows test of yesterday. Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 7:04:52 PM, I wrote: Double-clicking First

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/27/06 11:06 PM, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With my library, each field and popup menu has a script like: ON mouseUp updateMe END mouseUp That's it! the updateMe handler gets information about what to update, and what format, from custom properties attached to the

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
This sounds a little bit like the database objects project Trevor Devore is working on. At 21:06 -0700 9/27/06, Josh Mellicker wrote: Until I got my custom MySQL library written and decided on a simple way to map Rev controls with database elements it was very time-consuming, now I can